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Nah, the shading in this isn't a mess. I FUCKING love your shading, and I swear to god if you talk shit about it again I will come to your house and braid your hair. Don't got hair? You're gunna get a braided wig. It's on! Anyways, I totally am a "do I stop now, or do I keep going at this until it's pure black because I can't stop inking all this shit" kind of person. I get it! I've said it once and I'll say it again - if you can capture the essence of whatever you're drawing you got it. and clearly - you got it. So you done good! Don't be mean to yourself! I just figured I would say the thing about the ear because it might help in the future. What are you gunna do? Get in a time machine and fix it? Nah. Just a little thing to tuck away for the future =)!

I love this! Idk if that's you, or if its like someone's sassy aunt but I feel this vibe so hard! Only thing I have to say is the hatching on the ear is kind of hard core. I mean, the ear could be in complete shadow but typically ears tend to have spaces of highlights kind of on the upper rim and the outer area. I am not sure if you catch me, I don't know anatomy like that so this is how I have to describe it. I also think it's brave as hell you did this whole thing with dip pen because my ass would have fifty splotches everywhere by the time I was done with something like this =)!

Cheers!

I don't know why but it's bugged out when I try to edit this post. Maybe it's too long? Idk. But I am reporting back and I got it to work! Success!

a) I hope you don't loose all your memories, but I do understand it's a very real fear.

b) I personally do not trust corporations like Apple to do my personal information properly. My gal found it so quaint that they have handwriting recognition, it struck terror in my heart.

c) Instead of archiving every piece of paper (which by the by you can do at a local library for free if you live in any sort of populace hub in America) I suggest you might consider archiving just the pieces that pull you. Perhaps small snapshots that comprise the greater moments of your life. Perhaps the little things that remind of you the kindness of the world. I think that's really up to you, but I think digitizing your works if you'd like to is quite a good idea!

d) You can archive them on a cloud service you enjoy or backup them on external memory just in case you are afraid of losing your content. I like to backup my most important things on all three. I use Sync for my cloud service needs, and a micro sd/usb flash drive for the physical. I also have a SSD hard drive, but I keep it hooked up to my lappy so I don't consider it all that safe. Besides which I have heard for archival purposes a safely stored HDD hard drive is actually better for this. Although I don't have the skinny, and others might have better input to assist on this.

As for making something searchable, to be honest I would start with how you name your files. Figure out a dating system you can recognize immediately. Think of your file hierarchy. Do you want to store your excerpts by year, and then store those by month? Then create a folder for the year and twelve sub-folders and plop your files there. As for automating the process, I don't know anything about that to be honest. It's plausible it's all something you could automate. But I am unaware of the process.

I am a person who moves a lot. I have lost most of my precious (materialistic) things through out my life. The way I archive them is either through photo, or just through memory. I share my memories, which is how I keep them alive. This is probably not the most efficient way to handle things, but it is how I handle things. I have noticed as I age that my system's cracks begin to show. I also figured that things just fall out of your head for a reason, and that perhaps as we age we sort of need that emptiness to let go. It's kind of dour, but I once worked in a (god-awful) restorative home and it taught me a lot more about aging than I ever witnessed in my day to day.

By the by, the reason why I suggest selective keepsakes is because it's how I've had to execute my own collections. I keep what I feel means quite a bit to me, even if it's a small hand-written note just saying "hi!" It's just about what "sparks joy" as Marie Kondo says =)! It keeps things succinct, although I don't always keep/let go of the right things. But there really isn't much I can do about that, and I am thankful I have anything at all. Good luck, and I hope you find a solution that not only works for you but is pleasurable to execute =)

Also good luck with any memory issues you may be facing, they're terrifying and if you are facing some I am so sorry for that.

Yes, I hate the way that people in media thought they could empower women by creating absolutely moronic and attractive male characters that they could sexually harass. Like, what!? That's not the way! I think people in general need more support because we've sort of nullified the way support networks used to exist.

Oh, you got it too!

Pulled a Saltburn =)

Internet Archive is how I do it, but like...idk if that's what I am supposed to say.

I've never had that problem myself either. I took a break there for quite some time with my gaming but I did grow up with it, and I have returned to it. I can't think of a time when I have played a game - even a story based one, and liked it and haven't returned to it at least once more. I think I've noticed though, I am kind of a gaming minority. I think the funniest thing I can say about games is that back when I played with a big rowdy group of guys a game would last however long it lasted because the guys would fight and swap for whoever was controlling the character and we'd play that shit into the ground regardless of how long a game was. The last system I had was a PS2, so idk but I knew a lot of complaints started coming out PS3 era. Snap even was a game that we played like crazy. I had a friend who had a N64, and Pokemon was so hot! And we'd all just sit there and see if we could do "perfect" runs even though it was pretty much the same game over and over again.

Speaking of trends, I mean I guess these things have always existed but I think the PS3 began the genre my girlfriend lovingly describes as "penis games" which have hyper-masculine protagonist smashing the shit out of everything with dynamic lighting. I don't mean to offend anyone with this, but the trend is still here (I am just guessing it's Unreal graphics). I know it existed before the PS3, but it really took off then and was part of what actually turned me off of gaming as a whole.

Thank god! I know a lot of gamers still hug their consoles, but I haven't had one since ninety dickety two, and I figured at least I could watch the pretty game if I couldn't play it. Because I am not about to grab a console for one game =P!

Thank you by the by! It was super sweet to pass this along =)

***Oooo, looks like Nausicaa-ZoE!

It's quite funny that Strange Scaffolding seems to embrace uncertainty with er...uncertainty. As in, they keep things explicitly contract based in order to keep people from expending too much time and energy into a singular project. I've always thought of contract work as something rockier due to taxes, benefits, etc. I think though, they're just ahead of the curb and if they're successful enough more power to them. Clearly something is a bit amiss though, if the head of the place can't afford a ticket to GDC. I do like however, that they showed up to socialize regardless. Which is pretty much the main reason to show up to one of these anyways.

I also remember when people would constantly say that games were too short. I didn't play them at the time, but there was a period when everyone was complaining about waiting for a long time for games - paying a lot for a game, and then finishing it in 5-7 hours and never playing it again.