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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I create Starfield graphic novels.

I'm a huge fan of the game, and there is this podcast called "Starfield with Normal People", which has a Discord server, and they organise a weekly "Starfield Adventure Club". Every week, one planet is selected, and we all go there and take screenshots and create a story.

People are very creative, some publish a captains log, for my part, I ended up creating a graphic novel.

For my part, it's a mix of pure screenshots using the photo mode, some generative AI for the covers, and plain old montage using Figma.

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm not tired of it yet, I've been doing this since February. I discovered I had a talent for storytelling and... Air scripting I guess?

2023 has been a monstrosity of a year in all aspects of my life. This comic is self-care for me.

If you want to read a few episodes, you can find them on my Facebook page, as well as on my DeviantArt page.

Enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

On Sunday mornings I fix bicycles at the local community center for free, we just charge the price of materials.
For me is like Zen meditation, it makes my mind focus on one simple task in these crazy times where our attention span is all over the place. And it's good for our community since most of the people that come there are broke college students, families having a hard time and in general people who want to spend time together. Our group is always growing, I'm expecially proud of two kids, children of immigrants, who came to learn from us two years ago and now managed to save enough money to open their own bike repair shop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Performance art is a passion project. There's absolutely no money in it. I'm lucky to get $100 a gig. I also absolutely HATE that I have to use Instagram while constantly facing an uphill battle of PG-13 censors.

What I do get is a shit ton of really cool photos, skills, and props, as well as a loving community

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I make instrumental music. I write, record, produce, and upload everything myself; but barely earn anything from it. 50k+ streams and I think I've only earned $170 so far.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I populate Google Maps. Fill in business names, opening hours, take photos etc. At the start, I was vociferous about it, putting thousands of photos on there. These days, just about everything is there and I only correct stuff and add/remove businesses as they come and go. Oh, and food/menu photos.

Some of my photos have tens of millions of views. Which means people have to see them many times I think. Otherwise every single Australian would have seen the most popular ones, which doesn't make sense.

I'm used to Google just trusting me and immediately doing what I say. But I really had to convince them that Toys R Us really were closing down. That one took three attempts. The more prominent a place, the higher the rank you need to do major edits to it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did the same of you. I reached a high level as a google guide, was invited to google map meetings and everything.

And then I suddenly realized all my efforts were just helping this company get bigger and achieve more monopoly. The terms of use of google maps state that everything you add becomes property of google.

And then I Found OpenStreetMap.org a lovely community in which you really are building a community effort in which there is no company monopolizing and all data is open. Sadly, you can't import all the work you've done on google maps, because now it is copyright protected by Google. So we have to start again, but it is worth it.

OSM is the future if we are to hope for a fair future in online maps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've contributed plenty to OSM, but not so much as a creative thing. I rarely upload photos to it. The question was about creative things we do.

While I agree my contributions help Google, I don't do it for them. I do it for the community. And frankly, they're mostly using Google maps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're only using Google maps because volunteers like you keep it up to date. Slack on Google and only help out OSM, an eventually the people will come.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I agree. You are helping in the short term, but in the long term, you are not. In the long term, you are empowering a monopoly that steals their freedom.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Please, discover OpenStreetMap.org and stop being an unpaid Google employee, and make your work truly public and free.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Would you consider contributing to OpenStreetMap?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I paint. I sold through a gallery for awhile but it just wasn't worth it when I could make ten times more for far less work doing my original job, so now it's back to just for fun. Also I hate painting portraits of rich people but if you don't do that it's really hard to make money. I also hated the mandatory social media removed. Engaging in that ecosystem disgusts me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

This is visually beautiful but makes me long for a few days ago when the weekend was ahead of me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Make Gameboy games. Make music. Cook

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you make Gameboy music though? I used to really be into LSDJ. I know nothing about programming actual games though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I made a track for my game, yeah, but using UGEtracker which is built into GB Studio. It's not the easiest to use tbh so it wasn't that fun.

LSDJ sounds very cool, have you checked out the DirtyWave M8? I ran the cheap version (Anbernic console with a dongle) but I couldn't get over the learning curve. Now I have a Polyend Tracker Mini which I really like

BTW I'm not really a programmer either, GB Studio simplifies things a lot and it's free if you want to check it out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I haven’t kept up with anything chiptune related in prob 10 years or so, so no I am not too familar with any new tools for the GB. I did enjoy making music on it though. It fun to work creatively when there are a bunch of limitations!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I crochet little animals for friends and family.
Unasked, most of the time :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I enjoy photgraphy, mostly buildings and infrastructure, I have a gallery on a personal webhost, and never really share the link to it except to friends and family, but I have tyeblink to it on my CV.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Sigh, I wish I could get paid for it. I absolutely love building a compelling story, but I'm far too nervous with strangers.

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