Much cuter than she expected.

Thanks, I hate it.

I’m not familiar with open typer, klavaro or gnu typist, but there’s nothing particularly complicated about making a typing game. However, you simply aren’t providing enough information for anyone to really be able to offer advice. What are you actually needing help with? Do you have any sort of plan for how you want this hypothetical game to work?

Personally, I prefer your last case. I put comments before my functions that explain in plain text what the function is doing, e.g. “If the widget is vibrating, do X; otherwise, do Y”. If the function is particularly complex, I’ll put more comments inside it that explain how it’s accomplishing that, but I like being able to just see at a glance a summary of the function’s… function, without scanning the whole thing for comments. It’s like the index of a book. You quickly scan to find the page with the thing you’re interested, then you read that page in detail.

Just be glad your sona has fingers and is roughly the same size as you. This could have been awkward.

I’m not knowledgeable about air fryers, so I can’t really comment there, but slow cookers / crock pots are fantastic and in my opinion, should be in everyone’s kitchen. Maybe I’m biased, though, because I really like soups and stews and sauces and things, which they’re great for. Not things you’d cook in an oven, and my stovetop at least doesn’t have any kind of timer mechanism.

Maybe try a slow cooker. If you find a few recipes you like and prepare what you can in larger batches and save some for next time (for example if it uses a collection of spices, measure out multiple recipes worth of all of the spices and store them (pre-combined) in spice jars), you can get the prep time down to a few minutes each time you want to cook it. Slow cookers have the added benefit of not having to worry about taking it out of the oven at the right time or whathaveyou - when it finishes cooking, it’ll just keep your food warm until you’re ready to eat it. This also keeps the washing to a minimum - it’s just the slow cooker insert and your bowl + utensils. As an added bonus, you’ll get multiple days worth of food out of one time cooking.

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I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.

Yeah, I quite like what we made this year. Wish we’d had more people getting involved - would have been neat to have like, 10 or so small things in there.

Obviously far too early to start planning something, but I think we should go with a collage of instantly recognizable furry gateway characters - Disney’s Robin Hood, Gadget Hackwrench, Nick Wilde / Judy Hopps, Lucario, Renamon, etc. - and prep the image a month or so in advance, then start posting it around a few furry subs to publicize it. If we can get any traction on the design ahead of time, it’d be easier to get people on board with making it.

We’re intending to get organized a bit earlier next year - love to have you then!

Well, it’s better than putting them in boxes, I suppose!

I’m all for using Matrix. Re: the design, we could potentially put together something akin to the paw from last year that we start with (something that clearly says ‘There’s furries working on this’ as a sort of rallying flag to anyone else who wanted to join in), then coordinate satellite drawings via Matrix. If we post the initial design in the coordination thread, with a link to the matrix chat, we could potentially get some other folks to help, too (and contribute their own smaller things).

Having a “furry corner” was nice last year, but given that our designs aren’t really integrated into one thing that has to be kept together, it probably makes sense to take this approach.

That’s the intent, yeah - whatever we decide on, we just work on it as a group, via the template we’ll set up.

Definitely feel free to make any adjustments you want!

I kind of hate how restrictive the color palette is with regards to actual colors. Things with an excess of browns and greys are very easy to make work, but anything with an abundance of color ends up looking very basic. For example, this guy looks fine when converted to the palette, but trying to do it with a green (for example) character just looks like a mess.

Okay, new proposal: We trim some elements and omit others, leaving us with this:

We put it at (0,390), with the understanding that we’re going behind (rather than over) the tree that’s going up right beside us; that will also help box it in.

In the event that the canvas gets extended twice instead of only once (which will result in another 500 px below the initial square), we extend the two cut off pieces down into the new area, if we have time.

Total area here is 176x110, which is still ambitious, but plausible.

The other option is we design something that fits on the right edge of the canvas and plan to continue into the expanded area the first time it expands (which will probably happen, the second one is less likely.)

(It’s not really about being able to place all of the pixels over the course of the event so much as it is being able to command presence of our area. If we’re working slowly and filling things in a little at a time, other art will move into the area we’d planned to draw in, but we can take advantage of the expanding canvas to solve for this.)

The alternative is that we take all of the individual elements and place them around the canvas, and build them separately. We really do just have a collection of small things, so we could fit them in around other artworks rather than trying to capture an entire corner / area.

The right side will be in the middle on the final canvas (assuming it goes the same as last year, with the size doubling mid-way through). Not a bad thing necessarily but worth noting.

As noted above, though, this is too large - we’ll never get this much space to ourselves and we’ll simply never finish it.

This is a composite of the templates currently posted there - top right corner doesn’t work as we’d be competing with another group.

Compacted a few things, removed boykisser, and swapped Omega and the paw to make it a bit more compact; this is the most compact layout I can find. Total outline is 216x180, though, which is way too large. We’ll never get that much space to ourselves, and we’ll never actually be able to finish it.

That actually fits together pretty compactly. We could omit the boykisser, there’s been boykissers elsewhere on the canvas for the last two years, anyway, and it’s the only component that doesn’t fit in nicely.