Something I picked up after a few years of window shopping for games is how to find games that I will enjoy 100% of the time and not regret the purchase. It’s a simple trick. Here it is:
READ THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS ONLY!!
Positive reviews are pointless. Either the reviewer is wanking onto the keyboard or they are frothing at their mouth trying to find a single good thing to say that isn’t “herp derp 11/10 best gaem evar!!1″. You already know you are interested in the game if you bothered checking it out. Positive reviews will only cloud your judgement on a purchase and you may regret it.
Examples: I regretted buying Dragon Age: Origins, The Witcher 3, GTA 5, and Overwatch. Why? Because I believed the hype. I thought these games might be every bit as awesome as people said they were, but I ended up hating all of them. Other games that were ruined for me were Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel and Spec Ops: The Line, due to being unplayable on my hardware; something I would have known about if I had read the negative reviews before purchase.
However, negative reviews humble your mind to a purchase you sets your expectations to a realistic standard. You don’t get disappointed, you get more or less what you imagined you would. Negative reviews will often describe the problems in a game and let you decide if they are deal breakers or if you can live with it. Unlike positive reviews you get a lot less wanking onto the keyboard and a lot less hive mentality to push a sale.
This as led to about 95% satisfaction with my purchases. A significant improvement from the rough 45% of just trying to play what everyone tells me to.
From Washington, D.C., the rings would only fill a portion of the sky, but appear striking nonetheless. Here, we see them at sunrise.
From Guatemala, only 14 degrees above the equator, the rings would begin to stretch across the horizon. Their reflected light would make the moon much brighter.
From Earth’s equator, Saturn’s rings would be viewed edge-on, appearing as a thin, bright line bisecting the sky.
At the March and September equinoxes, the Sun would be positioned directly over the rings, casting a dramatic shadow at the equator.
At midnight at the Tropic of Capricorn, which sits at 23 degrees south latitude, the Earth casts a shadow over the middle of the rings, while the outer portions remain lit.
Lost my wallet, therefore opening commissions tomorrow
More info when I get home from my flight, but I’ll accept most requests for this occasion.
Yes I’m getting all my cards cancelled and renewed, had about $200+ of loose cash tho and I gotta replace my ID too. Thankfully I didn’t have millions of credit cards to replace or other upsetting oddities to lose, and I lost it in a restaurant so there’s a chance of return - but yakno
Blah internet ate my first info addition reblog.
Tl;dr - decently recoverable situation, don’t feel like you gotta be guilted to help or anything. HOWEVER, I generally don’t want to open commissions, so consider this a rare chance for a Shou commission.
I’ll accept most requests from sketch to color, Headshot to full body, etc. Canon MLP and Anime works may be cheaper if I can make merch out of it. OC anime works is preferred as well. 3+ characters may be difficult.
I prefer drawing female/girly characters. I’ll need to learn to draw male characters (probably gonna learn bishounen style) but don’t expect the work to be amazing (imo) if you ask for one.
Won’t draw anything too structural/mechanically detailed, certain fetish works, or gore. May draw ecchi/nsfw but they might not be that good so pay at your own risk.
More info + details + comm sign up form will be provided on my weebly later in the day today.
Average price you may expect is $50 per non-complex character full-color - resolution at 7500 minimum pixel length/width. I’m willing to price offer and haggle as necessary, but tips are appreciated as well.
I will also offer printed works to be mailed for an additional charge if interested - with the help of my table partner’s printing service.
the best part of infinity war was when bucky picked up rocket and spun around like a lethal carousel of war. looked like julie andrews dancing in the mountains. the hills are alive but bitch you ain’t.
When people are born, they have a streak of hair the same color and texture as their soulmate’s natural hair. You are born with a blue streak that floats in the air, and no matter what you do you can’t get it to lay flat on your head.
