janiaury 2 updorf:
the video is done-ish but the higher bit rate or whatsit picture is taking substantially longer to render which means I can’t check it and notice stuff wrong with it as quickly and then try again and notice more stuff wrong with it. indeed much of today and yesterday was spent dealing with capturing moving bits of “watch out for dopes” in Open Broadcasting Software, and it still looks bad. I may need to revert to recording gzdoom at 1024×768; (I tried 1280×720 for this) and rendering at 1280×720 (this time was 1920×1280) until some point that will not occur when I have a more powerful computer since I am not interested in windows post-7 and having a non-portable computer is not an option under my general circumstances. fiddle deep feep. for everything else I do it is plenty capable enough.
obviously i don’t need the final render size until it is the FINAL render but part of my personal broken process is continually thinking I am done when i am not. It doesn’t work if I KNOW i am not done.
and at this point it doesn’t reduce the render time much, if at all, since I have used larger input files that in the past due to my expectation of exporting larger, so they still struggle to get squeezed through the mixer.
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january 1 2025: ah noip i definitely did not finish, but it turned out to only be about 87% my fault
if I work on something for too long, the task becomes somewhat abstract and i forget what my goal is. in this case it is, or SHOULD be, to show what i already made, not to show anything new. but since i put new stuff in it previous years, i thought if I can’t put something equally interesting in here it should at least be equally new, and then i have spent too long on that even though it isn’t impressive, just new.
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december 31 2024 updeh: my year end video definitely will not be ready before the year handover, and far too much of the contents are garbage, but it would be culturally inaccurate otherwise.
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a rather annoying picture featuring characters that I historically have not exhibat here but also have decreasingly put effort into distancing myself from, considering their regular, if hurried appearances in my last few year-end “art” videos and being directly visible in a recent pathetic snake comic strip based on an absurd event that might have featured different heap leaps of logic than it did if I had still cared about hiding them.
As I have mentioned in the past, and which is still true: my “normal” characters are agendered, not male; gender doesn’t necessarily exist where they come from, and neither does christmas, so my winter-themed images lack specific allusions to it. People assume those beasts are male since they have been conditioned to see male as default in the absence of any specific labels, and I do not take enough actions to distance those creatures from normal expectations. And i surely do not help that perception with this mob of heavily stereotyped figures. However I have created the problem of pictures of them existing and this one is almost socially acceptable despite that and I have nothing else new since I have set to assembling my year-end video (which will, as before, featured hurried glimpses of these leg-emphasizers) so there is little sense in not using it. Likewise, my previous areligious winter gathering pictures are presumed to be christmas themed, but that is not a problem I invented. Or if it is, I do not remember it. It may even be the case that I have received money for pictures featuring half of these characters, which isn’t necessarily true of individual drawings of my once regularly-appearing weirdos. And it would be more if I included similar “characters” here that only got drawn once. Which doesn’t mean it is right, but does prove that I can get away with it. The me of 2006 would be ashamed, but the me of 2006 also could not drive a car and assumed it would be famous by ten years before now doing what it was then doing, and was just as likely to be told it was sexually attracted to something that it wasn’t and unworthy of life on account of that by sociopaths sometimes not even over the internet.
page 4-1 of this. fewer panels than on previous pages, which seemed necessary to have the fewer, consequently larger panels that are here make any sense due to how many characters I found it necessary to cram into them. They may not make MUCH sense but I have options for dealing with that once I figure out how at a later point without having to disrupt the layouts of subsequent pages as was usually the case with altering earlier sections in the four row format.
The next page will probably also be like this one, as I initially set them up as a single four row page, but after that i have no idea about the shape of to any degree, including the future of the pointy pog-lookalike whose origin is in my terrible old 1995 comic strip. i needed something to incapacitate the gnomes here but did not decide what until i drew it, as the “plan” only concerned the aftermath of them being incapacitated, not the incapacitator.
the first frame (of the new page, not the grey mess above here that I cannot attempt to explain) also made me consider that i showed a bunch of “gardening robots” an entire numeration ago but never bothered to draw in any garden.
I was gladdish to see that apparently i did bother to add in some mild shrubbery at whichever page this is but i have no recollection of intending that as the “garden.” Brubaglid, the landlord or custodian or angry parking lot person of otherwise non-specific role could simply have a screwy concept of what a garden is but the presence of numerous robots should at least suggest some task for which they are used, however poorly.
i also never drew the robots again. i intended to have a scene where they had a meeting and complained to each other about their circumstances but i either never wrote it down and forgot it or wrote it somewhere that i never found again.
I drew them in here, THEN remembered that they would still be broken so I removed them, THEN i saw that one of them escaped mostly intact, so that one I unremoved. But it ends up being so small here that its nature is unclear.
Anyway brubaglid may go around to other properties than this one and may have more robots than the ones elpse damaged, so so so so sudio i hate that song. I heard that at the supermarket once in 2022 and it is about 95% studio production. A towering heap of 80s noises and reverb effects loudly fighting each other trying to cover up a terrible song. I was offended by what utter dreck and a waste it was. Phil Collins contributes almost nothing to it. Any name brand dorko singer could take his place there. And the album cover is literally just Phil Collins’ face. Not even his whole head. It should be producer Hugh Padgham’s fingers and a bunch of dials on the cover. And the SINGLE cover is literally the same picture of a face again with different text and with the face colored blue, as would eventually occur to any mass of body parts that you severed from the circulatory system. Friggidee diddledee feep.
ADDITIONALLY I have crammed in some vegetation here and augmented at least what was on the linked old page. i can’t do anything about the pages in books that have already been printed though knowing me i will probably attempt to update them to some degree regardless, even though the shape of the building also changed and maybe the less i try to retroactively bring into coheesion, the more what I don’t bother with is excusable.
The important thing is that I got this out before the year changed. I don’t have time to think about why that is important. Now I have ten days to make a dumb video that hopefully amounts to more than the absence of what I didn’t do this year, and will still take longer than that even if it amounts to less.
Chen Gong, I would feel a lot safer if you stopped shouting at me
chen gong was fairly reasonable for most of existence but once he touched that pile of scrolls he lost his mind
yes, maybe you should TALK to them instead of what you are presently doing! or even better ask someone else to do it.
Pang De was also fairly reasonable for most of existence but then lost his own mind after considering he is perpetually living and reliving mostly the same role in the bloodiest civil war in history for the entertainment of others
it now costs more money to buy ten pieces of chicken and five biscuits than it did to buy fourteen pieces of chicken with five biscuits a few years ago before points were introduced. And this is the COUPON; the regular menu price is worse. And consider that biscuits are essentially just a glob of dough with salt that they tossed in a microwave for 20 seconds and probably only cost them two cents to make. That is the nature of inflation; prices go up and never down. I accept that it happens but I ought to have a choice about whether i LOVE it.
I also guarantee you the re-election of trump isn’t going to make points or anything else any more lovable.
some things are destined to be hated