Messages

46

Creativity / Re: Blockland Crafts

« on: August 24, 2023, 01:59:32 PM »

One other experiment I tried was taking the white shrink plastic (which is the cheapest kind in most art stores) and trying to glue printed or drawn on cardstock onto it. It didn't give me the results I wanted but I think with enough care, it could yield really good results.

It was also extremely hard getting the sizing right.

I kind of took an outline of the assets I used and made a black outline which I printed out to be quite big, and then I would trace the shape onto the plastic and bake it.

Then I took the same assets and shrunk them by 80% (the plastic shrinks to 20% of its original size). This came out sloppy but surprisingly they were almost the exact size and with enough patience you could probably get them looking great.

If you were drawing onto the cardstock, then you'd just trace the already shrunk plastic and cut it out and then color it. I did this for a set of vampire lips that came out looking like a legit magnet you'd get at 5below or something.



The sides are extremely rough because I plan on sanding the uneven sides down, but haven't yet. The glaze also really muddled the ink, so you'd have to first glue the paper down with some kind of quick drying glue and then put a very thin layer of glaze.

This is what I did for the fox and noob face, and it turned out pretty clean. The MCR ones got soaked because I tried to do something that you'd typically do with modge podge, soaking the paper and then laying it down onto the plastic. I doubt the Spotify code will work so again, I'd glue them down and then use a very thin layer of glaze.

This method is unbelievably pointless if you can afford other plastic, a variety that can be printed on exists, but it's a lot more expensive. Just look for "inkjet" on the shrinky dink's packaging. I used this a lot as a kid, works well but does slightly alter the colors depending on what variety you use.

47

Creativity / Blockland Crafts

« on: August 24, 2023, 01:58:30 PM »

I recently got kind of bored with drawing so i've started messing with polymer clay, shrink plastic, epoxy resin, etc.

i decided since i got back into playing Blockland, i would make all kinds of BL stuff. Obviously I have no intentions to sell any of it, but if i can find a way to give some of it out i will.

I'll be honest; because i haven't been doing physical crafts for a long time, i'm not happy with them like the way i'm happy with my drawings. A lot of them look kind of bad but i'm posting them anyway because it's fun.


So far I only made 2 rounds of magnets and some keychain prototypes, but I think they came out really interesting so i decided to share

Here is the first round of shrinky dink magnets. The acrylic coating i use for glazing didn't seem to stick very well and even looked like stuff because it got foggy and cracked. I'll probably use epoxy resin next time around. The coloring also looked stuffty because i only colored on one side of the plastic



The second round came out much cleaner because I made sure to color both sides with a pencil. (Prismacolor pencil with the extra sanded variety yielded the best results because of the soft pencil lead on the rough surface). Although they still came out extremely rough. However, progress.



The wrench and zombie came out amazingly. I was super careful and made sure to put a very thin layer of glaze on it. The B logo probably would've came out better if I was more careful with the glaze.

Another thing is that the magnet strips had really bad adhesive so i had to painstakingly super glue them on. (You can actually see where i got super glue on some of the magnets by being dumb lol) 


Here's all of the magnets I made with shrink plastic so far.



They all seem to have the same issue (the glaze going on too thick and then cracking when it shrinks). The only way I could sort of fix it was doing another layer of glaze and then scraping it with a card. This  worked for the Eye of Cthulhu magnet, but it didn't really turn glossy, it kind of became lumpy and even foggy in some spots. From now I'll probably only use the glaze for clay and paper crafts


The clay crafts are the ones I am extremely happy with, they came out how I wanted. except the noob face is having a stroke XD



The already painted ones are sort of "prototypes" for the keychains I wanted to make, and the unpainted ones are going on my keys when finished.


Supplies I used:

• Crafter's Collection white polymer clay
• Apple barrel acrylic paint
• Liquitex acrylic medium (clear glossy) for the glaze
• Grafix shrink film (both in white and in clear sanded)
• Prismacolor colored pencils
• Astrobrights white cardstock
• "Adhesive" magnet strip
• Krazy Glue

WARNING: Do not put loving acrylic-anything into an oven, it will catch on fire. Only use acrylic on stuff you already baked.

