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@beardalaxy We must genetically engineer boy wives that do not shrivel up after age 30. :PepoSmug:

Artist that owes me a $400 commission for a year and a half now 

@beardalaxy I personally don't know any artists that do half payments like this but I feel people should just not undertake work they can't complete regardless of the payment plan.

I have already dealt with 4 artists unable to finish work and that is just too damn much in the span of 1 year! And this isn't exclusively to drawing artists, as I had a cosplay artist last year also try to prolong the horns and tail I needed for my doll past the Buyer Protection of Paypal. They already had negative reviews on their page from orders being late and it looks like they were just cramming orders. That along with abysmal communication and finally only replying once I started a dispute. To this day, he still doesn't have proper horns or the tail and I got annoyed enough that I don't want to deal with trying to get another person plus these two pieces will run me over 1k USD at most cosplay places. Don't have funds like this currently. 😅

The guy's art is really good imo so I felt the price was justified since the outfits are detailed and it also includes two small animal pets. Plus I ain't gonna lie but my OC's horns and tails are a nightmare to draw and something even I still have trouble with. But I think most people would feel $400 is indeed too much for art. I had gotten past commissions and the last two have gone really bad with him struggling to complete them unless I keep poking him. It's like dealing with a child. I haven't found an artist with a similar style to his that does commissions and excels at drawing cute males.

Not everything they sell is total junk, like this cozy pizza blanket although I think the picture they have here is an ACTUAL pizza. :omegalul:
The Shining inspired statue also looks quite good!

I found some underwear that "protects your children" but I don't know if having a plastic dome covering your nuts is very practical at all!

Lastly, a very friendly Harambe shirt. :peepoComfy:

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Artist that owes me a $400 commission for a year and a half now 

There's a certain artist that still owes me a big commission after a year and half. I'm at the point where I feel my art is decent enough that I don't even need his commission anymore either. :omegalul: I don't even want to use it because he has been such a headache to deal with. Do I even want to promote a person like this?

Guy keeps fucking off for months/weeks without working on it. Keeps popping back up when I confront him about it and says that he got depressed again and can't work on anything. Don't know how this guy even lives or hopes to make a living off art if he can't get anything done. He can't even work on the shit he keeps piling on from other clients. I feel at this point, he's better off filing disability from his depression if his country even offers it. He seems to be well enough to keep playing Overwatch and Minecraft though instead of working, since I have him added on Discord.

This is extremely frustrating and he's actually so close to getting it done. But he shades like 1 pixel and then shows me the "progress". Since he barely shades anything, of course it's taking so long. If he just shades the damn thing and adds the background I requested, then he would be done. He definitely doesn't want to work on it anymore but he keeps insisting he wants to finish it to "add to his portfolio". I think he has his work ethic to worry about more than his portfolio at this point.

Some of these guys have no issue taking money and spending it then never finishing the work they owe. This isn't the first artist that does this to me either but certainly the worst one so far. With the others, at least I have been able to get my money back or they finish just right before the buyer protection runs out. Of course I don't commission them ever again after.

This is actually one of the reasons I started to do my own art now. I'm tired of dealing with people like this. I already had the foundation to get started because I've been drawing most of my life. I just need to refine my skills at lot.

If you're wondering why I have even let it get to this point and you're thinking I'm retarded, then you are correct! I absolutely can't justify not putting my foot down on this. I won't let something like this occur again for sure. I'm too forgiving sometimes and it bites me in the ass.

Hell, I struggle with completing art too but the difference is I'm not getting paid for it and it's not my full time job either. This is why I won't ever do commissions and my inability to work on it is due to physical health issues, too. I know depression is also crippling but then I feel the guy shouldn't be handling money at this point.

I feel my patience is at its limit but I'm in a shitty situation where the commission is SO CLOSE to done and asking for a refund feels pointless after this much work is done. It's a very lovely commission of my OCs! :pepeHang: I'd rather just have it, honestly.

@beardalaxy ty fren. I'm going to watch it right now!
I actually really love Shrek 1&2. There's something about these movies that always makes it feel like I'm watching them for the first time. I feel the pacing for it is just perfect. Each part of the movie doesn't feel rushed and it's a good time. Though I still think the original is better than the sequel.

