I had to scout and re-add all the blogs i had on my feed reader before i reinstalled Linux, because there's something i always forget to backup, and this time it was my entire RSS feed.

Anyways, i am susbscribed to the blog "Futurism", but i almost didn't added it again. I don't even like the guy and i'm pretty neutral towards him, but it's ridiculous how so anti-Elon Futurism is, it's kind of ridiculous and cringe how they manage any kind of note that have to do with Elon and sometimes try their hardest to make him look bad.

Like i said, i don't even care about the guy, but this worries me as i try to have my RSS feed as un-biased and impartial. I guess i will give them a chance one more time but only once again.

After some months of hiatus of doing any kind fo 3D stuff with Blender, i just uploaded a new piece, albeit simple, to help me stretch the legs. It's simple because it's mostly comprised of simple shapes (mostly boxes and cylinders) that don't require that much modeling.

I almost never have problems modeling stuff (well, i do, but i can get by just fine most of the time after fidgeting the vertices a bit), what i have problems with is with lighting, because modeling and texturing shit is one thing, but that's like 40% of the work. Lighting is the other 60% and just lighting alone can make a piece look good or ugiy.

Overall i think i did pretty well on it, i like the ambience, i think it could have used more variety on the elements of the board but it's good nonetheles...

I'll post the image here but you can also see it and give it a like on my Pixelfed profile, on the links of the sidebar:



BTW, the title of the piece is "Quantum Computing".

Being embarrased by saying this is nonsense because i am not even obligated to say it, but i still don't have proper hardware to run newer versions of Blender, and most if not all pieces i have done ever (and probably will for a bit of time) are done in pre-3.0 versions of Blender (newer versions are already on 4.0).

To be honest i don't feel like i am missing too much anyway, i know Geometry nodes are a big thing and everyone is using them already to their best but i haven't made anyting too complicated yet that guarantees me wanting me to use them. I think geometry nodes are more useful for people that animate and to people that needs speed in pre-generating assets, but my approach on Blender is more "artisanal" so i woudln't use them that much i guess.


Hopefully on the future i can get ahold of better hardware.

It is me, or pages look too round nowadays? Just look at pages like Google and Twitter, it looks like they're afraid of having elements with corners.

The idea of reinstalling my computer was, for one part a re-partition of the disk because i had set too little space to the Linux partition, and being that it was gonna be the main partition from now on i should have allocated more than 40gb to it.

And second, i had seen that the last Linux Mint seemed to have better drivers or something, but i could open Blender again with it, the problem is that it had several other problems that didn't made sense so i had to brush it off and go back to Bodhi Linux.

Not blaming Linux Mint tho, my computer is OLD so i blame it more on the age of the computer.

Sometimes i come along videos that i like and are are hard to find again because i found them on a whim of the algorithm, so let me save this one here so i don't lose it.

Just to point out one of the aspects talked in >>1727058265 a lot of the issues that make artists angry about the whole AI image generation issue is the perceived lack of respect to intellectual property, meaning, their art being scrapped to train image models, but let's just remember that a large chunk of artists make a good deal of money selling art based off other people IPs and apparently there's not a problem with that.

How do we deal with stuff like this?

BTW have you ever lost sleep to a SONG?

It may sound weird, but one week ago i had this song stuck in my head for like two days, i lost a couple of sleep hours those days because of it.

BTW that's not me... i NEVER feel like i have anything figured out!

No matter what your age is, have you ever felt that you are just some teenager pretending to be an adult? With a lot of anxiety about stuff that you kind of HAVE to go through to the best of your abilities but you would rather not and spend all day playing games (or doing anything else)?