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INT DND Boards used for lamination- Quantity- 320Nos | E-Auction Bharat

Auction ID: EAB0045/24-25

INT DND Boards used for lamination- Quantity- 320Nos

Starting Price                                Rs 200,000.00/Lot including taxes

Start Time                                    30 Aug 2024 03:00 PM

End Time                                     30 Aug 2024 04:00 PM

Minimum Increment                   ₹5000

EMD Amount                              ₹20000.00

Quantity                                      320

Unit Type                                    Lot including taxes

Auction Type                              Private

Reason of Damage                     Water Damaged

Country                                       India

State                                            Kerala

Location                                     Ernakulam

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[reallyuniversallyexpert]

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[goodomensafterdark]

FTH — Good Omens (After Dark edition)

First of all, if you've been seeing these posts and wondering what it's all about, Fandom Trumps Hate is an online auction of fanworks that generates donations to progressive nonprofits. Fans offer to create stuff, kind people bid, all the money goes to charity!

The Good Omens fandom is simply the BEST! We have a whopping 135 offerings for @fandomtrumpshate this year, supporting all manner of progressive charities! There are frankly too many to name them all, so we're going to focus on the goblins of the GoodOmensAfterDark subreddit.

Oh, wait, that's still FIFTY-SIX Listings? Welp, time to make a spreadsheet.

Don't worry, it's pretty and damn useful!

I KNOW right???? 😊

The document includes links to all socials, listings (where you can fill out the bid form!), and a list of the highest bid and bidder for each offering that updates live with the FTH site!

GOAD Offerings Include:

29 — Fanfiction / Written Works

10 — Fan Art Works

9 — Podfics

4 — Fan Labor

2 — Crafts

2 — Music Composition

Bids are open until... SATURDAY, MARCH 1ST (8PM EST)

We highly recommend checking the Full Good Omens Listings (make sure to click through all the pages!) on the FTH Site for the non-GOAD offerings, as there are some wonderful and talented creators out there, but as our mods are humans with only so much time on their hands, the spreadsheet is focused on our own creators.

A few no pressure creator tags just to kick off getting the word out…

@nosferatini @daneecastle @gaiaseyes451 @sightkeeper @depraveddame @theravenmuse

@outrageousring5655 @paperclipninja @harlotofupdog @theonevoice @isiaiowin

@on1occasionfork @thescholarlystrumpet @dbacklot99 @onedappercat @wingsofopal

[marzipanandminutiae]

Do you have any advice on making a living working in historic preservation? I feel like every opportunity in the field (ex. Local historical societies) is volunteer work, which I do, but I also need money!

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I am so sorry but you've hit upon the main employment problem with this field: it is wildly underpaid. Especially if you want to do something with museum content/collections/preservation rather than admin.

The issue is, this system (at least in the US, where I live) started out in the late 19th century being run by people who had a lot of free time and a LOT of money already. Married upper-class women, rich men- often gay, interestingly enough -with academic turns of mind, etc. They didn't need the money, so they built a structure designed to function that way. And for many years a lot of this work continued to be done by volunteers.

Except then people came along with the audacity to want to make a career out of it. Without enough generational wealth to not need payment! Oh no!

So now there are not enough full-time jobs in the field for people who want them, unfortunately. They're out there! But you might have a hell of a time getting into one.

I'd say to look for bigger orgs over small ones, or small orgs in big cities. We love a tiny house museum in the middle of nowhere, but they often have the smallest budgets in a world of small budgets. Also, consider starting out part-time and trying to work your way up (just make sure the org has full-time employees first). Making connections is paramount- I've only had part-time museum jobs so far, but I never got a single one just by applying online. You can, but it helps a lot to have someone say "hey, the Fancyman-Spinsteracademic-Wepromisewe'rereckoningwithslaverynow House is hiring; want me to put in a good word for you?"

Alternately, learn some hands-on preservation skill like carpentry or horology (working with mechanical clocks- PLEASE learn horology if you go this route; all the horologists are 80 and they keep dying) could be a way to get specific talents that historical site museums can't function without and will therefore pay for when the budget allows. In cities with lots of historical architecture that they actually care about preserving- so not NYC, apparently -there are often independent companies that specialize in different aspects thereof. Historical window repair, historical plastering, historical brickwork maintenance, etc. Trying to get hired by one of those is a way to go into preservation without working in museums. Private auction houses or antiques dealers can also be an option, if you're more into the Collections Objects side of things.

