A 1970 Corvette

That started happening to me a few weeks ago, as I mentioned here:
 
https://spufpowered.com/topic/20545-in-which-we-post-the-randomest-shit-we-find-on-youtube/?page=45&tab=comments#comment-532247
 
Most of the stuff I posted was obscure music, though I also got a lot of let's plays from nobodies.  I didn't post those since I didn't think they were interesting.  Occasionally it is something else, like that video of the talent show or whatever or that guy obsessed with tests of the warning system.  I don't seem to be getting it as much now; the lowest views I have are about 300 for some weird ZX spectrum game.  When I made that post I was reliably getting recommendations with under 10 views, some with no views.
 
Honestly though I prefer that scenario to youtube starting to recommend the ultrapopular stuff you see on a blank browser.  At least the weird no view videos might be interesting.

Wow, its been only 7 years since I put something here?
Well, anyway, I got back to sketching and recently I had this dream about this insect humanoid character I apparently created. So in some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, here it is.
 
I call her Beatrix.
 
 
Notes: drawing sure got harder. I used to draw more detailed stuff as a kid but now I cant even get proportions and perspective right without help.

My go to printer is the Brother laser printer series.  I have a 2360 at home and at the office but the new version looks to be 2370, with 2305 for the compact version.  Works well both in terms of economy and in terms of durability; the one at the office in particular I thought was busted from overuse at least five or six times but I was able to fix it pretty easily every time.   However these are black and white only printers and they are 110V.  Brother does sell a color printer but I'm not sure of the quality or affordability since I've never used it.
 
Something to consider if you go this route is that the toner is cheaper than it appears.  You usually can't get a toner cartridge for less than 70 bucks or so, but they are good for over a thousand pages, with the high yield ones not being much more expensive but going for 3000 or so pages.  I printed out multiple copies of my tenure documents, which were about 600 pages long, on a single toner cartridge.  In contrast ink jet cartridges will last for maybe 500 pages if you are lucky, and in my experience the printer often forces you to replace them before they are actually empty.  So the individual toner cartridges are more expensive, but in the long run it's a lot cheaper.  The color cartridges seem to be the same sort of thing, though since you have buy four of them at a time the initial investment is a lot scarier.

I modified that Touhou sorter thing to include all the anime I could remember watching.  I ultimately only got up 92 series, which I know is less than I watched, but eventually I just decided to run it with what I had.  (Looking over the list again the lack of Initial D is an obvious omission right away.) This isn't necessarily the most accurate thing because eventually your eyes glaze over and you don't make the right picks for "which of these two series is better", but here's what I ended up with for my top 50:
 
50. Made in Abyss
49. Inuyashiki
48. Slayers Try
47. The 08th MS Team
46. Slayers Next
45. Our Home's Fox Deity
44. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
43. FLCL
42. Little Witch Academia
41. Lupin the 3rd: Part Two
40. Gundam Build Fighters
39. Patlabor (OVA)
38. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
37. Space Dandy
36. Paranoia Agent
35. Star Driver
34. Sgt. Frog
33. Space Runaway Ideon
32. Aura Battler Dunbine
31. Slayers
30. Tenchi Muyo
29. The Helpful Fox Senko-San
28. Durarara!!
27. BNA
26. Lupin the 3rd: Part One
25. Wolf's Rain
24. Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
23. Mobile Suit Gundam
22. Princess Tutu
21. Yu Yu Hakusho
20. G Gundam
19. Gundam X
18. My Hero Academia
17. The Big O
16. Girls und Panzer
15. Cowboy Bebop
14. The Vision of Escaflowne
13. Trigun
12. Galaxy Express 999
11. Robotics;Notes
10. Turn A Gundam
9. Outlaw Star
8. Space Pirate Captain Harlock
7. Serial Experiments Lain
6. Zeta Gundam
5. Steins;Gate
4. Samurai Champloo
3. Patlabor on TV
2. Gurren Lagann
1. Nichijou

new comm of the party done by someone we're all familiar with 

I wasn't sure if I should share this one, but it left me in a post-dream confused daze for a few moments.
 
