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Off Topic / Re: roast my site

« on: April 25, 2018, 01:37:03 PM »

most of the suggestions i have are relatively minor and just from my own experiences of trying to create a professional online portfolio

i think your font choice detracts from the level of professionalism you're trying to achieve
architect's daughter and especially amatic SC are intentionally wavy, "silly" fonts that, to me, make it feel like the website i'm about to enter is a photographer taking portrait photos for an elementary school. just removing the CSS that has those fonts through inspect element seems to revert to futura pt, which isn't great, but is a little better.



i'd suggest a sans-serif font that's fairly wide. maybe montserrat, maybe raleway, maybe quicksand... idk, take a look around.

the front page is nice, i think an "enter site" button is fine. you're a photographer, so you want to put your best foot forward and have your work presented to a client straight away, and the background of this page is doing that. definitely put one of your best looking pictures here.

i would say you should get rid of your title being the first thing you see, or reduce it to "photographer" and put it in small text under your name or something. i'm assuming a link to this site will mostly fall into the hands of people who already know that you're doing photography, but i think a more blank entry page gives a viewer a larger incentive to enter and try to figure out what it is that you do. you also aren't immediately proclaiming yourself to be a "professional photographer," because even if you qualify as that, it's usually wise to avoid saying it until someone reaches your about me page. yknow, humility and all that

this is just a suggestion: since you're talking photos in several different "genres" (people, sports, animals, nature, city, etc.) you could turn your home page into several presentations of your work top to bottom that are just big links to other sections of the site. same thing as your other pages, basically. this also gives you an excuse to use parallax. here's what i'm talking about:



i wish i could link this site but it doesn't seem to exist anymore. also, i should note that if you did change your home page this way, you might actually look for a slightly different format for the other pages, since they look very much like this already.

on another note:



all six header buttons are usually one next to the other, but it doesn't take much page size changing to get buttons to sit on top of each other. it's not that bad, and after the page gets just a little narrower it turns into a hamburger menu which is all nice and good for mobile, but i've seen a fair bit of site design and this usually looks more like an accident than on purpose. idk what squarespace will let you change, but if you reduce the size of these buttons enough, you can avoid that stacking



again, just mentioning humility, get rid of "amazing." you can talk about your thoughts or motives for making a personal photo series, that's fine and i think it personalizes the site in a good way, but keep in mind that you're letting the person visiting your site decide whether your work is high quality or not

other than all that: i like the about page, i like how your work is presented in tabs. and i really like this photo in particular



good stuff

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Off Topic / Re: Furry Megathread v2 - Furry Things Here!

« on: April 05, 2018, 08:05:16 PM »

i know its kind of a stereotype but most of the fursuiter's i've seen are either a. loud and entitled or b. loveually hyperactive

i've definitely gotten wind of the stereotype that you're talking about, but it's a generalization and not a very accurate one

i'd guess the reason why you've seen them often is because being loud and obnoxious or obsessively loveual stands out among the rest. i've met a larger number of suiters who are on the quiet side and like attending cons in suits because it makes it easier to open up

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Creativity / Re: Game Design Megathread

« on: April 01, 2018, 04:10:55 AM »

sorry yeah i should clarify: celeste started as a pico8 project, but the team united and decided to create the more official version that i linked on steam.

the pico8 version of celeste is actually hidden inside of the modern celeste as a tribute to its "prototype," which is pretty cool.

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Creativity / Re: Game Design Megathread

« on: March 31, 2018, 07:36:09 PM »

huh???

pico8

i oughta look into this, and i had no idea fantasy consoles were just a thing in general
celeste was originally a game on pico8 so i know a little bit about what it does, but not much

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Off Topic / Re: Quick math question

« on: March 31, 2018, 04:10:25 AM »

no
yes

it's exactly the opposite of what kevso said here

yes, |x|≥8 is exactly the same as x≤-8 and x≥8
|x|≥8 would be all the numbers on the number line that you can plug in for x and still get something greater than or equal to 8. that's


no, -8≥x≥8 is exactly the opposite from x≤-8 and x≥8
-8≥x≥8 would be all the numbers on the number line between and including -8 and 8. x≤-8 and x≥8 is pretty much the opposite, except in both cases you include 8 and -8.



