#acer nice laptop

[kitchenvelly]

Acer Aspire 3 A314-23P-R3QA Slim Laptop.

Acer Aspire 3 A314-23P-R3QA Slim Laptop.14.0" Full HD IPS Display. AMD Ryzen 5 7520U Quad-Core Processor. AMD Radeon Graphics | 8GB LPDDR5. 512GB NVMe SSD. Wi-Fi 6 | Windows 11 Home,Silver : Electronics.

[jhalya]

Nine people I'd like to get to know better!

Tagged by @coraleethroughthelookingglass and @myfavouritelunatic

🎵 LAST SONG: Next to me by Imagine Dragons

🎨 FAVOURITE COLOUR: teal and pink and you-can't-make-me-choose

📺 CURRENTLY WATCHING: Life on our planet

🖥 LAST MOVIE/SHOW: Escaping Twin Flames

🍪 SWEET / SAVOURY / SPICY: sweet (gimme all the cookies) and spicy :3

⌨️ LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: best laptops for video editing (I just wanted an excuse to get myself a Surface)

No pressure tag @somebirdortheother @theriverwild @scriberated @pursuitseternal @thrillofhope @demonscantgothere @myrsinemezzo @eowyn7023 @ruleofexception

[teruthecreator]

new laptop works good :-)

[softgrungeprophet]

seeking: wealthy patron

to: buy me a house in seattle or olympia where i never have to move from again

and: buy me one of those $2000 lenovo thinkpads

(and also give me a few hundo a month)

in exchange i will continue to write my spider-man epic and play video games

[anothermonikan]

absolutely fucking devastating: my siblings chromebook is kinda cute /p

[mothpdf]

linux is like a star crossed lover to me

[racfoam]

Okay, poll time regarding an important purchase in my day-to-day life.

In short, I am ready to upgrade from my (glances to the Acer laptop that's been dead for a year) laptop...

I now have a very big budget (it's considered big in my country) that I got over the summer to finally spend it on an upgrade.

I need a poll because now I got an idea to buy a PC, which is dangerous territory for me for numerous reasons. Some background: I haven't had a PC since I was 14, I got my laptop (which is dead now) right as I entered high school, and it was a cheap one, it couldn't even run Minecraft without lagging which at the time pissed off my gamer childhood self.

But, as a functioning, employed adult, I finally did it. I finally saved up enough money to buy a new device.

The accesibility & portability of laptops is def what I need overall for my professional life. They're not a MUST at my work place at all, but it would be NICE to be able to access my documents on laptop & edit them there or during the way home rather than go to the office again for the PC.

Here’s the thing. The laptop I can afford is not better by performance against the gaming PC I can afford.

Why a gaming PC?

Because I am a whimsical little shit. I see a program and I want to master it for hobby's sake, or just cus I'm that curious. What if I one day want to pick up Blender or 3D sculpting or some shit just to try it?! It's happened before, and it continues happening. I jump from hyperfixation to hyperfixation like a ping pong ball. A laptop at the price range I want to buy won't be able to run complex games or Blender.

The childhood me, in my soul, wants that freaking PC. But my basic normal thought process is also aware if I get a gaming PC it may distract me from my work bcs... Well the PC will be able to do EVERYTHING. At least I'm self-aware enough of that.

Another thing is...

Durability & longer-life & upgradability

I can always upgrade the PC, I know my way around PC hardware. The PC will last me longer than the laptop probably will, and I can't upgrade the laptop.

But then I have no portability & always-accessibility the laptop offers, and if I get the laptop it will be for work, Photoshop & fic writing if I get used to it (I won't, I hate writing on laptops). Which is perfect, I'll be able to do my work even on the go, I can carry it with me, etc etc and I WON'T BE DISTRACTED.

So! I guess, vote bcs at this point I'll toss a goddamn coin! And before anyone asks, no I won't put the Macbook on the list, I like having my liver, thank you.

My biggest fear is that I've grown so used to the laptop interface if I buy a PC I'll just take time re-configuring my brain to use it, so what if I hate it? I have so many fears, and I don't want to waste my money and then go like "ugh, I'm disappointed". I'm used to reading on the laptop, typing on the laptop, working on the laptop, etc. I have all PC peripherals except a monitor but the IT stores are having huge discounts & sales now I can grab one from anywhere at this point so that doesn't concern me a lot.

