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For anyone whoâs feeling silly about getting emotional over the loss of Wildstar, I talked about it with a friend who doesnât play MMOs, and also expressed the same thought, and hereâs what she had to say:
âIt was a big part of a lot of peoplesâ lives and they invested a lot of time into it, found and maintained friendships because of it. Itâs natural to feel sad just like with any big change to someoneâs life. Psychologically speaking it would be the same as being forced to move out of a town youâve lived in for, what, 10 years? Real or virtual, it doesnât matter to your brain. So yeah, itâs okay and totally understandable to feel lost right now. People will say itâs just a game but fuck those guys âcause they donât understand. The emotional and mental commitment is the same.â
Itâs okay to feel your feelings.
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A friendly and loving reminder...
âŚthat your creativity, your friendship, and your characters transcend the confines of a single game or fandom. Just because one path becomes closed off to you doesnât mean you need to give up on your brain babies and the friends you made along the way. They will still be there and they will still love you.
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Some Photoshop Tips
Iâve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them.Â
Firstly, what you need are
â CUSTOM BRUSHES â
Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:
For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):
This will be your brush tip. When youâre satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to âdefine brush presetâ under the edit menu
You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the âasfsfgdgdâ brushes youâve created to be only used once
This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. ITâS SO EASY WHY HASNâT ANYONE TOLD MEÂ
Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever youâd like. Hereâs a list of what I do for patterns:
- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15%Â
- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes itâs like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.
- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one weâve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your backgrounds
The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on.Â
BUT WAIT, THEREâS MORE
â PATHS â
But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.
Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:
Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they wonât show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.
Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path youâve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:
Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 yearsÂ
You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.
I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, Iâm always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is Câ:
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Iâve been thinking about the great voice work in WildStar, and how Iâd love to see it all saved. Much thanks to @networksubset for pointing to this SoundCloud that pretty much has that covered! Includes the old favorites like the Holo-Crypt Keeper, taxi driver, and transmat, as well as raid banter and story audio! It must have taken a crapload of work to isolate and upload it all!
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random thing but i realized it might be helpful for some people so uh. theres this thingy where you can upload an image and it gives you a color palette based on it !Â
heres an example
and it also gives you the hex code values for them too its p neat !
hereâs the link to the website !
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The ultimate guide to traveling around the world, from how to pack your suitcase to how much youâll be paying for a beer
Planning to travel to another country, even for a vacation, takes a lot of work.
We compiled the ultimate guide to traveling around the world, which can help you in every step of the vacation-planning process.
From applying for visas for your trips and finding an affordable flight to navigating the subway system, these 10 graphics have you covered.
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today in âthings iâm disproportionately emotional aboutâ:
itâs facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!
like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:
doesnât he just look like a dude youâd wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed
what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. iâd definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after iâd finished my dayâs work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever
people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what
they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly
they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves
they all sang songs
they all drew pictures
they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals theyâd killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests
they fell in love
they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them
they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole
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So, incidentally, my experience with the movie Megamind is that I ended up watching it backwards in a hotel once when I was younger and nothing else was on. And by âbackwardsâ I mean, the first day I only caught the latter half of it and then it was on again the day after and I saw the first half.
That said, that one dang scene, is kind of an immortal one in my mind, because itâs one that has a lot more depth than it seems to.
The part that people often miss is that right after that pithy one-liner of how the difference between a villain and a supervillain is presentation⌠that whole conversation gets context.
Because Titan makes an immediate lunge for Megamind.
And immediately gets crunched by the giant head, and stuck in that situation because Megamind just drops out of the bottom, to a waiting vehicle, and maneuvers around him to focus on the actual issue: rescuing the hostage while Titanâs occupied.
That whole setup isnât just, âwatch me out-drama youâ, itâs showing off an actual tactical asset.
Because Megamind as a character is someone who was always, always motivated by getting attention. The reason why Roxanne is never afraid of being his hostage isnât because of her unshakable faith in a rescuing hero as much as it is that she knows, ultimately, what Megamind is doing is overwhelmingly a show. His atrocities are symbolic in nature. When he actually needs to take somebody out he dehydrates them into a cube for a while. And itâs not just Roxanne that calls him on this, either- Metro Manâs entire retirement scheme hinged on the idea that Megamind really didnât need someone keeping him at bay from innocent civilians, because, as weâve seen, innocent civilians really donât have much to fear from him. Ultimately he is still, actually, just a kind of needy person desperately looking for validation and approval, neither of which can be provided by dead people.
But thatâs not to say he canât actually fight. Like any actual proper magician, he knows how to hold attention and an element of danger is how that works. Heâs actually brilliant, and plenty capable of raising genuine hell.
However- heâs been doing this stageshow thing for ages. Heâs mastered this. Titan may have him outgunned practically in every respect- but the guy has no conceivable head for subtlety.
So the real kicker to that whole setup, is this isnât just Megamind being Megamind for the sake of drama- this is Megamind knowing exactly how easy Titan is to bait, dangling the largest trap he could possibly conceive in front of the guy, and doing it in an unapologetically glorious manner as any true performer would.
âPresentationâ is not a superpower to be overlooked.
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