These shows are both for morons who think this is how nerds act.

It DO! Which one am I mixing it up with then? Briar?

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“Protect the kids!” - always the first thing they use.

SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. IT DO! Discord is mostly used for gaming.

It says information used for age checks will not be stored by Discord or the verification company.

Bullshit. Every time some bitch-ass company says this, 4-5 years later they’re like “we were hacked, someone took everyone’s photo IDs!”

The moment this is attempted is the moment I’m no longer on discord.

It sounds like you’re not in love with your wife to me.

Hell naw, I’d try to incorporate their fantasy if I could. If incorporating it would bother me, or her, then I’d let her just keep having fun on her own when she wanted.

Nuh uh!

It actually IS possible to print on the plain glass on the other side. Many early machines only had glass as a build plate, so that’s valid - especially with various other materials.

The black surface does wear out over time, when you need to replace it, a magnetic sheet + PEI build surface is probably what you want to move to. The biggest problem with the black glass plates is that the surface acts like sandpaper; and it can easily destroy a nozzle with just a short swipe across it.

I said backwards, not upside down. You have the logo facing the back of the machine. It’s supposed to be readable from the front.

An Ender 3 v2 with the plate on backwards.

Just be aware that the plastic shroud tends to disintegrate over time. The MrIscoc firmware for that machine is a huge step up from what comes with it; if that’s your kinda thing. If modding machines isn’t though, don’t ever touch the firmware.

We are IN the timeline where a monkey wrote Shakespeare. That monkey was Shakespeare.

CRT displays with old pixel art are something I taught her about very early on. Scanlines made things look different; and art looked better on CRTs because they were designed with them in mind.

I mean, I get it – Digital either works or it doesn’t. Analog provides all of that scratchy mess on the screen, distorted audio, etc.

I tried getting the 13yr old a Miyoo Mini Plus; and she said she didn’t want it because it wasn’t about the games - she wanted a real GBC. >_>

My 13yr old collects Tamagotchis, and my 17yr old watches VHS tapes because she likes analog horror. So…yeah, I’m already there.

You may simply have aphantasia. The inability to picture things clearly in your “mind’s eye”. This ranges from being able to VR your imagination into the real world like it’s something that’s really there, to only ‘seeing’ a faint idea of what it is you’re thinking of, all the way to not seeing anything at all.

My mother was blessed with hyperphantasia, and art came easier for her than most - but it was always better with practice.

I most definitely have aphantasia (trauma based), but I’ve been able to practice ‘seeing’ things in my minds eye by taking pictures, practicing remembering the picture, drawing it from memory, and then comparing it afterwards. I’m no photocopier like you seem to be, I mostly deal with engineering drawings all day so I think my mind has simply adapted to putting together sets of rules like a puzzle.

Does anyone have good recommendations for someone who seems unable to gain any proficiency at drawing?

Practice. Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice.

You’re going to suck. It’s okay to suck. You only get better through failure. Drawing and art is a skill that you develop over time like training a muscle. Don’t throw away your old stuff. Keep it. Look at it, decide on something you don’t like - then focus on doing that better the next time. Repeat. Draw. Like…draw a LOT. Like a LOT A LOT. Draw anything. Try different styles.

The biggest thing to remember is you’re going to suck. Everyone sucks. The people who don’t suck, are people who kept at something long enough to not suck. Remember also – you are going to be far more critical of your art and the mistakes you made vs others. Don’t get discouraged - especially if you post that shit on the internet. Someone will tell you it’s terrible and you’ll get discouraged. Surround yourself with people who will lift you up and encourage you.

Procreate on an old iPad 6 + Apple Pencil is what I did for my daughters and they both are so much better at drawing now than they ever were - so you just have to keep doing it.

The biggest misconception that people have is that you’re just born with this talent - those people weren’t born with the ability to make great art, they were born with the ENTHUSIASM to do it every day, constantly, as an obsession. And then they developed a SKILL, based on that enthusiasm.