GAMER DOGGGGG

Hear his solemn howl. The hound cries.... Actually, I think he's just yawning. Now he's asleep. He's doing that thing now. You go dog. -- Book of bone: Dog Chronicles Music: Spyro the Dragon Credits by Stewart Copeland

[etheringtonbrothers]

For those of you that like everything neatly organised, here’s links to EVERY ONE of my first 150 how to THINK when you draw TUTORIALS, in ALPHABETICAL ORDER for #SkillUpSunday! Enjoy, link, pin, share! Cheers! Lorenzo! How to draw ANGRY EXPRESSIONS How to draw BIRD HEADS How to draw BOOKS How to draw BOXES How to draw BREAKING GLASS How to draw BRICKWORK How to draw CABLES and WIRES How to draw CAR CHASES How to draw CATERPILLAR TRACKS How to draw CAVES How to draw CHARACTERS (3-SHAPES) How to draw CHARACTERS (FLIPPED-SHAPES) How to draw CHARACTER SHAPES How to draw COMIC COVERS How to draw COMPOSITION How to draw CROSS-CONTOURS How to draw EARS How to draw FABRIC How to draw FEET & SHOES How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART ONE How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART TWO How to draw FOREGROUND MIDGROUND BACKGROUND How to draw GAME BUILDINGS How to draw GEMS and CRYSTALS How to draw GIRL’S HAIR How to draw GRASS How to draw HAIR (1940s styles) How to draw HAPPY EXPRESSIONS How to draw HORNS How to draw HORSE HEADS How to draw IMPACT DEBRIS How to draw IN 3D How to draw INTEGRATING LOGOS How to draw INTERIOR BASICS How to draw IN-WORLD TYPOGRAPHY How to draw JUNGLE PLANT CLUSTERS How to draw JUNK HOUSES How to draw LAMP POSTS How to draw LAVA How to draw LIGHTNING and ELECTRICITY How to draw MECHANICAL DETAILS How to draw MUSHROOMS and FUNGUS How to draw MONSTER HEADS How to draw MONSTER TENTACLES How to draw MOUNTAINS How to draw NEGATIVE SPACE How to draw NEWSPAPERS How to draw NOSES How to draw PERSPECTIVE BOXES How to draw PIGS How to draw POD HOUSES How to draw POURING LIQUID How to draw ROBOT ARMS How to draw ROCK FORMATIONS How to draw RUNNING FIGURES How to draw SAUSAGE DOGS How to draw SEA WEED   How to draw SHADOW COMPOSITION How to draw SHOULDER ARMOUR How to draw SIEGE WEAPONS How to draw SILHOUETTE THUMBNAILS How to draw SMOKE EFFECTS How to draw SNOW How to draw SPACE BIKES How to draw SQUIRRELS How to draw STICK FIGURES How to draw THE HORIZON How to draw TIKI STATUES How to draw TREASURE CHESTS How to draw TREE BARK How to draw TREE ROOTS How to draw VEHICLES How to draw VINTAGE PLANES How to draw WATER How to draw WOODEN HOUSES

[notabrobro]

[gamerdogg]

“It’s me, Ben Shapiro. Did I just hear someone say feet?”

[nchntd]

In the club

[swagintherain]

setup and punchline

[lord-kitschener]

The artist is luo li rong

[cecaeliawitch]

The statue doesn’t have big enough titties to have been made by a man.

[radgoblin]

I know I’ve reblogged this before but the schadenfreude is too delicious.

[gehayi]

By the way, the statue is called  La mélodie oubliée (The Forgotten Melody). Luo Li Rong also painted it:

And here she and the statue are in a more formal setting (museum or art show, I can’t tell):

[theepoetspoet]

“Dork ass losers”

[lulu-tan79]

That beautiful statue started from this:

Ms. Luo Lirong graduated from China Central Academy Of Fine Arts. She’s a very talented artist. More of her works:

[scatterations]

Beautiful. Extraordinary talent

[daisyjonesdailylines-deactivate]

Follow her on Instagram luo_li_rong_art.

[gamerdogg]

Is it just me, or isn’t it obvious that the sculpture doesn’t follow any western tradition? I think if you’ve ever walked into an art museum you should be able to tell.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Art Spiegelman pulled his Marvel Folio Society intro after Disney demanded that he not criticize Trump

The Folio Society has announced a series of volumes paying tribute to the history of Marvel Comics, the inaugural volume was originally scheduled to feature an introduction from Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus and the first person to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for a graphic novel.