This is a purchase I'll treat myself with for my birthday. I've spoken to friends, some say laptop, some say PC. Anyway, here is the poll. I'll put it for today.

I just love both but I have to pick, but I can't. Laptop is more familiar to me now than a PC 🤣 a PC would be dangerous cus I will def get the urge to play games instead of WORKING, but on the off hours it'd be a party 🤣

For info, the

PC would be

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600

GPU: RX 6600

RAM: 16GB

That is the overall idea and I even found a custom pc builder in my country, too, if the prebuilt ones are too expensive, haha.

Laptop Models:

Lenovo Ideapad 3 with Ryzen 5, 16Gb RAM, Integrated Intel GPU

Lenovo V15 G5, also Ryzen 5, 16gb ram, integrated Intel GPU

[nectar-cellar]

Hi, I'm not sure if you've answered this question or similar questions, but do you have any tips/advice on taking photos of your sims? Whenever I do, and upload them to Tumblr, they all come out blurry. Also, they don't look nice at all compared to yours!

hi :D thank you 💞 i actually have written a lighting tutorial for sim photoshoots but i'm not sure if that fully answers your question.

for closeup pics of sims, you need to move the camera real close to the sim and zoom in. the further away you get from the sim, the more detail is lost in the picture.

here are my in-game settings:

visual effects and sim detail on highest

screen size: 1600 x 900 -> bigger screen = higher image quality

i don't size down the pics and i always crop them in one of the following ratios: 16:9, 4:3, 3:4, or 1:1

my current gshade preset also helps. it brightens, smooths the pixel edges, and sharpens the image to enhance the details. it really improves the picture quality when i’m taking pics from further away, like a waist up shot or a full body shot.

i wrote about some basic reshade/gshade settings here.

here’s a gshade before and after i took quickly. not sure how helpful it is. i moved the camera right up in front of their faces so the max amount of sim detail is preserved. in the game window it feels way too close but when cropped and formatted in a blog post, it looks less jarring.

if nothing else, it might just be your graphics card. my current laptop (acer nitro 5) has a nvidia graphics card because it's a gaming laptop. TS3 looks ten times better by default compared to when i played it on my older non-gaming laptops. i hope that helps... 💗

i’m sure your pictures look just fine. i would post those pictures anyways, even if they are a little blurry, as long as you are having fun capturing them :)

[tap-tap-tap-im-in]

A friend of mine asked me recently to detail my Linux setup, and after thinking about it for a bit, I realized that this is essentially a personality quiz for the Linux users I thought I would detail it here as well.

I no longer have a desktop computer at all. I have two older generation "gaming" laptops and three Raspberry Pis. I'm going to go through in the order I got them:

Laptop #1:

[Purchased New in 2016] Acer ROG 7th Gen i7, 16GB Ram, nVidia 1050Ti Mobile, Internal 1TB HDD, external 2TB HDD

This was originally a windows laptop when I got it back in 2016, but in 2021 I was tired of the long windows boot times on the the HDD and was much more familiar with Linux due to several years experience doing webserver admin work.

I use Ubuntu LTS as my base. It's easy, it's well supported, it's well documented, and the official repos have just about everything I could need. The only thing I've really had to add myself is the repo for i3, but we'll get to that in a bit. I also chose Ubuntu because I already had my first two Raspberry pis, and both were running Raspbian, so using a debian based kernal meant that it wouldn't be much of a change when ssh'ing into them.

That said, I've never really liked the default Ubuntu desktop. Gnome3 is slow and full of too many effects that don't look especially nice but are still heavy to execute. Instead I loaded up KDE plasma. You can download Kubuntu and have them to the setup for you, but I did it the hard way because I found out about Plasma after installing Ubuntu and didn't want to start from scratch.

