What made you smile today?

I saw the most adorable little robin when I was inspecting the garage earlier today. Actually, we kind stumbled upon each other. I saw him hop around the corner and tilt his head to inspect me, as birds are often wont to do, but when when I used my voice to greet him, I must have accidentally startled the little thing, for he scrambled to his wings and took off in a hurry.

I must say, I'm very happy with how many beautiful birds I've been seeing as of late. Just a few days ago, I had the chance to see a pair of Eastern Goldfinch - the state bird of New Jersey - as they darted low across my front yard. Regardless of the species, illustrations and photographs scarcely do them justice. ^~^

Backlash wrote

I saw the most adorable little robin when I was inspecting the garage earlier today. Actually, we kind stumbled upon each other. I saw him hop around the corner and tilt his head to inspect me, as birds are often wont to do, but when when I used my voice to greet him, I must have accidentally startled the little thing, for he scrambled to his wings and took off in a hurry.

I must say, I'm very happy with how many beautiful birds I've been seeing as of late. Just a few days ago, I had the chance to see a pair of Eastern Goldfinch - the state bird of New Jersey - as they darted low across my front yard. Regardless of the species, illustrations and photographs scarcely do them justice. ^~^

That's cute ^~^ There are so many birds around our place, it often sounds like I live in the middle of the jungle or something. They're mostly tiny birds that are rather difficult to spot though.

Loko wrote

been pretty happy with how my computer setup is progressing! i just need to tidy up the cables now

ooh, what's new? I can't remember if you mentioned this before ^_^'

Hehehehe, awwww! There was a little cat waiting for me when I got home! ^~^

I didn't get any photos, but it was an adult longhair cat, with a coloration between "White Oak" and "Red Alder" on the chart of woods embedded below. But I regret to say it was this that prevented me from befriending him, when I got out of my car at the end of the drive, I saw what appeared in the fading light to be a tiny parcel someone had run a bike over or something. At first I was only mildly curious, since I mail-order everything I need, from food to PC parts, but as I got closer I noticed something rather queer about this particular box. Then when I was halfway up the drive, as a single motion I halted, puffed my chest, broadened my shoulders, and... spoke, at a mildly-increased volume "WHAT the..."

Indeed, my instincts had proven partially-correct. But the face I saw on the box wasn't of some raccoon or weasel, or even a bobcat or lynx, but just a beloved family pet luxuriating by our front porch. At my alarm, it briskly got to its feet and made for the garage, where it seemed to feel safe in front of the door. I momentarily considered getting some tunafish from inside to curry its favor, but knowing my allergies to both the pet and the canned tuna, that would be extremely hazardous. I do recall, however, that certain cats do tend to frequent my yard, probably as a transit between their houses and their hunting grounds in the forests. ( In fact, we often hear them furiously snarling in the back late at night, ehehe~ )... Here's hoping he visits again soon. <3

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This cutie here is the closest lookalike I could find to my visitor on short notice. c:

A confirmed tweet from the last couple of months directly to the maker of WaifuLabs about a full-body version, one where we finally get to the point we no longer at last have to browse the web searching for already existing waifus for years when we can make our own from scratch saying he's been working on it since March. There's been some screenshots of random tested OC characters there, yet still need a bit more tweaking before he can update the site to its full potential. Some of which had an even bigger resolution as speculation, one of which tried messing around with Live2D, the result was a bit too funky. 

This WILL definitely hurt our favorite professional animation and game studios' future chances of making their own creations if it goes live meaning fewer new anime shows and games because Sigizi Studios is now leading the way to empower us with similar capabilities that of professional studios. As whenever I search WaifuLabs, it already got mega-popular off the bat since 2017, around the time virtual AI came and it will blow us away even more than ALL the professionals' best girl waifus we seen in a 30-year time span combined, dating back to Miyazaki's glory days.

I can't say exactly what resolution the new generation of waifus will come so far, and what options will be there or it should stay the same. Right now, we can only cross our fingers. Once it comes, I will no longer bother visiting sites like Pinterest, Danbooru, Zerochan and the like ever again thanks to him, and when I get my hands on Paint 3D that comes with my OS, I might even turn my future generation OCs to life and make it playable, no need to grab unnecessary assets from modeling sites or waiting on somebody with their own time to make a ready-made model, I can do it all single-handedly.

That means if I ever do future RPs again someday, then the new generation waifus will be made that would fit almost exactly (but not 100%) any story it demands, but don't expect the new girls to carry weapons like that, not yet.

Loko wrote

malmon wrote

Loko wrote

been pretty happy with how my computer setup is progressing! i just need to tidy up the cables now

ooh, what's new? I can't remember if you mentioned this before ^_^'

ah sorry for late reply! i got myself a monitor mount and i moved my drawer over and got two legs for my desk so i have more leg space. now i'm just looking for a desk pad (and maybe start looking towards learning to solder)

Oh, that's cool! I wish I even had a desk rn ^_^'

I'd recommend some sort of fume extractor if you're soldering. It can get a bit unpleasant after extended periods.