It was some sort of rave party, I remember it being really dark, but it had some green/red/blue lights going around and something that aliens could call "human music".
Then I start to notice that the "people" around the party look really weird. Suddenly I notice that these aren't people, but actually a bunch of furries and other kinds of monsters!
The monsters start to agglomerate into the center of the room and a full blown monster orgy starts, while the first Pokemon anime opening plays at full volume.
The scene was so sudden and surreal that something started to stir inside my pants and then....! I woke up REALLY needing to pee.
 
I had to stand there at 4AM and stare at the wall for a few seconds to let my brain finish loading, because I was paralyzed with confusion and a pee boner. What the fuck brain.

It's been awhile! I haven't drawn in quite some time, but lately I've found new inspiration! A lot has happened as well, and I feel so much more capable when it comes to drawing now. I've started using Krita; here's my first little batch of doodles:

 
There are a number of developments here. First off, you may notice...that I'm sketching! Yes, this is my big breakthrough! I've been drawn for years and never did I ever sketch, ever! I'd draw a stick figure frame and some rough environment and basically just build the final product directly on top of that. I've basically been drawing backwards this entire time. Why? Well, when it came to pencil-and-paper, I always held my pencil far, far too hard to sketch. So I was just sort of predisposed to this idea that I just couldn't sketch. I partly also figured that sketching was just something I'd do once I got better, because all the good artists, they always sketch. But then I realized: artists do not sketch because they are good, they are good because they sketch. And boy, sketching is just so, so freeing! Like, a way to draw where you don't have to worry about being perfect because what you are drawing is not representative of the final product? Insane! It's so much fun! And it makes drawing everything so much easier because you can actually set everything up before you draw the final! Gosh, what the hell was I doing!?
 
Secondly...I've started using Krita, as I mentioned. Up until now, I've been using Adobe Animate. Then I thought...why am I still using Adobe Animate? I originally started using it because I wanted to animate and make that cartoon, which I did. But for now, I just want to draw. And Animate is just balls for drawing. Even Paint.NET is better for full 2D art than Animate. Every simple thing in Animate takes like 10 steps compared to PDN or Krita, it's insane. I'm very much enjoying Krita and look forward to being able to expand my game now that I'm not restrained by Animate's shitty technical limitations.
 
And finally...I want to evolve my artstyle! As I've drawn I've gotten a lot better, but my artstyle has stayed the same. Which may sort of sound like the point of having an artstyle, but my artstyle was always very geometric, and as I got better, I developed the ability to draw less and less geometric characters. Basically, my skill had surpassed my artstyle. So I feel like it's time that I evolve my artstyle, into something that allows me to make full use of my ability. I'm still experimenting around, still playing with everything, but I'm excited to really develop my art. It's nice to draw again!

That was quick.

I've definitely been on the "really should just run linux" thought train as a lot of things that were barriers have been eroded away over time. I keep thinking "I really need to just rip off the bandaid and go for it" but it's hard to get off my lazy ass and do it.
 
Maybe when this version I'm running is officially dropped from support

I've definitely been on the "really should just run linux" thought train as a lot of things that were barriers have been eroded away over time. I keep thinking "I really need to just rip off the bandaid and go for it" but it's hard to get off my lazy ass and do it.
 
Maybe when this version I'm running is officially dropped from support

Since Corv complained about the background, it got me thinking: how hard would it be to import modern art into Windows 3.1 and actually have a decent looking background?
 
Answer: not very:
 

I think his newer GD's are a little rougher than they used to be, but I can rewatch shit like Trackmania: Canyon all day long. 

I have no idea why Ran is consistently associated with mathematics in fanart, but I ain't complaining
 

The virgin HP Printer:
 
"Please insert more yellow ink (even though you just bought some).  You cannot print at all, or even use the inboard scanner until this is done.  And be sure to use only HP verified products, or we'll know."
 
