And if someone were to come here and somehow managed to find this exact point in the off topic thread of 50+ pages, how would they know it's about them? 

I'm practicing basic shading cuz I'm an art noob =(  Colors 3D on the 3DS is pretty awesome though, especially since on the actual 3ds screen it really smooths everything out perfectly for you 

Well, I'd still like to be friends with her.  I don't often meet someone I can have a proper conversation with and seem to have a similar way of thinking and laugh a lot together so I'd like to keep that in my life even if we don't get to have a repeat of friday's kiss-fest and if nothing else I had two really lovely dates to remember.  Can always use more happy memories in my mind.  I just could have done without my confidence level being raised and knocked the weekend before I do my play.  Ah well, I'm a different person in the play anyways so it hopefully shouldn't matter too much.

Also I'm quite happy I finished this retro 8bit RoboCop CPC revamp which is in the off topic creativity thread if anyone wants to see and hasn't.  I get a sense of satisfaction working with retro 'limitations' even if there are so very few people I know who would consider it anything but a blocky mess of crud.
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=5006.msg133522#new   

Aren't you at all irked that she was dating someone else while dating you?  Or did you already know about it? 

I basically just confessed my feelings to the person I love, though still don't know him personally nor have ever spoke to him.  I know it sounds silly and elementary... But I was offered lunch with him.  Now I feel like I want to explode 

What do you mean by "technical backing".
I would say it falls under silly experimental restrictions.

Sorry I didn't word that well. I meant if they are justifiable through a technical perspective. Hope that makes more sense.

This smiley set is a bit of an experiment with colors and AA.  It's the first time I'm pixeling something with colors instead of greys first.  I really struggle with colors.  It's not really readable at 1x, but I think at 2x is the best size anyway, since it shows off the experimental AA/outlining at this size, so I like it.  All C+C is much appreciated.  I think what I most want to learn from this topic is better color usage, unless bigger flaws exist that I am not even aware of.

Quote from: Friend on July 06, 2012, 01:15:48 am

Quote from: ptoing on July 06, 2012, 12:39:35 am

• What improves clarity is higher DPI. My monitor has a DPI of 92ish, the iDevice retina displays have a DPI of over 300. You can not even see the pixels with your naked eye at all. This advance will come to end user screens with time as well

Does this bit foreshadow the impending death of the medium? 

Not really. You can hardly see the pixels on modern screens as compared to stuff that was around 10 or so years ago. people still make pixelart. Pixelart has been and will keep on declining in terms of professional usage for applications. But right now pixel specific knowledge is (and I think will stay to be) important for graphic design in icons and such. Look at the tool icons in Photoshop. They are not really pixelart, have a lot of shades and are very smooth. But they show understanding of pixel level detail, and they have to, because they are quite small. Even if the DPI is 3 times higher you need to make things sharp where it has to be. So this kinda stuff will keep it's value.

As far as games go it will become a style choice and also has to do with ease of production.
And the hobby sector I think will always persist. Just as people still make lowpoly stuff for the fun of it and even more so just as people still make etchings or wood cuts and so on.

I like the the true point you made about understanding of pixel level detail and tiny detail will always remain.  But then I asked myself if computers eventually lose the visual pixel, and eventually all old computers will become broken beyond repair, wouldn't *that* kill the medium?  And then I questioned whether or not as long as we have computers, we could always *simulate* old pixel resolutions, just like people today make art in outdated resolutions on new hardware.  Sorry, I'm not really old enough or have had the exposure to computers to know near as much as I should about them...