Official Off-Topic Thread

[Friend]

@Alex my first love, and I recently told him I loved him. 

And Alex you're defs not a nobody, why would you tell yourself that?  For starters I know nothing about you besides you stick greatly to what you believe in and have considerable talent in art and animation

[yaomon17]

You could sell an ebook (PDF or whatever) directly at any price you like if you wanted I suppose?

I think the main issue is that people just don't know about my book, plus I'm a nobody.


Friend, what are you talking about? What is this voice you speak of?

Odysseus was nobody and he is well known across the world.

[AlexHW]

maybe somewhere an alien is writing a book about me, like homer's epic poem the odyssey.

sorry to hear that, Friend. I don't have much advice on that kind of thing.

[Carnivac]

Just a little reminder that if anyone has been considering to donate any money at all to my charity skydive then then please do it by the end of Thursday 9th August (as it has to all be sorted a week before the actual skydive takes place, actually it's meant to be two weeks but I've been given an extension).  Link in sig.

Thank you.

[AlexHW]

I forgot if i'm allowed to post this stuff, but here's something. http://youtu.be/hXuua1TUTpU

[Ai]

Just found out that GIMP 2.9 recently gained some basic indexpainting support[1]
While the performance of GIMP 2.9 is currently pretty slow while they work through all the different changes needed to make high bitdepth support available in everything, and it'll never provide the degree of control you can get with eg. GrafX2, it's quite pleasing if you just want to do some minor edits.

Support includes (this is basically a list of everything in GIMP that is currently using GEGL):

* Full greyscale selection mask support (ie. you can generate some plasma as your selection mask, and then drop a greyish color on the canvas to layer some fog over the image)
* all 'basic' operations like paste, paste into, fill, pattern fill,
* All drawing modes; and drawing with lowered opacity
* Layer modes and opacity (but you don't get an indexized preview until you do 'new from visible', only a full RGB one.)
* Painting with 'paintbrush' and 'ink' tools (ie. the brush is plotted with levels of opacity, not just binary transparency)
* gradients (heh)
* most color filters, eg curves, levels -- this doesn't modify the palette but the image content. Posterize can be surprisingly useful.
* cage transform tool, smudge tool, clone tool, dodge/burn tool
* transform tool preview opacity works.

[1] The relevant news item is 'High bit depth processing available now'. As I write this, it is the fourth item from the top.

[Ninja Crow]

This seems like a worthy project:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana

Not a pixel game, but it is a sequel to a great pixel game

[Carnivac]

This seems like a worthy project:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana

Not a pixel game, but it is a sequel to a great pixel game

Well that's depressing...

[Grimsane]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/badplanet/bad-planet

that's one I'm quite interested in, dunno if it'll get funded though 

they are going to go to a publisher otherwise, something they wanted to avoid (and for good reason, if some of the developer commentary in the industry over the years regarding publishers influence on the development process is not an exaggeration)

[Tourist]

I would like to propose removing some of the sticky threads from the general discussion forum.  I think we could remove the server move thread and forum funding thread since they are largely complete.  The CC suggestion thread could be archived or removed since no one has been doing that activity for a year.  The 'a new skin appears' could be removed since there seems to be plans in place, or kept until the reskin effort (and any bugs or comments) is complete, then removed.

Tourist