I've been using Clip Studio Paint for about a year now specifically so I could use the built-in character models for posing and anatomy.
I just found out about the HEAD models that it has and now I'm super excited because WOW faces are still hard to draw, especially the non-human ones from D&D!
It took a long time but I think I finally figured out the full basic structure of the story I've been working on for *years*.
Now I just have to keep refining it and then *write* the whole damn thing.
ARTEMIS II: SPLASHDOWN! Welcome home, astronauts!
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Artemis II: Service Module Sep!
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Short-wave and Mid-Wavelength Infrared thermal imaging footage released by NASA of the Artemis II launch on April 1st shot aboard a Cessna plane.
NASASpaceflight coverage of splashdown: youtube.com/watch?v=_veR...
I have reached an important milestone with my car!
Photos released by NASA taken by a camera on one of Artemis II Orion's solar arrays.
The first batch of photos are from the solar eclipse, the Moon and Orion backlit by the Sun and Earth (on the left side of the moon. Saturn can be seen as the bright spot at the bottom right of the moon.
ECLIPSE
Images captured aboard Orion Integrity by the NASA Artemis crew of total solar eclipse, as the moon got between the sun and the capsule. The sun's faint Corona visible, the eclipse totality lasted 54 minutes, longer the normally on Earth
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THE MOON
Close up images captured aboard Orion Integrity by the NASA Artemis II crew of the far side of the moon during their April 6th flyby.
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HISTORY MADE!
Orion Integrity and its Crew Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen have broken the 56 year old recod set by Apollo 13 and its crew James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, and have become the humans that have travelled the farthest distance from Earth.
I think today is the first time I've ever really used a chainsaw.
High Quality footage released by NASA of the jettison of the launch abort system from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II launch on April 1st.
Tuned into the Artemis II stream to see what they were up to and they were just asking Mission control if they could unplug an ethernet cable for the docking camera to use the port for another piece of equipment.
Modern spaceflight, I guess.
LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES WITH A CREW OF 4 TOWARDS THE MOON
Fishfeeder wasn't dispensing food after I spent so much time two weeks ago rebuilding it from the ground up.
Turns out the new servo motor I got had a different response to the signal the board put out, so changing a single number in the code fixed it!
It's been a long time since I listened to a movie soundtrack as much as I'm listening to Project Hail Mary's.
Everything about that movie is so good...
The window had been stuck in it's frame and finally popped open in the wind; I managed to persuade it to fit back in place and actually lock it!
Project Hail Mary is a great adaptation of the book (which I just finished reading early this morning)!
Highly recommend seeing it!
Rocky may be an 800lb spider that smells like burning cat piss, but I love him.
Also, having now read Artemis I'm mad that it hasn't been made into a movie yet but Martian and PHM have been. I want to see a moon heist in theaters!
Man, I really enjoy Andy Weir's writing style. The Martian is right up my problem-solving alley; Artemis is crass but heart-felt; and the first half of Project Hail Mary is hitting so many ideas I've been toying with for years (also science!)!
Anyways, enshitification sucks. We should do better.
And to top it all off, tech prices are insane thanks to useless AI bullshit so replacing a $60 piece of equipment is going to cost at least double that to play my videos smoothly in HD or 4K on my living room TV and now it won't be mobile either.
/End rant.
The app still connects, but the UI is slow and unmanageable, the connection loads the video title then fails to a gray logo screen. I just want to watch my videos at dinner, not troubleshoot tech that worked seamlessly a decade ago that's now been enshittified into uselessness.
Finally, I realized I was only watching patreon content over my Chromecast. Patreon's app was surprisingly competent. It played the video smoothly and at faster speeds if I wanted.
This month Patreon updated something on their backend, and now nothing plays over chromecast. I have no solutions.
Then the biggest streamer I would cast dropped support and eventually closed. Then YT got intolerable with the ads, and the remaining services sucked. Then my VPN made connecting a hassle.
The wonderful "play anything on the TV and control it from my phone" experience slowly withered and died.
First it was the homescreen. I don't want a menu of shit I don't watch, I want to connect the app with the show/video I'm watching and that's it.
Then it was the ads. God, I hate ads so much.
Then it was my watch habits. I usually like to watch YT videos at faster than 1x, the chromecast didn't
When I first got a chromecast years ago, it was an awesome bit of cheap tech that turned any monitor, TV, or projector into a youtube player or phone screen mirror. Several of my favorite streaming services also had the ability to be played on it and controlled from my phone.
That's long gone.
Sigh, it works but it's not dispensing enough of food...
