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I GOT A BLU-RAY PLAYER FINALLY!!!!!!
#and it only cost 20€#instead of 70#so that's fun#buying second hand stiff is really nice#blu-ray#dvd
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hands you all this cal to announce i’ve FINALLY finished fallen order (by which i mean i finally picked it up again after those couple hours i played a few months ago and then finished the whole game in 2 days lol)
#cal kestis#bd 1#jedi fallen order#jfo#star wars#my doods#anyway HOLY CRAP YOU MEAN STAR WARS WAS ALLOWED TO BE GOOD BEFORE ANDOR (2022-)??????????????? AND I DIDNT KNOW??#i love cal i loved the story i love how cinematic and amazing it looked good lord#i don't think i've ever played a game which gets such an amazing sense of scale across#like all the great temples or fallen starships were just Wow#like bracca ALONE gobsmacked me. seeing all these things i grew up watching in tcw as wreckage was like Ough Wow and THEY FELT SO HUGE#im just. wow!!#and THAT FINAL MISSION HUH. MOST FEAR INSPIRING VIDEOGAME ENCOUNTER EVER#my only criticisms are the awkward navigation/ level design in some areas and maybe the ending felt a bit lackluster somehow#i say somehow bc i dont get how lol#the reason im making this post past midnight is bc i got off work at 10pm and then immediately had to finish it LOL#anyway big heart emojis im very happy i sat down and actually played it finally#i want jedi survivor now LOL unfortunately it costs money and i have a rule i never buy games in release year lol#tbh i never rlly buy games til they're £20 or less
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Another bonus to learning a fiber art is being able to speak to others in a Lovecraftian language that nobody else understands...
...and also being able to read things like THIS:
#art#crochet#fiber art#described images#image description in alt#used a crochet pattern for this because it's just INSANE#see i can recognize some of these stitch markings but i haven't done them all yet#i actually kind of prefer the diagram pattern because it actually shows you the shape and the way stitches compliment the piece#with a 'normal' pattern (e.g. 1 dc in fifth ch from hook ch 2 4 dc) i understand it sure but. it isn't the same.#i was reading somebodys recommendations for tapestry yarn and understood all the abbreviations and what they mean#plus i feel like diagrams can be a great way to teach you not only how stitches look but how they contribute to the larger piece#one of my crochet proficiency goals is to be able to look at a piece and know instantly what made it#*cue me at the store analyzing a crochet piece so i can replicate it for 5× the cost*#if you're selling a crocheted piece for like $20 then it's my imperative to replicate it and not buy it 🫡#i think that has the same moral implication as like... 'proplifting'#did crochet as the example because thats what i do as a fiber art. if theres a similar thing for knit/weave/ect then DROP IT BELOW I BEG YO#i want to learn all the lovecraftian languages of the fiber artists <3#i feel like describing the image in exactly what stitch marking indicates what would have been too much so hopefully the explanation as to..#...what the diagram DOES and how it visually indicates a pattern was helpful <3
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Kept hold of my train ticket after the Käärijä show the other week so I could draw on it
#still annoyed it was 17 quid smh#the show itself only cost 20 but the ticket machine didnt allow a return to chalk farm for some reason#anyway mega win to see the king of eurovision himself irl#käärijä#käärijä fanart#my art
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I just found this card and
Why is this card not in every single commander deck ever?
#mtg#mtg commander#i often hear about how long commander games go for and how mana-hungry decks are#this seems like it would be a generic staple in every deck#and the condition for transforming it is just looting 5 times! each loot costs 1 mana but still#god it untaps when you flip it just so you can get that 20+ mana a turn sooner#my only guess is that no one knows about it and it's one viral youtube video away from spreading to every deck ever
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"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]
okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.
The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?
Yeah, fucking absolutely.
But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.
You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.
Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]
Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]
There are options.
There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.
#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways#There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse.#I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something#There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others#or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all#or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost#$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably.#or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill#or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels.#or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis#suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away#life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away#Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly#people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before#they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability.#long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious.#they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority.#they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag#but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing#it already is.#its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people#ALL people.#they use basic human rights as bargaining chips.#the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.
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I hate to shake my can again, especially so soon after last time, but I'm tight on transportation money AGAIN and have to repair my car AGAIN (it had an unplanned problem I gotta fix asap and two more down the road that are less important). I'm more so concerned about making sure I can get to work this week since i dont have to worry about rent coming out of my check friday, next week shouldn't be a problem (beli ayin hara ptoo ptoo ptoo), which comes up to worrying about roughly $60-72. I'll have to shell out more for the mechanic and won't enjoy it but should be able to cover it (I was able to get the part last week on payments and my mom said she'd help split the cost on labor, which he guessed might run close to 400$ but hasn't been solid on), however I won't refuse extra help.
ko-fi.com/rosebijoumme
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#cipher talk#Sadly no one has commissioned me#I was hoping I could get public transit to work for me but nope it still sucks (the county I work in has a subsidized ride share app#Instead of an actual bus and it's only 20 vans. Suffice to say it does not work well in my experience)#If it did it'd be much more cost effective! A third of the cost of a Lyft Uber or taxi easily#Mutual aid#mutual aid request#financial aid#donations#Also I get if this gets notes but not donos today bc of the strike but I figure it's best to get it out there anyway
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NOW YOU HAVE!!!!1!!1!
