_______ __ __ ___ ___ __ __ | _ .----|__.--| | Y .---.-|__| | |. 1 | __| | _ |. | _ | | | |. _ |____|__|_____|. \_/ |___._|__|__| |: | | |: | | |::.|:. | |::.|:. | Issue 17B `--- ---' `--- ---' 2021-09-10 ------------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER: I live... again https://neozones.club/acidjaw/mail/issue17b https://wiki.neozones.club/index.php?title=AcidMail/issue17b This issue we have: * Old furry art?!?!? * Speedruns?!?! * URLs?!?! ------------------------------------------------- >WHY, HELLO THERE 👋 Hello there, friends, welcome to issue 17B of AcidMail, still one of the worst things to have ever been made (yes, I know that you hate it here, I hate it here also, but we might not need to sit through this for very long). This is a very special issue of AciMail made by just Cass "Owly" Python as an attempt at trying to get H Y P E around the possibility of continuing AcidMail, but look -- we're jumping the gun here a little bit, aren't we? So, what *is* an AcidMail? First started in 2020, AcidMail was the name of a newsletter co-written by people that would be published weekly on the 'net for the viewing "pleasure" of you (yes, YOU!), the idea of the newsletter was that it was not going to be like most of the newsletters that you might subscribe to as we have attitude, yo, and we will take open jabs at the reader (we love you really XOXOXO) while trying to stay light-hearted and trying to ignore the, quite frankly, bleak news of the world that was going on at the time. The newsletter could be quite experimental at times, such as with issue 6 that was mostly written by Talk to Transformer, a neural network that was made to try and complete text - another example of noticeable things that we did was with issue 13 where we got our readers to make whatever they wanted to do in JS Paint, what was at the time a fairly new webapp made to run like MS Paint. When the newsletter was first started, NeoZones was quite the small community, being mostly made up of people who were being hosted on the site, however, since the newsletter stopped, a lot has changed and we really have gotten out sticky fingers in a lot of pies, and because of this, I think that it could be worth a shot to try and resurrect this newsletter. If you like the look of this newsletter and think that you can help with it, such as writing something for it or even suggesting a link, join https://neozones.club/discord For a possible test run, we hope to show you what AcidMail can be and we (uh, well *I*) hope that you enjoy it a lot. ------------------------------------------------- >CHECK OUT SOME COOL ART, YO As of late, Owly made the error of checking out their old Twitter page and by doing so, she saw a bunch of old artwork that they stared and because over on at NeoZones we're all art nerds, we thought that you - our very nice reader - *might* enjoy some of the art that at this point is a bit old, BUT WHATEVER, we can link old art! What are you going to do about it, huh? Call the police like some kind of rat, eah, that's what I thought. : DOG IN THE RAIN : https://twitter.com/3eyedog/status/1278260415743627265 I (Owly) currently have two dogs that I love very much, but from what I can guess from other people, the term "wet dog smell" seems to be a thing that people REALLY do not like. I don't know if this is just me or not, but whenever my dogs get wet, they don't _really_ smell all that much, and trust me, they just _love_ to run around in march-y and boggy pools - regardless, the dog in this artwork made the right decision of putting on a raincoat plus also has an umbrella (very cute - I love it!). : 9 BY CATBOOTS : https://twitter.com/catboots/status/1145394581409808384 catboots is an artist who just seems to pop-up everywhere in the furry community (not that I mind), I suspect that it's due to their cute art style that most seem to love. A person who also seems to also love their art (or at least this one) is my romantic partner, Robin, who found the following art to be very cute. For myself, I liked COLOSSUS the best: https://twitter.com/catboots/status/1134519918861275136 : WHATEVER THIS IS BY CHARLES DAVIS : https://twitter.com/DaveCenobite/status/1133067319587086336 Charles Davis is a person who I just cannot pin down; one moment they are taking selfies in public toilets, the next they are writing books, but one thing I am sure about is that Charles seems to be a genuinely nice person (meaning you should check them out!). Anyway, enjoy whatever this is. : THE PINK CAT ART-TRAIN : https://twitter.com/Orlando_Fox/status/829590831812243456 More furry artwork, because I can do whatever I like, this time by OrlandoFox who brings us fanart of the Pink Panther and Snagglepuss, two cool cats : PRINCE VS. PRINCE HARRY : https://twitter.com/Jimllpaintit/status/1246112940786364416 Yep, it's art made by Jim'll Paint It, a UK-based artist who has been making artwork in MS Paint for... em... well a long time now, plus Jim has published a few books with all of the silly and fun stuff he has made in (that you should look for and buy!). This time Jim has painted The Artist Formerly Known As Prince fighting Prince Harry while the Queen tries to twat Freddie Mercury. ------------------------------------------------- >ASCII OF THE NOW The ASCII of The Now (remember that?) is a... a... ""weekly"" thing that we do that shows off some (mostly) old art from the WWW that people might not fully know or care all that much about. Please enjoy at your own risk. __ __ .-'.' .-. '.'-. .'.(( ( ^ `> )).'. /`'- \'._____\ (_____.'/ -'`\ |-''`.'------' '------'.`''-| |.-'`.'.'.`/ | | \`.'.'.`'-.