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New thoughts, new directions.
General | Posted 3 years agoIt's been almost two years since I've posted a journal and I think it's time I've give my thoughts on some matters that are important to me.
I've been thinking for a while and I honestly think it's time to take my characters to a new direction. My characters will go through a proper overhaul and have established stories to work from rather than going all over the place. It's been a struggle to find the right story direction for my characters, have them in stories that are meaningful and worthwhile. After going through learning experiences with new people and developed a far better understanding of the meta of good storytelling, I believe I have found the directions that I need.
My characters may go through some slight changes and I believe it would be for the better. That said, I would like to establish that I have not developed a disdain towards content I've commission nor do I have any animosity towards the artists who have done them. I still appreciate their work regardless.
I look forward to utilize my characters to their fullest potential. Here's hoping for the best!
I've been thinking for a while and I honestly think it's time to take my characters to a new direction. My characters will go through a proper overhaul and have established stories to work from rather than going all over the place. It's been a struggle to find the right story direction for my characters, have them in stories that are meaningful and worthwhile. After going through learning experiences with new people and developed a far better understanding of the meta of good storytelling, I believe I have found the directions that I need.
My characters may go through some slight changes and I believe it would be for the better. That said, I would like to establish that I have not developed a disdain towards content I've commission nor do I have any animosity towards the artists who have done them. I still appreciate their work regardless.
I look forward to utilize my characters to their fullest potential. Here's hoping for the best!
Dear 2020
General | Posted 5 years agoThank you for guiding me to where I need to go to unfuck the damage that had been caused, whether it be me or around me.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
General | Posted 7 years agoHope you got what you wanted and enjoyed visiting friends and family!
Streaming! (Udder Warning)
General | Posted 7 years agoStreaming soon! (Udder Warning)
General | Posted 7 years agoI'll be posting a link to a stream soon, though I should warn you that there will be udders.
Thursday Night Stream!
General | Posted 8 years agoWednesday Night Stream!
General | Posted 8 years agoStreaming!
General | Posted 8 years agoMay the Force be with you...
General | Posted 8 years agoMy Cintiq might have borked for good...
General | Posted 9 years agoBad news, because it's now standard to bring that up first, a critical component in my 21UX cintiq tablet from Wacom might have given up the ghost after going through many troubleshoots with Wacom technical support, all except testing the cintiq on another computer.
Good news, it might be a component in my computer that's derping out because one of the two monitors I have keeps blacking out. Unlike the cintiq, my computer was custom built with warranties still in place. Now I have to wait until the guy who built the comp is available after a toothache.
However, in case the worst case scenario does happen, I would like to know some good alternatives that I can save for to replace my cintiq. Send me your recommendations in a note in the comments if you like. ^_^
Good news, it might be a component in my computer that's derping out because one of the two monitors I have keeps blacking out. Unlike the cintiq, my computer was custom built with warranties still in place. Now I have to wait until the guy who built the comp is available after a toothache.
However, in case the worst case scenario does happen, I would like to know some good alternatives that I can save for to replace my cintiq. Send me your recommendations in a note in the comments if you like. ^_^
Happy new years!
General | Posted 9 years agoI know it had been a rough, sometimes terrible, year but now is the time hope for the best. Here's to a better year!
Signal Boost! JSA is still an awesome artist!
General | Posted 9 years agoSignal boosting for 
JSA-Arts again!
As I said before, JSA's specialty is in Sci-fi though he can still do fantasy work. ^_^
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371642/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19702410/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18920544/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371865/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17372233/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17360822/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371661/
JSA-Arts again!As I said before, JSA's specialty is in Sci-fi though he can still do fantasy work. ^_^
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371642/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19702410/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18920544/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371865/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17372233/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17360822/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371661/
Switching Avatars, because why not
General | Posted 9 years agoI got bored. :B
Signal Boosting! JSA-Arts is seeking customers!
General | Posted 9 years ago JSA-Arts is looking for new customers!His main specialty is in science fiction though he can do some fantasy work.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371642/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19702410/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18920544/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371865/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17372233/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17360822/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17371661/
As a satisfied customer, I can say that he is most definitely worth the price and is on par with other great artists such as
Strype. JSA is negotiable, however, the best part about him is his amazing work ethic. So please, check him out when you can. ^_^Now that's a wave of faves! Also, a question.
General | Posted 9 years agoSeriously though, I genuinely appreciate the faves! I just didn't expect that many faves coming in at one.
Now then, given that the vast majority of those are geared towards pictures of Kila, I would like to know your feedback regarding her. What do you like about her, what draws you in to like her?
Now then, given that the vast majority of those are geared towards pictures of Kila, I would like to know your feedback regarding her. What do you like about her, what draws you in to like her?
