#Product Scraping

[reachingworldlive]

Market Research with Web Data Solutions – Dignexus

[radley-rambles]

Cannot believe that 'access to quality art and writing made by other people is a luxury not a right, and artists and writers deserve to be compensated for their labour, because as much as I believe in the ethos of UBI, we live in a post-capitalist hellscape, and creators need to eat' is a controversial opinion in Leftist spaces.

[seratlantisite]

Veilguard has a sort of "mass effect 2 meets oceans 11" vibe to it that would be fun but it doesn't. quite land.

First, Mass effect 2 structure. To quote shepard, the setup to the game is because "i'm going to need an army. Or a really good team". Its shep vs the an entire planet, but the alliance can't help, the council WONT help, and the guy bankrolling you does espionage shit, not combat. You gather a team of the best of the best at whatever tf they do because there will be no one else in the final battle. This is ALL you've got. You are assigning people jobs bc they are the only people HERE. But when veilguard hits the last gambit, you. Aren't alone. You've got half a dozen factions all itching to go. They ARE an army. So why does rook have to assign their handful of teammates to hold the hands of these other leaders?? Ireline and Strife do this shit all the time, why do they need someone else watching over their shoulders? The wardens are a mini army like evka says, adding someone new now is just going to throw them off. And im leaving EVERYONE downstairs but you still need one of my measly 6 squadmates to take point?? Really?? Rook's gonna DIE isabela, they have to FIST FIGHT A SUN GOD BELA

Second, the Oceans' 11-ness. You put together a team based off specific jobs you need done to handle this problem. Great, cool. But then. No one gets to do them. "Aw shit two magical gods. We need the best mage-assassin ever". Except you don't actually ask lucanis for his expertise or let him make a plan to kill the gods in their lairs, you just. Give him the knife and throw him at the gods. We could have taped the dagger to Manfred and thrown him at them. Rook even kills elgar'nan themself, Lucanis didn't get to do anything!! "We need a fade expert" for what?? Its not like emmrich is figuring out how to put the gods back in their prison or rebuilding the veil or trying to find solas. There are FOUR blighted dragons running around and taash only gets to lead the fight on one of them!

These guys are a great, really bad ass team of very competent people but why'd we hire them as if they'd be leading missions for us on their expertise if we. Weren't gonna do that

[mildmayfoxe]

there has to be a better way to get all the stuff out of the tube. any tube. they have to be able to make us get all the stuff out of the tube. i want to know ive gotten everything out of the tube

[testifiedtimaeus]

I drew this Alien AU thing in ~2022 hot damn (Hal's a synthetic/android for those who don't know)

[twobellsilence]

Anyway this might be the hottest take I've ever posted on here but I just want to say that if Karla Sofía Gascón wins an oscar for Emilia Pérez it should NOT be celebrated. "oh but she's the first openly trans woman to be nominated!! That's historic and very cool!!!" yeah it's historic or whatever but the movie she's in is actively offensive and repulsive towards Mexican people (and many other Latam countries by extension as well, but mainly Mexico) and pushes transmedicalism and has an all around weird understanding of transness and is also weirdly positive about Israel????? And also if you have eyes and watch it you'll realize that 1) the director or the publishers or whoever the fuck MOST DEFINITELY bought out the events it's nominated in, because jesus fucking christ, the only way for this shitstain to be nominated for any serious award is plain old corruption, and 2) her performance is just okay. Not bad, but just okay. I suppose she Is the best actress in this, but that's not the highest bar in the world.

Also, her statements. She's literally gone on record actively diminishing Latin American people's criticisms about it and also implying those who hate the movie do so because she's in it (so using the transphobia card to deflect EXTREMELY valid criticism, very classy Miss Gascón) instead of the other myriad issues it has... Have I mentioned the fact that she's a Spaniard, claiming to be "mexican by adoption" because she's gone there for work a couple of times, thinking that she knows better than the entire country of Mexico and its natives? Do you see the goddamn issue here????

Listen, I would be lying if I said I have nothing against this woman, because as a Colombian who's had relatives disappear and never be found during FARC raids and is also worried sick about a part of my family living in danger zones now that guerrillas are starting to occupy towns again, the message of Emilia Pérez and the sheer arrogance that most of the people who've been at the front of its development, Gascón included, are actively offensive and so enraging it makes me want to cry out of frustration if I think about it for too long. So you could very well accuse me of being biased. But let's be real - objectively, this would NOT be a deserved victory, and glorifying Gascón's performance when it hinges on the complete misrepresentation of very serious Mexican issues that actively harm people TO THIS DAY is just wrong, dare I say even disgusting. She does not deserve the award just like Emilia Pérez doesn't deserve ANYTHING else, period. Trans people deserve better. SHE deserves better, even. Let her win when she gives a killer performance in an actually good movie, not here.

[theloveinc]

ummmmm fyi I have really congested pores and noticeable sebaceous filaments around my chin and on my nose (dare I say… blackheads) and this combo has been a MIRACLE

[coiled-dragon]

Hot Pockets without their sleeves are soggy AND I cant fuckin hold them. Stupid fuckin change

[brbgensokyo]

its so hard to take the pulse of Jirai-kei, i wanted to do a bit of snooping around for a character idea i had but i cant tell if the style really is that limited or if the aesthetic and artistic regurgitation of the same three outfits has smothered any genuine posts from those in the scene

[darlingfreddie]

Spending the entire day today laying in bed bc I’m physically and mentally exhausted from chronic pain 🫡

[undistortedworld]

sitting at my desk and my cheap broken desk chair snaps and collapses beneath me HELLO

[blackmoldmp3]

this is so funny. designated frothing fascist bc i think algorithmic machine generated images kind of blow and also are absolutely horrendous for the environment

[sarroora]

For archiving reasons ~ I'm just sharing a couple pics from my Eevee & Pikachu blocknote designs for EgyCon and artist alleys.

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The blocknote is a double-design of 40 sheets. Created in Affinity Designer which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND as an Adobe Illustrator alternative.

Before cutting:

Tester sample to make sure the blocknote is sturdy and usable. Cutting still needs to be a bit cleaner:

Prototype packaging:

This blocknote took a ridiculously long time to create, though - so I gotta streamline my process somehow.

[musiquesduciel]

Bought my first foundation since Fall '21.

[therapist-solarist]

omg I’m not dead yall I’m back writing again! come check it out on ao3 😎

[ethereally-shrinking-daisy]

Things I saw today that were fucking tonedeaf 🥰