I don't mean to make it sound bleak. My eight-year career in museums has been entirely part-time collections/interpretation/admin jobs stitched together, and while I'm sick of the "underpaid and relying on my parents to pay for my insurance" aspect (yes, I freely admit it; I'm a lowkey continuation of the Can't Work In Museums If You Don't Have Family Financial Support tradition and very very lucky to be able to do what I do, and yet even I'M frustrated and tired and over it), it is deeply fulfilling work that I consider highly worthwhile and important. And there ARE avenues to make a decent living in it!

I just want to explain the phenomenon you're seeing and give you realistic expectations.

Best of luck!

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Where do you find all your neat little trinkets and such? Is it just accumulated over the years, or do you use marketplace, or antique malls, commissioning stuff? I want to add more to my home, but I don't really know where to look outside of hyper specific ebay searches.

I guess, more succinctly, how do you Find Things?

Heya! Finding cool stuff is a lot about doing just enough research. I'll show you how my mind works.

Let's say I saw this cute cat in the wild. I want to buy it, maybe see if it's something fun to collect.

If I use Google lens on the photo, I get some promising results - this is something that was mass-produced!

Let's click on a result.

I've learned something! This ceramic is called "redware" and the figure is from the 1950s. So, off to another web search.

Oh! A maker name! "Shafford." This will make future searches easier. And look - there are other related cats - it looks like as various household items! (If you further researched the original cat, you'd also learn it is a tape measure and was made in Japan.)

Now, let's say you don't have a photo to start with, or just a vague idea of something you might want. Let's hop to Facebook marketplace and see if anyone is selling cute ceramic black cats.

All of these results could go down their own research paths, but again, I'm using the example of the Shafford cats.

Armed with some knowledge, it takes just a few searches to find an impressive haul. Honestly, if that wasn't 5 hrs away from me, I'd buy that lot in a heartbeat, selling/gifting what I don't want.

For future searches, you now have two paths:

Search for things using basic terminology to find sellers who aren't super knowledgeable. So, something like "vintage kitchen cabinet". You might luck out and find a seller who just wants the thing gone, they don't know its value, and it might be a steal for you!

Search again using the specific terms you have picked up from your research. So, "jelly cabinet." This will get you in front of listing from experts, where you are likely to find a better quality item at the current market price.

That is how I found this for my kitchen, btw.

Learn the common synonyms and mispellings. Bookcase, bookshelf. Captain's desk, secretary desk.

Click on seller stores and profiles to see related items. As you research, you will start to stumble across other items and figure out your sense of taste. You will find cool shit you never knew existed. You will learn new search terms as you pick up bits of history. You will also start stumbling across online speciality sites, or local resources, like antique shops and vintage fairs. You might learn what estate sales are, or about auctions open to the public. You start developing a habit of scouting out shops and sales when you're in a new town. You put big fairs and small swap meets on your calendar. You build relationships with contemporary artists who make things you like.

My sense of style is something I've actively been refining for decades now, and it isn't just vintage tchotchkes. I do this for clothing, for the crafting I'm into, etc. Curiosity and style go hand in hand and the best part is that your eye and research chops will only improve, even if you're just window shopping.

I hope this helps!

[bulbagarden]

guess what??? bulbapedia had its 50,000th wiki article created a bit ago, and to celebrate we made a news article celebrating bulbapedia! i'm actually in it, soo... take a look if you'd like!! (this was written by our twitter admin and my overlord wyndoncalling)

Celebrating 50k Bulbapedia articles with our favourite wiki pages!

As one of the world's largest media franchises, Pokémon is monolithic to say the least. Documenting every facet of this gargantuan IP is a task perhaps only the most dedicated and/or foolhardy would embark on, yet that's exactly what our Bulbapedia team and thousands of selfless contributors have done over eighteen long years! With Pokémon now encompassing nine generations of main series games along with dozens of spin-offs, mobile games, movies, anime and manga series, merchandise and much more, the wiki itself has grown in tandem - we recently hit a whopping 50,000 articles!

