I was there in the beginning getting it off the ground, I've not looked in a very long time but dA is owned by WiX now so I'm not surprised. A lot of people left when we started to highlight vector art/pop art, a big wave left when we started to support suzi9mm and co, this wave will be AI. Here is the idea we built it on: https://x.com/dissenter_hi/status/2011183228154188111
That's normal for any kind of creative work. Some days it just happens quickly, other days you keep trying and trying and nothing works.
Usually this means I have forgotten to eat, or that I need to take a step back and consider whatever I’m doing at a deeper level. Once I recognized that the “keep trying and trying and nothing works” days vanished for good.
his conservative viewpoints and political support (which incidentally i do not share) do not automatically make his beliefs “far right”. i have not seen or heard a single thing he’s expressed or done that suggests “far right”. if anything, he appears rather centrist.
and can we stop already with the smearing? it clearly wasn’t intended to be a nazi salute, which both the ADL as well as the person who made the gesture have clarified. do we think he is lying about that? why would someone who wants to make nazi salutes on stage then go and lie about it later?
scott adams, however, has said and clarified his far-right viewpoints many times publicly. there’s no ambiguity there.
My spouse tried out for the people who sub-contract the app store reviewing and it was very much as you surmise, they require you to do a very oddly specific number of reviews in an hour (29, IIRC) and do not pay very well. Pay and time per review might have gotten better if he'd stuck with it and climbed to a similar level as his previous position in a mapping company but we are not at that level of desperation yet.
1. When a mapper is learning to map, and indeed learning to make a good map, they shouldn't publicly release a map until they've made a good quality map. When they make test maps to learn mapping, or to try to make a proper map, those maps should be kept on their hard drive, or perhaps privately released to acquaintances and more experienced mappers for testing and feedback, until they manage to make a good map - the good map is the first one they should publicly release.
2. Being a first time mapper is no excuse whatsoever for releasing a bad quality map. Some mappers mistakenly think it is, and try to make such excuses in their texts - sorry, but that excuse simply isn't acceptable. Firstly, the reason above, bad quality maps that one makes while learning to map should be kept on the hard drive until a good quality map is achieved. Secondly, there are plenty of people, from all genres of mapping, who have released good quality maps as their first released maps, some of these have indeed been excellent maps.
Is the entire Quake modding scene this hostile to newbies or is it just this one dude?
This attitude may have made sense back in 2001 when Quake was only about five years old and you could presumably get your friends to check out your first attempts at levels when you hauled your computers into one room for bi-weekly LAN party but when we're talking about a thirty-year-old game I somehow suspect most of your friends are gonna be playing something slightly newer most of the time.
In my experience the quake mapping community is very welcoming to new mappers.
There are a had full of quake mapping discord channels where new and old mappers are sharing screenshots very regularly, tips and where you can ask for feedback and play-testing.
For anyone interested in what quake mapping is like these days, I can recommend the latest mapping jam "Quake Brutalist Jam III (QBJ3)". I believe there are a bunch of mappers releasing for the first time for this map pack.
EDIT: I looked into it and it seems the article is first captured around 2006, at that time the Quake scene was perhaps less welcoming to new mappers or maps of low quality.
It's not later than 2001 since the dude closed the site on "Sunday 25th November 2001 ". I used to frequent it all the time back in 2000~2001 since it was the only SP review site still being updated. He was notorously grumpy.
Here's what he posted when shutting down the site:
Site closed.
This site is now closed. This is because I haven't enjoyed reviewing at the site
for about 9 months, and because I am no longer interested in supporting the Quake
mapping scene. My email address is also closed. The current content will remain
here as an archive.
IIRC, at the time, it was considered wasteful and annoying to download smoeone's WIP, half-assed map because bandwidth was a big issue, and these files (wads? paks? can't remember exactly) were hefty.
I saw somewhere here saying they want some kind of AI appliance that learns their regular commute and warns them about traffic and construction and I was like, dude, every radio station had regular traffic reports from helicopter pilots through the whole morning and evening drive times.
An individualized report tailored to your route at your time is much higher utility than periodic reports of a few popular routes provided at random intervals.
Also, all the big map apps already provide real time traffic so not sure what LLMs (“AI”) bring to the table.
I'm an artist and haven't used a mouse since somewhere in the 00's when I developed some RSI in my index finger while working in the Flash animation mines.
Annoyances: games that require you to push the cursor against the edge of the screen to move the view, app/website developers who force tiny scrollbars that constantly hide themselves despite me setting the OS to never hide scrollbars, having to restart the tablet drivers most of the time when I move between having the laptop docked with the big screen and big tablet on the desk, and taking it out to a cafe or the park and using the smaller tablet that lives in my laptop bag.
Fund free places to hang out.
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