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it is really so, so cool and humbling to see how interconnected visual grammar is ... in the sense of what makes good design good.

for example i can talk happily with queenlua  about what makes well-designed tarot decks work in terms of shape symbolism & the logics of symmetricisim (radial, bilateral, etc especially applied to a suit for a specific mouthfeel) ... i can apply those exact same principals to an art direction critique for a junior designer i'm helping when she's working on a toy catalog spread and when the spread feels too "floaty" versus anchored and fixed by an additional central shape .... and then i can turn around and apply it again to a hentai page and why the ""shapes"" of the characters within will help eye-tracking flow if placed a certian way and why it reads right. (i also cannot tell you how many times knowing speech-bubble-grammar-101 has helped in the corporate world even if i learned those tricks on e-hentai's forums lol)

like no job is 100% AI proof or anything but this art direction role (in general) feels. hard-er to replace?

because as advanced as computers can get, i work with sales suits a lot, right - and they are often..... so bad. at explaining what they want and why making "all the things bigger" on a limited real-estate on a page actually diminishes the impact of "one thing really big, other things small" visually. a computer can't explain that to them. even a junior designer without the hands-on experience will have a hard time articulating the logics of design, and i honestly can't see a greater ratio of people teaching themselves that.

idk feeling warm and fuzzy about working with a variety of cool visual things rn <3

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FSC Supports North Dakota (Device Based) Age Verification

“We’re pleased that North Dakota legislators have put forward this common-sense solution to age-verification that protects adults and children alike,” says Free Speech Coalition Executive Director, Alison Boden. “The online adult entertainment industry overwhelmingly supports this approach because it gives them the tools to ensure that minors cannot access their content without sacrificing the privacy of adults.”

Device-based age-verification does not require consumers to expose their personal identity or browsing habits to age-verification companies or governments and cannot be circumvented using simple workarounds such as VPNs.

first time i've heard of device-based age verification vs user-based ... cautiously optimistic after talking it over with nsfw friends. :o i suppose shit would still suck if you were the kid of fundamentalist parents and had a locked computer given to you, but basically being able to buy or make your computer would free you from this restraint. (and there'll probably be guides written on how to jailbreak them.)

i could honest to god see this compromise working across varying social strata, actually.