Niq

@tekf.itch.io

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Hazel Quantock pronouns: she/it🏳️‍⚧️ adjectives: tired autistic butch shader artist/coder, games dev >25yrs AuDHD | poly | furry | union girl fedi: https://pony.social/@niq https://www.shadertoy.com/user/TekF

upward angled selfie of my in a pink t-shirt emphasising my boobs

the pizza hut "chicken hut trick"

email from Microsoft:

"Stay secure for another year

Your Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) protection has been extended

We understand that moving to a new PC can take time. As part of our ongoing commitment to helping customers stay secure during the transition, the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for personal devices is being provided an additional year. Coverage will now be available through October 12, 2027.

As a current user enrolled in ESU, you will automatically receive an additional year of protection. No action is required on your end, the extension will be automatic."

mirror selfie of Niq with bright pink hair, she's wearing black shorts, a light grey spaghetti strap top under a black cropped oversized shirt

ad for the "Complete Claude AI for Blender bundle" from humble bundle

a Namco NeGcon controller, where the two halves of the controller can twist relative to each other to control analogue steering

screenshot of compile errors repeatedly saying "syntax error, unexpected exclamation mark in 'aaaaargh!?'"

webcam view of Niq making eye-contact with the camera, smiling slightly, with intensely pink hair cascading down one side of her head, wearing glasses and headphones in colours which compliment her hair and the backdrop image she's composited onto (by pixel artist Waneella)

Niq with freshly dyed neon pink hair and a matching neon pink middle fingernail.

my fingers, one of which has a bright pink tip

an oval shaped loaf of bread cooling on a rack

Screenshot of the results of searching for a "bird" gif, there are zero birds.

A set of film negatives held up against a window so they're back lit, CGI images of geometric forms are visible in the images on the film.

A rounded cube with some extrusions, and text projected onto it.

My serious gaming rig - An Acorn A3010 with aux cables connecting it to a portable stereo tape deck for sound output. It's on a 2-tier desk with a CRT monitor on the upper tier. A second CRT sits on a high chest of drawers, with a Sega Saturn and a tower-style CD rack on a lower chest of drawers beside it. There's an acoustic guitar in the corner. I'm not sure where this photo was taken, the walls don't match my bedroom at home or any of the other places I remember living.

My childhood cat, Kitt (so named because 8-year old me was not allowed to call her Knight Rider). She's sitting on my bed which has striped bedding, as was the fashion. In the background there's a sink, and the walls of my bedroom are adorned with Lambourghini Countach, Terminator 2, and Garfield posters.

Screenshot of an email from linked in titled "Barack Obama, President of the USA, is popular in your network". The body of the email encourages me to follow him.

Next hour 32°C, Sunny

Rejection letter from Core Design in 1998

Thanks for your enquiry concerning potential vacancies for games programmers at Core.

I note from your CV that you have an excellent degree in mathematics with computer science and experience of 'C' programming, combined with a keen interest in computer graphics and animation. However, after undertaking a further review of our programming resources within the various teams, in line with games currently under development, I must advise you that we are at full strength. Consequently, we are unable to progress your application further.

Thanks for your interest in Core Design and we hope you will soon realise your ambition to work within the games industry. I am returning the disc you provided us with.

Yours sincerely

Adrian Smith Operations Director

Screenshot of the channels I follow on Twitch showing 3 people streaming, who currently have 77, 65, and 51 viewers.

Screenshot of the description of a seasonal challenge in Forza Horizon 6: "Maintain a Speed of 142 km/h or above for 10 seconds in the 1982 DeLorean"

Pixel art of a retro windows style app window. The tile bar says "Sourdough_v2_final3.bred". The menus are "Starter", "Dough", and "Bake". "Dough" is selected and a drop-down menu shows the options "Autolyse", "Knead", "Prove", and "Ferment", with "Knead" highlighted.

A train platform with a barrier covered in warning signs about trains and overhead wires next to a square patch of spikes on the ground.

Mirror selfie of me wearing a black tank top and my glasses on top of my head holding back my pink hair.

Photo of stonework inside the John Rylands Library in Manchester. An arch awkwardly overlaps an embellishment, the forms simply interpenetrating in a way that is common in CGI. Here this "bug" has been rendered lovingly in rock by someone who presumably spent hours, if not days, looking at this ugly, graceless collision of shapes with love and pride. Astounding. Photo taken by me.

