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buymeacoffee.comJamesTDG is Creating vintage stuffSkilled in pixel art, low poly, textmode, photo editing, and vector art. Available for hire for any of these fields.Tools of the trade: Aseprite, PicoCAD, BlockBench, GIMP, Inkscape, Lvllvl.Portfolio:

25 July

Reminder, I'm currently available for #pixelart commissions, if you want something like below, I'm more than able to do it! www.buymeacoffee.com/jamestdg

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Hey @tharkka.bsky.social, a long, LONG time ago, I yoinked one of your sprites from DeviantArt, and made an edit that was on my PFP for a while until 2020. Finally came back to do your art style back then the justice it deserves now. #Pixelart #remake

Wes (left) and Grim (right) while divergent from my persona's design, grew into this neat concept of fire and ice that it directly influences both their designs and personalities. #pixelart

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What is your favorite fact about your original character that you haven't had the chance to talk about? #OCASK #OCQOTD #OCSKY

Food for thought, out of all DC characters, I can only list 2 characters that have facial hair: - Green Arrow - Black Lightning Its kinda annoying we never really had more, so here's a few proposals: >>>

Red Hood: Short full beard He tries to look and act gruff, so why wouldn't he try to grow a beard? Arsenal: ditto. Probably even moreso!

And now for one I'd like to put on the facial hair blacklist: Nightwing. He's a twunk, need I say more?

Superman: cop stache Could work if there is a razor strong enough to break the skin and let him get past the peach fuzz phase. Red Son: The Stalin Historically speaking, facial hair was treated as "communist" in the height of the cold war, so it's just a good design idea in general.

Diggy diggy hole, I'm digging a hole! #pixelart #animatedpixelart #gnomlings gets my attention all of a sudden, as I am now working on more animations in the pool. (Heh, maybe some day, I'll get down and dirty with making that Lemmings clone finally lol)

Welp, bad lighting, but I just ran through and made a bunch of #PHPocalypse stickers to hand out.

Yes Inkscape, I TOTALLY wanted to have the text curve be at the start of the path and not at the middle, that TOTALLY helps man.

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I'm dubbing it now as the #PHPocalypse

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So, in case you missed it, PHP has a massive security vulnerability that everyone is currently scrambling to patch. arstechnica.com/security/202... I'm extra-boned right now because all of my college infrastructure has to pass through a PHP-based interface to log into anything.

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Yes, this includes emails. This is despite using Outlook for our email infrastructure. I am unable to email any of my college professors to request a temporary extension on all of my assignments because of this problem.

Ffs, I picked bsky because I needed a Twitter-like platform to gain some real engagement on since I need attention for people to pay for comms. That's why I abandoned my Mastodon account, I got zero interactions on ANYTHING

lave ⋆.˚⟡🦋 | learning how to draw again 🦋 tablet pen broke@lavellyne.bsky.social

What the fuck Bluesky.

pillowfort.socialStaff: Pillowfort is closing.I’m terribly sorry to bring this news to you. This is, genuinely, the hardest decision I have ever made in my life, and I have put off doing it for as long as I could. While we did have many people re...

I joined the place back when it was in beta SO DAMN LONG AGO. Shame to see it go, wish I joined it a bit later-on though, I might've been more serious about using it.

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I regret to announce that Pillowfort will be closing on Dec. 4th. You can read more on Pillowfort: www.pillowfort.social/posts/8413273

Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between and otherwise, I've just discovered I can update my handle to use NG! Now I gotta fix every link online now...

My average experience with AI is now idiots posting GAN/Diffusion-generated content shoving it in my face, then getting whiny when I snap about. "Well just ignore it" I'd love to, but it's literally in my fucking bubble all the time.

I'm overaware of my surroundings. There is no way I can just ignore any sort of active stimuli in the way. This post has been brought to you by me losing my shit in a Stargate discord server over someone posting Mallozzi using ai for a trailer for a project he didn't need to use ai for.

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buymeacoffee.comThermal PrintsPrinted on a sheet of 6"x4" thermal sticker paper.Disclaimer: Thermal prints will fade over time. Excessive wear, presence in sunlight, or warm spaces will cause prints to fade faster than e...

Just an important reminder, I've officially become flat broke now, so what was originally a project meant for me to dress as red hood for ~$300 has now turned into a mad dash to get enough dough to just survive each week now. Please help however you can, it'll be greatly appreciated

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Reminder, I've begun selling these to help pay for a cosplay project, consider helping support it! buymeacoffee.com/jamestdg/e/5...

Ayy, been a while, but I just got Palette of the Day on Lospec! lospec.com/dailies/ #pixelart #braid

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Reminder, I've begun selling these to help pay for a cosplay project, consider helping support it! buymeacoffee.com/jamestdg/e/5...

Just tried to do the left-handed art challenge, 2 small problems: 1. I suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome 2. I am a mouse user and its a right-handed mouse 10 minutes of my ass uttering "shit" "fuck" and "aaagh", I give up, not even at the point of fixing the head, because my wrist is burning.

