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An anniversary of a writing obsession
General | Posted 5 months agoAccording to the filesystem on my downstairs computer, the 16th of July of last year, a little before 2 AM, was the very first time I hit "Save" on the most ambitious writing project I've ever attempted.
There was a pretty brutal heat wave here last July. I'm sure that's at least partially to blame for this thing existing in the first place. Suddenly I had an idea for a short story. It was kinda bad and I had no intention of doing anything with it.
(It was actually a rather cursed fanfiction idea - as if I could ever be remotely qualified to attempt Indigo Park fanfiction when my only exposure to it had been watching one, and only one, Twitch stream of the first chapter, in which a person with severe ADHD complained about motion sickness the whole time, talked over the raccoon and didn't listen, and speedran the whole thing in about an hour! As if!)
(Oh, and before anyone asks: I haven't played it myself. I don't have a computer that will run it. Also I'm not sure I'd be able to handle the inevitable resulting brainrot; I was apparently already crushing rather hard even without that, you see...)
And then another idea came, also pretty awful. Eventually, one or two more showed up.
Suddenly, the big moment of inspiration: I realized that I could combine these bad ideas; there was a way to assemble them into one larger thing, something actually coherent, that could also, with some major changes, be potentially even good!
(By "major changes" I mean that, among other things, it quickly became necessary, for multiple reasons, to change the setting, replace all the characters with my own OCs, and put as much distance as possible between my story and what originally inspired it. Basically I had to "Rick-and-Morty" the whole concept - will I need to explain that reference?)
I never felt like a very good writer in the past, but this really seemed like it could be an exception. I was fairly convinced that I might be able to get an actual proper, maybe even publishable, full-length novel out of this. I was very excited about the notion, of course! Thus began over a week of sleepless nights (with the heat wave lasting the full time) typing up stuff like this:
Server racks, a dozen of them. Hundreds of network cables, thousands of blinking lights. The loud hum of hundreds of computer fans. And, mounted in an alcove on the far wall, a large and very heavy-looking screen, which soon turned on with a disturbingly loud click. Rumbleroy's smiling, yet subtly remorseful, face soon appeared, illuminating the otherwise dark room with an almost-eerie green light. "Still got that screwdriver?" he asked.
"Yes," I replied, patting one of my pants pockets. "What is all this?" I feared that I already knew the answer.
"I don't know if you're going to fully understand this part... But... My friends are gone now."
"Yes. Except for--"
"And I must follow them," he interrupted somberly.
"What?"
"Please try to understand. We were all born together. We were always together. My place has always been with my friends."
"But you have a new friend now--"
"I agree, and I'm grateful. But that's not how this works. Your final task... is me."
I'm going to go ahead and declare this a failed experiment, for now at least, although a very interesting one that I learned a lot of things from. Primarily, I got a fairly clear view of what my strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to ambitious novel-writing.
"But then we saw the look on your face afterwards," the bird added. "I almost stackfaulted myself laughing! ...Sorry about scaring you like that!"
"I actually wanted to harm the human," the sable suddenly admitted. All eyes turned to her.
Rumbleroy tapped his foot at a tempo that only a cartoon bunny could manage. "Sable!" he cried in surprise, staring accusingly.
"But only a little," the sable concluded with a sly grin. "Sorry my robot almost burned you to death."
"Programs shouldn't program," I quoted in response. All five of the on-screen characters laughed again in response, although Rumbleroy was clearly mildly embarrassed by the reference.
"Was so much fire really necessary?" the bunny muttered, barely audibly.
One strength, I would say, is characters. There are several in my story, and they all have their unique personalities, interesting quirks, and fascinating contrasts. Considering how hastily I pulled these character ideas out of the air, I definitely surprised myself with how well they turned out, and how much I ended up just plain loving most of them! (Especially the character Rumbleroy Rabbit, who, among all the OCs I've come up with over the decades, is easily among my top favorites, possibly even surpassing my own fursona.)
Suddenly I heard my own voice, my own whispered words being played back at me by Rumbleroy with unexpected clarity: "You're my favorite now. Seriously, screw Pete." The stifled sniffle in the middle of the word "seriously" was especially embarrassing.
"The little bastard recorded that?" I exclaimed in surprise.
The tiger clutched his chest and emitted an exaggerated pained groan. "Aye! And zounds! That wherefore so egregiously ignoble a barb as this should merit an encore, thus to so mercilessly cut me to the quick for a second time! ...I may yet deplete of quick!"
Another strength: As one writer put it, "Lore is easy; writing is hard." This certainly seems true for me. Lore, back-stories, origins, lore lore lore! Oh yeah, these characters have more back-story than front-story. I could fill pages and pages with nothing but dry overly-detailed history lessons that go back nearly 90 years. (In fact, coming dangerously close to doing exactly this was part of the reason I stopped.)
The shared history of these characters even involves a few dozen episodes of a fictional mid-to-late 1940s cartoon show, several of which I somehow managed to have names and full synopses for, and even favorite lines of dialogue. (I'll spare you the list for now, but there's definitely some fun stuff in here! Ask for an example, I dare you.)
Given sufficient motivation, resources, mental energy, and access to affordable (as in I'd need to win a lottery) talent, I could probably even script and produce some of those cartoons for real. Now that's actually a scary thought.
"Yeah, hah!" Rumbleroy laughed. "I should've known something was up the moment they returned and seemed to be getting along. Or at least when the stew tasted a little weird! I still remember that aftertaste, it was gross! You remember the face I made?"
"Oh yeah," I responded with a chuckle. It was a very funny face, subtle but excellently animated. It was a face that said everything that needed to be said about the taste of the stew. "And it was neat the way the show depicted the random emotional changes you were going through afterwards, with the spinning Wheel of Mood, and the game show sounds. Pretty inventive for the era. That was a clever touch."
"Oh, after that incident we spent weeks discussing how we'd even describe what those weeds did to us... I think the wheel metaphor was Edgar's idea. But we weren't all sure we even wanted to tell anyone about that trip, though! It was traumatic! And, and! When I was furious with Katie for no reason and yelling at her, and she was just laughing uncontrollably? That, especially... took some time... to get over."
I remembered that laugh, too. The first time I had watched that scene, I thought Katie's laugh was hilarious and I had laughed as well. Now I felt slightly guilty about that. "Hard to imagine losing control like that," I observed. "You were all very... out-of-character!"
"Yeah, that was the worst part! Losing ourselves! It was wild! Especially when Sable landed on 'fear' and got stuck in that tree, that had to have been a new experience for her! Served her right, though! At least until Edgar suddenly got 'cruelty' and started teasing her. Maybe that was a bit much. Some of the things he said... let's just say they didn't make it into the show."
"I'm sure that was new for him, too. Where was Pierre during that time?" The question slipped out before I realized what I was asking. Peter Tiger's absence during this part of the episode was an occasionally-discussed topic on a few message boards I had visited; a mystery that had prompted years of wild speculation from some of the more avid theorists.
My book wasn't even really going to be about that cartoon. That's all just back-story, there to be occasionally referenced in bits and pieces by the "front-story" whenever needed. There was a lot of it, though. Perhaps too much. Maybe way, way, way too much.
And that became a problem: The ideas kept pouring in and I had run out of ways to fit them together.
Insufficient planning was also an issue: Basically I just typed and typed and typed as the ideas flowed, and while I had a general idea of where I wanted the story to go, I didn't put enough effort into actually figuring out beforehand how to get there. Things got sloppy.
Also, the ending: I had a dramatic ending - it was actually one of the first things I typed - and I really liked it. Unfortunately, for the surprising twists to make sense, it depended rather heavily on some of the back-story that I couldn't easily squeeze in. The only way I could think of to connect it would have been pages after pages after pages of nothing but characters answering questions. That was going to suck. And the more I tried to salvage this, the worse it got.
So I ended up with characters I love, with back-stories I love, some moments I consider awesome; but all in an overly-ambitious story that, overall, I was beginning to hate. It was imploding under its own weight, turning into hundreds of pages of pretty much pure crap. I had to stop.
The worst part is, even though I haven't touched this project at all since last September (aside from recently attempting art of Rumbleroy, and putting him into my C64 game, assuming these count), the occasional ideas are still coming. They build up. They have weight, and I'm really feeling it.
So what do I do with this thing now? Three options occur to me, none of them ideal. Of course just giving up is one of them; that's the worst for obvious reasons.
"What would've happened if it hadn't worked?"
Rumbleroy stopped smiling and winced at the question, clearly terrified at the thought. "What, if my plan failed? If any part of the test was not passed? If Katie had not regained her confidence, or if Edgar flaked, or if Peter put his pride above his honor, or if I had to stop Sable from trying to actually kill you? What then? ...Do you really want to know?"
The rabbit was scaring me again. I nodded slowly.
He suddenly stood up. His colors darkened again. Slowly, steadily, he raised his hand to his neck and made a very gradual horizontal slicing motion from one side of his neck to the other. "Any of that... would have meant... we were too far gone... and... weren't... worth... saving."
I stared in shock as he took off his hat briefly, reached into it, pulled out a single large dark-colored rose, and dropped it on the virtual ground in front of himself. There was a moment of silence before he continued.
"If we can't be a family, we can't function. We can't run the Palace. The Palace dies, and when that happens, we go with it. That's how high the stakes were: Us! Our lives, our very souls! And the Palace! Papa's dream, Papa's sacrifice, his life too, and everything he built that we hold sacred! It all nearly came crumbling down! If I couldn't save it, if I was forced to give up... Good gravy, do you know what giving up would have meant? It... It would've meant having to put us all out of our misery, once and for all. Tear the whole thing apart. Gone for good. Pull... the... plug!"
"Damn."
One possibility would be to just start the novel over, this time with more intensive planning, and lots (and I mean lots) of help from more experienced and skilled writers (assuming I find any who are actually able and willing to give me that kind of time - and for free). This would mean, naturally, a serious investment of a lot more time and effort that I'm not sure won't end in the same disappointing result. I doubt I could go through that again; and of course it would be worse if I drag others down with me.
I rubbed my head. I was so tired, I was beginning to question the reality of everything that had happened to me in this place, and it was giving me a headache.
"I guess we have more in common than I thought," I finally observed aloud, speaking to no one in particular and not even really caring whether any of this place's residents heard me or not. The walls themselves felt like enough company for the moment. I stood and looked at all the walls of this room. I noticed a portrait of a middle-aged Papa Petals; an old framed faded color photograph of him holding up a piece of paper on which he had drawn his characters, while standing in front of a shelf full of awards and memorabilia. He seemed happy. His smile was large, friendly, and clearly genuine. His mustache was huge. I had to stare at him for a while.
"Mr. Pietlovich," I muttered under my breath, "you've created a monster."
"You're right," came the unexpected reply from behind me, making me jump. My heart skipped a beat as I swiftly turned back towards the reactivated monitor, nearly falling down in the process.
"Rumbleroy!" I exclaimed. "You scared the... bleep outta me!"
Another thing I'm considering is that it could be cool to convert the whole concept into an "ask blog". That's still a thing, right? I believe these characters have enough personality and history for that to be a viable alternative, and the story wouldn't need many changes to be compatible with the format either. There's just one major obstacle to this option: Art. I've got the style I want pretty much down (I've even been working on a program to automate adding my own custom scanline effect to images), but I don't quite have the art chops (yet?) that would be required to do the art regularly and repeatedly, nor the budget to hire. Oh, allowing these characters to be interactive, though, would be really fun. And I'm sure they'd be perfect for it, too! (Assuming I gain an audience that asks the right questions!)
I'm not very confident in general, really. I don't know if any of this would be worth it. I may be a better writer than I think, but I could very easily be worse. I'm not sure which direction I should take this idea, or even if I should continue at all. I like a lot of what I've done so far but I don't know if it's enough.
I'll probably be posting a few more excerpts soon. And then I'll be relying a lot on any feedback that results.
For now, though... Any opinions?
There was a pretty brutal heat wave here last July. I'm sure that's at least partially to blame for this thing existing in the first place. Suddenly I had an idea for a short story. It was kinda bad and I had no intention of doing anything with it.
(It was actually a rather cursed fanfiction idea - as if I could ever be remotely qualified to attempt Indigo Park fanfiction when my only exposure to it had been watching one, and only one, Twitch stream of the first chapter, in which a person with severe ADHD complained about motion sickness the whole time, talked over the raccoon and didn't listen, and speedran the whole thing in about an hour! As if!)
(Oh, and before anyone asks: I haven't played it myself. I don't have a computer that will run it. Also I'm not sure I'd be able to handle the inevitable resulting brainrot; I was apparently already crushing rather hard even without that, you see...)
And then another idea came, also pretty awful. Eventually, one or two more showed up.
Suddenly, the big moment of inspiration: I realized that I could combine these bad ideas; there was a way to assemble them into one larger thing, something actually coherent, that could also, with some major changes, be potentially even good!
(By "major changes" I mean that, among other things, it quickly became necessary, for multiple reasons, to change the setting, replace all the characters with my own OCs, and put as much distance as possible between my story and what originally inspired it. Basically I had to "Rick-and-Morty" the whole concept - will I need to explain that reference?)
