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lukyan

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European furry interested in video games and furry visual novels. Writing in English.

Profile picture by @cheesehead@cyberpunk.lol avatar cheesehead of https://dokokashira.nl/. Image description: a grey dog person with pointy ears, blue-green eyes, brown hair, wearing a blue zipper hoodie, in front of a pinkish peach background, looking to the right (presumably at a fedi post).

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@lukyan@lukyan.eu avatar lukyan , to random

A cartoon dog signing a paper with an "x", getting a good grade for the algebra exam.

@BryanGreyson@social.tchncs.de avatar BryanGreyson , to random

We should just add porn to everything.

Not for the sake of it, but just to make sure big corporations keep their fingers out of it and don't buy everything.

(Yes, I know, they can still buy and then remove it, I've seen Tumblr and such, I'm just being tired and anti-corporation here. 😅)

lukyan ,
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@BryanGreyson That's what usual SFW furry stickers do on technical blogs. Both making it cuter and suggesting quality to furries, and becoming unreadable for corporate people.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

i got veilguard on sale

we're creating elven twinks until 1 billion oclock tonite

(a thread, i guess)

lukyan ,
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@endali That's not the first one in the series?

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

chat, am i elf coded

lukyan ,
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@endali Yes. More of elves that are creatures of art, beauty and weariness (your cat photos are elf-coded); less of scary elves with sharp swords (which the post reminds me of via memories of an ELF psABI).

@lukyan@lukyan.eu avatar lukyan , to random

Playing Proximate, I hear that my controller's stick drift can be applied for horror.

I like what I've yet seen of this game.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

every single time, without fail, when I went to Return To The Batcave, I got sick :neocat_googly_woozy:

lukyan ,
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@endali Same. Get well soon.

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social avatar joyousjoyness , to random

This is my ( shiny | metallic | foiled } drawing of a wolf!

video/mp4

lukyan ,
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@joyousjoyness That's a proper medium for wolf drawings. (I watched it before fully reading the description, I was surprised what pet dog would be so fluffy and majestic.)

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social avatar joyousjoyness , to random

✨ A Joyful Pause ✨

Let's stop and reflect on something positive!

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or just enjoy your thoughts on your own!

Deep breath ...

What have you learned about yourself this year?

lukyan ,
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@joyousjoyness I can calmly handle nonconstructive criticism of my work and find ways to make it better.

This might be specific to work, but it's positive, while I need more effort for a lot of other things I've learnt recently to become positive.

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lukyan ,
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@endali Cute. And there is something I really like about designs with a pattern of a symbol, like the ears here.

The description reminded me of sad city things.

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social avatar joyousjoyness , to random

✨ A Joyful Pause ✨

Let's stop and reflect on something positive!

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or just enjoy your thoughts on your own!

Deep breath ...

What animal matches your current vibe?

lukyan ,
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@joyousjoyness Currently none, but with the today's hot weather I'd like to rest like the cats and dogs sleeping on cold tiled floors.

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social avatar joyousjoyness , to random

✨ A Joyful Pause ✨

Let's stop and reflect on something positive!

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or just enjoy your thoughts on your own!

Deep breath ...

What’s your favorite way to start the day?

lukyan ,
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@joyousjoyness Dream that the alarm clock is running, wake up and see there is one minute left, safely turn it off before starting the quest for the morning coffee.

I also like seeing birds outside but I need to properly wake up before that (otherwise I misinterpret what I see into birds floating in space), so that's not the start of a day.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

Just handed out a lot of posters in cafes and shops in Katowice :3 we have like 5 left, and a couple of other places to go to leave them, but thats for another day

lukyan ,
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@endali I've seen one of the posters.

Anyone buying manga or walking to the other comic shop (or to the boy store) would certainly see it.

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social avatar joyousjoyness , to random

Announcement: I do not EVER use AI in my artwork.

Being accused of using it is so deeply offensive given how much time, effort and love goes into making art.

Artists, how do YOU respond to such accusations?

Shit is so tiring and infuriating.

