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C# coder, LGBTQ+ supporter, keeper of the Firrhna Project, 200% catboy.
🔞 Minors DNI.
There is an animated version called MNG but it has very little web support, hence the continued use of GIFs.
Addendum: there's also another animated version of PNG called APNG. They have the same file extension and are in all relevant respects regular PNG files with extra data added in a standard-compliant way. Most browsers will play them with no problems, but specific sites such as Tumblr will strip out the animation.
As for GIF, specific sites such as Twitter will convert them to MP4, which is a lossy video format and the bane of GIF animators on social media everywhere as it ruins the quality of their work.
You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).
Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.
My semi-sister woke up with a new trans anthem in her brain so I had to write the lyrics. (Please excuse the weird formatting. I'm too lazy to fix it on mobile.)
Transgender Boi
(Sk8tr Boi- Avril Lavigne)
She was a boy
He was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
They've got hormones
And shots on weekdays
What more can I say?
She's just a him
He's just a her
No secret there's lots of thems as well
And all of her friends support them with love
They've got no problems with store bought hormones
big PET PEEVE of mine regarding creative advice is when big timers frame things as 'let me tell you what is not valid creation'. i personally always try to frame as 'let me tell you what IS valid creation' because if you are talkin art then, guess what, EVERYTHING IS VALID
my BUCKAROO SENSES always get triggered over these discussions of ‘THIS IS THE SET WAY YOU HAVE TO DO THINGS TO MAKE IT BIG’ because... it is just not true. i mean HECK just look at my career. (and EXTRA LARGE WARNING if someone is charging for this 'advice’)
instead what i personally look for, and what i try to do myself, is say ‘this is what worked for me it might not be for everyone but i am happy to tell you about my path and you can take from that what you will. it is not the RIGHT path, it is MY path. LETS SHARE’
of course this is mostly SEMANTICS you could probably go back through my posts and find thousands of times when i messed this up, but this is what i TRY to do because it is what i believe. YOUR PATH IS JUST AS VALID AS MINE whether it is well traveled or cutting through the brush
alright buckaroos thank you for listening to my ART RAMBLES. LOVE IS REAL lets get out there and TROT
Reordered some things to cut down on the draw calls a bit.
Background, version watermark, dialogue box, dialogue text, name tag, name, menu header, 200 characters worth of menu text, the other 20 characters of menu text, sliders, cursor.
I still fear the thought of doing 3D stuff and making this something like an actual damn game.