#But R200????

[thefloatingstone]

*buys Psychonauts 2, Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, Persona 4, and the BG3 Deluxe Edition upgrade*

Ok perfect! not a bad price for 4 games plus yeeting some money at Larian. That's a good haul for the Steam sale.

....

*remembers I wanted to check out Halo because everyone on tumblr yelled at me to do it when I asked*

*sees the ENTIRE 7 game collection is marked down 75% at the moment*

[colormush]

[cypionate60mg]

[rasuu]

topical and relevant neopets memes #2

faerie fest 2023

[fangcyclonelunaheat]

Been working on the character sheet the whole day,,,,,,,ufhgh

I'll brinf in my best still and I'll get myself something wangan as a gif for working on this

[witchstone]

somebody's selling the complete set of death note volumes for only R800...what a day to be broke

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[motorcycle-id]

Zanella Ceccato R125/R150/R200

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[amanitacz]

Model of the Hoffmann and Novague HN R200 Police fiction livery with interior.

Link to see more about this model on Turbosquid.com:

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Link to the whole gallery:

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Link to the software:

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[abebe-tetsugi]

【鉄道車両擬人化】CK124

小王子とR200

[sexybritishllama]

in further neopets discord news, oh boy is there drama in my awful virtual pet game website today. strap in if you want way too much information on neopets’ broken economy

for some context, an event has just launched called the faerie festival. this is the first event to be run by the ‘new’ TNT (aka. the neopets team aka. the staff) since the leadership change, and they've said in recent editorials that this year’s faerie festival is going to be a combo of two previous popular events:

the faerie quest event, wherein people can get a free quest from a faerie every day in exchange for a reward (something that’s normally limited to random special events and therefore quite rare)

the charity corner, a highly requested event that hasn’t run since 2020, where you can donate random items to get points that can then be exchanged in a prize shop

there’s a LOT of ultimately worthless items on neopets that people gather from doing dailies and things, but charity corner actually gave a use to hoarding all of these, so people have wanted it back for ages. people have been going out of their way to hoard extra junk items for like 2 months now, after TNT teased the event in an editorial

this event was originally meant to start on 20th august, but got delayed 2 weeks, presumably because of issues behind the scenes. people were generally a bit disappointed but relieved if this meant they were going to get a proper, well prepared event without bugs

flash forward to 2nd october, the actual start of the event. nothing actually opens up for several hours on the day- that’s somewhat waved off by the fact that staff presumably need to be in the office to launch everything, a midnight launch isn’t expected

but, eventually, it opens!

well… kinda. there’s one page with one dialogue scene available and a link to an event page for spending neocash (the premium currency that costs irl money). the faerie quest page is giving out free daily quests, which is nice, but literally just the same as they did back in 2020. where’s the item recycling part? did this really need 2 weeks of delay?

the next day, the FAQ page for the event is published neopets support site (but not announced via news). still no sign of the actual event starting- seems like that might not be until moday?

as well as multiple grammatical errors, the FAQ had a few… concerning elements. most notably:

only 10 items could be donated per day

points would be awarded based on the rarity of the item, with the maximum rarity being r200-500, worth 15 points each

this meant people's hoarding of junk items for months was... essentially useless

r200-500 items basically means either hidden tower items (rare, expensive items that can only be bought in an account age locked shop with a purchase limit of 1 per day) orrrr….. neocash items. In other words, players could either spend an exorbinate amount of their in-game currency to buy up items to donate, or they could just hand over their credit card and pay to win

people were Not Happy about this

not long after info spread and the outcry started (and a sizeable number of people cancelled their premium membership in protest), the FAQ was quietly updated to remove mention of donating neocash items. that took away to pay to win element at least

however, now there was a new problem. a tombola man problem.

i mentioned already that the highest rarity items are pretty rare and expensive. one of the least expensive of these is an item called the Squeezy Tombola Guy Toy. you can probably see where this is going already

because you can only buy a maximum of one tombola guy per day from the hidden tower, your only option if you want to buy more than that in a day is to go to user shops. however, in light of the event, people had already started buying and hoarding tombola guy toys. equally, others were buying them purely to sell at a profit. this made the perfect storm and caused the price of the tombola guy toy, which was normally 110k NP, to explode up to 500k, 600k, even 700k within just one day