Marvel is a division of Disney, and its chairman, Isaac ‘Ike’ Perlmutter, is a longtime personal friend of Donald Trump, donated to Trump’s campaign, and serves Trump as an “unofficial and influential advisor.” Spiegelman’s intro made reference to this fact, and tied the origin of Marvel with its thin-veiled allegories about fighting fascism, to the contemporary moment, comparing Trump to the golden age Marvel villain “Red Skull” and dubbing him “Orange Skull.”

In response, Disney/Marvel demanded that Spiegelman redact his essay, removing references to Trump. The corporation said that it was trying to be “apolitical…and is not allowing its publications to take a political stance.”

Spiegelman refused to make the change and instead severed ties with the project. His unredacted essay will appear this weekend in The Guardian.

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/16/everything-is-political.html

[shortformblog]

Art Spiegelman is an important figure for a reason. Good on him.

[wheeloffortune-design]

…they asked. Art Spiegelman. The creator of Maus. A comic about jewish suffering in WWII. To be apolitical. In the face of rising fascism.

[gamerdogg]

Being a longtime personal friend of Donald Trump is one of the saddest ideas I’ve ever entertained up there with the Rover on Mars that sings happy birthday to itself once a year.

[mpreg-harrystyles]

[gamerdogg]

I saw this comic once about 8 years ago. I searched and searched. In the end I never found it, but I nover forgot. I’m not making the same mistake today.

[badficniverse]

From the fanfic “My Life as a Cancelled Property”

[1esbrarian]

[arqueete]

check out this spotify playlist of men covering women’s songs without changing pronouns

[1esbrarian]

nice

[thegenesimmonsboots]

the same user made a playlist of women covering men’s songs without changing pronouns!

[aphony-cree]

double nice

[gamerdogg]

Me considering for the first time that Jolene might be bi.

[supersexygamergirl]

[powerfulwizard]

kinda ridiculous you guys claim to love milfs yet you hate minions and despicable me. thats like being into goth girls but hating goth music. its just not right.

[thedrunkenminstrel]

Like I agree there is a weird fetishism of books among a certain strain of nerd that thinks reading Dresden Files makes them an intellectual, but can we also acknowledge there’s a lot of anti-intellectualism in this country and it is super weird how proud so many people are of not reading?

[gamerdogg]

Have you seen a book? They really fucking suck. Only idiots read.

[beckette]

men weaponize art against women

[beckette]

notable examples of this include:

that one college guy who was going to play the piano on campus until his ex took him back

the game designer who tried to propose to his (now ex) girlfriend via the spider man video game

the song “hey there, delilah”. written abt a girl who was in a relationship w another man

any time a guy tries to use art to manipulate a woman into loving him and/or giving him what he wants, he’s wielding it as a weapon

[beckette]

yo shout out to everyone who’s interpreted this post as me saying that men should never make art for any reason ever again. they’re right

[gamerdogg]

I’m honestly more offended for the women you imply are so stupid and predictable that they can be forced into doing just about anything because of a man’s words. Let alone the idea that women seem just as prone to the exact same behaviour you are describing. This feels a lot like those men who claim women are to blame for harassment or any other vioence they suffer because men are incapable of resisting women’s seduction.

But whatever, I guess Back to Black is no longer a good album and real fucked up abuse by this solid logic.

I’m sorry if I sound harsh. I pity you and wish you a good life.

[prokopetz]

My predilections in gaming can be summed up in three bullet points:

retro aesthetics

exploration-based 2D platformers

female protagonists

(Yes, I am Metroid trash.)

So here, have ten retro exploration platformers with female protagonists currently in development. In order by screenshot:

Bullet Age

The Iconoclasts

Ghost Song

Heart Forth, Alicia

Leilani’s Island

Night in the Woods

Olympia Rising

Red Goddess

Skytorn

Timespinner

Of course, indie game development being what it is, probably less than half of these will ever actually be released, but check ‘em out anyway. Who knows - maybe your support will be the tipping point?