WANT TO SEE MORE PLUSH RUMPS AND FOAMY PROBOSCISES LIKE THIS? YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE TO GO AT THIS POINT.
WE’VE GOT IT ALL!!! ALL THE PLUSH POUNDING YOU COULD ASK FOR, AND A 24/7 LIVE PUPPET CHAT WITH POLYAMOROUS POLY-FIL PUPPETS!
SLAP A SOCKPUPPET ON YOUR DOORKNOB!
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR!
#ALL THIS AND MORE#ONLY AT#PLUSHRUMP#SUPSCRIBE!#SEE MORE OF THESE MAGNIFICENT RUMPS#DO YOUR JOB#ALL STRINGS ATTACHED#FUN IN NONREFUNDABLE#LIVE PUPPET CHAT#ITS WORTH EVERY PENNY#ITS WORTH EVERY DROP#NO COST TOO GREAT#20 BUCKS IS PRETTY CHEAP MAN#AAH IM BURSTING AT THE SEAMS!!!1!1!
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I hate being autistic about sketchbooks because on one hand the cheap ones get the job done but on the other hand if I touch a Bad Paper I will turn into The Joker
#my maximum for a sketchbook is like 15 to 20 dollars because it costs a little extra for fancy smooth mixed media paper on a 10x10 size#and it STILL will only last me a month maximum#been watchibg sketchbook videos again and its like well heres my sketchbook for the year!! the YEAR????#THE YEAR???#wish that were me#my wallet hates me#i need to lower my standards maybe.... but also.....#sturdy coverd 10x10 mixed media sketvhbook my beloved
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Holy shit thank you so much for telling me about zenmarket, this website is amazing! You are my savior friend
no problem at all!!! i've been using it since 2018 so i know my way around it pretty well, let me know if you have any questions and i'll try my best to help! :)
#also please do be aware of the multiple costs! they are stated on the website but i'll list them to be sure#1. item cost 2. zenmarket fee (¥500 per item) 3. shipping from seller to zenmarket warehouse 4. shipping from zenmarket to you#5. customs fee depending on your country#imo it's worth it if you find good deals but i wouldn't recommend buying something that's only like 20 bucks cheaper on there#cause then after the fees it'll be nearly the same price!#ask#non figure
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it's month 7 of pants research and this is the scene of the latest fashion cryptid sighting unsuspecting civilians were subjected to at the local charity shop this morning
#pants#fashion#men's fashion#cryptid#cryptidcore#da me#((the shop doesn't have a fitting room so I was measuring with my measuring tape instead to make sure it was the correct fit))#I bought FOUR pairs of pants for under 20 quid TOTAL!#(and two huge bed sheets worth of fabric for less than 10 cause this specific charity shop is my fave cause they got curtains & bed sheets)#and then 3 more at tkmaxx that did cost about 20-25 each but apparently that was like 50 quid less than rrp#and all 7 of them fit appropriately in the hip/crotch area and I'll only need to shorten the legs 🙏#cause I finally figured out what measurement to fit men's pants for the other week#cause unlike women's fashion which just fits to existing body shapes (eg waist for pant waist crotch for pant crotch etc)#men's fashion ignores basically all existing body shapes which makes it so much harder in so many ways#for someone this short I sure am crouching in public surprisingly often
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on the closure of MochaJump, and why we're our own worst enemies in this industry.
"MochaJump? What was that?" is probably your first question, and I'm gonna simply respond with, "Exactly."
MochaJump was a small startup platform made by /u/nunojay2 and a second site engineer (whose name I am not informed of) on reddit. It wasn't anything extraordinary, just a startup site that aimed to offer a more viable alternative to Webtoons and Tapas, with a focus on offering equal visibility to creators, focused recommendation algorithms, loosened restrictions on NSFW content, and bigger cuts for creators on their generated revenue.
Of course, such promises are a tall order, but the creator did their best to host regular discussions with creators in art and webtoon communities to get feedback on what creators really wanted out of their platforms, and they researched what they would need to make in order to keep the site afloat (it came out pretty low at $2 per user per month). Hopes were high and the site launched with a small but eager userbase.
It stayed small. The site shut down in November 2022, just 6 months after launching in May 2022.