BUT THEN THE FAQ GOT UPDATED AGAIN. surprise, you can now donate 30 items per day! also they just got rid of the highest rarity tier altogether. the maximum you can get for an item is now 8 points, for rarity r102-r179.

this has now made the squeezy tombola guy toys useless. unless you’re a collector they don’t serve any function beyond that of a normal neopets toy (of which there’s thousands of much cheaper options). the price has now plummeted down to BELOW what it originally was and many users now have piles and piles of the dolls sitting in their inventory, mocking them

so what now? well, because no one ever learns, everyone is now flocking to what is now the cheapest high-rarity item eligible for donation. most are going for omelettes, which have a few different options at r102+. these have also inflated by like 400% from before the event, but unlike the squeeze tombola guys, these are only worth a few thousand neopoints, so not as bad a potential loss in comparison

it’s worth noting that while all this is going on in preparation for the recycling event, neopets is also experiencing insane inflation in a lot of other items right now, including those required for people to complete faerie quests. for example, a Griefer, which cost 5000 np just last week, is now worth selling for 1 MILLION

So yeah. 3 days into the event and that’s where we are so far. who knows what tomorrow might bring

[deviant-doughnut]

Augusnippets: Day Twenty-Six

Chosen Prompt: Nightmare

CW: robot whump, previous captivity; previous torture

“Please record identifying marker,” says model R200, the first words it has ever spoken. It does not know where it is, does not recognise the darkness surrounding it.

And yet it has been here before.

In the nightmare, it happens again. Both in binary and in abstract this time, in ones and zeros and in visions stuttering through the planes of its unconsciousness — a night sky of unbearable anguish beneath the rhythmic ticking of its internal mechanisms. It’s dread in all its most vivid colours. It’s the cool metal table against the flesh they designed to mimic humanness. It feels human to R200, able to gauge temperature, capable of pain and pleasure both. And it feels human to its makers, soft and pliant and easily bruised.

In the nightmare, its body is not a body but there are hands on it all the same. It is made of the most exquisite plasticine their factory could manufacture. It flickers to consciousness with a sense of its purpose — a first responder of sorts; awaiting further programming but predisposed to be a force of unbiased good in the world. It is not human, is not alive, and it is okay with this.

“Please record identifying marker…” it tries again. No one responds.

In the nightmare, his wrists are cinched tight against the metal. The door creaks open, light spilling into the basement around him. It’s there and then gone, the shadows dank and stifling as the presence in his nightmare approaches him. They took R200 from the storeroom, from the post-production line area. Somewhere above it, meetings are held between city bureaucrats and the people who made R200. Its counterparts are assigned their departments — their specific and deliberate purposes — but R200 is kept under the storeroom.

“The company owes us,” its captor says simply, scalpel in hand, a different kind of metal glinting in the half light.

“Are you my creator?” R200 asks. Its captor simply sneers.

“I’m your worst nightmare, actually,” the man replies, voice a low and satisfied draw. Your lot might destroy mankind one day. I figure we’re entitled to fuck at least one of you up first.

“Please record identifying marker.” R200 replies, its tone impacted by the data available to it. Something here is incorrect. Its voice, however, doesn’t shake until long after the cutting begins, the scalpel lowering to the bare flesh of its chest, the tip digging through forged flesh and into the metal beneath.

“Let’s see how much it takes,” says its attacker, “to make you short circuit forever.”

He cuts deeper then, always deeper. The pain shoots wildly through R200’s structure — a tidal wave, a roaring sea of screams and misfiring programs. Wires spark and burst, liquid as black as onyx pouring over it, pulsing from its cables and out over its skin. Its voice grows higher and higher, its pain receptors detecting emergency. It hasn’t been fully programmed yet. It doesn’t know how to respond. “Please record identifying marker! Please record identifying marker! Please!”

”Alan,” replied the first of its many attackers, the scalpel scraping loudly through its abdomen as the man snarled with vindication above him. “Your name, you worthless piece of shit, is Alan. And you’re mine.”

Alan wakes up screaming.

He’s tied up until he isn’t, until he thrashes against his restraints and all that gives way is bedsheets. He kicks them off of his overheating body, electricity spiking hotly under his skin. His metal heart pounds upwards into overdrive, and he sits up so quickly to assess the threat that the world tilts dangerously around him.

