16 Dec 2024

Weeknotes 25

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Links

Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its ‘evil playing cards’, jokes that he should ‘add microtransactions’ like EA Sports FC 25 to ‘lower that rating to a 3+’ by Harvey Randall in PC Gamer — everything I read about LocalThunk fucking rules.
How Video Streamers Conquered the Media by Justin Charity in The Ringer
Introducing o(m)g:image by Jim Nielsen — hahaha
I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies by Jason Koebler in 404 Media — depressing! i watched one of the shorts (“sun day”) and it is bad, not just for generative ai reasons but also the story is bad! even if they didn’t use generative ai, it would still be bad! and then the gen ai is bad not only because of the wonky quality but also because of the cliche imagery! the mediocrity! in the wise words of dan egan veep, ‘of all the -ocres, [this is] the mediest’

Media

All I’m listening to these days is the Arcane season 2 soundtrack. just fuck me up!
I went to see Wicked and it was good! I’ve never listened to the musical so I don’t have a point of comparison to make, but I liked it. (oh my god, they were roommates)
I finally read my first batman comic: Batman: Year One, written by Frank Miller and illustrated by David Mazzucchelli. The artwork is SO good—the shadows! The noir atmosphere! The characters!

Two page comic spread of Bruce injured and contemplating, and a flashback of his parents’ deaths. The art style is realistic and features heavy shadows that set a gritty and noir mood, with minimal colour. — shadowsssss

Tumblr

I’ve started posting my art on Tumblr again as @vanhn. Currently, it’s just a bunch of DC fanart. thoughts about this:

I decided to do this because I want people who like DC to actually see my DC fanart—tumblr is a proper social media network with superior discoverability and archival tools, among other things. Mastodon is—not.
I had trouble deciding on a username, and I’m unsure if I like having it based off my real name versus another pseudonym, but I’m wishy washy about my screennames and I didn’t want to pick something I would outgrow in a year, like I have with many past names.
- And I suppose, since it’s presently publicly connected to this website anyway (anhvn → vanhn, but not vice versa), anonymity isn’t a huge concern. You all know it exists now! you may gaze upon my future crimes.
I dunno how I feel about watermarking—seems prudent to do so but I wish I didn’t feel that way.
I’m currently crossposting 1:1 with mastodon, but that may change in the future depending on subject matter.
Everything will, of course, continue to be archived in my sketchbook on this website.

anyway. I’m there now!

Here’s the latest DC thing I drew:

Closely cropped digital sketch of Starfire resting her hands on top of Nightwing’s head. It’s messily shaded in blocks of colour, with the blue background bleeding on top.

this website

still trucking along with my media recap post. I’m a bit apprehensive that the end result will not look as good as any WIP screenshots that I share and I should just stop talking about it! But I feel pretty determined about it still!! I can do this!! I can make thing look good!!!