#form-based code

[agnesandhilda]

someone somewhere in the comicbookverse has tweeted out "having something deviant about yourself that becomes apparent at puberty, a trait that other people are horrified by and that you can have regardless of whether or not your family shares it ...fellas is it gay to be a mutant?" and had their phone blown up for the rest of time

[kavalyera]

"butchfailure" crying. i love v

she did not survive her first lesbian relationship

[unionizedwizard]

funniest and least in-character thing about me is definitely that i got arrested for a verious serious crimeTM in 6th grade. and handcuffed in the police station too. the cops didnt know what sex i was and yelled at me about it (i wouldnt tell them for some reason. foreshadowing) until they found my graded essays and wondered why i had such perfect grades while also being a genuine criminal. i still wonder how i survived the whole thing considering my parents were basically trying to kill me for the sake of the family's honor and all that. anyway hashtag jean genet realness it's too bad i didn't end up being gay despite it all

[laugtherhyena]

Every time I see your sprite work, it just makes me want to make a sprite edit of Akane with the design I made for her in my "She Was Saved" AU (An AU based on the idea of Akane surviving the events of DRA), but I've never done any sprite work so, do you have any tips?

Ok ok so, first things first, i wanna make it clear that none of my sprites are made from scratch, they're sprite edits, hence why i always tag them as such. Every single one of them used some canon character as a base for the base sprite (that one fitst sprite where the character is just standing there with a simple expression) and a handful even have canon sprites uses as bases for poses. Just figured i should make that clear so there's no confusion here.

While I'm not sure if I'm the best at giving tips n stuff, here's what i could think off;

I think the most important tip i can give anyone who wants to get into sprite editing is MAKE A BUNCH OF LAYERS‼️Save things separately just to be sure rather than merging them because that almost always leads to more time spent later down the line. While the amount of separate things certainly varies from artists to artists here's the one i use for my edits.

The app i use (Ibis paintX) allows me to make folders with a bunch of layers to them so i use them to keep stuff more organized.

On the first pic well have a folder with the base sprite, one for the different poses and in Beni's case two for the different eyes she has (one for the normal eyes and one for the ones that are part of the glasses, normally i only have one layer with all the eye variants)

On the second image I've opened the folder that holds the base sprite, or should i say just sprite since it's in this folder that i organize everything that belongs to one specific sprite when I'm making them as to not get myself confused. Anyways, you can't see in the screenshots but the first layer has her glasses, second has her eyebrows and mouth and the third has the eyes.

Fourth has the main body lineart and fifth has the main body colors, please keep those separated as by doing so you make it easier to add those lil effects onto the character's faces on certain expressions + having the lineart of the main body always helps when sketching and connecting the different arms to the main body.

Lastly you got the arms, but ideally you should make the arms/poses in a way they can be placed over the body layers since that just makes things easier to put together, i just have this habit of placing the no pose arms under everything else.

When editing i make the different arms and eyes in advance so that when i start making the different sprites i can just duplicate the canva with the first one a thousand times and everything will carry along with those. Saves time in the long-run + you don't need to separate all layers on them (lineart, colors, shading) since they're just parts there's no problem in just merging them together.

A very important thing to note tho i that if the character has glasses or any accessories that you plan on removing or moving around in some pose/sprite this accessory should be made in a different layer from the main body, this makes editing easier than if you had to just erase and refill the part where the accessory was in the sprite you don't want it to be in.

A similar rule should be applied to the character's hair, if they have short or mid length hair you can just add the whole thing to the main body sprite, but if the character's hair is long you should make this bluk/back part of the hair in a separate layer placed under the main body layers. This also apllies to any back accessories.

Here's Akira as an example; she has one layer for her glasses, one for the back/bulk of her hair and one for the guitar case she carries.

These are essentially the basics of if, so let's go over to some actual tips.

Make the sprites on a small canvas.

Since the Danganronpa another games are made on game maker the size of the character sprites is surprisingly small, while I don't think you should just do it on the same canvas size as the actual sprite, it's good to have a smaller canvas so that the lower amount of pixels gives it a look similar to the in-game sprites + as you can see by mine, they don't actually look low quality at all.