“Hey,” comes a desperate whispers. Alan searches the shadows in frenzy. He gasps for breaths he does not need, touches his hand to his sternum and peers down at his unbloodied fingertips afterwards. No one has cut him. Nothing is damaged, and there’s no one watching from the shadows. The mattress creaks beneath the weight of another, and Alan startles until he remembers.

It’s Rowan, only Rowan. Alan’s emergency system falls quiet, threat assessment overruled by Rowan’s brown eyes staring back at him, wide, pinprick pupils, scared for nothing but Alan himself. Alan’s throat aches, a touch of humanness he was immune to before that basement. He was designed to be perfect, flawless, forever poised and ready to serve. And then his attackers tore him apart and Alan learned how to feel terror and helplessness. They are feelings he has never liked, and they threaten to choke him now. He stares down helplessly into his lap, and wishes he’d never learned how to cry.

“Shhh,” Rowan whispers, easing closer towards him. Alan’s tears run black as night, like ink trickling down over his sculpted cheeks, marring the set of his deliberately designed visage in the night. Rowan draws Alan closer, until Alan reaches out in turn and their bodies rise and fall together, a type of symbiosis, Alan’s breathing matched to Rowan’s own, almost like the accidental absorption of an accent. He wonders if their hears sound the same when they beat, their lungs when they expand and contract. Alan cries ink into the white shoulder of Rowan’s sleep tee. Rowan rubs his back, human and sweet. He whispers that it’s okay, promises him over and over until Alan loses partial vision in his eyes from crying, his tears so black that they temporarily stain him — his irises, his corneas.

“No one can hurt you here,” Rowan tells him. “They’re all dead, baby. All the people who ever hurt you are dead.”

“I’m not alive either,” Alan reminds him, “and it hurts all the same.”

“You’re alive,” Rowan protests. “You exist in the world and they don’t anymore. You’re with me, and they’re in the ground. What was left of them, anyway.”

“I suppose,” Alan concedes, miserable and exhausted and halfway to collapse.

“I suppose,” Rowan echoes, rubbing his back as he eases him back down to the mattress. “Lie down and sleep, Al. No matter what happens in your nightmares, I promise you’ll wake up right here, and I will be beside you.”

“Beside me,” Alan whispers. He shuts his eyes when Rowan smiles. It’s too much sometimes, the way he makes it all sound so simple. The truth is Alan needs more information to understand this. Androids were never supposed to be like this — feeling, connected, traumatised. What was forged in that basement was something different. He lives in hiding to protect his fellow androids. If anyone learned that torture could do this, that stripping their wires from their bodies while they wailed was a way to shock emotions into action…

Alan dreads to think of such a world where that notion was common knowledge.

Rowan holds him close and Alan is not supposed to feel. He is designed for perfect objectivity, but the scalpel carved that out of his chest. Rowan kisses his feverish forehead, and smoothes down the mess of his hair. Rowan hums until sleep swirls around him, ready to pull him once again under its waves. He leans into the touch and he identifies the lullaby. Part of him wishes they’d never turned him human in that basement. Another part, the part that falls asleep tracking the gentle beats of Rowan’s heart, thinks it might have been worth it after all.

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Thanks to @augusnippets for this event!

[wafflepatterns]

Meet new sewing pattern <Mitsuba> Puffer jacket

A new item is just released from Waffle Patterns. Meet Puffer jacket <Mitsuba> sewing pattern. , a patchwork style puffer jacket keeping you warm. Choose from a stand collar or a hood and combine long or short lengths with your favourite colours and patterns. It can be very solid winter gear with many functional design options as well.

<design options>

View A features a short length + a hood. The pockets are welt-type on both sides.

View B is a long length + a stand collar design featuring welt-type chest pockets and side patch pockets.

There are other functional features like hem/hood strings, knit cuff, or inside pocket which you can combine with both views. Of course, you can make it without them, too.

The basic design is a very simple with regular-loose fit line. But the bodice/sleeves are patchwork style, so you can make your creative style or just make it solid.

<fabric recommendation>

The main parts are layered with the shell fabric and the insulation materials. You can use pre-quilted fabrics for skipping the backing steps.

