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UWBW posted:Hey, I finally have a project to post in this thread. This kind of reminds me of the cube of meat item in binding of Isaac, except the blade moves at a faster, more variable speed, and bounces off things instead of always going through them.
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blaise rascal posted:this is sweet! I especially like the design of the enemy with the shield. The fact that hitting the shield slows down your blade's rotational speed subtly punishes you for attacking his shield because a slowly rotating blade leaves you more open to damage. That's the idea! I want him to switch hands eventually by reading what direction the player is swinging, too, though that might be more fitting for a mini-boss type enemy.
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Some time ago I mentioned I was working on a short story. I then immediately deleted it for revisions. I now present a much improved version. If you like gory monsters and warmans, then I'm pleased to present Blood, Rot, and Glory. |
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ShinyBirdTeeth posted:Some time ago I mentioned I was working on a short story. I then immediately deleted it for revisions. I now present a much improved version. That was awesome. I could see it all happening so vividly. I want to know more about this world 
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ShinyBirdTeeth posted:Some time ago I mentioned I was working on a short story. I then immediately deleted it for revisions. I now present a much improved version. I liked it a lot! thanks for sharing. very seasonally appropriate.
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Have any of you made a landscape type model before- like for a model train I suppose, but at a smaller scale, like an architectural model? I know there's a proper word for it but damned if I can remember and Googling will break my flow here. Anyway, I do volunteer work on a small, city-farm kind of place which is only there because a bunch of committed left-wing hippies, many of whom are still on the board of directors, protested against a road being built across the land 25 years ago and got their way. This is the British kind of left wing btw, I know Socialism seems to have a bit of a different meaning in the US. Anyway again, we are always looking for ways to get money to feed the animals, buy a new tractor etc and I had an idea to build a model of what the place would look like now if it hadn't been saved, with a big road and overpriced blocks of flats all over it. So people can see the dystopia and despair and then give us their cash.I have been collecting and building miniatures for years but this is a whole different ball game. I know I'll need to work out things like scale, but the issue is making it actually look good for, as far as possible, zero money. I have thought of using coloured prints of facades etc and sticking them to basic wood or foamboard models to make semi realistic buildings- any thoughts? Also need to make a realistic road, which would be an A-road (like a small motorway). Any tips on general building, realism and the various maths related things I'll need to grapple with?
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I think you mean a diorama? YouTube has some good videos on making miniatures and scene dressings for those, but alas I have no specific recommendations since that ain't my gig. I hope you'll share what you make though!
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hockey jockey posted:Have any of you made a landscape type model before- like for a model train I suppose, but at a smaller scale, like an architectural model? I know there's a proper word for it but damned if I can remember and Googling will break my flow here. Anyway, I do volunteer work on a small, city-farm kind of place which is only there because a bunch of committed left-wing hippies, many of whom are still on the board of directors, protested against a road being built across the land 25 years ago and got their way. This is the British kind of left wing btw, I know Socialism seems to have a bit of a different meaning in the US. my dood https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3148869 godspeed ---------------- |
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^^whoa. from that thread: Greyhawk posted:
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Unkempt posted:Not much going on in here, so have a work in progress:
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poopzilla posted:my dood my dood- I knew this was the right place to ask! Blessings be on your household.
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:I think you mean a diorama? YouTube has some good videos on making miniatures and scene dressings for those, but alas I have no specific recommendations since that ain't my gig. I hope you'll share what you make though! poo poo, is that what a diorama is? So how are shoeboxes involved??
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alnilam posted:I'm going to share my current project, which I am not even sharing with many people IRL. It is sort of unbyob. I am learning 2 hunt. Update: Last night my friend and hunting teacher  got a doe with a bow, i was nearby and didn't get one myself but he called me over and I learned about all the stuff you do afterward, all the way from basic "field dressing" (a nice way of referring to some pretty nasty stuff) to the full butcheringso now i know, and even though I'm going to keep hunting with him because he's my friend, i feel like I've learned the important basics and could hunt on my own, which is good bc he might move at some point and i don't want to have to find another teacher. It was hard and sad, but imo that's how it should be.  Going farther back: I also went out the last 1.5 weeks with my friend's family's old timey flintlock rifle, which is very cool, and those kinds of rifles have their own dedicated season here and they're very neat (or annoying depending on how you look at it) to load and shoot. unfortunately i did not see any deer, but several highly experienced hunters i talked to said nobody was successful that week due to unseasonable warmth keeping the deer abed. and now that season's over. oh well. Going out is fun bc whatever else happens, it's very cool to sit in the woods at dawn or dusk and watch the forest come alive around you. I'm an avid hiker and backpacker but as such I'm usually moving, and don't usually get the experience of being unseen and ignored by the forest as it wakes up. |
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i got my synth in the mail last night! next i need to learn how to play it, and then i'll jam with my bud next weekend!