My plasma desktop looks like this:

Of my two laptops, this one is in the best shape. It's the one that I usually take with me on trips. With the dedicated GPU it can do some light gaming (it did heavier gaming on windows, but due to emulation layers the performance is just a little worse these days, Linux gaming isn't perfect), the screen hinge has never been an issue, and it's on the lighter side of gaming laptops (which is not to say that it's light). For that reason, I often find myself actually using it on my lap, in airports, at people's houses, on my own couch typing this up.

For this reason, I started looking into ways to better keep my hands on the keyboard, rather than having to drift down to the track pad, which is my least favorite part of this laptop. During that research I discovered i3. If you're not familiar i3 is a Linux Desktop Environment that is entirely keyboard driven. https://i3wm.org/

To be fair, it's less of a desktop environment and more of a keyboard driven window manager, as it doesn't have a "desktop" per se. Instead when you log into it, you simply get a black status bar at the bottom of the screen. It doesn't even black out the login screen, so if you don't know what to look for, you might think the whole thing has hung. But, the big benefit of this is that the whole thing is lighting fast for a DE. It doesn't waste any resources on effects or really anything that you don't need. But it's really nice for window tiling and task switching without having to get the mouse involved. This is great for productivity (if you're into that), but it's also just convenient for working on a gaming laptop, which might be balanced such that if you take your hands off of it, it might topple off your lap.

This laptop is my primary project computer. It has all my git repos and scripts for doing things like renewing my website's ssl certs. I also run game servers on it for Minecraft. I'm probably going to spin up a Valheim server on it in the near future too. Especially now that the process has improved somewhat.

Raspberry Pi #1:

[Gifted New in 2016] Raspberry Pi 3b, 4GB RAM, 32GB SD card

This one is my oldest RPi. It's had a lot of roles through the years, including an early version of the vogon media server during initial development in 2020. It's run headless Raspbian for a good three or four years now. Currently it's configured as a web server/php scripted web crawler and a pi-hole DNS server. My router currently refuses to use it as a DNS server without bringing the whole network down, but I will on occasion manually switch devices to it when I'm running especially ad-ridden applications.

There's not too much to say about this one. It's stable, I almost never have problems with it. I frequently use it for things that I want running in the background because they'll take too long and I don't want them blocking up one of my other computers.

Laptop #2

[Gifted Used in 2020] Asus Predator 7th Gen i7, 16GB Ram, nVidia 1080 Mobile, 2 internal 256GB SSDs, External 2TB HDD

This one runs windows 10 still. I use this primarily for gaming. The screen hinge is an absolute joke, and replacing it involves replacing the entire screen bezel assembly, which I can absolutely do, but is such a pain that I haven't gotten around to it in the 3 years I've owned this laptop.

There's nothing really special about this one, other than that when both laptops are at my desk, I use a KVM switch to swap my external monitor, keyboard, and trackball between the two computers.

Raspberry Pi #2:

[Gifted New in 2020/21] Raspberry Pi 4b, 4GB Ram, 16GB SD card, 2 120GB USB Sticks, External 2TB HDD

This is my media server. I got it for Christmas 2020 (or 2021, I don't actually remember which because 2020 was a hard hard year). It runs Rasbian, the full OS, with the desktop environment disabled from booting via the command line. It runs PHP 8.2, MariaDB, Apache2, and MiniDLNA to serve the content via my Vogon Media Server.

If you can't tell from the above storage, I'm running the USB ports well past the power delivery they are rated for. The webserver and OS are on the internal storage, so functionally this just means that sometimes the media disappears. I need to build a migration script to put the contents of the two USB sticks on the external storage, as there is more than enough room, and if I can put the HDD in an enclosure with dedicated power, that will solve the issue. But that's at least a hundred dollars of expense, and since the server only has 1, maybe two users at a time, we've been limping along like this for a few years now.

Raspberry Pi #3:

[Purchased New in 2023] Raspberry Pi 4b, 8GB Ram, 16GB SD card

This is the newest Pi. Work gave me a gift card as a bonus for a project recently, so after weighing the pros and cons of getting a VR headset, I settled on setting up a retro gaming tv box. Currently it's running Batocero Linux and loaded up with classic game roms up through the PSX. Though, I would really like to use it as a tv client for the media server. I've upgraded the devices in the living room recently, and there's no longer a dedicated web browser we can use without hooking up one of our laptops. I've got a spare 128GB SD card in the office, so I'm strongly considering getting a wireless mouse and keyboard and setting it up to dual boot between Batocero (which is convenient because it can be navigated with just a controller), and Raspbian. I think I'd set Batocero as the default in Grub, and then if I want to use Raspbian I'd need to have the keyboard handy anyway.