To celebrate, we've compiled a list from across the Bulbagarden team of our favourite wiki articles. For our non-wiki team members, these might simply be pages that they enjoy reading and help inform their work in other aspects of the site. For wiki Staff, these could instead be pages that they've sunk many productive hours into. Read on for an eclectic collection of articles detailing some of the most obscure corners of the Pokémon franchise!

Credits to Staff artist Sirius for the awesome header image!

WyndonCalling (Social Media) - Tall grass

On the one hand, I think it's faintly hilarious that anyone would go into such detail for a mundane and omnipresent mechanic of the main series games; the tall grass that awaits the player on every starting route just feels so self-explanatory in function. On the other hand, I think it speaks volumes about the commitment and mentality of the Bulbapedia team and contributors that no scrap of information is left undocumented - on the tall grass page you'll find the basic details about how it works, but also variations such as tall grass and seaweed, animations of the Cut mechanic, in-battle effects, and more. Who knew that simple grass could be so fascinating in a world with flame-throwing dragons and electric mice?

Runner-up - List of Pokémon by base stats

As the Admin of the Bulbagarden Twitter account, I'm always on the hunt for interesting trivia to share; having the base stats of all Pokémon in one, sortable place makes it so much easier to make fun comparisons between species (did you know that Krabby has more Attack than Eternatus?).

Maverick Nate - Bulbapedia - Coin (TCG) (and its three subpages: Gens 1-4, Gens 5-6, and Gens 7-8)

This page is what I consider my best accomplishment during my 10 years as Bulbapedia's TCG Leader. There is an incredible amount of research, time, (and personal financial investment) baked into the article, and it always gives me a swell of pride when I update it with fresh images of newly acquired coins. There are over 700 different coins documented here, and I still fondly remember the long-night research sessions I would have with my best friend when we would do things like watch countless YouTube openings to figure out release information, check out endless eBay and Yahoo Auctions listings for never-before-seen coins, hold up physical coins to a spotlight trying to determine the Holofoil pattern. Our other friends would poke fun at us for researching in the field, (which was just our excuse to go shopping for newly released TCG products with new coins or hitting up garage sales and card shops on the off chance they had old ones). All of those years of effort produced what is now considered the definitive list of all coins in existence for coin enthusiasts. Whenever I see people online referencing it and using it for their own collections, I just have to smile, knowing that my favorite article is helping people all around the globe.

Wowy (Bulbapedia) - Red (Masters)

This page is just an example for all the character pages for Pokémon Masters. As one of the main editors covering Pokémon Masters when the game was first released, I feel very content to see many other editors who have taken the mantle to make Bulbapedia's coverage of the game quite comprehensive! I also enjoy the gallery section at the bottom because there are some sweet artwork pieces that come out of the game / the PMEX Twitter.

Runner Up - Face board

An article that was initially written for fun ended up being moved from the userpage to the main Bulbapedia page. Like the tall grass page, it's a niche page that showcases how much we like to document every minor and obscure detail in the franchise (albeit there is still so much to cover)!

Lisia (Social Media) (omg HIIII that's me!!!!) (姉ちゃん見て見て、あたしテレビだ。。) - Pokémon world in relation to the real world

This is a very extensive page, and it's very useful for a lot of different things! I use it for worldbuilding for fanfiction and roleplay stuff usually, but it's fun to look at just in general as well! I remember looking at the page first like... years ago, and it blew my mind to see that the Pokémon world was actually based off of real locations! It's something that I'd call a huge resource for anyone who creates Pokémon fanworks, especially written ones!

Runner Up - Lisia (i had to LOL)

Maybe it's a little... self-serving? But I really like this article of my personal namesake; she's my favorite character after all! She's a relatively minor character within the whole of Pokémon so there's not a whole lot of information about her, so I like reading all the stuff there is about her! It makes me happy that people have put work into articles about everyone, because well... in a way I wouldn't be me without it. I should probably contribute to it sometime!

Orchid (Forums) - Pokémon food

I picked this article because it is astoundingly comprehensive on its topic, and offers a lot of really interesting insight into the Pokémon universe as a whole. From Poffins, to prey, to parasites, to Slowpoke Tails... it's all here! It's amazing how having all this information in one place puts into perspective just how much there is to cover on what, at a glance, might seem like such a simple subject. I find myself coming back here every now and then just out of curiosity (or perhaps to settle a debate about what an Aerodactyl really eats).

