In case you didn't know, I had the honor of designing Tumblr's spooky new app logo
This made my brain go brr, therefore it’ll make your brain go brr too if you’re following me <3
So...let me try to understand this. Overwatch 2 has just completely replaced Overwatch, instead of being separate? So functionally it is just a patch update to the original game. It’s called Overwatch 2, but the original doesn’t exist anymore, it’s just...one game?
Why......do that? Either just keep it as Overwatch and accept it’s just a patch, or at least make them separate so it makes any sense?
Also just...why?
I’m feeling less bothered now about having still not watched season 2 of the witcher. Not being invested is pretty good now lmao. That’s just turned into a 3 season show.
Actually I did technically draw this this year, though I never properly posted it. I just painted over my old lineart picture of April Ryan to create this, after I played Disco Elysium in January, so it wasn’t anything completely fresh. That’s the last time I drew anything, and I didn’t even really ‘finish’ it, I was intending to have it full body. But I was just done, so this is it.
“I don’t need to use my brain, I just react to whatever I see or am told without thought, or any care for truth at all, and that makes me a Good, morally superior person! Reasonable critical thinking is a red flag that only problematic people do!”, says the 22 year-old, throwing their dummy out of the pram, as even 16 year-olds look on in bewilderment, thinking this person needs to grow the fuck up.
Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.
it's not anti-intellectualism it's anti-snobbery
Let me ask you this: how many “snobs” have you actually met? Because I have met many people who take interest in art history, watch vintage film or films from films from outside the US (which by the way are not all “arthouse” films), or read and cherish historically and culturally significant literature. But I have never met anyone who will treat me like I’m a bad person for watching Mama Mia or just wanting to be entertained once in a while. I have, however, met people who think art history is stupid and pointless and that those who study it deserve to live in poverty, who are xenophobic and dismissive toward any art made outside the US (or western Europe for that matter), or roll their eyes at people who read literature they consider boring because they’ve never given it a try. In fact, most of the people I know who you would consider “snobs” out of projected insecurity are cautious to bring up their interests because they think they’ll be made fun of. Is anti intellectualism “anti elitist?” At times, but it’s the sort of pseudo populism that fits comfortably within contemporary right wing discourse. Have you paid any attention to politics the last decade or so? If you are allergic to culture and new information, fine. Just don’t claim the moral high ground for it.
you could have just asked for her wig instead of snatching it like that
WORLD OF WARCRAFT • LOCATIONS (102/?) Gilneas (part. ll)
#world of warcraft#another mistake blizzard made is wasting this place#it's a cool place that's fully intact and just sitting there empty since 2010 other than the instanced version for people creating worgen#enough of a shame and waste already that most of the cities in the game are deserted bc there's no practical reason to go to them except#capitals and the current expansion hub#gilneas is completely unused in the main world#for something with 'world of' in the title I think they overall failed to maintain a game that felt like a living world#it's just a living current expansion with everything else feeling pretty abandoned and playerless#and they only made that worse with all the fastracking which actively reduces the amount of people around the old world even more#and rather than improving the ability for new players to experience the world and history of the game - which was its strongest asset#they're pushing it away and hiding it even more#and that really only drives the game towards its death faster if they bypass what drew so many people and kept it going so long#in favour of just increasing the speed that people get to the new content#that's just going to make the game feel more shallow to new people#they even added a standardised starter zone that new players are forced to go through instead of their race's original one#so that strips away any race identity and their character's connection to the world unless the player actively seeks it out#that's just so bad and counter productive for what this style of game should be doing - and itself even used to do better#it also kills already dead locations like silvermoon EVEN MORE#it's basically the opposite type of approach that they should've gone for to really save the game
Also, fuck art, at least right now. I haven’t drawn a thing this year, and I’m completely fine with that. Screw the fact I’m good at it, I don’t enjoy it. Even when I did have any drive or desire to do it and was enjoying the output, I wasn’t enjoying the process. Doing it felt like a drag, a chore that I had to push through to get to a satisfying result. And it’s really always been that way. No wonder it was one of the first things to dissipate whenever my mental state dropped. Guitar instead, and it’s cool I can carry some sort of aspect of the skill over. Maybe I’ll come back to drawing at some point, maybe I won’t, it’s whatever.