<shell>

For the shell, light-mid weight woven jacket/coat soft fabrics with some body are suitable ; like thin coat fabric, wool, gabardine, twill, canvas.

For the yellow gradation sample in the photos, I used light weight cotton-mixed twill in three different colours. The light beige one is not from the same series fabric as the other colours, just because I cannot find it with the perfect colour. But the weight and the texture are very similar.

The smoky pink sample’s shell is wool mixed twill. A bit heavier than the yellow one, but soft enough for the backing.

I bought all those shell fabrics from my local fabric shops here; yellow gradation type from jansikkes.nl smoky pink sample from aboeken.nl

The navy plaid sample is from thin wool which I got years ago. This sample is preproduction, some details are different from the final design.

I think light water repellent or windproof fabrics are nice functional options. But for real water/windproofness for extreme weather, Mitsuba jacket has too many seamlines (because it’s designed for colour blocking effect) so I think some modifications are needed for the purpose.

<insulation material>

Mitsuba jacket uses two weights of insulation materials; mid-heavy type for the bodice/sleeve parts and light weight one for the small parts like pocket welts, zipper guard. But depending on your fabrics and design intention, maybe no need to use different types. Many insulation materials are available in many names. Here are some products which I actually used for the sample making and other my personal puffer item projects. All are enough warm for The Netherlands’ winter.

polyester fiberfill 100g/m for the smoky pink sample and other personal project like this. I used this fiberfill double layered for the bodice/sleeve parts and single layer for the small parts. I found this type of insulation is available almost all fabric/notion stores in very reasonable price like 3-4 euro/m. So, I think it is an efficient option to use this with layered on some parts.

polyester fiberfill 200g/m   I also tried to use this thicker type. I found mine was way too stiff for the garments, maybe because the thicker type is glued. I think the stiffness will depend on the product, so I recommend to check actual sample before use.

Vlieseline Volumevlies R200, R80 I used these for the yellow gradation sample, heavy R200 for the bodice/sleeve parts, light R80 for welts and zipper guards. Those are a bit costlier than poly fiberfill, but much easier to handle. I found it is worth the price.

There are a lot more options for insulations like Dacron, alpolux, isosoft, 3M thinsulate etc etc. Since poly fiberfill is warm enough for me, I did not try those. But outdoor fabric shops have more professional ones for more extreme weather. So please try to find your perfect materials as your intention. For really extreme weather, adding an under lining to the shell will be an option.

Generally, light/soft shell fabric x heavy insulation makes more puffer look and mid weight shell fabric x lighter insulation makes sharp/stable style.

Please choose suitable one for your design and actual shell fabrics.  I strongly  recommend checking actual material samples as much as possible and experimenting your fabrics before start the project.

<using pre-quilted fabrics>

There are a lot of pre-quilted fabrics available recently. Using them can skip backing steps and make the process faster. If your pre-quilted fabrics are very thick, please consider using a contrast fabric for some parts like facings or pocket welts etc. It depends on your fabrics and design intention, again I recommend testing actual materials.

<lining>

I used the normal lining for the winter jackets, did not need to use special linings because it’s warm enough with batting. The lining pattern is intended for normal lining fabrics. If you want to use winter lining like faux fur, fleece, or flannel, please consider modifying the details. Here is the blog post about making winter coat. https://blog.wafflepatterns.com/post/167771075466

<other>

-I could not tried it, but I think it is possible to use non insulated fabric for the shell. I expect that the silhouette will be different and the neck line is a bit too loose.

-If you use the fabric which cannot be interfaced or do not need to be interfaced, please skip them depending on your case. If you need stability for some parts like zipper parts, please use tape or ribbon instead of the interfacing.

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The sewing pattern includes 18 pages of instructions and all the sewing processes are described with detailed illustrations. The pattern files are available for both home printers (A4 or US letter) and copyshop(A0/A1 format).

You can check other photos of this model on my Flickr page.

The Puffer jacket -Mitsuba- (size 32 - 52) PDF sewing pattern is available here. Also in the Etsy shop.

Special discount price until 10th Jan 2023 (CET) with other popular patterns. No discount code is needed! The sale page is here.

