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zhongvie

4 months ago

TIL artfight has a rule where if you use references like CSP models or YOUR OWN PHOTOS TO TRACE/REFERENCE it can’t be used as an attack and needs to be disclosed if it’s for ref images. fucking stupid

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zhongvie 4 months ago

this just feels like shaming for ppl who use references/models. who tf would even disclose they use them. they can’t even enforce this LOL

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knightmares 4 months ago

When will the art community understand that professionals use references all of the time. Idk what's up with art sites destroying their own reputations lately.

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yogomagpie 4 months ago

I thought it meant no tracing, not no reference? You’re right tho. How can you even accuse someone of tracing? What if someone is just really good at referencing lol But did you also see the rule about no collaging? Sorry to add to the rage haha

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silliestgoose-online 4 months ago

this kinda makes me want a deliberately bad version of artfight where everyone *must* draw the thing as best as they can from memory just as a reducto ad absurdum

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zhongvie 4 months ago

i mean even w/tracing, its like ... i took a picture of my hand to help with a weird angle and traced it --> redrew it to my own style .... i gotta disclose my own dang picture and not use it for an attack??? and no collaging?????? wait is that for like ... refs????????????

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zhongvie 4 months ago

i’ve drawn over models to get a base down and then redrew it so it was more fluid/didn’t have a stiff pose… banned from artfight forever /s

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yogomagpie 4 months ago

I think with collaging they meant literal collages, so like, in my head, an example could be a drawing of a character inside a cutout photograph of a car. and other elements cut out of stock photos. Also to be clear I do agree that tracing/referencing should be allowed 100%! As long as they are using non-copyrighted refs/their own refs. I bet they’ll rewrite the rules bc of all the backlash.

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edgelord567 4 months ago

if this rule is still in set for when arfight actually begins, no one is stopping you from still doing it and just not telling anyone and i think a lot of people are going to do this

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gramophoneturtle 4 months ago

YEAH!! :< I left feedback on their feedback form on BSky and told them that "randomly" cutting out certain reference types sucks and what am I gonna do if I can't find stockphotos/etc for an artfight attack? Do it but feel bad at the quality? Just not do the attack at all? I'd rather we disclose what refs we use to promote using them and sharing our reference sources

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zhongvie 4 months ago

tbf from what i understand this rule has been in place for a while, i havent really looked over the regulations since i first joined like 6 years ago. and wattaheck that sucks for collages, i think that'd be really cool :(, thats still work to arrange it!!! but yeah considering ive only heard abt it until now, im sure ppl have just been doing it

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gramophoneturtle 4 months ago

Yeah from my understanding the wording just made it more clear? Honestly I'd probably just use whatever refs I use normally would use and whatever it'll be, it'll be. Just in the feedback I put it like that cause that's just how silly it'd be to actually follow that

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virtualden 4 months ago

Was genuinely flabbergasted when I saw this ''rule'', what is this 😭

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zhongvie

4 months ago

anyone got discord alternative suggestions…? i’m not ditching discord but i wanna dip a toe into testing out others. stoat i heard doesn’t have video/voice calling for now… fluxer im also looking at but also dunno how to feel about

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overthinkingrat 4 months ago

fluxer feels like a discord clone and acts like a clone, so to me it is the easiest transition. it does not have mobile though, you can "make an app" via online browser

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mintywyvern 4 months ago

https://ellipsus.com/read/79fNDpPyPEaHKmvbe7NFgi this person did a big document abt discord alternatives if you wanted to take a look!

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kayzowl 4 months ago

i've been liking fluxer but it's def better on desktop and is very much still being worked on and there are bugs. it was a v easy transition from disc tho, and has a lot of the features

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zhongvie 4 months ago

thank u all... fluxer im only squinty on bc i know the creator has talked abt using LLMs for 'rubber ducking', like from sounds of it he is a very smart guy and knows coding in and out and what hes talking abt, its just always such a razor thin line if its someone who genuinely is doubling checking what IS put out of it