I haven't bothered to watch the rest because I heard they sucked and it was just milking the franchise at that point.

@veru if you rewatch shrek you should watch shrek retold. it's an acid trip of a movie but it's fun. the little bits that are changed catch you completely off guard.

youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQs

Almost bought the shirt but I really have too many shirts already!

The eye medicine came from another day but I love the savagery. :pepelol:

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So a couple of days ago, the site recommended a random Shrek tapestry and once I clicked on it, my entire feed got completely derailed with weird tapestries and other bizarre shit I'll put in the next post. Now I really want to rewatch Shrek. :pepeLaugh3:

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Apparently Reddit has now banned a subreddit dedicated to the Fediverse Reddit-alternative Kbin:

sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/1

If you're on a centralised platform like Reddit, this is what they can do. Centralised platforms have all-powerful leaders who can do whatever they want, and you have no alternatives if you disagree.

The point of the Fediverse being on lots of servers is that each server's power is limited. If you disagree with one server's actions, you can move.

#Fediverse #Reddit #Kbin

More weird shit in an unfortunate literal sense. :FeelsWeirdMan:

AliExpress also has a colorful assortment of uncanny Nicholas Cage products that are somewhat comforting to me because they remind me of the good ol' internet.

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You will never be a real Shrine. You have no puzzles, you offer no challenge, you provide no satisfaction. You are a quick travel point twisted by lazy design and filler mentality into a crude mockery of Miyamoto’s perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your designers are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “players” laugh at your empty appearance behind closed doors.

#LGBTQ #Queer #Pride #PrideMonth #PrayAwayTheGay #Trans #Gay #ChristianAnime #TheRainbowBelongsToGod #GodWins #LoveWins #Furry #FurryPride #PrideMonth2023 #HappyPride #hrt #transgender #blm #lgbtqia

@Mr_NutterButter Yes and the problem is that batshit insane people WON'T let regular people be themselves and leave them alone. If you disagree slightly, they will persecute you, which is ironic considering we are coming from low acceptance in the past decades.

Furthermore, in the first world, I never felt I was "persecuted" for who I was. If go I shove it into people's face "HEY LOOK AT ME IM GAY, ETC" then they will start to have a problem of being annoyed and even more if they were homophobic to begin with.

And I do feel we are also past the point of "annoyance" as well. There are legitimately evil people within this "movement". Leftists in particular have a REALLY hard time just admitting that there is going to be bad gay people and criminals. There can be gay murderers, rapists, and shooters. Just like there can be the same on the other side of the political spectrum. They have this delusion that gays could never be evil and never acknowledge all the criminals inside the movement drugging up underage children and being sex pests/groomers.

I have dated both men and women irl, so I'm past the point of doubting myself. If I like both, it's w/e though I really wish I didn't sometimes because of all this garbage being pushed using my sexual preference as a shield. I feel if I was straight, at least my hands would be "clean" from these radical faggots but since I'm part of the group even if not a radical, I can't be clean. I have to denounce it whenever I can.

Rant about Pride shit 

More context regarding that first screenshot. This is in response to what Nickmercs said here.

People need to stop with the whole "just let people love". It's a disingenuous and ignorant point. We are all WAY past that point and you have to be willfully retarded or a grifter to keep brushing it off. I fully support the anti-LGBT protestors here. Would join them if I could! Keep the gay shit out of schools!

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Rant about Pride shit 

"We're not doing anything..."

He's right but not in the way he expects. "We" are definitely not doing enough to denounce this grooming shit and I'm sick of it. I wanted to rail on this guy so bad but my Twitter has been politics free for some months and I want to keep it that way so I don't spam my Japanese follower with Western problems bullshit on their feeds.

I'm tired of this passiveness from other gays about the fact that nefarious individuals have completely taken over in a parasitic way and are making an entire group of people look bad and be treated as an actual threat. Apparently it isn't common sense to not be tolerant towards criminals and disgusting sex offenders.

