Illustration of a matcha drink and persimmon shaped snack

Yokohama in Yakuza: Like A Dragon is basically Baltimore. And that means Chicken del Sol is basically Ekiben.

if you work at Palantir and you think the company is evil, you can probably just leave! treat it like a well-paid, evil master's degree on your resume!

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

"はあ?", especially with in a nasal and incredulous way is where it's at for me

New Vega & Ko comic, after three years of hiatus.

Read from the beginning: vegako.webcomic.ws/comics/1

Thanks! Next is nothing, I'm going to stop working for the next 6 months to recover my mental health

I have submitted my two weeks' notice for my job

Inside a traditional Japanese home with folk art decorations. A black cat can be seen lazing on the tatami.

'Antique in a House' - Minagawa Taizo, ca. 1960s.
#JapaneseArt

I would like to quit my job

It's wild that they have so many conventional markers of status (wealth, education, access to nice dinners) and they still feel insecure about not being American for the white silicon valley man at the top of the hierarchy

I was hosting a friend from Japan and apparently she had never eaten or seen a nectarine before???

I'll eat both peaches and nectarines, but I feel like yellow nectarines are peak because of the lack of fuzz

we don't hire developers who don't use AI

weird flex where author takes a sweaty, desperate candidate and tells them they'll make a motivational linkedin story about them

guy thinks LLM tutorial was the best part of his weekend

lady forgives skip-level manager for texting her "I love you" in a work chat

I have a policy on LinkedIn to add everybody who adds me. As a result I think I should start amassing a(n anti-) trophy room of the best(worst) posts I've seen

without her baby photos, I can only assume my cat sprang fully formed at two years old from the forehead of her parent a la Athena and landed her ass immediately in Oakland Animal Shelter

white people yearning for cultural knowledge...

Japanese salaries are way lower than that of the US across most industries and roles. I received an entry level software job offer from a Japanese company that would have paid me half of that of a company in SF!

Japan minimum wage ranges from 900-1100 yen - enough to get a cheap lunch, maybe

People weirdly see Miyazaki as apolitical and happy vibes even tho war is in the backdrop of a lot of his work

bird of paradise flower illustration

bird of paradise flower

A painting of several lilypads, under the sunset over water. The light of the sun paints the whole picutre soft orange, with sparkly drops of water over the lilypads Under the painting is written "Despite everything, it's still you"

Despite everything, it's still you...

I even rolled out the red carpet. Let's hang

#blender #art #b3d

You have probably seen this already, but from lizbourke.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/6...

"[...] seems to be an expression par excellence of US (white) middle-class assimilationist queerness, reproducing the structures and strictures of white (capitalist) heterosexuality."

20 minutes

this bar is a cool place. you should come

INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

honestly praying sundae school makes one with a cool pattern sundae.school

omg this was wonderful and I recognize Mary from some of your earlier works!!! aaaaaaaaaaa

ocha and osake

A minimal bar scene rendered in Blender

welcome to my bar

A pendant light rendered in Blender

LET THERE BE (A PENDANT) LIGHT

the one after that is gonna be earth themed I'm guessing... but what are the other 4+ elements after that?