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Playing Lifeline

So, we all know about how pixel art designed for CRTs loses its luster on digital screens. There are plenty of impressive filters and shaders out there that recreate authentic pixel art, but do they capture the feeling of sitting so close to a vintage TV that you can hear the cathode rays bouncing around in your skull? As an exercise, I decided to recreate a CRT screen in Blender as simply as possible. Once it was put together, I started playing around with it trying to find potential practical uses. It turns out, when you point a weirdly-angled fake camera at a fake screen and render it in a ray-tracing engine with depth of field, you get really, really good looking pixel art. So, I set out to make a convincing and easy to work with digital screen material, and I ended up with a potentially really useful rendering tool for not just pixel artists, but any designer with an insatiable hunger for cassette futurism (hello!) It's also simple enough to work with that anyone with an instruction manual should be able to leverage its full potential regardless of Blender experience. If you're interested, stay tuned!

It’s funny In Star Wars that typically whenever a member of an alien species first appears in the films, most subsequent media will proceed to portray whatever occupation they had as a major part of their species’ lore and have other members in that job There’s a joke to be made there

I need one of you to redraw this with abrams and rem