quick edit:
ok, i thought i misread something because i wouldn't expect placid to answer yes for the second question
yeah,

i mean i guess technically yes? but no one writes it this way in actual math because if you graph it out you're describing two separate intervals, (-inf, -8] and [8, inf) which makes more sense as two separate inequalities. we would use an expression like that for something like |x| <= 8.

this is right and i'm wrong
in fact the reason why they probably don't write -8≥x≥8 is because it'd be so easily confused for -8≤x≤8, which is exactly what i just did

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Creativity / Re: Game Design Megathread

« on: March 27, 2018, 09:25:35 PM »

While Programming requires you brain to think, Game design requires you brain to be creative

i actually agree with this, although i see why others are challenging how you stated it. they're definitely two distinct things

programming is a logical creativity, because what you have to work with are tools like if-statements, variables, values etc. that are as fundamentally concrete as say... mathematics

game design can be thought of as something larger that captures programming, as well as something much less concrete. it's a general creativity, because you have to consider how the code, the art, the sound, how everything ties together



for example, there are tons of different ways to program player movement into a game. you might decide to you want the player to slide, jump, roll, and all this other advanced tech. or maybe you only need to be able to walk left and right and nothing else. deciding what type of movement to use is part of design, but once you've designed the movement system, you get down to programming it.

the wikipedia pages related to all these areas, like game design, help make the distinction even more clear. remember that "game" doesn't just apply to what you play on a computer. game design exists for board games, card games, and even sports games, where programming would never be a part of the development process.

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Off Topic / Re: Question: Using an integral and Sine to calculate the volume of a sphere

« on: March 24, 2018, 11:25:29 AM »

generally when you learn about calculating anything involving a sphere with integrals, you first learn about cylindrical coordinates (r, θ, z) and spherical coordinates (ρ, θ, φ). these are just different ways of drawing up lines in 3D space that are like the cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) you already know.

the reason why you learn about these coordinate systems? because, among many other things, it makes calculating the volume of a sphere with integrals way nicer. we're talking about a volume, which is three-dimensional, so typically there's some way to write that as a triple integral. and in fact, you can generally write any calculation for two-dimensional area as a double integral, so that makes sense.

so here's what the equation ends up looking like when you want to calculate the area of a sphere with cartesian coordinates:


this is a huge pain. cylindrical coordinates, which would substitute slightly different terms into the x and y variables, will actually simplify this triple integral (although when you get into a calculus 3 class, these substitutions will make a lot more sense):


and spherical coordinates, which were basically born to do this, make it look like this:

and there's your sine.

(pictures shamelessly stolen from this pdf)

these equations can be expanded and compressed a thousand different ways to look different but actually still mean the same thing. in fact, all three of these equations can be dumbed down to V = (4/3)πr³ if you know what you're simplifying.

but your intuition is definitely right: in the most elegant way, a sine is involved in calculating the volume of a sphere.

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Add-Ons / Re: Bugle

« on: March 16, 2018, 05:38:48 PM »

oh no

theres, um, a perfectly good explanation for that.....

oh yeah? i'd love to hear your explanation conan

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Off Topic / Re: Furry Megathread v2 - Furry Things Here!

« on: February 25, 2018, 05:50:07 PM »

I don't get why they're being picky about the trans tag, there's a richardgirl tag and a cuntboy tag, and in terms of art, it's the same thing in the end, so having a 'trans' tag would be redundant, and their other reasoning for being on the 'Do not post' list is too vague to judge, so from my overall perspective, this is a sucky reason to have your art removed from the site

not that this reflects my own opinions, but richardgirl, cuntboy, herm, etc. are seen as derogatory terms in the transgender community (though you might've heard that before). it's the equivalent of calling a gay person a friend, although your opinion of how offensive that is might be different, too. it's not a perspective you see a lot of on the blockland forums, in fact its one that most people here reject and make fun of, and it's certainly not a majority of people's opinions on the internet, but it's a very strongly held opinion within the online lgbt/furry community. of course, you're allowed to form your own opinions about those words, so i'm just stating that i know that a lot of lgbt or in-support-of-lgbt artists are aware of that and it generally puts them off of wanting their art on e621, since the terms used on the site have been in use since 2007 when they weren't as significant as they are now.

in my personal opinion, it makes sense that the context and meaning of words change and sometimes you have to adapt to that. i know the platform e621 is on is capable of adjusting phrases with new definitions and aliases without making the old ones useless, so i think an administrative effort could be made by e6 to change what terms default to in respect for the artists that e6 relies on. should that happen? dunno, that's for the community and the e6 team to decide.

on the flip side: i think sorimori specifically tends to have a pretty flippant attitude about things online, where if something doesn't align with their personal preferences they're more likely to just block, ignore, and make jokes about something like it isn't a big deal rather than try to understand or compromise with people. it's the kind of stubborn where there wouldn't be any good in trying to convince them otherwise, which is a shame, but i guess that's just how it is. in the end, i'm not sure i agree with them putting themselves on the DNP list either.

