Err, actually, the line might be thick, but probably because it's too big.

As for opaqueness, the previous art WAS opaque too.



anyhow, I darkened the image and shrank it a bit.

you can also compare the line art between the two. I think there's an improvement.

Posted by salty

also that layout change

yup, I just want to show off my growth in digital drawing. You can check the difference in my art thread in Relaxland.

It was going to be a new Archie comic but Nintendo turned that offer down...

Well, I do suggest you eventually graduate to other programs. I'm a Maya user, not a Blender one. You can also try even Z-brush for really organic models and then retopo with Maya to get a really nice organic mesh. Though that's something to consider in the future.

This looks decent. Anything you can do to improve the sound effects? Also, are there examples of new things you can do with those items rather than navigate places a little better?

Huh, I still displayed for me. I must've deleted the wrong one because I wanted to keep the full-size one.

I do hope I can find a way to draw with thinner lines. My approach would be to draw with thick lines and simply shrink the image so it translates to some nice, smooth, thin lines.

Well, you can sculpt a quick and dirty structure and retopo it to something usable for Super Mario 64. Blender can actually sculpt and retopo, it seems.

This may not apply to Super Mario 64, but if you're working with a more contemporary game engine, you can even try sculpting details and then bake details as textures into the new retopo mesh, so you get a highly detailed model but with a reasonable polycount. Or you can use something like Substance Painter to get some nice detailing on there.

Well, I made my position very clear when it comes to gun control. I favor much tougher restrictions and employ a similar system as we do to cars, such as registering guns and also background checks. Ideally, no one should have a gun, as self-defense should not be an acceptable reason to own a gun, but the U.S. is far too down that crazy train to make that a viable solution.

Posted by RanAS

Something I've been thinking about is that, as far as self-defense goes (and without taking guns into the account), is a knife usually the best tool to use? I've heard that if someone is holding a knife, it's difficult to disarm them without injuring yourself. I don't know if it's true or not, but, it's something I've heard a few people say including my mother, who has a security-related job.

I'd go for just for security measures, easily calling the police, and maybe some exercise especially in running. If you're that obsessed about self-defense, invest in a dog or a goose or something.

Posted by Ijah

But if it isn't guns on the street it's knives like how it is in the UK, how the fuck do they regulate knives?

Knives are far less efficient in killing. Stabbings suck, but because they happen doesn't make it an argument against gun control. You're always going to have criminals committing crime, but what we can do is make it more difficult for them to kill.

Are you guys just wanting to fill his backlog to the brim to the point he can't get the energy to answer these questions?

https://www.beautyofbirds.com/africangeese.html

This is a case where someone kept a goose as a pet that did its job at guarding the house. Not aggressively, more like being really noisy. It seems like they're a gentle breed too.

Who knows? When's the last time StapleButter answered?

Did the gender transition kill you?

They can be pretty delicious, so I've heard.

8 VOTES IS GOOD ENOUGH

Promoting herbal medicine

Sorry to break it to you but they don't work.

Ayahuasca Harmaline "proven" to kill cancer? I doubt it. Chemotherapy remains the best solution for cancer.

Both are study that's limited to the effects on cell cultures. It's a far leap to conclude that this is the cure for cancer. In vitro's limitations are in a very specific and limited environment that doesn't match the reality of the human body. They can be good pilot studies, but you can't say it's a "proven" cure for cancer, and it's very disingenuous to imply that "the man and pharma" would be bankrupt out of their asses if they let people knew about the secret alternative cure, which I've seen this argument be repeated extremely often by alt-med promoters.

"Alternate research", no, that's just a nice way of saying research that isn't widespread because of reasons I listed previously. I strongly suggest against any other treatment, especially when this one isn't used as treatment because the studies you're showing me is already quite limited in scope. Chemotherapy turns people into vegetables, but it remains the best method to treat cancer, and I believe promoting alternative medicine for cancer is dangerous and expensive.

Chemo is unpleasant. I know this. I've had a best friend irl who suffered from leukemia and I was very difficult experience for everyone involved. He had to suffer losing hair, nausea, and the pain of bone marrow transplants. He remained committed to chemotherapy, however, as it remains his best shot at survival, and he's recovered today, and I do hope the leukemia doesn't come back. If he or his family decides to forgo chemo, I think the outcome will be far worse.

It's this case, correct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashya_King_case

Refusing chemo for your child is usually not the right choice. I don't know the details of the story but I'm sure there's a reason they're filed abduction charges. I'm aware that proton therapy appears to be used as conventional treatment but I fail to see how it will replace chemo, and it also comes with its own risks and harms as well as also being really limited in application. That the boy survived seems to give too much credit to proton therapy. In the Wikipedia article, he had medulloblastoma that was successfully removed through surgery and he also received more surgery, which I suspect contributed to King's recovery.

In this case the doctors did not support moving the boy so that he could get proton therapy, and in response, on 28 August 2014, the parents took their son out of the hospital without telling the medical team and boarded a ferry to France.

Yeah, disobeying the doctors like that is dangerous. Again, it's good that King survived, but this endangers King's life. In fact this reduced his chances of survival from 80 to 50 per cent.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11749505/Ashya-Kings-parents-reduced-his-survival-chances-by-30-per-cent-report-reveals.html

There's a ton of head-ache inducing conflict and miscommunication in that article.

Proton therapy also has its own issues.

The issue of when, whether, and how best to apply this technology is controversial. As of 2012 there have been no controlled trials to demonstrate that proton therapy yields improved survival or other clinical outcomes (including impotence in prostate cancer) compared to other types of radiation therapy, although a five-year study of prostate cancer is underway at Massachusetts General Hospital.

https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2013/09/16/proton-therapy-is-coming-to-the-uk-but-what-does-it-mean-for-patients/ <- link right in the Wikipedia article you cited

Before we get too excited about this new treatment, it’s important to point out that it’s thought that only around one per cent of UK cancer patients could be suitable for proton therapy. There’s also a lack of hard conventional evidence to prove that it’s more effective and kinder than conventional radiotherapy.

Further research isn't being "suppressed". As I pointed out, evidence is either limited or low-quality.

Chemo saves lives. Alternative therapies do not. The boy had a higher chance surviving if he had chemo. While I don't think the government should've went into a manhunt to King's parents (I think there is a gross misunderstanding going on), his parents did the wrong thing and were lucky that their son survived.

I tried voting for a variety of people so I hope that reflected in the results. At least I got 1st in two results but me sad that I didn't get #1 all by myself >:<

Hiya LifeMushroom. It's quiet around here, but I'm still here from time to time. My sister, I don't know what she's doing.