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Art is a sport

One common thing I see among artists who are just starting out is that they are very precious about their work -- ironically, way moreso than experienced artists. They need to get every line JUST right, because in their mind, getting that line just right is what stands between the piece being bad and it being good. I was like that too, for so long that I'm still struggling to catch up because of how it hampered my progress.

Being precious about every line is kind of like a track sprinter starting a run, but then restarting every time their foot lands in any slightly suboptimal way. This is comes off as silly, because we know that the "unit" of what they are doing is a sprint, and that they would make their greatest progress by finishing the full sprints, because that's how they train.

Well, similarly, the "unit" of art is a finished piece. What stands between the sprinter and the time they want isn't 1 individual step, but 1000 sprints. What stands between the beginner artist and making art they like the look of isn't that 1 line, but, i'm sorry to say, 1000 pieces.

Taking note of any mistakes you made afterwards is something done by both the experienced artist and experienced sprinter -- this is healthy and helps you improve. But you can do that later, after you're done.

That line is good enough.

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Blaziken and Mudkip ko-fi doodle for Mattt! ✨

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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Pit of 100 Trials does not actually consist of 100 separate rooms. Instead, it is only a few rooms (one for each visually distinct type) and the game uses a lookup table to put different enemies in the room based on the floor number, making the entire Pit much more memory-efficient.

Even though the game never lets Mario progress past floor 100, if cheats or glitches are used to do so, it becomes apparent that the game uses an unsigned 8-bit integer (a variable with a maximum value of 255) for the floor number, but only has table entries up to 100. If any greater floor number is accessed, the table draws from data not intended to be part of the Pit, leading to bizarre results.

One very notable scenario occurs when floor 114 is accessed. After defeating a Goomba (who appears in-battle as nothing, making it an instant victory), the Goomba drops the Boat Mode ability, as an item. Every ability Mario gets actually exists as an item in the game, but Mario never obtains them in that manner. After picking it up, it is correctly added to Mario's status screen and he is able to use it.

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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW

THIS IS A TRUMPET

THIS IS A TROMBONE

THIS IS A TUBA

AND THIS IS A FRENCH HORN

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

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Pokemon request: Kabuto with a little knife taped to it, please? [Stabby the roomba joke]

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The masculine desire to explain Linux to someone.

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The one thing men in the 1700s did right was have long hair they tie back into a low ponytail with a little ribbon and also have a few stray strands at the front. Almost everything else they did that century was inexcusable though

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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Grudge

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As far as I can tell, at some point in every man's life, he must acquire at least one hobby that involves spending exorbitant amounts of money on items with price tags that cannot be rationally justified.

This post is a cry for help.

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Had a dream there was a new six hour long HBomberGuy video that starts with him tryingnto debunk Daniel Molloys novel "Interview With The Vampire" as a fun short video. After thirty minutes in and pulling a "so obviously vampires arent real" thing he launches into a three hour tangent bringing up all the weird historical details that are completely accurate when you accounted for stuff like Louis saying the wrong cemetary or church name

Four hours in he breaks down and says "okay so, this would all point to actual pop rock artist Lestat De Lioncourt being a real vampire, and Kate pointed out he was playing in my town a couple weeks from when we were covering all this. So I called and asked him for an interview to see if I couldnt get a better feel for what was going on"

He then proceeded to take out colored contact lenses and remove the gloves hed been wearing the whole video to reveal he was a vampire and the title card just popped up saying "GUESS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED" and I woke up before the next two hours of video could play

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Sure, you can make a javascript web dev project. Just use Farcical. It's the latest framework for working with Granular. Of course you'll want to have NMotion to make things easier to code. It doesn't replace ManaXP in the stack, it works with it. You'll get the hang of it if you've used PlimbusCube. It has the same API calls as Flangtango. Don't forget to add Plaboombus. It replaces Speddick, but only if you want Goghst support for Seziin integration. It's literally the same as Quiet. You have to try it.