A very fluffy tiger cub with a lovely glint in its eye

That same bird flies over an open and conspicuously not-zoo-like landscape covered in various types of tree.
I should probably be better at identifying trees too.... they're mostly green ones...

A bird in an aviary flapping its wings, above it the aviary roof is made of netting.
I should probably know bird species by now but... idk it's a pretty one.

screengrab from the Planet Zoo 2 trailer, a little girl is looking up at the entrance to an aviary

A photo of the shop C&A, in the 90s

screenshot of me muting the word "EHRC"

Selfie of Niq wearing a grey tank top, pink hair cascading from her head to her shoulder, framing the octopus tattoo on her arm

they really did just run a highway through a building

windows progress bar captioned "Dilating... This might take several minutes." The bar is shaped like a dilator and is widening the slot it's in.

a pack of Laughing Cow cheese

Screenshot of Forza Horizon 6. A 1980 Subaru Brat GL painted to resemble the cover of charli xcx's album "Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat". The text on the car reads "brat and it's completely different because it's a car but also still brat".

Discord post by Hazel (me!): "I try not to stress about it too much. There's so much speculation about how bad it'll get but that makes me feel hopeless. I'm trying to go to more protests, be as visible as I feel safe to be, and keep a year's stockpile of HRT. If they block access to my meds I'll have a year to find a way round that or emigrate. Worrying only makes me suffer, which is what they want, so I'm gonna try to enjoy my life as much as I can out of spite."

Screenshot of Forza Horizon 6, Chaser Zero striking a pose. Subtitled: "Actuators, set. Flight systems, online. Power level optimal. Chaser Zero. Initialization complete."

The cover of the book Goodnight Moon

close up on the back-lit image in the previous post, showing detail in the wood grain

3D render of an elaborate, unfinished wooden train layout of a train yard full of carriages that have been parked, being passed by a train zigzagging across the points. The track extends into the background and out of focus we can see a second train following the first. The lighting is fairly neutral with a brighter light coming from the right side of the frame, creating highlights on the thin edges of the train.

close up on rendered Brio train tracks, to show the wood grain

Close up wireframe view of a Brio train track junction. This is with modifiers applied so the peg and hole have been added and carved through the mesh, and the long edges all have a smooth rounded bevel

3D render of an elaborate, unfinished wooden train layout of a train yard full of carriages that have been parked, being passed by a train zigzagging across the points. The track extends into the background and out of focus we can see a second train following the first.

Screengrab of a YouTube thumbnail from NYT Cooking. A woman, Hetty Lui McKinnon, is composited in front of some food. The title reads "This easy tart is what spring eating is all about"

coolyori meme.
negative reacion, captioned: "gender euphoria from normal girl things"
positive reaction, captioned: "gender euphoria from shaving my undercut"

View from inside a ring-shaped spacecraft, filled with rows of lavender tended by hovering robots. The background is a lavender coloured gas giant. Rendered in Blender.

Full body shot of Niq wearing black dungarees over a black tank top, pink hair cascading down one side of her face as she looks into the camera, holding her hands behind her head to show off her bare arms.

Selfie of me wearing blue cat ears

Reddit advert from Ninja Kitchen UK
A machine is extruding brown sludge into a container. It's captioned "upgrade your morning coffee".

Render of my spaceship shape generator showing a variety of different shapes it's generated

Same scene as in the previous video in the thread, but the a square underneath the object is being edited. The square gets extruded upward into a cuboid, and all the rectangles in the spaceship get thicker to become cuboids. A short edge gets beveled, then a long edge, and those changes are reflected on the rectangles, making a more complex shape.

Screen captured video of Blender's editor window. A group of rectangles, randomly placed, longer on one axis than the other and tilted at random angles. The rectangles are mirrored in the x axis and oriented to form a wedge shape similar to a Star Destroyer from Star Wars. The shapes are moving as I adjust parameters, first the range of randomness of each rectangle's tilt, then the overall tilt of all of them, then the position of the rectangles along one axis, and finally the angle of the wedge.

Bluesky notification: "Chiitan liked your post"

photo of a tiramisu captioned "The Tiramisu fandom is dying. Repost if you love ladyfingers in your mouth."

Selfie of me flexing my free arm in front of a backlit trans flag