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albi-mander · 3 months

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i set Windows 10 to use dark mode as soon as i could, but not every settings window or menu follows my color preferences, because some of them are plainly grandfathered in from older versions of the OS where "customizable colors and themes" weren't really a thing yet.

the ironic part is, the older settings menus also tend to be from a time not so long ago when UIs were intended to allow you perform specific tasks in an efficient manner. This is very unlike the clean, modern, panely settings menus of today, which seem to be designed with a similar philosophy to those origami fortune-telling thingies everyone made in elementary school—mesmerizing to move around, but ultimately vague and unhelpful unless you already know what you're looking for.

(to their credit, the origami fortune telling thingies didn't keep trying to send me to Bing whenever they pretended they didn't know something, so they have that going for them, at least)

the end consequence of this is that the sight of a sudden light-mode settings window with that distinct gray, blocky look every Windows machine had over a decade ago tends to fill me with relief. oh thank god, i say, it's hideous and that means it will allow me to actually check what sample rate i have my audio at instead of sending me to Bing about it again.

#windows 10 #enshittification #for the record i do not have a problem with flat design #i have a problem with bad UIs lolol #UI design

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dripisdaidiot · 5 months

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Behind the Scenes of This Post

I suddenly had this idea pop up randomly, and I went through it.

It took just over 2 hours, and was a really nice challenge.

What I did was browse through the files of the game. Found the image files of the main menu, then noticed that I couldn’t crop it without removing their transparency. So I decided to make the background first, since I don’t need to crop them. Here’s the result.

The background consists of 4 layers. Far background, Archs, Fog, Vignette (In order from back to front). Each layer is enlarged, then key-framed to slowly slide into their original size. Every layer has different movement, just to make it have that 3D-ish effect.

Then there came the issue. The lizards. I couldn’t just add them all in separately, since my editing software doesn’t allow it as it’s over the limit; and they would get de-synced too. Then came the tool that saved my life here.

Yep, fucking Procreate; it lets me crop the PNGs without losing their transparency. So I cropped the lizards and added some perspective blur to mimic the original title screen.

Here are the results:

Then I added them onto the video as another layer, and it worked out pretty smoothly actually (unexpected).

Looks smooth doesn’t it? But something is missing. It’s too clear, quite literally, unobstructed. Yep, missing the vines on top. They weren’t that big of a problem really. Just needed to add them and… I couldn’t get it to convey the feeling I wanted. Mainly the 3D effect, and the “vine” feel.

So that took around 30 minutes to perfect. And here’s the result again.

(I know the GIFs are getting worse each time. I’m running out of space for this post)

Edit Comment: Holy shit the GIF doesn’t even work because it’s so compressed lolol

And then just add the rain effect and stuff, should be able to find the rain effect on YouTube... and… Boom, Done! Wait, also the UI too, since this is a startup.

What’s that, the custom UI looks really bad? It can’t be that bad- holy shit they’re right. It looks garbage. Although it does kind of give off a bit of a retro-ish vibe

And that brings us back to the post.

#Long #Rain World #Rainworld #Behind the scenes

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okayoonoh · 4 years

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WINWIN’S FAMILY

a/n: i’m so sorry! i have no idea what happened to this post, but it should be fixed now!

here’s a masterlist to my nct as dad’s series!

this gif makes me loselose

DONG SICHENG:

he has one kid: one daughter named dong mei. she’s born in the same year as yuta’s second daughter, nakamoto yui.

DONG MEI:

>> as a baby <<

literally oh my god

she’s so effing cute

like hoW could a baby be this cute?

every single thing that is cute about sicheng was inherited by your daughter

and then some

she inherited her dad’s fairy ears

sicheng would call her “my little fairy”

she honestly was just pure uwu

sicheng and his daughter together are just ugh

too much cuteness for this world

she was born prematurely

and mei was just so tiny

she was so itty bitty

she was so beautiful from the start too

she has sicheng’s eye shape and ear shape

but she has your everything else

eye color, nose shape, lip shape, everything

everyone in the group knew how cute she is/was

she was generally not super fussy

around the normal amount tbh

she was okay with strangers

not the best

but she was pretty decent with them

it was really really really hard to get her to smile tho

like it almost seemed like there was nothing you can do to get her to give you a smile

which is just so frustrating because she got 100000000 times cuter when she did smile (which honestly seemed impossible)