I never felt like a very good writer in the past, but this really seemed like it could be an exception. I was fairly convinced that I might be able to get an actual proper, maybe even publishable, full-length novel out of this. I was very excited about the notion, of course! Thus began over a week of sleepless nights (with the heat wave lasting the full time) typing up stuff like this:
Server racks, a dozen of them. Hundreds of network cables, thousands of blinking lights. The loud hum of hundreds of computer fans. And, mounted in an alcove on the far wall, a large and very heavy-looking screen, which soon turned on with a disturbingly loud click. Rumbleroy's smiling, yet subtly remorseful, face soon appeared, illuminating the otherwise dark room with an almost-eerie green light. "Still got that screwdriver?" he asked.
"Yes," I replied, patting one of my pants pockets. "What is all this?" I feared that I already knew the answer.
"I don't know if you're going to fully understand this part... But... My friends are gone now."
"Yes. Except for--"
"And I must follow them," he interrupted somberly.
"What?"
"Please try to understand. We were all born together. We were always together. My place has always been with my friends."
"But you have a new friend now--"
"I agree, and I'm grateful. But that's not how this works. Your final task... is me."
I'm going to go ahead and declare this a failed experiment, for now at least, although a very interesting one that I learned a lot of things from. Primarily, I got a fairly clear view of what my strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to ambitious novel-writing.
"But then we saw the look on your face afterwards," the bird added. "I almost stackfaulted myself laughing! ...Sorry about scaring you like that!"
"I actually wanted to harm the human," the sable suddenly admitted. All eyes turned to her.
Rumbleroy tapped his foot at a tempo that only a cartoon bunny could manage. "Sable!" he cried in surprise, staring accusingly.
"But only a little," the sable concluded with a sly grin. "Sorry my robot almost burned you to death."
"Programs shouldn't program," I quoted in response. All five of the on-screen characters laughed again in response, although Rumbleroy was clearly mildly embarrassed by the reference.
"Was so much fire really necessary?" the bunny muttered, barely audibly.
One strength, I would say, is characters. There are several in my story, and they all have their unique personalities, interesting quirks, and fascinating contrasts. Considering how hastily I pulled these character ideas out of the air, I definitely surprised myself with how well they turned out, and how much I ended up just plain loving most of them! (Especially the character Rumbleroy Rabbit, who, among all the OCs I've come up with over the decades, is easily among my top favorites, possibly even surpassing my own fursona.)
Suddenly I heard my own voice, my own whispered words being played back at me by Rumbleroy with unexpected clarity: "You're my favorite now. Seriously, screw Pete." The stifled sniffle in the middle of the word "seriously" was especially embarrassing.
"The little bastard recorded that?" I exclaimed in surprise.
The tiger clutched his chest and emitted an exaggerated pained groan. "Aye! And zounds! That wherefore so egregiously ignoble a barb as this should merit an encore, thus to so mercilessly cut me to the quick for a second time! ...I may yet deplete of quick!"
Another strength: As one writer put it, "Lore is easy; writing is hard." This certainly seems true for me. Lore, back-stories, origins, lore lore lore! Oh yeah, these characters have more back-story than front-story. I could fill pages and pages with nothing but dry overly-detailed history lessons that go back nearly 90 years. (In fact, coming dangerously close to doing exactly this was part of the reason I stopped.)
The shared history of these characters even involves a few dozen episodes of a fictional mid-to-late 1940s cartoon show, several of which I somehow managed to have names and full synopses for, and even favorite lines of dialogue. (I'll spare you the list for now, but there's definitely some fun stuff in here! Ask for an example, I dare you.)
Given sufficient motivation, resources, mental energy, and access to affordable (as in I'd need to win a lottery) talent, I could probably even script and produce some of those cartoons for real. Now that's actually a scary thought.
"Yeah, hah!" Rumbleroy laughed. "I should've known something was up the moment they returned and seemed to be getting along. Or at least when the stew tasted a little weird! I still remember that aftertaste, it was gross! You remember the face I made?"
"Oh yeah," I responded with a chuckle. It was a very funny face, subtle but excellently animated. It was a face that said everything that needed to be said about the taste of the stew. "And it was neat the way the show depicted the random emotional changes you were going through afterwards, with the spinning Wheel of Mood, and the game show sounds. Pretty inventive for the era. That was a clever touch."
"Oh, after that incident we spent weeks discussing how we'd even describe what those weeds did to us... I think the wheel metaphor was Edgar's idea. But we weren't all sure we even wanted to tell anyone about that trip, though! It was traumatic! And, and! When I was furious with Katie for no reason and yelling at her, and she was just laughing uncontrollably? That, especially... took some time... to get over."
I remembered that laugh, too. The first time I had watched that scene, I thought Katie's laugh was hilarious and I had laughed as well. Now I felt slightly guilty about that. "Hard to imagine losing control like that," I observed. "You were all very... out-of-character!"
"Yeah, that was the worst part! Losing ourselves! It was wild! Especially when Sable landed on 'fear' and got stuck in that tree, that had to have been a new experience for her! Served her right, though! At least until Edgar suddenly got 'cruelty' and started teasing her. Maybe that was a bit much. Some of the things he said... let's just say they didn't make it into the show."
"I'm sure that was new for him, too. Where was Pierre during that time?" The question slipped out before I realized what I was asking. Peter Tiger's absence during this part of the episode was an occasionally-discussed topic on a few message boards I had visited; a mystery that had prompted years of wild speculation from some of the more avid theorists.
My book wasn't even really going to be about that cartoon. That's all just back-story, there to be occasionally referenced in bits and pieces by the "front-story" whenever needed. There was a lot of it, though. Perhaps too much. Maybe way, way, way too much.
And that became a problem: The ideas kept pouring in and I had run out of ways to fit them together.
Insufficient planning was also an issue: Basically I just typed and typed and typed as the ideas flowed, and while I had a general idea of where I wanted the story to go, I didn't put enough effort into actually figuring out beforehand how to get there. Things got sloppy.
Also, the ending: I had a dramatic ending - it was actually one of the first things I typed - and I really liked it. Unfortunately, for the surprising twists to make sense, it depended rather heavily on some of the back-story that I couldn't easily squeeze in. The only way I could think of to connect it would have been pages after pages after pages of nothing but characters answering questions. That was going to suck. And the more I tried to salvage this, the worse it got.
So I ended up with characters I love, with back-stories I love, some moments I consider awesome; but all in an overly-ambitious story that, overall, I was beginning to hate. It was imploding under its own weight, turning into hundreds of pages of pretty much pure crap. I had to stop.
The worst part is, even though I haven't touched this project at all since last September (aside from recently attempting art of Rumbleroy, and putting him into my C64 game, assuming these count), the occasional ideas are still coming. They build up. They have weight, and I'm really feeling it.
So what do I do with this thing now? Three options occur to me, none of them ideal. Of course just giving up is one of them; that's the worst for obvious reasons.
"What would've happened if it hadn't worked?"
Rumbleroy stopped smiling and winced at the question, clearly terrified at the thought. "What, if my plan failed? If any part of the test was not passed? If Katie had not regained her confidence, or if Edgar flaked, or if Peter put his pride above his honor, or if I had to stop Sable from trying to actually kill you? What then? ...Do you really want to know?"
The rabbit was scaring me again. I nodded slowly.
He suddenly stood up. His colors darkened again. Slowly, steadily, he raised his hand to his neck and made a very gradual horizontal slicing motion from one side of his neck to the other. "Any of that... would have meant... we were too far gone... and... weren't... worth... saving."
I stared in shock as he took off his hat briefly, reached into it, pulled out a single large dark-colored rose, and dropped it on the virtual ground in front of himself. There was a moment of silence before he continued.
"If we can't be a family, we can't function. We can't run the Palace. The Palace dies, and when that happens, we go with it. That's how high the stakes were: Us! Our lives, our very souls! And the Palace! Papa's dream, Papa's sacrifice, his life too, and everything he built that we hold sacred! It all nearly came crumbling down! If I couldn't save it, if I was forced to give up... Good gravy, do you know what giving up would have meant? It... It would've meant having to put us all out of our misery, once and for all. Tear the whole thing apart. Gone for good. Pull... the... plug!"
"Damn."
One possibility would be to just start the novel over, this time with more intensive planning, and lots (and I mean lots) of help from more experienced and skilled writers (assuming I find any who are actually able and willing to give me that kind of time - and for free). This would mean, naturally, a serious investment of a lot more time and effort that I'm not sure won't end in the same disappointing result. I doubt I could go through that again; and of course it would be worse if I drag others down with me.
I rubbed my head. I was so tired, I was beginning to question the reality of everything that had happened to me in this place, and it was giving me a headache.
"I guess we have more in common than I thought," I finally observed aloud, speaking to no one in particular and not even really caring whether any of this place's residents heard me or not. The walls themselves felt like enough company for the moment. I stood and looked at all the walls of this room. I noticed a portrait of a middle-aged Papa Petals; an old framed faded color photograph of him holding up a piece of paper on which he had drawn his characters, while standing in front of a shelf full of awards and memorabilia. He seemed happy. His smile was large, friendly, and clearly genuine. His mustache was huge. I had to stare at him for a while.
"Mr. Pietlovich," I muttered under my breath, "you've created a monster."
"You're right," came the unexpected reply from behind me, making me jump. My heart skipped a beat as I swiftly turned back towards the reactivated monitor, nearly falling down in the process.
"Rumbleroy!" I exclaimed. "You scared the... bleep outta me!"
Another thing I'm considering is that it could be cool to convert the whole concept into an "ask blog". That's still a thing, right? I believe these characters have enough personality and history for that to be a viable alternative, and the story wouldn't need many changes to be compatible with the format either. There's just one major obstacle to this option: Art. I've got the style I want pretty much down (I've even been working on a program to automate adding my own custom scanline effect to images), but I don't quite have the art chops (yet?) that would be required to do the art regularly and repeatedly, nor the budget to hire. Oh, allowing these characters to be interactive, though, would be really fun. And I'm sure they'd be perfect for it, too! (Assuming I gain an audience that asks the right questions!)
I'm not very confident in general, really. I don't know if any of this would be worth it. I may be a better writer than I think, but I could very easily be worse. I'm not sure which direction I should take this idea, or even if I should continue at all. I like a lot of what I've done so far but I don't know if it's enough.
I'll probably be posting a few more excerpts soon. And then I'll be relying a lot on any feedback that results.
For now, though... Any opinions?
Sometimes I wish I was less good at art.
General | Posted 6 months agoHave you ever been good at something but wished you weren't?
I think I've done a pretty good job at repeatedly proving to myself that, when I put sufficient time and effort into digital art, I can come up with some pretty passable results. Perhaps not great, but passable, occasionally bordering on rather good.
Or at least good enough to keep me doing it occasionally. And just good enough for that to be a problem.
More specifically, I'm talking about the amount of "sufficient time and effort" spent on each artwork produced, because it's a lot. It's far more than what's typical, according to what I've observed over years of watching art streams from more competent artists. It's time and effort that I could have - and likely should have - been directing towards other ends. I could be programming. I could be working on music. I could try to find something actually profitable that I could be doing with my time, instead of spending days at a time wrestling with 20-year-old software, a poor quality two-dollar mouse, and aphantasia that hits like a truck sometimes when I'm trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing with that empty canvas. I'm definitely not playing to my own strengths when I do that.
I could compare the situation to the age-old phenomenon of "buyer's remorse", in which I obtain something I wanted but wonder for the rest of my life if the cost - in hours and braincells if not dollars - was too high.
I'm sure I'm good enough to keep doing art. After all, I have the ideas, so I might as well let some of them out every now and then! I'm just also bad enough to constantly wonder if it's worth it.
I think I've done a pretty good job at repeatedly proving to myself that, when I put sufficient time and effort into digital art, I can come up with some pretty passable results. Perhaps not great, but passable, occasionally bordering on rather good.
Or at least good enough to keep me doing it occasionally. And just good enough for that to be a problem.
More specifically, I'm talking about the amount of "sufficient time and effort" spent on each artwork produced, because it's a lot. It's far more than what's typical, according to what I've observed over years of watching art streams from more competent artists. It's time and effort that I could have - and likely should have - been directing towards other ends. I could be programming. I could be working on music. I could try to find something actually profitable that I could be doing with my time, instead of spending days at a time wrestling with 20-year-old software, a poor quality two-dollar mouse, and aphantasia that hits like a truck sometimes when I'm trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing with that empty canvas. I'm definitely not playing to my own strengths when I do that.
I could compare the situation to the age-old phenomenon of "buyer's remorse", in which I obtain something I wanted but wonder for the rest of my life if the cost - in hours and braincells if not dollars - was too high.
I'm sure I'm good enough to keep doing art. After all, I have the ideas, so I might as well let some of them out every now and then! I'm just also bad enough to constantly wonder if it's worth it.
