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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 2h

Just two brain sisters taking a moonlit walk. Also, this time I added a transcript in the alt text. Is this helpful at all? I really struggle with descriptive alt text, but this much I can do. #plural #pluralart #comic

Title: Nighttime Walk

Panel 1:
Erin: "The day's are getting short, huh...

I guess I need to get out earlier to not miss out on the sunlight"

Panel 2:
Viola: Or how about you don't do that? I much prefer it this way.

Erin: Oh, hi Viola! Wanna keep me company on my walk?

Viola: I'm here, aren't I?

Panel 3:
Erin: hehe, you're like a vampire with
how you shun the sun!

Viola: Oh, I'm no vampire. I'm but a source of nourishment for them.

Erin: Aren't you also a demon though? Do vampires drink demon blood?

Viola: Hot lesbian vampires with good taste do. Of this, I am sure.

Erin: Makes sense to me!

Panel 4:
Viola: While we wait for a vampire lady to kidnap me, how about I tell you about all the ways in which humans annoy me?

Erin: Please do! It's strangely soothing.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is how easy it is to make a "placeholder" asset without using genAI. Here, I'll include my placeholder NPC sprite so you can use for free! No need for costly LLM subscriptions, you're welcome!

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We just discovered that this rocky wall tile kinda looks like a frog when put next to a mirrored tile... It's not just me, right? Can you see the frog too?

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What I would need is to do something about the fact that each time I add a quest flag to the game, it breaks all current save files. It makes testing the game more annoying.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The "load game" screen. For some reason, the "init()" function in the save_data resource script is called 43 times when I open this menu. I have no idea why. Is it worth fixing? Maybe not. But it bugs me.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It is kind of fascinating. Though it doesn't replace any other kind of rest that the body needs. Getting tired from fronting for extended periods of time is like it's own sort of fatigue.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

By the way, I find alt texts really difficult to write. I'm sorry if anyone is disappointed by this. That said, if you are better at it than me, you're more than welcome to write me an alt text for anything I made. I'll make a new post with alt text (and of course give you credit, if you want).

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I took the train to see my sister. It was nice, but apparently fronting for the whole day is really tiring. #plural #pluralart #comic

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hold on, it seems like it works as long as I'm not selecting any text. Then it even understand what style I want to copy. I'm very confused, but I guess it works then.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Never mind, I get a "failed to add the resource" error popup, so it doesn't really matter. Maybe I should go back to use CSP with a virtual machine? I really *want* Krita to work and not having to deal with windows at all though.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I finally found how to make a new preset, except it doesn't seem to see the settings I've chosen at all. It just wants me to save the default settings, which seems kinda pointless

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I find where to select a preset, but not how to save one. I once again miss using a commercial software where this stuff is just super intuitive.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reading Krita's documentation trying to figure this out. Seems like you're supposed to be able to do it. Haven't yet found where this setting it though

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Does Krita let you save text presets? Or do I just have to set everything manually every time I create new text?

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Doing some work on the game again. Need to decorate and populate this train station after that progress erasing Incident last month

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I think she was! She actually did some painting herself yesterday. She's using watercolor pencils.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here is the larger version! I thought it was cute to make Fran's portrait part of their treasure stash. ^^

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Purge unused image data" got the file size down to 2.2. That's an improvement, but it's still big

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I was wondering if I had accidentally drawn somewhere outside the canvas and it was inflating the file size somehow, so I did a selection outside the canvas and tried deleting. This somehow made the file size bigger and I'm now very confused

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And I don't want to delete the original file after it's done and exported as png. There have been multiple instances in the past where I was happy I had saved the original file

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This could potentially be a problem for me in the long run if I'm using Krita. I have about 500GB free at the moment, which of course would take awhile to fill up with only .kra files... But it's not exactly negligible either

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I found that there is a setting to compress the Krita files more, at the cost of slower loading. So I try enabling that. ... And now it's only 2.9 GiB! Yay!

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just for science I tried scaling the whole image to 50% size. This should mean there are 75% less pixels, right? But it's still 1.7 GiB. But I get that file size doesn't scale linearly with the number of pixels, so maybe this is normal? I don't really know. Files are way too large regardless

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Looking at my ClipStudio documents, they are in the tens or hundreds of megabytes at most.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is the size after I deleted all invisible layers btw

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I just discovered Krita documents get absolutely massive what the heck? Sure canvas size isn't small, but I think this is way too much?

Krita warning that the 4961 x 7016 image has reached a size of 3.0 gib

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I almost never set the brush to overlay though. I always use layers for that. But I guess it can happen by mistake. Unlike ClipStudio, Krita has certain settings as global for every tool. Which I'm sure is convenient at times? But it's confusing when not used to it

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Never mind, brush is set to overlay for some reason. Was it like this the entire time? I guess I wouldn't notice while drawing my lineart in all black

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Krita's fill tool is acting broken to me. It acts like it's opacity is lowered, but my opacity is set to 100% so I'm not sure what's going on here

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Sometimes you just gotta make those difficult choices. The boobs, or the butt. Both cannot be facing you at the same time

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Well, my search results are definitely looking better now. I won't say I can always tell something's slop (impossible to prove a negative after all), but I can confidently say that I feel the *absence of genAI slop* very clearly

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Going by the Wikipedia article it seems like this has been around since the start of 2021. Has it really been that long?

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Trying to find the answer online, but I just find articles about like, machine generated images in the 70s. That's obviously not what I care about here

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

When did "AI art" first start being a thing? I searched for images from prior to 2023, but I swear some of the results are AI. Did all this start earlier than I remember?

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Also the fact that they are so detailed means I have to deliberately not think about all the details that aren't relevant in the situation

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I love the digital 3D models (one reason I miss ClipStudio), but they're not great for checking those simple things. Takes way longer to set up than just looking at a physical object at your desk.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Things like "about how much of the torso should be visible when looking from this angle"

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The fact that it's so simplistic kinda makes it easier to double check how something is roughly supposed to look, without getting bogged down with details.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have to admit, the wooden jointed artist doll I bought is a bit more useful than I gave it credit for. It's not as poseable as I'd hoped (and I don't think my expectations were unrealistic). But it is kinda nice for just quickly reminding myself of very basic perspective and anatomy stuff.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Then again, the tool most likely exist already and I just don't know where to look

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Maybe I'll try applying my minimal coding skills and make my own app for this. In Godot, because that's the only way I would be able to. Probably would be more work than I'd save in the long run, but at least I'd learn something from it

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's bizarre how many things that should be standard features just... aren't. Not that it's that hard to work around, but it's an inconvenience that shouldn't be that hard to solve.

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Checking again that the default image viewer doesn't already have this. But no such luck

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I feel like the thing I want has to be readily available somewhere, without requiring any "AI", and I just don't know what to look for

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Amanda 🏳️‍⚧️ @gravitybreakcat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Really all I want is a way to put up a bunch of images on my screen, and save that arrangement of images so I can easily open it again. The closest I have currently is to create a second krita document for said images and open in a separate window. But that's not really ideal

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