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I recently wrote this creative nonfiction piece about a trip I took a couple years ago I haven't had the chance to revise it yet but my professor + the people in the workshop all loved it and applauded it as one of the better uses of 2nd person they've seen (even tho it breaks down a few times) + a fantastic deconstruction of the Kerouac/Salinger "coming of age" spiritual journey trope Edit: Hold on, the formatting breaks down on the forums. Here's a pastebin link: https://pastebin.com/YLtywtEe If anyone knows a better place to host short stories let me know |
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deep dish peat moss posted:I recently wrote this creative nonfiction piece about a trip I took a couple years ago This is fantastic. It makes me want to do something similar myself. Did you really do this? You call it nonfiction. "You are glad you are where you are, even if the only thing it is teaching you is that you were perfectly fine where you were before. " is a really good line
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Thank you  Yeah there was a pseudo-famous BYOB thread where I kept trying to update it from the train but eventually gave up because the trip was what it is in the story In reality the Seattle part was a totally separate (real) trip but I had to embellish a little for the sake of the story |
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Something about second-person narratives really get me. It's like a conversation between yourself and the author in a way that's inexplicably personal, like you're sitting across the campfire from them and they're regaling you with their tall tales, true or otherwise. I could practically smell the hickory smoke.
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UWBW posted:I could practically smell the hickory smoke. *puts down bong, looking guilty* oh sorry heh
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UWBW posted:Something about second-person narratives really get me. It's like a conversation between yourself and the author in a way that's inexplicably personal, like you're sitting across the campfire from them and they're regaling you with their tall tales, true or otherwise. I could practically smell the hickory smoke. 2nd person in general can be risky because if the reader can't see themselves in the protag's shoes it breaks apart. I did a pretty good job of avoiding this but there were a few times I didn't (past history with Portland, lines like "become the man you're supposed to be" which can alienate readers who don't identify as a man, etc.) But I think where it really worked here and why it was received so well in workshop was in how I tied it in to the ending. I put the reader in the protag's position so that 2000 words later I could let the realization set in that "you" are not the protagonist, it lets them have the same emotional journey that I had with the same realization at the end. It was also important because the entire piece is about setting off to "find yourself" and then ultimately not finding yourself, which kind of fractures the narrative into two separate threads where there's the you returning from the trip, but there's also the "you" that was never found and that's initially why I started writing it as a letter to that "you". That "you" will never "find" the you that you still are so they need to hear the story of what happened, they're probably still out there looking for themself. People often tell me that I have a very conversational writing style and yeah I think you're right, it makes 2nd person a natural fit for what I do already and I can use it to emphasize my strengths, so I want to experiment with it more! |
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Another thing I'm doing is revising my poetry portfolio so here are the unrevised versions of 5 poems I wrote if anyone's into poetry and wants to read them. I'm kinda new to the whole Poetry thing so some of this is really bad as I learned throughout the class I'm taking Welcome to Costco, I Love You Serial Poem/Conceit Poem kind of Thanx 4 Da Eyedea/Dear Kathy Averill Poem involving a 3rd party character Inculcation This was I think the first poem I wrote and it's cliche and needs revision Home Movies This poem was a response to an art exhibit about the border wall disrupting migration patterns for wildlife Narcisschism I forget what the assignment was here, I think it was to write a poem to a specific individual |
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Doing cartoons, here's today's (posted in the GBS thread about the recent New York city attack) Unleash your inner infidel ---------------- |
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blaise rascal posted:As of today, I may have a new project: a cell phone navigation app that aims to train your memory and navigation skills by selectively withholding navigation instructions in order to require you to think for yourself, while still getting you to your destination. Perhaps this app would give instructions in terms of relationships with landmarks, or say nothing until the user is very off course. I just got off the phone with a google maps development representative and found that all parts of this project are within the scope of the google maps application programming interface. Kinda surprised no one seems to have tried this before. Not sure if it's worth it for me to replace my phone or get a mac laptop just to pursue a project that I will probably end up abandoning halfway through. blaise rascal fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Nov 3, 2017