Now, I'm not gonna sit here on some soapbox and blame anyone for the site closing down. I unfortunately didn't get much chance to use the site myself so there's surely more I could have done on my own part to help it gain traction. But this is a regular occurrence for start-ups like this, especially in an industry that's as notoriously unprofitable as webcomics. We've seen titans such as SmackJeeves and Inkblazers fall, and MochaJump was merely an infant by comparison.
But it makes me think of how we view and treat these startups as a whole. How we as readers and creators alike have become so trained to exclusively use corporate platforms like Webtoons and Tapas on the promise of "bigger gains". Unlike these bigger companies, platforms like MochaJump depend on building a strong userbase as quickly as possible, and need to find ways to generate revenue to keep things running, otherwise it's only a matter of time before they close down. They don't have a massive conglomerate like Naver or Kakao to pad their pockets through their failures. They don't have the money or reach to inject themselves into society through bus terminal ads and convention sponsorships. They don't have the investors to sink money into their platform until it becomes profitable in return.
So we don't use them. Readers don't use them because we don't see the point in using a platform that has no content... and thus creators don't use them because we don't see the point in publishing our content on a platform with no userbase. Creators seek a place that's "tight knit" and "easy to get seen", but will only post to places that come pre-loaded with massive audiences; because it's not enough anymore to have a couple hundred followers, we're in 2023 now, in the year of consumer bloat, where we expect to now pull in thousands if not millions to be considered a "success". And readers seek a place that offers high-quality high-amount content at the tip of their fingertips, but don't want to pay for the access to these works, and in the case of apps like WT, have given up in trying to support these creators through the platforms themselves because they know that those artists they want to support will likely never see a dime.
The fact of this problem is simple, yet many people seem to ignore it - we cannot expect to have a platform that is tight knit, profitable, and sustainable. These places do not exist, not so long as we continue to raise the bar on what makes a "successful" subscriber count, not so long as we continue to patronize platforms that exploit their artists and writers, and not so long as we keep chasing the dragon of "what these websites used to be". These platforms never used to 'be' anything, they merely existed in one point of time that is now long gone, when owning a smartphone was a luxury and not a need, when online video content wasn't being tethered together by ads, and when the Internet wasn't owned and entirely managed by the same three corporations, the likes of which we haven't seen since cable TV.
Platforms like Tapas and Webtoons are - besides unsustainable - unable to exist and profit in the way they do without undercutting someone along the way. Whether it's underpaying their creators, undercutting their communities, or underexposing the works that have been buried, someone will get the shit hand in the deal and that someone is usually ALWAYS someone who will rarely ever stand to gain anything in the long run from using these platforms despite their issues. The 1% got theirs, and the 10% are barely getting by, while the remaining 89% are pushing onwards, because they have faith in the systemic online enshittification that demands conformity to a single formula for "success".
We are our own worst enemies in this industry. Webcomics are one of the few online mediums that still truly belong to the people - anyone can make them, anyone can find joy in them, but we're letting platforms like Webtoons and Tapas and all the other massive corporate apps rob us of that joy and accessibility in the pursuit of "success" and profiting. Webtoons was never the sole way to profit off this medium and yet I still see people every day who underestimate the existence of legitimate publishing houses and self-publishing, who think that publishing on Webtoons and landing an Originals deal is the only way to find success in this industry. This is meant to be the era of creators, of self-starting and self-actualization, and yet we're still handing all of that control over to corporations that only seek to exploit our art, bodies, and labor, while convincing ourselves that this will somehow all be worth it. We stick with Webtoons, despite the numerous controversies it's been involved in and the lack of support it's given even its own hired creators. We stick with Tapas, despite the undercutting of its most core components such as its community and the outlier genres it used to be known for hosting. We find new ways to justify using platforms that are steadily going downhill - Patreon, Twitter/X, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook - because we've been convinced that these are the routes to success, so if we acknowledge their failures, then "success" can no longer exist.
Because we need to pay rent. Because we need to eat. Because we need to survive. Because it's a lot more complicated than just "stepping away". Because the startups just don't have any of the surface level potential for us to immediately identify and get on board with, so we don't give them a chance.
I realize this post got very existential and depressing. I've been creating comics for well over a decade now, largely unnoticed, and I've fallen victim to these same limiting mindsets that we have to stick to one way, one "formula" for success - a formula that changes with the wind and only works for those who get in on the ground floor. It's been slowly killing me from the very beginning, robbing me of my joy to create, of my reason to even do this in the first place - to tell and share stories with others, to express myself creatively, to live my life surrounded by art and stories and creations made by and for others. It's made me tired and miserable, and I can tell it's done the same to those who have shared that boat with me.
But there's one silver lining I can always be sure of, and it's one I was reminded of after realizing I was still in the MochaJump Discord, with one announcement post that I hadn't yet read.
