Turniper
19d ago
I'm less familiar with Kriss than I am with marketing writing. Substack is a platform you basically need to funnel to via a big twitter or youtube account. Other people's substacks and tiktok are also good options. It doesn't give you much organic visibility, even if people view and comment, you need another way to drive links. It's more of a bottom of funnel than a top of funnel place, with good monetization options for dedicated fans.
Turniper
19d ago
Substack's algorithm doesn't work like that, unless you drive viewership from other platforms you're gonna get almost zero visibility.
Turniper
23d ago
Mm, this really isn't true. If you write like Sam Kriss into the void, you'll enjoy approximately zero organic success. You need to both write like Sam, and market like him, to enjoy success like him. There are platforms that will drive viewership organically to your writing. Most of them are places to read fiction for free. If you want to write blogs, you're gonna need to market yourself.
Turniper
29d ago
Blend shapes will allow you to mess with proportions. That's actually pretty easy, and the industry standard solution for stuff like scaling fat or muscle. The problem is that animations wont play nicely with blend shapes. If you increase the length of legs or forearms rather than scaling height uniformly, all your physical interaction animations begin to break. If you really want truly unique builds, you basically need to do VR style procedural IK animation for all your interactions.
Tangentially related, but once on my EMT-B rotations at 21, I had a Chinese guy assume that I was a fucking resident, because I was a man wearing scrubs on the L&D floor, who was clearly too young to be an attending. I was not a mature looking 21 year old. I didn't stop getting carded until like 30. A few weeks earlier on an ER rotation an elderly black lady had asked how young they were starting us these days, because she couldn't believe I was working in a hospital when I looked like a high school freshman.
Anyway, the nurses had a great laugh about that and I believe the poor intern? was given shit about it for several weeks.
Also I was wearing big stompy boots with my borrowed scrubs, and he apparently just didn't notice those.
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