That's a lot of faves. O_O;
General | Posted 9 years agoDue to an unforeseen surge in faves by a great multitude of people, I would like to let everyone know that I genuinely appreciate this outcome as well as genuinely apologizing for those I haven't personally said thank you to for making a fave, and apologizing for any possible repeat 'thank yous' for the same fave.
However, most of the faved submissions are commissioned works. While I do appreciate my watchers liking my characters, I personally believe that I should put in more effort in making my own content. This is by no means a discrediting towards the artists I've commissioned over the years. Rather, this is an incentive for me to improve myself as an artist rather than relying on others who're not always available.
My goal is to get into animation and by better at inking. The latter being the current priority for improvement.
However, most of the faved submissions are commissioned works. While I do appreciate my watchers liking my characters, I personally believe that I should put in more effort in making my own content. This is by no means a discrediting towards the artists I've commissioned over the years. Rather, this is an incentive for me to improve myself as an artist rather than relying on others who're not always available.
My goal is to get into animation and by better at inking. The latter being the current priority for improvement.
Happy New Years!
General | Posted 10 years agoAnd to all a good night!
Merry Christmas and may the Force be with you!
General | Posted 10 years agoAfter finally getting up from a combination of seeing Star Wars on Christmas Eve and the following Christmas breakfast with family and friends, I would like to wish to you all a Merry Christmas!
Cards against Humanity 2: Judgement Day!
General | Posted 10 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnBoV2DvFHE&feature=youtu.be
Watch me choke to death mid intro!
Watch me choke to death mid intro!
Iron plays Cards Against Humanity!
General | Posted 10 years agoComes see how an innocent card game can take a turn for the worst!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIQzDBcUPE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIQzDBcUPE&feature=youtu.be
Here's our first FNAF video at Noble Nuts Media!
General | Posted 10 years agoCome check our new YouTube Channel!
General | Posted 10 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GisGhJTi3VI
This is the introductory video to the new YouTube Channel, Noble Nuts Media! I supplied the FNAF 1 footage. ^_^
This is the introductory video to the new YouTube Channel, Noble Nuts Media! I supplied the FNAF 1 footage. ^_^
(Boom!) Headshot giveaway!
General | Posted 11 years agoWant to get a free raffle entry? Swing by here for details!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15768459/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15768459/
You know that moment when...
General | Posted 11 years agoYou start faving something from one of your favorite artists but then you realized you faved a third of their gallery in a short amount of time?
Yeah, that happened...
Yeah, that happened...
ArPr Updates: Factions, ect, & a tale of two Kilas
General | Posted 11 years agoHere is the first ever update on the Argonaut Privateers Project being written by 
zucca, 
fleshballoon, and myself! These updates will fill the readers in on what's going on in the Project such as world building content, factions, races, and other facets without revealing plot sensitive material. Or at least try to, I'm looking at you, Zucca!
In the distant future, an intergalactic war escalated from a social rebellion to a major conflict between the invasive Alliance* and the vengeful Confed of Galohan. The ending aftermath resulted in the collapse of the Alliance and many planets are trying to rebuild. With a very limited, post-war military presence, a new age of privateering came about to protect merchant ships and travelers from the rising tide of pirates, raiders, and rogue states.
With the Alliance gone, many of the former planetary members sought assistance from a private military firm called the Clementine Security Company. After the planets had invested so much into the Company, the company had gotten so large that it became the government for the planets and filled the political vacuum. Thus, bringing forth the founding of the Clementine Judiciary, an ultra-libertarian coalition of planets controlled by an organization ran like a mafia of old.
Factions-
The Confed of Galohan:
The Confederation of Galohan, or the "Confed" as it is often informally called, started out as a cultural bond formed between the planets of Galohan and Earth. In the 2070s on Earth, many nations were on a collision course of another world war when resources became almost completely inaccessible due to natural disasters. As if sent on high, Galo researchers sent out to explore the stars shared their technology to help control the weather and prevented a conflict that would have destroyed at least 300 million lives. United in prosperity, Earth and Galohan formed their bond and created a union of culture and trade. This union continues to last for centuries and well into the current time of the Argonaut story. However, despite having such a lasting union, there were many detractors. These detractors consists of ultranationalists from Earth and those who believe in the racial philosophy where a society can only function by creating ethnically pure societies. While the True Bornists are a minority in terms of demographics, many conflicts often broke out between the Confed and the True Bornists. This lead to some planets being completely lost to Confed or the True Bornists being forced into exile.
