I AM BECOME ANIME + other updates (Patreon)

Hey you know how I try to make informative, insightful, valuable things? Well this is not one of those.

(🌸^ ω ^) I AM BECOME ANIME
a webcam toy that turns you into anime (use Firefox/Chrome)

I made this in 10 hours for the Stupid Sh*t Nobody Needs & Terrible Ideas 2018 Hackathon. Other hackathon entries included: a passive-aggressive toilet, a cutlery set for hamsters, and a Big Mouth Billy Bass but with an actual decomposing fish. It was horrible.

=== ANYWAY HERE'S SOME ACTUAL UPDATES ===

Patreon Rewards! If you chose the $5/mo+ reward, here's your Polygon Avatars for the month! If you chose the limited $10/mo+ reward, (also, i recently increased the number of slots, there's still a few left) I just sent out an email to you asking for a reference photo for me to hand-draw you as a peep. Let me know if you didn't get the email!

HTTPS! Finally, my websites are being served securely over https! I couldn't earlier, because it was only until recently that GitHub Pages could do https for custom domains. But as of yesterday, ncase.me and explorabl.es finally get that nice 🔓icon up top.

Figuring out life & stuff! Thank you all so much for your feedback and thoughts in response to my last Patreon post! I think, you're right, I'm totally overthinking this (as usual). Also, I recently read a paper which I highly recommend to all of you, especially if you care about social change and/or social science: Small Wins - Redefining the scale of social problems (pdf). This one sentence basically sums me up: “People often define social problems in ways that overwhelm their ability to do anything about them.”  tl;dr -- I gotta stop thinking about the mountaintop so much, and think more about climbing onto my next foothold.

Misc: oh, also, we decided to do the Explorable Explanations game jam in August, not July. Because July is usually when people are on vacation, and August is the quiet pre-back-to-school slump. Also, sometime next week, I'll send out a survey to y'all to help me decide my next explorable! The last two times, you peeps decided The Evolution of Trust and The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds, so I trust your good taste :)

Until then!

<3,
~ Nicky Case

P.S: Anyone got some good Bande Dessinée recommendations? Tintin and Asterix obviously, what else? I'm trying to learn French, and I think French comics might be a good first step