The Chad Brother printer:
 
"REPLACE DRUM NOW.  But, if you want to print another fifty pages that's totally cool.  And while we'd prefer you get genuine brother replacements, if you want to get an off brand that's a tenth the cost we're not gonna stop you."

Going from news reports, Sam Hyde has already given his life multiple times while fighting for Ukraine.

They could be you! They could be me! They could even be

The better question is who gave you a VCR for Christmas? That's a gift from either somebody who cares a lot or somebody who doesn't care at all.

We're saying goodbye to my first car ever, the 2000 ford mustang that was handed down from brother to brother until the very end. Of all of them, I adored it the most. While it was a pile of junk in all ways a car could be, it never entirely gave up on me. I will admit the most recent issue it began to develop, which is revving itself with no outside input and always wanting to go to 55 mph, was particularly concerning. I never really had any particular fond memories made in it, no high school kisses in the front seat or profound experiences or anything. The most fun I remember was driving home my brother and his friends after they ate way too much sushi and hitting every bump a little too fast just to mess with them. Other than that, a lot of driving to and from college, some scares when I thought it might break down, some moments of triumph when I fixed a little part of it like the A/C for one summer. Perhaps just the spirit of my dad always saying "when it that thing going to finally kick the bucket?" and me defiantly starting it up every time and it getting the job done was enough to have me come to love it as a car.
 
Unfortunately it wouldn't smog (even with our profound processes of getting it to smog that worked for several years in the past) and we have a replacement '00 mustang in much better shape just literally lying around, so... It was a little traumatic to cannibalize it for some parts but now I'm going off to get it scrapped. I suppose I can rest easy knowing at least some bits of it are with me in the new car.
 
Or I can stop being so dramatic because it's just a tool for moving from point a to point b and I'm replacing it with a nearly identical tool that has all the same functions as it. I did take a bunch of pictures and a video of it though so I can hopefully look back on it fondly one day.

I grew up in rural areas and even the "urban" areas where I've lived later on would be considered "small towns" by a lot of people on the coasts.  In my first house my "next door neighbors" were my Grandparents, who were a fifteen minute walk away.  The next house after that was about another half hour on foot, and getting to the nearest town (which had a gas station, three bars, and a convenience store) would take a couple hours (on foot).  Public transportation ain't gonna fix that, you need a car.  Even when we moved "into town" later on it was a half hour drive any time we wanted to go shopping for movies, music, computer games, etc.
 
And even during my childhood we never thought we were that isolated because we had a set of relatives who were really in the middle of nowhere.  I'm talking "better plan out when you fill up with gas because you might run out before you get there" isolated.
 
Unless you make America a fiftieth of its current size, you're going to need cars for the foreseeable future.
 
But the flip side of all of this is that getting a car is a real visible sign of independence, especially if you live in less sparsely populated areas.  Suddenly you can hop in your car, drive for an hour or two and end up somewhere completely different, almost like stepping into another world.
 
There's nothing wrong about getting sentimental about a crappy car.

I'm not even a car guy and I got sentimental over giving up my first car, a '99 chevy cavalier. My parents handed it down to me when I started college, and I ended up using it for several years. But eventually the maintenance costs became unjustifiably high, and I decided to donate it before it could fall apart with me inside it.
 
This is probably hard to understand for those of you who live in real first-world countries with decent public transportation, but for us Americans, your first car is your first taste of independence. Especially if you live in the suburbs of a sprawling city like mine, and everything important is at least 10 miles (16.0934 km (16,0934 if you're one of those weirdos who uses a comma for decimals)) away from your house. 
 
By the way, don't donate your old cars if you want to be sure they'll be put to good use. Less than a month after the cavalier was towed away, I was given notice that it was parked illegally and about to be impounded. Whoever got it clearly didn't need it that badly.