Liquitex is pretty good on clay, it's water resistant and doesn't get too easily forgeted up by the sun or extreme temps, it's not the best though. It was annoying to use with shrinky dinks unless I used a thin layer.

Epoxy resin (UV or time setting) is absolutely the superior gloss. It's just expensive and is bullstuff to work with.

The metal jewelry findings that I use for keychains can be bought at literally any store that sells hardware and/or craft stuff, even dollar stores. The little screw in hooks are often called screw eyes, the long ones without screws are called eye pins. I typically use screw eyes with smaller keychains because they hold better when glued in due to the threading (i believe this is what it's referred to).

However for bigger keychains I will often use the long eye pins.... just make sure you use a really loving strong water bonding adhesive such as krazy or gorilla glue, they will slip out with literally anything else. It can be off-brand, it just needs to be the kind that binds from moisture because that stuff is strong. If you get it on your skin or glue your fingers together, you can remove it with most kinds of oil such as baby oil.

If you're an environmental person or just straight up busted; I believe you can also recycle plastic scrap and use it as shrink plastic. Almost every plastic container will tell you what "type" of plastic it is made of. Some shrink plastic is quite literally the same plastic used in some food containers, just be careful and do your forgetin research... don't gas yourself or burn your goddamn house down like a loving idiot. Also get a fan when working with any craft that needs to be baked or cured, it's probably toxic.

48

Off Topic / Re: uWu DaddyBaddy-chan~ >o< :3 :3

« on: August 24, 2023, 12:02:45 PM »

what we can conclude is everyone wubz baddydaddy because according to scientific evidence and statistics backed with a source that 100% of users who voted said YES BADDYDADDY >O<

49

Off Topic / Re: I feel like a completely different person

« on: August 24, 2023, 12:00:55 PM »

OMG you mean to say you went through the trials and tribulations and grew as a person?? I've never heard of that before!!!! No way :OOOOO

IKR zomg becuz im so quirky n randum xD :O

50

Games / Terarria 1.4.5 is coming this year

« on: August 23, 2023, 06:33:27 PM »

Terraria is getting a pretty cool content update that will include a cross-over with dead cells. i haven't played dead cells yet but it looks really interesting.

I tend to really like the games they crossover with, which is actually how i discovered stardew valley and corekeeper.

but anyway supposedly this is really the last update (yeah, okay)

out of all the things that get added to Terraria I really wish there was a sand bomb... i use the dirt bombs to fill in holes all the time, so why tf do i need to manually place sand?! but that's such an oddly specific thing, i doubt it'd be added unless someone suggests it.

one of the features that was teased is supposedly a voice slider, which will probably be good for female characters (which sound like they're getting raped each time they take damage). better whips as well, which i hope will make summoning more worth it as a class and not just a secondary thing.

but out of all the features we know are coming, I really am excited for the new seed menu, which is apparently going to let you mix special seeds to create unique worlds.

i kind don't like the secret seeds so i hope the ability to mix and match my world will change that (like i can mix "for the worthy" and "drunk" seeds to create the most torturous, awful, insane, forget you kind of difficulty). despite the fact i always get stuck on lunatic cultist and end up giving up on the world, i really enjoy the high difficulties.

51

Games / Re: does anyone here use DPI cycling while in-game

« on: August 23, 2023, 06:06:57 PM »

it's not awful in 2D games

occasionally i use this feature in terraria because when building i dont want my mouse jumping all over the place, but in any other game it's super annoying. i tend to keep my cursor at high speed.

i would turn it off but i get a lot of use out of during creative endeavors, it's nice to have in blender.

52

Off Topic / Re: I feel like a completely different person

« on: August 23, 2023, 12:15:26 PM »

that means you have grown as a person.

im in the same boat. I wish i handled past relationships with friends and exes differently. mental maturity back then was definitely lackluster compared to now. wish I couldve said how I felt to people I cared about back when they were still around.

i feel this lol

i never really understood the saying "hindsight is 20/20" until i was about 21, but still had some issues up until like the year or so. i dont know if we were just late bloomers emotionally, but it feels like growing has slapped me in the face recently

a combination of moving (thus knowing i'll never see a lot of these people again) and coming back on here that really struck all the right nerves. im still having realizations even now, as recently as this month, regarding stuff i should get together.