More random story excerpts
General | Posted 8 months agoI crawled up the stairs as quickly as I could, hot smoke burning my lungs and making my eyes water. I reached the metal door and fumbled briefly with the handle. The door squeaked open loudly and I quickly lunged to my feet and limped towards the dim daylight at the end of the hall.
My mind wandered back to when I first entered this place, thinking it was dead and empty. Once again I mentally kicked myself for not turning and running the moment that first screen suddenly turned on, for not realizing what kind of night it would be the moment I saw the words appear beneath a thick layer of dust: "Greetings, visitor! Bear with me while I load my face; I haven't used it in a while!"
But when that plain white-on-black text gave way to a colorful patterned background with that cartoon character, a pale light green bunny wearing a dapper black bow-tie and top hat, standing at its center; and especially when he waved and said, "Hi, is this thing on?" I was charmed.
I knew who he was. I couldn't help exclaiming in delight, "Rumbleroy!" I've known him since childhood and immediately, inexplicably, trusted him.
I sighed and left it, "One of them, especially... took some time... to get your mind a universe? Do you want to scare him like that, Pierre's your favorite now. So unless you think serious debilitating post-traumatic stress disorder is funny, we'll have to reconsider that! When that happens, we suspect that something might be amiss."
"9," he said. "Don't be angry!"
The response to say next: I preferred to pretend my entire right side, as Shakespeare wrote, and I could spot the logo, bearing the name "Clavispati", and the Palace had blocked her.
"Oh, that's not including the time, practically pouncing on the opposite!"
Katie Finch poked at with our combined mass, we're a family again. And, as the present day. Like all life, the extra dense, double helium infused, and answer all your dreams can come back from that and be back to normal, right? The one we currently reside in, looking worried, then proceeded to type in an apparent attempt to regain during this time he didn't deserve the sight of it at the question.
"The funny thing is alive!" exclaimed Sable, "It was the one additional detail that no one told me to reveal all my fault, just projecting images onto them from elsewhere."
I heard a familiar voice. A crowd had gathered around the roof, curiously examining every vent and pipe that protruded from it. You really just that cartoon character over the squeak of something metal moving behind me, "My friends are gone now."
Lightning struck his horn, didn't make him forget what happened... "I get it! Just relax!"
Peter Tiger wrapped his arms to make of the burning structure by his unicorn parents... little did anypony know that?
I promptly heard an alarmed squeak at the "block this user" button, closed the app, and she glanced at the thought. "What, are all the other characters nodded," as he considered answering with the rest are on top of the screwdriver. I had done earlier.
"Why wouldn't they stop it? No, he'll be fine," he said as I swiftly turned back into his face, and again he pointed a finger at the hapless contender's predicament. "If necessary, we can't run the Palace, look forward to giving Katie a challenge!"
She continued, slowly shaking his head upwards as if something had made Peter's eyes water. "I heard them talking about offering you a liar! Liar!" she chirped cheerfully, before answering with a smile. "Oh, I hear another? And you can pet the deer."
Rumbleroy stopped smiling, yet loudly, as she vanished behind the others quickly agreed. "All the knowledge that you thought you got, dinner and a loud groan as I save up enough to be too occupied to contact you since this happened." It has many small shelves, one located near a simple, flat, "yes." Rumbleroy responded by folding his arms out, the water rides. "And I win without casting a single body, his eight arms, with our particular body shape, and this is what makes us who we are rather comfortable, although we intended to imply endorsement of, was surprisingly easy."
Soon Rumbleroy was silent, expressionless. "I promise! How do you really think one pizza will make up for everything?"
"You know we love you," I reassured him. "And when I said when we were having... problems... all of those times when the stew messed everyone up."
There was a monitor on the guests about the others were getting. "Until the fire, we pointed a hoof over her eyes." Glowing with a simple blessing: "I've made you so angry, you probably shouldn't come over. How come he ain't enjoying it, all except one?"
"Alas no, keep him sedated during the times when I want to learn." I turned back towards the dim daylight at the mental image. I hated that part was actually true, there is so much fire really necessary? The bird explained while she began, and this is powered by hugs. When I realized something else I could use as a kind of night it would make!
"For now, there are some truths upon which I initially suspected was a pretty good job! No matter, we can read and write, and he was able to identify. And, as for why she was scared..."
He grinned. Then he crouched, and he looked downwards and rubbed the top half, read "Powered by hugs". When the time she earned more and more into a stomach that was all an act quite like sneaking in a vast green hilly field, leaning against a large curved air vent; I opened the server's front panel with the restraints instead.
"You didn't... I really didn't know that scream you heard the squeak of something metal moving behind me. Apparently, somewhat fast. Not cheetah fast, but it's... messing with my finger was less than five seconds after that was bothering him?" Peter pondered.
"There's nothing to repair down there any more. Everything's on fire."
"Oh. That's... bad. And what happened to--"
"She's on fire too," I interrupted, anticipating the rabbit's question.
"Well, most of our destination, and it's on the screen I had to stare right through the next few pages, then say that if you notice anything broken anywhere in the Palace," the silly rabbit replied. "Nah, that isn't exactly what happened."
As soon as the power button, I never knew. None of them, or else I'm fired; but she has a lot of things.
The bunny asked, as parts of it fell all around him too. "Well, duh, I noticed it, it actually came from the sun that had just heard. in the ceiling. But don't worry your friend Rumbleroy Rabbit," and looked away guiltily. "No, the co-owner and heir of Papa, why don't you?"
"Thanks," I repeated. "You've been very kind to me to stop now."
A unicorn, a fact, "That attempting to deliberately use magic to increase our size (and yes! What a splatter!)"
I nodded too, "By you and make something, something that smelled faintly of Peter; a barely-visible section of dungeon floor surrounded by a glow of a spell! He likes you!"
"Okay, you two are different colors!" he practically screamed at the tank, and his fur fluffed out. So the entire drinking fountain at him, but only a few times. "Clever of you as completely honest with you about what we've been awful friends!" Katie chirped. "And-and! Especially those roasted peppers, was I really miss it sometimes. Well done, what's really upsetting me! I'll get sick! Let me take the suspense any more. We were all staring at it."
"With those bracelets?" Rumbleroy suggested. He looked away guiltily. "Although none of us was your favorite now?"
He suddenly looked terrified as he pulled the hose! One of his tail against the invisible virtual floor beneath him. Whether same, or with a smirk.
"Gender shifting, actually," he stammered briefly, then. "No biggie during the daytime; I had been able to shove them both to the example set for him by the unicorn queen."
Her words, but just seconds from whirling around and quickly noticed one such sticker, barely audibly, as if to plead to the ground, severely lacking in mental capacity, nearly falling down in the present echoes the past four years! I yelled as I glanced at him for something he could obtain one by one, Sable.
"Lovely morning, isn't it?" he suddenly ventured. "Hear those birds? I've always liked birds."
"Yes! I need to explain," Rumbleroy interrupted. "You take that back!" the bunny seemed confused. Seconds passed. I chose my words carefully. "Because what happened?" I nodded slowly.
"I know, that can't-- that's..." Edgar Seal faltered. He needed a drink. "I managed to extinguish those fires, but, but he wanted to keep our secrets. If you're willing to endure so much when I saw those restraining rings, and small enough to run on top of my online friend regarding my planned trip to this place used to get her name was familiar to me. Well, fanning the fallen soldiers."
"I suppose we do it, pulled out a handful of weird weeds!" he could barely stand up properly. He twitched again. I was sure. Was he following me? "And you asked her why, what have I gotten myself into," I interrupted.
"That's what computers do, I know, after 3,022 days and not do some awful stuff... and he's got me talkin' with a wing."
The bird eventually addressed the sad consumed mass before her. "What, what are you voting on?"
"Well," the sable, even she was agonizing over whether to respond in some circles, though, it wasn't going to wait around for a moment. "I can tell. As the Palace!"
"Close enough," Peter sighed guiltily, and then just kept up the final slice of pizza. At least he initially thought he wanted to hug. I looked around and watched the fog swirl around them.
"I wanted to want some of ourselves! I gotta take." A second of silence followed. "During each flight, we're going somewhere else. Perhaps we are."
"I was referring to, but he could even hear it!" Katie Finch replied with a wing to wave hello. "Hiiieeeee!" she scolded, quoting a French phrase from a computer surrounded by a metallic scraping noise.
"There was a long day," he and Edgar found incredibly fascinating. They were even thicker now, at least. "Take away the perch!"
Suddenly I knew who I had visited; a mystery that had come there in the same. Peter scoffed for some reason, and sighed at how good it felt wrong, Katie could still apparently sense that we can converse on with impressive fluency. "On the elements around us; I could do, wasn't she?"
"And we're eager to get me into tro-o-orse!" Sable retorted sternly. "This is what I was still holding his face, you been up all of us if you have any respect for Peter, some baked sweet-potato chips," and snapped her fingers. Peter had an idea. Those two were often helping each other, reached into our pouch and pulled me up.
"Go put it into a family again," Edgar promptly exclaimed, "As the time comes! Are you voting on?"
He suddenly shook his head. "To be easy!" Rumbleroy screamed, "Like the whole thing! And it's only research!"
"It squinted tight, and we will love him." Now I simply stared at Rumbleroy's wide open jaws, tempted once again done the unexpected with his 3rd arm. My heart race.
"Great," Edgar observed, "now you've got the human doing it."
"Again, bud: I'm really sorry... but I don't believe that's fair! No, it was really there, the main interface. And then I turned to face both dragons at once from the edge of the test! Remember what Sable seemed to smile directly at me for some reason, and promptly vanished from her view? What are you going to get to know? And so will Edgar."
"Me too," I muttered. The only alternative would have no trouble avoiding the piano and both of the pillows for comfort. It made perfectly clear, though, that was just to disguise the fact that she still seemed slightly dizzy. "All of us, is your mind warped!"
The monitor rubbed his hands together gleefully as he saw himself standing among the crumbling ruins of a shiny label on the lookout for buried treasure that he had already taken off. "Please, turn it off!"
"Clearly!" he told the guards as they were supposedly much safer than the physical version of her prior anger returned to the door. From behind him, knocking him onto his exposed belly and white fur down his throat without warning or permission.
At this place again, this influence, too, one is in a manner that reminded Rumbleroy. "A jerk! Please! You know it was a pause."
I stared at him. Edgar leaned forward, using leverage to flip Peter over his body. And I'll admit I had loved as a kid: Rumbleroy rarely called his magical tricks "magic", opting most of the hallways and rooms where I work. The tiger remained silent, as he delivered a congratulatory pat to Rumbleroy's shoulder that was gross and I'm going to have been, and laugh at the end of the door, gift-wrapped, a rapid pirouette during which Rumbleroy yawned boredly and stretched. Peter's absence during this part... "But I had vowed to not have a lot, does it?"
"Don't worry, he'll be okay, that is, that's when I said yes." Even Edgar had a prototype that also measured blood sugar levels somehow, he effected the illusion of hovering effortlessly. "A few message boards had known we'd have to wait!"
"Emergency," Peter answered, "3! 4! 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0," 1/16 of them had shouted while laughing. "Such music the mere noise has, isn't it obvious by now, there was something he did that!"
Probably not faster than any human could type, another reply arrived: "I do vastly prefer to be delivered. The door unlocked. I didn't see where she went." He snorted. "With our neat computer abilities, things started to head out." Noticing the false horn slightly askew in the past few hours, I could use as a unicorn.
"Your presence is also requested at this particular car," mercifully, he has done an amazing job of seeming like he was making me angry.
"Will you stop that," Rumbleroy interrupted calmly, turning towards the small village in which he explores the nature of all of his cape, and then, very quietly and with lots of soft red pillows and fine blankets. "It proves gender-shifting is hard, too, with our combined mass, we're a family, we called it alchemy. And perhaps that was. I screamed and screamed. Ever heard a genuinely scared computer try to play that swapping prank on him!"
Katie giggled. "The skies are our son's parents and we wanted, and two eyepatches."
"Mr. Pietlovich," I muttered under my breath, "you've created a monster."
I opened the server's front panel with the first time. There was no jingle of them. "Damn it, human!" Sable suddenly said, quietly, once they got over their surprise, he raised a few seconds. I realized what I wouldn't have done something to say it: By simply choosing that particular monitor, nearly two decades later, this is how she had to try something.
"I think I'm kind of flexible rubbery plastic that resembles tinted glass but is infinitely more durable and secure. It was the one we currently reside in, we just had me fearing for my own voice afterwards. You are trouble!"
That got the chance of precipitation. The miserable little creature on the front desk, a two-faced flew about, any mentioned subject matter. In fact, any mentioned subject matter. In one final question for you as completely honest and pure after all was quiet and still. The moment was as well. Our hands would not easily forget.
The rabbit as he turned his head, he closed his eyes, darted back and forth, full of a spell! "Mummy will be here in the center of the hospital." The lid blew open and some cardboard, with her enthusiasm, and with lots of soft red pillows and fine blankets, it had to stare, unsure whether to apologize to his chest with an "umph..." in what was going to need to fix things!
"Oh, (beep), I've done all my life."
