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On Sugar-Free Monster Energy Drinks

July 17, 2023July 9, 2023 Medic 0 Comments energy drink, sugar free

Being diabetic, I generally don’t get much in the way of drinks. If I go to a restaurant, normally my drink choices consist of water or sugar-free pepsi. There’s very, very rarely a second option that is sugar-free. However, outside of restaurants, my options do expand quite a lot. Not only can I get diet pepsi, I can get diet lemonade too. But even then, there aren’t that many options, there’s often no sugar-free fanta or anything like that. So, if I can, I tend to turn towards sugar-free energy drinks. And not one brand has as many options as… [Continue Reading]

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Dragonball Z Abridged

July 8, 2023June 28, 2023 Medic 0 Comments dragonball, ramble

When I was young, I somehow seemed to watch quite a lot of Dragonball Z. This was back when I lived in the UK and we had things like Sky and Cartoon Network. The show 0n Cartoon Network was dubbed into English, and I recall it never ever seeming to end. There were endless power-ups and new forms to take and things like that. Back then, being a 10-year-old girl, I preferred things like Dexter’s Lab and the Power Puff Girls, but after those, we’d watch a bit of Dragonball Z. We probably watched bits from other series of Dragonball,… [Continue Reading]

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Voices From Chernobyl – A Review

July 6, 2023June 26, 2023 Medic 0 Comments book, chernobyl, disaster, review

Some books can find themselves sitting on shelves for years, waiting to be opened and read. Many books end up sitting on shelves and never moving at all, never picked up or read, only jostled about as other books around them are moved. Some books though do eventually get picked up and read, even if they are not exactly enjoyable books. Sometimes, these books are more harrowing than anything else. Voices from Chernobyl is one such book. Put together by Svetlana Alexievich and translated by Keith Gessen, you can tell from the very start that there is little joy to… [Continue Reading]

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RIP My Black Pen

July 3, 2023June 23, 2023 Medic 0 Comments drawing, pen, ramble, rant

Whenever I draw something, I often want to outline it in black pen. After all, my pencil line art is very messy, to say the least. I draw lines over lines over lines with my pencils, and it’s very easy for my pencil work to all smudge together into one horrible line of grey. So in order for my drawings to not end up in a giant, massive, grey mess, I use a black pen and go over all the lines with that. Once I’m done with the black lines, I can then erase all the pencil lines, leaving a… [Continue Reading]

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Some of my Favourite Fonts

July 1, 2023June 21, 2023 Medic 0 Comments font, help I have too many fonts, ramble

Fonts are everywhere. Every single online word has a font associated to it. Whether we’re designing something new or are modernizing old artwork, there are millions of fonts to choose from. I currently have over 2000 fonts installed on my computer, to the point that I’ve broken the font list on Illustrator and can crash paint applications just by opening the font menu. However, while there are so many fonts, there’s also a selection of fonts that I like to back to, which look nice and professional. Gotham Gotham is the font we use for our official artwork. It’s… [Continue Reading]

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On Redrawing Artwork

June 6, 2023June 6, 2023 Medic 0 Comments random, vector

A lot of my work consists of one thing: turning a JPG or a PNG into some sort of vector graphic, so it can be printed or made. Sometimes I also have to turn a PDF into a vector image because the PDF contains a JPG rather than any vector artwork. The process of converting something into a vector graphic can be quite long and arduous, but with my 10 years of experience, I can redraw stuff pretty quickly. Draw by Colour Normally, I start redrawing a logo by separating the basic image into solid colours. That way you can… [Continue Reading]

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On Wearing A Smart Watch

June 2, 2023May 23, 2023 Medic 0 Comments health, random, technology, walk

Not too long ago, I was given a simple smart watch. It’s an older Samsung Galaxy Fit2, and I’ve been wearing it consistently. I’m actually not normally someone who wears a watch, but I’ve decided to be open-minded and give it a go. Just to see what it’s like. So how is this smart watch? It’s handy Haha a pun. But yeah, I’ve actually found this thing quite handy. Mostly because it vibrates just before my phone rings, giving me an extra second to react. It also vibrates when my alarms go off, which do an okay job of waking… [Continue Reading]

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On Hunting Bugs

April 24, 2023April 16, 2023 Medic 0 Comments Bug, ramble, rant

Bugs and glitches; they are absolutely everywhere. Anyone or anything that claims to be completely, 100% bug-free is probably lying. There’s bugs in everything. At the same time, there are tons of people trying to squash all these bugs. Programmers and developers can spend huge amounts of man hours trying to find bugs and fix them. I’m potentially one of those people. Sometimes, bugs somehow squeeze their way in all unexpected. This is doubly true for things like WordPress, which generally have tons of plugins and themes, all often made by third parties. With so much going on, a bug… [Continue Reading]

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On Not Being Able To Roleplay

April 21, 2023April 11, 2023 Medic 0 Comments dungeons and dragons, roleplay, story

I’m a writer. I write constantly. Every day, I write 500 words, often more. I don’t just write articles, I write fiction as well. In fact, I do so much writing that it’s basically burned into me now, it’s a massive part of my routine, and because of it, I’ve been able to both keep The Daily SPUF daily, and my fictional writing is still going, slowly but surely. In my writing, I have to do a little bit of roleplay, putting myself in the shoes of my characters, or even my non-fiction readers. I also play a bit of… [Continue Reading]

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Taskmaster but International

April 19, 2023April 7, 2023 Medic 0 Comments australia, new zealand, sweden, taskmaster

Taskmaster is one of my favourite TV shows of all time. I absolutely adore it, and regularly spend lunch breaks and evenings watching Taskmaster. I’ve watched up to series 14 and am waiting patiently for season 15, which will have Frankie Boyle (a terrifyingly amazing comedian) on it. But did you know that Taskmaster has been done in other countries too? I’ll start with the ones in languages I don’t understand. Bast I Test is the Swedish version of Task Master, and it does have a good spin on the normal Taskmaster layout. The Taskmaster herself is a woman called… [Continue Reading]