Aaron Nauert

CAD Drafter who occasionally gets to go outside. Twitch moderator and 2018 RTX Spectre/Guardian.
It's impossible to take a good picture of me.
(Trust me!)

[Aaron Nauert @awerdude13]

And at the time of this tweet my pup is in his final resting place.
Imma miss you pupper
Boots: Died 9/16/2016

[🌈Rex🦴 TEAM TRAGEDY 🎭 @ThatRabidDog]

Jax's irl actor posted this 🥹

[Matthew Mercer @matthewmercer]

Sadly, the powers-that-be would not allow anything close to an impression, but even so…

[MLB @MLB]

Just some old friends catching up 🤣

Shohei Ohtani and Munetaka Murakami provided some entertainment during the Dodgers-White Sox game

(via NHK)

[Fortnite @Fortnite]

Out of the circus, right onto the Battle Bus! 💥

Pomni and Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus are joining Fortnite on June 12th.

[Ada 💞star girl @Oluchisxn]

God made Shaq a little bigger cause he knew his heart would be so big he needed the body to hold it 💪

[Joel Rubin @JoelRubin_]

After 12 years, today I unfollowed a Calvin & Hobbes fan account that used to tweet daily strips, then began selling knockoff merch, and now hawks paid subscriptions for an AI-generated newsletter.

Which tbh exactly tracks the devolution of tech & media over the same timeframe.

[RubberRoss @RubberNinja]

Agreed.

[Dillon Goo @DillonGoo]

@RubberNinja 😭❤️

[Dillon Goo @DillonGoo]

Idk if anyone else has mentioned this already. But this impact frame from GAMEOVERSE has Monty Oum's signature in it.

[Crilly @m_acrylic]

drake... wheres the house?

[RubberRoss @RubberNinja]

Was up late animating shots for Gameoverse, heard something outside. Caught guys breaking into @Giwi_'s car. Chased them down, they tripped and dropped everything in our driveway. Her chat heard the whole thing. Probably not smart, but in the moment the raging Aussie inside took over. 🤬

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

BOXROOM is a game that turns your Steam library into a physical collection of games you can display however you want

[jude ⚢ @lcthlorien]

did i just find an ad inside a book 😭

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

Having been a user of this software for more than half my life, seeing this announcement is shocking but completely unsurprising. I've never seen such blatant disdain for a product's userbase in my life, and this feels like the point it was almost destined to come to.

There are so many new applications for creating digital animation, but this one from the very beginning just had the juice. The irony of this all is that it wasn't built as an animation software, but for making interactive websites... ads, company portals, corporate shit. Multimedia projects created in this format were displayed using Flash Player, a browser supported plug-in.

Through Flash's entire lifetime, it felt as if Adobe was dragged kicking and screaming... never truly accepting the functionality it had organically developed as an artistic tool. From Adobe's perspective, it was the FORMAT that was the value; that is, they wanted Flash Player to be THE way to display multimedia across the web.

Adobe DID fight for Flash, but the fight was for dominance over web multimedia... in the oughts, it was THE way to display multimedia on your website. But little losses here and there, like Apple refusing to support the format for smart phones, lead to a steady decline. An adaptive shift to HTML5 support was added to Flash in order to maintain relevance, but the clear goal of total multimedia dominance was shattered. This shift marked the name change to "Animate"... a name that serves as a hollow non-acknowledgement of its consistently strong and loyal userbase of artists, but belies the gross truth of their true intentions: to continue to claw for dominance in the field of web-based multimedia.

Through all this, Flash/Animate continued to be an industry standard for digital 2D animation. Both independent and professional cartoonists utilized it to create beloved projects... even today. The corporate politics involved in the jockey for control of web-multimedia kept Adobe consistently blind to the voices of its most loyal users. One famous example is that Flash was notoriously terrible at exporting and rendering video from its proprietary vector-based format, so open-source software Swivel was developed by Mike Welsh to do it better. It may be difficult to understand this, but Flash was SO good, that even though it was consistently and profoundly broken, it was still often the tool of choice for animation.

The reason all this is important for me to convey is... There was a feeling this company gave animators through the lifetime of their product that we were not a priority. Even as it became a standard in the professional animation industry, we often felt like an afterthought in favor of the ultimate goal of corporate dominance. The fact that Flash/Animate happened to be a fantastic program for making cartoons was a complete accident... and Adobe only ever saw that as a cute little bonus.

So as we are getting more clarity around this decision to discontinue Animate... that Adobe sees this program as incompatible with their AI-based future goals... I think of how they've always operated: Staunchly anti-artist, anti-creative, and anti-human. This generative AI bullshit is nothing new, it is the next flavor of the same pathetic jockeying for corporate dominance. Artistic voices will continue to be ignored, while the artists they belong to will continue to be exploited. And that takes a mental toll on a creative mind. This announcement, to me, stands as a blatant admittance of this cycle. They do not care. And they never will.

We should care. Art is humanity. I am so grateful for this new renaissance of indie animation, and am doubly grateful and honored to be a part of it. It is so easy for corporations like Adobe and even just normal people to discount the value of art, both for its own sake and for its influence on the world. But it IS important. Your art is important and YOU are important. Please continue to create. Even if for no other reason than just to spite these motherfuckers.

[Max 💕🟫🟨🟨🟨🟨 @JustCallMeMaxy1]

@chibidoki The Chibidoki Markiplier situation has gotten out of hand!

[Toniko Pantoja @tonikopantoja]

I decided to add more animation cuts for these two. Since the pugs’ name is guns, I’m thinking of naming the lifeguard dog to Roses

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

10 years ago if I needed to find an individual who provided a specific or niche service, I could just Google it and find someone's dopey little personal website and I'd give them a call.

Now for every niche service there's 5 different aggregate websites with accompanying app I have to sign up for and log-in to and verify my e-mail with and receive a text code and fill out a 10 minute form about what I'm looking for specifically and I have to use their cursed little in-app chat to contact anyone and the demonic website/app ends up taking 25% commission every time I book someone and all the top matches are not individuals anyway but organizations where THEY have their own fucking system for soullessly matching me with one of their employees and they'll endlessly text me trying to convince me that they're the perfect fit for me if I'm looking for a DIFFERENT service I didn't ask for in the fucking 10 minute form THEY asked me to fill out! And all I get out of this whole tired ordeal is more spam in my inbox.

Even if I find names of people I want to contact on these sinful websites and then I Google them to reach out personally I end up finding nothing but their 17 OTHER listings on competing aggregate apps and/or their linkedin which I have to fucking personally deliver a vial of my DNA to some OTHER data company in order to verify my identity to and I'm just... so over all this.

I used to keep track of all of my log-ins and services I gave my personal data to and I simply cannot anymore. It's a deluge, a blight! I feel so stripped bare of my humanity and anytime I forget where I put my wallet when I'm leaving the house I think about how many hard drives in the world contain the supposedly private information I have so innocently and absentmindedly misplaced.

My body, my mind, and my spirit were not built for this! The days where technology was a tool with which to create for and connect to other humans are slipping away from me! For every phone call that is answered by a machine and every simple tool or device or appliance that I have to "register" to my phone app I lose precious, beautiful seconds of my one and only fleeting life! For every pin number, code, and login I must retain in my mind, a wisp of my soul is displaced to make room!

Humanity is so wonderful, so rich and so pure, it is no wonder that these things which lack it so desperately and aggressively try to steal it!

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[UrinatingTree @UrinatingTree]

Notre Dame should forever be vilified for believing they were above this legendary pageantry.