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zhongvie 4 months ago

source is their own blog talks abt it later down the line: https://blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-fluxer-a-discord-like-chat-app/

zhongvie 4 months ago

oh the ellipsus link actually does mention that specific point. Nerimity and GameVox were the other ones i saw listed in the YT video i watched

gramophoneturtle 4 months ago

Stoat is the one I went to about a year ago and have enjoyed it, but I don't use screenshare. The VC was fine when I used it last...Decemeber? It was about as good as Discord's, but I also don't use VC too much so ymmv. Screenshare is the next big milestone for Stoat, whenever they have the resources to tackle it

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zhongvie

4 months ago

the most asinine thing is stumping my brain ... what IS the proper colour order for stuff ... im organizing my stamps by colour ... rn its like: "white", "grey", "black", "brown", "red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "purple", "pink" (based off my filter list), but should brown be between red and orange ...

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solaria 4 months ago

that is always the question when dealing with colors not in the rainbow...... i personally would do brown before red, like how you have it (even though brown is technially dark orange) that way it wont break up red from orange. the hardest thing for me when organizing things by color is when they vary a lot in value as well as hue, because of course i want to keep it in hue order, but i dont want dark next to light

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zhongvie 4 months ago

yeah its a mess, and im very bad w/differentiating like ... what the 'central' colour is to assign it a main colour too. cause like something thats 90% black but has a very vibrant red text to me is Red, not Black. but something with a primary black, but has a more muted blue/yellow, to me is Black, and not those colours (kinda also why im doing a misc where its way too many colours to make one the Central Choice)

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cowgrls 4 months ago

i usually go warm pink - [regular roygbiv] - cool pink - white - grey - black - brown when i organize art supplies! its definitely a soft science, very difficult to categorize firmly

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zhongvie 4 months ago

hoh ... that makes sense w/the transition of warm pink to reds and purple --> cool pinks .. i think brown is def my big issue in placement rn cause my brain is thrown off by brown to red to orange

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draggianuniverse 4 months ago

I tend to do rainbow order with pink / magenta before purple, then black -> grey -> white -> brown. I think that's because I'm used to crayon boxes being laid out like that.

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harakanvarpu 4 months ago

Since brown is a desaturated orange, I think it can pair ok with black and white, since adding those to colours make them less saturated 🤔

yogomagpie 4 months ago

This is how my brain works, and how I organize my paints: pink/magenta -> roygbiv -> warm browns/ochres -> cooler browns/ochres -> black, white.

melody-nomas alemf

4 months ago

¡Hola! Encontré de casualidad un video tuyo en TikTok hablando sobre los sitios web y Neocities. ¡Me hace muy feliz que cada vez más usuarios hispanohablantes deciden crear sus propios espacios en la web! <3

zhongvie

4 months ago

im joining in making a random fact generator about me but im like. blanking out on stuff about... me ... that'd sound cool enough anyway

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zhongvie 4 months ago

edit: ok naw i have an ok list now ... lil preview: https://i.ibb.co/vCTxBkVj/quotes.gif

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zhongvie 4 months ago

if anyone remembers 'ultimate showdown' and 'LETS DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL' those have been added as. facts. i guess. i grew up on those as things me and my friends would say to each other LMFAO or sing together

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ventablack

4 months ago

thank you guys for the 400k views!! i'm sooo happy <3

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zhongvie

4 months ago

i realize it’s gonna be kinda scary to test pushing my site on github thru 11ty… cause it’ll all have to be in one go … (i’m still not done yet, my about me is the biggest project rn to do then it’s just more minor pages like my oc hub etc)

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silliestgoose-online 4 months ago

hah I have like, 2000 changes to my site because I'm constantly noticing stuff to fix after saving. this would make me anxious

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ventablack updated their site.

4 months ago

1frame

home

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zhongvie

4 months ago

i wish i could get paid for working on my hobbies that’d be dope (girl who got rejected from an interview she nailed and had the perfect skill set for)

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solaria 4 months ago

noooooo, my condolences 😔

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zhongvie 4 months ago

it is what it is unfortunately LOL, game dev job market is a competitive hell

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crunchweb 4 months ago

everyone says "do what you love" but no one acknowledges how hard it is to get a job!

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zhongvie 4 months ago

i love having a non-existent 5 years of experience bc no one is hiring to get said experience!!!

