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[evapilot1]

Recettear is the best game ever made.

[paladinguy]

I don't know if this is actually funny or not.

[fallintolife]

dept head: can u reactivate this user's account me: no we need hr to approve dept head: rly need it today me: if I do this w/o approval I get fired dept head: time sensitive me: so is my rent

[n3bulas-and-satelites]

Would you like to buy some ARTE?

No, really though. Commission me!

I have about 9 more pokemon drawings left (and I'm super stoked!) but I am feeling the suffering that is Life extracting more money from me than my 7-4 job pays.

I am offering you:

Creature drawings! While I mostly do pokemon, I am open to trying other creatures too. Ideally non-humanoid

You are giving to me:

$30-45, depending on complexity and/or props. Extra creature in 1 drawing is another $15 The joy of creation! Practice and skill-building! c r e a t u r e s And probably anxiety but let's be real that's already baked right into my gourd.

These are going to take a bit more time compared to the others, partly because of the backlog but also I want to make sure you get your money's worth. I will do my best to keep you updated with progress and let you know where you are in the queue.

What are we paying for this time?, you might wonder if you are familiar with me... More physical therapy (for all of February) The fun deficit in my bank account right now January and February's electric bill My cellphone bill Probably some of my rent, too..

My most immediate costs require that I open 10 of these slots at the minimum, as of 02/15/2023.

What will I need from you for the art? A DM or non-anon ask message so I can send you a discord link for discussion etc. A creature! If it's not a pokemon or digimon or something else fairly well-known, I will likely need references. If it's a pokemon, do you want the normal or the shiny flavour? If you want a particular colour palette, send it to me! Do you want a prop of some kind? Tell me about it!

I'm not doing a lot of background stuff yet. That doesn't mean you won't get something, but I'm not offering backgrounds as part of the commission ordering right now. I'll be sure to check in with you about what I might add to your background before I do anything.

Also please no real pets. Though if that's what you really, really want, talk to me. We'll need to have a Conversation about it.

/wordvomit

[rousedwhisperingdawn]

Blue Bunny Discovers Economics

[ghost-in-a-cup]

hey guys, maybe before you pirate LEARN SOME ETIQUETTE

why are these important? well, if you openly share the sites, they wil get shut down. corporations are willing to copyright strike anything. you are only going to make accessing these resources harder.

remember: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

if you want to share resources, don't post them on public forums like tumblr, twitter,instagram or any popular site. remember how zlibrary shut down? yall want that to happen to more sites? do you?

also like if they get shut down, people who can't access these otherwise because they don't have the means for it or its banned in their country are losing access.

Don't post links online. Only share in private conversations.

try and avoid linking the sites directly. a workaround is sharing the downloaded files via other file hosting sites similar to google drive and drop box

DON'T SHARE ON PUBLIC FORUMS. EVER. PLEASE

Use a VPN. i personally like proton vpn, it is a freemium model but the free version works fine.

These are just the basics, there are others but please keep these in mind.

[raisengen]

How to make Snowsant megabucks

I saw some confusion on the Snowsant shop minigame, and the tutorial skips over some stuff, I so I thought I'd throw out a few pointers.

Caveat: I'm writing this with only one set of items in the shop, so I don't know how their release will change things. There are other ways of playing, but I'm confident this should Just Work.

TL;DR:

Don't buy high on food and drink, it's low-profit

Do buy high on the gifts, holy shit Snowsant that's a 10x markup you're scamming these people

Save your scouting for the selling phase since you've got more info to work with then.

Reasoning under the cut:

First off, the tutorial doesn't mention that there are extra cash prizes depending on your gross sales in each category ($5k/$2k/$1k for 1st/2nd/3rd). This doesn't include your expenditures, so you could buy high, sell low and all but guarantee your reward. However.

When doing this with food and drink, this also wipes out your profit margins, so it's hard to make more money than just taking the middle route. You're also more at risk of having leftover stock, which will ruin your profits.

Overall, I'd recommend the middle-ground strategy as default here. Then use your scouting to undercut someone by at least a bit, whatever you need to clear stock.

For gifts, it's another story. We're selling those at a stupidly high 10x markup, and if you've got leftovers you can just sell them tomorrow, or whenever there's a surge of demand. The difference in buying prices and the position rewards don't matter much if you're just shovelling as many of them through your shop as you possibly can.

I'm planning on buying high all day every day, see you at the top of the points ladder

(For scouting, I've sort of hinted it already but I'd recommend saving your scouts for the selling phase. By then you already know how much stock you (and everyone else) has, so you can seek out a price point that clears all your stock more safely.)

[ayyeeequality]

Parasite (2019) is such a fantastic & gut-wrenching film

And I am reminded today that most non-poor people just won't get it

Twice that movie was so relatable it made me feel uncomfortable

Have you ever had to go out of your way to get other sources of wifi because you couldn't pay the bill for it or cell service?

Have you ever overheard someone talking about how bad something (you) smell?

Have you ever heard a college student say "I'm not rich but" and then proceed to admit that they didn't know food stamps were real? While you're sitting in that same room as you, yourself, use food stamps?

Because I have

[propaganda-works-actually]

ok, so, I did not anticipate how much work would fuck me up the last two weeks before we break up for christmas, I've had no time to write and I'm nackered, so I'm on a brief pause until I can recover and get back to it when I'm off. I really wanna write but gods know I don't have the energy at the moment

[magic5ball]

Please feel free to leave additional thoughts in the replies and tags!

[drinkinboilingcoffee]

Reblogs appreciated

[super-sootica]

How do I even fully express that billionaires, corporations, governments etc directly and indirectly communicate life has no value to them. They will roll over the earth and everyone else to get their 15 pieces of silver.

So if life has no value to them as evidenced by their behaviour then why should their life have any value to me? To us?

[fipindustries]

this looks sick as shit dude, im going to be there day one

[doodle17]

Like how everyone is butt-hurt about Halloween being over and how they're "dreading Christmas" but I'm over here thriving because I am both a big Halloween AND Christmas enthusiast

I am ready to deck those halls and trim some trees bby girl

[unfuck-your-tech]

Unfuck your Tech

The Internet is increasingly profit-based in its design, intended to extract the maximum amount of value from your use of it. Proprietary tech, ads, monetization, algorithmic content dissemination, digital rights media (DRM) etc. are all things that benefit corporations, but that make the Internet more hostile to real individuals and communities.

This blog shares community-oriented tools, free alternatives to paid content, and ways for healthier more human media consumption with a focus on free open-source software (FOSS), that anyone can use to remove limiters, paywalls, ads, mindless endless content feeds, and take back digital autonomy, self-respect and fulfillment.

Unfuck your technology, and make your digital landscape a kinder place.

Header image made in aeCAD, a FOSS circuit board design tool.

[nando161mando]

How Vietnam deals with bourgeois corruption