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big and round if true

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big and round if true

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I should be so fucking famous and beloved by now this shit stopped being funny six years ago

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guess I'll post here too but:

we've launched an official chill guy store! it's still in its infancy but check out it's opening selection and be on the lookout for stuff in the future ✌️

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There is nothing in this world sadder than 2020's comedy shows. At least there's something therapeutic about weeping at an out-and-out tragedy. Meanwhile, search "comedy" on Goobo Plus and you get a sea of the most soul-draining shit imaginable. A thousand shows with only one season, just a tight 6 hours of navel gazing whispery hopelessness. Hey, remember laughing? Well if you liked that, you'll LOVE sharp jolting flashbacks to your shitty childhood.

You know those moments when you claw out of your depression haze to actually accomplish something, like hanging up a picture, and you don't have the right kind of screws but you're doing your best, and no matter how hard you torque the screwdriver nothing really happens and you know you're wasting that days' capacity for action on something that will go nowhere, but you have to try and follow through or else you'll be stuck with a big ugly divot in your wall? We've managed to make that feeling last 6 hours.

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Time travelers always have to be like “see you again yesterday!” smug little fucks

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The design world says “form follows function” and then makes forms that conceal rather than celebrate function. We’re embarrassed at gears, circuits, pipes, belts and ducts. So we just quote Van Der Rohe to excuse our cowardice

What I’m saying is, bring back the god damn translucent game consoles

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The thing that frustrates me the most about leftist infighting is that 99% of the time we're arguing over things we have no influence over.

I get it; you and Ryan don't agree what flavor of socialist economy is best. But I have news for you; it will never by Ryan's job to design the economy, and it won't be yours either. In fact when the economy does get re-designed, whenever that may be, you and me and Ryan won't even be in the room. We might not be alive.

GO BACK TO BASICS. Trans rights, women's rights, civil rights for POC. Work together.

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Europeans, I get that it’s annoying when Americans are like, “I’m French”

But here’s the thing: you’re the ones who wanted to make the rest of the world into Europe. You swept native people aside, erased their culture, and called your colonies “New [European City]”

Having to hear a drunken douchebag in a green foam hat bellow “I’m Irish!” is poetic—if lenient—justice

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Something that I honestly mourn the lack of is that twisted and skewed surrealist perspective from 90s cartoons and games. There aren’t too many examples of it either before or after the period. In golden age cartoons, perspective could be exaggerated, but it was usually still rectilinear.

This type of perspective, on the other hand, is like the warping of space time or a funhouse mirror. Something about it just makes me happy. It’s how I would choose to design the universe.

I know a few artists that work in this style sometimes but it’s still incredibly difficult to find.

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The important thing now is to unite in our efforts to assign increasingly complex chains of blame within our own hopelessly splintered factions.

Because at least we agree on this: someone fucked up, it wasn’t me, and the resistance is on hold until we figure out who it was

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Inspirational wisecrackers

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Lemme get two weddings with just grooms, two weddings with another wedding, three large funerals, six medium funerals, one large funeral and a pizza place and a pizza place and a pizza place

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Waldo 1.0 basically came together in a single shot. Design, laser cut, assemble, flap mouth. It only allowed me to move my thumb and wrist, and it wasn’t very good at letting me isolate motion, but functioned basically immediately.

Getting the Waldo to this stage, on the other hand, where I can articulate more than just the thumb, and minimize unwanted secondary motion (aka move my fingers without the whole head jerking around) required a complete rebuild of the gimbal frame just to start. I then had to learn 3D printing and surface modeling in CAD, and do maybe 40 prints producing about a hundred parts. I had to radically re-evaluate the entire approach to the hand control design, including the basic premise that a Waldo hand control should be shaped like the interior of a puppet head.

The Henson approach is undoubtedly superior but much much more difficult to pull off. It basically involves placing all the rotary sensors at the exact axis of rotation for all the digits of the hand. Pulling this off has benefits in terms of one-to-one control, but I discovered that it requires incredibly precise placement or else tons of secondary motion is created.

Frustrated, I thought about trackball mice and game controllers and musical instruments. All of these things let you isolate motion by enabling the hand to move the way it wants to. The sensor doesn’t have to care where your joints are and how they move, you just have to be able to reach them.

I re-designed the hand controls to be shaped more like an ergonomic mouse instead of like a puppet mouth, and although it has created a new learning curve for controlling the character, it’s immediately obvious that this approach is worth pursuing and may very well be the winning form.

Edit: the character model is a wip by an artist named Cramble who is a genius