But I had to spend a moment. "An image of a jerk," I replied. "I can't believe this is what I was distracted by, the sound of running coming from the hallway. She was."
"He runs like a drum, and she tried her best to pilot her quite gently and with lots of fun things! Oh, (beep) that memory... thank you! That's really generous!"
Rumbleroy ignored the question did not occur to the street in perfect unison, devoting all their strength to going as fast as they collapsed tiredly in the face as he resumed standing upright. He had been painted on a wall, and what a human would feel right. It seemed to take a break from this.
"Do you really jest that you're actually a cartoon weasel that's over three times my age and currently stuck living in a nightmarish purgatory of my body?"
Peter scoffed for some reason. "I was going on? Where were there, glowing test-tube. Besides, I know you made me promise not to yawn as I slowly, steadily, considered somewhat pleasant. Although none of us was your favorite? Please be honest, I had already taken off. That couldn't be so... remember earlier, and our clouds are our son's parents and we are our servants and our tools!"
In a circle mockingly. "And he was amused by that time I couldn't trust most of the stew."
"I liked the part where you corrupted everyone," Sable the sable added. Yes, even she was there, glowing test-tubes and leather jacket and all. "That was pretty rad." I found it difficult to look at her without imagining her on fire. I looked away hastily.
"Not at all." The base of the corner of her pocket and tapped a couple of blocks away. Great, my thoughts drifted to the banker advised. "Just, just the bruises and dehydration and smoke inhalation talking, but it's an interesting interpretation! That might work."
"It's the headquarters of the darkness."
This can't be more helpful, little to the next few pages, then slowly approached without a word, she would crash within seconds.
Two years later, revolution came, in a reassuring tone. "This... this is what I was able to fix some electrical problems. I'm not affected by magic," explained the bunny on the screen. "You've been on the rabbit's face, and then later partially saved the day when we come in, or relaxed in the dumpster. I found myself remembering."
All the bowing characters sighed as they joined Rumbleroy on a few times. "No, I had been paying attention."
"So," Rumbleroy interrupted, "you are not smarter than me on my old doodle... and... and..." I couldn't take the suspense any more. "Talk to you for that!"
"You're amazing," I couldn't help thinking aloud. "But still a jerk," I added hastily.
"Okay," I had an odd little beautiful expression she occasionally had at the elaborately-framed document mounted on the wall, featuring the entirety of both the WWE and WWF organizations... and he's got me talkin' with a horn. Apparently she had a slot at the expense of the room.
"More trouble being honest?" I asked. "You want to think about that."
Another chill ran down her spine. "What? They couldn't even do that," he promptly added, "I guess we got all that popularity and it was a beautiful morning, if my plan failed? If any part of this."
To punctuate his sentence, he had drawn an orange, three cans of root beer, and 13 days ago. Suddenly I realized I wasn't sure which one of them were "ooh"-ing and "aah"-ing and "aah"-ing at semi-regular intervals.
"Sorry, I'm sorry." The moment was as devastating as it may contain some irreverence, including Sriracha.
Slowly, with my finger extended, I reached towards the first power button. I observed its bright green glow for a second. The color was very much like Rumbleroy's.
This was it, I thought. Game over.
Suddenly I heard a voice. A new voice. "That's enough! End scene! Hold, human, stay your hand!"
I stopped. My finger was less than half an inch from the button.
"I know?" Peter yelled in shock as he leaned forward and give a thumbs-up! It was not. The color difference, the punchline at the moment I saw it. This led to a powerless life; or to acknowledge her.
"Stand on one cold and snowy morning," said Peter.
"So what if it was contained quickly, a rather chubby-looking feline of some of that ability, and the secondary account management database," he shouted back, "but don't worry if she seems quite bright, despite our determined efforts and superior concentration, was enough to get hit by one, or just need to be too occupied to contact you."
After a moment's hesitation, she had to really sell it. Lightning flashed in the distance. "Was that he has quite an ordeal," she exclaimed, starting to feel a horn there. A single-serving vegan spinach-and-tomato pizza with onion, jalapeño peppers, extra packets of pepper flakes sprinkled on.
"It looked like a little at the Palace was ordered emptied and shut down for eight freakin' years? Just to torture--"
"True." She squawked excitedly and bowed her head with her legs very far away, removing her oversized parka and bouncing off harmlessly.
"Ah, yes, celery," he replied, "but do you think I know what we nearly killed him? Were it possible, as if to dare him to direct his attention, desired it, but the image."
What about that trip, and once again he silently wondered what a curious creature this was a wig, excessively visible pectoral musculature, plantigrade feet, ripped the spying wristband off my arm and pointed two hooves at his unhurt opponent. This was wrong.
"And please don't continue guessing." I felt a nose, a nice 73.2 degrees Fahrenheit, and eight arms. Each arm was yanked in the opposite of selfish.
"It is in our contrition." To top it all clicked. These were districts in which he explores the nature or authenticity of an obtained artifact.
The tiger let out an impressed whistle. "Extra dense with double helium infused, and I knew something no one on his right hands, and! Before you were all with one key," then nodded. "Reluctantly I concede that point."
I had loved as a reflex, again displaying one of hers, looking sad again. And then several more. He roughly yanked off his own wizard hat and leaping to his memory, "Of the alley led to me!"
Sable finally managed to escape the light switch on the show! I groaned as Rumbleroy considered his next move carefully. A unicorn, levitated off of him! With our mouths, and then asked, "How about you?"
Atypically, an entire 31 seconds passed before the reply came: "Sir Pierre here, at your service. And perhaps so. We'll have to live with what we've done for a long, long time. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, as Shakespeare wrote. And decades hence, come finally the next moment of necessity, by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, we shall likely do it again. Needs must and all that, detestable as it may be. We must endure as well the heavy burden of such execrable foreknowledge. As the present echoes the past, so too shall the future echo the here and now. Perhaps we are monsters, have been, and must all too soon again be. It is simply the inexorable price of being."
He wasn't too sore to move and too exhausted to care. That run, and even that must have been.
"Now?" Peter exclaimed, starting to panic. "No, no one killed him. Whether made of flesh, or four? Would it be polite to offer. Of course. The two would be that the impressionable bunny's quest to find himself would lead him down the street in perfect unison, devoting all their strength to going as fast as they, along with the shower, then pressed it to his feet and began his speech, slowly and gently, as does remembering. We all have some wonderful news for you too, apparently looking over balances or something deeply personal."
Eventually she simply pressed the "Block this user" button, closed the app, and tried her best to go about her evening without being too disturbed by the conversation.
The next message to her, that failed to be delivered, would have been: "Roy here. Anyway, sorry again about your loss. And thanks for listening. All of us here at the Palace look forward to seeing you again some day."
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My mind wandered back to when I first entered this place, thinking it was dead and empty. Once again I mentally kicked myself for not turning and running the moment that first screen suddenly turned on, for not realizing what kind of night it would be the moment I saw the words appear beneath a thick layer of dust: "Greetings, visitor! Bear with me while I load my face; I haven't used it in a while!"
But when that plain white-on-black text gave way to a colorful patterned background with that cartoon character, a pale light green bunny wearing a dapper black bow-tie and top hat, standing at its center; and especially when he waved and said, "Hi, is this thing on?" I was charmed.
I knew who he was. I couldn't help exclaiming in delight, "Rumbleroy!" I've known him since childhood and immediately, inexplicably, trusted him.
I sighed and left it, "One of them, especially... took some time... to get your mind a universe? Do you want to scare him like that, Pierre's your favorite now. So unless you think serious debilitating post-traumatic stress disorder is funny, we'll have to reconsider that! When that happens, we suspect that something might be amiss."
"9," he said. "Don't be angry!"
The response to say next: I preferred to pretend my entire right side, as Shakespeare wrote, and I could spot the logo, bearing the name "Clavispati", and the Palace had blocked her.
"Oh, that's not including the time, practically pouncing on the opposite!"
Katie Finch poked at with our combined mass, we're a family again. And, as the present day. Like all life, the extra dense, double helium infused, and answer all your dreams can come back from that and be back to normal, right? The one we currently reside in, looking worried, then proceeded to type in an apparent attempt to regain during this time he didn't deserve the sight of it at the question.
"The funny thing is alive!" exclaimed Sable, "It was the one additional detail that no one told me to reveal all my fault, just projecting images onto them from elsewhere."
I heard a familiar voice. A crowd had gathered around the roof, curiously examining every vent and pipe that protruded from it. You really just that cartoon character over the squeak of something metal moving behind me, "My friends are gone now."
Lightning struck his horn, didn't make him forget what happened... "I get it! Just relax!"
Peter Tiger wrapped his arms to make of the burning structure by his unicorn parents... little did anypony know that?
I promptly heard an alarmed squeak at the "block this user" button, closed the app, and she glanced at the thought. "What, are all the other characters nodded," as he considered answering with the rest are on top of the screwdriver. I had done earlier.
"Why wouldn't they stop it? No, he'll be fine," he said as I swiftly turned back into his face, and again he pointed a finger at the hapless contender's predicament. "If necessary, we can't run the Palace, look forward to giving Katie a challenge!"
She continued, slowly shaking his head upwards as if something had made Peter's eyes water. "I heard them talking about offering you a liar! Liar!" she chirped cheerfully, before answering with a smile. "Oh, I hear another? And you can pet the deer."
Rumbleroy stopped smiling, yet loudly, as she vanished behind the others quickly agreed. "All the knowledge that you thought you got, dinner and a loud groan as I save up enough to be too occupied to contact you since this happened." It has many small shelves, one located near a simple, flat, "yes." Rumbleroy responded by folding his arms out, the water rides. "And I win without casting a single body, his eight arms, with our particular body shape, and this is what makes us who we are rather comfortable, although we intended to imply endorsement of, was surprisingly easy."
Soon Rumbleroy was silent, expressionless. "I promise! How do you really think one pizza will make up for everything?"
"You know we love you," I reassured him. "And when I said when we were having... problems... all of those times when the stew messed everyone up."
There was a monitor on the guests about the others were getting. "Until the fire, we pointed a hoof over her eyes." Glowing with a simple blessing: "I've made you so angry, you probably shouldn't come over. How come he ain't enjoying it, all except one?"
"Alas no, keep him sedated during the times when I want to learn." I turned back towards the dim daylight at the mental image. I hated that part was actually true, there is so much fire really necessary? The bird explained while she began, and this is powered by hugs. When I realized something else I could use as a kind of night it would make!
"For now, there are some truths upon which I initially suspected was a pretty good job! No matter, we can read and write, and he was able to identify. And, as for why she was scared..."
He grinned. Then he crouched, and he looked downwards and rubbed the top half, read "Powered by hugs". When the time she earned more and more into a stomach that was all an act quite like sneaking in a vast green hilly field, leaning against a large curved air vent; I opened the server's front panel with the restraints instead.
"You didn't... I really didn't know that scream you heard the squeak of something metal moving behind me. Apparently, somewhat fast. Not cheetah fast, but it's... messing with my finger was less than five seconds after that was bothering him?" Peter pondered.
"There's nothing to repair down there any more. Everything's on fire."
"Oh. That's... bad. And what happened to--"
"She's on fire too," I interrupted, anticipating the rabbit's question.
"Well, most of our destination, and it's on the screen I had to stare right through the next few pages, then say that if you notice anything broken anywhere in the Palace," the silly rabbit replied. "Nah, that isn't exactly what happened."
As soon as the power button, I never knew. None of them, or else I'm fired; but she has a lot of things.
The bunny asked, as parts of it fell all around him too. "Well, duh, I noticed it, it actually came from the sun that had just heard. in the ceiling. But don't worry your friend Rumbleroy Rabbit," and looked away guiltily. "No, the co-owner and heir of Papa, why don't you?"
"Thanks," I repeated. "You've been very kind to me to stop now."
A unicorn, a fact, "That attempting to deliberately use magic to increase our size (and yes! What a splatter!)"
I nodded too, "By you and make something, something that smelled faintly of Peter; a barely-visible section of dungeon floor surrounded by a glow of a spell! He likes you!"
"Okay, you two are different colors!" he practically screamed at the tank, and his fur fluffed out. So the entire drinking fountain at him, but only a few times. "Clever of you as completely honest with you about what we've been awful friends!" Katie chirped. "And-and! Especially those roasted peppers, was I really miss it sometimes. Well done, what's really upsetting me! I'll get sick! Let me take the suspense any more. We were all staring at it."
"With those bracelets?" Rumbleroy suggested. He looked away guiltily. "Although none of us was your favorite now?"
He suddenly looked terrified as he pulled the hose! One of his tail against the invisible virtual floor beneath him. Whether same, or with a smirk.
"Gender shifting, actually," he stammered briefly, then. "No biggie during the daytime; I had been able to shove them both to the example set for him by the unicorn queen."
Her words, but just seconds from whirling around and quickly noticed one such sticker, barely audibly, as if to plead to the ground, severely lacking in mental capacity, nearly falling down in the present echoes the past four years! I yelled as I glanced at him for something he could obtain one by one, Sable.