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Paper pattern + PDF option is available with plus 13EUR. Shipping worldwide. But please note that, in the current situation, all the shipments are affected by the measure of COVID-19. There might be some shipping delays or accidents. *The paper includes only the pattern, please print out the instructions by yourself or read it with your tablet or PC.  The PDF + Paper listing page is here.

*In the sale period, the shipping of the paper pattern starts 11th Jan 2023.

Enjoy your sewing!

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[fangcyclonelunaheat]

i have to stop spinning on my chair while drowning in touhou 09 ost and try to finish this at least until i reach somewhere mid ishida

yes at first this looks absolutely terrible but i have to trust the prosess and think another way to list this (also i really like colorcoded shit)

also this is all based on page appearance (which i hope i did right <3)

[charlesandmartine]

Wednesday 17th April 2024

When dawn broke one could see the lights of Mossel Bay across the water, but as the sun came up, the mist started to come down. I guess that's just the way it is there. We had a quick breakfast, loaded the stuff into the VW, bade our farewells to this strange property, the sea front and the parrots and hit the road; this time the N2 bound for George. In all we expected roughly 3 hours elapsed time of motoring, but we intended to call in at Knysna; a town everyone seems to know and tell us we need to go to, but a place no-one seems to be sure about what's there. Anyway, we headed to the Waterfront which seemed a good starting point and were soon fixed up with an extremely palatable coffee and chocolate croissant. Most acceptable I'd say.

This part of the coast is firmly into the Garden Route, and our journey onwards East confirmed that the scenery is absolutely fabulous. Green, lush vegetation, tree clad mountains and picturesque lakes. Through Wilderness and on to Pine Lake which lay so still, not a ripple, it was just content to sit there all day reflecting the mountain behind. Soon we were passing the sign which declared we were now officially in the Eastern Cape.

We lunched in Plettenberg Bay, a comly little place designed very much for holiday makers. We fitted right in there and found a seat overlooking the beach which was full of happy families with designated tasks of building sandcastles. We left the VW in the good care of a carpark attendant, and in the age old tradition, by passing silver from one palm to the other, no harm would come to the car.

Life guards were nervously watching the bay and the swimmers. At one point everyone was called out of the water. Great Whites have been spotted recently and are, we are told, more likely April onwards. Hmm. Didn't see one but I'm sure he saw us!

Now we asked Mr Avis, taxi drivers all sorts, are there any toll roads in South Africa/ Garden Route? Oh no they all said. We don't have tolls. Well as soon as we plotted our route on Google to Jeffrey's Bay there it was, toll road. Don't you just know it. Anyway, we have plenty of spare change and this route saved us an hour, so we set off. Through forest, hill and dale we drove on an empty road, empty because you have to pay I guess. Anyway, we pulled into the booth, produced our R200 note and the girl said, oh, you don't have to pay. No explanation that we could understand, but we were free to go!

This is an interesting country. Clearly when a job needs doing, a white man calls for a black man. Mornings and evenings we see pickup trucks going back and forth picking up and dropping off teams of men and taking them to where the work is; often lawn maintenance, general building and in volume, road maintenance. They crowd into the backs of these vehicles often from pickup points along the roads. Archaic maybe but it seems to work. In its defence there seems a distinct attempt to create jobs even if it is so menial and perhaps unnecessary. For instance, people manually sweeping sand off a path by the beach or standing waving or holding limply a red flag near to roadworks. The sad thing is that they often seem to come out of the shanty towns on the outskirts of rather affluent white towns. We cannot judge as it's not our culture, but it is a little disconcerting.

We passed one such shanty town made up of rows and rows of tiny corrugated iron boxes, and I'm ashamed to say, were relieved when we crossed a river and into an area called Paradise Beach where we are lodged in a luxurious little house on stilts for the next three days.

ps We popped out for an evening meal at a restaurant recommended by our host. It could not be closer to the sea if it tried; the floor was sand! I had an excellent tuna steak and Martine a lamb shank but cooked in an amazing South African set of spices unknown. Absolutely delicious. The whole thing with tips and alcohol was less than £29!

pps over 31°C today.

ppps there was a malicious campaign afoot on the toll road into here disparaging the rights to baboons having a square meal. Big signs, Do Not Feed the Baboons. Fine for doing so, R500. Well we didn't see a single baboon along the 60k section hungry or otherwise.