Escalating timers are an antipattern. It punishes anyone who looks away for more than thirty seconds - and thirty seconds per click is not exactly a brisk pace for maintaining attention.

Other than that, good shit, well done. Undo was a welcome surprise. Ditto the repetition prevention.

No wait, one other thing. (Complaint sandwich!) Scaling should be in integer powers. Everything but fully-zoomed-out and extremely-blown-up looked lumpy and distracting. Especially with all the pixel art going on.

Harry Ford is: that fucker in the vest.

Well, he's a rapist because he raped some people.

And he's a fascist because his stated policy goals and his use of power neatly match fascism.

Were you not here for the failed coup d'etat? Did you miss... really, any time he opens his mouth on television?

Kneejerk nitpic, but - I don't understand how games still get titled Generic: Specific Actual Title. It almost sorta kinda made sense for Horizon: Zero Dawn. Sony has enough money to force awareness and enough hubris to expect a sequel. But it's still weird as fuck they didn't call this The Teal Lotus: followed by some words to avoid clarifying "Teal Lotus 1."

Who am I kidding, the marketeers would be equally eye-rolling by calling it Bo Begins or some shit.

You should watch This Is Spinal Tap.

RIP Trevor.

D'oh! Good find, I had it wrong.

Image AI is cool as fuck and I refuse to pretend otherwise.

The dolts charging money for "commissions," or even just bragging about something they allegedly created, will be a blip for these few short years. The tech will become another tool anyone can use so long as they have a few free gigabytes... which is already a bit like saying, so long as they have a few free megabytes.

If there's any unavoidable AI tells, when someone sketches an image but has Photoshop finish it for them, we'll come to spot those as readily as we spot gradient fill or the oil-paint filter. They'll be a sign someone did some, but not all, of the hard work. Big whoop.

If there are no tells - if more training lets an overworked graphics card churn out exactly what you describe, as surely as a human artist might - that's gonna be fantastic for expression. And it won't prevent anyone from painting with actual brushes and canvas.

The video versions of this stupid GPU trick will allow any weirdo to turn their original script or sordid fanfiction into an actual movie you can watch with your eyeballs. The characters don't need to look or sound like any specific real actor. It's gonna get wild.

All those poor OCs, dead forever! No human can ever draw them again now that AI ate them!

NFTs were a straight-up scam. The wire mother of wire fraud.

The only reason crypto almost-sorta-kinda works is that nearly anything works as a medium of exchange so long as it's fungible. Which is the F those Ts were N.

A fun exercise that nerd-sniped me last year: recreate The Matrix's "code rain" effect.

This is where I'd humorously link that maniac who wrote a program exclusively using MOV, of any amount of quotation or clarification could convince a modern search engine that "movulator" does not, in fact, mean "modulator."