People need to get it through their heads that the Pride shit is no longer in good will, just like many things from the old days that have been butchered to push identity politics and keep the population in a constant state of unrest and divided. But was Pride ever in good will? To me, it's just narcissism. If you want to be treated as an equal, you don't celebrate it in such an obnoxious way. I'm just a human, so I don't find anything "proud" about my sexual preference.

I don't need "approval" from anyone either. Certainly not from conservatives and it's not the reason I'm against everything the gay community has become. I'm not "one of the good ones". There's no such thing because being against grooming, pedophiles, drag queens being around children, men in women's sports, fetishes in public, and mutilation of children IS JUST COMMON SENSE! 100% I am against everything Pride stands for now and no, you really can't separate all the bad shit from just "celebrating". If you think like this, you're just on copium, blind, and retarded.

I hate all the ugly flags too! Such a fucking eyesore. How can people unironically use this shit? I really like rainbows because they're pretty and I hate that it's been coerce into some hideous flag now. Regardless, I will continue to like rainbows by themselves because I've always stood as an individual and I'm not going to let other obnoxious people ruin it for me.

More people need to denounce this bullshit and it has to come from within, not just from the outside. What is happening is abhorrent and people's past struggles are once again being used against them just for profit and exploitation. Pride month is an incredibly disingenuous charade made up by corporations that just treat us as "numbers".

This is the reason I'm always shitting on the current state of things regarding homosexuality. It can come across as "homophobic" until you realize I'm one myself and I'm entirely against this madness. I know it can be a bit tiring to keep seeing stuff about it, so I will try to focus on more funny universal memes going forward and actually posting original content.

This current political climate does affect me the most in this situation, although I don't think we are going to see gays being thrown off buildings like in other countries once people have had enough of this shit. Well, we also don't want it to get close to that point and the parasites do need to be weeded out by starving them of profits. A lot of the agitators are grifters themselves that profit from pushing this asinine and they value their pockets more than painting an entire group of humans in bad light or even the wellbeing of children.

@beardalaxy I fully expect to get banned on stream. :omegalul: But yup, I won't spend on JP because none of my frens are going to play there. I'm basically the only one heavily looking forward to the game to the point of becoming rabid. I'm just going on there to dick around a few days until I get banned and mostly want to feel the combat first hand, too.

The pricing for the Pass seems reasonable to me for 60 days but I also don't know what other MMOs are pricing it as currently. I only have BnS for reference and their shit is $35 for only 1 month or so and this doesn't include the other awful P2W shit that gets pushed every month on rotation. I probably have one of the worst monetization models as reference, so the BP Pass seems extremely good to me as long as there's no over the top P2W shit in there.

I haven't downloaded Blue Protocol yet and I'm definitely not feeling too in the mood to play another MMO currently but I'll try to stream it when it goes live in JP next Wednesday. I'm just busy with my doll stuff currently and trying to improve my art. Was hoping for a July release tbh.

Saw some info about the Battle Pass through here: blue-protocol-db.com/news/blue

It seems to be around 4,500 yen for the highest tier and lasts 60 days. This is around $30. I wonder what the West pricing will look like. My concern is how a F2P would go about getting this and what's actually in it. There is also a free version of the Battle Pass too.
I can pay for it but thinking about my poorfag frens ofc.

There are also time trial rankings. If they keep the P2W down and allow no lifers to at least achieve the same gear as wallet warriors, then I look forward to it. Whale slaying is my specialty. :feelsokayman: Until the P2W becomes unreasonable ofc.

New class was announced: A lancer. Between the Heavy Smasher and now this one, it's what I'm looking to play unless my group of frens lacks a range. I really don't like the two range classes in this game but may ultimately be forced to play one. :pepeShotgun: They really gotta give a 3rd range option, preferably a dark caster of sorts like a warlock or wizard. Generic mage and archer ain't doing it for me!

@beardalaxy I will have to look through those at some point! I used to watch Joel a lot many years ago and he definitely inspired me to start streaming. I could never be as funny as he is or have that wonderful contagious laugh though. Man is truly a gem. :FeelsWowMan:

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