(if curious, the go-to canvas size i use for most of my edits is 773x1020)

Use other sprites as references/bases

Especially if you're just starting on making sprites, use the canon ones for bases, references or even just straight up trace them. This will make the sprite look closer to canon and will start making you undertand the elements that make up the style of the sprite, do it enough times and soon enough you'll be able to make poses on your own without needing a sprite from the game as a base.

Remember! What's wrong about tracing is not the act of tracing itself, as the act of doing so is a great exercise to help you learn, the problem is when you do it and claim you made it 100% on your own. Since these are sprite edits, there's not a problem in doing so.

Observe and learn what makes up the style you're trying to replicate

This is hard to talk about since it really is something that comes with practice, I've been making sprite edits for like 5 years now so this stuff is like written on the walls of my brain by now. Just try to look and analyse the sprites and slowly you'll start seeing patterns and small onto them that you didn't noitce before, like how Linuj's sprites have a bit if line weight to them but are still on the thinner side, how he tends to make the hands a bit on the smaller side, how when he color the character's skins he makes the area near the top of the head a lighter shade than the rest of the skintone, the way he usually makes the character's mouths, and even some more complex things like how the male characters will have very little to no eyelashes while the female characters tend to have a whole lot of them, etc.

At the same time, there's no shame in deliberately ignoring some of these things. Personality the small hands REALLY bother me in a few cases and i tend to just make mouth shapes on a whim instead of trying to stay 100% close to the style. It's just a question of messing around and figuring stuff out, it won't look perfect on the first go, but overtime you'll start to get the hang of it.

[fatfemmefreaquency]

i’m gonna be honest it’s really hard to take people who refer to genAI as a “medium for art” seriously

[stalkiwi]

All my friends are laughing at something, happy about it, joyous. I remain neutral, merely observing the scene.

"Why are you not happy?" one turns to me, noticing my expression.

Because I don't get it, I reply.

"You just don't care about us."

I may not get it, I understand that it's making you happy. And it's what matters - I'm glad to know my friends are happy - I explain.

"You don't show it - you're lying." they blame me.

I struggle to show it. But it doesn't mean that I do not care - I simply cannot express it.

"You're always acting like that around us. Just tell us if you don't like being with us." they growl.

But I don't understand. I am myself around my friends. Isn't it a proof that I am comfortable to be with them?

"You're always silent, you act different, you make no efforts for us, you're not polite, you don't dress well, you don't smile - you really look like we're bothering you."

Should I be someone I am not? Am I being appreciated for who I am? Or for who I am expected to be?

"Don't you know social codes?"

Social codes make no sense to me. No matter how much I am being explained them. I ask nothing to anyone, I expect nothing about anyone, but to be respected, and I respect them in return.

"Respect is about making an effort to be agreeable around us."

To me, respect is to understand everyone is different, and to accept it - to not force them to step out of their comfort for you. That someone refuses to dress in an elegant way or to spray perfume when they visit me is not a message to tell me that they do not like me. It means nothing, in fact, to me.

"Don't you see you're making our lives worse? You're disgusting, you're needy, you're unpleasant."

Then why staying with me? If I am ruining your life by simply existing, then you should not be around me - it's what I say.

"But we care about you!"

I appreciate, but the "me" you care about is not who I am. I'm sorry.

[laevanders]

So the Lords in Black eldritch forms anyone?

I was just sketching, and boom a drawing

It's very messy but I like it, specially when they're in _the black_

[jackalopedaily]

Jackalope Daily Day 327

[symbieote]

My gender is Kyuubei being in both ED7 and ED28

[kayzero]

in the spaces between not working on zwg and not finishing brother’s burden, i’ve been, uh…

thinking about something new.

[cuddlytogas]

Fyre sent me an article that made me Lose My Mind, so instead of sending 800 tweets about it, I decided to just write up my thoughts here

so, in re: ET Fox, 'Jacobitism and the Golden Age of Piracy' --

Fox is definitely exaggerating. His logic jumps from 'ship names and alleged toasts', to 'every pirate was one contact away from a confirmed Jacobite', to "a Jacobite maritime community" (296), with little evidence beyond each previous assumption. He does demonstrate a link with popular Jacobitism, but overstates pirates' political commitment by far.

