Mehukas Omena

Blog full of art, randomness and Pokémon stuff. I might occasionally post my own art, finished and WIPs. I also have deviantArt gallery. Comic tag Comic tag with wips

[anneemay]

[deadryn]

For those lacking context:

Duolingo's Massive Layoff: AI Takeover, Impacting Thousands of Human Translators

AI Takeover: Duolingo AI adoption to replace human translators has led to a massive layoff, leaving thousands of translators in limbo.

Can an app decide if a language lives or dies? Not if Welsh speakers have anything to do with it | Gwenno Robinson

Duolingo is ‘pausing’ its Welsh course despite high demand – we need robust forms of learning that aren’t driven by profit, says writer and

[transarsonist]

basically to translate from economics into English: Duolingo is assumed to be significantly more potentially profitable after firing all specialist workers not directly related to IT.

to disambiguate the repurcussies: beyond the human cost of firing an entire field out of your business, the quality of Duolingo WILL suffer from this

everyone uninstall Duolingo and rate 1 star. communicate unequivocally that this will not be tolerated

[mehkas]

Me going to sleep after the ESC finale

[mehkas]

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

Here we go again!

[mehkas]

Nessan vessaummetusörinät

[mehkas]

We are celebrating Mehkas' 30th birthday this weekend by streaming for 30 hours! Starting with some Smash games at 8pm (UTC+2) on November 19th and then continuing with Pokemon Brilliant Diamond. Saiyan will take the wheel at some point while bday hero is taking a little nap and on Saturday couple of our friends will join us and we'll play party games and eat cake~

[mehkas]

https://www.twitch.tv/mehkas

[retrogamingblog]

what it feels like to play pokemon ruby and sapphire on max volume

[floatinglonewanderer]

I will never not reblog this

[mehkas]

Star Trek has gif for all reactions ever

When the game has a bug where you lose all your progress on login.

Maintenance at work.

Me waiting for the maintenance to end.

There’s no given time estimate when it ends.

I give up and go to do something else.

An update in game news.

They fixed everything!

Downloading the update and waiting for the game to launch.

GAME ON

[mindfulness-with-mo]

@danidonovan has signed her name at the bottom right of her artwork. Please give her blog a follow for more information on ADHD. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I also pull a lot of my information from additudemag.com. Thankfully, we’re learning more about ADHD every day!

Also, remember, that people without this diagnosis can experience these symptoms, as well. ADHD is more chronic and a daily struggle.

Happy ADHD awareness month all 🤗

[mehkas]

Draw Pokemon from Memory stream ONLINE

Setting things up, starting in a few minutes

[shinondraws]

Gonna stream a bingo race in a Pokémon game with Mehkas tonight! Starting at 7pm UTC+2 if all goes as planned!

[shinondraws]

Stream soon! 

https://kadgar.net/live/ruugroup/shinonsparce

[shinondraws]

Koristeet sen tekee

[mehkas]

https://www.twitch.tv/ruugroup/

STREAM ONLINE

[mehkas]

[inkwell-attitude]

all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

[fatal-blow]

okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao

Cities - go near water!  freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there.  Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.

for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end.  rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat

mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains!  mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey).  a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half.  These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks

Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact.  think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies

forests - depends on how warm the area might be.  coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too

If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower).  if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)

You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)

and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains

tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules

[possiblypedanticrpgideas]

The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.

Worldbuilding Videos - YouTube

All my worldbuilding videos

Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:

With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:

Or

Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:

This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:

But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:

Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:

[inkwell-attitude]

holy shit?

[mehkas]

Beating Theo in championshit shite before moving on to NEW Pokemon stream game.

[mehkas]

Stream online! https://www.twitch.tv/ruugroup/

[mehkas]

We’re live again! I hope I can finish this shit tonight