Screenshot of posts on Mastodon where a person states "My apologies. My comments were not intended to be offensive. I was trying to say I prefer real cats." Joy responds, "understand that accusing someone of using AI is deeply offensive. You are saying that an artist's creativity and hours of work are nothing but fake and machine made. If you don't like paintings and prefer photos, please just scroll on." (Shit is infuriating omg)

Screenshot of posts on Mastodon where a person states "My apologies. My comments were not intended to be offensive. I was trying to say I prefer real cats." Joy responds, "understand that accusing someone of using AI is deeply offensive. You are saying that an artist's creativity and hours of work are nothing but fake and machine made. If you don't like paintings and prefer photos, please just scroll on." (Shit is infuriating omg)
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lukyan ,
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@joyousjoyness Not an artist, but (or since) I understand your work as involving a huge amount of effort in interpreting a photo and placing all the lines you draw, and with pictures like these also choosing the colors. I feel there is a lot of meaning in what you draw.

I like both photos and art of animals, also seeing a reference next to the finished or in progress art.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

i want a yamaha reface cs

plox

lukyan ,
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@endali They are cool.

Specifically a Reface CS, a Reface, or a synthesizer?

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

Talking intimately with other queer folks of (more or less) my age from all walks of life and seeing how they are all broken, tired, exhausted and insecure in different ways is very eye-opening.

It's actually somewhat comforting, as strange it sounds. Not in the "haha, sucks to be you" way obviously, but in the "we're all in this together" and "let's share the burden" kind of way.

lukyan ,
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@endali In different but also often similar ways. Others posting about dealing with their issues might help me with mine.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

the sudden urge to get a master's degree in extraction metallurgy

lukyan ,
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@endali This reminds me of a movie scene of a pretty boy speaking about studying organic chemistry for fun.

Looking it up, I can imagine metallurgy only via references to fictional alchemists and elven smiths.

lukyan ,
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@endali Good Will Hunting.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

Another year, another goth queue

Another angle, of a curve and hotel in background
Another shot of the curve
Another one, taken earlier in the line

Another one, taken earlier in the line
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lukyan ,
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@endali This looks like a much bigger Wrocław.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

I don't know if its just a frequency illusion of some sort, but god, everyone on fedi seems to be in absolute misery this year for one reason or another

(Yours truly as well)

lukyan ,
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@endali Fedi gives me words to describe the misery, I wouldn't have known most of it before I joined it here.

Suffering of others is a large part of it.

And yes, I often think "are you me?" or "are you my sibling?" when seeing negative posts.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

claymation elf genderless twinks game,,

lukyan ,
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@endali What game is it?

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

Goth song of the day: Corbeau Hangs - Ashes

I absolutely love this project. They have a such an amazing modern goth sound, I'll be recommending them a ton whenever people ask me for a goth primer nowadays :gothsparkleheart: :heart_pride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efg9LS9OhFg

lukyan ,
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@endali I hear this and recognize a goth sound which I know of exactly from your recommendations. I have no idea how this style of singing can be described.

lukyan ,
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@endali Maybe, but I feel this with a lot of other goth songs you share (and they remind me of what I heard at RTTB).

If that was synth-pop or metal, then I'd know what to look for to learn how it differs from other music.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

Time for another, 4th kris film roll thread 🧵

📷 Ektar H35N
🎞️ Kodak ColorPlus 200, unedited

lukyan ,
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@endali It's an exhibition hall, closed for repairs in 2014.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hala_wystawowa_Kapelusz_w_Chorzowie

lukyan ,
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@endali The whole series has realistic colors, matching how I'd think the park looks on a sunny day.

These birds are much paler than in other places, they look pink only when fighting. The front bird is a hooded crow.

@rail_@bark.lgbt avatar rail_ , to random

I've got a plant to take care of and after some time to make sure it doesn't die at the flat (which wasn't a big risk anyway) I'm making babies ;DDD

Cut of 3 leaves inside a jar filled with water

Cut of 3 leaves inside a jar filled with water
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lukyan ,
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@rail_ I never considered that these plants could be bought at a store, they seem to be cut and reproduced for a very long time.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

bought a gem book to supplement my rocks and minerals book :neocat_bongo:

hopefully it will ship soon

lukyan ,
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@endali This looks like a pipeline towards Mastodon. With gems, you can go to Ruby or fossils. (Or DOS GUI clients.)