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blaise rascal posted:Unfortunately for this project, I own an iPhone and a windows pc, and of course you can only make iOS apps in Xcode, the mac-only development environment. I could code the app for android on my pc, but then I wouldn't have a phone with which to test it. Testing seems kind of crucial for a navigation application. I could buy some kind of cheap apple desktop but the whole reason I wanted to pursue a code development project was that I could do it from my laptop wherever I am (I travel a lot). How about using an Android emulator like Bluestacks on your PC? I don't know if there are any glaring differences between the way code works on an Android phone and through an Android emulator, but since Android is open source I'm pretty sure it would be fully featured via emulator You can manually set your GPS pin, so you wouldn't be able to test it while driving around or whatever but you could sit at home moving the pin around and see how it reacts |
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blaise rascal posted:Unfortunately for this project, I own an iPhone and a windows pc, and of course you can only make iOS apps in Xcode, the mac-only development environment. I could code the app for android on my pc, but then I wouldn't have a phone with which to test it. Testing seems kind of crucial for a navigation application. I could buy some kind of cheap apple desktop but the whole reason I wanted to pursue a code development project was that I could do it from my laptop wherever I am (I travel a lot). what kind of horsepower do you need on the phone? you can get modestly spec'd android phones super cheap if you buy carrier-locked ones and just use the wifi. like $20 should be enough, I've bought phones like that just to use as remotes. factory unlocked and reasonably spec'd phones like the recent motorola ones are also not super expensive (way cheaper than a cheap apple desktop). get a used one and drive the price down even further. if you need mobile data for testing that's a somewhat different issue. ting is awesome for people who don't have high mobile data needs, but their advantage goes way down if you use a lot of data. |
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Manifisto posted:if you need mobile data for testing that's a somewhat different issue. ting is awesome for people who don't have high mobile data needs, but their advantage goes way down if you use a lot of data. Manifisto posted:you can get modestly spec'd android phones super cheap if you buy carrier-locked ones and just use the wifi. like $20 should be enough, I've bought phones like that just to use as remotes. deep dish peat moss posted:How about using an Android emulator like Bluestacks on your PC? I don't know if there are any glaring differences between the way code works on an Android phone and through an Android emulator, but since Android is open source I'm pretty sure it would be fully featured via emulator
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I've been writing a novel (I'm not far at all) about an anarchist in a near future cyberpunk America so that's been a bit of fun. Also, I've been making a series of Youtube videos that compile every time certain things happen in the Metal Gear Solid series. The first one was very successful so I'm hoping to ride on the success of it.
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I had to write a 500 word flash fiction with a focus on a strong opening line so I wrote this https://pastebin.com/TyQgpy7f shwa posted:I've been writing a novel (I'm not far at all) about an anarchist in a near future cyberpunk America so that's been a bit of fun. Post an excerpt of the novel! I can do a workshop response if you want or I could just read it! |
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drat BYOB, yall are so cool B) just finished reading the thread and literally everything i read about was interesting! i'll make a post referring to stuff that really captured me. full disclosure, I haven't read any stories (though i intend to) because reading is not something im super good at - it took the span of like 4 days to get through this thread. also i've only ever finished two books in my entire life, which feels bad but oh well ok well here's my project: infinity meter I've been making music for about 3 years now, but infinity meter is only a few months old. It's been my most exciting project so far because of how much my sound has shifted, and because of how much better I'm getting at mixing. I'm horrible at describing my sound, but I should probably try to start sometime. infinity meter is like if Owl City hosed - Well, whatever it is... it's always been emo sounding. that much is for sure. Generally, I try to sound confusing, I want a lot of layers going on because thats what it feels like in my head. It's like I can never really hear one thought, it always sounds like a culmination of a bunch happening simultaneously at the same volume. And I think that stems from how self conscious I am, or at least.. those two characteristics of me are deeply related. So that's what I "write" about. But I've only been writing lyrics for about 1/3 or the time I've been making music (used to make some sort of bedroom post-rock). When I write lyrics, most of the time they mean nothing to me initially. That's because I'm more focused on what the words sound like syllabically/phonetically, rather that contextually. I think the way the word sounds is a lot more important, because I'm not a songwriter- I'm a producer. That's making my current project, kind of difficult. Right now, I'm trying to make an EP that is actually based upon a thing - a story in 5 parts, 5 videos (oh yeah, I recently got into the visual aspect of music - fun!) The story is going to be about how I created this character online called Tim Lake. To understand Tim Lake, you gotta hit