and a third: this may result in the sparsest “year in pictures” yet but i WILL get that dumb cartoon out. or outer than it was. I finally got annoyed enough at the beet beast’s flat face to try and make it more angular. i may have subconsciously been channeling kumquat when i should have been thinking about more of a rotund lope. maybe i was sub-subconsciously averse to that since I still have not concluded or explained the rotund elpse in the comic strip for the past few years / hour of comic strip time.
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and a second updirt: i underestimated how treacherous the larger character’s whiskers have been. the rudimentary way I have them drawn the first 30 seconds look more like “whiskers” but less like whatever weird bulb-ended things I decided to draw them like in the later 30 seconds more recently. And now I must choose one!
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indeef, now that I am looking at the animation from even two years ago it confounds me that i ever thought it was acceptable! even on the easy-to-draw purple imp, some of the movements are awful, and I have no choice but to improve them. I wish that meant I was good at animating now, but it only means I was worse at animating before.
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more of this. it feels to me like cheating to use this as an update since the effort I put into cleaning the animation and backgrounds is mostly obssive compulsive in nature and impossible to discern unless you have been seeing the dirtier yet once-acceptable contents constantly like I have. AND i still need to apply that habit to whatever perceptive dirtiness may have accumulated since the last time I had the first half open for editing.
as possibly previously mentioned, I needed to separate 3beet.fla into two files some time back, since it was taking prohibitively long to make saves, with auto-saves a particular nuisance but that I did not dare disable since flash has historically been the most crash-prone program I use as of 2006 when I stopped being able to use Ben Morris’ Doom Construction Kit in after I switched to a windows xp computer and could no longer use dos applications except through emulation and decided I finally needed to learn how Doombuilder worked.
goop lorp was that 17 years ago?? how old AM I? And this level still isn’t finished.
I definitely need to re-record the audio, even if it is destined to eventually be re-recorded by someone else because the line “roundabout this time” especially sounds bad. I don’t have underbreathed enunciation issues when I practice singing it in the bathroom so presumably I could do it better now. i could even just re do that part and paste it in where it belongs. But I haven’t yet because audio editing requires, from me, a different state of mind than tedious image editing does, and asking other people to record is several layers worse. But I try to optimistic; I always believe a situation can get worse.
I tried to make these in recognition of my mother’s birth day since she likes pictures like this more than the regular garbage I come up with, especially these days when I get so obsessive about my real projects that even basic updates take weeks or months, so the stupid characters that I draw based on internet people or worse seem like all I am doing. I need to show once in a while that I can do far worse.
I am not sure who this is, but it looks like trouble
and now we have bigger problems. whoever these people are, they seem to be faced with challenges that I feel fortunate to avoid and I admire their attempts to persevere despite those challenges.
11-23-2023
oh nuts I totally lost track of what day this was updated. i had best force something out
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yes this again, but now all its movements are filled in! not all fully shaded and I would like to make them look more cohesive and fish-like, but for now i can focus more on the beet crony. and also displace that text heap from last week that was not meant to be such a heap or have a week’s worth of prominence. i occasionally worry that this blue creature looks too much like the gobliins 2 character winkle even though i feel like i have considered and dismissed this before. i don’t want it to be yellow because then it looks related to the larger creature. green and red feel too generic, though. meepwhile grey and brown are too boring and orange simply doesn’t suit it.
winkle has a similar skin tone, head point and sharp nose, although its nose is not a beak, it lacks a tail and wears clothing. winkle has a mischievous nature and of the two heroes is the one more likely to annoy another character and be physically abused on account of it. Although the frog in my example yells at both of them. I used to collect sprites from this game a long time ago in windows 95 before the dosbox emulator existed, and goblins 3’s odd use of the video mode made them too scrambled to grab when windowed, but the collection was one of few pictures I accidentally deleted! I attempted to remake it via proper screenshots once I knew how to do that but I did not feel as inspired and consequently it is lacking in gobliins 2 poses.
indeed
Sheeran was exonerated for copyright infringement, or something of that nature, supposedly. I certainly hope so, I can’t fathom that he heard songs this bad and decided THESE are what I will lie about having made.
But that is fine if YOU like them, if you actually bothered to read any of this. You are real to me and i appreciate you for that.
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JOHN LEGEND
AN EVENING
WITH
A NIGHT
OF SONGS AND STORIES
when I saw this last week my eyes rolled so hard i almost went off the road. It is trying so hard to seem folksy and humble that it is obviously neither. he gives his stage name as “legend” for fleep’s beep. yet he isn’t creative enough to not be john.
I went to the website for foxwhoops (the casino at which this event is to occur) trying to find a picture of the billboard since, at that time, I thought it would be unsafe to take a photograph while driving, and later realized it was just ineffectual. but THAT says
JOHN LEGEND
AN EVENING WITH JOHN LEGEND
which comes across as somewhat less pretentious, if redundant.
