Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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Joined Aug 2017
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Cecided on a whim to try 3D modelling a character! I also was thinking of doing it low poly to make it easier on myself, but ended up getting a bit carried away lol
It's also nice to think of the seams of a model for texturing applied to, like, actually being seams on a pooltoy.
I also don't know how to actually *render* the image, as it just looks like a drab grey thing when I do, so this is just a screenshot of it being as good as I was hoping for.
Still learning! There's still a long way to go, like weight painting is still very wonky for me and sometimes it doesn't look good when I bend the skeleton. This was also mostly just made on the basis of like: "oh a bendy bones option? that sounds like a good thing for a pooltoy, *click*" and seeing what happens to the model.
[sub]sorry for rambling hope you enjoy!!![/sub]
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The name of the poster here got cut off, but appears to be "Ringo - AxlTheHunter08", so credit where it's due.
@anthracite Anyway, of all places to find futurism discourse this week, for me it's been the work Kat Kingsley put into the Warframe 1999 storyline.
She took the huge mess of dystopian space crap that that universe is and made it relatable by saying: yeah, no matter how far flung and crazy things get, people are still people.
That's been sitting with me the past several weeks. It's the message I needed, really.
@anthracite That all said: futurism is incremental. There's no magic space armada in the next few years, unless it's some fascist vanity project that looks like they spaced a Cybertruck.
But things like smartphones, internet buildout globally, and all of the cool projects I see people putting in VRC give me much more hope for our society. In that: there's an appetite for not-terrible change, when you ignore futurism grifter guys.
It's slower and more boring, but hey, that's fine.
@anthracite Someone was saying over on either Bsky or... Charlie's Apologia blog post? I forget which, that one of the things Elon specifically has done is capitalize on this.
By always claiming the future is just a few short years away, then moving the goal posts when people forget and he fails to deliver, he's used his position as dumb futurism guy to extract wealth from people that fail to hold him accountable.
So this isn't just a trend, it's an institutional source of grift.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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Joined Aug 2017
