Lady💅 Trogdor 🔥🐲 @charizard@monsterpit.net

Who needs a pillow when you have a dragon =w=

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Oh my God!

"i made a breakthrough. it turns out juggalo makeup defeats facial recognition successfully. if you want to avoid surveillance, become a juggalo i guess"

Hi, I'm your friend's cute mom; young and pretty in a way that made you just a bit frustrated she saw you as a kid. Horn-rimmed glasses for someone three times her age, modest clothes that nonetheless leave you aware of the presence of hips and their failure to lie. Occasionally makes jokes and winks at you that really leave you off-kilter wondering what she was trying to imply; the truth is she's noticed you have a little crush and she thinks you're adorable when you get flustered.

federated AP-enabled hamsterdance

The Powers That 🅱️

I wonder what archaeologists of the future might say of our peculiar decorations, honoring our artificial gods that streak across the sky

Via: https://www.flickr.com/photos/redteam/294871759/in/photostream/

Unless your concern is ticks, the amount of sympathy I have for people complaining to the city about the grass being too long on someone else's property is pretty minimal.

Woohoo I forgot about this one. Where to start?

So, a friend of ours wrote up a #Python script to convert #chatlogs into #comicstrips, in the style of MS Comic #Chat output being used to create #Bonequest (née #Jerkcity).
Here's the project: https://github.com/chickens2/pony-comic-generator
I've attached a sample of output to this #roar.

This script relies on an# MLP-based set of what we now call #emojos (or #emoji or #emojis) but we called them #ponymotes or #emotes back then. Most of these are either vector traces from screenshots in the show itself or are show-style art that have been collected into a project called #BPM or #BetterPonymotes: https://ponymotes.net/bpm/
The backgrounds are from my hoard (that's potentially somehow even larger than the #hoard on which I sleep) of interesting internet images. It's no #DankMemeStash. It's not even a #memestash (they aren't, generally, #memes), but just a large collection of image files from 15+ years of browsing the web.

What I want to do with this #project is take my #archive of chatlogs and procedurally generate a daily #comic in the style of Jerkcity/@bonequest@botsin.space (with manual oversight to make sure sensitive and personal data wasn't selected).

Why I need advice:
1. Avoid #Hasbro C&D
2. Increased production value

===C&D avoidance===
This should be pretty self-explanatory. I want to make a shitty #webcomic without the hassle of having to re-generate everything with new art if someone files a #copyright complaint against it. However, maybe it will be something that no one reads and putting in effort to be copyright-compliant (or even to create it in the first place) is a waste of effort.
===Production value up===
This is where #crowdfunding for new #art can really get expensive, more so than just getting art that's not Hasbro.
The BPM corpus of emotes has wildly varying "emotional diversity" for the different ponies. In fact, Chickens (the original creator of the script) had to tag which characters was in which emote manually, so there is no data currently stored about the actual emotion of the pony or even which direction they're facing (which leads to some nonsense positioning decisions).
Chickens considers the script to be more or less complete, so new art or flying by night, I'm forking it to add enhancements to production quality before I start using it for actually making the comic (namely: adding new kinds of thought bubbles).

However, asking someone to be the #JimWoodring to this project would open several big opportunities for better production value such as:
• Wide and tall panels (all current BPM emotes are assumed to be more or less sqlare)
• A coherent visual language (BPM has plenty of emotes that don't use official MLP visual style and the backgrounds make no attempt to match the ponies)
• More horse-like horses

--=== Calculations ===–
• Poses: (front, side) for each (headshot, rearing, standing) = 6 add in optional (laying down, rolling, running) for 12
• Characters: about 20 but with at least 9 for the main crew. Not every character needs to be equine or have all poses, but I'm calculating for a most-expensive scenario here.
• Expressions: about 7—perhaps these could be covered with code manipulating the ear, eye, and mouth positions, but that will cause mismatch between facial expressions and body language
• Backgrounds: 4 is plenty

Even if we make them all equine so only the mane, tail, and accessories need anything other than a recolor AND only do facial expressions, that's still a shit ton of art (117 ponies/heads+4 backgrounds)! This is kind of where I got the $10k funding figure from.

–=== Running this Business-like ===–
If I ignore my tendency to abandon projects for this reason and balloon the scope even more massively, I could have an actual business model to be an indie app developer. Namely, I'd make a more complete clone of #ComicChat instead of just something that visualizes your logs.
I'm thinking of basing it off #Matrix more so than #IRC on the server side. On the client, I'd use all the new art described above as the default character selection. However, like #Telegram #stickers, you could commission and upload your own character or backgrounds. The business model for me would be to charge for exclusivity rights—if you don't pay, others could use your character elsewhere, in a similar manner to how instances can copy each other's emojos here.
If there's any demographic where this could catch on, it would be here (or really the furry community in general). Imagine a chat app where your characters are shown doing the talking. Maybe I've just gotten inspired by Second Life and Telegram even though I've never been a huge user of either.

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Does any of this sound sane (our gut feeling is no)? It probably will be best just to wing it with the BPM and hope for the best, but I wanted to get this idea out there.
#rant #essay #pitch

This is the third year in a row that I’ve accidentally run into the Naked Bike Ride practice run while out and about. What divine providence

Did everypony have a good summer sun celebration yesterday?

i imagine this is @chr 24/7

Are palm fans tacky or not, I can't tell anymore

if you're gonna [copy]pasta 👏
take the time 👏
to check your meter 👏
scheme and rhyme 👏

Unknown author, Twitch Chat, 2017

It's like when Concorde was pulled from service, we lost something which had no real replacement to fill the gap.

@anthracite @anders @charizard They don’t understand that dragons typically have much longer lifespans than humans.

and when you open the CW you're entering the dang auditorium not the other way around

(Flehmen response) Smells like #rain