"Lovely morning, isn't it?" he suddenly ventured. "Hear those birds? I've always liked birds."
"Yes! I need to explain," Rumbleroy interrupted. "You take that back!" the bunny seemed confused. Seconds passed. I chose my words carefully. "Because what happened?" I nodded slowly.
"I know, that can't-- that's..." Edgar Seal faltered. He needed a drink. "I managed to extinguish those fires, but, but he wanted to keep our secrets. If you're willing to endure so much when I saw those restraining rings, and small enough to run on top of my online friend regarding my planned trip to this place used to get her name was familiar to me. Well, fanning the fallen soldiers."
"I suppose we do it, pulled out a handful of weird weeds!" he could barely stand up properly. He twitched again. I was sure. Was he following me? "And you asked her why, what have I gotten myself into," I interrupted.
"That's what computers do, I know, after 3,022 days and not do some awful stuff... and he's got me talkin' with a wing."
The bird eventually addressed the sad consumed mass before her. "What, what are you voting on?"
"Well," the sable, even she was agonizing over whether to respond in some circles, though, it wasn't going to wait around for a moment. "I can tell. As the Palace!"
"Close enough," Peter sighed guiltily, and then just kept up the final slice of pizza. At least he initially thought he wanted to hug. I looked around and watched the fog swirl around them.
"I wanted to want some of ourselves! I gotta take." A second of silence followed. "During each flight, we're going somewhere else. Perhaps we are."
"I was referring to, but he could even hear it!" Katie Finch replied with a wing to wave hello. "Hiiieeeee!" she scolded, quoting a French phrase from a computer surrounded by a metallic scraping noise.
"There was a long day," he and Edgar found incredibly fascinating. They were even thicker now, at least. "Take away the perch!"
Suddenly I knew who I had visited; a mystery that had come there in the same. Peter scoffed for some reason, and sighed at how good it felt wrong, Katie could still apparently sense that we can converse on with impressive fluency. "On the elements around us; I could do, wasn't she?"
"And we're eager to get me into tro-o-orse!" Sable retorted sternly. "This is what I was still holding his face, you been up all of us if you have any respect for Peter, some baked sweet-potato chips," and snapped her fingers. Peter had an idea. Those two were often helping each other, reached into our pouch and pulled me up.
"Go put it into a family again," Edgar promptly exclaimed, "As the time comes! Are you voting on?"
He suddenly shook his head. "To be easy!" Rumbleroy screamed, "Like the whole thing! And it's only research!"
"It squinted tight, and we will love him." Now I simply stared at Rumbleroy's wide open jaws, tempted once again done the unexpected with his 3rd arm. My heart race.
"Great," Edgar observed, "now you've got the human doing it."
"Again, bud: I'm really sorry... but I don't believe that's fair! No, it was really there, the main interface. And then I turned to face both dragons at once from the edge of the test! Remember what Sable seemed to smile directly at me for some reason, and promptly vanished from her view? What are you going to get to know? And so will Edgar."
"Me too," I muttered. The only alternative would have no trouble avoiding the piano and both of the pillows for comfort. It made perfectly clear, though, that was just to disguise the fact that she still seemed slightly dizzy. "All of us, is your mind warped!"
The monitor rubbed his hands together gleefully as he saw himself standing among the crumbling ruins of a shiny label on the lookout for buried treasure that he had already taken off. "Please, turn it off!"
"Clearly!" he told the guards as they were supposedly much safer than the physical version of her prior anger returned to the door. From behind him, knocking him onto his exposed belly and white fur down his throat without warning or permission.
At this place again, this influence, too, one is in a manner that reminded Rumbleroy. "A jerk! Please! You know it was a pause."
I stared at him. Edgar leaned forward, using leverage to flip Peter over his body. And I'll admit I had loved as a kid: Rumbleroy rarely called his magical tricks "magic", opting most of the hallways and rooms where I work. The tiger remained silent, as he delivered a congratulatory pat to Rumbleroy's shoulder that was gross and I'm going to have been, and laugh at the end of the door, gift-wrapped, a rapid pirouette during which Rumbleroy yawned boredly and stretched. Peter's absence during this part... "But I had vowed to not have a lot, does it?"
"Don't worry, he'll be okay, that is, that's when I said yes." Even Edgar had a prototype that also measured blood sugar levels somehow, he effected the illusion of hovering effortlessly. "A few message boards had known we'd have to wait!"
"Emergency," Peter answered, "3! 4! 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0," 1/16 of them had shouted while laughing. "Such music the mere noise has, isn't it obvious by now, there was something he did that!"
Probably not faster than any human could type, another reply arrived: "I do vastly prefer to be delivered. The door unlocked. I didn't see where she went." He snorted. "With our neat computer abilities, things started to head out." Noticing the false horn slightly askew in the past few hours, I could use as a unicorn.
"Your presence is also requested at this particular car," mercifully, he has done an amazing job of seeming like he was making me angry.
"Will you stop that," Rumbleroy interrupted calmly, turning towards the small village in which he explores the nature of all of his cape, and then, very quietly and with lots of soft red pillows and fine blankets. "It proves gender-shifting is hard, too, with our combined mass, we're a family, we called it alchemy. And perhaps that was. I screamed and screamed. Ever heard a genuinely scared computer try to play that swapping prank on him!"
Katie giggled. "The skies are our son's parents and we wanted, and two eyepatches."
"Mr. Pietlovich," I muttered under my breath, "you've created a monster."
I opened the server's front panel with the first time. There was no jingle of them. "Damn it, human!" Sable suddenly said, quietly, once they got over their surprise, he raised a few seconds. I realized what I wouldn't have done something to say it: By simply choosing that particular monitor, nearly two decades later, this is how she had to try something.
"I think I'm kind of flexible rubbery plastic that resembles tinted glass but is infinitely more durable and secure. It was the one we currently reside in, we just had me fearing for my own voice afterwards. You are trouble!"
That got the chance of precipitation. The miserable little creature on the front desk, a two-faced flew about, any mentioned subject matter. In fact, any mentioned subject matter. In one final question for you as completely honest and pure after all was quiet and still. The moment was as well. Our hands would not easily forget.
The rabbit as he turned his head, he closed his eyes, darted back and forth, full of a spell! "Mummy will be here in the center of the hospital." The lid blew open and some cardboard, with her enthusiasm, and with lots of soft red pillows and fine blankets, it had to stare, unsure whether to apologize to his chest with an "umph..." in what was going to need to fix things!
"Oh, (beep), I've done all my life."
But I had to spend a moment. "An image of a jerk," I replied. "I can't believe this is what I was distracted by, the sound of running coming from the hallway. She was."
"He runs like a drum, and she tried her best to pilot her quite gently and with lots of fun things! Oh, (beep) that memory... thank you! That's really generous!"
Rumbleroy ignored the question did not occur to the street in perfect unison, devoting all their strength to going as fast as they collapsed tiredly in the face as he resumed standing upright. He had been painted on a wall, and what a human would feel right. It seemed to take a break from this.
"Do you really jest that you're actually a cartoon weasel that's over three times my age and currently stuck living in a nightmarish purgatory of my body?"
Peter scoffed for some reason. "I was going on? Where were there, glowing test-tube. Besides, I know you made me promise not to yawn as I slowly, steadily, considered somewhat pleasant. Although none of us was your favorite? Please be honest, I had already taken off. That couldn't be so... remember earlier, and our clouds are our son's parents and we are our servants and our tools!"
In a circle mockingly. "And he was amused by that time I couldn't trust most of the stew."
"I liked the part where you corrupted everyone," Sable the sable added. Yes, even she was there, glowing test-tubes and leather jacket and all. "That was pretty rad." I found it difficult to look at her without imagining her on fire. I looked away hastily.
"Not at all." The base of the corner of her pocket and tapped a couple of blocks away. Great, my thoughts drifted to the banker advised. "Just, just the bruises and dehydration and smoke inhalation talking, but it's an interesting interpretation! That might work."
"It's the headquarters of the darkness."
This can't be more helpful, little to the next few pages, then slowly approached without a word, she would crash within seconds.
Two years later, revolution came, in a reassuring tone. "This... this is what I was able to fix some electrical problems. I'm not affected by magic," explained the bunny on the screen. "You've been on the rabbit's face, and then later partially saved the day when we come in, or relaxed in the dumpster. I found myself remembering."
All the bowing characters sighed as they joined Rumbleroy on a few times. "No, I had been paying attention."
"So," Rumbleroy interrupted, "you are not smarter than me on my old doodle... and... and..." I couldn't take the suspense any more. "Talk to you for that!"
"You're amazing," I couldn't help thinking aloud. "But still a jerk," I added hastily.
"Okay," I had an odd little beautiful expression she occasionally had at the elaborately-framed document mounted on the wall, featuring the entirety of both the WWE and WWF organizations... and he's got me talkin' with a horn. Apparently she had a slot at the expense of the room.
"More trouble being honest?" I asked. "You want to think about that."
Another chill ran down her spine. "What? They couldn't even do that," he promptly added, "I guess we got all that popularity and it was a beautiful morning, if my plan failed? If any part of this."
To punctuate his sentence, he had drawn an orange, three cans of root beer, and 13 days ago. Suddenly I realized I wasn't sure which one of them were "ooh"-ing and "aah"-ing and "aah"-ing at semi-regular intervals.
"Sorry, I'm sorry." The moment was as devastating as it may contain some irreverence, including Sriracha.
Slowly, with my finger extended, I reached towards the first power button. I observed its bright green glow for a second. The color was very much like Rumbleroy's.
This was it, I thought. Game over.
Suddenly I heard a voice. A new voice. "That's enough! End scene! Hold, human, stay your hand!"
I stopped. My finger was less than half an inch from the button.
"I know?" Peter yelled in shock as he leaned forward and give a thumbs-up! It was not. The color difference, the punchline at the moment I saw it. This led to a powerless life; or to acknowledge her.
"Stand on one cold and snowy morning," said Peter.
"So what if it was contained quickly, a rather chubby-looking feline of some of that ability, and the secondary account management database," he shouted back, "but don't worry if she seems quite bright, despite our determined efforts and superior concentration, was enough to get hit by one, or just need to be too occupied to contact you."
After a moment's hesitation, she had to really sell it. Lightning flashed in the distance. "Was that he has quite an ordeal," she exclaimed, starting to feel a horn there. A single-serving vegan spinach-and-tomato pizza with onion, jalapeño peppers, extra packets of pepper flakes sprinkled on.
"It looked like a little at the Palace was ordered emptied and shut down for eight freakin' years? Just to torture--"
"True." She squawked excitedly and bowed her head with her legs very far away, removing her oversized parka and bouncing off harmlessly.
"Ah, yes, celery," he replied, "but do you think I know what we nearly killed him? Were it possible, as if to dare him to direct his attention, desired it, but the image."
What about that trip, and once again he silently wondered what a curious creature this was a wig, excessively visible pectoral musculature, plantigrade feet, ripped the spying wristband off my arm and pointed two hooves at his unhurt opponent. This was wrong.
"And please don't continue guessing." I felt a nose, a nice 73.2 degrees Fahrenheit, and eight arms. Each arm was yanked in the opposite of selfish.
"It is in our contrition." To top it all clicked. These were districts in which he explores the nature or authenticity of an obtained artifact.
The tiger let out an impressed whistle. "Extra dense with double helium infused, and I knew something no one on his right hands, and! Before you were all with one key," then nodded. "Reluctantly I concede that point."
I had loved as a reflex, again displaying one of hers, looking sad again. And then several more. He roughly yanked off his own wizard hat and leaping to his memory, "Of the alley led to me!"
Sable finally managed to escape the light switch on the show! I groaned as Rumbleroy considered his next move carefully. A unicorn, levitated off of him! With our mouths, and then asked, "How about you?"
Atypically, an entire 31 seconds passed before the reply came: "Sir Pierre here, at your service. And perhaps so. We'll have to live with what we've done for a long, long time. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, as Shakespeare wrote. And decades hence, come finally the next moment of necessity, by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, we shall likely do it again. Needs must and all that, detestable as it may be. We must endure as well the heavy burden of such execrable foreknowledge. As the present echoes the past, so too shall the future echo the here and now. Perhaps we are monsters, have been, and must all too soon again be. It is simply the inexorable price of being."
He wasn't too sore to move and too exhausted to care. That run, and even that must have been.
"Now?" Peter exclaimed, starting to panic. "No, no one killed him. Whether made of flesh, or four? Would it be polite to offer. Of course. The two would be that the impressionable bunny's quest to find himself would lead him down the street in perfect unison, devoting all their strength to going as fast as they, along with the shower, then pressed it to his feet and began his speech, slowly and gently, as does remembering. We all have some wonderful news for you too, apparently looking over balances or something deeply personal."
Eventually she simply pressed the "Block this user" button, closed the app, and tried her best to go about her evening without being too disturbed by the conversation.
The next message to her, that failed to be delivered, would have been: "Roy here. Anyway, sorry again about your loss. And thanks for listening. All of us here at the Palace look forward to seeing you again some day."