For most people they found each other at a young age, kindergarten , DayCare and the like but you had always felt that your love would never come. Your hair was a nice soft dusty blonde, it was short with wavy bangs in the front, except for the streak. The blue streak stood up on end , almost floating and following the line of your head, it felt sharp and if you could lay it flat it would go down your shoulder to your back, and while some found it cool or interesting it was a constant reminder that no one with the kind of hair would ever exist. You are now 17 you finished your junior year of highschool and had started working at that same job you always did, selling ice cream at a small shop on the main street of town. Customers always felt the same. The same woman who’s childs ice cream was not to his standards, the same guy who would try flavours but never actually buy anything and the same kid who tried his best to get a free cone. It was constantly the same, until you saw him. His Green emerald eyes looked up at you , and you could not help but get lost in them , his blue spiked hair seemed to poof up and curve behind his head and yes, he had a streak of dusty blonde hair, and he spoke with a voice anyone would trust “WOAH, THIS ICE CREAM STAND WOULDN’T HAPPEN TO SELL CHILLI DOGS WOULD IT?” before you could answer the boy looks over his shoulder with a look of content and valor and spoke again “WELL, MAYBE NEXT TIME RIGHT NOW ITS TIME TO TAKE DOWN EGGMANS ROBOTS AND GET THAT CHAOS EMERALD, CATCH YOU ON THE FLIP” and that beautiful blue hedgehog was gone in a flash.
uh guys please i beg u if u have the choice DO NOT INSTALL THE LATEST WINDOWS UPDATE theres a good chance itll destroy your pc
here’s some info on what it may do to your computer and here are some potential ways to fix it
just to date this post, the above articles are from may 23, 2018 and may 24, 2018, respectively. this is still going on, and as of these dates microsoft has not found a fix. here’s another article from may 24, 2018 that describes the problem and links to a list of ways to delay getting the update until they patch it.
sometimes old posts about bad pc updates circulate on this site months or even years after they’re defunct, THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE TIMES!!! please be careful guys, there are reports of machines being bricked by this update :(
yeah no this is legit, it fucking made my computer unbootable, I’ve been struggling to get a back up up for days now
Just in case, for those who don’t know how to stop your Windows 10 computer from auto-updating w/o your permission; you need to do the following steps.
go to Control Panel>View large icons>Admistrative tools>Services>Scroll down and find Windows Update>Double click>Stop the current session>click Manuel or Disable from the drop down>Apply
when my pc auto-updated, it didn’t destroy or hide any files or become unbootable, but it reinstalled many microsoft apps such as edge, and refuses to let me uninstall them from the app manager. it’s taking up loads of space on my hard drive that was free just before the update. ik i can probably find some program or something online to do delete the apps, but thought people would be interested to know.
Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)
OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:
Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.
My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:
Now you’ll see this page:
Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:
Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.
When we click on that one, what we will get is this:
A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.
(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)
I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.
On a job application: “What is your preferred name and gender, we value diversity, so be honest.” Me:
I don’t know what this means. I’ve never filled out a form that said that.
they’re asking you to disclose if you’re transgender. legally, they can’t ask or consider someone’s gender in hiring someone, so they get around it by giving you the option of telling them yourself. if you “volunteer” the information, that’s legal.
its like when they try to figure out if you’re poor by asking if you have “reliable transportation,” hoping that ppl will explain that they dont have a car without actually being asked. things like that.
its a scummy thing to do, especially in this case where theyre presenting it like a “diversity” thing.
^^^^
Never answer those questions honestly if you actually want the job.
My managers have personally told people that anyone who puts anything like that outside of just “male or female” gets their application tossed immediately. Btw if an interviewer asks if you have reliable transportation, don’t say anything but “yes I do” that’s it!!!!! Don’t say another word don’t say you take the bus or walk or bike or get rides or uber don’t say anything!!!!! Just say yes and that is it they cannot require any sort of proof of transportation.
Shit. I didn’t know that about transportation but I'mma start doing it now.