There's one letter to George Camocke, a Jacobite naval officer, suggesting that the pirate fleet should unite under his command and take Bermuda as a Jacobite base, but the source is shaky, and it went nowhere once Woodes Rogers ousted the pirates. (It's I think from 1718 and unsigned? Possibly from Charles Vane and his crew? Fox only says that, "Through these contacts [unspecified, between Vane and English Jacobites] a letter reached George Camocke" (286), which is suspiciously vague, and I can't access the original to check. Either way, it would still only prove the committed politics of one crew.)

Fox also makes a lot of Archibald Hamilton, governor of Jamaica from 1710-16, who commissioned and profited from the anti-Spanish privateers who turned pirate and made up some of the original Bahamas pirates c. 1715. Since "it has been suggested that [Hamilton] was a Jacobite supporter" (283), Fox claims that these establishing pirates were also committed Jacobites, and therefore the whole pirate community that grew around them must have been. (Which leads to Fox then being baffled when there's no direct evidence of Jacobitism among some of them, such as the crews of Anstis, Fenn, or Rackham.) He relies on these assumptions, and then claims that every connection between pirates proves their mutual Jacobite sympathies.

It's much more likely (and in line with the historians I've read so far) that the Jacobite toasts and ship names speak to a broader anti-authoritarianism among pirates, with no evidence of committed Jacobite actions by them, eg, specifically targeting Hanoverian ships, or materially supporting or trying to support Jacobite rebels beyond that one letter. Indeed, the 1710s/20s pirates are generally agreed to be distinct for not adhering to religious/national loyalties like the C17th pirates usually did. (I'm so sorry, I haven't consolidated my notes yet, but I know Marcus Rediker goes through this, as does Kris E Lane, and I think Tim Travers and David Cordingly.)

Fox does identify a correlation between the rise and fall of Jacobitism and piracy over the mid/late 1710s, but attributes a pretty shaky causation: pirates ceased their Jacobite loyalties due to the suppression of Jacobitism in Britain and Europe. A much more obvious explanation is that both anti-authoritarian movements simultaneously flourished in the post-war, post-succession instability, then were both quashed as the new regime established itself and cracked down on rebels.

So, did many pirates espouse Jacobite sympathies? Yes! They named their ships in favour of Jacobite causes and rulers, and there are plenty of reports of them toasting to King James / the Pretender. (Which it must be said, although the sheer volume lends a ring of truth to the trend, individual claims should be taken with a grain of salt, as Jacobitism was a common accusation against criminals at the time, with or without a basis.)

Does that mean that the 1710s Caribbean pirate community was centred around a heart of politically committed Jacobites, as Fox argues, or largely motivated by Jacobite sentiments? Yeah, probably not.

Anyway, I am SO sorry that this article got me riled up XD the whole point of this is to say, I've never read anywhere that "many pirates were Jacobites driven out of Britain", which I KNOW wasn't even your main point, but I am unfortunately Insane. We can and should talk about expressions of pro-Jacobitism and actual political engagement among 'Golden Age' pirates, but what we know of their actual actions and espoused ideals doesn't speak to a trend of committed Jacobite politics beyond a general loyalty to rebellious causes.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

pinning to the workshop corkboard: you've heard of winston "i'm cassandra" billions clairvoyance concepts for fun & profit, hear also of winston billions sphinx concepts (you must be This understanding of what he means to proceed)

[praazlwurm]

bad-end magpie goes full howl/yubaba mode

[vamptastic]

honestly wild looking at draconian anti trans laws because im always like yeah that's how things are here already. didn't know we had that right before. ostensibly until last year or so i lived in a state (florida) in a country where being trans was mostly legally permissible, sometimes protected. did not mean i could use a different bathroom, or locker room, or get teachers and admin to use a different name and pronouns-much less classmates, or access any medical transition without both of my parents signing on it, or not expect to be called a slur on the daily, or avoid housing and job discrimination. it's not that these laws don't matter, but they get repealed because the status quo was often to ignore them and violate them and only stop if somebody had the money and resources to take it to court.

