This hits so deep.

Where can I migrate to? I want a similar instance, that doesn’t block other instances, instead lets users decide what content they see on their frontpage, as how lemm.ee did it.

I’d be very glad for any suggestions…

(edit: ended up migrating to lemmy.zip . Thanks everyone for your suggestions!)

KAHEEyyyy

Gonna be honest, women body/hair shampoos smell way better than men shampoo in many cases imo. Nah, I don’t wanna smell like BLUE STEEL or REALLY RIPPED ABS. Bruh, nah. Plus all of them smell soo artificial too… Atm I use a vanilla scented hair wash. Idgaf, i like how it smells.

Don’t even get me started on axe body sprays/body washes, i still get PTSD flashbacks from my highschool change rooms.

Here’s a pun for you-

Pun walks in a bar, kills 10 people

Pun in, 10 dead

I didn’t even know staple removers could be used that way…

Eeeh, life’s a laugh, death’s a joke, but remember that the last laugh is always on you!

I live with two roommates in a flat. One of them smokes. Of course, he has to smoke indoors as well, as if the whole place is his (we got two balconies btw) . Can’t describe when I get home after a long day in uni to come back to a flat that smells like a smoking friendly bar.

I would highly advise not to continue.

“Please bro one more line on the highway bro please just one more lane”

I’m just a shot away from you

Yeah

Okay, pls pay $1050 preferably by tying it to a rock and slinging it with a catapult.

thx

Sorry, Ralph. Nothing personal, kiddo.

Not good enough until I can count pixels on the fingers of my two hands!

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Sure! Earliest example of me related to Blender would be when I saw a few demo reels on youtube in the summer of 2018. I’m not sure which video exactly was the one that hooked me up, but I do remember it was something about some buildings getting destroyed. After the summer of 2018., I basically had to put the whole idea of me doing anything with Blender on a backburner, since back then I didn’t have a PC. As I mentioned in my initial comment, I got my first PC in the summer of 2019. and that’s when I actually started doing stuff. As much as I remember the first two things I ever did were two simple physics sims in Blender. Due to me being stupid and reformatting the wrong disk in 2021., I lost most of my early Blender stuff, including those two animations and a few of my early renders from 2021. Here’s one of my earliest renders I still have (this one is from July 2021.)

Back to 2020., the big lock down happened, which suddenly gave me boatloads of free time. During the summer of 2020. was the time when I experimented the most with Blender, and which solidified my choice of wanting to continue to do 3D art as a hobby. The rest of 2020. and 2021. was quiet, the lock down was raised and I was busy again (high school), so I didn’t do very much till the summer of 2021. when I found the 3D Pokemon community from a Youtube vid made by the owner of the community. There I met loads of new people (that server was the first ever public discord server I entered), which helped me to stay inspired and determined to the craft. From there on I built my own PC, tried going out of my comfort zone with every render (eg. complex backgrounds, more expressive/complex character posing, etc.), got into uni, built a homelab server, which at the end got me here. I’d say I’m pretty happy of what I can show, but I think there’s always a place for more improvement.

For anyone new starting I’d recommend looking up tutorials, specially Blender Guru’s donut tutorial. I really think it’s the best and simplest way for a beginner to understand Blender. His tutorials really go deep and are really well made. Still, there’s a fair warning to be made - don’t just watch the video and recreate what the guy in the vid is doing, use the tutorial as a building grounds for your own project - give it a your own spin on the matter of the tutorial.

Also, sorry for a late reply, long day.

Alright, thank you very much! ❤️

Yea, I’ve been doing renders way before genAI became generally available

Oh, I’ve been messing with Blender for a while now. Originally started in late 2019 after I got my first PC. It was a low end office PC, but considering that I managed to get it for free, since a local office company was getting rid of them and they needed it off of their hands anyway, it was good enough. I kinda started losing interest in it by the winter of 2019., for me Blender had a sharp learning curve, and it took me a long while to even learn the interface properly. The fact that Blender 2.8 came around at that time, and most of the tutorials around were still on 2.79 didn’t help. Luckily, lockdown happened and I picked it up as a hobby again, and still going strong 'till this day.

In the meanwhile, I also managed to get into a really tight knit Pokemon 3D community on discord (around 100 people back then, nowadays around 300), which greatly helped and encouraged me to continue doing stuff. I usually don’t really do animations, they’re very time consuming for me and I’m busy with uni atm, but here are two animations I made a few years ago:

Vid1

Vid2

Shameless plug for my other stuff (mostly just renders)