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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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Wyvern-shaped software developer and hobby vector artist. Also sometimes a fluffy werewolf alien creature (Areon) or a bird (Corveon).

Creator of the neofoxes, neocats and other emojis.
wvrnBox
Website
https://volpeon.ink/
Speaking German, English
Age 30s
Pronouns he / him
Backup Account @volpeon@goto.wyvern.rip
Bonus Content @areon@icy.wyvern.rip
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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At that size, things just turn into abstract art. There's no way around it
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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Mooom, Vel sent me another woozy reaction
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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aggressively draws a square
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I want to make legible emojis at 20x20 or at least 24x24 which aren't just generic smiley faces. It makes me so angry I'm now rage designing a set
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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There, this is the ideal emoji design because you can read the expression even at 20x20. Boring as fuck
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Guess what @errant drgn_nom_blob
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@dragonarchitect It would be nice if you could assign an equivalent set of Unicode emojis to custom ones, so Mastodon could have a mode displaying those instead. Like drgn_happy could be 🐲❤️
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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@dragonarchitect No I already got that, but Mastodon's size is so unreasonably small that I can't fully accommodate it without killing any creative vision. There's only so much you can do with 20x20
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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Press drgn_boop drgn to drgn_mlem
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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Guess what eepy wvrnFlat
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This morning I woke up 15min early and fell asleep again. My brain saved me from oversleeping by giving me a super weird dream which in the end involved being in an area where small insect/spirit things were jumping around in the air. They didn't freak me out somehow, but the weirdness of it woke me up. drgn_woozy
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privTri Volpeon areon3NSmol @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
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@gabu I think one time Gargron said him inventing custom emojis with Mastodon was a mistake, so we know where that subpar handling is coming from neofox_pensive
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@raccoon Ah yeah, the first thing I'd do if I learned my hamster died is whipping out the smartphone and recording myself
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Yeah I think I did everything I could to tune the legibility without sacrificing the character design. These limitations are killing me
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​:areon5:​

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I hate how bright the visor and fur are. The latter is closer to white than black. But that's just how emojis need to be. wvrnFlat
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I may have found a solution for the visor interfering with the mouth's visibility
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@sun Maybe they could've gotten away with it if they had taken their sweet time to get people to rely on them. But the whole AI industry dove into the technology way too early, when it's still unreliable and expensive to run, so now they have to speedrun the VC playbook in order to survive.
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@sun Internet providers get away with it because internet is an essential service at this point. Cursor and others are just cool gadgets. Having no internet is crippling, but having no AI assistant is not a big deal for most people.