[dimalink]

Space Oval 9

Three dimensional scene for today based on space and space base. And such a small robots from videogame Doom 3 in the very beginning. Which are like spiders are running all over the base. They are mechanical. They are small size and rather fast they can run. They open the doors in the very beginning. And also a theme of shadowed a dark tone space base. It is mainly dark and low light sources.

And this is my three-dimensional scene based on. It is third learning study scene, and last. It is made as a scene or a picture from possible videogame. Game is runner. Run here and there. About a robot of Oval form with legs. Which is moving. And need to move left or right and avoid a walls. It can be view from backside or from a side a little from forward side. Or even a free three dimensional camera view.

Oval  9 - type of mechanical robots. It is like egg with legs. They are doing noise with their legs while they move. And they all the time are in move. They are moving about a big little roads. And as a navigation they use this setup walls. This means robot needs to avoid obstacle and change course. From this roads it is built their working space.

They are like roads in anthill. Robots are rather standalone. And they can built a complex tech. Robots are came from constellation egg, that was discovered in 2100 year. A little constellation. Several planets. But everyone does not find an intelligence robots. Planets are empty. And they looks like a deserts. And interstellar space in this space region has some space stations with robots Ovel 9. They are like ants and they are all the time moving by this roads. By moment of their detection, they already built a big 9 in space. A space construction that looks like number 9. And they continue to built it. It is a big space station.

 And with those robots it is even a setup contact. They are not evil and not aggressive. Small and controlled from a distance robot fly to their place. And robot egg reaches him. It stands for several minutes. Then it has come several more such a robot eggs. They scanned a guest. About a ten minutes later. They send him a signal with radio frequency 0. With information in a several millions zero. So, it was a first contact.  It was nothing left, but to send them some information coded in binary code. It is not clear do they understand it or not correctly. But robots as they receive information immediately starts to run to the center of their 9 constructions. And they have there a big computer. And they collect a data into it.

This computer just keeps binary codes and can to work with it. Even explorers from Earth has some access ands ability to work with it a little. Computers looks, lie they are... Something like alive. And give access to his resources. Or no to give a permission. It says this is because of high load of his channel. Explores badly understand they way they speaks. A robots by the way, looks like get all information right.

So, it was a connect. They call this word connect to network. They give a permission to explorers to use a little resource of their computer. In exchange that explorers will do a retranslates items of signal channel line to their star. So, it was done.

Robots Ovel 9 – are standalone personalities. But they have ability to use a connect by network in multi process task mode to other users in network. They way to speak it is binary code. And their main center – it is their computer. Which collect all the data and do organize their activity. So, computer do a complex calculations too. And robots do no give access to this calculations.

One of the robots tells more about himself. It is idea that they can share a resource. It means that you can connect to a robot. Some other robot, or computer or someone else. And to be a second operator. And in this mode robot itself can have a rest. In a free time. He built in his mind a fractals. And have endless dive into them. It is something like a sleep.

So you right now has a connection as a second operator to such robot Oval 9 and bring new data to their computer. Then they will tell a little more about who they are. In exchange about information about planet Earth, Solar system, and those who lives there. And what technology is there, what is level of progress.

In exchange they will tell more about themselves. Who they are, how they works. And why they built all these. And even can share a resource from one of their computer. And give permission from time to time to connect as a second operator.

They can built a big wire all around planet Earth. If it is a central plant for humans. And built there a computer, just like they have. They are having a termoatomic sintez. And they will need energy of our sun. And also it will be good to built a retranslation network straight to Earth.

In exchange you will know where they come from. They show to you, their planet. It has lots of power wires. It is a network of wires. And computers. There are constructions that built new robots. And there are big atomic powerplants that’s gives energy to the network. Robots do not know who built them. But they already about 100000000000 their cycles acts like standalone. And they have never seen anyone with intelligence mind. They think their existence is random. As your also. That’s why they have idea to exchange data. And make a connection.

Bring them this data. And let’s see.

Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

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