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harakanvarpu 4 months ago

URRRRRGH YEAH I hate that they're only hiring senior-whatevers or have only leader positions open for people who have made games right out the womb 🙄😣 Maybe you could try going to game jams or making some little game projects your own to get some experience to show? 5 years tho is... a tall ask;;;

zhongvie

4 months ago

WAHOO the buttons look flat and clumped since i havent styled them, but the JSON-ing of my main 'about me' tabs begins... https://i.ibb.co/Kx66sCqV/aboutmewip.gif

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toffii 4 months ago

I love that everything has tabs. I'm hoping to reach that level of coding one day LOL!

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harakanvarpu 4 months ago

Yeeess me too I want all the tabs

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zhongvie 4 months ago

HEWIEHEIEH thank u… i think i used w3school’s JS tab tutorial for it just because i already had the bones on the site for it

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zhongvie

4 months ago

yea i think ill just do my site revamp without the oc pages for now and temp link them to toyhouse, only bc remaking them in 11ty is a whole project in itself and im gonna lose steam if i dont release at least SOMETHING

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zhongvie 4 months ago

which sucks when ppl like those pages bahaha banished to the shadow realm (coding hell). tbf i could also just leave their existing oc pages but it'll bug my brain in a weird specific way i cant explain

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slushiecafe 4 months ago

Oh I think understand what you mean. I gave up on mine bc no matter what they always had the feeling of like, an misaligned square on a tiled floor if that makes sense. No one else cared but it made me feel upset for no good reason.

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zhongvie 4 months ago

yea ... to some degree ... the raw html coding for my oc pages is very messy at this point, and having that Public makes my brain feel like AUGH FUCKKK ITS MESSY meanwhile ppl just see a pretty page LOOOL

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krongulus zhongvie

4 months ago

Your website is gorgeous and i love your character pages :)

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zhongvie 4 months ago

thank u so much!!! i love the layout of ur site ... great game tastes!!!

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ventablack updated their site.

4 months ago

microblog

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zhongvie

4 months ago

holy shit my neighbours rehaul is finally over on my new revamp ... o|< now that the system is in place, it should be easier to add new peeps to it ... 250+ sites at least...

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zhongvie

4 months ago

i’m tempted to make a dream page for my dreams; i don’t dream often but when i do it’s dreams im like ‘where the actual fuck did this come from???’ aka today was a déjà vu dream i’ve had of being someone in a game that could rewind time during some techy-urban era with mechas and also a dating sim and it’s weird when it’s a dream i Know i’ve had and Knew the events of

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zhongvie 4 months ago

might actually be a good excuse to learn how to do ‘collections’ of posts thru 11ty like blog display posts

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tofutush 4 months ago

do it! i read somewhere that if you keep writing them down you'll start remembering them better. my dreams are also totally unhinged lol

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zhongvie 4 months ago

bahaha that'd be nice if so, ive been logging mine since like ... probs 2012 but its like maybe 2-5 dreams a year at best

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sodarain 4 months ago

I rarely have dreams, and they vary in weirdness... except when I take melatonin - then they are always the weirdest things ever.

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cyanidefish updated their site.

4 months ago

HomePage

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zhongvie

4 months ago

been a few months but i've done a monthly wrapup post: https://zhongvie.bearblog.dev/2026-05-03/

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sumthingisrongwithme updated their site.

4 months ago

index

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melody-nomas

4 months ago

I need your help! Does anyone have a tutorial on how to program a generator like this one? https://soaprman.net/r/marriage/ I want to make one using my yume-club cards, but I really don't know where to start... :,(

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smallcarnivore 4 months ago

it's pretty simple if you think about it. the code uses an html5 canvas to layer different elements into one graphic. basically, it draws a background gradient based on the hex codes you pick, it places your uploaded, cropped image and overlays decorative stuff, lastly it renders the text using a custom pixel font. to replicate it, you just need javascript to do the drawing steps. I can explain over email maybe?

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smallcarnivore 4 months ago

sorry couldn't fit my email but it's smallcarnivorousmammal@gmail.com

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ventablack

4 months ago

i love you guysss (/p) have a wonderful weekend!

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andisarchive 4 months ago

same to you!

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