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[gamesatwork]

e437 — Dipping into Dots

flipping dots artwork, vintage / retro tech like flip clock radios, airport departure style signs, GameBoy & Tangara devices, the Trust & Safety Tycoon serious game, UNESCO’s plans for a virtual museum and much more!

Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash Published 23 October 2023 Michael, Michael and Andy get back together on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean once more to start off this episode with several cool examples of flipping dots artwork.  Michael M remembered seeing a Vestaboard last weekend in Durham.  Have a look at the links in the show notes for visual examples of each of these. Continuing with…

[stil-lindigo]

I have so many thoughts about how, in a world where so many in-game companions are barely tolerated or even outright hated, kim kitsuragi is universally beloved. How much it speaks to us that in our worse moments, we all hope to deserve the begrudging kindness he provides. He will not coddle you. He will tell you to get your shit together. But he will support you when you sing karaoke, off-key and mournful. He will play a board game with you in the middle of a murder investigation. He may dance with you inside a church. And in the end, when you leave this waking dream of an investigation to face the smoking wreckage of your life, he might go with you.

[keeps-ache]

overgrowth and languor

[recommended you click and zoom] (alt versions below)

[miniiieevee]

Color wheel challenge! (whoops. It's mostly kirby characters)

[scimitar-and-longsword]

Since Lost is coming back to Netflix I need to speak my truth: Lost is not a confusing show, and the ending makes perfect sense.

You didn't get the ending? Skill issue. Couldn't be me.

[onaperduamedee]

Sea Folk might be good at the game, Master Domon, but the Aes Sedai invented it.

[summerroseart]

It a little bit of a slow start lol

[Part 1: Prologue] . . . Part 2 . . . [Part 3]

[Master Post]

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

oh my god… don’t understand wheelchair maintenance

[mister13eyond]

talking to a friend about getting back into art and i think the #1 most important piece of art advice i could ever get or give is just "figure out what is FUN to you"

like i think there is sooooo much emphasis on how to build SKILL in art but a lot of it really treats art like a job or like video game grinding, like it's this thankless job that you have to work at in order to reach a Threshold and i know it's not EASY to make yourself have fun but like

imo a solid 70% of the reason i create art is because the Act of Drawing is fun to me. it's fun problem-solving and planning and putting down lines and playing with colors and tools. it's fun to depict little scenes in my head or to create outfits or to find ways to fill the canvas. never forget that creating can be fun. sometimes it's hard and sometimes you have to battle through your own blockades to get there but the ultimate goal should always be to ENJOY it, to find what you enjoy doing and then do it forever. improvement will follow enjoyment.

i think especially with all the debate about ML image generation it's more important than ever to embrace FUN. if you're only focused on the end result it's so easy to get in your own head- to think about what doesn't look good or what skills you don't have yet or to compare yourself to other artists. but photography didn't kill the art of drawing and AI won't either because, simply put, there will always be people who want to do the physical act of making art because it's fun to do! using paints and markers, splashing colors around, doing shitty pen doodles, using the symmetry tool in your art program to do abstract mandalas that are just squiggles formed into patterns. do art like you're 5 and you've been handed markers to pass the time. do art like you're bored in class and you're keeping your brain entertained by drawing stick figure comics in the margins. do art like an absent thing, do art because it satisfies your brain. the goal is not to make something beautiful and perfect, the goal is to make something because your hands need to make and your body needs to make.

[11cleyvaart]

Quimbget holidays please? Whichever ones you think they’d celebrate together😘😘😘😘

(also if I’m asking too much let me know I just love your art so much!!🥰)

Gadget probably doesn't have time to really celebrate holidays because of his work schedule. So he and Quimby find time to catch up on the holidays by cramming as many in one day. While Penny is embarrassed.

[eliza-fernway-art]

Hobbes! Our favorite orange tiger!

This challenge was soooo fun!!!!! Ah I love all of these characters and it was great to draw ‘em together!

Also: Speedpaint!

[boyfleshripper]

glancing at the new indoor critter and then looking at my tumblr account

[sixth-light]

I hope we all enjoyed the 'calling Rand's show!sword teacher Errol' joke, which feels like it came from a placeholder name that got kept because why the hell not

[killldeer]

for the longest time I thought my buff Egwene art and headcanons were fun but sort of baseless and self-indulgent – but now, a little over a year after finishing my first full read, I genuinely believe in them. Egwene should have looked physically much stronger for the latter part of the series after going through all the things she did. I think her forcing should have left a physical mark on her. I think graduating from Wise One boot camp and all the Aiel training customs it entailed should have left a mark on her. I think all the physical activity she did during her captivity in the Tower – returning to her cell and immediately diving into sets of exercises and stretches like she was general fucking Iroh – should have left a mark on her. And logically, they would have!! if Robert Jordan weren’t so afraid of giving his female characters traits that could be interpreted as unconventionally attractive by accident, let alone on purpose, all those things would have accumulated into an Egwene who, by the time Gathering Storm rolls around, puts the sisters in charge of giving her forkroot on edge because she looks like she could physically kick their asses even after they’ve taken away her ability to channel.

I believe in Egwene al’Vere, and her Aiel heart, and her Aiel guns.

[fenrhi]

[sheauz]

anyways i might be on here less until i can get a new mouse bc i'm mostly a desktop blogger and this broken mouse frustrates me