#visual solution

[poirott]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 4x02 "Death in the Clouds"

"It is one of Dame Agatha's most intricate plots. I like working on the longer films like this one because it gives me an opportunity to develop the character, but even more than that, I thought it was wonderful that a series like ours was now capable of going to Paris, even if only for a few days. I kept pinching myself to make sure it was true." - David Suchet, Poirot and Me

[raspbian-official]

i do love it when i wade through a mass of online-only proprietary bullshit software to eventually find that there's a small foss library that does exactly what i want it to and a kde tool to view the output, we love happy endings

[uncanny-tranny]

One of the most fascinating things I think the body can do is how it can accommodate itself in weird ways, without you even noticing.

I wonder if that's part of the reason my body operates in such a weird way; it's been finding ways to exist, and only now am I realizing why my gait, posture, and pain is so weird. My body has been duct taping itself in unconventional ways to ensure that it doesn't fall apart more than it already has.

I think it's fascinating that the body can (in theory) do things to accommodate its needs without you consciously being aware of it. It's freaky, honestly.

[zazikels]

the audacity this man has to say "fixing act 2" when fucking tacked on thaniel's bullshit was shoehorned into act 2 but Ketheric being recruitable was axed. But you know, because they care so much about making a good game you can pinpoint exactly where they jankily cut Ketheric's recruitment out because you can still persuade him and then it just fucking snaps into the railroading and he'll have complete personality shifts during both his boss fights. Are you kidding me..........................

[extantformoflife]

i really love playing video games (just tried to play psychonauts for the first time but my computer would not show me any visuals at all just a black screen and also wouldnt let me quit out of the game)

[leona-florianova]

Finished playing Weird West...Interesting concept and some of the ideas but daaaaaammnnnnn... repetitive with too many too similar settings.. Not enough variety.. and not enough NPCs with dialogue trees that lead somewhere...Also there could have been more NPCs with just..random lore and stories of their own life?...but no... They didnt use that potential

And worst of all... For a game thats supposed to be a Weird West it wasnt weird enough u_u

[everymadara]

Chapter 622

[krtart]

Writing Blind & Visually Impaired Characters

A while back, someone asked me if I could share some of the resources I use. I figured maybe other people might find it useful as well! ^_^ Due to computer switches I could only trawl through the last ~5 years of research, but it’s still a fair collection.

(Obligatory disclaimer: I am not visually impaired! I just try to listen to people who are. The vast majority of these are written by and/or for people with visual impairments.)

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Vocab

American Printing House key definitions — Wayback machine

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Blogs, posts, essays, and speeches by folk with visual impairments

General sites:

Mimzy Writing Online (masterpost for writing blind characters) — Wayback machine

Where’s Your Dog — Wayback machine

Albinism Up Close — Wayback machine

Specific posts:

Why blindfolding yourself is misleading:

NFB member John Pere’s video & transcript — Wayback machine

Graduate researcher Arielle Silverman’s video & transcript — Wayback machine

Blind physician — Wayback machine

Missing eye / monocular vision — Wayback machine

Driving with albinism — Wayback machine (chronological series of posts, next post link is at the bottom)

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Posts of unknown/mixed authorship

Writing blind characters (tumblr thread) — Wayback machine

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Sighted guidance

How to Be a Sighted Guide by Vision Loss Resources — Wayback machine

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Long cane use

Care and Feeding of the White Cane: Instructions in Cane Travel for Blind People by Thomas Bickford, hosted on the NFB website — Wayback machine

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Orientation and Mobility

This is the term for specific training around navigating the world with a visual impairment. It will be a useful search term for you.

Additionally, I have purchased the O&M training course Step By Step that was published by the American Printing House. The actual video training modules are incredibly clunky to navigate through, and personally I’ve never had the patience. I’m also not comfortable redistributing their whole product like that.

But… the pdf study guides from the program are useful on their own, and those I will share! (Especially since they used to be available for free on the APH website. >_>;)

These are from the second edition.

O&M Training study guides (Internet Archive access)

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Careers

American Printing House career connect — Wayback machine

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Cooking

NFB: Suggestions for the Blind Cook — Wayback machine

APH: Safe Cooking Techniques — Wayback machine

BBC: Article about a blind Master Chef contestant — Wayback machine

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Visualization tools

For remnant sight and color blindness.

Visual acuity simulator — Wayback machine (icons at the top switch between vision charts & illustrative photos, bar at the bottom adjusts acuity)

Color blindness simulator — Wayback machine

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Thinking about disability

These aren’t specifically about visual impairment, and include other physical disabilities as well as autism.

But they’re important voices to hear, and can be useful for framing your understanding and general approach.

