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The Center for Cartoon Studies (previously, previously, previously) is offering a free, self-directed One-Week Cartooning Workout eCourse. Just remember: "The awful comic you make is always going to be better than the perfect comic you never make."--Inky Solomon, CCS Legend [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:07 PM PST - 5 comments

Falling Squirrel Games has just released The Vale: Shadow of the Crown, also available on itch.io. It is also available for Xbox One, if you prefer to play on console. This is an audio action adventure game, meant to be enjoyable for blind and sighted players equally. [more inside]
posted by Alensin at 5:33 PM PST - 3 comments

Shortly after the news that OnlyFans is launching a SFW version of their app, the company (which has so far earned its founder Tim Stokeley a net worth in excess of $120 million) has stated they will no longer allow sexually explicit content on their main platform (Bloomberg link). [more inside]
posted by fight or flight at 11:59 AM PST - 136 comments

Quintin Smith takes a look at how Roblox works.
posted by theodolite at 11:34 AM PST - 35 comments

By the end of episode two, your Changing Rooms bingo card will be full to overflowing. There are room dividers, MDF panelling and feature walls. There is “colour!” being used to create “zones!” There is pink used in a room whose owner hates pink. There is spray-painting, “customising” (making plain, acceptable things into ornate, crappy things), gold leaf, and sticking flooring to walls in the name of innovation. I could go on, but I care about you. The Guardian's Lucy Mangan reviews the latest season of Changing Rooms, a home decor show on Channel 4 in the UK.
posted by Bella Donna at 10:14 AM PST - 31 comments

CW: flashing throughout video An experiment in AI assisted video composition, starring the Storror parkour team. [via The Awesomer]
posted by chavenet at 9:06 AM PST - 6 comments

[Covid related] I, too, was extremely excited to see friends without the necessary, tortured conversations about exposures, testing, and local positivity rates. I, too, yearned to have a long, carefree meal at a restaurant and sit at a favorite bar. I was thrilled this summer to do those things and I did them happily and masklessly. But I also suspected all my excitement and planning and celebration was also papering over — or, at the very least forestalling — my ability to process the trauma of the last year and a half. SL Galaxy Brain Substack by Charlie Warzel.
posted by ellieBOA at 7:57 AM PST - 31 comments

On Tuesday, Nate Purkeypile (@NPurkeypile) shared a fun story about the development process of the now-famous Skyrim Intro. Inspired by this, yesterday, Joel Burgess (@JoelBurgess) shared another Skyrim development story, about foxes leading players to treasure. Both stories are treats.
posted by Navelgazer at 7:07 AM PST - 14 comments