Runner-up - Twerp

This page is silly and I love it. I've even shown this one to friends and family who are fellow Pokémon fans, and they've gotten just as much of a kick out of it as I have! But as amusing of a read as it may be, what I love most about this page is the fact that even a short and lighthearted bit of terminology like this is documented thoroughly here, just like anything else would be. All across Bulbapedia, you can find so much care and detail put into the littlest of things, and that does bring a smile to my face

DapperCody (Multimedia) - Ash Ketchum

Like many people, I grew up watching the Pokémon anime as a youngster. I enjoy Ash's article because it is comprehensive account of the quarter century that he has graced our screens - looking it over is very nostalgic. The history section with photos is fantastic, and I love being able to see all the Pokémon he has ever owned or used and their current status. It also has an extensive trivia section like all my favorite articles do. I've fallen down the anime rabbit hole on Bulbapedia numerous times, and Ash's page is a great place to start.

Runner Up - Ash's Noctowl

See all of the above, but from a different perspective. Pages for individual Pokémon from the anime are fantastic to get a glimpse into all the highlights from their time in the spotlight, and what better example of this than my personal favorite, Noctowl? The move history is really neat, especially the fact that it designates the moves recently used (and the illegal ones when applicable). Did you know Noctowl was the first Shiny Pokémon in the anime?

bthrussellUK (Bulbapedia) - Pokémon Battle Chess

I really love this article because I think it’s an example of what Bulbapedia is great at; taking obscure Pokémon topics (especially outside of Japan) and saving them from being lost to the sands of time. The original Pokémon Battle Chess website has been taken offline, so without articles like this one, the game would be forgotten. Instead, because it’s here, I decided to find and buy a copy of both Pokémon Battle Chess BW Version and Pokémon Battle Chess and use them to help expand the gameplay section of the article. They're actually pretty fun games! Now I just need a copy of Pokémon Battle Chess W…

Runner Up - Pokémon games

It looks like it's just a really long list... and it is! But for me it's a really great reminder of how massive Pokémon is, how many games have been released in the last 26 years, and how many different platforms Pokémon games have released on. Ever heard of the Advanced Pico Beena or the iQue Player?

Whether they're popular or niche, wide-ranging or obscure, we hope you've enjoyed our short tour of our favourite Bulbapedia articles! Do you have your own? Are you tickled by the trivia on a given page? You can let us know on our forums or Discord server - or even start editing yourself!

The wiki can never have too many contributors, and if your love of Pokémon is as deep as ours we'd be delighted to have you with us for the next 50,000 articles!

(lisia note: thank you for reading!!!!!!!!!! hopefully you enjoyed it!)

[paulagnewart]

Trans40mers Pt. 2/12: A Generation Won!

The time has come to bombard this site with another triage (or in light of recent political events, a Trigon) of titillating Transformers trivia featuring an all-Australian twist. It was an unexpected yet pleasant surprise to realise each anecdote this month dived into the Transformers' formative years; where civil wars, format wars and franchise wars abounded. But enough with the long-winded introduction, let's explore some long-lost tales of Generation One.

Batteries and interdimensional demons not included. Bummer.

25th February 1991: Aussie kids rush home, yearning to catch The Transformers' triumphant return to Channel 10's afternoon timeslot. They are instead met with breaking news of the Gulf War entering its final & deadliest phase, which rule local airwaves throughout the week.

-=-=-=-=-=-

"For the first time in its life, The Transformers truly understand the meaning of war."

Wait. No. That doesn't sound right at all.

From its very inception, the era commonly coined 'Generation One' was intrinsically linked with real-world conflicts. Tensions were high, Reaganomics ruled the day, and anyone wanting to watch two sides duke it out over precious fuels could just as easily open a newspaper. The fallout from years of petroleum supply scares brought on by international incidents lingered. Some made the best with what they had, like manufactures switching from plastics to die casting to keep costs down. Others didn't hold back; North Africa and Middle East nations were frequently depicted in media as mad dictators who overthrew the heads of their oil-rich country, or wealthy rulers of tiny, power-hungry regions. Each more often than not suffering grisly fates.

