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The bridge of Guilty as Sin was meant to be more metal 🤘🏻. So naturally, I made the whole thing pop rock with a power ballad kind of bridge.

You can hear the whole cover here: Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer.

I have been itching to share this with you guys for a couple of weeks now but had to wait for the license and then for Spotify, Apple, etc to process it. I'm still waiting for it to show up on Youtube Music, which is taking a while, but I didn't want to wait another week to share this clip because I'm so happy with it conveying the idea I've been hearing in my head pretty much since I heard the song.

kineticpassion

#guilty as sin?#taylor swift #pop goes punk #kpyl #kineticpassion #kinetic-passion #pop rock #pop punk #power ballad #Youtube #music #cover #tswift #the tortured poets department #ttpd

asakiyume

A female and male norther cardinal enjoy a spot of tea.

estrogenpatchnotes

I don't think there's ever been a funnier piece of lore in a video game then the etymology of the word "gun" in FFXIV

estrogenpatchnotes

@wibbley-wobble So in XIV lore there was a queen named Gunhilder who ruled a country that was conquered by the big bad guy nation, galemald, and she had a royal guard called “gunhilder’s blades” who fought with swords that had triggers on them and were used for channeling magic, and these were called gunblades after the royal guard, When garlemald conquered bozja they copied the design of their swords but garleans can’t use magic so to adopt their fighting style they switched to a mechanical design that used black powder. Later on firearms were developed off of this concept and since they were “gunblades without the blade” people started calling them guns.

mademoiseli

This got me wondering what the real world etymology of the word "gun" is and uh

Aside from the very specific in-game backstory apparently the real world etymology isn't that different?? I thought google was messing with me so I checked etymonline and wikipedia too just to make sure and they all seem to agree that our word for gun is also derived from Gunnhildr or Gunilda.

I am just as confused as all of you.

#etymology

sreegs

need to confirm something

What happens during daylight savings time?

We gain an extra hour of daylight

We lose an hour of daylight

We do not gain or lose daylight

Voting ended onMar 9

userfish

my ducks? in a row. the elephant? addressed. my goose? cooked. my eggs? in several baskets. the bigger fish? fried.

no-sleep-for-the-dreamer

i am forcibly removed from the zoo

dduane

The best "online-ageism" rebuttal I think I've ever seen

Check this out.

...Gotta adapt this for myself to include CompuServe and Fidonet. :)

#I love that response #it has very 'do not cite the old magic to me witch. I was here when it was written' vibes

dduane

Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

A fabulous interview has gone live this morning at the Dublin Inquirer. (With @tkingfisher making a guest appearance!)

...Thanks to @eoinglackin.bsky.social at Bluesky for doing the deed. :)

severeannoyance

Oh this is lovely and left me feeling very heartened

YouTube put this in my feed and it's beautiful, but also - YouTube low-key being a Creep because I also sang this at karaoke not too long ago.

#I appreciate knowing about this and hearing it #but also 'heres a singer you like singing that song you recently sung'#is just a nicer version of the 'heres an ad about that thing you mentioned in conversation'#rambles #Youtube

gayvampyr

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

gayvampyr

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

gayvampyr

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

moreclaypigeons

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

gayvampyr

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

important-cat-pics

I just realized I am practically doing calculus in my sleep. (Calculus being defined as deriving/creating a formula to solve for an unknown and then solving said formula)

I use AMDroid as my alarm app, which has different options for challenge prompts to disable the alarm. I use the math problems option. There are different difficulty levels, and I have mine set to the hardest level that I can manage in my head in a half sleep state. (Which I verified years ago by trying the next level up and finding I could not solve it and probably pissed off my neighbors with the alarm continuing to go off.)

As other posts and polls have mentioned, us ND folks, but also anyone quick/good with mental math, tend to solve problems in non-standard ways.

One of the problems it gave me this morning (I have to solve two to disable the alarm) was:

8*9 - 9

A more direct way to solve this, for someone who is awake, would be to know that 8*9= 72 and 9 less (or minus 10 plus 1) is 63. Or to reduce it to 7*9 and know that is 63.

What my sleep brain did is this (expanded to show work):

8*8=64

8*9-9= (8*8) -1

8*9-9 = 64-1

8*9-9 = 63

Mainly because 8*8=64 is in a more accessible quick recall part of my memory than any of the 9 times table. (Which, side question, do schools still have kids memorize times tables now that everyone has cellphones? Or did that die with the 90's/00's just like cursive?)

But I realized that in doing so, I determined that:

X*(x+1) - (x+1) = (x*x) -1

And I thought, eyes closed as I had snoozed the alarm, did this work because of 9 being 9 or does it always work?

It always works.

I could sort of write a proof by reducing it out or something but it's 8:06 and I need to get out of bed, so just use 3 and 4 to check:

3*4-4= 3*3-1

12-4=9-1

8=8

#rambles #math #would you call that calculus? idk

victusinveritas

In case you need it for your D&D games or siege actions— here's what the ballistic trajectory of a flaming pumpkin fired out of a trebuchet looks like.

flightyquinn

Actually, this is very helpful for visualizing a ballistic arc.

victusinveritas

Right? I've already sent it to my math teaching friends. One occasionally brings in a tiny trebuchet for his class and this might encourage him to up his game.