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heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

you can check out the bundle on itch.io and follow @vgforpalestine on twitter for more updates!

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Adobe are being assholes and their generative AI software is scraping artists who didn't consent to this despite Adobe's assurances that the model only used licensed stock images.

Because that is a DICK MOVE, I'm trying to find an alternative to Lightroom for my photo processing, so I tried two potential alternatives today: Capture One and ON1 Photo Raw. Here's a comparison.

This is the image I'm working with. It's overexposed but in focus, and needs adjustments to cropping and color.

Here's a quick pass at editing it in Adobe, just so I can compare software results

I've spent a lot of time developing my color presets in Adobe to achieve the results I want, and getting colors I like is probably the most important thing in photo editing for me

Here's my result in Capture One

The colors are a little muddier, but I actually think it handles recovering fine detail from blown-out areas better than Adobe. The software offers a ton of creative control and the option to make fine-tuned presets, so I think with work, I can probably get back to color presets I like (although I weep for the lack of a fine-tuned camera calibration option)

Here's what I got in ON1 Photo RAW

I actually like this a lot - the colors and fine detail are both nice, and it has a "purity" slider for shadows and highlights that's wonderful on weird color cast. That said, it doesn't offer nearly as much fine creative control as Capture One, so I think I may pass on it. That said, if you're looking for something with great out of the box results, this might be a good product for you.

Both programs have 30-day free trials, so if you're looking for an alternative to Adobe's evil, they might be worth a shot.

#reference #art stuff #ai bullshit

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Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

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Likes me a man that can cook

🥰 yet another Senshi because I’m enamored w that dwarf

#dungeon

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If you ever find yourself thinking "oh, I can't write this Cool But Impractical thing into my story, it's just not realistic", here are a few perfectly realistic reasons why people and even whole cultures would rather do something in an impractical way rather than the sensible one:

weird flex

religious reasons

religious weird flex (someone decided that they are So Religious that they consider the practical method Sinful, and people got competitive about it)

tax reasons (some ruler put a tax on doing something the sensible way and people started doing the impractical alternative as a legal loophole)

someone wildly powerful and popular preferred doing it that way, and everyone adapted to it in order to look cool

someone wildly unpopular suggested doing the practical thing, and everyone went out of their way to avoid doing that in order to not look uncool

it just genuinely never occurred to them that there is a better alternative, and their current method has been honed to perfection/adapted to the infrastructure so deeply that at this point altering it wouldn't be sensible

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Getting really sick of all the "There's No Place Like Chrome" ads on youtube. There's Firefox. Firefox saves your passwords. Firefox autofills things if you want. Firefox also does things that Chrome doesn't like allow adblockers, and it does not mine your data and sell your information for advertising purposes. Google is really trying to push people to use Chrome so they can take as much data from users as possible in order to make as much money as possible and it's borderline sinister.

Anyway, download Firefox.

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“Vampire help hotline, what can I do for you?” “I just… I miss garlic bread…”

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I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

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I hope everyone enjoys this little Crow Time update about the commonality of love! Even stars have travel buddies, that's what constellations are for.

If you like my work, do me a favor and donate a little to the PCRF to help children and families in Gaza. It's easy to do, kind to do, and do not feel guilty if you do not have much to give. Everything counts.

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cleaned up these sketches today 😌

blue jays are assholes but they’re so fun to draw.

#all the birds

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god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

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it’s so nice being fond of people on here :-) like yeah maybe we only know each other in a very limited way but i care abt you guys & hearing abt your lives makes me happy & i like listening to the things u have to say & i really truly wish the best for you all!!! sending my love from a couple states, countries, oceans away

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When I discovered J.R.R. Tolkien's Rings trilogy ten years later, I thought, "Shit, this is just a slightly sunnier version of Stoker's Dracula, with Frodo playing Jonathan Harker, Gandalf playing Abraham Van Helsing, and Sauron playing the Count himself."

From the introduction to the 1999 Pocket Books edition of Salem's Lot by Stephen King

...Steve, buddy? I don't want you tell you your business, but it's really not

#DIES LAUGHING #lotr #dracula #this is beautiful

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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth