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 Anatomy of an internet argument…

"Social media isn't toxic, most people just haven't figured out the game (yet)."

https://defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-an-internet-argument

#internet #Web #discussion #civil #people #behavior #article #read #reading #writing #SocialMedia #media 
 From the ar(t)chive…

3D logo design for a hot sauce brand, made in 2015 using Blender 3D.

#CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #illustration #illustrator #fire #sauce #digital #DigitalArt #art #arts #arte #artist #artists #GraphicDesign #3D #B3D #logo #branding #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

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 How the universe might end…

A really interesting longread, if you're interested in the matter (pun intended).

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-the-universe-will-end

#science #cosmology #astronomy #physics #universe #space 
 My head after reading about the state of the world for more than 15 minutes.

#sculpture #statue #head #news #world #earth #mind #brain #heavy #thoughts #state #status

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 I think this article nails the way open source works, in not too many words…

https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-is-neither-a-community-nor-a-democracy-606abdab

#OpenSource #FOSS #software #development #coding #free #FreeSoftware #developer #community 
 AI… There's no escaping the scraping.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #LLM #LLMs #tech #technology #BigTech #Google #Microsoft #OpenAI #Meta #Apple 
 Brilliantly simple and simply brilliant mechanisms.

#system #animation #animated #gif #3d #infographic #visualization #technical #mechanics #science #design #engineering

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 nostr:npub1g53y3t0krt8ems8pps9pd3vrs8y6q2xdpj0t7npdkh2m9j2fdumqnqv0hh true, the internet used to ... 
 @ebf796d9 Definitely. When money takes over, the flowers wither. 
 nostr:npub1g53y3t0krt8ems8pps9pd3vrs8y6q2xdpj0t7npdkh2m9j2fdumqnqv0hh I did my first ray-tracing ... 
 @3862d25e I also started my first 3D adventures on the Amiga, in 1987, using Sculpt 3D.

I remember waiting a whole night for a simple rendering, then discovering the next morning that something had gone wrong. 😓 
 From the ar(t)chive...

Good old-fashioned magic. 🌠

Made this around 2001, modeled in 3ds Max and rendered with finalRender.

Fun fact: the poster on the wall is my intro picture for the 1992 Amiga game Hoi. 🙂

#art #artwork #artist #ArtMatters #DigitalArt #illustration #CharacterDesign #design #3D #Blender #sculpture #magic #stars #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt

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 Have you got a @9a8b1148 page yet? It's a free, open source Fediverse alternative to commercial link page services like Linktree.

Here's my page:
https://linksta.cc/@seven

#fediverse #FediTips #OpenSource #links #link #free #website #tip #tips #FOSS 
 It doesn't get much more retro than this: a side-scrolling PETSCII character set based platformer for the Commodore PET. ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lApSXRx2Z90

Free download:

https://jimbo.itch.io/petscii-side-scrolling-platformer

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #commodore #PET #game #games #gaming #GameDev 
 A voxel tribute to precious childhood gaming memories. ❤️

#game #games #retro #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #GameDev #VoxelArt #PixelArt #gaming #animation #animated #GIF #art #artwork #illustration #8bit #FediArt #MastoArt #DigitalArt

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 Would you like to discover films to watch?

I've written 900 brief film reviews so far:

https://letterboxd.com/metinseven

Also have a look at my list of all-time favorite movies:

https://letterboxd.com/metinseven/list/my-all-time-favorite-movies

#letterboxd #film #films #movie #movies #cinema #cinemastodon #tip #tips 
 In the late 1980s I formed a 16-bit game development team with two partners: Reinier van Vliet (coding) and Ramon Braumuller (audio).

35 years later we're still friends, and go out for dinner every once in a while. ❤️

More info about us can be found in the "Team Hoi game devs" section of https://linksta.cc/@seven

#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #GameDev #game #gaming #games #commodore #amiga #friends #retro #RetroGames

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 @2f1a251a Mooi. Als ik me niet vergis is dit bij de maïsvelden bij het Corversbos? Dat liep ik vaak met mijn vader. ❤️ 
 It's mind-boggling how many animals get slaughtered for human meat consumption every single day.

https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day

#animal #animals #murder #anthropocene #data #vegetarian #vegan #statistics #information #knowledge #science #cows #chickens #goats #sheep #ducks #pigs #fish

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 Used AI image processing and some manual retouching to recover a heavily compressed 320 x 240 pixels video frame from an early-generation digital camera.

The video frame shows me and my wife, only a couple of years younger than we are now. 😉 We were preparing for a night out to a Gothic Industrial music event in Amsterdam.

More photo restorations can be found here:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/165695385/Photo-retouching-restoration-and-coloring

#photo #photography #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #image #gothic

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 Sculpting Work In Progress: MegaMario. 👊

#art #artwork #3d #zbrush #mario #megaman #sculpture #nintendo #RetroGaming #gaming #DigitalArt #CharacterDesign #MastoArt #FediArt

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 Around the 1990s I was among the first game devs in the Netherlands. Back then our small team was interviewed on national television about our Commodore Amiga game Hoi. Young as we were, we were clearly nervous. 😅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc0ve3Wk90s

The featured music editor is our own Amiga music editor Digital Mugician.

For info and free downloads check the 'Team Hoi game devs' section of https://linksta.cc/@seven

#commodore #amiga #1990s #GameDev #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #chiptune #PixelArt #retro 
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 My finished alien creature sculpture in ZBrush, based on a great piece of 2D concept artwork by Tooth Wu.

Now I'll move on to my eternal dilemma: should I render this using Cycles or Octane in Blender? 🤔

#alien #aliens #creature #sculpture #art #artwork #3D #ZBrush #B3D #Blender3D #ArtMatters #artist #DigitalArt #MastoArt #FediArt

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 @9947c046 Thank you Mark! 👍 
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 @25d8a865 Cycles of EEVEE? 😉😉