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Off Topic / Re: A strange problem took over my computer, please help

« on: February 21, 2018, 07:38:03 PM »

do you remember what services you disabled?

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Off Topic / Re: I Need... A New Phone....

« on: February 12, 2018, 08:15:13 PM »

ill be the fifth person to mention it and say the oneplus 5t

unfortunately i'm not super versed on smartphones but i knew what i wanted in a phone, switched from a terrible old samsung phone to the 5t, so far it's been excellent. it is a pretty big phone, though

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Off Topic / Re: Weird-ass problem with new computer and world of warcraft

« on: December 24, 2017, 04:22:16 PM »

did you build this computer yourself? your problem is probably already beyond this, but i got crashing problems almost exactly like this with my first computer and it turned out i just hadn't been willing to push on the motherboard hard enough to seat the ram properly.

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General Discussion / Re: Stop badmouthing the game, you idiots

« on: December 23, 2017, 07:38:16 PM »

i think its neat how typically games that die just die but this game got negative reviews precisely because it died

i think you're right, but this thread has me wondering if the game is also dying because it gets so many negative reviews

it makes sense to me that if we encouraged people to play the game, and more people were joining than were silently leaving, the community would be changing. new content would get made by new people, new servers would go up and new players would arrive to fill them. we might start removing the label the community has for being so sour. you can see in really old threads on this forum that the community used to be different, and i don't think it's impossible for that to happen again. that's a lot of hope to put in something like a steam rating, but i'd be glad to at least aim for that.

i've kept myself from writing a review on blockland because i'd get too wordy and personal with it, but because of this thread i think i'll try to write a shorter one that just focuses on the gameplay, just to get it done

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Off Topic / Re: Favorite Albums of 2017?

« on: December 13, 2017, 09:33:35 PM »

also that's a b-sides to currents

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Off Topic / Re: sephiroth shot up his school

« on: December 10, 2017, 01:27:34 PM »

I just don't get how you can look at this and not see this as the disgusting result of the internet radicalizing some kid. This is some /pol/ tier rhetoric and I've seen so many people from here say stuff a lot like this.

Someone parroting of white supremacist/neo-national socialist rhetoric might just be doing it ironically/to be edgy, but when spaces on the internet are utterly bathed in everyone talking like that, it normalizes that rhetoric (and to some extent might impress those ideas into peoples' heads) and legitimately convinces lots of people. (some of whom are impressionable, psychopathic, and angry at the world) It's like how /pol/ went from ironically espousing neo-national socialist rhetoric to actually being a hub for white supremacy on the internet. It turns out on the internet, void of tone and context, sarcasm is hard to distinguish, and actual white supremacists will see recruiting potential in these kinds of spaces and establish themselves there. Not only that, but a lot of frustrated young men find themselves on places like 4chan and reddit, and that makes it especially scary.

I'm not going to claim to understand your motivations for being the weird troll that you are, but does stuff like this not give you pause?? I don't know the extent of your relationship with this guy, but think about if you two had been more involved with one another, and if you talked about this kind of stuff often. I would feel loving guilty for enabling this guy. I would feel complicit in his descent into committing a school shooting. To me it seems like the only thing separating us from that reality is circumstance - besides the ominous references to school shooting, this guy's talk about hedonism and degeneracy is right up your loving alley. And so many people talk and act like you do, and so many people dismiss your kind of behavior as harmless.

This story is a fresh reminder of what I've come to regret about this forum. This place is just a microcosm of the larger internet - it's a space where lots of kids and teenagers join constantly, and it's also extremely politically polarized. Lots of impressionable kids are forming their ideas about the world in places like this. To everyone reading this, please just think about what role your speech has in shaping the culture of this space and spaces like these. Things can only change if some significant percent of the active users be more active about preventing this kind of rhetoric.

i think this is really well worded and echoes a lot of my own thoughts