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Reblogged sabertoothwalrus
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it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)
what they all have in common:
The look of annoyance and utter disdain at the human exposing their wing pit.
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Yes.
UNHAND ME FEATHERLESS BIPED
Reblogged cassandrasroguelevels
...*sigh*
*taps mic*
Reblogged sabertoothwalrus
i had homework to do and i didnt finish this on time but here's a knight for trans day of visibility 💖🏳️⚧️
Reblogged narwhalsarefalling
reader you are UNFUCKABLE and need to stop invading every single tag
#i've blocked the tag 'x reader' on principle but it really and truly does nothing#absolutely no one uses that as a tag #every day i discover new characters to block the specific x reader tag for #and every day someone discovers a new name to use for that exact same character to use in their x reader tag #me trying to find things in tags but first i have to go to my blacklist to add #firstname lastname x reader firstname x reader firstname fandom x reader firstname lastname fandom x reader lastname x reader #lastname fandom x reader firsty x reader firstette x reader nickname x reader nickname fandom x reader fandomxreader #and still... still there are more
adding unpretty's tags because they're so so relevant
Reblogged ineed-to-sleep
Virtuos, the company behind the rumoured Oblivion remake, had some images stored in an unsecured directory on their website. So here’s some pics from the remake.
Reblogged daddymaddy001
baking with my mama
Baking with my mama 🍞🥖🥐
just a sketch doodle of j'kharni in his teens. as a kid and young adult he was a lot more cocky and knew believed he was better than everyone even if he meant well. he also hit his growth spurt in this age range so the few kids within the cult sorta saw him as a leader (of course that didn't feed into his aspirations and ego, not at all)
Reblogged swampgallows
One small but extremely annoying effect of Tech Modernization or w/e is how UI contrast is garbage anymore, especially just, like, application windows in general.
"Ooh our scrollbar expands when you mouse over it! Or does it? Only you can know by sitting there like an idiot for 3 seconds waiting for it to expand, only to move your cursor away just as it does so!" or Discord's even more excellent "scrollbar is 2 shades off of the background color and is one (1) pixel wide" fuck OFF
I tried to move a system window around yesterday and had to click 3 times before I got the half of the upper bar that let me drag it. Why are there two separate bars with absolutely nothing to visually differentiate them on that.
"Well if you look closely-" I should not!! have to squint!!! at the screen for a minute straight to detect basic UI elements!! Not mention how ableist this shit is, and for what? ~✨Aesthetic✨~?
and then every website and app imitates this but in different ways so everything is consistently dogshit to try to use but not always in ways you can immediately grok it's!!!! terrible!!!! just put lines on things again I'm begging you!!!!
I know I sound like a broken record when I praise Windows 95 UI, but holy fuck Microsoft figured this shit out already about 30 years ago. It's all there, black and white, clear as christmas:
So much of modern UX woes stem from not knowing, or intentionally ignoring the genuine design study put forth into GUIs in the 90s.
3D elements are 3D in a specific way with lighting from a specific side to make it obvious where a window element begins and ends.
The gradient always should from from one side, and keep it consistent.
Make your color shading and shape of scroll bars consistently side and easy to press. I have a 4K display, don't make me hunt for the magic activation pixel that makes your 3-pixel wide scroll bar appear.
It's a desktop application, I've got the screen real estate to spare to have the actual GUI elements present on screen at all times (I know, heresy).
The moment aesthetic takes precedence over form and function, you've failed as a UI designer.
And any argument about "we don't have the resolution" can go right out the window, we were having nice, clear and legible interface widgets on nine inch screens in 1984. We continued to have nice, clear and legible interfaces on machines vastly less powerful than today's and on screens vastly less pixel-dense than today's. We used to know what the hell we were doing. At least one of these examples even has on-screen instructions in case the widgets functionality isn't immediately apparent.
(images sourced from The GUI Gallery)
since this has come back to my dashboard again i want to call attention to one more thing that these GUIs have that modern ones don't even try to do.
RESIZE WIDGETS.
Do you tire of trying to grab and resize a window whose border is literally only 1 pixel wide?
Do you see how large the corner widgets are in those clips above? Those are at least 16x16 pixels. They're almost as large as the Close buttons on a modern GUI. If you can see the bottom right corner of your window, resizing it is a snap. You can aim much more easily at a 16x16 widget than you can at a one-pixel-wide vertical line.
OK, maybe technically Windows' borders are wider than 1 pixel. They're technically 3 pixels. That is still just really goddamn tiny compared to 16 of them.
We used to be a society. Look at this. Look at this.
WINDOWS FUGGIN' 95 HAD THE CORNER WIDGET. Why the hell can't Windows 11?
Reblogged clashofdemonesense
Reblogged clashofdemonesense
The follow-up NEEDS to be seen by more people.