53

Off Topic / Re: Do you guys ever reread old topics that made you laugh?

« on: August 23, 2023, 11:14:07 AM »

And look how many he fooled. He really played the part rip tony.


I guess now we got alyx but ur kinda like Walmart brand tony no offence.

that's a compliment, i'd say more like dollar general

this account is mine, until his old boomer ass takes it back, and he probably won't because he's too damn old >:3

54

Off Topic / I feel like a completely different person

« on: August 23, 2023, 10:42:34 AM »

i dont even really know why i felt like saying this, but i woke up feeling like i should post this

i don't know if it's my age, or the fact i moved out of the inner city, but within the past 2-5 years i have grown and felt like i changed completely

i was absolutely insane and looking back i realize that i kind of treated people like stuff, burned bridges and just was completely batstuff to anyone i could get close to. i had too much pride in the past to admit i was wrong, but i know now i was a crazy bitch lol

when i look back at my past, i actually do realize there was a lot of self destructive behavior and a lot of lashing out on my end. i was also pretty manipulative whenever i felt like i needed attention, which i definitely feel guilty for from time to time.

i'm only bringing this up for context and closure; i had extremely bad habits, made bad life choices when i lived in the city, i didn't get along with my parents, and had some weird stuff happen to me and got really sick when i was young etc. this all probably contributed to my personality issues but i was still an starfish. i used these kinds of things to excuse being crazy and having bad habits for a really long time

i realize now that my life being imperfect was not a reason to mentally abuse other people.

the only reason i forgive myself for these things is because i was a troubled teen, but that doesn't mean i don't acknowledge it was wrong and that i was a jerk to people i actually still care about. i dont feel like i have to hate anymore.

this morning i sat down and talked to my husband, and we both miss a lot of people we used talk to on here. he misses his old friends, and so do i.

so i suppose the point of this thread was to say that i'm sorry to the people i hurt

55

Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game

« on: August 23, 2023, 09:58:46 AM »

i actually agree with the fact that badspot shouldn't have been obligated to moderate the game but i think he forgeted up by sort of marketing it to children. blockland was never explicitly a kids' game, but it did have some marketing that made it appealing to kids.

to be fair, a lot of it probably couldnt have been helped, kids like legos.... but he should've have had a stronger disclaimer in regards to the lack of moderation and the very 18+ community.

from what i can gather, he was only up front about the fact he can't really moderate people's servers and that it would've been difficult to enforce rules when confronted by an upset parent, and was really crass about it too (badspot's mailbag).

after such incidents he should have been clear that this game is not moderated, not meant for kids, and that if you want your kids to be able to play it, the moderation is on your shoulders, he should've have put a disclaimer, written in layman's terms. of course it wouldn't mitigate the entire problem, because a lot of us were secretive about it. my mom is slightly nuts and would've actually cut the internet off altogether if she found out the type of community this game had.

however it would've been more professional on badspot's part. the game should have been kept within its own crowd and never should've had children mixed in at all.

personally i also wouldn't hold this against badspot though, he was probably overwhelmed or some stuff... this was also during a time where censorship, kids using the internet, online moderation and even video game ratings were relatively new. nobody really understood what the internet even was.


as for the game dying... Blockland really is wasted protentional. i think the game was given up on a little too quickly... but i also do not blame badspot for "giving up" or just feeling completely exhausted with the games' existence. i definitely cannot speak for another person but this is just what i assume after watching him glue and tape BL back together for years: it seems like it was a passion project, but the passion fizzled out before it could be improved upon and reach its full protentional without content created by the community.

i really don't wanna call him lazy, because i dont know how much bullstuff this madman had to endure to actually get the game barely functioning. despite the fact BL had small development team, i believe the first few years were solely badspot's creation and he took a majority of the work.

as an artist, i completely understand getting chained to large projects and just abandoning them because there's either no hope in fixing it (like it would be easier to scrap and start over) or you just burned yourself completely and spend years not even touching that same hobby.

i also recently started to delve into video game development and i absolutely cannot believe the actual hell developers go through. it's like all the torture of creating art (the insecurity, indecision, motivation issues) but now bundled with technical problems which is a recipe for immense suffering...  and the games i make are stupidly simple.

