Good to see package carriers kicking off the trade embargo that the UN would never have the courage to call. 😜

I'm not part of the "LGB" community. I'd rather take my chances with straight folks than hang out with gay transphobes. If you don't love every part of this flag then you can fuck right off.

What the fuck, All-Bran?! No thank you!

Mum's put her NBN in a Faraday cage?!

(It's actually fine - this isn't the wifi part)

Edit: apparently it's for protection from the dog.

Watching Kaos, and went back to freeze frame the side of this truck, which was on screen for a FRACTION of a second, as it ran over Eurydice. Amazing.
(In Greek myth, Eurydice is killed by a snake.)

After an admittedly quick search, EVERY drawing I can find of the colour spectrum is flat out wrong, with the same error. Even the ones on pages that are educational resources specifically about spectral colours. People made these images by blending red, green, and blue channels - they KNEW they were adding red in at the blue end, but they did it anyway. Every single one that I can find.

I think we'd give people a better education if our visualisations of spectrums began at black and went through red-brown to red, then at the top end went through blue-black to black, without any of that "oh, but we call this end violet, so let's make it the color of a violet" nonsense.

And then students might actually NOTICE that the pinks and purples and violets AREN'T on the spectrum, and we could have really cool inquiry-led conversations about why not, about spectral and non-spectral colours, and the biology of human colour perception.

Oh shit, this is also why New Guinea's split in half. The Dutch didn't want beef with the Spanish by invading "their half" of the world! (and later, the Germans and English didn't want beef with the Dutch.

Today I learned about the Papal Line of Demarcation, in which Christians literally divided the globe in half, between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile (by various national treaties and papal bulls in the late 15th/early 16th centuries). Your land was officially up for grabs to the Christians if you weren't Christian by Christmas, 1492. (Brazil speaks Portuguese because a little bit of it stuck over the line, although they invaded well beyond the border of the treaty).

Probably should've consulted the Judgement of Solomon part of the Bible on this one - if both mothers want to cut the baby in half, maybe it doesn't belong to either of them?

I don't use instagram for horny purposes AT ALL - never have (nothing wrong with horny purposes, it's just not what I do on insta). I follow etymology stuff and science stuff and nature stuff and some comedians and artists.

But about half the previews I get on my search tab are thirst traps. Why you so desperate for me to be horny, insta?

Here, have a horny porpoise:

Gee, I dunno woolies, since you have a hundred thousand times more money than me, if you're so keen on ensuring a round dollar figure for this cashless transaction, how about you put some fucking skin in the game, and instead of rounding it up 56c, we round it down 44c, which I'LL donate it to the charity of MY choice?

No?

Dad working away while I had to take a break. Not sure if it's the 80 years or the multiple heart surgeries or the recent battle with cancer that gives him the advantage 😅

The Norwegian men's volleyball team have different surnames, so I can only assume that one of them got married and took their partner's name, because these are clearly twins.

@sleepybisexual Oh yeah, Love Letter's had some versions with WILDLY different art!

Something you may not have realised is right-handed: playing cards.

When you pick up a card with your dominant hand and add it to the front of a card you're holding in your non-dominant hand, you create a fan towards your dominant hand.

Standard playing cards have a small version of the number and suit in two corners so that you can see them no matter which way up the card is, *as long as they're fanned right*, and many modern card games follow suit (ha!) without thinking, for the convention or aesthetic

Consider mirroring important summary information in both left and right corners (Ticket to Ride does a great job putting the suits in both corners while maintaining the pleasant asymmetrical feel of having them in one)

It's admittedly only a tiny accessibility issue, but it IS an accessibility issue, so have think about it.

#GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #TableTop #CardGames #BoardGames

I truly didn't expect to see the same bizarre falling-over-themselves to forgive and justify white shooters applied, when the target was the Republican demigod.

A bit more Interactive Comic Book Maker progress. You can now choose to auto-compress images when you import them to the project.

The default setting is 90% quality (if you want to change it, you only need to do so once, not for every image). In most cases I found this indistinguishable from the lossless version, but MUCH smaller in file size, meaning smaller overall comic size and faster page loads.

For the background image pictured, the image file sizes were:
~3MB if original png format was kept
~2MB if converted to lossless webp
~275K at 90% (which looked perfect)
~100K at 70% (which wasn't awful, but was noticeably degraded)
~40K at 10% (which WAS awful)

These values would all be quite different, and smaller, for an image with a lot of flat colour in it.

#ICBM #Comic #GameDev #GodotEngine

I spend a lot of time trying to make the Interactive Comic Book Maker draw lines that look really good, buuuut...

Introducing the *ugliest*, and also the most *widely requested* feature that I've made - the ability to scribble on the page.

It can be used to plan or communicate before the art is done, scribble *on* the art to give feedback, or if you just love the janky MS paint aesthetic, you can even include it in the final comic with the tick of a box.

http://icbm.games

#GameDev #Comic #ICBM #InteractiveNarrative #GodotEngine

@xssfox ooh, but it DID show up on my wall under the hashtag (not sure if that's just because I'm me, so I see it, though)