The day Transformers arrived in Australia, the US tore up their long-standing alliance with New Zealand after coming to loggerheads over nuclear weapons. As years (and wars) went on, they followed. People gasped in awe as the Berlin Wall fell, but locals were out buying Golden Entertainment's new omnibus home video edition of 'The Day of the Machines'. Channel Seven ran a repeat of 'The Transformers: The Movie' while Kuwait was being invaded. And in keeping with these parallels, the Gulf War closed as 'More Than Meets the Eye' began.

After several years away from TV screens, it begs to ask why this sudden weekday afternoon resurgence? Were they squeezing out another run before the rights expired? Or was it a deliberate ploy to promote Hasbro's expanding line of Classics reissues? Whatever the reason, fans were gifted the chance to rewatch all 65 episodes from the first two seasons. Someone at Ten considered it a syndicated success, and the network showed them all over again come October.

The Transformers were ready for the 90's, though their Carbombya escapades wisely excluded this time around.

28th February 1985: Hot on the heels of its US counterpart, the 20th International Toy Fair is held at the old Royal Sydney Showground in Moore Park. Milton Bradley are thrilled as The Transformers toyline debuts, winning its much-coveted Best New Toy of the Year Award.

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Key moments don't get much key-er than this. Or at least until the next rolls along.

How does one mark the measure of success for a toy? The number of products on shelves? The number not on shelves? Demand from licensees to slap your logo and artwork on merchandise? Or the sweet dollarydoos generated from fans when selling off historic artifacts in online auctions as part of a desperate bid to fill a pocket?

There was a time when such answer could be found in downtown Sydney. Seizing the opportunity to fill a consumer void, TAGMA, the newly-minted Toy and Games Manufacturers’ Association, began yearly exhibitions for investors and distributors in the 1950's. A strictly local affair, these early days would prove bemusingly prophetic of modern fanbase stereotypes, being held in the Town Hall basement.

But tides were turning. Over the next decade, half the $54 million dollars worth of toys sold annually were imports, a third of which from Britain alone. This growing nation of buyers were hungry, and overseas businesses looking to dominate the Land Down Under's market were more than happy to comply. TAGMA was out and International Toy Fair in, opening the first of many doors on Monday 14th March 1966.

Fast-forward to 1985. After numerous location and state shuffles, the event settled into its new home at Moore Park. "Caring and Sharing" may have been touted as that year's buzzword, but nobody told manufacturers that. Competition was fierce among budding brands like Voltron, Popoids, Star Fairies, Pound Puppies, plus General Mills' The Hugga Bunch whom media touted as firm favourite.

But alas it wasn't to be. Milton Bradley's The Transformers came, saw and conquered. By Fair's end they took pride of place among a growing prestigious list of toys including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Cabbage Patch Kids, Tamiya Off-Road Buggy, Metti Dolls and Ministeck Galleon mosaic kits as top prize winners. Congratulations!

Still waiting for a Popoids revival aaaaaany day now.

29th February 1988: Vestron submit ten episodes of The Transformers to the Australian Classification Board for home video release. Most including Webworld, Ghost in the Machine, Nightmare Planet, Call of the Primitives and The Return of Optimus Prime, had yet to air on TV.

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Having taken Australia by storm in 1985, one would think there weren't any frontiers left undiscovered for the Transformers. But where money lay people will follow, and there was plenty money in the budding video rental market.

Vestron Video International (via Locus Video Group and Outland Promotions) swiftly grabbed the license and set out to produce a range of tapes. Two-part adventures were overall favoured, and their venture began June 1986 with 'Dinobot Island'. Proudly boasting they were "Superstars of the Toy World", this first edition sported shamelessly flipped promotional artwork, and was available in both Betamax and VHS formats. As the year drew to a close, two more arrived; 'Desertion of the Dinobots' plus the surprisingly fitting 'Attack of the Autobots/The Golden Lagoon' combo, now featuring animation frames for covers.

1987 saw 'Megatron's Master Plan' and 'The Key to Vector Sigma' round out the roster. Something which couldn't be said for 'The Transformers: The Movie', whose underlying rights agreement meant this cinematic outing was released during Easter '87 exclusively through RCA Columbia and Hoyts Entertainment.