Maybe I'll get one of those half-sized keyboards with the trackpad built in.

Speaking of controllers. I use an 8BitDo Pro 2 controller, and I've been super happy with it since purchase: https://www.8bitdo.com/pro2/

So that's the setup. I have entirely too many computers for any one person, but I included the dates when I got them to show that a number of these have been around for a long time, and that part of the reason I have so many now is that I've put a lot of time into ongoing maintenance and repurposing.

If you've read this far, I'd love to hear about your setups. You don't have to reblog this, but please tag me if you detail yours.

[goat-mint]

just got a new laptop :P hmm yes it's coming together nicely

model: Acer Predator Triton 300 SE (14") (2TB SSD, 16GB RAM, i7-12700H, RTX 3060 Max-Q)

[okay-computer]

Hi,

I am a little overwhelmed shopping for a new computer right now. My old laptop is still chugging along at 10 years old running windows 7. I've been getting by between that and my little tablet, but my laptop can't really keep up with my audio editing anymore and now that I'm trying to break into a tech role I need something that can handle exploring programming and data analysis as a career. Some gaming capabilities would be nice. Longevity a major plus.

One problem with modern normal laptops is I need to be able to plug a lot of stuff in, which has led me over to gaming laptops. The Acer Predator Helios usually makes an appearance on "best of" lists as a midline gaming laptop in my $2,000 budget. Unfortunately there are at least 10 configurations.

Tldr questions:

windows 11 or 10 and pro or home

512 GB or 1TB SSD

16 GB RAM is pretty standard with the option to go up to 32 later

12th gen or 11th gen/ i7 or i9

This is overwhelming. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you

--marg

Okay, first recommendation: buy a powered USB hub. This is similar to the one I've got. I use it constantly because there's a ton of shit that I want to plug in but I don't want to put too much stress on the ports on my laptop. It also means that if I want to move my computer I don't have to unplug five things, I only have to unplug one.

But to your questions:

Windows 11 but don't pay extra for it, any computer that is coming with 10 on it will come with an upgrade and one of your first options out of box will be to install the upgrade. Pro vs Home is going to depend a lot on what kind of environment you're interacting with and what tolerance you have for bullshit; Pro has fewer ads, works better if you need to be added to a domain, and includes Bitlocker encryption. Upgrading a home license to pro costs $95, so if you don't need that stuff then save yourself a hundred bucks.

Start with 16GB, it's cheaper to add more RAM later if you need it and you likely won't need it.

If cost to upgrade the SSD is under $100 go for it; you could, theoretically, get a cheaper SSD and install it yourself but fuck it you probably don't want to do that on a new computer. (I do strongly recommend getting an external drive with at least 4TB storage for backups and data; if you are getting a smaller SSD it is more important to get a backup drive big enough that you can use to store inactive projects AND a few backups on)

11th gen i7 is fine for what you're doing, but the processor is the least upgradeable part of your computer. If you've got the money and you're planning on using this computer for a long time then it's worthwhile to get the 12th gen i9. (Honestly newest processor is preferred in either case, but for real it's better to get less RAM and less storage and skip pro and spend all that money on the best processor possible because all of the other things are upgradeable but the processor isn't)

Good luck! Hope this helps!

[hisui-cotton]

Hello Hello! Today I’d like to talk about my experience in going to digital art as my primary workflow over the past 5 or 6 years and what I’ve kinda wanted to do for my art in the past and now in the future. Overall I wanted to share my thoughts on the two primary programs I use, how I critique myself and what I’ve learned about art on a personal level.

To preface, as this is a newer format, you expect a level of self-reflection in this that may seem odd! This is both a report to my own brain cave (in lore it's Ithod my "home planet") and a personal exploration of aspects of my life that have taken my interest. This is one of my big steps into finding what I enjoy creating as a VTuber. So please look forward to it as the future has more of this type of blogging but on a variety of topics I find interest in in addition to my Art posts!