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

Alright, time for a thread with pictures from my 3rd film roll 🧵

📷 Ektar H35N
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400, unedited

(there's going to be a few other pics from this roll I wanna post, but I need to tweak them to taste in darktable first)

lukyan ,
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@endali That's likely a wood pigeon. They are pretty and seem much easier to take good photos of than collared doves.

(I need to walk slower at the park of pink trees, somehow I never stop there to enjoy looking at the plants.)

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

Time for a thread with some of the pictures from my 2nd film roll 🧵

📷 Ektar H35N
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200, unedited

lukyan ,
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@endali Good photos. With the first outdoor ones, I wasn't sure if the colors are due to the film look, or the Katowice weather.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , to random

sigh
here we go again

the vtmb unofficial patch installation wizard
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lukyan ,
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@endali I need to someday find how to run this game. (There being no newer/more supported VTM CRPGs.)

I find it strange that this has approximately the same age as Half-Life 2 with so much different compatibility.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

Okay, time to share my first (test, and underwhelming) film roll 🧵

📷 Ektar H35N
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200, unedited

lukyan ,
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@endali Wikipedia suggests the fourth artist being Bernard Krawczyk. I need to look around if he's named anywhere on the statue.

(https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeria_Artyst%C3%B3w lists many of them.)

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@endali These look good. They give me a new perspective on places I've seen. I get to see something as an art subject and not just the background for a commute. (I felt some of this when seeing photos of another analog photographer on fedi, but I don't remember if these were of this area or something elsewhere in a similar style.)

The cats look cute in completely different perspectives than any digital photos I remember you sharing.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

just passed the first film off for development :neocat:

was 41 zł including scanning, they didnt' make it more expensive despite it being 72 shots thankfully

gotta wait a week now though

lukyan ,
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@endali Wouldn't the cost mostly scale with the length of the film, not the number of frames?

This made me learn that a roll of film usually has 36 frames (I somehow misremembered 24 as the standard) and one roll of vertical (half-frame) photos is more than I'd take with my digital camera during one intense day. This is encouraging.

@endali@tech.lgbt avatar endali , (edited ) to random

Folks, I've got a question, and I imagine some of you might be able to help. :boosts_ok_gay:
I want to get an analogue camera, and I want it to be cheap.
I'm actually not looking for something thats great, I specifically want something that almost has a polaroid or even Kodak disposable camera quality to it, without actually being disposable. The film for it should be readily available, however.
I'm not looking to be a proffesional photographer, I just want to take pictures that look like they were taken in a drunken fit in the 90s.
Is there anything easily available that would be like this?

Clarification: I dont want it to be an instant camera, not what I'm looking for. I want something that's like a Kodak FunSaver, without being single use plastic trash

Update: Might end up going for the Kodak Ektar H35N, thanks everybody!

lukyan ,
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@endali No experience, but after reading your post and looking at what the local camera store has, Kodak M35 and maybe H35 seem exactly what you are looking for.

I think H35 has a wider field of view than the disposable one, and extra features.

@hauchvonstaub@nrw.social avatar hauchvonstaub , to ActuallyAutistic group German

In my experience, one of the biggest cause for misconceptions about "autistic literal thinking" is the implication and sometimes even assumption, that words have inherent meaning.

Words in their most basic definition are just sounds associated with meaning.
The same or a similar sound can have a widely different meaning in different languages, or even in the same language.

So metaphors are just another meaning, another association with a sound, that can be made.

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lukyan ,
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@hauchvonstaub actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group This might be more of an ESL experience, but there are so many phrases which seem to have literal meanings (based on the contained words), but I see them used only as metaphors. I usually won't write them without first checking a dictionary.

This is in Internet contexts where I'm likely just a reader, and I get no negative feedback for not knowing what a phrase is expected to mean.

lukyan ,
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@punishmenthurts @hauchvonstaub actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group Yes: "literal" meanings are usually old references to something. I did have the problem in school literature classes that "metaphors" were only specific approved memes, not every literal metaphor.

Seeing "the upper hand", I see so many both literal and figurative movie scenes of someone falling but being held by another. Sometimes the upper hand is literally a set of paws. And the words for a hand might be metaphors for reaching or gaining.