My Magnum Opus

Mobius Donut

Garfield gaming

I want to take you places no one's ever been before

Furry-friendly headphone design

I saw an anthro character wearing headphones with speakers nowhere near their ears and I was compelled to make this

YEAH yeah :)

is it just me or are there just no "pop artists" let's call them that make 3D stuff? like I was browsing some Social Medias, as one does, and I realized that like in art circles, it's all drawings and paintings and stuff the only things that 3D artists post (the popular ones I mean) are tips and tutorials. I don't really see any ones that are popular for the stuff they make.

It's like the 3D art space is its own self-contained bubble that only contains other 3D artists so it makes a closed loop of tutorial exchange while keeping itself out of the eye of the general public (except for cases where their art is shown in another medium, like a videogame or movie). Maybe? While 2D art spaces are also choke full of non-artists who enjoy the art (...mostly furries) I am including this professionally made infographic to illustrate my point

This is for the record entirely anecdotal and might simply be that I'm just looking in the wrong places lol

I like how there’s a category of careers (cowboy, pirate, spy, princess) that have a very specific historical and political context that they get stripped of for the entertainment of children

I've heard this refered to as the hedonic treadmill and it's related to a lot of things, not just social media.

Once you get to a certain level of success, amount of money, happiness, etc, your baseline expectations move with it - earning 10k dollars doesn't hit quite as nicely when you're a billionaire.

For the average person I think the easiest way to illustrate this is videogames. Your average RPG has you start out quite weak, fighting weak enemies. Then you find a sword that does more damage, and you can fight tougher enemies. Then you get a sword that does even more damage, and you can fight even tougher enemies. Then you get the legendary sword of legendary legends that lets you kill anything with 1 legendary swing, and that first sword that helped you get a foothold to eventually get here seems like a piece of garbage by comparison. You wouldn't look twice if you found one like that again. This constant scaling of your character and the enemies leaves you at net zero - your sword is always *just enough* to handle the enemies you're encountering, but the numbers that pop up from hitting them keep getting larger and larger. Like a treadmill.

And that's largely how it goes with any rising numbers in our lives. Every time you reach a higher number, the ones below it seem smaller and smaller as time goes on. Doesn't help that humans tend to naturally think in fractions and exponents - once you get from 1 to 10, the next target is more likely to be 100 than 20. I think it's important to recognize that kind of bias in ourselves and try to appreciate and enjoy what we already have a little bit more.

Not too long ago...

I was posting art on Tumblr and getting like, 2 notes. In those days, if I got 5 notes anywhere, I'd be thrilled...and if it went to 10 I'd be positively jubilant! TENPEOPLESAWMYARTAAAA.

A few days ago, I posted something and it unexpectedly climbed to almost 300 notes! Must've done something right with the hashtags I dunno...but here's the thing-

Since that day, I've posted a few more times and I've started getting so pissed if the notes don't come. Now even 50 notes (which would ordinarily have made me faint with ecstasy) seems disappointing...

Makes me wonder. I've seen artists here get many tens of thousands of likes/comments/reblogs on their art. Does an artist who regularly gets >10,000 notes on their art feel dejected when they get just 6 to 7000 on something?

I was designing a little magic system for a game project I'm planning once I finish Brawlmentum and I had some trouble with telekinesis: how do I make it not overpowered? It's one of those powers where even as a kid watching superhero movies or reading comics I always had in the back of my mind things like "why don't they just telekinetically grab the guy's heart and rip it out of his chest" and whatnot. So to that my solution is "it's just not that precise and you kind of have to intuit a general area of what you want to grab; but then the other problem: how to limit the weight of what can be picked up in a way that doesn't seem entirely arbitrary? So I deliberated on that for a bit and came up with what I think is an easy solution and even kind of doesn't break physics as hard as usual telekinesis does: whatever force you apply to the object gets applied in reverse to you, spread over your whole body or parts of it so you can lift up a small rock no problem, it's just gonna feel a bit heavy on your arm - but if you try to lift up a boulder, it's either not gonna work at all or you'll collapse into a puddle. Which in turn also means that I have a good excuse to have incredibly jacked up wizards - the stronger you are physically, the more you can lift with magic, too

I’ve been playing a bunch of DeltaV: Rings Of Saturn lately and it’s gotten me into a very intense hard sci-fi mood! So I tried to follow the game’s visual language (and roughly stuck to realism) to make this beast! The THIILSRRRF (Titan Heavy Industries Inter-Lunar Search, Rescue, Refuel and Repair Foundry) - if you get stranded in deep space, one of those is what would come and rescue you (...if you can be found) Has all the nice features like: - 4 heavy manipulator arms for holding the ship in place, complete with fuel hoses for attachment by EVA mechanics - A heavy manipulator arm and a laser cutter on linear rails, for... detaching unneeded ballast - A docking bay with a dedicated fuel fuselage and emergency fissile fuel in case of fixing a reactor failure - Propellant tanks heavier than your mum, and encased in a resilient frame that doubles as a faraday cage, just in case - A guiding rail for ships to easily dock, complete with electromagnetic launch systems for undocking without fuel burn - A robust sensor array for locating distress signals over vast distances Tried my best to make it look like a technical drawing :) Thank u for reading!! I hope you never need to call for one of those