Alright let’s start from the…beginning? One of the first times I got a genuine chance to use digital art was in 2013 on a Acer laptop and a tablet I can’t remember the brand of. I didn’t learn too much, I kind of just went for it. It’s hard to explain that I was not really looking at digital art as something I needed to relearn compared to traditional art, not to mention that I was still not improving my art in a….genuine way? I think I was just trying things out to explore how it works. The main problem was that I just didn’t know what I wanted to be using it for at the time. Like yes I wanted to draw but what did I want to be using digital art for that I could use traditional art to do? Overall I didn’t do a whole lot with that tablet other than play around with it but that was a good entry nonetheless.

Sometime after that in 2016/2018-ish I began to draw on my phone and I got a Windows Surface Pro. These were the two steps that really gave me perspective on some of the stuff I can do in digital Art compared to traditional, especially since I had also by that point learned way more about concepts in art and planning my work. This is really where I leaned into taking stuff I learned concept wise and played around with the ability of digital programs like layers, clipping, and being able too revert to old phases of the process without having to totally restart. I played around a lot with making sure I was atleast TRYING to get fullbody work in my compositions as I noticeably struggled with getting body gestures down. Everything felt stiff and I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of that while getting line art in. A lot of that went on to mean that I just did a lot of sketching, studies and generally drew things I felt I had a vague idea for. I typically didn’t go beyond the testing/planning either there because that wasn’t what I was really aiming to do. If I wasn’t thinking of an image beyond it’s initial idea then I had no need to try things beyond that. This wasn’t like a bad time for my art though. In the one year of drawing on a Surface Pro I went from basic fanart doodles to a fairly well developed digital style. I hadn’t even really looked back at the progress of that first year of drawing on the surface pro till now. In the year before I had been drawing fairy consistently on my phone but it was doing basic little portraits and stuff like that. If I had to say I learned one specific thing in the time I used the surface pro (which was for about 3 years) it’s likely that the screen/tablet type you use has a greater effect on how you draw that you may realize.

The ability to draw in my phone was great for at work during lunches or for jotting down sketch ideas which I could use/develop later if I wanted to. I very much loved this convivence because I didn’t want to risk taking my Surface Pro to work or something like that and then it breaking or getting stolen. So the phone usage was very nice especially in our modern era where a good mini-stylus or just the right free app is enough. Specifically I worked in Pixiv Sketch, and still do when I draw on my phone. It’s got a great basic variety of brushes and then a layer function with a decent amount of layer limits.

The Surface Pro’s ability to make the process feel smooth and clean even at various pen pressures was really interesting to realize after switching to an XP-Pen Tablet. It was also really nice to have something to just pull up a full drawing program but also be able to lay in my bed lmao. It may not have done much for my quality but it made me feel like drawing wasn’t something that I had to be up and ready to do if I just wanted to doodle. It also ran really well with decent memory space. This bring me to Paint Tool Sai, the program that I’ve been using for most of my digital art.

I bought Paint Tool Sai back on my Acer laptop. It was $75 at the time which was a lot for me but now looking back…I’ve had like a lifetime art program that can be used at a professional level. I remember recently watching one of the BTS of Genshin Impact and seeing Paint Tool Sai open in on one of their PCs was really refreshing lmao. It was the same hat meme. It was great. But also the fact that it’s made by one guy in Japan, who has been developing the 2.0 for the past few years is crazy because it’s honestly such a great program. I got the 2.0 upgrade for free as well which was even nicer in regards to the fact I only paid for it once also 10 years ago.

Because of it’s program nature with various brush folders and texture folders, it’d similar to Clip Studio in it’s customization for brush textures and settings. You can create your own textures, brushes and such and import them into the program. I find it’s overall feeling when drawing is really smooth even in a lot it’s brush settings. It’s got great reaction time and feels a lot like traditional art for that reason. Even with a really high Stabilization it’s reaction and accuracy to the line is really nice. The digital coloring on the other hand doesn’t really feel as good. I like to use the marker tool because I personally enjoy the look of washed colors so it isn’t too bad for me but when I need flat colors or blended rendering I tend to personally struggle with getting it done at a decent speed. But all the conveniences of the placement for in-program functions like new-layer, merge layer, copy/paste and blank layer are in the same place which I prefer over Clip Studio’s spread out options. It’s possible I can move them around more but the built in thought of the placement for a lot of things in Paint Tool Sai is a nice start for someone looking to just get started within digital art and needs a program with just enough stuff beyond the essentials to let you do really good quality work.