That's five volumes down, but they weren't done yet. Rather than spread them over time and allow Season 3 to finish its (admittedly limited) TV airing, Vestron banged out five more tapes, again on Betamax and VHS. Fans were treated to 'The Return of Optimus Prime', 'Surprise Party/Call of the Primitives', 'Dark Awakening/The Killing Jar', 'The Nightmare Planet/The Ghost in the Machine', and 'Webworld/Madman's Paradise'. And yes, that was their release order.

After two years and ten tapes, this ultimately marked both last hurrah for Vestron's handling of The Transformers' video license, plus the Robots in Disguise's availability on Betamax. By year's end Golden Press secured the rights and begin multiple 'budget' releases in their own outlandish episode orders.

The 80's were closing and tape renters had a new motto; VHS was VH-Best.

[autolenaphilia]

I kinda cursed myself by getting into Diablo, which I've written about before. Because Activision-Blizzard is a terrible company. They are horrible towards their employees first and foremost, and have been for decades. Especially their women workers, who have made credible allegations of a culture of misogyny. They have had a massive lawsuit about this in the 2020s but even Diablo II was made using horrible crunch back in the late 1990s.

Their treatment of their customers is of course a far lesser evil, they have just been assholes to them. Still just looking at the Diablo series, there are examples of pretty much all the bad practices triple-a game studios towards customers have made in the last 20 years.

Diablo III is infamously one of the first notable examples of always-online DRM, despite the game having a single-player campaign. Now the game servers have stayed up a remarkably long time for Diablo III, because it was widely succesful (the fourth best-selling pc game of all time according to wikipedia with 20 million copies sold). But requiring a central server to play will mean the game will eventually die when the server is shut down. And not “die” in the sense that you can’t buy it anymore or can’t play multiplayer, it will die in the sense that you can’t ever play it at all anymore. This is despite the game having a substantial single-player campaign. This is a terrible practice for game preservation and I encourage you to join this campaign against it.

And Diablo III also had a foretaste of the predatory monetization to come, with the infamous real money auction house, that was so bad that it got shut down by Blizzard after a few years. But it was just a prologue to what would come with the next major installment: Diablo Immortal.

Immortal is a mobile game that became a meme right from its announcement. That was because the announcement that it would be mobile-only was greeted with boos at Blizzcon. And we should keep in mind that Blizzcon is a convention just for Blizzard games that cost 199 dollars to attend at the time (now it costs 299 dollars), so a very receptive audience to Blizzard’s bullshit, and Blizzard still got deservedly booed.

And then the actual game released, and it had such predatory monetization that it got nicknamed Diablo Immoral. I use the site macrotransactions.org, which grades games according to the presence of predatory monetization and they gave Diablo: Immortal a well-deserved F.

And this trend has only continued with the recent Diablo IV, which is again always-online and has predatory microtransactions.

Not that Diablo II is free from Blizzard bullshit. Both the original and remastered versions of Diablo II can only be bought from Blizzard’s own website, which I wouldn’t begrudge them if they didn’t also have DRM.

The installer for the original Diablo II only requires a key code you either got from the CD or e-mailed to you when you purchased it digitally. So not so bad. The original Diablo II however kinda shows its age and has always been a janky game, despite patches it still has serious bugs like the lying character screen. And the game shows its ages otherwise, despite the excellent art design, the game is also resolution locked to 800 x 600, and that’s only after you install the expansion. And the base game plus expansion still costs 20 dollars, despite being more than 20 years old and not properly patched.

It’s the kind of game that deserves a remaster. And Blizzard thought the same and released a remastered version in 2021, Diablo II: Resurrected that attempts to fix these issues. But the catch is that it also upped the DRM, this time the game requires you to “check in” online at least every 30 days, so the remastered game is just as doomed as III and IV when the servers shut down.

You just can’t win with Activision-Blizzard. The only Diablo game that actually feels worth getting legitimately is the first Diablo, which you can buy drm-free on GOG, and reasonably cheap too when there is a sale.

And it’s not that the games are bad either. They have very talented programmers, writers and artists working for them (which they treat horribly). Diablo II despite the jankyness is a great game, a very good sequel to the excellent first game that massively expands the scope of the series in interesting ways while remaining true to the first game.

