Diputs 9mo ago • 100%
bit idea: new movement for gender equality from liberals, but it is to change the term 'landlady' in the dictionary into 'landempress' for equality with the male term 'landlord'
Diputs 9mo ago • 100%
Let's not forget the greatest 'freedom' of all, not only is it not enough to be effectively censored by the profit motive, but everyone is also severely hindered from developing artistic skill to a higher level if they do not find a way to monetize their skill, something which is so notoriously unreliable it created the stereotype of the starving artist. This phenomenon was a direct cause of what I would call a flattening of culture all across the globe as traditional arts faced mass extinction due to their lack of profitability.
The cold war was won by capital and lost by humanity.
Diputs 9mo ago • 100%
I recently discovered the Create mod for Minecraft and it is still blowing my mind, it might be the best mod ever made for the game. I still remember watching the trailer for the mod and my first reaction being "THIS MOD ADDS THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION TO MINECRAFT!"
I already had the idea to make a post scarcity fully automated luxury communist villager society in Minecraft and this mod is exactly the missing piece to my plan.
Diputs 9mo ago • 100%
I'm glad to see someone else thought to mention the Create mod when faced with this question, however, one must also mention the addon mod Create: Interactive, it would in theory allow you to create a self-perpetuating giant train base that drills its path forward, creates more rail in a built in production line with the drilled stone and deploys it automatically. Let's not forget the one addon specifically made to expand the train system as well.
Diputs 9mo ago • 100%
Everything in this quarter of the colour wheel. But I personally prefer the noncolours white and grey.
Diputs 9mo ago • 100%
Thank you.
Since getting my first tablet back in 2020 I always used Krita, initially on principle as to not even dignify adobe photoshop with a pirated installation, but I learned over time to appreciate Krita for what it offers.
Krita is free to download, open source and frequently updated with new features. It might not have the fanciest functions of photoshop but it has parity with all the functions that matter for digital illustration. As a plus it even has basic animation tools if you wish to have fun with those.
Compared to SAI I would say it is an objective improvement, compared to photoshop I would say it is much more user friendly, sadly I never tried GIMP so I can't compare it.
~~Does color theory count?~~ I started drawing digitally some years ago, but my rate of improvement was quite slow, and at one point I quit trying to draw for an entire year due to frustration with my inability to pick up coloring in a single week. What I drew here is by no means top-class, but when I started I never imagined being good enough for even this. I wish to keep improving this skill forever, but alas, drawing Lenins will not put food on the table. Although I wonder if one day I'll be skilled enough for my drawings to actually do that. By the way, I wish to rant about outlines for a bit. When I started drawing I initially attempted to replicate an anime-ish style, however, what always stood in the way is the "lineart phase" after the sketch phase. I was never able to get it right, and I always thought it was a waste of time anyway because the sketch itself always looked much more lively, not just that, BUT OUTLINES DON'T EXIST IN REAL LIFE! But hey, at least now I can draw anime girls too, I guess.
Diputs 9mo ago • 100%
It definitely was. I wonder when the next "decades within weeks" moment will happen and finally bring about a paradigm shift for the better. The imperial core is deindustrializing and steadily rolling back so many of the guardrails meant to keep capitalism from imploding one wonders if the theoretical endpoint in a couple centuries is some form of neo-serfdom and subsequently the modern reenactment of the fate of the Romanov dynasty.
Diputs 10mo ago • 100%
Dreams that many had and we must continue to have in their stead.
One of my personal favorites, although I'm pretty sure it was made after the Soviet Union wasn't anybody's address anymore.
Drew this one in November last year, I barely learned how to put color on the digital canvas and I attempted to draw architecture for the first time, the result is asymmetrical, a little off balance, and lacking in detail, but I am still proud of it.
Diputs 10mo ago • 100%
I personally find that the most tragic thing about the internet is how if you looked at the way it was made you'd almost think it was the product of a socialist state. It is a product of intensive collaboration between different researchers, fully subsidized by the state every step of the way and the end result effectively given away for free to the public. Now it is rendered a wasteland, carved up and privatized, and with LLMs and image generators it can only get worse as everything gets filled up with computer generated slop.
However, let's take a moment to think about how much good such technology could do if it was subservient to the needs of a socialist state, search engines that actually give you what you want, central planning networks with unparalleled efficiency, social media that prevents the reproduction of reactionary thought, a free, fully organized and easy to access centralized digital library of all academic resources. I can't help but be hopeful for whatever society comes out of this capitalist hell.
I call myself Diputs, I came across this site one day while searching for some extremely obscure information about Vladimir Lenin on google. After observing it for about 3 months I came to the conclusion that I might have found the best website on the planet, so I decided to finally make an account to participate. My main hobby is drawing, my main wish is to keep improving at it, but I am still unsure if I should pursue the goal of eventually being skilled enough to commodify it for the sake of income. In a general sense I am interested in all art forms, be they stories, paintings, music, architecture and so on. Ever since Marxism gave me a holistic framework for understanding the world around me this interest only grew, although now I feel like I am forever cursed to be overly analytic of things that others would find uninteresting. I have a particular soft spot for socialist and socialist-adjacent music, art from the Soviet Union, particular video games and Steins;Gate. My eternal wish would be to find a time-machine to transport me to the timeline where the USSR successfully united the whole planet. ![ussr-cry](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2f65cb19-15bc-48b7-b160-78a1f2b601c1.gif "emoji ussr-cry") I've got 2 questions, firstly, is there an unspoken agreement as to how frequently one can post in a given community? Secondly, are posters allowed to post their own drawings in the art community? If so, is there an unspoken agreement as to how skilled one must be to do so?