Now I’ve upgraded to a full PC, which I got in 2020. I use an Omen as I expected that if I wanted to use other art programs or draw on even bigger canvases that I should need a more robust system than what I used on the Surface Pro, but I didn’t need anything too crazy that would require a custom system. I also took this as a time to get a slightly larger tablet. Currently I use a XP-Pen tablet which is noticeably different to use than a surface pro. Since a surface Pro is also a laptop/tablet it had a smoother screen, untextured and such, where as the XP-Pen has a slight Matte to it. The XP-Pen also has a layered screen, where theres a slight slight space between where your pen is and the actual place it’s drawing at.

My use of Sai has gone down in the last month however as I finally began using Clip Studio. I admit that theres still something about the feel of the program I don’t like in comparison to Sai but it’s a better overall experience for making higher quality, more complete work at this time. Partially because I still haven’t figured out my art process. Clip Studio has made the convenience of coloring much more accessible to me on a variety of levels. It let’s me feel like I’m not overly perfectionist on my sketch process or lineart in comparison to just laying down a few colors because I don’t have confidence with them. Now even without confidence in my color choices or usage I at least feel like I’ve been able to fake it. In sai it was very dependent on you knowing what colors you wanted to use and what tool you’d use to lay them down. So far it doesn’t feel that way in Clip Studio. I can choose a basic brush and paint bucket and get color laid down in about 20 minutes if I wanted or take more time with a slightly varied brush and get that washed style I like while also being able to properly fill the spaces of the work.

Overall in my art process itself it’s been a lot faster as well than in Sai, perhaps because I’m still taking it slower with the express reason of really learning to use it for efficiency. My progression through the years has sort of allowed me to take that previous knowledge I’d gained and use it in what I do next which is generally what one does when making a change to their professional processes. A lot of doing things new successfully depends on how much you can make it work with what you already know.

Finally let’s talk about my art process itself, what my sort of mentality is behind it. A lot of what I do is based on “Oh I really want to see something like this!” or “That would be a fun/cool image” if I’m drawing for myself. I start with a thumbnail sketch, enlarge that and then do another more detailed sketch on top of that. Typically I haven’t done lineart in the past because it adds a lot of time to the process and I never feel like it looks good compared to sketch. Now that I have clip studio though and the coloring process can go a lot faster with better lineart, I’ve been trying to do a bit cleaner sketches or full lineart. Coloring usually is flat colors first, washed shading next and then multiple layer styles on top of that of highlights and shading. I usually do washed shading as a sort of “sketch” for the shades. Usually a rough colored drawing takes about 2 hours? Sometimes a bit more depending on how much I clean up the lines, sometimes less if I just slap on the colors and lines.

The things that I feel I need to work on the most are usually in regards to colors and composition. I tend to focus up my character compositions to fill the whole page either by intentionally drawing them large or by enlarging the sketches to fill the page size. But if it’s a composition that isn’t character focused or has some more environmental aspects then I tend to struggle. My color choices also are hard to do because I don’t usually consider them in my sketching phase. Since I usually go into pieces with an idea of what person, character or outfits I’m drawing then colors tend not to be something I think too much about. This is something I notice a lot in environmental drawings though because the colors get so clashed when actual lighting and such needs to be planned out against a certain layout. Which sucks because I absolutely LOVE vibrant coloring and such but I don’t know how to make that work with environment stuff yet.

A lot of what I want to draw, in both style and “substance”, is character driven. I like action that shows a lot of atmosphere or feels very in character. When a still image can feel like it captures the feeling of a moment or feels like it was made with a real idea in mind that means a lot to me, so that’s what I try to go in with when I’m drawing. For characters and such that can be a variety of things from just lounging around or hanging out to getting dressed-up or a variety of actions. It’s really fun to see so much more in the things that I like and to be able to share those things through art is wonderful.

