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Code for yellow T-Shirts (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Moonstone@lemmy.world to c/pokemongo@lemmy.world
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Everybody can use this code. It gives you a Yellow 2023 Worlds T-Shirt. I think you can redeem it until Tuesday, 15 August.

You can redeem it on the app or here.

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Lure or Incense? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Moonstone@lemmy.world to c/pokemongo@lemmy.world
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As most of you already know, Sunday is community day. It's my first time and i wanted to know what's better to get more wild pokemon to spawn.

Is it better to sit around in a park and use a Lure or is it better to get a walk in the city with an incense?

Just want to prepare myself for the event. :3 Any more tips for the community day?

How to make cartoon text in GIMP in c/gimp@lemmy.world
[–] Moonstone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Cool tutorial!

Hey, just wanted to ask if someone knows how to recreate this sort of rim light/ outline-like effect? in c/gimp@lemmy.world
[–] Moonstone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I am just an amateur. I would try to select all the Numbers, then maybe select -> grow 1 or 2 pixels. Then paint it white where i want, maybe in a second layer under the numbers. And a second layer above the number, for the interior. Then i would use the blur tool to try to give it the little glow effect.

Anyway hope that helps, I'm sure there is a better way to do it, but i don't know much yet.

"No, I didn't know [that Harry Potter would be so successful]... I think it's very dangerous for a writer to start thinking in those terms." --J.K. Rowling in c/keepwriting@lemmy.world
[–] Moonstone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I agree with you!

I read the all the books some months ago out of curiosity. The game came out, the school library had all the books, and i was just searching for a new book to read when i saw them. In my opinion, the first ones were okay, but the last ones are badly flawed in every way possible. Ron becomes dumber with each book, the romance of harry is so bad written i couldn't believe it how terrible it was, and the worst of the worst are the obvious plotholes.

J.K. Rowling had more luck than skill.

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World-building is hard (lemmy.world)
 

Before summer holidays i decided to try to start writing a book, or at least, a long and engaging story. I wrote some months ago a short fanfic and the few people that read it like it very much.

However, writing something original sure is much harder. I was about to start writing before noticing i would need some world building beforehand. I started brainstorming what fantasy races, cultures, etc... i want. I took some notes in Obsidian of how i want the world & characters to be: Their flaws, their strengths.... Writing fanfic is much easier in my opinion, you have already all the fleshed out characters and detailed world.

Anyway, i didn't write a single line of the actual story and feel like i am wasting time planning everything about the world. It can be frustrating.

Did you guys get stuck world building too? What approach do you have with it?