Battle of the Century: Little Debbie Figbars vs. Newtons (formerly known as Fig Newtons)
There is a winner. Do you agree with the one I chose?
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Little Debbie Figbars Vs. Newtons!!!
Little Debbie Figbars Vs Newtons 
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What Bitcoin needs to become self-sufficient
Bitcoin relies heavily on the Internet. And right now, the strength of Bitcoin is dependent on the number of miners and the Internet they are paying for. Therefore, if Bitcoin is to become self sufficient, it needs its own Internet Service Provider that accepts Bitcoin. It would fuel itself.
From there, you can sell Bitcoin-based phone and Internet services. See where I’m going? Then you can start doing Bitcoin payments that are guaranteed to be secured because no can can infiltrate exclusive Bitcoin Internet Service Provider. If anything bad happens, then you’ll know it’s an inside job.
So, once Bitcoin has its own Internet Service Provider, that’s good and all, but it still doesn’t have too much value.
That’s where natural resources come in. Bitcoin needs to get a food supply and be backed by cattle, pork, chicken, etc. Or it needs oil or pharmaceutical backing. Obviously, the druggies are putting their money in. It’s a grand experiment to observe. It’s clear that shit won’t last, even if Feds think Bitcoin is a good honeypot tool.
The reason you need an exclusive Bitcoin natural resource like a cattle farm or whatever is that’s REAL value. When someone pays in Bitcoin for a hamburger or pizza, they need to know they are giving that non-tangible object for something tangible: food in the belly. Same could be for oil. You need that shit to drive your car.
Unfortunately, this could lead to some real cult-like shit. You can get some farmers to start living off solely Bitcoin, but eventually they’d realize they can’t live alone. And the current money system is needed to do business with people outside of the Bitcoin micro-economy.
Ideally, though, if all those things were in place, I’d consider Bitcoin a success. You can use it as a currency, you can use it to chat with friends, you can use it for titles to your house or car, you can use it as a cloud service, etc. The more you use it, the more valuable it becomes. The more valuable it is, the more you’ll likely use it.
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Qt 2D Game Engine SDXM Mode 7 3D implementation Update
Qt 3D Mode 7 implementation Oh yeah. It’s on. I can’t seem to get the perspective of the mapped objects correct, as it should converge into the vanishing point, but I observed Super Nintendo’s own Mode 7 and they never really pushed it so that it was all mathematically correct anyway. I watched Super Mario Kart and F-Zero very closely. But it’s good. Now I know for sure I can make a racing game or have a really nice looking gimmicky 3D background. It’s on. For sure.
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SDXM Mode 7 Update Woah-hey, gang! Check this out. I’ve figured out how to do this wannabe SNES Mode 7 thing a little easier. Still pure Qt/c++ using just QTransform and QPainter, no DirectX and no OpenGL or other third party 3D libraries. I’ve been able to map the coordinates correctly and now the thing rotates around the correct point in the desired map. The only problem is that you have to limit your texture buffer size. This map of Vancouver from NASA is stored in memory at 3000 x 3000 pixels. You don’t want to be calling that from paintEvent() or it’ll blow up your hard drive and graphics card. So prebuffer your textures. Also, I’ve noticed that if you scale the texture via QPainter, it seems to process faster because it needs to scan less pixels (I’m assuming). The problem is your output will be pixelated and the markers won’t be 1:1, and that defeats the purpose of it all.
Otherwise, it runs really well with an output of 640x480x60fps. Anything bigger is pushing it.
So the next thing I’ll try to figure out is how to do fake scaling and z-distance. Having a flat 3D plane is cool, but you gotta be able to have at least billboarding trees, rocks, and buildings. I am trying to emulate F-Zero after all. 😛
I’ll upload a playable demo once I have enough to show off. Keep an eye out for it.
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Practice Digital Inking Comic Book Art With Photoshop
Photoshop Inking Demo On the left is a pencil drawing I scanned in. On the right is the digitally inked artwork done in Photoshop. As you can see, they have two completely different tones. My original pencil lines were more sketchy and aggressive. Then, the digital lines look more balloon or cartoony, but otherwise more clean. Of course, this is all practice. My goal is to make it look almost 1:1, so that it looks consistent. Drawing on a 4×5 tablet isn’t necessarily as intuitive as 1:1 graphite pencil on paper (which I’ve done most of my life and have more control).
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Yellow Stinger Concept Art
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Yellow Stinger 2 So when you actually sit down and do it pencil, ink, and colored, you get an understanding of what your strong traits are. My lines aren’t straight. And my inking isn’t that good, not modeled out. Coloring may still be too flat. But it’s a learning process. Lifelong.
Yellow Stinger Trying to come up with a mascot for my game engine.
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How To Make Jolly Rancher Hard Candy Into Juice Drink
Having leftover Jolly Rancher hard candy in bulk, I realize I can convert it into drinking form. It works!!!
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Behold! Saelee’s The Project 2 sprite
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SDXM Me Animated And here it is animated!
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SDXM Me sprite concept Here’s yet another sprite concept. I want to get down a style that will eventually be good looking enough, but also drawn faster when I finally finish building SDXG.
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UPDATE!!! And here it is, I animated it!
Saelee Standing Animated
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Saelee’s The Project Hero sprite by prominent Wow! I AM IMPRESSED! This sprite was done by prominent at Fiverr for $15. I wanted it to look like Mega Man X quality sprite based on my own likeness and reference photo and holy shit did he deliver. I think I’ll have to commission him to do the rest of my sprites for the remake of The Project. Awesome job, prominent!
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Me 20 Years Later
Me 20 years later I was digging through my old pencil box and found this portrait of myself from 1996 when I just started middle school. It’s suppose to be profound how much I’ve changed. Mostly, if I don’t pimp my own propaganda, no one would. Thus, it’s profound to me.
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Microsoft Patch For Font Corruption Windows Update KB3013455
Well, well, well Microsoft, not bad turnaround time to fix my Windows Vista problem. Microsoft releases supposed patch for Windows Update KB 3013455. You have to install it manually though. But it seems to fix the problem. You can install the newly issued KB 3013455, BUT THEN YOU MUST download and install KB 3037639 AFTER it, which will patch the corrupted font bug.
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Leia Pseudo-Holographic 3D Mobile Imaging
Named after Star Wars gimmicky visual effect of Princess Leia, mobile phones might soon be able to project a holographic effect on their displays. According to the description of how the technology works, the LED shoots the light at 64 different directions. It layers images on top of each other, much like a CT Scan and the optical effect is something that is 3D. I imagine, when displays get high enough frame rates with more efficient power consumption, then this thing will become the norm. Now, the question is, how would you prepare a image for 3D holographic display? You’d have to prepare every layer or model the image in 3D. Not real efficient use of time for average user. But this stuff would be awesome for medical field and possible video gaming.