I recently watched Noah Caldwell-Gervais’s excellent franchise retrospective video on the series, and he has played all the games, and finds much to praise about even the most reviled entries of the series. Even Diablo: Immortal, despite being a mobile game with predatory monetization, is a full-fledged entry into the series, a proper meaty action RPG with lots of story content. We will actually lose something valuable when the servers are shutdown.

The problem with Blizzard is not that they make bad games. It’s just that they are an evil company, which mistreats its workers (especially the women), ruthlessly monetizes their artistic efforts, and DRMs so badly that it will eventually destroy the games entirely once they are no longer profitable.

At this rate I can at best recommend getting Diablo I from GOG when it’s cheap in a sale, anything else is too heavy with Blizzard’s nonsense to really recommend. And "gamer boycotts" are kinda worthless, so I won't call for one, but I'll admit supporting that kind of company is worth questioning.

And frankly if you want to get into action rpgs, I would recommend playing Torchlight 1 and 2 instead of getting into Diablo.The Torchlight games are very much “Diablo-clones”, spiritual successors to the older series and clearly modeled on Diablo 1 and 2. But the gameplay is so polished, with many added quality-of-life features and way less bugs than Diablo II, that they improve the player experience enough to fully justify being so derivative. And they are not made or published by Activision-Blizzard, so you can buy both of them on GOG without DRM. Torchlight deserves its own post, and there are other worthy diablo-clones out there (i’ve played a bit of Dungeon Siege and enjoyed it). The positive legacy of Diablo lives on, despite Blizzard’s best attempts to pollute it.

[eauctionbharat]

Cotton yarn and polyester cotton of various colour, Quality and Quantity on LOT Basis

Cotton yarn and polyester cotton of various colour, Quality and Quantity on LOT Basis

Starting Price                         ₹ 60.00/kg Start Time                              05 Aug 2024 03:00 PM End Time                               05 Aug 2024 04:00 PM Minimum Increment               ₹0.5 EMD Amount                         ₹500000.00 Quantity                                 500000 Unit Type                               kg Auction Type                         Public Reason of Damage              Fresh Material for different quality and Quantity Country                                India State                                    Delhi Location                              502 Pandat Maholla Tughlaqabad New Delhi

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Where do you buy your artbooks for your archival work?

I bought the official artbooks of Hiroo Isono, and I'd love to be able to buy similar artbooks for Mutsumi Inomata and Naoko Takeuchi! But even for Isono, it took a lot of googling Japanese and hoping for the best. Even ignoring the proxy process, it was still frustrating at times.

Hi there!

The sites I use by far the most for artbooks/manga are:

Yahoo Auctions Japan

Surugaya

Amazon Japan (especially great for new releases, as Amazon Japan has an international shipping program for many products/countries and they'll ship it directly to you)

Mercari Japan

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As for proxies, I recommend Buyee for Yahoo Auctions Japan and Japan Rabbit for everything else! Those are just the proxies I have the most experience with.

EDIT: I totally forgot to mention Mandarake as an option to buy manga and books from! I don't use it as often, but it's great because it has an English-language site (click "Earth" on the home screen) and they ship directly to many countries. Mandarake is especially great for buying figures, plushies, and other merch.

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Tom Grant was definitely one of those pokémon-obsessed kids in primary school. He used to bring his case of cards to school in his backpack so that he could show them off to his mates and to whatever bird he was trying to impress that week. The girls were seldom impressed by his collection, but his mates always were. Even back then, pokémon cards were pretty costly (especially when you’re eight and have no real source of income), so Tom used to do housework and yard work for the elderly people in his neighbourhood: mowing the grass in their gardens, watering and tending to any plants that they might’ve had, dusting the hard-to-reach places in their homes, greasing up any squeaky door hinges, hanging up picture frames for them, etc. He made it fun for himself by thinking of it like a game: mow Mr. Redding’s garden for 100XP, carry in Mrs. Harold’s groceries for her for 50XP, then use your XP to level up your arsenal (buy more pokémon cards).