[prokopetz]

What the heck, let’s revisit this ancient post for a four-years-later status update:

Bullet Age’s announced release date has quietly slipped from 2015, to 2016, to 2018, and finally to 2019, with little or no communication. At least part of the delay seems to have been due to a decision to either port it to the Switch or cancel the PC version in favour of a Switch version – it’s not 100% clear which. Still, in theory it’s coming this winter!

Iconoclasts came out in January of 2018, after nearly eleven years in development. It was a one-person show from start to finish, with all the virtues and foibles you’d expect from a large auteur-driven project. A very solid piece of work, albeit very linear for a Metroidvania, and with a number of underutilised ideas.

Also in January of 2018, Ghost Song‘s developer threw out their entire game engine and started over, citing poor architecture decisions early in the project’s development leading to unacceptable gameplay constraints. This looks like one of the very few indie projects to survive a total reboot, with active dev blog posts as recently as last week and promises of a new playable demo in the fall.

Twelve years after its first gameplay teasers hit YouTube, Heart Forth, Alicia remains in active development, and in spite of weekly livestreams demonstrating steady progress over that entire span, there is absolutely no end in sight.

Progress on Leilani’s Island has slowed due to the developer’s day job. Incremental updates continue to be posted at regular intervals, including on the day of this posting, but – understandably – the dev refuses to speculate on potential release dates.

Night in the Woods came out in February of 2017, and proved to be very different from what its early trailers suggested it would be – it’s less an exploration platformer and more a visual-novel-slash-walking-simulator with light platforming elements. Nonetheless, an excellent game and highly recommend.

Olympia Rising was released shortly after the original post in July of 2015, and proved to be a competent but unexceptional action-platformer. One to check out if you’re a fan of vertical movement.

Red Goddess came out in September of 2015 and was terrible.

After a long radio silence, Skytorn’s cancellation was announced in December of 2018. Its lead developer claimed it was due to a lack of creative vision, and not (as some had speculated) a decision to work on Celeste instead. Still, even if that had been the reason, one could hardly fault them – Celeste ended up being fantastic.

Timespinner hit digital distribution in September of 2018. It’s an aesthetically stunning Metroidvania, though its time travel mechanics are disappointingly underused, and there have been some complaints that large chunks of it are simply recapitulating Symphony of the Night without bringing anything new to the table – which may be a plus for you, if you’re a SotN fan!

So: of the original ten games, we have five successful releases, one cancellation, one full project reboot, two slow-but-steady movers with no projected release dates, and one project that’s gone ghost for the last three solid years but claims to be coming out in December.

[gamerdogg]

I guess you are already acquainted with the Knytt series. I just wanted an excuse to think about Knytt.

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

This but unironically

[absolvedgravitas]

wait why do people dislike contrapoints? ive never heard anything bad abt her

[gamerdogg]

Contrapoints occasionally points out that she is reviled by established online trans communities. In my my experience she isn’t lying. I haven’t seen anyone breakdown exactly what they hate about her but they really do.

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

This but unironically

[spiroandthelacktones]

Honestly how do we get rid of her

[gamerdogg]

If this is an honest question, make better videos than her. It’s pretty simple really.

[altruistech-deactivated20240608]

Eventually some redneck is going to be the reason why an emergency drone wasn't able to provide emergency assistance.

And it's quite possible that they could cost a life.

The internet likes to joke, but there are serious implications to hating on tech constantly and never talking about the good it can do.

These ignorant people are only exposed to drones violating privacy, they don't even consider that there's good being done.. again, because you're too busy making Terminator jokes.

[rook-the-catechumen]

[executiveoutcomes-deactivated20]

Op is a fucking idiot, imagine supporting police spying on individuals with drones specifically for "anti-drug activity" because you believe they will eventually be used to provide emergency assistance

[gamerdogg]

Rednecks persecuting black people: Wow. I don’t see what the problem is with loving your country.

Rednecks fighting against the government who is literally spying on them: OMG rednecks stupid.

[goopy-amethyst-deactivated20250]

🤔🤔🤔

[hyperjet3524]

Ya’ll doing amazing sweeties.

[sealpremacy]

how the turn tables

[blackwoolncrown]

why would they need to do that? Does it cause them distress or something to be away from their families???? i don’t get it

[squeezemetillipop]

If they didn’t want to be separated from their families they shouldn’t have joined ICE

[tears-in-the-screendoor]