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Kate Barrett

@thewaether.bsky.social

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"Her Generation's Greatest Wordsmith" / I'm the b!tch!! I'm bisexual and I WILL bring it up!! I make games at https://thewaether.itch.io/ https://www.patreon.com/amyrot https://ko-fi.com/thewaether main blog at: https://katebnormal.tumblr.com/

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 13h

just been informed, and I didn't know this, that pete hegseth is the "I never wash my hands" guy

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 15h

facebook always felt to me like it was a spam website, including the way it's built and the way it serves ads. it's kind of shocking to me such a user-hostile site ever took off

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 15h

I get the "genie's out of the bottle"-style catastrophising about AI being everywhere but, take for example, spam, plaigarism, and misinformation have always been very easy to make and there's very simple ways to control them. if a surge of spam isn't being controlled that's intentional

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 15h

AI creates a revolutionary new type of video that makes you feel disappointed after you watch it and find out it never happened

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 23

A Venn diagram, 2 circles.

Circle 1: 13th century: Owns a hovel, has access to the commons, pays 1/10 annual produce to the lord
Circle 2: 21st century: Rents a hovel, no access to the commons, pays 1/2 annual income to the lord
Overlap: My landlord is cruel, I dislike the new king, and I fear I will freeze to death in my hovel this winter.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 19h

this shit doesn't happen to me. I am a bugfixing champ. if a bug eludes me for over 12 hours something's gone very wrong

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 19h

now I've spent several hours figuring out why every single sprite is flipped the wrong way round (and continues to be so even if flipped manually) and I have no fucking clue why

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 20h

I do my best to make menus as robust as possible (never make it so the submenu is controlled by more than 1 variable, have a thing that reloads the menu if the variable is changed and call it in every loop, rather than load it once, etc)

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 20h

coding a menu is the hardest thing because there is nothing in real life that behaves that way for you to model it on

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 20h

drinking game: take a drink every time something inconvenient happens

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 22h

something I've had to contend with: making music is, inherently, a bit camp

U.N. Oomfie was her?🍉 @meadowatlast.bsky.social · 1d

@ManningKrull:
I remember one time we were in my friend Dave's car and listening to Slayer and my friend Eric said you know what, these guys aren't tough or scary, and I'm gonna tell you why, it's because they're singing a song, and Dave got really mad

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 1d

people always ask me why i use tris, its because on really low poly models it gives you full control over how the mesh deforms with the rig and how light hits the mesh. My tris are very particular, i dont model in quads and then triangulate later because blender usually chooses the wrong direction

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23h

thank you zack polanski for doing what I've always dreamed of doing

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

I have a real hate for this exact brand (I don't like regular milk) and thier smug ad copy lol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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laura 🔥 @freezydorito.lol · 1d

thanks i’ll say that

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

this fixed everything wrong with the tone and I'm going to keep doing it

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

I remember a piece of advice that was like "always draw a character with the darkest possible skin in concept art because the executives will always lighten it"

Fighting-Games Daily @fgcdaily.bsky.social · 1d

🎨Bayonetta's character designer, Mari Shimazaki made Miary Zo's Costume 03!

“The combination of a green base with red accents was inspired by the Madagascar flag, and from an early stage onwards, a white inner layer was incorporated to highlight Miariz's dark skin.”

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

fear factory is kind of underrated... "Demanufacture" is that perfect industrial metal sound to me. it was the first time I heard an album where it sounded like every instrument could cut you

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen some pros say they can't do this, wheras it was one of the first things I learned, again because I started out by learning fear factory songs which seem to do this a lot

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

a thing I can do that I learned a lot of people can't is that I can chug the guitar string while palm muted at an extreme speed. however, it kills my arm after a few minutes

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

what fear factory *DO* is. they turn the kick drum up to an extreme level so it drowns out everything else in the mix. that seems to be the entire method

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

I've been attempting to get the guitar to sound percussive like my idols Fear Factory but I listened to some isolated guitar tracks from them and realised even they don't sound like that.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

update: string is fine but the pick is a fine powder

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