sicheng treated her like the princess she is

he got her so many toys and plushies and just everything

there were so many things that were just dedicated to her

she easily had him wrapped around her finger

sicheng was honestly a little scared the first few weeks she was born

because she was so tiny, he was scared that he was gonna hurt her like all the time

he learned that she was tougher than she looked

>> as a child <<

still remained super cute

like honestly that’s her aesthetic

cute

like her responses to everything was cute

she wasn’t vain tho

like she honestly didn’t think she was cute

she didn’t dislike it when people called her cute

mei was thankful but she honestly didn’t like to be showered with compliments too much

but like she wasn’t annoying with her cuteness

she was more on the quiet side

like she doesn’t really talk unless she needs to

she looked like she would be super sensitive

but she’s actually super not

she’s so tough

like she just doesn’t cry easily

she wants to dance like her dad

so you put her in ballet

and you find that she’s actually really talented and she genuinely likes it

she’s pretty aloof and calm usually

but when it comes to ballet

she can get pretty serious

when she got a little older, she branched off to other genres

she even tried chinese traditional dance because her dad recommended it

she was really good at that too

she’s best friends with yuta’s second daughter, nakamoto yui

they’re the chillest group of friends in the entirety of nct and their kids

mei enjoys the outdoors

yui loves flowers and the outdoors

they just vibe so well together

they’re not super loud

like you don’t have to worry about the two of them together because you know they don’t have it in them to do something bad

while most kids want to go to the amusement parks

mei and yui want to go to the several different gardens

like butterfly gardens

tulip gardens

everything

yui would come over to your place a lot because it’s only mei in the house (but also yuta’s mom trusted yui to be respectful more than any of her other kids lol)

(let’s just pretend that the language barrier isn’t a thing for any of the kids)

mei had a thing for dressing up in pretty dresses

usually covered in flowers

but she loved to dress up in princess dresses, floral dresses, all kinds of dresses

like sicheng would dress up with her too whenever she wanted to dress up

omg sicheng would be the type of dad to take her out on a “date” like a couple times throughout the year

and like she would dress up in her favorite dress

and he would dress up in his fanciest tux (kinda)

and they would go and have dinner together

he was teaching her that she should never settle for any less than what sicheng is showing her

you and mei are his world honestly

like i don’t know if he would want more kids

like he thinks his family life is perfect as is

i mean he wouldn’t be opposed to the idea of more kids

but he really loves just you and mei as his family

>> as an adult <<

she became a professional ballet dancer

she’s just

a dancer ™

like she can do almost any genre

no problem

she also works alongside taeyong’s oldest son, lee youngchul, and ten’s oldest son, kaleb, in their dance studio

she teaches the traditional dances and such

but she honestly just enjoys dancing

she’ll help them out when they want to do something more on the interpretive side

omg imagine

kaleb and mei do the dance ten and sicheng did for rainbow v

omg it would look so pretty

like they literally went to the same place

practically wore the same outfits

the dance was literally almost exactly as their dads did it

but they extended the dance a little bit

and the world was shook with its beauty

they would surprise their dads with it once the project was finished

lol it would be a little funny because sicheng is taller than ten but mei still did his part lolol

so kaleb had to bend down a bit for some parts

ugh that would be so good honestly

anyway

she still has all of that natural cuteness

like she’s a little bit more sassy now

but like she’s just so cute

sometimes people don’t take her seriously

she’s kinda short too so that doesn’t help her in her case

omg but she would get so mad at her dancers

like kaleb is bad cop

mei is worse

she realized after a couple years of doing her job, that her dancers won’t take her seriously unless she started to strengthen her attitude

and she did

and now people listen to her

people would come from far and wide to learn how to dance from her

she honestly will accept anyone with enough background training

and like she’s a nice person

but when it comes to dance

she just needs it to be serious

she still remains to be best friends with yui

since mei works mainly at night, she spends a lot of her days with yui in her flowershop

they just enjoy the pretty flowers and talk about life

mei’s go to destination for filming any aesthetic dance video is yui’s flowershop

mei is also just such a hard worker

she’s full of natural cuteness, poise, elegance, and she makes you and sicheng so proud of her every single day

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again, i’m so sorry about this post; i genuinely have no idea why it just disappeared!

anyway, i hoped you guys liked it! let me know how i’m doing! i have a couple ideas for some scenarios so i’ll get to that before i write more descriptions.

requests are open and don’t be afraid to stop by for a chat!

- amy <3

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