The Clementine Judiciary:
After obtaining power from the former Alliance members and other planets seeking protection, the Judiciary purposely created a legal system that heavily goes against the totalitarian doctrine of the Alliance by creating a very open free market and very limited government involvement. It's speculated by many people that the new system was simply used to ease tensions between the former Alliance planets and the Confed. Others say that the system was intended to help ease the new government's responsibilities of serving its people and letting them handle their own problems. The latter theory later became more credible after the Judiciary passed the "Sanctioned Retribution" Act. The SRA allows the Judiciary citizen with the warrant from a judge to exact his or her retribution against an aggressor, such as vandals and those who perform in economic intimidation, by taking and/or destroying an equal amount of the aggressor's property. This lead to major businesses very leery of secretly doing underhanded actions out of fear of a rival business having the legal authority to commit structural demolition in retaliation.
The Private Sector:
The Private Sector is less of a faction and more of a meeting grounds in empty space for businesses.
The Age of Privateering-
Before the war, that Alliance planets attempted to rein in more control of their people and in response, people rebelled and formed their own groups. Many of these groups often took on the moniker of being "privateers" as they've attacked Alliance supply lines. This in turn had everyone refer to the rebellion as the Privateering War. Eventually, the privateers were slowly being overwhelmed by the Alliance and retreated at the then neutral space of the Confed. Fearing that the Confed was secretly supplying the privateers to push an ulterior agenda, the Alliance believed it was necessary to remove the Confed out of the equation immediately. The plan was to attack the Confed planet of Constantinople, the primary hiding area for privateers, by releasing a gas made from a mind altering drug called Cameron's Delight. Cameron's Delight, or CD for short, at first causes the mind to feel as though the person was going through genuine joy. But when the user goes into immediate withdrawals, the user becomes extremely violent all while thinking the user is in grave danger.
The intention of the Alliance plan was to force the Confed into being more focused on crowd control on a planetary scale and bar the privateers from ever using Constantinople as their secret supply depot. Tragically, the CD gas proved far too effective and often drove many of the victims into committing suicide attacks. To compound the problem to catastrophic proportions, the suicide attacks wasn't exclusively done by the average person but also the engineers of energy reactors who no longer saw a point in surviving. These engineers purposely had the reactors go into explosive meltdown, eventually causing the entire planet of Constantinople to become completely irradiated. The Confed immediately responded by declaring nuclear war against the Alliance, ultimately bringing the end to the Privateering War.
Both during the period prior to creation of the Judiciary and the present, pirates threatened merchant colonies, raiders enslaved unprepared colonies, and overzealous leaders of rogue states committed purges of colonies that have gotten too close. With the Confed still reconstructing from the Privateering War, many planets became desperate for help and called upon veteran privateers to act as emergency auxiliaries and guardians against those of ill intention.
Intergalactic Travel-
To make it possible for travelers to go across galaxies, travelers must rely one the use of Einstein-Rosenberg Bridges or "ERBs" for short. ERBs are created by forming an energy gate big enough for the ship to fit in. This process requires a massive chunk of energy to maintain the bridge and that the bridge *must* be big enough to fit the ship in. If a ship goes inside an ERB that is too small, the ship will instantaneously be forced into an indestructible tube which can destroy the ship completely. Another drawback for ERBs is their limited range. This can wildly vary depending on how much energy the ship can produce to maintain the bridge. On the plus side, digital data can easily be sent through an ERB without ever stressing the energy consumption.
A Tale of Two Kilas-
As some of you may know, Kila Sanchez, as shown here: http://iron-confederate.deviantart......etch-392136874 , was previously decided that she would not be included in the ARPR project. However, during the writing process of a story chapter, the writing team decided to reevaluate Kila to see if whether or not she would detract from the main story. Now, if Kila does get the role, some of you will be asking, isn't Kila in a story project called "2088?"
I'll answer this question by saying that the reason why Kila can be in two stories is because I'm using the clause called 'I can do whatever I want with my characters as I damn well please!' But seriously, the two Kilas are from two separate universes.
zucca, 
fleshballoon, and myself! These updates will fill the readers in on what's going on in the Project such as world building content, factions, races, and other facets without revealing plot sensitive material. Or at least try to, I'm looking at you, Zucca!In the distant future, an intergalactic war escalated from a social rebellion to a major conflict between the invasive Alliance* and the vengeful Confed of Galohan. The ending aftermath resulted in the collapse of the Alliance and many planets are trying to rebuild. With a very limited, post-war military presence, a new age of privateering came about to protect merchant ships and travelers from the rising tide of pirates, raiders, and rogue states.
With the Alliance gone, many of the former planetary members sought assistance from a private military firm called the Clementine Security Company. After the planets had invested so much into the Company, the company had gotten so large that it became the government for the planets and filled the political vacuum. Thus, bringing forth the founding of the Clementine Judiciary, an ultra-libertarian coalition of planets controlled by an organization ran like a mafia of old.
