Oops, pardon my rambunctiousness, there!

So, over here I try to casually aim for one-post-per-day on my little startup anti-Reddit community (EGN+), which… oh, bother, it’s still too much work for me, daggit! (I have CFS/ME)

In addition, I feel like I need to explain every little thing. Which is probably a sensationally idiotic goal, right? *gulp*

I think your method is more practical, frankly.

Omigosh, you just made my day, crafty. !

We’ve talked about art before, meh, eh!

(fellow artists talking about art, lol)

No no…we had it fixed for centuries

I really don’t understand you there.

No, in fact the very founding of the USA was arguably done primarily so that the ruling class could disregard the respectful boundaries that the English imposed to avoid strife with Native Americans and other colonial powers, which incidentally tended to curb our exploiting the land willy-nilly as we’ve shamelessly done since. It also locked out women and slave voters, preserving a classist system.

Since then there’s been various periods of little / negligible useful social policies, as well as periods in which the ultra-wealthy and common capitalists were UNCHECKED in their ability to thoroughly exploit people and form monopolies, etc etc. Seriously, if the Roosevelts hadn’t come along, those things might have progressed scarily unchecked.

So, no-- I certainly don’t see evidence that our form of democracy was ‘fixed for centuries.’ No, the fact is it’s been a shaky, wild, perilous ride from the day one.

…the 1964 presidential campaign, as that’s the markings of the first ever attack ad.

Maybe in terms of TV, but TV is just a natural extension of media, and media in the States has been used since… at least the early 1800’s? to completely slag-off or outright attack enemy candidates. Indeed, it’s been a perfect blood-bath of disinformation at times, which doesn’t even address all the nasty, vile tricks used to disenfranchise, or outright turn away undesirable voters at the polls. Which yes-- includes outright violence against undesirable voters across centuries in the States.

So, yeah… that all happened.

Altho I DO agree with you that somewhere between 50-70yrs back, the USA has been outright under attack by right-wingers, paving the way for fascism. Basically attacking most of the progress made under FDR and even Republican presidents like Ike.

People glom onto the only entity bothering to do benchmarks/reviews/ratings/whatever, or at least the only popular one, even if the system is totally bogus.

I don’t get any of this, really. MetaCritic and IMDB are also huge, and use alternate weighting systems, I believe. You can also just google the movie and underneath the ‘big three reviewers,’ there’ll be a bunch more quality review sites, like NYT, The Guardian, Ebert’s site and so forth.

So for anyone who wants to get a spectrum of opinions, it’s really not that hard. Not unlike how one should get reliable news.

Thanks for checking that out! On my end, I found this version of “spank”: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spanking#Etymology_1

Which of course is different from the other meaning, to “punish by swatting.”

As for an example, from Tintin’s Secret of the Unicorn:
https://i.imgur.com/6BguONT.jpeg

Wow, I’ve made some decent paper pixelations before, but they took forever, and are simply not as good as this.

Formidable!

Question, if I may: in some sailing / pirate works I’ve read, a ship has been said to be making a “spanking pace.”

Any relation with that back sail there?

if it’s once a year. If we did it every night…

Around here (MidWest city), fireworks go off every night for a month before, and then a month after the fourth. And I don’t mean a small amount, either. More like some version of the Vietnam War. It’s nuts.

Basically, most of summer is devoted to fireworks play, with the fourth being a deluxe version of the “fun.”

Thanks, Ella!

Yes I agree, some privacy payment info would probably help folks like me in future. I don’t have much experience (nor confidence) in this area and could frankly use a slight bit of hand-holding, haha.

I’ll try again tomorrow. I’m having some trouble here today.

I also missed the part about using Github, and of course I don’t know what my options are for that either.

So for virtual CC, I’ll try setting that up with my bank, altho it might be a little bit of a long-shot. As an alternative, would you recommend something like… “Privacy.com” I seem to recall?

Nice! And:

Shiny things are pretty simple if you think of them as different gray shapes making a whole.

That’s great, haha.

Thank you.
I’m indeed living in the USA at this time.

In which case, do you have any thoughts about how I might make a donation to this instance? TBH I’m a bit scared about giving out my credit / debit card info, so I tend to err on the side of extreme caution.

Just set up an acct with one of those four agencies, I imagine?

Kinda why we have gouache and ‘watercolor pencils,’ I suppose.

Could I see some of your stuff, perhaps?
https://lemm.ee/post/34206488

Well, you’re not redolent of linseed, so what the hell do I know. :P

Awesome point.
And pretty much the farthest thing away from how I’ve typically created via my little painstaking pencils, inks and watercolors, lol.

So… gosh. Whadya say?
“Oil!,” I suppose, but I could almost say “acrylic,” almost?
Nah… GOTTA be oil!

Oh wow, I’m always fascinated by art that can look incredibly realistic in places and yet with a total looseness, overall.

Oy, now I understand why I wasn’t seeing your latest content!

Hmm, I haven’t hyperventilated in a long time.

Ah, these endless parrots of olde WB “coy-toons.”

“So-uh-- whadya want me to DO with’em, boss…?”

“Go easy for now, but check their Disney credentials!”

Sounds good to me, and anything we can do to help, please!

Oh, geeze, no apologies necessary on anyone’s end, particularly towards our wonderful host’s end. We’re going to help make the Fediverse work, right? Alrighty then! ^^

Thank you!
huge sigh of relief

Okay, my host, Sunaurus– In future, would you say there are any specific do’s and don’ts about trying to include image content in posts & comments? Like, should I be doing something more smartly…?