I see some influencers bragging about why you’d need quality markers like posca to improve your drawing skills. My bros fell for it and beg me to buy some for them.

It’s like thoses ads telling you you need product to do thing better. Even if it’s quality, it doesn’t work this way.

I bought a $25 set of 8 for them. They used it 2 times then stopped because they couldn’t make what they wanted. They are now asking for a light tablet to “draw better”. They will have to buy it themselves if they really want it. I was fine with the window light when i was their age.

People somehow always find a way to make the simplest thing expensive with half-useless material.

Drawing (we should stop pretending one need expensive material do draw nice things, pencils and erasers are the only requirement, and a good sketch book can be found for less than 15 bucks)

A’ight you won, gotta say something for today. But i hardly understand how people do manage to be social enough to post almost every day, like, they manage to make everything interesting.

It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online.

Anyways, it truly is a very nice place here, I agree with you, thanks to thoses amazing posters who never get out of inspiration. Thank you all.

Well, to sum it up, it’s a bunch of servers acting together like a big decentralised social media. They connect thanks to activitypub, and it’s quite amazing.

Here’s a good illustration, i think

For exemple, one can see your profile here from lemmy: lemmy.ml/u/camille_jamal but also from mastodon: https://mas.to/@[email protected]/ And even from misskey! https://misskey.io/@[email protected]

Even though thoses three fedi services have very differents interfaces and ways of working, they can communicate thanks to activitypub.

If you check c/[email protected], you’ll see a bunch of useful links about the fediverse in their description.

I see you’re banned, hope you’ll still get my message, and that your ban is temporary… anyway have a nice day.

You can block users or communities, or you can effectively join other instances. I heard good from lemmy.dbzer0.com and lemmy.sdf.org, but it’s best to just go on join-lemmy.org or fediverse.party and finding an instance you resonate with.

(Oh yes, in case you didn’t know, the fediverse is not limited to lemmy, and is a huge system of many protocols and systems)

On federated social media, things changes very fast, and you will probably move to another instance from time to time. On the first hand, small instance are chill, they can be quite dead sometimes, but that’s where you will find peace from politics. On the other hand, big instances are active, but get sometimes involved in useless drama, and that’s where it often gets political.

Lemmy.ml, I know it, is a bit annoying on some terms, like the sensorship of some swears like “motherfucker” or of chinese criticism, but they haven’t been bothering me so i didn’t really leave. They are federated to a lot of instances and that’s a good point. Am also on a very small server with a dozen of people, there are plenty of servers like that if you dig a bit.

Well idk why did i wrote that much, hope it’ll be useful at least, and that the swear won’t get me banned.

See ya cyberspace anon!

You can say anything, but always better to have an account on two or three politically different instances in case you want to critisize USA, China, or any controversial thing in the world.

But if you ain’t an asshole, you’re welcome! Have a nice journey into the fediverse!

“Chemins de fer de l’ouest” <=> “the west’s railways”.

Considering there is a french saying “to be on the west” which means “to be absent-minded”, this makes the situation funnier.

As others said, 20-30 hours is best, around the same time an average book takes to be read.

I believe it is not possible (or very hard) to go beyond 50 hours without putting in cyclic gameplay, which is a bit cheating. Towers and all are fine, but games tend to abuse theses mecanics to make a game unfinishable in less than 100-150 hours.

Under 10 hours to complete the game, like an experience is perfect for me. Not everyone has a lot of time to play games. If the game is good, i have a nice time and can replay it, if it’s meh, i can satisfy my curiosity by finishing it and move on something else. Indie games best capture theses.

Again, there are exceptions. I’ve been playing The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wild for more than 200 hours with my family and I still enjoy it. Same for Minecraft, i guess.

Ooh, so that was the actual debate, i feel dumb now. Anyway triangles FTW, the strongest shape.

How do you even cut a sandwich horizontally?? The slices of bread are alreadly separated from each other! On what reference do they consider the cutting plane?

In Drake of The 99 Dragons, each time you die, (which happens often), you get roasted and humiliated by some gods in the after life for 10 seconds before they allow you to revive again. This has absolutely no reason to be here, except for doubling the loading screen time.

Could also mention, in the 6th installment of Touhou Project, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, if you play on easy, the game won’t even let you fight the final boss, mocking your pride on such simple level, and this game mode is usually commented as child play by the games in the whole franchise.

“We need to make people aware about the imminent attack on humanity organised by the reptilians for the 2000th deathday of Jesus Christ!!! Can you help me please~”

Every so often, teleport some random person who is alone in its location 3000 meter beyond the floor, and let them fall until they’re about 100 meter high, to then slow them down and put them back where they were as if nothing happened.

Would be interesting to see how such thing would be viewed by society as the number of reports would grow.

fantasy setting has magic and flying creatures

still using nuclear energy as a main energy source

Anime is quite tied to video game, so interesting question. I know only few anime coming from visual novels adaptations (clannad), video game references (about 3/4 of isekais i’ve seen, but except for this genre, it’s pretty rare), or just promotional anime for games (pokémon). So without video games, we would still have all of the series focusing on others things, in addition to movies, like some from Ghibli which had a lot of influence and are definitely part of culture.

On the other hand, anime never existing would basically mean the artstyle itself never existed in the first place, so no Osamu Tezuka to introduce it, or a Japan which never recovered from war. That would mean Atari still crashing in 83, but no famicom to introduce video game consoles as we know it, so it is probable the world would have stayed for arcades and computer video gaming for a long time.

My argumentations seem favorable for anime, but i’d still pick video games, even if about half of my steam library would then cease to exist. I like interacting stories most of all.

I guess manga and light novels doesn’t count either huh?

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The Onion Router, for internet stuff, or a (reliable and well reputed) VPN. But you have an entire community of people more specialised than me for how to not get noticed on internet anyways. Stays informed on the world, and reduce risky things, for you to get some better sleep. Dunno what businesses you do, but your priority is to stop depending on them. Hiding everything you do is just like putting yourself under the spotlight.

A physical diary that only you knows about, to free yourself from your stressful thoughts and ideas, (with a lighter always nearby) will ease a lot. It works very well for me.

All evenings, take 10 mins of your free time to yell the hell out of your mood in your pillow (gotta think about neighbors). Do sports, or things of your interests. Works too.

Oh and you shouldn’t post things implying that much that you are doing suspicious things, anywhere on internet. Best irl stuff about you to talk about on corporate internet is none, even mundane things like your country. Illegal things must be done irl the good old way.

The theme for the canonically shortest stage (38s) as yuugi doesn’t leave the screen from her midboss attack until the end of her fight.

Love how she’s absurdly strong but in stage 3, so she just flex with hundreds of bullets missing you instead of just straight up murdering you. (storm on mt ooe flashbacks)

From what I understand, the clock on the left indicates the hour in a different time zone, and the clock in the top has to do something about the time zone the second clock is in. (my guess is that you are in america, hence time being 9 AM, and the same time on UTC+2 would be 4PM, as shown on the left clock)

This is my interpretation though, first time i saw that thing on the top.

It could also be a decimal counter, for when you make a precise time mesural in a footrun or something.

I’d just give a LGM-118A Peacekeeper MIRV to the Aztecs and say nothing more. I wonder if they would eventually manage to do something with it.