Popcorn (my pet guinea pig) has a life threatening condition and needs surgery right away but we don’t have enough money to pay it (costs £250/$334). The vet said if we don’t have enough money by Tuesday 29th May, Popcorn will be put down.
When I heard the news I was so upset. I don’t want Popcorn to leave us this way, he’s in so much pain. He has an eye infection and it’s spreading, and his hair has started to fall out (the gif below is of Popcorn).
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To people who commission artists, we are not your work horse,do not ask us to change a sketch/full pic 20 times so it can be “perfect”. there is a limit to what another person can do when it comes to realizing whatever vision you have. once or even twice as fine as long as its reasonable, make sure you are communicating your vision as clearly as possible,
do not clutter the artists mind with too many repetitive references,make sure they are references they can actually use, and if you dont have anything to presicely depict what you want, do your best to convey it through words or whatever, communication is your friend.
also dont be afraid to say a picture is not going the way you intended,unless your hired artist is heartless or tired of your shit, they should understand.
sorry really had to get that out somewhere or i was going to explode.
This right here.
A person once wasted 3 weeks of my time trying to get a $20 commission to look “just right” before I was forced to cancel the commission so I could get actual work done elsewhere.
You’re not hiring us, you are paying for a service. As such, you need to have a vision coming in and convey it to us clearly.
Now, if an artist does fuck up, be sure to speak up early so they can correct that mistake. Otherwise they may make a mistake or do something you’re unhappy with. Artists aren’t perfect, even if you like their work; when they work for money they may try to get the job done efficiently - which could lead to corners being cut. Be sure the artist deliver WIPs, and explain clearly where your concerns and praises lie. But try to get everything right in one or two takes.
There are a few reasons why you shouldn’t whine every time there’s a reboot of something. Let’s use the new Thundercats as an example.
1. Thundercats doesn’t deserve to die. It’s a beloved property that should have a fair attempt at reaching a new generation of kids. Don’t let a misplaced sense of ownership to something that isn’t yours in the first place ruin a show for other people. You like the original? Good. You can always go watch it. A reboot of Thundercats doesn’t mean the original never happened. Think a reboot should be more action packed and play older? They tried it in 2011 and turns out viewers didn’t want it.
Consider that the new Thundercats Roar may actually do well because…
2. …it wasn’t made for you. The tastes of today’s kids are different than ours, just like how ours was different than the generation before us. Test yourself by watching the original Thundercats. And by watching it I mean actually watching several entire episodes from start to finish. Most likely you’re going to get bored and want to change it to something else. A comedic adaptation of it could just be what revives interest in the Thundercats.
3. You already know and trust the artists. You trusted them when they helped make shows like OK KO, Motorcity, Rick and Morty, etc.. They’re bringing that passion and expertise with them to Thundercats Roar. You’d be surprised at how much a network relies on the artists’ unique voices to make their shows stand out. Just from TC Roar’s sick intro you should know that this show is bringing something to the table.
4. It’s opening doors for the things you love. Whether you like it or not, reboots like Teen Titan GO and Ben 10 are successful and kids love them. While you don’t have to love them too, you should appreciate them. It’s because of the success of shows like these that networks can have the resources to explore new original content. This is how progress is made. This is why cartoons aren’t just cat and mouse chases anymore. Who knows, maybe a network will even end up developing an original show so successful that in 10 years time trolls on the internet will hate its reboot.
5. If you’re an aspiring artist, this isn’t a good look for you. Go through your favorite artists’ twitters and tumblrs and see if they have ever said anything bad about any animated shows. You’ll find nothing, why? It’s because this is an industry of cooperation and support for your fellow artists.
A good portion of the people I follow online are artists trying to break into the industry. We see the things you say. Your rants don’t make you sound like an animation connoisseur. It makes you sound toxic and jaded about an industry you haven’t even set foot in yet. Why would a production want to commit to hiring someone they think will just be rolling their eyes at the designs the whole time?