He had some of the best pokémon, so you know he was almost always the winner of playground card battles. That is until one of the posh kids came along with all the amazing cards their daddies’ money had bought them and stupid smug grins to match… Tom usually did his best to stay away from those pricks. He preferred battling his mates anyway; it was more fun that way as there was better sportsmanship and comradely involved when you battled against your mates.

As an adult, older!Tom Grant still has his whole collection of pokémon cards, and, of course, most of them are in pristine condition. Tom’s always been very good about taking care of the things he finds important, even as a kid. He always kept his cards neatly packed away until it was time for afternoon-break card trading, and, even then, he was always incredibly careful with how he handled his cards in the heat of battle.

Once in a while, he’ll buy a new pack of pokémon cards to add to his collection, but, for the most part, his collection is made up of cards he got before ‘07. Well, cards he got before ‘07 and some vintage cards that he’s gotten from online auctions. Online pokémon card auctions are a secret vice of his; it’s the closest he gets to gambling, other than betting against his mates on the outcomes of upcoming rugby matches and on whether or not they can chug a pint in less than three seconds (they can’t). He hasn’t spent too much money there, at least not compared to the millions of dollars that some collectors shell out on those things, but he has blown more of his income on those than he’d like to admit.

Tom doesn’t need to be taken care of or looked after much when he’s sloshed; he’s a big boy, he can take care of himself. However, your one task when he’s drunk is to keep him off those online auction sites. The only time you ever look through his phone is to make sure he hadn’t sneaked onto one of them while you weren’t looking the night before when he was drunk… Luckily, you’re really good at your unofficial job, so, usually, the only sites he’s sneaking onto when he’s plastered are 1) youtube to watch people blow shit up and fuck around with their engineering knowledge (he’s a simple man, he likes e’splosions and fucking around… but absolutely not finding out because fuck consequences), 2) your mum’s Facebook page so that he can go through her photos and look at all the ones of you (he doesn’t have any social media accounts of his own, and most of yours are private, so he has to resort to stalking your mum’s Facebook page to look at pictures of you… or, at least, to look at pictures of you that he doesn’t already have on his phone), and 3) fucking around with the ‘Special:Random’ feature on Wikipedia (he enjoys reading niche Wikipedia articles… but only the ones that involve fucky shit, like a famous politician getting a shoe thrown at them or the war against emus or Europe’s history of defenestration or famous historical sex cults).

Other websites that Tom is not allowed to get on whilst he’s drunk and why: 1) any pet supplies website because he will spend too much money on unnecessary purchases for The Lads, 2) the official Lego online store because he will spend too much money on new and exclusive sets, and 3) any website/app where you can order food online to be delivered because he will, spontaneously, order enough food to feed a small village if given the opportunity (he’s a foodie), and while he won’t waste all the food, he will eat himself sick and you will have to listen to his pitiful moans and groans (and retching) for the rest of the night.

[wonderful-d0g]

certainly it was stupid to rely on the stability of an electronic presence, but the whole twitter thing is so frustrating.

i'm lucky that i only use it as social media now and don't take commissions anymore, but if i ever DO want to again, it's gonna be annoying af. people say "no, tumblr is just as good for commissions" but it seriously isn't. in comparison to all the customers i've gotten on twitter, the amount i've gotten on tumblr is enough to count on one hand. the reach is infinitely better on twitter - i've gotten buyers who don't follow me or aren't even in my general social/algorithmic circle. not to mention how much harder selling adopts or holding auctions is on tumblr. the culture just isn't there.

the best solution would be to have massive userbases on a variety of different sites - one platform as basic social media, another for posting art, another for commissions/auctions, another to chat with likeminded hobbyists, etc. but we've grown used to having that all packaged into one platform. like how phones can do basically anything now. the only site i know with a large userbase that people consistently visit for commissions is Skeb and i can only use that as a buyer, not a creator.

mostly i'm upset about the social aspect. it's impossible to keep up with everyone across all the different platforms, and while yes, goodbyes are inevitable, that doesn't mean it doesn't still suck. i didn't know these people well, but there was a sense of community that is now leaking into 5+ different rivers. i'm one of those chronically online mfs so it's not like i can hit up those same people irl.

it's not like this is the worst thing to happen in my life or whatever, just frustrating. change is great but it's annoying and sends you into a state of unease when you've already settled into a routine.