9-5-2021 3isham oaf now the comments aren’t working? I don’t expect them but I happened to glance down there on another entry that already had some and nothing but errors there. what a dumb few weeks!
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9-5-2021 329am the comments work now but they are in the ugly default style since I had to copy code out of the “default” theme that updated itself during the overall wordpress “update” that I didn’t want but thought would fix the site when it was broken, which it didn’t even do! hopefully I can work out the syntax of whatever “ereg” got replaced with since that suddenly being “deprecated” is what broke the comments form and have slightly-less-ugly comment boxes again but I am tired and have other things to do! and I just noticed another broken thing in the side-bar. beets
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this is one of the more eerily fake-looking “photographs” I have encountered. Have you ever seen water which looks like this? The blue is as if somebody dumped a load of toilet bowl cleaner pods upstream. This looks like an amateur colored pencil drawing or a video scene from a playstation game. This looks like the ghost of deceased water.
i tried turning it grayscale and and the substance still looked like glowing crest toothpaste more than water, particularly on the left. which makes me more inclined to believe this picture initially had no water in it, rather than more naturally colored water. and yet where it makes contact with standing water on the lower right looks real. the web page it came from only identifies it as “free stock photo” without any context of where it might have been taken or what was done to it.
the links at the side of the page indicate that for a fee you too can try to put water where it doesn’t belong and color it unnaturally. I don’t know why you would, what satisfaction you would get from making an ugly fake scene from elements of real ones, but other people are already doing it and likewise looking to charge for access.
even the blatantly blue-dyed water at one of the numerous inexplicably pirate-themed miniature golf courses I saw in Queensbury, New York didn’t look that queentoony.
this PHOTOGRAPH is terrible; I may have taken it from across the street or behind a fence. it was the same day as this borage. I didn’t use this photograph in fact because the result wasn’t as cartoony in the picture as it was in person. Stock photography vendors clearly see this as a pressing problem.
AND I was looking up pictures of water tumbling down mountains because to make a long story spork i couldn’t solve my computer problem with what I ordered and waited for, so have ordered and need to wait for something else. Consequently I am still using the backup computer, and consequentlier STILL haven’t finished that rygar picture, of which a tiny, almost irrelevant part of the drawing features just the category of scenery that I was speaking of, and consequentliest I wanted references for it.
for really no good reason I thought I should try and incorporate less-cartoon-looking scenery even though every figure amidst the scenery is exactly as cartoonesque as in the dumb nintendo game. ultimately it comes down to I never developed an instinct for what corners of realism can be cut and still have a corny fake drawing represent the real version. this applies especially heavily to blue-colored water which always looks bad and fake to me except where it naturally occurs.
Notice how the recent changes don’t improve the image but does make the characters present that are more important yet that I have not gotten around to checking on now look worse than before compared to the increase in background detail.
I thought I wasn’t doing justice to THIS. Even though the whole reason I like Rygar imagery is because of the specific weird, often stupid look it has. Why shouldn’t I interpret it literally? The answer to that doesn’t matter since I already didn’t and am more likely to spend another day working around a bad decision than revert it.
some bad decisions I have spent decades working around.
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Frimpinheap sez:
is this broken right now?
pindohodo sez:
So your website developed a glitch? I have to say that phony waterfall looks glitched as well, and the blue tint is the least of its problems! It just looks off, like it’s made of something more viscous than water and definitely not something you’d like to dip your toes into. That little chunk of Rygar real estate with the similar water feature and the pinecone shrine that you’ve painted looks far more appealing than that slimy blue waterfall and the weirdly shiny boulders surrounding it. I’m guessing the effect was created by a Photoshop filter? It sure looks like it.
Well, hopefully this comment box still works :”)
Frimpinheap sez:
something went wrong or got switched off, or it being switched off suddenly became a factor about two weeks ago. I couldn’t figure out what was going on, and amidst that installed the latest version of wordpress, this content management system. that didn’t change anything and eventually I had to ask my hosting company asmallorange for help, and thankfully the person there was able to alter the ONE tiny little thing in one of my configuration files that was screwing it all up. HOWEVER the wordpress update created a heap of new problems independent of that! I ought to be able to downdate it back to the previous version but once a technology system breaks something on purpose they will find a way to make sure it gets broken for everyone.
I ended up diddling even MORE with those shiny rocks after I got the replacement computer a few days ago! The rocks look fine here but in the full size document and with the 2880×1620 pixel display I have now they suddenly looked rather inadequate!
oh no is that one of those ugly meme sweaters in your linked image?
pindojojo sez:
Well let’s see…The publishing date for the original story upon which that screencap is based was 1998, so it actually predates meme sweaters by quite a bit. IMO that was one of the better looking outfits from that storyline, and certainly one of the only ones that a person might realistically wear in public without people thinking he was the whole can of mixed nuts.
It’s good that you have extra pixelage now, but I think the trick to dealing with faraway background elements is not to get them too overly detailed, so don’t you be getting too carried away with them! I believe all those weird critters, monsters and other Rygoids are more important than any rocks and rivulets stuck in the background. Well, that’s just my take on it, not that you asked!
All I can see wrong with the website is that the Most Recent Comments section of the sidebar is completely goofed up, but everything else seems to be working properly so I guess if fighting woids are the only problem you have with this site, you should consider yourself lucky!
Frimpinheap sez:
“most recent comments” isn’t part of any of the default wordpress themes so I can’t paste in bits of code from them to try and solve the problem even as rudimentarily as I was able to with the comment display so I am concerned about it!
I had confidence that an analog-looking anime screen capture didn’t come out after 2017 but I didn’t know what else to say about it!
It is hard to know how much background detail is necessary on a picture that will be printed when I won’t have the option to review a test print. thankfully I can make fixes substantially faster with clip stupido running again plus the afore-mentioned absurd display resolution. Ridiculous amounts of ram probably don’t hurt, except where electricity consumption is concerned, although trying to read about THAT now to be confident in my casual unimportant statement is overcomplicating the matter and I already overcomplicate enough matters!
Purplespace sez:
The waterfall could look like that if it was taken with a slow shutter speed setting on the camera. It is more a trick to make water look smooth. But it wouldn’t make the water look like blue family putt putt golf water.
Frimpinheap sez:
I had not considered shutter speed! That is also how people get those phony-looking pictures of lightning. But the color here is still a problem. This looks more like smooth electric toothpaste than smooth water.