Factions-
The Confed of Galohan:
The Confederation of Galohan, or the "Confed" as it is often informally called, started out as a cultural bond formed between the planets of Galohan and Earth. In the 2070s on Earth, many nations were on a collision course of another world war when resources became almost completely inaccessible due to natural disasters. As if sent on high, Galo researchers sent out to explore the stars shared their technology to help control the weather and prevented a conflict that would have destroyed at least 300 million lives. United in prosperity, Earth and Galohan formed their bond and created a union of culture and trade. This union continues to last for centuries and well into the current time of the Argonaut story. However, despite having such a lasting union, there were many detractors. These detractors consists of ultranationalists from Earth and those who believe in the racial philosophy where a society can only function by creating ethnically pure societies. While the True Bornists are a minority in terms of demographics, many conflicts often broke out between the Confed and the True Bornists. This lead to some planets being completely lost to Confed or the True Bornists being forced into exile.
The Clementine Judiciary:
After obtaining power from the former Alliance members and other planets seeking protection, the Judiciary purposely created a legal system that heavily goes against the totalitarian doctrine of the Alliance by creating a very open free market and very limited government involvement. It's speculated by many people that the new system was simply used to ease tensions between the former Alliance planets and the Confed. Others say that the system was intended to help ease the new government's responsibilities of serving its people and letting them handle their own problems. The latter theory later became more credible after the Judiciary passed the "Sanctioned Retribution" Act. The SRA allows the Judiciary citizen with the warrant from a judge to exact his or her retribution against an aggressor, such as vandals and those who perform in economic intimidation, by taking and/or destroying an equal amount of the aggressor's property. This lead to major businesses very leery of secretly doing underhanded actions out of fear of a rival business having the legal authority to commit structural demolition in retaliation.
The Private Sector:
The Private Sector is less of a faction and more of a meeting grounds in empty space for businesses.
The Age of Privateering-
Before the war, that Alliance planets attempted to rein in more control of their people and in response, people rebelled and formed their own groups. Many of these groups often took on the moniker of being "privateers" as they've attacked Alliance supply lines. This in turn had everyone refer to the rebellion as the Privateering War. Eventually, the privateers were slowly being overwhelmed by the Alliance and retreated at the then neutral space of the Confed. Fearing that the Confed was secretly supplying the privateers to push an ulterior agenda, the Alliance believed it was necessary to remove the Confed out of the equation immediately. The plan was to attack the Confed planet of Constantinople, the primary hiding area for privateers, by releasing a gas made from a mind altering drug called Cameron's Delight. Cameron's Delight, or CD for short, at first causes the mind to feel as though the person was going through genuine joy. But when the user goes into immediate withdrawals, the user becomes extremely violent all while thinking the user is in grave danger.
The intention of the Alliance plan was to force the Confed into being more focused on crowd control on a planetary scale and bar the privateers from ever using Constantinople as their secret supply depot. Tragically, the CD gas proved far too effective and often drove many of the victims into committing suicide attacks. To compound the problem to catastrophic proportions, the suicide attacks wasn't exclusively done by the average person but also the engineers of energy reactors who no longer saw a point in surviving. These engineers purposely had the reactors go into explosive meltdown, eventually causing the entire planet of Constantinople to become completely irradiated. The Confed immediately responded by declaring nuclear war against the Alliance, ultimately bringing the end to the Privateering War.
Both during the period prior to creation of the Judiciary and the present, pirates threatened merchant colonies, raiders enslaved unprepared colonies, and overzealous leaders of rogue states committed purges of colonies that have gotten too close. With the Confed still reconstructing from the Privateering War, many planets became desperate for help and called upon veteran privateers to act as emergency auxiliaries and guardians against those of ill intention.
Intergalactic Travel-
To make it possible for travelers to go across galaxies, travelers must rely one the use of Einstein-Rosenberg Bridges or "ERBs" for short. ERBs are created by forming an energy gate big enough for the ship to fit in. This process requires a massive chunk of energy to maintain the bridge and that the bridge *must* be big enough to fit the ship in. If a ship goes inside an ERB that is too small, the ship will instantaneously be forced into an indestructible tube which can destroy the ship completely. Another drawback for ERBs is their limited range. This can wildly vary depending on how much energy the ship can produce to maintain the bridge. On the plus side, digital data can easily be sent through an ERB without ever stressing the energy consumption.
A Tale of Two Kilas-
As some of you may know, Kila Sanchez, as shown here: http://iron-confederate.deviantart......etch-392136874 , was previously decided that she would not be included in the ARPR project. However, during the writing process of a story chapter, the writing team decided to reevaluate Kila to see if whether or not she would detract from the main story. Now, if Kila does get the role, some of you will be asking, isn't Kila in a story project called "2088?"
I'll answer this question by saying that the reason why Kila can be in two stories is because I'm using the clause called 'I can do whatever I want with my characters as I damn well please!' But seriously, the two Kilas are from two separate universes.
