Well, 21 months from January puts this at the 6th of September, 2025. Be there or be square.

Looks like Bog has some pretty good compression rates! How does it compare with other standards?

There was a strategy to it! Instead of dropping coin down every last blade, little kid me aligned the machine a particular way so the coin would drop all the way down to the second to last blade. Then I would nudge the coin to the edge, then twist and suddenly stop to give it enough force to not just fall straight down, but also not enough to fling it past the final blade. I’d say I won around half the time, and intentionally only did it once every so often to not arise suspicion you could game it well. I was sad when my 25 cent burritos were taken away for good after this machine left, ah well.

From those screenshots it does look quite nice! Visible ratings while scrolling albums is huge for me and I miss it. I migrated everything over to Strawberry from MusicBee this year because I only want FOSS, and Tauon appears to be GPL licenced! Strawberry absolutely works, but it still feels more like a settle. Gotta give this a try and see how it feels, thanks for the info!

Thank you so much!

Haven’t seen much today unfortunately, hoping that changes. I made a very short pixel art skit for today and posted it in a few places. April snuck up on me once again, so I’m glad I got anything up this time.

With all that food for thought, your son might be full before getting to the food court!

Nice night scene! I appreciate the detail you put into the suv and its lighting, really makes me feel like they’re the only one around for a long while.

Leap day people have to wait four, the poor souls.

The day’s not over until you say goodnight to your plushies! God I love plushies.

Thanks for sharing! From the sounds of it you’ve been aware for a long time too, honestly it’s kinda amazing to me how long it’s been a part of many people’s lives and identities. It really is one of those things that seem to stick with you forever!

Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words!

Thank you very much!

Glad my translation of the window was on point then! This was made in Krita, a FOSS art program. I actually made it under a size and color constriction to be recreated as a Mario Maker 2 comment, which I ended up doing a week later.

Tails is basically the reason I found out I wanted to be a fox when I was like 7, so he’s had an influence on my identity for sure. Without the full body and no color to go on, he does look a lot like him.

Yeah, pure art posts are against the rules, but it’s often pretty easy to turn something into a joke related to the art you’ve made. Also it could just be emotionally relatable, which is also allowed.

Yeah I feel you on that, at least in the sense of knowing people enjoy what you create anyway. It doesn’t have to do anything crazy, but knowing people want to see it from time to time is certainly a nice feeling. Art is a form of personal expression after all, and I want to share that with others freely. That is also what I look out for in others too, people who want to share their ideas and create purely because they want to. A labor of love and nothing more.

Engagement is one of those things which is a bit odd to try and capitalize on. It’s less about the content itself and more about the where and when a lot of the time. You’d be surprised just how much the exact same post would change in reach just by shifting your post time by a few hours. I never found /r/furry to be a good place to post artwork when I used Reddit. Slapping a tagline and putting it onto furry_irl was significantly more effective with user interaction and turnarond. Though regardless, virtually none of those people ever interacted with my furaffinity.

At the end of the day though, being popular has little to do with hard work and improvement as an artist. It’s much more about endlessly shoveling out content of any quality and constant self promotion. If you’re not the kind of person who wants to turn marketing into a hobby, you and I are in the same boat. Just making things we want because we can, and sharing stuff without expecting any real engagement. I might not be popular, but at least I feel free to do as I please.

Though if decentralization were to be hidden, it’d be a good idea to cycle through lots of well established general instances for user signups under the hood. The vast majority of people are just going to choose the default options, and if it’s all going to funnel into mastodon.social, that’s a lot of centralization of users. Ideally no single server lords over all the others in terms of user count, because that gives them lots of power other instances may feel compelled to abide by. Having power spread out across many different people helps keep things in check, at the very least making large or drastic decisions more of a round table affair.

“I don’t have to, because the knowledge of my ability to fly has already been imprinted upon the hearts of everyone on earth. If you truly decide to let my flying ability into your heart, you will quickly understand the power behind that truth.”

You’re certainly not alone, I’m in the exact same boat lol.