"Don't Mourn For Us" by Jim Sinclair — Wayback machine

“Confessions of a Bitter Cripple" by Elizabeth Barnes — Wayback machine

"If you can do X, why can't you do Y?" by Mel Baggs — Wayback machine

People can adapt to and accommodate for more than you might think (tumblr thread) — Wayback machine

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And finally, some related tags on my personal blog: Disability | Disability rights | Writing resources: disability | Accessibility

[bora-in-tamriel]

Have you ever wanted to draw something but you fought due to your skill level at the time you decide not to do it

Oh 100% and still do!

A lot of my fighting comes from me skipping many fundamentals when i started doing "better" art (went from doodling dogs to trying to do nice muscle anatomy), like shapes/color theory/base structuring and going straight into trying to get good at anatomy/colors/painting/etc, so I definitely get frustration and "art block" from it. Sometimes I've had to simply sit on an idea for years before I actually got to it and did it and and I personally think "that's fine, i just needed to grow some more skill and confidence to do it" is fine and works for me to get out of those art lows.

It is such a repeated advice, but even i am finally starting to try and follow it, to relearn some basics; but practice shapes/forms/your fundamentals and the workflow to create what you envision in your head will come easier. It may not be perfect for a good while, but that's what practice and growth is, a process that takes time depending on the person. <:)

It's a-okay to set a piece/idea aside for a little while or a long while, don't try and force it if it isn't working. Try new angles, new colors, make loose doodles of the idea and build from there. Many times the first idea might be too rigid, the angle isn't working, so playing around with it early on will help you tremendously in the later parts of making it.

[lilfluffy419]

All American needs a time jump because the more Daniel Ezra bulks up the more he looks like the 31-year-old man he is

[silver-grasp]

Is anyone else taking today's Letters from Watson as a cryptography exercise?

[russenoire]

art youtube is overwhelming AF.

sifting through all the art advice available on youtube (and other sources!) can be overwhelming AF. an ocean of voices screaming DO THIS! DON'T DO THAT! YOU MUST DO THIS!

i feel like no one ever really talks about that.

also: some ways i cut through some of this noise to find signal, below the cut.

i mean, some of these videos are legitimately helpful! and many are drama about the latest outrageous, racist thing some artist *cough cough* kooleen *ahem* did or said in a 'how to draw X' tutorial just noise. still more of them contain outright bad advice, or advice that can't easily be personalized. (i can tell you right now that 'you must draw everyday!!!' is terrible fucking advice. not everyone can set aside time to do that, and guilt is the world's worst motivator for enjoyment. ever. just stop)

and almost all of it hides behind titles designed to raise your anxiety levels and get you to click. sadly, this is the nature of the platform. emotional engagement drives traffic, and every YT creator is trying to maximize that as best as they can. i don't fault anyone for that; people's livelihoods depend on these streams.

i have advised novice artists to try to narrow things down as much as possible, to 'get granular' about what they want to learn: painting skin. drawing hands, or noses, or faces, or feet, or poses. drawing more expressive lines. workflow, for traditional art or the raster graphics editor of their choice. it doesn't always help: for every subject i've listed, there exists a veritable firehose of videos about it.

so might i suggest a ruthless pruning here?

just go with whatever thumbnail looks interesting and is the least shouty/dogmatic about what it promises to teach you. you will probably miss out on some good advice, but the effect of all the preaching is cumulative. and your sanity is worth it. i promise.

if you don't have the time or patience for hour-long videos, either watch at 1.5-2x speed or skip ahead for the content you want.

look for specific solutions for your specific frustrations. and emphasize the process. how does this artist accomplish what you want to do? how do they lay out lineart, begin the rendering process, and why? can they explain that in a way that makes sense for you (if this is something you need)? if not, don't waste your time watching. i remember breathing the world's biggest sigh of relief on hearing a professional animator confess that shadows don't always have to make sense for a piece of work to look right.

look for ideas on how to break what you see into scaffolding. by this i mean 3D approximations on a 2D surface, on which you can draw guidelines for proportions. ultimately, this is the key to 'drawing from imagination' and even to successfully working with reference photos. videos on how an artist draws eyes from one specific angle will not necessarily help you draw eyes from other angles. not unless they also touch on eyeball shape and position on the head. and how perspective changes the shapes you see. and...

lastly, how do you feel about the video you're watching? if the creator's voice or sense of humor annoys you, or you don't love the stereotypical way they draw female bodies, or they're actually kinda racist/ableist, or whatever–you're allowed to nope out and look for another source of info. there is a lot to be said for the skill of picking diamonds out of manure... but you can find diamonds of similar quality that aren't coated in shit, too.

[albertayebisackey]

“Life evolves in isolation.”

Referring to the unique species of the Galápagos that have evolved in isolation from the mainland.

[brookhaven]

sighs

[art-of-mathematics]

Question for you: What kind of polyhedron will it fold into?

[cnl0400]

Vaping Is cringe, people should destroy their lungs with cigarettes like #realmen