A car crashed into my diner yesterday, there’s a giant hole where my wall used to be. It’s gonna take a couple of weeks to fix. It’s a disaster, but I don’t care. I mean, I care, but… you know what? No, I really… I don’t care.
these dating apps are stupid. where is my academic rival who 3 years later of meeting me, confesses in a love letter, that I’m the fond object of all their desires and the keeper of the key to their heart? where is the lover who builts a fire just to keep me warm? where is the person who secretly reads my favourite books and gets so invested in them just because they observed my bright enthusiasm about them? where is the person who lays in the grass with me to discuss an impromptu script while also talking about our general interests and knows that in the end we’re gonna end up with each other? where is the person who gives up the opportunity to have an iPod in exchange of a teapot that contains lil inside jokes we’ve had going on since years? where is the person who runs to the station just to take me to the place which captures the most enchanting sunrise before i leave the city forever? where is the person who sings their favourite songs with me in a train with a shared earphone? where is the person who saves their dirtiest jokes for me while i save a seat on every table for them? where is the person who after knowing my flaws and fears, says yes to running away with me? where is the person who would come out of Eden to open the door for me if they knew i were there? where is the person who makes me realise that our joy is so bright I cannot see anything beyond it? where’s the person who’d choose to hang out with me in every universe? who’s going to take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die? where is the bestfriend who looks at me in the eyes and says “this thing we’re doing here, me, you- i just want you to know I’m in. I’m all in.” and means it!?
it’s always “i love you” and never “a few weeks ago you told me lane had a crush on me. well i have a crush on her too and i know you have very strict rules about dating and boys and i just want you to know that i’m a good person. i don’t smoke, i don’t drink, i’ve never gotten a ticket, i’m healthy, i take care of myself, i floss, i never watch more than thirty minutes of television partly because i think it’s a waste of time and partly because there’s nothing on, i respect my parents, i do well in school, i never play video games in case they do someday prove playing them can turn you into a serial killer, i don’t drink coffee, i don’t drink soda because the carbonation freaks me out, i’m happy to give up meat if you feel strongly about it, i don’t mind wearing a tie, i enjoy playing those hymns on my guitar, and i really really wanna take your daughter to her prom. mrs kim? please don’t make me repeat that list again.”
Our son Sam has told us that the D&D art file we use for a screensaver on various devices bothers him.
Because it makes him frustrated that he can’t look at some of them longer. He wants to know what is happening in some of them.
I told him that is one of the reasons we play Dungeons & Dragons, so we can go find out together, in our collective imagination.
Not really D&D related- but I feel compelled to add to this that not only are these GORGEOUS pixel arts- they are also in fact not animated. There are no frames used. There’s no extra pieces of art. Just one layer.
These pieces are so old that they stem from a time where animating cost way too much memory and/or only 256 colors could be used at one time, so the motion is achieved by ‘color cycling’. Half the available colors would be reserved for that very color cycling. It’s mchecking bonkers, please go watch this video if you feel like learning the technical details of how these artworks were made! They were screensavers that would match the actual time of day that you were in. Somehow. Just by cycling color palettes. Wild shit.
(Especially relevant time stamps for color cycling: 5:50, 9:55, 37:26, at 49:54 he gets into the technical side of HOW this even works)
Yup.
I’ve always enjoyed how they depicted some of the landscapes at different times of the day/weather/season.
Like these two areas. Daytime and nighttime at the village by the waterfalls.
And the high mountains hidden by rain in one and visible in the other.
yall r gonna post a man’s entire portfolio of art and not give credit?
anyways these images are by mark ferrari, a color cycling pixel art master, you can check them out in their html color cycling forms, with sound effects and ability to change the time of day of the image, here and here