Number 5 is the big one here.
Yeah but it looks bad fam
Fuck you and your calarts cancer op
lol
i don’t need to be a chef to know i’m eating shit
Am I witnessing honest to god CN shills on my dash
This is something I posted to DeviantArt a couple years ago, but recently scrounged up. While it hasn’t been heavily subjected to the test of time to determine whether the reasoning stands true over the decades, it has had enough time to fade from my cognition and be re-experienced as a standalone piece of writing separated from my personal bias towards writing it. Now I can read it from the vantage point of an outsider, the same vantage point all of you share, and I will say it has given me some pretty strong inspiration to just hunker down and IDGAF draw like a madman today.
So here’s hoping it does the same to you!
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Practice is the Reward
(Originally Published February 21, 2016)
Now that I’ve gotten my slate cleaned up, I did say at one point I would open myself up for more commissions. Over the last couple weeks, though, I have been taking it very easy, and have realized something about myself.
You see, when you end up doing professional artwork night after night after night, there’s a certain pressure that is always over you. It needs to get done in a timely manner. It needs to adhere to a personal standard that the client expects from you. And you need to be ready to field any special requests and fixes they have for it.
None of that exists when you’re just practicing.
When you get to just put all that aside and practice, there’s a therapeutic aura about the whole thing. You don’t have to worry about what other people will say about it. Nobody has to see it. You can try whatever you want. Experiment. You can try replicating another artist’s style, you can go wild and do your own style. You can try it with a textured spatter brush, or a pin-point line brush. You can go at it for five minutes, give up, start another one, and do dozens of different pictures in a single night. You can hunker down and blow the whole evening just getting the cheek bones right. You can stream your little aesthetic musings for your friends to check out. Or you can put on a newly-discovered Synthwave mix on YouTube and drop into your own mental pocket beyond the tangible confines of existence. You can draw the same picture, over and over and over again, trying new ideas with each attempt.
In a way, drawing becomes something akin to playing a video game or going to the gym. It’s truly your meditation, your escape, and your ability to build yourself, and you get better at it the more you do it.
When you are in practice mode, you don’t have clients. You don’t have a standard. You don’t have to worry about getting it done in time, or even done at all. You won’t be given a checklist of tasks to adhere to. You have absolute freedom.
Freedom to explore.
Freedom to give up and move to something else.
Freedom to fail.
You can fail. It’s beautiful how, when you’re in practice mode, you can fail. You can sit back, chuckle about how awful it looks, and you can be a determined little codger that will keep trying until they’re satisfied. Or you can be like me, and say “well, looks like I’m not so good at drawing Cyborg Alpacas. Steampunk Koalas, though…?”
But all the while, nobody cares. Nobody complains. Nobody will pressure you to work harder, draw faster, or be better. There’s no reason, there’s no point, and without the arbitrary inclusion of “purpose” casting a shadow on the work station, there’s no consequence.
And if you’re having difficulty churning up the motivation to open a sketchbook and draw something you don’t normally draw, it’s okay. Don’t do it because you want to see how good you are at it. Do it to see how, no matter how badly your attempt is, the world around you is still standing. Because that kind of liberty is something I don’t get very often when I draw. When I’m working, I can’t suck. I can’t give up and do something else. I can’t fail.
So go ahead. Treat yourself. You have the time, so award it by sticking it to humanity and proclaiming “I’m going to draw this monstrosity and you jerks can’t stop me!”
As my freelance schedule starts ramping up again in the next couple weeks, I’m a little saddened that I won’t get these nights to myself to just try drawing some human figures. Some referenced. Some attempted off the top of my head. All a little caddywompus, loose, chaotic, and weird looking. But it’s a care-free type of art session I don’t get very often.
So I’m going to suck while I still can.
Because soon enough, every night will again be defined by standards. Deadlines. Specifications. And consequences to failure.
