Polyducks

@polyducks

Freelance Indie Gamedev • Pixel Artist • Textmode • TTRPG • pixelart • Lowpoly • GBStudio • JS/HTML • Dungeon Master #ドット絵 To contact me, visit my website: polyducks.co.uk

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Polyducks@polyducks· 26d

Hittem with the ol' influencing machine diagram.

A diagram of "the influencing machine", a trope of early mental health diagnoses where patients imagined machines used by doctors in hidden rooms to change the patient's behaviour or read their thoughts.

Polyducks@polyducks· Jul 10

Polyducks has gone to Anubi's birthday party

Polyducks@polyducks· Jul 7

Screenshot of Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings to Gandalf, who is being purposefully mysterious: "All right, then. Keep your secrets."

Polyducks@polyducks· Jul 6

omg you hit all my bullet points, thanks so much for being observant. I purposefully included my repeats, because you can see the change in the moulds over time. The ones in/out of packet are for display reasons - I like to give them context. The plesiosaur is a Topps 1988 piece. Also disclaimer:

A screenshot of the disclaimer on the dinosaur webpage - "Also some aren't dinosaurs, but they get a rule of cool pass." I know, I was as upset about it as you were.

Pic of the 1988 Topps dino toys from the blog "Little Weirdos", which is a fantastic blog on small plastic toys.

https://www.littleweirdos.net/2016/08/dino-toys-with-candy-eggs-topps-1988.html

Polyducks@polyducks· Jun 26

Found it!

ANSI textmode art by the Textmode Friends. The theme is Egypt.

Polyducks@polyducks· Jun 24

I made a card for @outerdog.bsky.social's card template project! You can read more about the project on the fan page I made: polyducks.neocities.org/miki-card/ #fototradin

Pixelart of a #fototradin card for Miki's card template. The card's face is a mushroom, and the back is a pentagram star in the milky way.

Polyducks@polyducks· Jun 17

It used to be good, and that's why it was widely used. I don't know why this has changed. This page will be published later once I've had a chance to tidy it up, but here's some initial tests.

Polyducks@polyducks· Jun 11

A screenshot from the game Ocarina Of Time where Link has caught a "lunker" (a large fish), but the screenshot has been modified by an amateur with a paint program to read "lonker".

The text reads: "Wow! This is a real lonker! Let's see...it weighs 10 pounds!"

Polyducks@polyducks· May 30

The original photo is a book cover of some dinosaurs chowin' down on a bloated herbivore corpse. The carnivores are labelled as "me" and "also me 22 minutes ago". A disturbed ankylosaur is looking on from a distance and is labelled as "Passers by, well-wishers and concerned family". It is saying "is this a bit?". Finally, the bloated corpse is labelled as "The Simpsons s05e09, "The Last Temptation of Homer" aka "The Mindy Episode""

The joke here is that everyone is concerned for my wellbeing because I watch the same episode of the Simpsons over and over again when I am stressed.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 30

Polyducks@polyducks· May 30

The artwork shows a tyrannosaurus rex model box from Aurora. A child is looking up at it fixedly as if nothing could pry it from his clammy, excited hands. The text over the t-rex reads "s05e09 of the Simpsons aka "The Mindy episode" but also actually dinosaurs". The text over the boy reads "Me, afflicting a conversation on a new coworker I managed to corner in a hallway". The packaging has been used as an overt metaphor for my poor human interaction.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 27

Wait I think you're onto something.

Homer's hand tells him what to say in S05E09 of the Simpsons. In this clumsy yet endearing edit, it tells him to say Mindy has a Motorcycle.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 25

Screenshot from the Simpsons s05e09 "the last temptation of Homer" where the announcer tells Homer and Mindy that they've won a night alone together in Madam Chow's, the sexiest Chinese restaurant in capital city. When Homer asks if there's any way out of it, the announcer replies "No." curtly and angrily. The message is delivered with some subtext - the announcer implies the prize is an obligation, and not an enjoyable, optional experience that Homer should want.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 22

I finally finished my virtual pet widget for people to use on their indie websites. EGGPET! eggpet.neocities.org #indieweb #neocities #y2k

A screenshot of the EGGPET webpage. It contains details on what an EGGPET is.

The demo for EGGPET where you can press the buttons and play with the EGGPET. It has a card backing like a vintage 90s toy.

The EGGPET settings page, where you can change how the EGGPET displays by using the interactive form.

The links page for EGGPET, featuring some cute and cool sites.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 19

I'm not too keen on the sharpening artefacts, but when you see detailed establishing shots like this it's hard not to admire the higher quality version.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 19

So far the only discrepancy has been a slightly longer pause for the ad break, and the higher quality one seems to have a slight crop on top and bottom. However, the new one doesn't have any interlacing issues which is making the animation SNAP. The linework improvement is noticable on detail scenes

EXCELSIOR! Top: 360p rip (it's likely more than this) and bottom: 1080p version.

Homer's hand before he sweats like Roger Ebert

Polyducks@polyducks· May 19

Sometimes when you've had a tough day you have to check your rips of the Simpsons by watching the Mindy Episode side by side in different qualities. Below is the newest copy in 1080p, but the 360p copy still has a place in my heart.

The Simpsons: the Mindy Episode playing simultaneously in 360p and 1080p

Polyducks@polyducks· May 14

Have you ever thought: "Wow Polyducks, you're so cool and interesting. How are you making these Simpsons memes on your decade-old iphone at 4am?" Well, wonder no longer. The answer is "painfully and with lots of hacks".

I paint around the element I want to isolate in image edit mode. In this case, Mindy's head. Then I screenshot this to "flatten" it.

Then I drag the isolated element down into stickers. I think this is an iphone thing where it makes a transparent png. Notice I have to flip the image in advance because the drawing app freeform won't let me flip stickers.

I can rotate and crop images in order to reuse textures. This is me making text using the long section of the L. I paint out the things I want to replace with stickers etc. This app is called freeform.

Finally, an hour later, my obscure meme combines the clown college episode with the Mindy episode to entertain three people for a confused 4 seconds.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 13

I watch the Mindy episode the same way people listen to music.

Homer and Mindy are sitting on the bed in The Simpsons S05E09, and Homer is crying because the episode is about to repeat and he's stuck in purgatory.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 13

I made a page template today so I could collect jpegs in an album on my website. I scanned in a vinyl pouch, then used it as a mask for itself to make it transparent. Now I have a png and some slots to place items into. It just needs a bit of JS magic.

Dinosaur collectable cards in a vinyl pouch. The card pictures are added separately so they can be swapped out. The vinyl pouch is a transparent overlay.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 12

One of the first frames of The Simpsons S05E09 where Bart is repainting the thin borders of my sanity one foot narrower - indistinguishable to the naked eye - but therein lies the game. Milhouse is afraid to watch, yet he cannot look away.

Polyducks@polyducks· May 12

Haha I had to do a seven hour train journey twice this weekend. When I get stressed I watch comfort media, and S05e09 is my comfort episode. I often stream Simpsons for my friends and they complain when I put it on. It's a mix of those things, and I made most of these memes on the train.