{"id":5,"date":"2008-04-18T03:23:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-04-18T03:23:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T01:23:02","slug":"the-dreaded-red-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/5","title":{"rendered":"The Dreaded Red Arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this is the last one for now, I promise. Not that anyone cares anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about the purpose of <a title=\"Paint article on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ms_Paint\" target=\"_blank\">MS Paint<\/a>. Yes, it&#8217;s nice to have a primitive way of quickly creating something graphical when there&#8217;s no &#8220;real&#8221; software installed. Yes, I know you can actually do awesome pixel art with Paint. Yes, I am aware of <a title=\"Elftor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elftor.com\/elftor.php?number=112\" target=\"_blank\">The Power of Paint<\/a>. However I&#8217;m pretty sure that 97% of the time, MS Paint is used for one purpose and one purpose only: slapping crappy, waggly mouse-drawn lines in glaring 0xff0000 over photos, screenshots and maps, usually padded with gigantic JPEG artefacts. Most of the time, it&#8217;s an arrow.<\/p>\n<p>Call me guilty as charged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/basics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"basics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/basics.jpg\" alt=\"The Dreaded Red Arrow\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/basics.jpg 629w, http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/basics-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>PS: Yes it&#8217;s actually 0xff7e00, I know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this is the last one for now, I promise. Not that anyone cares anyway. I have been thinking about the purpose of MS Paint. Yes, it&#8217;s nice to have a primitive way of quickly creating something graphical when there&#8217;s no &#8220;real&#8221; software installed. Yes, I know you can actually do awesome pixel art with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dreaded Red Arrow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,14,4,15],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ms-paint","tag-pixel-art","tag-random-thoughts","tag-screenshot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}