The watercooler: a place to chat

[skicoak]

His right wrist hurts for quite some time, we thought the problem may be in the elbow, but it seems to be near the shoulder blade.

This....

I have a couple of arm and hand issues that the DR's link to back/shoulder issues from reckless youth.

I had self diagnosed and was doing carpal tunnel hand stretches all the time. Felt like a moron when they started doing scans on my upper vertebrae.

[Panqiuyan]

I have been busy with school once again. I haven't been in the mood to write.

[33rdCenturyCaveman]

Fallow fields am not barren. Fallow fields am building strength.

[Shanny8]

Got in my memory(upgrade) for my laptop- gonna have the I.T. dude who brought my laptop back to life install it. If this computer wasnt one of the new ones where you have to pop open the bottom a certain way, I'd do it myself.

[skicoak]

Aw geez! The dust in my house must of got all kicked up while watching the end of "THE GOOD PLACE" because I was having issues!

[maplefox]

I've decided that I need a pinterest break. It's always like: "let's just check some inspirational pictures" -> "when did it became 1AM?(still pinning)... damn"
I should get some writing done! >__<

[Rodimus13]

Pintrest is dangerous to all....

Particularly teachers looking for new ideas.

[maplefox]

I can totally understand!
You just go there to get those creative gears moving and it sucks you in!

[vothnthorvaldson]

It's weird, I have the opposite problem. I never managed to 'get into' Pinterest, although I have an account since long.
I don't seem to be proposed relevent pictures/have difficulties to find relevent keywords.
I suppose I need to use it more to refine the suggestions.. but somehow, I never spend enough time on it to make that happen.

[nostalgicroxas]

I'm like you - I've never found interest in pinterest. It's like a bad google images search for me xD I also always seem to find stolen art images on it ^^;; namely steals from pixiv

[vothnthorvaldson]

What I find weird is that when I do a google search for a specific keyword/set of keywords, I do get a lot of pictures from Pinterest. So I know there is a lot of interesting content, but I can't easily reach it FROM Pinterest.

Stolen content is a huge problem too. The problem with Pinterest and other similar sites is that most people don't even realize what's stolen; they use the site as they would be using a private space. Because I don't know either what's stolen or not, I keep my few pins private. But it has not always been possible and I think it came too late to change people's bad habits.

[nostalgicroxas]

I think it might be like some other image search sites that may not necessarily steal but pull the image from a reputable site (like pixiv or dA) and then scales and drops the link to it. I recall seeing some report on the AAIN about some such sites that are poorly designed search engines that basically aren't designed to steal art, but do due to how they handle grabbing the images and don't link back to the source - since linking back to the source might not link to the source. Similar to how not all dA images you save will automatically rename to the artist's name in the filename and sometimes will just be letter junk
I see some pinterest images on google but it's usually when I'm looking for something else - like how to fold origami flowers - bam a pinterest page when I know that set of images and directions likely exists on a blog or a "Ask Jeeves" kind of page. Man. Does Jeeves even still exist?

[33rdCenturyCaveman]

Whenever am doing image search always excluding Pinterest. Too much bait-and-switch.

[Kelheor]

I am so glad I am on forum, because I cannot really talk normally to my friends right now and at least I can write this somewhere.
I cannot deal with what they are going through and how some of them are doing it, I cannot help them and I just cannot bring myself to talk to them about anything. Just... really tired.

[unknown_user]

You can always use "Emotional Support" thread, if you need to vent.
Hope your friends and you will get better with time...

[unknown_user]

I use pinterest to find a tutorials of how draw action scenes and chibis

[Kelheor]

Thanks!
Never thought of looking for tutorials on Pinterest, holy crap! D: I downloaded a bunch of tutorials from Pixiv, but they are mostly about colouring. Great tip!

[Kelheor]

We need a Background Artist (Unpaid)

Well don't we all

[vothnthorvaldson]

OH NO!

I installed Skyrim on my old laptop with a shitty video chip, which I knew, from previous experience years ago, can't handle Skyrim's outdoors. The hope was that I could manage to get a few screenshots of a specific object for reference, by using the console to move myself to said object, that I had placed in a small indoor cell with the creation kit.

Well, I don't know if it's new drivers or if Skyrim is more optimised that it was 5 years ago, but it's working perfectly on low settings, exteriors and all.

Guess who's going to play instead of working on their comic?

[skicoak]

I installed Skyrim on my old laptop with a shitty video chip

I'll be THAT guy...

Actually, you should be playing Morrowind anyway since it's a purer game.

(Something snotty about Todd Howard and greed)

If you have coin, Khajit has wares.

But seriously , use to love Bethesda but the farther they got away from quirky and the closer to the middle/majority...the less excited I get/got about their games.