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The rest of the space is going to be pretty pissed when they see this.
did you google how to take a screen shot
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???
as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name
for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!
I think I know how this works.
For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.
So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?
Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?
Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.
Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.
Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm
when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people”
Happy pride month to the filthiest most brutal read I’ve ever been given in my life
i think there is something fundamentally wrong with me but that's okay
Happy pride
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their love is so powerful that they can show me cartoons for free
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Question: why is using free stock images bad art? If someone's not good at designing or drawing vehicles, horses, space ships, etc, but the story calls for them, why can't they use resources other artists have created? People get heckled for drawing badly, for tracing over objects, and for putting stock images in their work. How can they win?
I’ve gotten this kind of ask a lot over the years and I used to spend a lot of energy trying to think of compelling arguments to answer them but honestly Ive come to the conclusion that if you don’t get it you won’t get it, you win, can’t explain why tracing is bad (this is obviously talking about in a professional setting for all the hit dogs in the audience) I can’t explain why photoshop filtered 3D models are bad, it’s too fundamental a feeling to explain beyond “because you’re an artist dude” why do chefs slave away in the kitchen when they can door dash, why do musicians practice a piece for hours when they can just play it on YouTube? You’ve got to try, if you can’t draw a space ship, not drawing the space ship and just slapping in a model isn’t the answer, you have to practice, you have to learn how to draw it but that takes time and effort, If your main goal as an artist is to save time, find a short cut to get around having to improve, to just fucking trying then why bother? Why are you as an “artist” taking up room in a cut throat industry when someone infinitely better than you is begging for $10 commissions on twitter? Or even if they aren’t better just someone that would try and improve and maybe one day get better than you, do you think Adam Hughes when he was learning to paint was ever like “this is too hard let me just slap some jpgs in here” no, he learned form drawing, because he loves what he makes which people like Greg Land clearly fucking don’t, I don’t believe theres ever been a great artist in any medium that didn’t fundamentally love art, if not the process than the outcome but if the outcome isn’t yours to begin with then who gives a shit, not you obviously but hey you didn’t have to try and plus think of all the time you saved, that’s what really matters
they killed him for this
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
Happy pride month to her and her exclusively
she made a comic about the experience on twitter
happy pride
An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol