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We don’t have a script for ending friendships. No rituals or cliches or formalities. And they usually instead just fade over time

Article is crazy. 96 books! Text file is still working ok for me

My suggestions:

• Animation Survival Guide
• Drawing in pen instead of pencil (commit to lines!)
• Character Art School on Udemy has been good

Thread features some good discussion on the “I’ve been doing it for decades and still learning” as encouraging or not.

Recommendations:

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
• https://drawabox.com/
• Youtube. There is a higher level of skill in art then at any point in history and you have access to it.

I particularly liked seeing a bunch of familiar cartoon/2d animation techniques in some of the clips.

Some discussion on HN about the iterative story writing process.

Watch your egress. Firewalls work both ways. Carefully monitor outbound traffic.

Writing to allow yourself to forget shit. Much of what is on this page.

The story of trying to track down your instagram double.

via HN

This was where it lost me:

But at the most simple level, NFTs have given me, for the first time, a visceral understanding of the most basic innovation of crypto: What it means to digitally own a unique digital object.

Maintain a music collection long enough and you’ll own some pretty unique digital assets.

Too much trash and sponsored noisy content

Found via lightnote

Related: VR Exercise Equivalent ratings. Apparently modded Audioshield is the highest intensity

Markdown archive of the OP Forums tips and tricks megathread

Porn Sex versus Real Sex - but based on data already nearly 10 years out of date!

This reply spoke to me. I did it a few years ago and it has helped a lot.

I’ve silenced my phone 8 or 9 years ago and it’s been like that since then. (With unmuting it very occasionally. Like a few times a year, maybe.) The notification frequency must have grown a lot since then.

I have no idea how people can deal with their phone beeping and vibrating constantly. Actually, I get annoyed pretty quickly when e.g. my partner leaves her phone in the room.

Reply to “don’t contribute to web forums”. Linkrot is real, but a lot of the information sticks around

We’ve been in it so long that probably over 90% of our outbound links are at best broken or at worst lead to malware or pornography (of course I clean it up when I find it – by removing the links and adding a note). And yet, stuff that people have been directly contributing to our site since 1998 is still available, still open, and freely available without creating an account

Interesting explanations of some normal aspects of estate handling and ownership (especially partial, or having interests in).

The physics and background of curling. Some fascinating bits in there. I thought it was just about pushing a stone across some ice.

In those days, my head was full of reggae. Even when I was trying to come up with a rock beat, I think it just naturally came out as something that would work in reggae as well.”

From the rare HN discussion filled with music recommendations!

Some interesting comments on the novelty aspect, routine, familiarity, perception of time