From Wikipedia, emphasis mine:
>Antonio Pigafetta wrote that "The people told us that those birds came from the terrestrial paradise, and they call them bolon diuata, that is to say, 'birds of God'."^([24]) This is the origin of both the name "bird of paradise" ...
'Paradise' here refers to a place, the birds were named after that place. Bam, cartographer.
Currently, all the clones look identical on the minimap as if they're just glorified illusions, even for the meepo player themselves. I find this especially odd now that each meepo has essentially all the capabilities of the main, yet only the main is visually differentiated.
My suggestion is just as in the title: each clone should have its own number visible in the minimap.
This only needs to be visible to the meepo player. A slight colour gradient on the numbers can further help pick them apart at a glance. Now you always know which of your control group hotkeys selects your desired meepo, and it's up to your mechanical skill to execute it.
No more "ugh I forgot, which meepo did I move up there, is it 3, no.. 4? or was it 2- ok well I'm dead now"
Purists and specialists might also be pleased that this change doesn't dumb down the hero or make micro skills trivial, it's just a quality of life thing to help with memory. In fact, it would probably better train your map and spatial awareness too.
This would pair well with numbering clones on the HP bar, which has been a common suggestion over the years, such as this one from 9 years ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/6hgrdr/new_hero_hp_bar_improvement_idea_for_meeplings/
I will not share any examples, but peruse the recent posts here and if you happen to be good at recognizing the signs of AI writing, you'll start seeing it extremely frequently, like every few posts even, up until they're reported.
Including in the 'Best' posts with hundreds or thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments.
Don't assume that just because others haven't noticed and pointed it out already that it's definitely not a bot post. Also don't assume that just because it shares a positive message that it's definitely not a bot post. In fact, many of them are like that.
Some of you are writing long, deeply personal comments - even containing personal info - to these AI-written posts, comments that presumably took a fair few minutes and a lot of thought to draft up. While your intentions were good, it hurts to see that effort misplaced.
I've worked at a lot of places where there are misc tasks involving lifting and carrying things. Often it's maybe big or awkward or heavy at worst; not injurious. The other day it was just hay bales. But very often, someone (always an older woman, in my experience) says we'll need to find a man to help us and will go off looking for a male coworker to do it.
Frankly, I hate it. I hate the implication that I must be weaker than a man. Ironically I'm tall with fairly broad shoulders and long arms - I'm pretty equipped to reach and grab and carry things that are clunky to lift like something on a high shelf. Plus it's fun carrying things, I want to do it. I like feeling strong and genuinely impressing people with it.
It could just be these women's way of making sure the men are doing more of their share of the labour, so I don't ever object. But ugh. Makes me want to grind the gym out of spite lol.
Anyone else feel this way? Or have to deal with this often?
I'm still inexperienced with digital art so I'm trying a different strategy where I start physically with pencil crayon for some texture/form before scanning it to continue digitally.
My goal was to draw in a layer underneath so that the pencil crayon would provide more texture over top of the digitally-added colours.
The problem is I don't know how to fill in all those white spaces from the pencil crayon texture where you can still see the paper behind it from the scan.
Drawing over it with a basic brush just flattens the texture, and a tool to select all white-ish coloured pixels and make them transparent ends up deleting some of the fine pencil lines as well, while still leaving everything looking white.
Is there some other way to fill in only the lightest pixels, maybe by making them transparent first to work on another layer? A tool that changes opacity pixel-by-pixel based on lightness would be great for this if it exists, or a brush that applies with more opacity over lighter pixels?