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it wasn't just the kidney stones themselves but all the other symptoms of nausea, back pain, chills and so on. wasn't able to eat or sleep for 3 days

i'm basically taking the rest of the week off. doc's orders.

Welp I have Canadian healthcare on my side so here's hoping for a gentle landing

I'd like that, thanks

I've been so dehydrated and light headed and achy the docs basically gave me the good meds, a couple IV drips and sent me home

Appreciate you, i'm just really hoping for a good night's sleep and a light meal my stomach can keep down

ever since having iv treatment i feel like i've finally been hydrated and given enough nutrients.... like a plant

Ok so returned from the ER.

Good news. No more infected kidney stones.

Bad news. Infected kidney.

But at least it's treatable.

here's hoping, i have so much i need to do

almost as bad as period pain, but with extra fun bits like overheating, chills, being punched from the inside out, nausea

kidney stones. do not recommend.

i really want this to light a fire under art directors so bad lol

I've been doing nothing but listening to Marathon lore videos and watching the faction intros all evening. I haven't seen this kind of high level commercial motion graphics work in a videogame since........ Deus Ex Human Revolution. Man I'm art geeking so hard over here.

Marathon is so sick it's disgusting

Hell yeahhhh! That has to feel good

You're a real one, appreciate you!

i like how you don't have to be precious with these and they're cheap and easily replaceable

passion was the start for me

ptsd was the accellerant

Someone asked me how do I draw so fast

My answer? PTSD

we didn't have anyone who knew what that entailed

I mean back in the day we did have both. But they'd need two separate teams anyway.

what other storyboard pro file optimization tips do you have cause invi s1 boards were often like 8-29gbs

thank you so much for your furbabies, they sustained me through this crappy rainy day and 3 hours of sleep

It's really sobering to remember even film/tv lighting is always stylized lolol

I guess the tradeoff for having two good dreams in a week is the insomnia hitting a little harder today.

It's gonna be a rough day. Send cute fluffy animals pls

For every convo we have about pre-rendered bgs it's kinda hard to impress upon folks who weren't there that a huge part of "the look" was doing the best we could do with bad lighting math and working around it with brute force and thoughtful craft.

Same deal with baked lighting environments.

Even in the years before then, it was just needlessly stressful to have legal hovering over your shoulder for even the most mundane things like a mop and bucket. Not being allowed enough time to properly design something while things are on fire had put me in constant survival mode.