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Anonymous

68 months ago

Really cool animation tool!

It's called "Wick Editor".

Website:
https://www.wickeditor.com/#/

The editor can be downloaded, but it even has an online editor!
https://editor.wickeditor.com

OK, it's basically like flash. Like flash, you can just use it for animation, but you can also make it jump from frame to frame and it interprets Javascript code so it can get quite advanced.

Basically, you can use it for frame-by-frame animation, but you can also utilize "tweens" to make some things easier, and you can even make a game with it just like flash.

One thing I really like is that it has the "tween" just like flash. This means, you take an object, make a keyframe, make a second keyframe, move the object, and Wick will calculate all the in-between frames for you. Very useful!!!

Something I don't like is there doesn't seem to be a "skew" tool. So, you can't have the same bounce and stretch that you could have from SynFig or OpenToons. At least, as far as I can tell from my limited experience. Still, a very nice tool. Easy! Probably a good beginner program for kids, too!

#animation_💬 or #game_💬 #software_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

34 months ago

The oldest post about #openbook_💬 that I could find...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBKb6YWTA20

This is presumably the initial release video for Openbook.

<3

#anonvid_💬 #openbook_💬 #openbookHistory_💬 ;}

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

46 months ago

“Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.”

#inspiring_💬 #quote_💬

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Anonymous

30 months ago

"Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship ... is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure, and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already—it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness."

#timeless_💬 #wisdom_💬

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Anonymous

84 months ago

"Maybe raising children really is a thankless task. Maybe there’s no reason to thank someone for putting their energies into a human who did not need to born. Then should we be trying to work against this impulse—as Miles said—pass through our childbearing years without bearing a child, no matter how much we might desire it; but to selflessly and with all our might do whatever we can to avoid it? To find our value and greatness in some place apart from mothering, as a man must find his worth and greatness in some place apart from domination and violence, and the more men and women who do this, the better off the world will be? Miles said we value warring and dominating men, the same way we revere the mother. The egoism of childbearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country—both carry the wish of imprinting yourself on the world, and making it over with your values, and in your image."

tagged: #quote_💬 #foodforthought_💬 #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

15 months ago

The sooner you do something, the more likely it is that you'll get it done.
#fskynet_💬

#everyday_💬 #advice_💬 #timemanagement_💬

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Anonymous

5 months ago

My critique of the UBI...

Distributing money is like handing out heroine, giving drunks a bunch of money and telling them to "spend it wisely", the UBI is going to be a nightmare for a lot of people. Maybe your heroine is OnlyFans, or DoorDash, or videogames, but it's all the same. Some crap to pass the time, to placate ourselves, to distract ourselves from our suffering, because we feel alone in the world. Surrounded by all these people, we still feel alone, because although we're connected more than ever before, we're not actually *feeling* connected or feeling a *part of anything* together. We're not "in it together", we're "in it for ourselves", and that's an existential lonliness that we can't ever solve with money because depending on money is whats causing the problem in the first place.

And this is why I'm worried about AI replacing all the jobs. It's the foretold inevitable end of the market economy, the end of wage labor, the end of capitalism, but then instead of ending capitalism we just give everyone a UBI? It'll just immerse us more permanently into the Matrix of consumerism. The heroine and the OnlyFans will only get better as AI optimizes everything, still focusing on profit and the quality of the product instead of the quality of human life.

The real problem we need to solve is that the human family is not spending enough time with each other, we're not having the conversations we need to have, we're not working on the things we need to work on, because we're all busy working for money and then throwing money at the problem. But money can never solve our problem, because it's not so much a material lack as it is a spiritual malady we're suffering from. You'd be surprised how many resources I can find wandering around homeless, you'd be surprised how hard it is to starve in America, but you'd also be surprised how much that is not what homeless people are suffering from. Every year I feel like I've got to carry more weapons with me, it's like Mad Max out here because of the drugs and the police always moving everyone around so there's no stability or sanity on the streets anymore. People are suffering from their families being disappointed in them, people are suffering from being called lazy, people are suffering from complex bureaucratic glitches and having their identity stolen and their kids stop talking to them because they're homeless and shit like that. They're suffering from wanting to work and being unable to, or being unable to find work that isn't somehow unethical. There's no "good work" left in the system. I don't want to work in a chemical plant, producing a chemical I don't think should exist. I don't want to stand there selling crap food to people that they shouldn't even be eating, with a big smile plastered on my face, when I know how nasty the kitchen behind me really is. But I'm supposed to be considered a more valuable member of society if I make money so I'm more valuable if I work at that chemical plant? Sell people sugar and bad food? I'm more valuable to society if I'm selling drugs? More valuable if I'm a good lawyer being paid to get criminals off? Or a court judge getting paid for putting innocent people away? It's a crazy life. Most of the things humans do wrong is for money, but we're considered worthless if we don't have money. Money is the crime we're all caught up in, that we all need to stop doing, and of course people with money will always blame people without money if they're trying to distract everyone from the fact that money is the problem, and that it's actually their own pursuit of profit that's making the world worse. In this system we're caught between being poor, or morally depraved. Neither of these choices are good choices. We try to make out rich people or homeless people as the bad guys but this is just another illusory division that money causes us to fall for. We need to stop hating on each other for how much or how little money we have and just forget about the money, and start circulating resources. There's plenty enough to go around, we just aren't putting in the time or energy to do it because we're all so busy working for money like a bunch of suckers. /rant

If any of this resonates with you get involved with the distribution network where we circulate resources for everyone's sake at r/distributionNetwork :
https://www.reddit.com/r/distributionNetwork/

Also, still working on this website but it's mostly done, it's a more complete explanation of how the distribution network works:
https://lunchz.github.io/distribution/

#distributionNetwork_💬 #distribution_💬 #advice_💬

#fskynet_💬 #capitalism_💬

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Anonymous

64 months ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TXEZ4tP06c

Learn how to draw! This guy showed people who think that they can't draw, that they actually can draw, in just a few minutes!

#learn_💬 #howto_💬 #draw_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

34 months ago

https://bugible.com/2018/03/20/how-to-farm-your-own-mealworms/
This is the most straight forward and concise directions I've found for how to start farming mealworms! :}

#sustainability_💬 #insectfarming_💬 #mealworms_💬

#fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

87 months ago

We're starting to see some more effects of global warming...

"It's So Damn Hot Around The World Right Now"
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5w3k8/its-so-damn-hot-around-the-world-right-now

..these symptoms are a sign of all of us humans failing each other, and they will only worsen as long as we fail to rapidly and radically alter our lifestyles to better suit our biosphere.

Excerpts:

"[wildfires are] also burning throughout the Arctic Circle, particularly in Siberia. The flames release climate-heating carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."

“The amount of CO2 emitted from Arctic Circle fires in June 2019 is larger than all of the CO2 released from Arctic Circle fires in the same month from 2010 through to 2018 put together,” Thomas Smith, a geography professor at the London School of Economics, told Motherboard.

"The heat baked France, which shattered its temperature record: In Gallargues-le-Montueux, in southern France, temps hit 114 degrees Fahrenheit on June 28, beating the 2003 record of 111 degrees during a heat wave that left 15,000 dead."

"Temperatures hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit in early June in Churu in Northern India. They’ve abated since, but water reservoirs are still drying up."

"In the Chinese capital, temperatures hit at least 102 degrees Fahrenheit in early June, according to the Beijing News. That’s the hottest day the city’s seen in the last 50 years."

#climatechange_💬 #globalwarming_💬

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