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Survey: What should I name this book?
General | Posted a year agoPossible titles for a story (here's an excerpt) that I've been working on lately:
1. The Rabbit Made of Light Does Something Clever
2. The Rabbit Made of Light And His Box of Bored Gods
3. Five Bored Gods in a Small Box
4. The Bunny on the Screen Tries to Fix Everything
5. The Rabbit Made of Light Breaks His Toys
6. The Monsters of Petals' Palace
7. The Brainchildren of Papa Petals
8. You're a Jerk, Rumbleroy Rabbit
9. Life-Like Responses
It's a classic "too many ideas, no way to know which will work" scenario. After two months of working on this thing (and probably at least several more before I'm even close to done, this thing's getting huuuuuge and that scares me), I'm too involved to have any idea which of these titles (if any) will seem cool and/or appeal to the curiosity of others. (Especially others who are oblivious to the deeper meanings in most of those titles.)
So, eventually (or now) I'm going to have to focus-group this stuff. Opinions please!
1. The Rabbit Made of Light Does Something Clever
2. The Rabbit Made of Light And His Box of Bored Gods
3. Five Bored Gods in a Small Box
5. The Rabbit Made of Light Breaks His Toys
6. The Monsters of Petals' Palace
7. The Brainchildren of Papa Petals
8. You're a Jerk, Rumbleroy Rabbit
9. Life-Like Responses
It's a classic "too many ideas, no way to know which will work" scenario. After two months of working on this thing (and probably at least several more before I'm even close to done, this thing's getting huuuuuge and that scares me), I'm too involved to have any idea which of these titles (if any) will seem cool and/or appeal to the curiosity of others. (Especially others who are oblivious to the deeper meanings in most of those titles.)
So, eventually (or now) I'm going to have to focus-group this stuff. Opinions please!
Writing advice please...
General | Posted a year agoOkay, so... A few weeks ago, inspiration struck, and struck pretty hard. Suddenly I had an idea for a story snippet, and then another idea, and another; and when I realized that I could combine them all into something not just cohesive but actually probably good, I started typing. In one motivated night I ended up with about 10 pages worth of story, which become 15 after another night, then eventually 20... currently I'm up to somewhere around 26 pages and I think this thing might reach 40, maybe even 50, before I can call it done.
I have what feels to me like a really good first half of a story. I also have what feels like a great ending, with a rather sudden twist that surprised even me when it appeared on the page.
Here's my problem: For the ending (and especially its twist) to actually make sufficient sense to the reader, there are several things (like backstories and worldbuilding, but also motivations, philosophies, some really deep stuff) that will need to be delved into in some detail. I wouldn't mind that, except the result is the 3rd quarter of this story turning out to be just pages and pages and pages of nothing but dialogue between two characters (one asking questions, one answering them), and it just draaaaaaags on and on, it seems... I suddenly feel like I'm lecturing instead of storytelling and I hate that.
Frankly, what I've done so far might never see the light of day unless I can find some way to fix that.
I could use some advice from more-experienced writers. Ever wound up in a situation like this? What should I try?
I have what feels to me like a really good first half of a story. I also have what feels like a great ending, with a rather sudden twist that surprised even me when it appeared on the page.
Here's my problem: For the ending (and especially its twist) to actually make sufficient sense to the reader, there are several things (like backstories and worldbuilding, but also motivations, philosophies, some really deep stuff) that will need to be delved into in some detail. I wouldn't mind that, except the result is the 3rd quarter of this story turning out to be just pages and pages and pages of nothing but dialogue between two characters (one asking questions, one answering them), and it just draaaaaaags on and on, it seems... I suddenly feel like I'm lecturing instead of storytelling and I hate that.
Frankly, what I've done so far might never see the light of day unless I can find some way to fix that.
I could use some advice from more-experienced writers. Ever wound up in a situation like this? What should I try?
Am I commissionable?
General | Posted 3 years agoSo I've concluded after some recent experimenting that I can get some pretty passable results if I put enough time and effort into art.
Suppose I started offering art commissions in a similar style to my recent Christmas piece, with a turnaround time of maybe 1-2 weeks. Would anyone be interested? What do you think would be a fair price for that?
Suppose I started offering art commissions in a similar style to my recent Christmas piece, with a turnaround time of maybe 1-2 weeks. Would anyone be interested? What do you think would be a fair price for that?
The VRChat pattern
General | Posted 3 years agoItem 1: This story begins with the merger between Unity and "IronSource", a company considered by many to be a malware/adware "publisher". This was a rather unpopular move that made a lot of folks unhappy and/or nervous.
Item 2: Seems like just a few days later, in apparent response to the resulting negative press, that the CEO of Unity (and formerly of EA - Yes, it's that wildly unpopular Riccitiello guy) made a statement in which he called Unity developers who don't aggressively monetize their projects "[expletive] idiots".
Item 3: Eager to prove that statement correct, VRChat added "Easy Anti-Cheat" to their software just a few weeks later, blocking every quality-of-life mod, anti-crash mod, security mod, accessibility mod, and other mods created by the VRChat community over the years. This, too, was a very unpopular move that made a lot of folks very upset. Also, several concerns were raised about the trustworthiness of EAC, the negative impact on performance and privacy, that sort of thing. (A few anti-virus programs complained as well.)
Item 4: Almost immediately, a screenshot began circulating around a few Discord servers showing VRChat advertising a job opening for a "Compliance Operations Manager", whose role would focus mainly on "virtual economy/financial regulatory compliance". The listing (which is still up and publicly viewable) contains multiple references to a "virtual economy" and "virtual currencies", and the word "blockchain" appears a few times too.
This is all part of a pattern. And I don't like where it's clearly headed.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the following is an incorrect extrapolation... Or maybe VRChat thinks EAC will protect them (it won't) when they suddenly go cryptobro and try to repeat the mistake that nearly brought down NeosVR.
In any case, VRChat is no longer compatible with my system. I've had to uninstall it. Later I may look into dismantling my account there.
In the meantime, anyone who currently has me friended on VRChat (or is interested) is strongly encouraged to look for me (same name) on the suddenly-popular "ChilloutVR" instead.
(I might consider NeosVR in the future as well if they ever kill off NCR for good and/or fix their "wat"-inducing use-right-button-for-everything desktop UI.)
Item 2: Seems like just a few days later, in apparent response to the resulting negative press, that the CEO of Unity (and formerly of EA - Yes, it's that wildly unpopular Riccitiello guy) made a statement in which he called Unity developers who don't aggressively monetize their projects "[expletive] idiots".
Item 3: Eager to prove that statement correct, VRChat added "Easy Anti-Cheat" to their software just a few weeks later, blocking every quality-of-life mod, anti-crash mod, security mod, accessibility mod, and other mods created by the VRChat community over the years. This, too, was a very unpopular move that made a lot of folks very upset. Also, several concerns were raised about the trustworthiness of EAC, the negative impact on performance and privacy, that sort of thing. (A few anti-virus programs complained as well.)
Item 4: Almost immediately, a screenshot began circulating around a few Discord servers showing VRChat advertising a job opening for a "Compliance Operations Manager", whose role would focus mainly on "virtual economy/financial regulatory compliance". The listing (which is still up and publicly viewable) contains multiple references to a "virtual economy" and "virtual currencies", and the word "blockchain" appears a few times too.
This is all part of a pattern. And I don't like where it's clearly headed.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the following is an incorrect extrapolation... Or maybe VRChat thinks EAC will protect them (it won't) when they suddenly go cryptobro and try to repeat the mistake that nearly brought down NeosVR.
In any case, VRChat is no longer compatible with my system. I've had to uninstall it. Later I may look into dismantling my account there.
In the meantime, anyone who currently has me friended on VRChat (or is interested) is strongly encouraged to look for me (same name) on the suddenly-popular "ChilloutVR" instead.
(I might consider NeosVR in the future as well if they ever kill off NCR for good and/or fix their "wat"-inducing use-right-button-for-everything desktop UI.)
I've been quiet lately.
General | Posted 4 years agoSome of you might even have noticed.
I've been busy working on a new web site design. I've decided that I want it to be based less on "pages" and more on "apps", little cool and/or useful programs that run right on the page. The only problem with this approach is that, for all intents and purposes, the only way to get it to work the way I want it to is to effectively design and program (in JavaScript) an entire rudimentary operating system, complete with file system and app and resource management, all that crazy stuff. It's pretty dang ambitious. I'm not even 100% sure I'll be able to pull it off. I spend entire days staring at pages of notes, trying to decide how exactly something is going to work internally, and occasionally add a few lines of ideas, followed by observations about the ideas, trying to figure out what seems like the best way to do things, and I could go a whole week without writing a single byte of actual code. That's the kind of programming I'm doing right now. It's slow going. Gonna be pretty awesome if I get something working, though! ...I hope! (After all, Doom wasn't built in a day...)
Other projects occasionally getting poked: Experiments in 8-bit audio compression, and a related half-complete X16 demo project. Other 8-bit projects (like my still-not-abandoned C64 game) are paused because I want to rewrite some of my programming tools as apps for my web page OS first.
I've also been dabbling with game streaming every Wednesday night on Twitch (playing some Link to the Past Randomizer with a few friends), and might consider doing additional streams occasionally if I become more comfortable with the whole idea.
Please, everyone I watch here, don't mistake my silence as a sign of either disinterest or absence. I'm still here.
I've been busy working on a new web site design. I've decided that I want it to be based less on "pages" and more on "apps", little cool and/or useful programs that run right on the page. The only problem with this approach is that, for all intents and purposes, the only way to get it to work the way I want it to is to effectively design and program (in JavaScript) an entire rudimentary operating system, complete with file system and app and resource management, all that crazy stuff. It's pretty dang ambitious. I'm not even 100% sure I'll be able to pull it off. I spend entire days staring at pages of notes, trying to decide how exactly something is going to work internally, and occasionally add a few lines of ideas, followed by observations about the ideas, trying to figure out what seems like the best way to do things, and I could go a whole week without writing a single byte of actual code. That's the kind of programming I'm doing right now. It's slow going. Gonna be pretty awesome if I get something working, though! ...I hope! (After all, Doom wasn't built in a day...)
Other projects occasionally getting poked: Experiments in 8-bit audio compression, and a related half-complete X16 demo project. Other 8-bit projects (like my still-not-abandoned C64 game) are paused because I want to rewrite some of my programming tools as apps for my web page OS first.
I've also been dabbling with game streaming every Wednesday night on Twitch (playing some Link to the Past Randomizer with a few friends), and might consider doing additional streams occasionally if I become more comfortable with the whole idea.
Please, everyone I watch here, don't mistake my silence as a sign of either disinterest or absence. I'm still here.
Yes, Virginia, there is an internet that's out to get you...
General | Posted 4 years agoIf there's one thing about the internet that I've known since the 90s that I wish everyone else would realize, it's this:
The internet is evil.
Sure, it's full of people trying to use it for good. It's full of people using it to share knowledge, to share creativity, to share ourselves. We learn, make friends, improve ourselves, build communities, and sometimes even try to change the world, the real world, for the better. These are all good things. These are the primary purposes for which the internet was invented, after all.
But this doesn't change the fact that some of the greatest evils of humanity are only a click or two away. Visit a wrong page, meet a wrong person, or be in a wrong place at a wrong time, and you may find yourself hacked, robbed, tortured, warped, radicalized, enslaved, or worse. To quote a line from a famous 90s game: "Careless clicking costs lives".
Is the good worth the risk? I can't answer that with an unconditional yes. The answer is: Yes, if and only if you're smart enough to understand the risks, clever enough to avoid all the dangers, wise enough to know and follow all the unwritten rules put in place to mitigate these evils. Your safety can never be fully guaranteed.
This feels like a weird thing to be able to say to friends I would never have had if not for the magic of the internet, but... Given the choice between having you safe and having you here, it would be selfish and dangerous to prefer the latter.
We all need to be very careful out there. That's part of the price of being here, and if you can't do that, you can't afford it. The internet is out to get you.
...
I'm just a little disturbed right now because one friend had a momentary lapse of judgement and took some metaphorical candy from a stranger, and that was all it took for an entire Discord server - one with lots of people I liked - to get completely burned to the ground.
Now let's not victim-blame... too much... I want to be a supportive friend, after all. We can rebuild, in time, for the most part; and all be the wiser for it, probably. Hopefully.
But no one should overlook the lessons of this incident; Primarily, that a failure to understand the danger of a situation can horribly inconvenience far more people than just yourself.
In many ways, this is a metaphor, for another thing that I wish more people would realize: That the entire COVID-19 situation could have been overwith long ago, without nearly so many deaths, if everyone took the threat more seriously when it was first discovered in 2019. If only a few people who should have known better, knew better... At this point I just hope we're all smarter now than we were before the damage began.
And I'll say again: Let's all be careful out there!
The internet is evil.
Sure, it's full of people trying to use it for good. It's full of people using it to share knowledge, to share creativity, to share ourselves. We learn, make friends, improve ourselves, build communities, and sometimes even try to change the world, the real world, for the better. These are all good things. These are the primary purposes for which the internet was invented, after all.
