Hi I do pixel art and stream and I guess run this site!!
If you don't use matrix, please ping me on discord (@misnina) or mastodon for quick mod problems. No phone notifs for lemmy avail. yet.
contactThey do in a way, there is an admin matrix room. But I guess they would be to say in small works...uh....non-less techy friendly? I can figure out a lot but all my searches of the matrix has just been "hey how to I get csam off my server" "idk, grep the database and delete some of those images, idk the query, we just don't have tools for it SHRUG"
yeah...I didn't realize the software wasn't mature enough to not have purging tools for stuff like this. I've been not responding because I like having a little thing like this, but didn't realize it would guzzle up space like that.
46gb/49gb
Second Server Rollback + Communities Removed
So trying to diagnose the issue, it seems there are spam spikes from outside of our server, but in trying to federate with these events, it starts running our CPU of the server at 100% and errors out. When I restart it during that, it seems to have issues and I have to rollback.
Thankfully, we had a rollback from last night this time, but for now that means I will be removing the largest non-art communities that would get spammed, such as memes, news, and politics from the large big servers. This means that this instance will probably be more useful just for art only for the time being. Many mobile clients allow you to login to multiple accounts on different servers, so you may need to do that to get better access to non-niche content.
There will be an eventual lemmy update that will create a federation queue that addresses this, but for now, we have to work with what we have.
He used to let me hold him like a ragdoll all the time. :)
The redraw is partially to save my privacy, I apologies.
Redraw of Childhood Photo of First Cat
cross-posted from: https://crystals.rest/post/621526
Different colors than I usually use, obviously to invoke a feeling (plus this is from like 2003, all we had were yellow light bulbs).
His name was Artemis (but 10 year old me wrote it Artimus) and his death was very traumatic to me. I thought we didn't have any old photos of him, but I found one recently. I don't want to show my real face and the blog I had it on blurred my face anyways, so I decided I would do a tribute redraw. At least sketchy, like, with an obviously converted very 80s or earlier couch we had at the time.
I got the idea to do it last night as I slept, and I woke up at 2am and decided to just go at it until now at 6am so I guess in a way it's rushed, but I got the feeling I wanted out of it.
Redraw of Childhood Photo of First Cat
Different colors than I usually use, obviously to invoke a feeling (plus this is from like 2003, all we had were yellow light bulbs).
His name was Artemis (but 10 year old me wrote it Artimus) and his death was very traumatic to me. I thought we didn't have any old photos of him, but I found one recently. I don't want to show my real face and the blog I had it on blurred my face anyways, so I decided I would do a tribute redraw. At least sketchy, like, with an obviously converted very 80s or earlier couch we had at the time.
I got the idea to do it last night as I slept, and I woke up at 2am and decided to just go at it until now at 6am so I guess in a way it's rushed, but I got the feeling I wanted out of it.
Nina and The Technicolor Crystal
This is still weird of be working this large scale, figuring out things as I go.
hmm I wish there was a spot of contrast color somewhere, but that might be me wanting some kind of minecraft diamonds to be in the walls, haha.
I think the problem is just the massive storage costs of holding lots of video. Youtube is king because anyone can upload whatever, at any amount, but instances of peertube have to monitor their usage closely.
I was uploading to one only for vtubers, and they said they had enough money for 6months or so without dono help, but one month someone attacked or something and just ended up consuming videos at a repeated and huge enough rate that they got a surprise bill that was just too high. They also near the end had to turn off better streaming encoding because it was bandwidth heavy.
I'm sorry about all the other posts that got lost with the server roll back ;_;
But I do love this! The little details on the fences is a really nice touch that adds a lot of texture to the image.
Thank you, I've been trying to do some more pushed out there pallets recently!
Her name is Cucumber
Honestly I don't know with her, I just made a thing, as recently been doing them in different sizes.
yeah unfortunatly. there was a more recent backup, but it failed to take for some reason so I had to go back farther. :( (edit: I also lost my very popular pixel art image of the danger ahead lol)
Her name is Melon!
Some of my more recent art got axed from the rollback on crystals.rest, but I got a nice variety of size sprites for a person I have decided to called Melon!
Used Pyxel Edit
Server Rollback on crystals.rest
I had to rollback the server due to some kind of issues to 8-28. Besides my own post, I don't think there was much missing. I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware.
The expression. Also artistic titles are hard and fake.
Danger Ahead
I'm working on a redesign yet again, but I've also been having a good time doing different headshots and playing with extreme colors. yeeee.
aahhh, the short controller cords so you just kinda had to sit on the floor...
oh I love that you included the huge amount of stairs to shrines all the time hahaha
You can disable downvotes, but I think they're important when like, having discussions. Not just as some kind of reflex to someone having fun. And I think I can technically figure out who downvotes, but I'm not going to do that.
Also :> still positive in the end
But yeah I predicted maliciousness, but really. I don't get why people auto downvote things that have nothing to do with them.