Hey @devkidd.bsky.social you know that cool 3D spinning animation your commonly see on coins or those objects? How complex of an extension do you think it would be to reproduce that effect?

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Christ I forgot to proofread, by "those objects", I meant to refer to that spinning logo shit you saw on every screensaver from shows in the 2000s

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Did some #Deltarune style #pixelart to try and scrape off some rust since the project I am doing for an art trade is troubling me ATM. #Timelapse in thread!

Holy shit, I did it... Crisp pixels on Bsky for once

Did some #Deltarune style #pixelart to try and scrape off some rust since the project I am doing for an art trade is troubling me ATM. #Timelapse in thread!

newgrounds.comDeltarune style practice

So, evidently, BSky hates the aspect ratio of the gif, so witness it on Newgrounds instead! www.newgrounds.com/art/view/jam...

@bellular.bsky.social regarding your latest video, I am rather surprised you glazed over how bad it could actually get with ads in games. A thread

4. How is this going to affect people willing to pay for products as well? Are they just going to transition to piracy as their only means of playing newer releases? How are these ads going to be enforced under the DRM ecosystem? Would circumventing them breach the DMCA?

5. This is a bit of a big one, but what if they retroactively enforced this system on older games that were not built for ads? Imagine playing Viva Pinata or Fuzion Frenzy on your Helix, but you get ads every 10 minutes for no good reason. There's nothing stopping them from getting more greedy.

@bellular.bsky.social regarding your latest video, I am rather surprised you glazed over how bad it could actually get with ads in games. A thread

3a. This can be extra dangerous for content creators in particular because any sort of advertisement that shows up in the middle of a game could end up having mature content that could get their channel banned

3b. Content creators could also be demonetized if the advertisement uses any sort of licensed content that the creator does not have access to. I should note as well that all the streaming platforms are doing the same thing as Google right now, so many fake game ads...

@bellular.bsky.social regarding your latest video, I am rather surprised you glazed over how bad it could actually get with ads in games. A thread

If you need a good example of this, look at Clash of Clans in particular, which uses it a lot for training units, harvesting resources, building structures, and more. They even limit how many structures you can build at once by forcing you to have to pay extra for builders.

3. What about the moderation for these advertisement ecosystems? Google's ad platform is extremely notorious for not doing any sort of moderation, so you end up seeing a lot of false advertising for mobile games, scams, and more just being splattered all over the place.

@bellular.bsky.social regarding your latest video, I am rather surprised you glazed over how bad it could actually get with ads in games. A thread

1. While Steam's rules do prohibit this content, this is stuff that can happen on the OS level, or alternatively, they could withdraw selling new games on Steam. I've personally been concerned since they would be incentivized to block Linux users from playing their games.

2. There is a certain model that has currently only been exclusive to mobile games known as time gating. It adds an annoying time barrier to doing every single task possible in order to encourage you to either watch an ad or pay with premium currency to make it either speed up or immediately finish.

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gaia online making anti-genAI posts i knew we could always trust u

Interesting question I have, who here has played a game and used the colorblindness settings despite not being colorblind? It usually seems like my brain processes edge/shape data faster than color data, as whenever I enable colorblind mode, I'm faster at solving puzzles in particular

Screw the genderbent Malfoy trend, that shit's for terfs. All my homies just give Gandalf huge tits. (Tolkien, I hope you're laughing from the grave)

Looking back on Portal a bit here, it's fascinating how Cave Johnson, despite how horribly he ran Aperture, SOMEHOW is a more competent executive compared to any other giant company CEO, like, his company invented crazy functioning shit, and just couldn't get the right ideas guy (or gal or enby pal)

To have it be applied in a useful manner. Bounce gel, perfect for disaster response. Speed gel, perfect lubricant for equipment. Portal gun's a no-brainer though. None of these AI companies could handle making anything legitimately useful, only extremely sucky Gladoses.

Finally found a classic #Elite ship that I could translate based on its wireframe, this is the Gecko #pixelart #lowpoly #picocad2

Say hello to the new #Halloween #PFP for this year! This one is based on Castlevania's Dracula, though its a mix of the Netflix and SOTN designs. #pixelart

Busy working on my Halloween profile picture a little late this year, aiming for a Netflix Dracula design for this year, but I still got plenty of work to do #pixelart #wip

Hey @frontierastro.bsky.social, do you guys have a good pipeline to use for ripping the 3D models from Frontier at all? I've been wanting to reproduce them in #PicoCAD2, but I can't find any decent refs for ships like the Falcon.

(Although NGL, it would be cool to see a game built off of the visual style of the OG release of Frontier...)

Hey, teachers. I got an interesting word problem for you that is based on a real conundrum I'm having to deal with right now. I have five pounds of cooked ground beef sitting in my freezer right now. I need to be able to measure out three pounds of it but have no scale.

Cooked ground beef has a density of ~8oz/cup, so what's the volume of ground beef I need to measure out? (Will post answer when I got the math done)

Answer: ~6 cups of ground beef