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A message to the younger members of the community, and those who doubt there place in it:

Beings don't care.

I went to a therian meet up over anthro northwest. And it was NOTHING like the current online spaces, especially all the discourse.

There was no fighting. It was beautiful. Beings were freely using whatever labels they wanted, no one cared "why" someone identified as something, mental, spiritual, physical. Everyone was like "Hey, cool!".

Older folks talked about their time in the community while the younger ones did quads. People howled, played with squeak toys. No one cared. And most importantly, everyone agreed the infighting was pointless.

You WILL be accepted irl. This discourse doesn't matter. You are going to find your beings, and none of these online pissing contests mean anything once you meet others off the screen.

It's a beautiful place out there.

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Hedgehogs playing💥

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hey sorry it's just that i don't think i'm very good at being a person. thanks for letting me try with you, anyway.

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free my man. he mightve done it but hey the other guy had it coming.

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there's a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.

if you don't know, there's a very popular 3d printing model out there called "benchy". this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it's a difficult print and will help test it out.

this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.

of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?

boaty.

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She took my ability to die in the divorce

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He’s so pretty… I want him to be grievously injured

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DevLog 04: …And a Happy New Year!

This month has been kind of a mess of inactivity for me, truth be told. I've spent more of it twiddling around on Windows, playing Warframe, than anything productive… though I suppose that in of itself is an update worth mentioning.

Secret Level released toward the beginning of the month, and perhaps the most surprising part about that in particular is the fact that I only watched the episode once. I liked the Warhammer one quite a lot though!

Warframe 1999 also released--a shocking couple of days after, no less!--and preoccupied me for the better part of half the month. It's been an incredibly rewarding and fun update, and it really feels like DE is hitting their stride with new quest mechanics and storytelling methods. I'm obviously dating Quincy…

…All that aside, I've figured out a very simplistic method of muscle rigging using stretch-to constraints and some clever eyeballing:

I wound up applying it retroactively to my now-basically-complete-aside-textures reference maquette of Post-Real Xan, as well as more or less speedrunning a high-def version of the UT99 botpack/mk II Xan. I had quite a lot of fun twiddling around with getting it as close to the concept art I have stashed as I could bear. It's a really enjoyable design, and I'd like to continue refining it as time goes on.

(There it is in the middle! Super pleased with the toony-stylized textures.)

On the note of actual tech, though, one problem I've been running into as of late is the way Windows handles, well, windows. Mint, my distro-of-choice at the moment, has a useful utility that, when you right click something in the taskbar, flips it to the opposite monitor. I have two, and it's super useful to be able to toggle a window with just a click… which isn't a thing on Windows at all. There are keybinds, sure, but they lack the convenience and muscle memory for me, which has proven very frustrating.

Worse than that is the fact that… between search degradation and the general culture and attitude about software the internet has, this isn't going to be solved anytime soon--nor is there anywhere that even points me in the right direction to fix it myself. This is super tiring, frankly, so I can only dig into the problem on my best health days. :T

I did find a nice little GUI tool for screen brightness and color temperature for Debian-related distros, though, which I'll have to link at some point if I happen to remember. I also tried a command line tool, but… that one only seemed to apply to my keyboard's… indicator LEDs?? Like, the capslock/numlock/game mode indicator lights. Not even the colored LEDs backing the keys themselves.

I was baffled for five straight minutes when I eventually clued in into what it was ACTUALLY toggling, truthfully. Uniquely useless to my specific setup, ha.

Still, the tool's been a wonder for these winter migraines I've been sprouting. I have to assume it's because it's getting dark at, what, 1630-1700 or something like that? I love winter, it's when I feel most active… but man, can't argue that the darkness makes working at my PC a bit of a drag.

I haven't really made a lot of headway in writing Neocities stuff, I've been too occupied with Blender as of late. I have a hunch that I'll be coasting the wave just a bit longer before returning to my usual gamut of projects… one of which might involve diving back into Factorio, honestly. I haven't touched it in a minute and I miss twiddling around in my main save and nurturing the ever-expanding trainwreck of belts I fondly named The Scrongdongler.

…Yes, it's named after that obscure ULTRAKILL style bonus, why do you ask? :'D

Anyhow, shorter post this time 'round, but not for lack of good stuff! I've slacked on posting pictures of my projects and WIPs, but big ships turn slowly, as they say. Bluesky has definitely been nice for dumping screenshots onto, though I really should get in the habit of sharing a wider palette of stuff.

'Til next time!

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is it still medical malpractice if we both got hard answer quickly please

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i have to assume the random occasional mystery notes i'm getting on my xanart (xan fanart) is secret level people. hiiii secret level people

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