Notices by Becka Sutton (shutsumon@tootplanet.space), page 21

Hey peeps, I will be posting Tales of the First tomorrow rather than this evening

So I've been working on a second style of #FantasyMap made in gimp using the same region as my other in progress map (many of the base layers of direct copies). This is a more political style map. I may have to tweak some opacities and colour choices but otherwise I think it's okay.

From here on out (names and cities/towns etc) I will be working on then together to make sure things line up. #Art #ArtWithOpenSource

@Anke my guess would be that they used to have different vowel sounds. Hardness and softness of g's and c's is generally to do with the following vowel but sometimes a vowel slips (English vowels are incredibly unstable) but the consonent doesn't follow.

@eylul yeah, it's so good. And it's closer than it's ever been to being a fully functioning photoshop alternative

@eylul also on the whole I am very happy with GIMP 2.10... so many new filters and finally layer effects similar to photoshop

I'm really looking forward to 3.0 when it finally hits. They swear it will finally fix some of GIMP's notorious glitches

@eylul That's a good idea. I've since discovered someone else has found a better one which I will add in a bit (with ref to where I found it on a gimp forum)

If you set the foreground or background colour to the colour you want before opening the dialog and then right click on the colour picker it gives you the option to select one of foreground/background/black or white colour

And ten seconds later I figure out a work around by using gradient and setting both ends the same but what a pain

*Blargle* *bangs head against Gimp 2.10.8* Seriously? layerfx crashes every time I click to change the color? Gah!

(it's a known bug but I can't even find a work around)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1438

Today I have been reading about proto-writing and half of what I have been thinking is "If you don't know what this stuff says how do you know if it encodes phonetic information or not?"

Gosh, that's an interesting one

@porsupah @drifa *fetches the bad pun alarm and starts ringing it* X-D

@JubalBarca @InvaderXan @ExilianOfficial :-D

@InvaderXan though perhaps the creators were thinking of the Jungian sense of the word "nothing and everything" or just plain everything.

(Though now I kinda want someone to make a fediverse software called "Demiurge")

@InvaderXan oddly though you reminding me what Pleroma meant followed closely by reading an article on @ExilianOfficial about high and low focus fantasy settings led to me having another #worldbuilding epiphany which was strange.