keira

if you havent read it and you have a lot of spare time to kill, you should go read worm it's pretty good and basically takes a bunch of superhero tropes and shoots them, repeatedly in the face, until they are dead.

Hello there

yeah when i say "art" i mean "art that is good", not, like, "oh i signed a urinal", or "i painted this canvas red and added no other features to it"

so thor is just, like, named craig now, or something? and she gets to be THOR 2: CHECK OUT MY COOL MAGIC HAMMER? i can get behind that. yay my meaningless life now has meaning

wait what where is thor female i mean there's probably a good basis (like didn't thor do some crossdressing shenanigans in a myth or something? only know this because JNPR is based off genderbent figures and nora == thor) anyway i really liked rogue one because it 1) had a cool female lead, and 2) DIDN'T HAVE A DORKY ROMANCE THING (i mean there was the end with [spoilers] but that seemed more like a "we're gonna die" thing than a "<3" thing). and honestly i think it woulda been just as successful without a star wars sticker attached.

is this the sentence where an ominous clap of thunder sounds throughout the webforum.

it helps that it was a pretty good film, but personally i prefer Rogue One for recent "movies with a strong female protagonist that do well" i dunno if it actually did well too, but honestly one of the problems i see a lot is throwing in the "token girl character" to make SJWs happy or whatever. like, come on people, that's as bad, if not worse, than the status quo of "sex object"

then make it a toggleable option then (which you should be doing anyway for a huge UI change like this?) so if it looks like ass than the user can switch to the original view.

okay, i'll bite. you are making a product, nobody is buying said product. as far as i can tell this boils down to three possible issues? Your marketing sucks. what is your target audience. are you reaching out to them. do you know what your target audience is. Your product sucks. what is its purpose. why would i want to use a giant pixellated pineapple to cover my magnificent breasts. does this product fill a niche that needs to be filled (and are you willing to accept tiny profits from a tiny niche) There is a great conspiracy against you to undermine your business. as an avid buyer of nerdy t-shirts of various qualities and tastes, i see no reason to cover my magnificent breasts with a giant pixellated pineapple. have you performed any sort of market research to determine if anyone else in the world wants to do said covering with your pineapples. otherwise you may have to accept that you are selling a product nobody wants to buy. if you are making these because you feel like it, all the power to you, but don't expect capitalism to give you a pat on the back for following your passion. if i could get paid money even if my product was unwanted, i assure you i would be doing a lot more demeaning and humiliating (read: ) things than working in a hotel. you want to make a living selling t-shirts? okay, find a target audience. then make a product for them. then market that product to them. but, to be up-front, unless you do that (and are prepared to fail many, many times before finding the right formula) then you should accept your current life of doing whatever it is you do. i would hesitate to call a pixellated pineapple art, much like i would hesitate to describe a stick-figure spray painted onto a burning dumpster as art. maybe i have bad taste. i can go onto the internet and casually find art i think is much niftier than pineapples (and that's only scratching the surface of one rather-niche fandom). i dunno. maybe manage expectations? practice, get better at pixel arting, then come back to it? honestly i don't know. but i am unable to determine why your t-shirts exist, or who would buy them. this has been: sylae being up-front and honest.

hey those are the three default interpolation options in GIMP, along with no interpolation (all blown up 150%). now i'm no pixel art connoisseur, but except for linear (which is a little blurry) they look pretty fine to me.

is it time for a post on the proper tm scenario machete order

maybe this is just me but blown-up pixel graphics typically look terrible. like, if it's too large i have trouble even figuring out wtf the art is supposed to be also, i dunno if you're going for "make this bigger" for the sake of making it bigger, or for the sake of improving the interface? from an aesthetic view, everything is the color SQUARE and that's really jarring compared to anything remotely modern. like, i get nostalgia, but too much square is too much square IMO

this is silly, why would you ask something that everyone already knows the answer to

on a scale of 1 to 10, how is your pain

i dunno, i assume the creepy survey people took that into account with their statistics math (the most powerful kind of math).

Numbers! because i have no life. okay, so for a sample I grabbed a list of all the members who were active between 2017-01-01 and 2017-05-09 (according to IPB, which i think means at least visiting?) and had > 10 posts[1], which gave me 139 members. Then, using my powers of Creeping (tm) I went though the list and tallied the number of people that I Know to be trans (or at least not-cis). 9 people[2]. So, that's ~6.4% of active members are trans. That's A Lot More than the rate of tran in the US[3] which is 0.6% (assuming, of course, that the US is the average transness for our global audience). Is this a big deal? I have no clue! But it seems like it is, especially when you take into account I'm only counting people as trans if I personally know them to be trans. How many eggs, stealth trans people, or people who only post on Geneforge do we have? [1] arbitrarily-chosen parameters, please suggest better [2] plus a few who i'm not sure about but am not counting because i'm not sure about them [3] from this study made by some (i assume) smart people.

i dunno. i for one was a terrible, terrible person when i was an egg (arguably i still am ) so I don't really subscribe to the whole "drawn here from an early age" thing. especially because i didn't really follow the plot in exile much, just went around killing stuff. maybe i'm the exception though, I dunno. honestly, at this point I've basically accepted that statistics and probability regarding GSM people have been warped into some unrecognizable horror in the SW community. I mean, we've definitely got an above-average trans population here (maybe i'll run some numbers for fun to see exactly how off it is), but, I mean, most of my friends are some sort of something, and unless we all came together as eggs unknowingly, that's pretty weird.

or maybe have the default handler be a tiny little wrapper application that gives you a "scenario import" or "scenario edit" option? at the very least, having each application be able to handle double-clicks would enable the user to decide what they want to do by default, and for the other they could use the context menu's Open With.... option.

I mean, I know at least 8 trans people who frequent or have frequented this board...if we put all the trans people into our own subforum we would probably have more activity than, like, all of nethergate.

congrats on coming out and HRTing . glad to hear it went well. hormones aren't too crazy expensive without insurance/a prescription. i was getting them online for ~$50 a month (spiro, finasteride, estradiol valerate + needles) in bulk. i would assume going with a prescription but no insurance would be cheaper than that? i dunno, but i wouldn't be too worried.

maybe it would be cool to add a handler to allow users to double-click an .exs file, and then boe will do all the work of copying or whatever witchcraft it is now. that way power users can still drag-drop 2,000 scenarios into appdata or whatever, but everyone else has an easy one-step process.

that actually wasn't the new layout's fault, that was a spoiler tag from ubb. they've been broken for...some time now.

is it a lie? discord is software hosted by a business. they need to make dollars somehow to keep the servers on. businesses don't offer free services because they feel like being nice, they offer free services because the user is the product.

discord is awful and non-free and i personally don't like knowing my info/words/whatever are being monetized.

Iffy made me read Worm awhile ago (like a year ago, but i only finished it in like december). At first i was like uuuugggghhhhh meh, but then i read all of it because it turns out it's actually really good. like stupidly good, even if the author is the type of person to use two spaces after ending sentences (ugh). now we're being super nerds and writing a fanfic.