To send you off I want to say that…I like being an artist. It’s so nice to know and learn a skill like art since it can be a sort of perspective into a person’s views. People’s ability to connect over concepts and such is so cool and I feel like even today when we have fine art, fanart and everything in-between that it really sets up the fun of creativity and community. Right now there’s an ongoing official art series of Miku and Pokemon drawn by various artists. Some people have begun taking that concept and drawing it themselves, putting their own spins on it in their version of the pokemon style and outfits. It’s so cool that looking through it all I can barely tell which ones are official and which are fan made. Like it’s a clear cut conversation where everyone can give it a shot with their own ideas and can still be talking about the same thing. I think that’s lovely.

For my art in the future, I want to be able to design and draw a buncha stuff. I really like stationary and want to make some stuff in the future for it. These report logs are one place I’ll be playing around with that to test it a bit so I’m excited to continue these. I also want to better my Background drawing because I really love the idea of being able to put characters in a location, somewhere I can imagine them being. I’ve gotten better at character interactions but I want to think about how much further that can go if I add an environment. For the future of my style…I don’t know! I like to have a very dreamy or washed style but also bold colors and expressive lines. But I’ll definitely be thinking about it even more in the future as I start developing a finished my process (getting fully rendered colors, lineart, etc.).

[supersonic1994]

I can’t drink caffeinated coffee because if I do I start to lose my mind. Not in the “my name is Teresa William Jones and I was born 1967 in Tennessee” some shit way but I’ll start to have difficulties breathing then I’ll have to run off and lock myself in a bathroom stall doing breathing exercises for 10 minutes while everyone around me pisses, shits, and exercises bulimia kind of way. This happened two days ago. As I sat on a closed toilet with my head between my knees the room smelt like ass. This means that:

1. I really shouldn’t drink anything caffeinated, including orange pekoe and

2. I’ve been enjoying 2 shots of decaf coffee in my hot chocolate lately. I’m practically a kid.

Things haven’t been working in my favour recently. My laptop that I got last Christmas stopped working a couple days ago and I had to ship it to Acer for repairs. I hope they don’t snoop. What also happened is that yesterday morning I tried to log in to university and it suspended me because of a failure in my login. I wanted to study and submit some assignments due Monday. Great. I have to call I.T Monday. The funny thing is I had just changed my password and it had been working.

My ear has been really dry lately. My eczema is returning, I think. The last time I had eczema in my ear it got infected because I kept scratching it. Half of my ear was falling off. Even dad turned green. This time I have medication.

I went to a party Friday night and kept sober because I had taken 2 naproxen. Though, I did indulge in 3 cigarettes, 1 being the notoriously banned menthol, and then walked a few blocks over at 10:30pm to 7-11 with no shoes on. 3 is a lot for me because I get addicted easily and I’m scared of getting cancer. My feet didn’t get cut by street glass—Thank God. By 12am Dad picked me up before the cake got cut. Even though I was sober I didn’t want to drive because I’m night blind. It was nice of him to do that.

[lifewithchronicpain]

It is done, graduation laptop for my sibling has been purchased. I had a friend who recommended an Acer Aspire Vero, with some really nice specs. Unfortunately for the price he found it was only online and I just don't purchase laptops online unless it's to pick up. I fear shipping damage and theft.

So I did some searching and I found an Acer Aspire Vero for a decent price at Best Buy. The specs are a little less than what my friend suggested, but I felt it was good enough. I bought it for my mom to pick up. I wish the RAM was better but I know sibling can upgrade it on their own. She's done it before and has a techie friend to help.

Besides, she wants to save for a state of the art gaming computer and right now she's borrowing, so this computer will fill the gap until she finally afford her dream computer.

[softgrungeprophet]

i wish sitting at my desk wasn't so uncomfortable by comparison cause I really like using my desktop keyboard 😂 but alas... laptop lounging more comfy for writing... even with a giant keyboard on top of it... also no way in hell am i gonna play computer hopscotch with my massive word documents. and no i will not use google docs as my default typing program. if you do. that's fine. but it's not for me.

[angelhelvin]

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