| \ .' . / | | | | \ . '. / '._. : _|_| |_|_ : ._.' ````` /T"Y"T\ ````` / | | | \ jgs `'`'`'`'`'` Zoo-wee-mama, it's some kind of phoenix, get it? Do you get it, hm, I hope you get why THIS was USED on here... Okay?? https://owlman.neocities.org/ascii.html#jgs https://www.asciiart.eu/mythology/phoenix ------------------------------------------------- >LINKS Ahhhhklsdgdeilf, yep, we've got some good links that you should check out!!!11 : THINGS ONLY GEMINIS SAY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq4q1cyaXuY tHANKS TO JACKSFILMS FOR JUST SPITTING TRUE FACTS ABOUT BEING A gEMIN AND... Crap, I had capslock on the whole time? : JACK STAUBER - SPRING CLEANING : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ad9vzs4elk Very nice animation by aimkid, whose YouTube channel you should really check out if you have not yet done so already - you are missing out on the fun! : WHY DO "CORPORATE ART STYLES" FEEL FAKE? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFb7BOI_QFc Video about breaking down the... *off* art style that you see on so many websites. : FIRE LOOKOUTS: THE US FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUTS WATCHING FOR FIRES : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57626403 > Many of us struggled to adapt to home working > and isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. > But the few remaining fire lookouts of the US > Forest Service often live and work for weeks at > a time on their own, scouring the horizon for > any hint of smoke from remote lookout towers. An interesting BBC article looking at the slowly dying job of the forest fire lookouts, an occupation that is as slow as it is important to the country. The article itself has a fair number of quotes from current lookouts that is very worth reading. If you find yourself wanting more on this subject, then Atomic Frontier made a video about this very same thing and why it is slowly dying out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99_Abbuf3cQ : Furry CD-ROM : http://www.datapacrat.com/Furry/CD%20-%20Fur/ : https://digipres.club/@Owly/106657936759076474 I might as well show this off, but the other day I found an open directory of old furry artwork that I'm guessing was published circa 1998 via CD-ROM! There is some NSFW around on the directory, but it is still interesting to see such old artwork and how the whole ~V I B E S~ of furry artwork has changed over the years since being published, plus there are some known famous furry artists that can be found here, such as with Eric W. Schwartz, who is best known for making Sabrina Online. Looking at this art, it seems like this CD-ROM must be dated from around 1996 or so. : .ORG DOESN'T MEAN CREDIBLE : https://www.dotorgdoesntmeancredible.org/ > Many textbooks, online research guides, and > other resources claim that a .org domain name > is an indicator of credibility. i DON'T KNOW HOW COMMON THIS- crap, I had caps on again. I don't know how common this is, but I guess enough people were under the false impression that all .org websites were a sign that the information on it was credible. I'm guessing that you, the reader, already know this, but it's nice to be able to share this link around for when someone less informed says something like this. I'm guessing that this might have come around thanks to Wikipedia being a .org site, but who knows, either way, be in the know. : WORLD AT WAR : https://arremeer.itch.io/world-at-war Damn hoe, did you know that cool guy Bruno made a zine about war and the indifference towards it? Well now you do now, so read it 🔪 : EVIL BAT BOI : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43624024 : https://wiki.neozones.club/index.php?title=File:batboi.png After not using MS Paint (or even anything to do with Microsoft) for, God, over five months, I, Cass Python, decided that I would draw Xania the Linux fox girl, but it quickly turned into me drawing an almost furry version of Dracula, so I thought what the hell? Let's draw Dracula, after all, they *were* a furry! I was originally going to only draw this in black, white, and red, but I thought it would be fun if I were to make it so the only colors* that I could use would be the ones found on the ZX Spectrum, a British home computer (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zx-colors.png). It's a little funky, but you know what, we need a little funk in our life... or undead life! (wait, are vampires undead??) Can you just imagine someone walking down the street in these colors? My sweet Lord, it would stand out. As the colors are a little... strange... I welcome you to feel free and edit around this drawing and see if you can make the colors from the ZX work better, or Hell, make some art USING the colors, that would be really cool to see! *I am sorry to my fellow Brits on here, but I use American English online... I have failed you all. : KENT AND DANIEL : https://kentanddaniel.tumblr.com/post/655983314040209408/a-new-story-begins-kent-and-daniel-get-lost-page fOLLOW THE GAY ADVENTURES OF... oh for god's sake, capslock is on again >:( Follow the gay adventures of Kent and Daniel, a WebComic that follows the day-to-day life of everyone's favourite couple of idiots. The comic was running from late 2017, but since stopped, but is now back -- so read it! : WHY ARE GAMERS SO MUCH BETTER THAN SCIENTISTS AT CATCHING FRAUD? : https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/gamers-are-better-scientists-catching-fraud/619324/ Looking at how gamers (derogatory) are usually better at being able to spot fakes in speedrunning - nerdy read, but worth it. ------------------------------------------------- >UNTIL NEXT TIME You can feel free to contact us by going to our really, really, really super amazing Discord server, located over on at https://neozones.club/discord where you can feel free to send in any of your terrible ideas for our perfect newslatter that millions of people love to read. The text on this page was written by Cass 'Owly' Python and is released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Have a nice night.