rock bottom. Last year (and this year too tbh) I kinda hit rock bottom. I broke up with someone for no reason and I told them I didn't care about them even though I loved them - and then spent like 3 fuckin weeks on my bed staring at the ceiling. besides going to class (1, 4 days a week), I just stayed on my bed. It's Western NY in the winter, you can't really just go hang outside. I took acid for the first time, dyed my hair, and continued to be horribly depressed and never reaching out to talk to anyone that cared about me. Can't let anyone know I'm weak right! I won't get that into it. Point is, I find it hard to know how i feel about myself on a constant basis. and Tim Lake is how i present myself to all my friends online. i say "character" but it's just me saying dumb poo poo. And the EP/short film is (probably) gonna be called "How We Got to Tim Lake," and will show the interaction between me, and Tim Lake. But I'm not showing any of those songs because they don't have videos yet! Instead, please take a small sample of my music: "i wish" - my first music video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KszsZPvBFDo "falling forever" - a video i put together with ECKVAnet footage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYsARzDRm70 "gently caress urself" - a video I made because I was fucken manic and bored! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT4jWt9IxLk The videos for my EP, and another song (vid should be done soon) are being shot and edited by a friend of mine with incredible equipment and knowledge, so we're gonna be combining our styles and I think it's gonna look really cool! I hope you enjoy  edit: i suppose, for reference, heres the first collection of infinity meter songs https://soundcloud.com/infinitymeter/sets/big-electric sockingtonsworth fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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My new project is making a mixtape of philosophy lectures set to chill lofi hiphop beats Still figurin' out how to do use Audacity but here's a real rough sketch of what I'm gonna do https://soundcloud.com/illosophy/tomppabelief |
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^this is nice friendo are you flexing the vocal tracks at all? cause sometimes he gets almost on a rhythm sometimes and it’s very cool |
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Very little, Robert Anton Wilson has a very rhythmic way of speaking. I unintentionally started listening to that speech while that song was on in the background and it hit me how well they matched up and it made me want to do more. I moved things around slightly and put some very minor effects on the speech but I don't want to affect the speaker's natural cadence too much - like I want to keep the integrity of their voice in tact and not chop things up into soundbites. I might have to do more for some other speeches but what I'm realizing is that most of the great orators who said powerful things kind of said them on-rhythm already and that's probably what made them great orators. I have never touched a DAW before and I have a friend who's a producer giving me some guidance but I still don't really know what I'm doing with effects and want to add more atmosphere to the vocals, hopefully I'll be on to some real cool sounds soon. Anyway thanks I'm glad you like it! If anyone knows any great speeches or quotes or parts of speeches that aren't political let me know, I want this to be about being expanding ya' mind and being woke as hell but without bringing politics into it. |
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there’s some philosopher that Starfucker always samples. Alan Watts https://youtube.com/watch?v=53q3AzfTGNg |
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Yeah Alan Watts rules & I'm a big fan of his and he's definitely getting used, this is what I'm going to sample him from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5lT9a7xRQc |
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If Buddhism floats your boat, I was listening to this guy a while back and thought his voice and subjects would lend themselves well to sampling: https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/series/details?ser=X10 https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/browse?s=Sangharakshita |
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Drink-Mix Man posted:If Buddhism floats your boat, I was listening to this guy a while back and thought his voice and subjects would lend themselves well to sampling: Definitely gonna listen through this today I tried to make an Alan Watts track last night but after attempting it I'm not sure he's going to work. He uses pauses that are way too long and if I remove them it stops sounding like him. I'll try again later. Instead I made this deeper cut of the R.A.W. belief systems one: (It's not very different but it's my final version) https://soundcloud.com/illosophy/its-dark-in-the-reality-tunnel deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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I'm going to do a podcast about politics, the media, and occasionally dunking on the odd movie. It's going to be called, Has This Been Done Yet? |
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So I got a top bar bee hive sans bees. I'll be repairing it, refinishing it, and maybe even improving on it this winter as baby's first woodworking project. Pictured, lid open, frames and legs removed: 
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Starshark posted:I'm going to do a podcast about politics, the media, and occasionally dunking on the odd movie. It's going to be called, Has This Been Done Yet? That's a catchy title.
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