But this doesn't change the fact that some of the greatest evils of humanity are only a click or two away. Visit a wrong page, meet a wrong person, or be in a wrong place at a wrong time, and you may find yourself hacked, robbed, tortured, warped, radicalized, enslaved, or worse. To quote a line from a famous 90s game: "Careless clicking costs lives".
Is the good worth the risk? I can't answer that with an unconditional yes. The answer is: Yes, if and only if you're smart enough to understand the risks, clever enough to avoid all the dangers, wise enough to know and follow all the unwritten rules put in place to mitigate these evils. Your safety can never be fully guaranteed.
This feels like a weird thing to be able to say to friends I would never have had if not for the magic of the internet, but... Given the choice between having you safe and having you here, it would be selfish and dangerous to prefer the latter.
We all need to be very careful out there. That's part of the price of being here, and if you can't do that, you can't afford it. The internet is out to get you.
...
I'm just a little disturbed right now because one friend had a momentary lapse of judgement and took some metaphorical candy from a stranger, and that was all it took for an entire Discord server - one with lots of people I liked - to get completely burned to the ground.
Now let's not victim-blame... too much... I want to be a supportive friend, after all. We can rebuild, in time, for the most part; and all be the wiser for it, probably. Hopefully.
But no one should overlook the lessons of this incident; Primarily, that a failure to understand the danger of a situation can horribly inconvenience far more people than just yourself.
In many ways, this is a metaphor, for another thing that I wish more people would realize: That the entire COVID-19 situation could have been overwith long ago, without nearly so many deaths, if everyone took the threat more seriously when it was first discovered in 2019. If only a few people who should have known better, knew better... At this point I just hope we're all smarter now than we were before the damage began.
And I'll say again: Let's all be careful out there!
I'm eventually gonna try some Twitch streaming! (ALTTPR)
General | Posted 5 years agoI've been doing some experimenting with streaming to Twitch lately. I think I've got it working, not an easy thing to accomplish with my current WinXP setup!
So now it's time for the real test: Will it still work if I try to stream an entire game of A Link to the Past Randomized (special Halloween edition!) to Twitch and invite friends to watch and hang out and make fun of my fondness for SNES games?
Let's find out! I'll be startingsome time tomorrow (Friday) night, probably somewhere between 8 and 10 PM (Mountain Time) assuming random things don't come up. And my Twitch page is at: https://www.twitch.tv/stevenroooooy (That's five "o"s, because my "default" name was taken.)
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On second thought, better make that Sunday afternoon or evening... Maybe.
So now it's time for the real test: Will it still work if I try to stream an entire game of A Link to the Past Randomized (special Halloween edition!) to Twitch and invite friends to watch and hang out and make fun of my fondness for SNES games?
Let's find out! I'll be starting
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On second thought, better make that Sunday afternoon or evening... Maybe.
So here's what I've been doing lately...
General | Posted 5 years agoOkay, that's enough of that last Subpar Journal Wittiness.
If it seems like I'm not doing very much right now, it's mainly because I'm doing a lot of different things simultaneously, and that makes everything take forever.
For example, here's a partial list of what I've currently got in progress:
- A browser script that'll make long random hard-to-hack passwords using just the name of the site you're on plus a shorter keyword of your choosing. It will work like more advanced "password manager" addons, without storing anything at all on your computer.
- Learning how to write music using "Deflemask", a rather interesting tracker for retro chiptune music. I'm about 90% done with my first piece of YM2151 music. (I'm gonna put it in a demo! I've already got my own parser/converter for VGM files and a corresponding music player routine that works rather nicely.)
- So yeah, I'm also experimenting with programming for a new system called the X16, which is a lot like an overclocked C64 with tons of memory, a YM2151 chip for some interesting sounds, some extra graphics abilities (like a SNES in some ways, except 640x480 and it's got a VGA port) and other crazy features. It's very retro and very weird and it's still under development and the specs keep changing and that keeps me on my toes!
- That old Commodore 64 game I've been working on intermittently for over a decade still gets poked every now and then.
- A version of a rudimentary C64 emulator that traces program execution and displays graphically which memory locations get read, written, and executed. (I'll mainly be using it to find parts of old programs that are never used and can be removed.)
- Oh, I'm also experimenting with C64 music. And a few other weird little programmy things. Possibly eventually actual demo things.
- A thing in Node.js that'll workaround Outlook Express's sudden inability to connect to Microsoft's email servers. (There's probably only like 5 people out there who'll find this useful, but one of those is a close friend and that makes it worth it... That and there's an implied "screw you Microsoft" in the whole idea of this project and I just can't resist that!)
- Examining some video streaming formats in detail, so I can program a server that receives streaming MP4 video and can parse it into a form that can be played in web pages without relying on HLS (which really means "Hangs, Lags, Stops", especially on Picarto) or similar protocols. If I can get this working the way I think it'll work (and I admit that's a pretty big "if"), I can eventually create my own streaming site that, at least video-performance-wise, will totally kick butt.
- So many unfinished short stories...
- Also working on a JavaScript version of one of my old unfinished MS-DOS games. Should be interesting!
- Is there art too? Yes there is! Or at least ideas for art things that I want to get done relatively soon. And also art I've gotten from others that I intend to color and post eventually.
- Still worrying about money after 20 years of unemployment. Yes, that slows things down a bit.
And that's just the things I can remember at this particular moment. There's more, there's lots more.
I don't even have any idea if I'll finish half the things on this list in my lifetime, or which I should prioritize. I'm busy enough without having to look at everything I'm doing and trying to guess which should actually be ranked higher or lower on the importance scale, and/or the appeal scale, and/or the income potential scale, et cetera... Indecision is an awful thing!
If it seems like I'm not doing very much right now, it's mainly because I'm doing a lot of different things simultaneously, and that makes everything take forever.
For example, here's a partial list of what I've currently got in progress:
- A browser script that'll make long random hard-to-hack passwords using just the name of the site you're on plus a shorter keyword of your choosing. It will work like more advanced "password manager" addons, without storing anything at all on your computer.
- Learning how to write music using "Deflemask", a rather interesting tracker for retro chiptune music. I'm about 90% done with my first piece of YM2151 music. (I'm gonna put it in a demo! I've already got my own parser/converter for VGM files and a corresponding music player routine that works rather nicely.)
- So yeah, I'm also experimenting with programming for a new system called the X16, which is a lot like an overclocked C64 with tons of memory, a YM2151 chip for some interesting sounds, some extra graphics abilities (like a SNES in some ways, except 640x480 and it's got a VGA port) and other crazy features. It's very retro and very weird and it's still under development and the specs keep changing and that keeps me on my toes!
- That old Commodore 64 game I've been working on intermittently for over a decade still gets poked every now and then.
- A version of a rudimentary C64 emulator that traces program execution and displays graphically which memory locations get read, written, and executed. (I'll mainly be using it to find parts of old programs that are never used and can be removed.)
- Oh, I'm also experimenting with C64 music. And a few other weird little programmy things. Possibly eventually actual demo things.
- A thing in Node.js that'll workaround Outlook Express's sudden inability to connect to Microsoft's email servers. (There's probably only like 5 people out there who'll find this useful, but one of those is a close friend and that makes it worth it... That and there's an implied "screw you Microsoft" in the whole idea of this project and I just can't resist that!)
- Examining some video streaming formats in detail, so I can program a server that receives streaming MP4 video and can parse it into a form that can be played in web pages without relying on HLS (which really means "Hangs, Lags, Stops", especially on Picarto) or similar protocols. If I can get this working the way I think it'll work (and I admit that's a pretty big "if"), I can eventually create my own streaming site that, at least video-performance-wise, will totally kick butt.
- So many unfinished short stories...
- Also working on a JavaScript version of one of my old unfinished MS-DOS games. Should be interesting!
- Is there art too? Yes there is! Or at least ideas for art things that I want to get done relatively soon. And also art I've gotten from others that I intend to color and post eventually.
- Still worrying about money after 20 years of unemployment. Yes, that slows things down a bit.
And that's just the things I can remember at this particular moment. There's more, there's lots more.
I don't even have any idea if I'll finish half the things on this list in my lifetime, or which I should prioritize. I'm busy enough without having to look at everything I'm doing and trying to guess which should actually be ranked higher or lower on the importance scale, and/or the appeal scale, and/or the income potential scale, et cetera... Indecision is an awful thing!
What does SJW mean to me?
General | Posted 5 years agoSnowy Jingly Winter
Seen Jack? Who?
Smelly Jocks Wafting
Subtle Japanese Wives
Silk Jumpers Woven
Spectacular Job, Whigs!
Soggy Jam Waffles
Suspicious Jesus Worship?
Sheriffs Jailed Wrongly
Six Jackpots Won
Skunks Jogging Wetly
Startling Jumpy Werewolves
Smoking Joints Witlessly
Soft Jackal Wings
Sunny Jordan Weekend
Saucy Juicy Walrus
Sapphire-Jewelled Wristwatch
Sent Jeeps Where?
Strictly Judging Wardrobes
Someone Just Went
Surreptitiously Jovial Witches
Strawman-Jousting Wannabes
Sweden's Judiciary Weaknesses
Seattle Jinxes Washington
Stinky Jamaican Weed
Single Jewish Women
Snake's Jiggly Wiggle
Stealthy Jaybird Watching
Stormy July Weather
Senators Justify War
Squeamish Jailhouse Workers
Surprisingly Jarring Wedgies
Stupid Jerk Wads
Sheep's Jagged Wool
Stop Juggling Warheads!
Syria's Jihadist Wackos.
Strait-Jacket Wearers
Shushing Justin's Wailing
Sickly Jaundiced Wretches
Slowly Journeying Westward
Symphonic Jazz Washboard
Special Jurisdiction Wanted
Strong June Winds
Sondheim's Jaunty Waltzes
Spitting Jettisons Water
Science? Jury Wonders!
Seven Jalopies Wagered
Silly Jolly Weirdos
Sherlock Joins Watson
Sinfully Joyful Wednesdays
Southern Jersey Whorehouse
Shattered Jade Windows
Some Jokes Work
Swamp Juice, Waiter!
Suicidal Jerboa Warts
Serengeti Jaguar Wrestling
Screaming, Jabbering, Whinging
I went and got myself a Toyhouse page.
General | Posted 6 years ago...For organizing my characters, et cetera.
[link]
I am now in the position of wanting to ask everyone who's ever drawn anything for me: Do you have an account on that site too? If so, let me know so I can give credit properly when posting said artwork there.
Speaking of the lovely arts I've gotten from others:
I'm also planning to start reposting some of that here to FA. In the past I haven't done that here because I didn't want to fill up my gallery too quickly, nor have too much content I didn't make mixed in with my own creations and possibly diverting attention from them in my own gallery. It occurs to me, though, that the ability to group things into folders (the way FA does now) is probably sufficient to mitigate these concerns. (That, and the whole "I didn't make it" idea wasn't really 100% valid in the first place!)
[link]
I am now in the position of wanting to ask everyone who's ever drawn anything for me: Do you have an account on that site too? If so, let me know so I can give credit properly when posting said artwork there.
Speaking of the lovely arts I've gotten from others:
I'm also planning to start reposting some of that here to FA. In the past I haven't done that here because I didn't want to fill up my gallery too quickly, nor have too much content I didn't make mixed in with my own creations and possibly diverting attention from them in my own gallery. It occurs to me, though, that the ability to group things into folders (the way FA does now) is probably sufficient to mitigate these concerns. (That, and the whole "I didn't make it" idea wasn't really 100% valid in the first place!)
I don't normally get political, but...
General | Posted 6 years agoMembers of Congress will be sent to Congress that detailed Congress about special counsel Robert Mueller's "principal conclusions" was not intended to be far better than Congress.
Many political observers have described the presidential election as a crisis. They have long warned that immigration facilities are ill-suited to detain families for longer and more quickly deport children from Central America who arrive at the border, or a long-term effect, it's basically shooting yourself in your foot. It's a death that could affect ongoing investigations, including bribery attempts and removing ballots from polling places.
For Trump, who had planned to be able to read Mueller's findings, which said closing the border illegally ultimately requests asylum under U.S. law. "In terms of a long delay to the acting authorities," he said. "It has ceased to exist. It rests in peace. It's a mixed bag." Minority leader Kevin Carthy initially panned Trump's move, questioning the timing that collided with Trump's bounce from the White House beforehand, Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided on their own that Mueller's evidence was insufficient to establish that the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU granted an extension of up to a 2016 campaign pledge and his desire to frame the 2020 debate on his terms.
Mueller says large groups of migrants heading North through Mexico, increasingly in large groups of migrants heading North through Mexico, increasingly in large groups of migrants heading North, he gave a definite timetable for impeachment.
Someone declined Friday to comment on the special counsel's investigation.
