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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And then one if the lines wasn't painted all the way through and suddenly your whole image was Olive green

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Then, that older cousin teaches you about "CTRL + Z", which you think you also had to press the + key for it to work

[–] EyIchFragDochNur@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Or you made the black line white.....

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The horror!

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this a universal experience from the time period. How did it start. Nobody told me to do this. I just did.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

It's the millennial equivalent of just being handed a box of crayons and being told to go nuts. It's baked into our DNA.

[–] TooLazyDidntName@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I think I remember my computer class teacher saying something about it to my classmates and I.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Far from it my dude. =)

+1

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I used to do this with Kid Pix on DOS back in the day. It was like paint but with sound effects lol.

[–] WindInTrees@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just liked to spam the dynamite tool (I think it was?) whichever one put the funny explosion effect on the screen.

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You could also freeze the explosion midway through for a cool swirly effect.

I liked to switch the language to Spanish and do some fire remixes with the alphabet tool.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My dude I haven't heard of kidpix in like 14years the nostalgia's real

[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ken27238@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hold on, hold on hear me out.....

Kid Pix on the Mac

[–] snowbell@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Kaboom-boom!

[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Oh my, I'm not even 18 years old but i sooo did this lol

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Wow, this is a moldy meme. Anyone go to the cool website?

[–] Stoler@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

It was always Oregon Trail or Carmen San Diego for me.

[–] torafugu@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm only 18 and I remember.

[–] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

On the school computers this was one of the only fun things we could do.

[–] subarctictundra@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] torafugu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yup. XP was legendary.

[–] sean_lemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I remember in early middle school doing this incomputerlabe after finishing our work.

Sometimes the teacher would let us print it out 😁

[–] clearleaf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I liked dragging a selection box on the desktop and seeing how thin of a line I could turn it into. When it was perfect the line would dissapear and just have one pixel on the top and bottom. It was also fun to draw the smallest possible box around random things on the desktop wallpaper. I did that with the windows 7 stock wallpaper a lot.

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I still do this

[–] LurkyMcLurkface@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Holy fuck, this is eerily accurate!

[–] Cokeser@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My 5 year old has done this a couple of times as well - I just has to adjust my semi-crazy mouse speed to her. :) I even saved the pics.

Another thing I distinctly remember is watching my das defragmentating the drive. I know that I at the same time hated it because it meant that we could not play games, but it was also strangely mesmerizing...

[–] subarctictundra@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Send the pics to her when she's 30

[–] StewartGilligan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This was pretty much every computer class.

[–] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I remember drawing the Death Star and lots of TIE Fighters. One version of paint had this line tool that produced the hyperspace lines effect. Nowadays, I dabble with pixel art in Aseprite.

[–] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I still occasionally do this if I am on the phone with someone and need something to do with my hands that doesn't take much brain power or make any noise.

[–] Jocker@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

And now i think i was Picasso

[–] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 3 points 2 years ago

For me, it was Kid Pix and Claris Works.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Another thing I loved doing was doing a single color fill, then zipping the mouse around with the free-form selection and deleting the selection.

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, but for some reason I would only use straight lines.

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Also, does anyone remember this game (it was included in Windows 95)?

[–] CodeSalat@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Sell it. This looks like it's worth millions, lol

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Digital art at its simplest

[–] Paranoid_pizza@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

'Twas a work of art!

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Deluxe Paint 4 on the Amiga for the win

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Wingdings was how I rolled.

[–] Stoler@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It was always Oregon Trail or Carmen San Diego for me.

Something fun to do is scribble like that and look for shapes or objects within the mess and erease it so whatever you saw is clear to see

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
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