i've just had a terrible idea

i present to you the mona lisa:

ok so, for the last few hours i've been making this code that organizes the colors in drawings:

(mostly @metukika's bc her works look really dope and i don't have many like that ;_;)

and these things feel like something that would be sold as a "deconstruction of classical paintings" like the "the kiss" by Klimt, "starry night" by Van Gogh or "Girl with a pearl earing" by vermeer

i can imagine going to an art gallery and finding stuff like this, made by someone who thinks they are so so smart

Ok but this is actually phenomenally cool OP, and a terrific tool for explaining some of the weirder aspects of color theory, especially how to translate color from traditional media to digital.

I'm working on the teaching plan for a digital painting class I'm going to pitch to my illustration school, and I was wondering if you had something I could use to show this concept to the class? (In exchange for full credit and money of course)

I wonder how many people learned this was a thing they could do by seeing the sign

Well I for one just learned that. Thanks for the tip!

This is a really good thread.

if they say they are mindless like bugs we should be allowed to spray in their faces when they decide to be a nasty annoyances

Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses

King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.

this really is the funniest website since 2000 followers roughly equates to 5 notes as your floor on any given post. 30 if you’ve said something wretched.

it feels like a whalefall in here

Top: the 2020 Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. enters sleep mode when it is left idle for three minutes while not being plugged in. Depending on the time of the day, before entering sleep mode, the system briefly shows various artwork, mostly depicting Mario, Luigi and the enemies resting. Between noon and 1 PM, the artwork shown is one of Mario and Luigi having lunch on top of the mushrooms from World 4-3.

Bottom: after the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2023, concept artwork for the movie was published, which included the drawing that the sleep screen above was based on. While the Game & Watch predates the movie, the movie has been in production since 2018. This creates a curious case of one product being released using another product's concept art before the product for which the concept art was made in the first place could be released itself.

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another cool bug on this site is when youre on mobile and suddenly the ads will just move and cover the post youre reading

im so sorry ill make it up to you

enjoy the WOOLLY CHAFER BEETLE

I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary

whenever you find yourself baffled, even enraged, by who the Academy rewards and who they don't - i find remembering that the Academy Awards were created by Hollywood mogul Louis B Mayer with the specific purpose of preventing mass unionisation. Mayer figured if Hollywood workers were made to think of themselves as artists rather than labourers they'd be less inclined to unionise. Of the awards, Mayer famously said in the late 1920s, "if I give them cups and awards, they'd kill themselves to produce what I wanted." Also by awarding and inviting few, Mayer and the Academy pushed individualist aspirations and exceptionalism over collectivism. Considering the upcoming Writers Guild strike over the exploitation streaming has created that Hollywood producers are trying to suppress (which is why a lot of shows are being cancelled btw because they don't want to pay writers), this anti-union legacy is still clearly alive and well. The majority of these Hollywood award shows were not created to actually award artistic merit, but to create an illusion of artistic meritocracy that would stifle solidarity among workers. So, whenever you find yourself baffled, even enraged, by who the Academy rewards and who they don't, remember that's not what they're really for.

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

This will not work for most users.

The above advice, in addition to being quite complicated for a layperson to follow, forgets one key fact: most users can't access to the Group Policy Editor. It is, as the name suggests, specifically for groups using Win 11 Pro and Enterprise users, not Win 11 Home, which is what most people have on their personal devices. (and if you have a company laptop, you probably can't access GPO anyway.)

Here's what to do instead: go to (https://winaero.com/winaero-tweaker/amp/#download) and download the free program Winaero Tweaker.

It's a simple, user-friendly interface that offers all of the above privacy tweaks, plus other enhancements to usability and appearance. The layout is easy to follow, so there's no confusing settings locations. Each option has a clear description of what it does.

In other words:

Speaking of accessibility, here is, once again, my Ubuntu-Linux starter guide for non techies (by a non techie) - I know people recommend Mint better, I just... know about Ubuntu because it is what I use. The processes tend to be very similar anyways, and it all being free software, once you caught the gist of one, you can catch the gist of another pretty easily:

A Star Nursery, 2021, Pencil on Clayboard

In a 2002 interview about Super Mario Sunshine, Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, who both were co-producers of that game, talked about changing Mario's clothes. Interestingly, Tezuka mentions that it was Yoshiaki Koizumi who first came up with the idea of changing Mario's clothes. Tezuka only approved of a short-sleeved version of Mario's regular shirt, and an optional Hawaiian shirt to be worn on top of it, at the time.

It appears that Koizumi held on to that idea for 15 years, as Super Mario Odyssey, a game he was himself the producer of, finally allowed Mario to change his clothes freely in 2017.

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OK??? LMFAO???

Reminder that Confucius himself used to Naruto run during his state meetings