However it shows the same “humble piano player with back to viewer in monochrome” photograph, and makes sure I know how many egots he won. and also that he is the first African American Man to win one
obviously I am not in the target audience, since even with Johnny Leg’s disco graphy in front of me, I don’t recognize any songs. That may even be in his favor to a degree but I still don’t want to pay twenty four thousand dollars or less for the right to hear them in person.
it reminded me of when I ended up on a terrible “screenrant” page last week
“the room is terrible” says conan o’brien
what a vague bizarre headline. it tricked me. it was designed to trick people and shove ads at them, not inform or entertain them. i disapprove of that business model. then the content of the story is like:
conan o’brien, the iconic, award-winning talk show host, sat down with the iconic, award-winning musician ed sheeran to discuss the iconic, award-winning cartoon series the simpsons
the simpsons, the iconic, award-winning cartoon series, has had many writers over the years, such as the iconic, award-winning talkshow host conan o’brien, who sat down with iconic, award-winning musician ed sheeran recently.
ed sheeran, the iconic, award-winning musician, recently sat down with the iconic, award-winning talkshow host conan o’brien and turned the tables on the iconic, award-winning talk show host to ask a question about the iconic, award-winning animated series “the simpsons.”
the phrase “award winning” instantly turns me into a skeptic if I wasn’t already. It is very much a phrase for marketing and for bad writers to fill space with. Do you have nothing to say? Just verbally lick the hindquarters of celebrities and list off their awards and other celebrities they have met, and you’ll have six intellectually barren paragraphs to surround your one scrap of new frivolous information in doh time. I even like Conan and have taken inspiration from him in some ways but I know from direct experience of hearing an offensively low effort generic bad song, looking it up out of pure anger and learning Sheeran was responsible, multiple times, that Ed is aggressively talentless.
breaking news: marginally talented irritating charlatans have a vested interest in keeping each other’s gravy trains going
I might become a “flat earth” adherent just to protest this piece of global news.
Everything about this guy has the aim of conditioning people to accept and pay for mediocrity. In 2019 in a london tube station I saw an enormous poster presented in this exact manner, presumably regarding the same product, but I did not photograph it since I didn’t want to seem as if i approved. also i was following nine other people, hauling excessive quantities of baggage and likely holding somebody else’s coffee cup and/or water bottle with the hand that should have been free and definitely wasn’t going to hold everyone up for dumb old ed sheeran when he doesn’t even care.
Why doesn’t he? And why should thousands of people trying to get to their trains have to be told that he doesn’t care? What he DOES care about is getting his name and the name of his mediocre cronies listed as frequently as possible.
He cares so little that he just “drops” shoddy songs and expects me to pick them up. I appreciate him linking himself to bruno mars though since the last time I heard a bad sheeran song in the supermarket I assumed Mars was responsible and only when seeking proof learned it was sheeran. it is extraordinary that I can see photographs of them beside a supposed musician wearing a cowboy hat and I complain about them instead. I assume the headline has been truncated and he doesn’t simply have the stage name “Chris,” but I am not angry enough at him to look it up.
I can appreciate that Mr. Legend can play a pianoforte instrument. I do not know if he does that especially well but there is definitely POTENTIAL there that Ed’s brand of bland unaccompanied acoustic guitar sappy moaning lacks. My Sheeran references happen to be several years old since it was precisely encountering songs like his that extra-emphasized the need for me to carry earphones in my personal satchel at all times. even if I do not take the satchel out of the house for a few days and need the ear phones for other tasks, I always store them in the bag because when I DO go to a place where I am at risk of hearing those songs, I WILL bring the bag, and if the ear phones fail to be in it I will quite lose my mind when struck by unblockable audio awfulness in public. It happened this summer with the beyonk “halo” song and that was hopefully enough to scare me straight for another few years. That and Sheeran’s too cohOOold outside crumbling like pASTEries are absolutely the worst songs I have ever heard that I remember right this moment. But Sheeran is a man with white celtic lineage similar to my own so there is no cultural or social “privilege” anyone can accuse me of having benefat from that he didn’t also so I feel more confident in declaring that he is absolutely horrible and without merit. Also Beyonce can dance or could at one point in her career. I don’t think I’ve seen a picture of Sheeran verifiably standing up.
look at that smirk. why stop with one cut?
hey guys we’re all unblemished rich privileged chums who get paid to be lazy together and call ourselves beautiful. I hope everyone involved with this dies immediately. But I know they didn’t because I saved this picture in January 2021 and I know at least Sheeran is still alive since the screenrant article that mentioned him was from more recently. It also didn’t mention him being permanently scarred by a sword attack so I assume that didn’t amount to anything either.
in retrospect I think he had no involvement with this but the convention of listing as many singers who need their faces looked as possible in the title confounded me initially. I only see two in the picture so the other two in the title are there for name-drop purposes foremost. And also perhaps so you don’t assume it is the beautiful people marilyn manson song, even though I would be more likely to listen to it if I thought it was the case that these ai-generated-looking forklogans were covering that raspy absurdity than whatever low energy misery Ed approved of, assuming “Khalid” didn’t bring anything new to that table, and really Sheeran has no financial incentive to allow that and I have no auditory incentive to consider that he might have. It might haven taken less time to check the song than to explain why I did not, but I would then be at risk of remembering it which I prefer to reserve the right not to. Good night!
I presume accidentally getting cut by nighto is even more embarrassing.
november 8 updeet: another wordy site entry is coming, which means it is late
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generally I am disinterested in decorating but halloween suits the awkward old toys that tend to accumulate here fairly well.
There were also some proper decorations but I did not take any decent pictures of those.
however I have a shot of this rotting pumpkin that my niece carved or assisted in carving. she had kicked it off the front steps to get rid of it on account of its recent mold harboring but I thought that made it eligible for an upgrade to the front of the walkway.
the kermit is debatably creepier without the mask but that would not fit on most of the display candidates