Webcomics are one of the few online mediums that still truly belong to the people. Corporations are trying their hardest to take that power away. Let's not continue to let them.
If you want to help sustain, patronize, and contribute to the growth of sites that are still being operated by small teams (or even one man armies), please, consider checking out the following websites, some of which serve as platforms or publishers, others which operate as link directories for independent sites run by creators.
ComicFury GlobalComix TopWebcomics The Webcomic List The Webcomic Library Hiveworks SpiderForest SmackJeeves Archive Inkblot.art And whoever wants to use the GitHub source code used for MochaJump (RIP)
Let's do our part to decentralize webcomics again. We may not be able to leave the platforms that weakly sustain us, but we can still support those that strengthen and support us.
#also bonus: if you're willing to pay like $10/year for the domain name you can get free hosting on comicfury#essay post#decentralize the internet#decentralize webcomics#fuck webtoons#support small platforms#don't be a coward#use the sites that only net you 20 readers#it costs you literally nothing but a little extra time#i guarantee most of these sites come with more features and more supportive userbases than webtoons#webtoons doesn't even have a fucking TAGGING SYSTEM#why did we allow ourselves to be convinced that webtoons is setting some industry standard ?? they're PISS#WT is literally persephone#riding off daddy warbucks' money while being a big stinking failure of an entity who no one likes but still calls a hero#no wonder WT loves LO so much it's literally an autobiography at this point
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aaron: *stressed because taylor hasn’t responded in 20 mins*
taylor: so here’s all the work and voice memo and lyrics i added
#in only 20 mins 😵💫#this is about the alcott btw#need to protect aaron at ALL costs#the alcott#aaron dessner#arshia talks
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I was always enraged at the way capitalism has devalued some of the most important labour in human history, but now I'm even more angry since I have started getting more into crafts.
So many people are alienated from the world to such an extent they don't realize how fucking important textiles and construction and art and culinary labour is, because its all ubiquitous under capitalism: it is all profit, and if it isn't profit, then it is worthless. People don't realize just how revolutionary all of the labour was, how important it is, and was, to our survival. And that enrages me.
#politics#anti capitalism#the reason you have people going 'would it be $20 if you knit me a sweater' is because of that alienation...#...because of the fact that they're not used to non-exploitation and the fact that textiles are fundamental to humanity...#...because capitalism has so alienated them from the world around them they don't understand what goes INTO textiles...#...they only know that sweaters cost $20 at walmart and that price is rational for them#and that isn't to say that they are at fault but that they are the result of capitalistic alienation and exploitation#like i'm sorry for posting so much about crafts and shit but it really makes me think more about all of this you know?#and it's just made me think that all of this is so much deeper#DOES THIS ALL MAKE SENSE....#i feel like no-bark noonan right now the way i am raving and ranting#the hobbyist crafter to even stauncher anticapitalist pipeline has fucking yeeted me through#yes i'm aware of karl marx's theory of alienation and i'm saying he was onto something
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cycle of i buy produce -> i eat produce -> i go back to store -> everytime i go back price is now 5% higher
#idk how yalls grocery stores are behaving today but i feel like produce costs the most out of everything i buy#like per pound meat is more expensive for sure but per calorie produce is CRAZY#like im rlly bad at getting enough fruit/veg (probably only 20-30% of my diet) because its just so damn expensive#its especially depressing because its half the price back in BC but yet here i am. asscrack of canada#when i go to the farmers market and they selling imported BC fruit for an insane markup.... i want to kick bite scream etc etc
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heart-pounding immersive bocchi cinema solo trip experience 1-page report
#art jumpscare#bocchi#bocchi the rock!#ぼっち・ざ・ろっく#true story#my art#this is probably a little too illuminating about me LOL#the only reason the backpack didn’t match is because its an insanely powerful one#that can carry infinite amounts of stuff comfortably#i remembered thinking ‘woah…i don’t believe that 20 year guarantee but it’s kinda funny’#its been 18 so far#so often i sacrifice a totally matching bag for this rugged heavy duty bad boy#especially if I’m carrying around clothes or big containers of food#which I totally was#i actually googled it beforehand to check the length#but the results only showed ONE movie…#it took me googling for a second movie WHILE IT WAS PLAYING to notice#I saw the long runtime but it seemed short for two movies#and longer stated run times are often put down to make sure stuff runs smoothly#so I checked but didn’t think I was incorrect or anything mdknfdfkdf#they usually tell you VERY CLEARLY if it’s a double feature#usually double features actually cost waaaay more#and they have 15 minute breaks#so who knows what happened here#what matters is the pizza was delicious and it was a fun experience!#i may be as anxious as bocchi but i like doing things solo although id prefer it with friends most days#I haven’t seen my friends in a long time and some of them never#hopefully one day I can change that
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