 i cannot imagine or comprehend the kind of patience required to develop a loving 3D sandbox with online multiplayer, maps, lighting, add on support, saving data, etc. no wonder he's batstuff insane

video games are art, and blockland seems like a compulsive sketch, which is absolutely raw and beautiful... but some of those sketches never become paintings. you can try to make them into paintings, but you might end up with a mess of paint all over your beautiful sketch and you just say "forget it, the next painting will be better." Putting the sketch away or allowing someone else to work and build off of that sketch sometimes happens (BL rebuilt, brickadia, etc).

of course being creative can be rewarding and fun, and even an outlet for mental illness, but it can also 100% become a form of self torture.

56

Off Topic / Re: Rawr XD XD!! 1!! O_O

« on: August 20, 2023, 03:12:58 PM »

If this was intentionally eye bait for the "user has been banned" that would be very funny. but seriously I wouldn't push it, someone was recently banned for posts like this

1 D0 1T BECUZ I AM EPIC N RANDUM N 1 W4NT 2 RAVE!! XD

>O< >_< IT IT"S N0T L1kE I C4RE B0UT GETTIN LE BANNED ｏ( ><)o (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞

B-BAKA BL0CKL4ND FORUMZ XD
\
M0RE LIEK BAKALAND F0RUMZ XD XD (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞

BAKALAND FORUMS

57

Off Topic / Re: Rawr XD XD!! 1!! O_O

« on: August 19, 2023, 09:09:01 PM »

every1 is cyber bul1y me! >:O D:< FUACK  U HATERZ
dont mess wit me espcoeaially when full m00n bitxchezzz becuz i have 2 forgetin sidez COLD HEARTED KILLER \
N SWEET ANGLE

im gunna cut my forgetin wristz an h4unt 4LL U BITCHEZZZ XD >:3 whil i listen 2 bl00d on the d4nce fl00or XDDDDDD

U DONT W4NNA SEE THE BEAZT THAT LIVES INIDE ME STUPID SLUTZ

*pours bleach n vodka on mah self and lights on fire and BEC0MEZ LIZZY DA K1LLER (whcih iz like jeff the k1ller but 9000x more p0werful)*




U WONT LIKE ME WHEN IM ANGRY N I SN4P

58

Off Topic / Re: Rawr XD XD!! 1!! O_O

« on: August 18, 2023, 11:00:53 PM »

Are you special needs?

ur a tr0ll becuz th3 only sp3ci4l n33d i h4v is to R4VVVEEE!111! XD o_O o_o O_O



XD XD!1!

i r n0t r3tarded unlez u m3an liek DA EPIC KEWL KIND liek black eyed peazzz XD XD !

t0t411y D0PE!!2!@

59

Off Topic / Re: blockland: the community that killed the game

« on: August 18, 2023, 06:16:02 PM »

i feel a strong bias towards gex because this place is filled with furries and scalies

we need to observe the ass and not the species

60

Off Topic / Rawr XD XD!! 1!! O_O

« on: August 18, 2023, 03:15:11 PM »

  O_o

H4I !! XD RAWR (which men i luv u in dnisoaur bt also meanz haiii!!!!!))) i f33l extr4  le randum 2day lul XDD

so im goin 2 b EP1C !!

n s4y cum 2 teh le darksidez cuz we hab c00kiez n lotz 0f Hot Topic (EPCI ST0RE BTW!! warnin: /!\ R34L EMO ONLY!! no p0zerz)

otherw1ze if u dunt succum 2 my evil wrath :p :P :P den u WILL gt PWNED N00B!!!1

XD XD random mode off!!!: >_> >.< >w<

on n0ez!!! random mode - turning on!!11!:

randum level: OVAA 9000!!!! XD

O_O <_< O_o
 
so if ur n0t a fuuckin n0oob 0r p0zer (uihm wuld b an epic F4IL!!!!!!11!!) u can 4dd me on myspace :D epic@!!  btw im super randum XD

every1 likes curage wolf but he is G4YYYY i like INSANITY WOLF bcuz hes crazy n randum like me!!!!11 XD :p :3 >:3 >:3