So it turns out my art experience is helping me with guitar. I instinctively know where my control comes from in my fingers for technical stuff, so I can adapt to fast picking techniques quicker. My teacher was basically like ‘damn, it usually takes time for people to get that control doesn’t come from your arm or wrist, but you’ve just copied what I’m doing right away’. I honestly said I wasn’t even copying, I just did what was common sense to me, it’s just all the tablet pen experience. All I need to do is adapt that knowledge.
The rapid metal style picking is still really tricky don’t get me wrong, and it’s gonna take a good while, but it’s largely just figuring out exactly my niche of how to hold the pick and position my hand for it, and I’m already getting there. So that’s cool! Also very reassuring that I’m still a very fast learner, when I’m actually capable of putting my mind to something. Feels good to be learning, and learning something practical, that I’m really into. My brain’s basically been in standby mode for over a decade.
And enjoying the process, successfully fighting off any impatience. It’s feeling great to be getting these exciting little glimpses of the potential of cool things to come, pretty consistently, even at such an early stage. Starting off playing Tool as a beginner has been feeling like throwing me in at the deep end a bit too, because Adam Jones is no fucking joke, he’s a master at what he does, and I’ve had shit like technical half palm muting, and harmonics, and quick power chord jumps, and rapid picking, in the first song I’ve ever learned to play. But I’ve just about been managing to rise to the challenge, and really that’s great, and more than enough at this stage. Even if last week I was wavering a bit one day, thinking, shit dude, I’ve just started, this is a bit much, I think I need to take a step back. But I actually got over that the next day, just from being refreshed I suppose. I just need to have faith that the practice and even the struggles, are contributing to improvement. It also just adds to the enjoyment and continued motivation, to already be playing stuff I’m into, where even a few notes can sound cool. And of course if I do feel the need to placate my brain by taking a step back, and take a little break to do some more basic things that I can sink my teeth into and get that dopamine rush of ‘nice, I can do this, I’m succeeding at things’, then so be it, and I’ll just tell my teacher that. I’ll probably have to sometimes, that’s just how my mental health is, especially as we’re approaching winter, and I accept that, and want to work with and around that, but so far so good.
#i'm also still early in the process of trying different picks#it's very likely that i'll find a thickness or particular brand or whatever that just feels right for me and makes things easier#just because they feel more comfortable to me personally#maybe even something like different strings thickness like 10s rather than 9s would feel better for me#i just don't really know these things yet but I will find out! and that's exciting
i am so violently sick of advertising. its everywhere it creeps into every inch of reality that it physically can theres no escape from how invasive it is. cant even rickroll people anymore because theyll just get a 30 second advert for car insurance
firefox isnt going to save you from billboards radio advertising loud promotions blared over the supermarket speakers posters slapped over every streetlight every flier shoved in your mailbox or every cafe that uses spotify for their music and has an ad for its premium service playing every other track.
adblocks are nice but they dont fix the wider issue which is the pervasiveness of advertising
if i see another person on this post talk like im a sad oblivious fool for not knowing of the joys of firefox and adblock im going to need them to step outside of the house for once and observe the the world around them and how advertising has infected everything it feasibly can. if you think youtube ads are the sole issue here then i would recommend leaving the house.
the outsider giving his mark to the former bodyguard of the dead empress who was killed by a guy also with his mark: this is gonna be so fucking funny
Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it
Btw I turned on the switch earlier to check my torchlight 2 build and the thing feels microscopic now.
This (aside from the complete lack of ergonomics whatsoever) is why the switch is so uncomfortable for me to use: