My own pet peeve for some time now has been the new trend towards progress indicators that actually give you no indication of progress, like the generic spinny thing on the Windows loading screen or Android startup screen. I guess they're at least upfront about their obfuscation, and thus technically more honest than a faked progress bar, even if no less helpful?Fizzbuzz wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 7:45 pmThe Atlantic's article which inspired that one does an excellent job of explaining one of my biggest peeves with UX design these days. However, I suspect that the vast majority of users don't have personal experience with how computers work and how fast they really are. I understand why they exist, but when I have to sit through fake progress bars I really wish the application would just get on with it.
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That's not really a new trend; Windows has had generic looping animations on its startup screens since 1995. The only company I've ever seen attach a working progress bar to an OS boot-up process is Apple, though they've been doing it in some form or another for as far back as I can remember.
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Mac OS used to match its startup loading indicators to how many different extensions and things had to load, but they changed that in 10.4. Since then, it just times how long the last startup took and makes the loading bar take that long.
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your new avatar is very good btw, can you post a source
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(I just now found out the artist's name. Added it to my sig to give proper credit.)
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On the old forums it actually did have a link to a post where I had more drawings of my ponysona. I never bothered compiling a bunch of those drawings again on the new forums.
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You should, though.
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Part of it was that the horsepocalypse coincided with the start of a period where I was so busy between school and family matters that I rarely had the energy for drawing, a period that didn't really end until maybe somewhere between a few months ago and now.
The other part was that it was just before then that I first drew him with his now-current lack of limbs. When the new forums came up I needed a new avatar and my last avatar was the newest picture I'd drawn at the time. By the time I started drawing much again, I'd used that long enough that it's what felt and still feels most correct, so I felt I needed to draw more new stuff instead of relying on the old.
I think it's funny how my past images where he still has legs(/arms) and a neck feel sort of out of date now.
The other part was that it was just before then that I first drew him with his now-current lack of limbs. When the new forums came up I needed a new avatar and my last avatar was the newest picture I'd drawn at the time. By the time I started drawing much again, I'd used that long enough that it's what felt and still feels most correct, so I felt I needed to draw more new stuff instead of relying on the old.
I think it's funny how my past images where he still has legs(/arms) and a neck feel sort of out of date now.
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I'm going with it's a metaphor for capitalism.
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You know, now that you mention it, you're not wrong, and I'm not sure why I thought it was a new trend.Pocket wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 3:26 amThat's not really a new trend; Windows has had generic looping animations on its startup screens since 1995. The only company I've ever seen attach a working progress bar to an OS boot-up process is Apple, though they've been doing it in some form or another for as far back as I can remember.
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I like those since they're at least being honest in saying "I'm doing something but I don't know how long it'll take" instead of the fake progress bars that say "I'm doing something and I am pretending to get it done at a certain pace because you are a foolish meatbag who needs reassurances."
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Blathering about computers and my art on page 69.
That sure is a distinctive gimmick, huh.
That sure is a distinctive gimmick, huh.
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it's not a gimmick when it's just you being you and you is good
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i think my current sig is a chick tract
and do I credit mgm et al for the av
and do I credit mgm et al for the av
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I think it's about time to request an xmas av
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it would be v. hard to defeat this current av i believe
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Heh, I don't need to because I never took mine off!
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however I already have fine print's replacement ready
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Quoting this again since you talking about my art helped inspire a picture.
In most pictures, such as the one I used in my avatar, I'll draw the position and size of the head first and then draw the rest of the body to match, then fill in the details. This is a good process for most characters, but I thought that maybe my ponysona doesn't need such fixed proportions.
Here I picked the size of the head, drew the body first, then drew the head at the regular size but higher up than I normally would put it. For others I think it'd result in a too-long neck (at least in my cutesy/toony style), but for my ponysona I think it helps make him look a bit more floaty.
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Something I read recently. I never realized just how common it is for parents to discourage boys from reading a book about girls.
This shit sucks.
This shit sucks.
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Link is giving me a 404 errorMr. Big wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 10:05 pmSomething I read recently. I never realized just how common it is for parents to discourage boys from reading a book about girls.
This shit sucks.
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I feel the same thing happened with FiM. Most any other cartoon drawing such a fandom (Adventure Time, for example) would perhaps have been viewed as odd at worst, but since FiM's main characters were almost all female, that made it "worse" in the eyes of the mainstream. Things have settled down now, but I remember the early days and the reaction to the fandom from having seen it from the sidelines.
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I noticed that, after Ponies became a hit, it's become more common to see cartoons with female leads. Whether it was the direct cause or not is debatable, but they seem to be more open about it now, at least, even if on limited basis.
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I was at the "assembly line" at Volkswagen and they are hatching like that.
The vast amount of customization before purchase back in the day was done by breeding, this is why people had to wait for the cars for a long time. Nowadays it's done with genetic modification.
The vast amount of customization before purchase back in the day was done by breeding, this is why people had to wait for the cars for a long time. Nowadays it's done with genetic modification.
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I was told this cereal exists. I just have to wonder who thought this would do well
The animation's nice, though.
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I've been working on this series for the past year, but it finally just came out so I can talk about it!
I worked on this second episode, doing storyboards and character designs.
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