Who are you, downvoters?
Yes I'm looking at you.
When an artist posts a non-offensive artwork, or creates promotional posts, it's not just me, I see it constantly that the vote sits at 0. All posts get an automatic +1 on posting by yourself, so someone, someone probably here, looks at a brand new post of an artist sharing their craft and downvotes.
Yes, karma doesn't matter here, but it's such a shitty thing to do, and if it's one of you here on crystals.rest, you're not welcome. I'm not saying you can't downvote things ever, but automatically downvoting someone on a small instance when all they are doing is sharing something just makes people feel like shit.
I see that same thing when I'm on r/gamedevclassified. So now I automatically upvote ALL posts there because artists NEED VISIBILITY
Portrait Pixel Artist (and other icon work)
cross-posted from: https://crystals.rest/post/504476
My commissions are open for various things like 32px icons, 16px icon, and others, but specifically I've seen a focus on character portraits. I'm willing to work with indie game developers to create portraits for their characters in games, which includes different emotion, as well as idle animations, mouth movement, and blinking.
These examples I've shown here are part of my "skeb" like series in that there's minimal back and forth for those on a budget, but I do offer specifically more detailed prices on a very refined portrait. Regardless, you can just email me for a quote!
My contact information is available on my website: 🌟 misnina.com 🌟
❌ No NFTs
❌ No Blockchain Games
❌
Portrait Pixel Artist (and other icon work)
cross-posted from: https://crystals.rest/post/504476
My commissions are open for various things like 32px icons, 16px icon, and others, but specifically I've seen a focus on character portraits. I'm willing to work with indie game developers to create portraits for their characters in games, which includes different emotion, as well as idle animations, mouth movement, and blinking.
These examples I've shown here are part of my "skeb" like series in that there's minimal back and forth for those on a budget, but I do offer specifically more detailed prices on a very refined portrait. Regardless, you can just email me for a quote!
My contact information is available on my website: 🌟 misnina.com 🌟
❌ No NFTs
❌ No Blockchain Games
❌
Portrait Pixel Artist (and other icon work)
My commissions are open for various things like 32px icons, 16px icon, and others, but specifically I've seen a focus on character portraits. I'm willing to work with indie game developers to create portraits for their characters in games, which includes different emotion, as well as idle animations, mouth movement, and blinking.
These examples I've shown here are part of my "skeb" like series in that there's minimal back and forth for those on a budget, but I do offer specifically more detailed prices on a very refined portrait. Regardless, you can just email me for a quote!
My contact information is available on my website: 🌟 misnina.com 🌟
❌ No NFTs
❌ No Blockchain Games
❌ No putting my art in a project with AI work.
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why they gotta be sexy. Like, I wish they had some personality, I am 99% sure buttercup would never be happy in that outfit.
mabinogi!!! I miss that game.
also lol hi
These are great! I love the bowsette one lol. I quite like the way you do flat colors.
Except when the cat was raised with dogs and no other cats. Met many a cat who thought they were a dog. (or dogs who thought they were cats)
I upvoted your post 1/2 way through just for the sheer effort of information. (and did continue reading, I just have nothing of value to add)
you're not going to fault me for buying a chicken burger are you?
There are TONS of people who will do that exact thing. what is or is not a sandwich or burger (is a burger a type of sandwich?) for some reason is a stupidly contentious topic that people feel passionate about.
People take labels and their individual expectations of that label pretty emotionally.
Haven't been able to sleep much, how is everyone doing?
I just wanted to open a chat thread, it's been a bit. I've been having a terrible time sleeping, but wanted to see how it's going with you guys! I'm sorry I've put off fixing the theme for the updates, but I was kinda waiting until things were more stable, which it seems they are.
(FINISHED) ‼️ Update Coming: Downtime Expected‼️
Well I think I've done that right! Even though it wasn't actually 8 hours later, whoops. We should be all good. Here's the information on the release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md
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I've been told the next update will take ~10 minutes to go, so I wanted to give you guys a heads up. I will start getting it ready in 8 hours from now!
more mature interpretation of my character
My character that represents me is a young anime tomboyish kinda girl.
I, obviously, am not. Closed the gap a little.
Doing a higher detail portrait
Here it is animated, because lemmy is TERRIBLE about uploading gifs.
(This is an older interpretation of Paul from the Pokemon anime)
I've started doing daily drawings of random designs
I've given myself a hard limit of 1hour max for each of these. I've spent 30 - 40 minutes for each so far, the top right being the longest.
one day I'll draw something that isn't this character
I just wanted to grab something to do with the chibi character model I have in clip, so did this.
Sweet Character Art
Once again I am doing character art for my redesign. I really don't work this large, the biggest I get is 100x100. This image is 150px x 150px
⭐ We've updated to 0.18.1! ⭐
It also mean the theme is majorly borked now, but I'm gonna work on it! There should be lots of nice improvements.
Here's what all changed: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.1