marccus

@rnarccus.bsky.social

no longer active here ✌ see main @rnarccus.art for art

Billions of years of evolution to arrive at the incredible network of complex biological and chemical mechanisms working in tandem in my brain to give me consciousness, only for my will to live to be solely determined by whether or not a bunch of guys in ice skates can get a rubber puck into a net

I didnt think that any actual game devs would repost the video of my tool so now I'm embarrassed at the thought that some of them are clicking through to my profile expecting to see more game dev and instead it's wall-to-wall gay porn

The first cup of coffee is so vital that I don't even realize that I'm drinking it, I lift the mug to my lips and feel the horrible pang of loss without any warning

I've used the wacom intuos medium for 6ish years now and I hadn't let the drivers update in years. I finally decided to let it update today, and this is the one time being reticent about updating software was actually fucking me over, it's like night and day, everything works so much better now

Kind of an awkward PSA because I've had some artist mutuals recommend these sites/tools, but "ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them. So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:

a digital illustration of a smiley face (3 lines total) resulting in a 53.7% ai likelihood evaluation

The homogenisation and consolidation of buisinesses and brands has led to the erosion of the midlist, the indie movie or band or comic. There's a real sense of "I'll only try media that's already popular / famous," and I'm begging you to look for the weird shit, the experimental, the niche.

I've had to explain to several people that those pixel pictures aren't filtered or shrunk down versions of "normal" drawings, that's not how pixel art works at all 😭 shrinking a picture doesn't turn it into pixel art, it turns it into a disordered mess of pixels

Rewatched x-men 2000 for the first time in MANY years with the movie night group yesterday, it holds up so well! Modern superhero movies are decidedly not for me so it was nice to get to enjoy one again + seeing younger ian mckellen and patrick stewart was very 🥺

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.