Someone thought she was slick just now~. It's too late an hour to even mention, but damn it feels good to have confidence again. I haven't felt this powerful in forever.

I'm lookin' forward to moving out sometime within the summer. Definitely sooner, rather than later.

Loko wrote

malmon wrote

Loko wrote

malmon wrote

Loko wrote

been pretty happy with how my computer setup is progressing! i just need to tidy up the cables now

ooh, what's new? I can't remember if you mentioned this before ^_^'

ah sorry for late reply! i got myself a monitor mount and i moved my drawer over and got two legs for my desk so i have more leg space. now i'm just looking for a desk pad (and maybe start looking towards learning to solder)

Oh, that's cool! I wish I even had a desk rn ^_^'

I'd recommend some sort of fume extractor if you're soldering. It can get a bit unpleasant after extended periods.

yeah i found out about that after reading up more on it. will definitely do!

That sounds really comfy, Loko-san. What do you think you'll be fixing with the soldering iron? ^~^

Oh my god. xD

Backlash wrote

Oh my god. xD

thinking about how the future will be so much better makes me smile

Lawly wrote

Backlash wrote

Oh my god. xD

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I made a remastered CTF tournament map now with 32 countries thinking I'm expanding the old idea anticipating the Waifu Labs' next major update, as well as a huge map containing almost all the old participants with the new ones. Belgium and Thailand are omitted. Both images are really big, though. Here are the updated seeds:

Now it has a world map, too!

Seeing this singlehandedly made my night. They reminded me of when times were a bit sunnier for me, and thinking of that person fosters a gentle warmth deep in my chest... <3

I miss those carefree days for us, Luci. I wish they could've lasted forever... ^~^

Backlash wrote

Seeing this singlehandedly made my night. They reminded me of when times were a bit sunnier for me, and thinking of that person fosters a gentle warmth deep in my chest... <3

I miss those carefree days for us, Luci. I wish they could've lasted forever... ^~^

Indeed... well it was, but not everything could last, which is quite ironic to the particular purpose of feeling happiness. I can see through your screenshot that you've missed something that was pinged next to your name, maybe I left a little something for you to read but it was old. Nah, who am I kidding?

I did however FOUND what used to be Eden, the original name of it was very hard for me to translate upon arrival in my Talon of the Iomiya B-tier shuttle, so I just renamed it simply to New Eden. Very alive and well, it used to be obliterated true to the canon at least once in the past as I researched one of its ancient ruins that described the very reason why you were cast out in the first place. It doesn't storm very often, about every 2-5 days on average, absolutely no leftover radiation at all, it was just fizzled yellow skies and crystal clear blue waters that of Hawaii. There aren't any predators except for the occasional Abyssal Horrors, the grass is also bluish, which is the only odd thing. The average temperature is very mild compared to most lush planets, but the ice caps are nowhere to be found anywhere.

I also found the artist that has the flag you used for Nationstates before on DeviantArt, it was achaley who made it back in 2014, with many other flag designs. Clearly, given the recent spate of statue pullings and the debate possibility of a total ban on all depictions of the Confederate flag altogether, you probably had a fun time using it even with slight variations overtime, but I feel it is only a matter of time in years before we won't see that anymore.

And lastly, do you like my remastered concept of a 32-team tournament map? Took me only two hours to do it whilst listening to some military songs, I was waiting very patiently on Sigizi_Studios to make a patch to their procedural neural network so I can see full-bodies from face to their feet and not having to rely on art searches ever again.

I got to talk to so many amazing people yesterday, but one of my favorites was easily the gal who designed training courses for the new probation application I help write at work. It's a shame we won't get to talk much, since she's one pay-grade above my boss, but she's really just the nicest person once you get to talk to her. Charming, relatable, quick with a joke, and she actually made small talk with me at work, can you believe that? She also says she's an introvert, and this quarantine is personally one of the best things to ever happen to her, which is somethin' I reckon we can relate to. ^~^

I said it before, so I'll say it now too: If I'm lucky enough to stick around, I hope our paths cross again someday. c:

I decided to resolve one of our fellow inactive user's romance issues, even though I should've searched way earlier and just resolve it when we were once very active. Nevertheless, I made sure to get the message across to him, he'll have some peacetime quality in the near future, assuming the virus didn't get to his lover's family. :3

My autistic shina inu finally understanding fetch rather than looking where I threw the ball

Angel wrote

My autistic shina inu finally understanding fetch rather than looking where I threw the ball

Ehehe, how old is it?

malmon wrote

Angel wrote

My autistic shina inu finally understanding fetch rather than looking where I threw the ball

Ehehe, how old is it?

He is a 6 year old pup. Got him in a shelter when he was 2. To believe people would dump a dog just because it is autistic D:<

Angel wrote

malmon wrote

Angel wrote

My autistic shina inu finally understanding fetch rather than looking where I threw the ball

Ehehe, how old is it?

He is a 6 year old pup. Got him in a shelter when he was 2. To believe people would dump a dog just because it is autistic D:<

I don't think it's a pup anymore when it's six years old~