Ah, thank you! It’s neat to see what I placed on him.

My friends were on different instances. I don’t think anyone else from my instance worked on him.

Fin Fin was almost a solo project and you can tell. I’m glad I got some help to finish coloring him, I didn’t have the time myself.

As Kobold said, it’s a computer game called Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet. It has a small internet cult fandom. It’s misleadingly marketed as a pet game when it’s more of a wildlife/birdwatching simulator than anything.

Fin Fin inspired me a lot over the last year (even got me into 3D modeling) so I owed it to him to add him to the canvas!

I understand being skeptical, but there’s no reason it should be hard to believe…

You can have a healthy dose of both being informed and practicing self care. Being empathetic is also a good thing, actually.

I really thought this was fake. Wow!

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing! I love the tripod fish.

I honestly can’t choose. I love too many of them. Some of my favorites are clefable, pikachu, vaporeon, palafin, armarouge, absol, meowscarada/sprigatito, grovyle, corviknight, ampharos, wooloo… just too many!

They are both good. Obviously more work went into the realistic frog, but 40 hours is a stretch. It was probably more like 1-4 hours (saying as someone who’s studied realism). The charming quality of the doodle frog is what made it stand out. It’s smart.

Tumblr is only good for extremely small and niche fandoms similarly to reddit. If I could mass exodus everyone from some of those smaller fandoms to an alternative like the fediverse I would, but most of them aren’t techy (or stubborn) so it’s difficult!

Their app being inaccessible for the blind was ‘not acceptable’. They can go shove it.

That’s awesome! What a cutie!

Not surprising. But still, ew.

Yes! I visit almost every year and coming from America with constant A/C and newer houses it’s very jarring. But the brits I’ve asked about it have been (characteristically) very stubborn about this.

Preferably staying here. We need to keep growing Lemmy.

I haven’t seen anything like that, personally. I stick to my own communities and have had no issues so far. If anything it’s been leagues better than reddit because it’s so much smaller.

I gotcha. I think currently, you’d only get banned if they found out (which they can’t currently). If the app ever becomes more invasive client side, I’m certain it would cause a ban wave (and maybe a small riot) but for now, it’s not that risky.

You can get banned for third party clients? I’ve been using BetterDiscord for years now with no issues. I hate the direction of Discord though, I agree with everything else.