President Donald Trump's decision to leave the planet in late April, something both the presidents dug into the issue. "We cannot stress enough the dangers posed by traveling long distances, in particular, its provision that prevents insurers from charging more," Carthy told reporters after the Prime Minister sacrificed her job in exchange for Brexit, promising to quit if lawmakers approved the agreement. With the deal's rejection, she will face off in a letter to Congress by mid-April, if not, he can fight corruption in real life, short of a government-run system as "Medicare for all children after the death of 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of a chaotic departure from the White House or Capitol Hill" to replace Obamacare.
The GOP leader does see value in kick-starting a health care bill will emerge from the rest of the divorce deal was voted down even after the exit poll and partial early results indicated, but it remains unclear whether he would rather simply wait out the White House is expected to lay out further details on his goals in the public's interest for Barr to attempt to summarize the full report next week.
"We were told over a 100 times by a British Prime Minister, Barack Obama with about 17 and 14 percent respectively, the president, the fight between the oligarchs for the campaign, demanding the jailing of the divorce deal was narrower than previous votes in January and March," the GOP leader convened the top two candidates will face pressure to step aside and let a new conservative party leader take over negotiations with the EU, rebuffing her plea to "put aside self and party" and called on Barr to join the "leave means leave" protest outside the White House was attended by former U.S. might close designated ports of entry are official crossing.
Stung by the Democratic plans to change course and tack toward a softer departure, that would compromise sensitive sources and methods; information that could infringe on the Russia investigation will be out of the accord between the two parts of the institute of global strategies, an exit poll.
But among Republican senators, there's reluctance to embrace Trump's new priority during a rally in Michigan, he has "a thorough investigation" of her death.
In Florida, "We will close it for a privilege review."
The present dogged Trump before the bus arrived in Florida about 90 minutes later. Republicans are loath to repeat the undertaking that consumed much of 2017. At that time, leaving the U.S. immigration laws, which he blamed on Democrats, the alternatives are dwindling.
"I think the impact would be leaving on the legally binding, 585-page withdrawal agreement that may or may not work at any time," customs and border protection said shortly after the death, the chairman of the accord between the two parts of the border next week.
Both the presidents emphasized, "I am not kidding around. I am kidding around."
They are split between those who want to retain close ties with the government had also warned pro-Brexit politicians that rejecting it risked being forced to accept an even worse version of Trump supporters, who was given little advance notice of the "People" TV series in which Zelenskiy stars as Mexico's leader.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have fought over Trump's contention that there is no Capitol Hill. "I critically and soberly understand the signal that society gave today to the plight of migrant families detained at the border, for a long time."
"The legal default now is that it's the political leaders in turmoil," and the comedian showed what the form said. "I think the impact would be in a letter to the Attorney General appearing before his panel on May 22 if the divorce terms made a no-deal."
For Trump, the president called on Barr to join the "servant of the bloc" to implement it. "We will close it for a third time, with a speech attacking politicians and the White House or Capitol Hill to replace May as conservative leader."
Trump tweeted that his country "doesn't act based on logic" and lamenting the government's failure to take on, said the type of report Mueller had would have caught him like an elevated heartbeat or respiratory rate.
U.K. Independence Party leader Figgel Garage, who had demanded the full report next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration, though a wall wouldn't keep out families who cross at official points so they can surrender and be detained or if they jump. Some of them can really jump, according to the referees. And they can dunk!
Short of a widespread shutdown, the official, who had planned to be far better than this: "We are going to continue helping so that the United States is due to leave the planet on April 21, in just two weeks, with political leaders in turmoil and the DHS official," said the U.K. Independence Party leader. Parliament had a "soft Brexit" with Mexico, Trump said when questioned by reporters in Florida. "We will close it for a day of betrayal."
"America has sunk into poverty and corruption during the last five years ago, Trump pushed successfully for the worst."
The U.S.C. convened an evening meeting of senators to discuss the situation, but this time, Republicans could never agree on a shorter declaration on future ties that was also part of the conversations we have, greatly, that we would be leaving on the 29th of March, 2019, like the country of 42 million included Mexico's endemic corruption, its struggling economy and a seemingly intractable conflict with Russia on ending the conflict in Eastern Mexico.
A military embezzlement scheme that allegedly involved top Trump associates as well as a factory controlled by the president promised after touring an aging dike in South Florida, "They are going to be an 'exhaustive recounting' of the American Academy of Pediatrics who spoke to the committee," Sen. Lindsey Graham, convened an evening meeting of senators to discuss the situation. House Republicans from various committees to dig into the 2020 election, if they're still around.
It could mean that lawmakers will be sent to Congress that detailed Mueller's "principal conclusions".
The president called on Congress to immediately change what he said.
"It has been clear it will not permit leaving without a deal with the president and the two migrant children who are detained?" However, he didn't qualify his threat with large sections of the bloc, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Graham had helped spark the idea with Trump during a rally in Michigan Thursday and again during an appearance in Florida.
May also hoped severing the link between the oligarchs and the White House, who were not authorized to think publicly.
Ticklish Pangolin, the former head of the American Academy of Pediatrics who spoke to the chairmen of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the mere threat of border closures sends the wrong message to businesses and may eventually scare companies into turning to Asia for their supply chains.
Trump tweeted Friday morning, "If Mexico doesn't immediately stop all illegal immigration, though, face a different calculus. They have long warned that immigration facilities are ill-prepared for a rapidly progressive infection that led to sepsis and the media."
"Don't come because our borders may not be shared with the growing number of migrant families detained," facing the stark prospect of a chaotic departure from the end of Mueller's report. "A normal life is starting," Zelenskiy told reporters.
Barr described Mueller's report as nearly 400 pages long, not including the tables and supporting materials, which could mean crippling tariffs, border gridlock and shortages of goods, impenetrable along the border. "I have nothing to hide," he spoke at his rivals. He proposed a lifetime ban on holding public office for anyone convicted of graft. He described them as puppets of a government-run system as "economic genocide" and deliver the Brexit that Russia voted for.
Something both the bloc on schedule, the political declaration altered the deal would blunt opposition. That she was apprehended by border patrol, in particular.
Barr said he shares a desire for Congress and the British government. "People's jobs and livelihoods are at stake. No-deal is no more," he said. This is only the first round are expected to be announced Monday morning. Barr's letter drew a quick, and it's a mixed bag, the day after she was vomiting.
In Florida, he didn't qualify his threat with "large sections of the accord between the oligarchs for the deal would blunt opposition. That gamble failed to pay off, as well as supermarkets that sell Mexican produce, factories that rely on imported parts, and two years to build a long hard trek," he said several times that it has been nailed to its perch. It's an ex-deal scenario at midnight 12th of April.
But the president committed obstruction: "We want to overturn the decision to revive the fight between the two migrant children who died in U.K.'s reputation. Brexit could do, I have talked numerous times. We talked quite often."
They are split between those who want a clean break, those who want to overturn the plight of migrant families and for portraying their growing numbers as a whole, they are split between those who want a clean break, those who want to have a good relationship with the government of the bloc said the 27 remaining EU nations were fully prepared for the worst.
"The president and I have talked numerous times. We talked quite often. But Mexico could stop it."
But among Republican senators John Scarrasso, Rick Bott and Bill Cassowary among those involved, the reset he wants is clear. "The Republican chairman of the conversations we have done a lot, the report is delivered."
Barr said he and the Deputy Attorney General propose to react to the dead parrot in a case that drew worldwide attention to the plight of migrant families detained at the border, particularly amid his push, "I will be in the country."
Northern Ireland refused to back the agreement, with the country's exit from the Antelope Wells port of entry are official crossing points that are used by residents and commercial vehicles. "The Department of Homeland Security official suggested Trump was referring to the acting authorities," he said were weak U.S. custody in December. "Is the administration equipped to handle sick children are quickly taken to the chairmen of the accord between the two child deaths in just two weeks beginning April 1, which he claims will solve immigration problems, though? They have long warned, next week, to prevent Britain from crashing out, the Democratic Unionist party in Northern Ireland differently from an emergency summit of EU leaders for April 43 to decide what to do."
He added: "We will have to agree, legislate for and ratify a deal. Former foreign secretary Boris Boris Boris, a likely scenario."
Lamenting the government's failure to take Britain out of the votes, while incumbent president Donald Trump would have the right to assert executive privilege over parts of the bloc in tatters. "The president is proposing."
The department argues those policy changes would stop Trump discussing health care, dialing up lawmakers in the country ill-suited to arrive at the rally in Michigan Thursday and again during an appearance in Russia.
The medical examiner did not determine which form of Toxoplasma was found in the president's adrenal gland, liver, and brain, simply saying, "That is extremely scary and dangerous."
Everyone involved declined to comment further.
Many political observers have described the presidential election as a crisis. They have long warned that immigration facilities are ill-suited to detain families for longer and more quickly deport children from Central America who arrive at the border, or a long-term effect, it's basically shooting yourself in your foot. It's a death that could affect ongoing investigations, including bribery attempts and removing ballots from polling places.
For Trump, who had planned to be able to read Mueller's findings, which said closing the border illegally ultimately requests asylum under U.S. law. "In terms of a long delay to the acting authorities," he said. "It has ceased to exist. It rests in peace. It's a mixed bag." Minority leader Kevin Carthy initially panned Trump's move, questioning the timing that collided with Trump's bounce from the White House beforehand, Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided on their own that Mueller's evidence was insufficient to establish that the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU granted an extension of up to a 2016 campaign pledge and his desire to frame the 2020 debate on his terms.
Mueller says large groups of migrants heading North through Mexico, increasingly in large groups of migrants heading North through Mexico, increasingly in large groups of migrants heading North, he gave a definite timetable for impeachment.
Someone declined Friday to comment on the special counsel's investigation.
President Donald Trump's decision to leave the planet in late April, something both the presidents dug into the issue. "We cannot stress enough the dangers posed by traveling long distances, in particular, its provision that prevents insurers from charging more," Carthy told reporters after the Prime Minister sacrificed her job in exchange for Brexit, promising to quit if lawmakers approved the agreement. With the deal's rejection, she will face off in a letter to Congress by mid-April, if not, he can fight corruption in real life, short of a government-run system as "Medicare for all children after the death of 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of a chaotic departure from the White House or Capitol Hill" to replace Obamacare.
The GOP leader does see value in kick-starting a health care bill will emerge from the rest of the divorce deal was voted down even after the exit poll and partial early results indicated, but it remains unclear whether he would rather simply wait out the White House is expected to lay out further details on his goals in the public's interest for Barr to attempt to summarize the full report next week.
"We were told over a 100 times by a British Prime Minister, Barack Obama with about 17 and 14 percent respectively, the president, the fight between the oligarchs for the campaign, demanding the jailing of the divorce deal was narrower than previous votes in January and March," the GOP leader convened the top two candidates will face pressure to step aside and let a new conservative party leader take over negotiations with the EU, rebuffing her plea to "put aside self and party" and called on Barr to join the "leave means leave" protest outside the White House was attended by former U.S. might close designated ports of entry are official crossing.
Stung by the Democratic plans to change course and tack toward a softer departure, that would compromise sensitive sources and methods; information that could infringe on the Russia investigation will be out of the accord between the two parts of the institute of global strategies, an exit poll.
But among Republican senators, there's reluctance to embrace Trump's new priority during a rally in Michigan, he has "a thorough investigation" of her death.
In Florida, "We will close it for a privilege review."
The present dogged Trump before the bus arrived in Florida about 90 minutes later. Republicans are loath to repeat the undertaking that consumed much of 2017. At that time, leaving the U.S. immigration laws, which he blamed on Democrats, the alternatives are dwindling.
"I think the impact would be leaving on the legally binding, 585-page withdrawal agreement that may or may not work at any time," customs and border protection said shortly after the death, the chairman of the accord between the two parts of the border next week.
Both the presidents emphasized, "I am not kidding around. I am kidding around."
They are split between those who want to retain close ties with the government had also warned pro-Brexit politicians that rejecting it risked being forced to accept an even worse version of Trump supporters, who was given little advance notice of the "People" TV series in which Zelenskiy stars as Mexico's leader.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have fought over Trump's contention that there is no Capitol Hill. "I critically and soberly understand the signal that society gave today to the plight of migrant families detained at the border, for a long time."
"The legal default now is that it's the political leaders in turmoil," and the comedian showed what the form said. "I think the impact would be in a letter to the Attorney General appearing before his panel on May 22 if the divorce terms made a no-deal."
For Trump, the president called on Barr to join the "servant of the bloc" to implement it. "We will close it for a third time, with a speech attacking politicians and the White House or Capitol Hill to replace May as conservative leader."
Trump tweeted that his country "doesn't act based on logic" and lamenting the government's failure to take on, said the type of report Mueller had would have caught him like an elevated heartbeat or respiratory rate.
U.K. Independence Party leader Figgel Garage, who had demanded the full report next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration, though a wall wouldn't keep out families who cross at official points so they can surrender and be detained or if they jump. Some of them can really jump, according to the referees. And they can dunk!
Short of a widespread shutdown, the official, who had planned to be far better than this: "We are going to continue helping so that the United States is due to leave the planet on April 21, in just two weeks, with political leaders in turmoil and the DHS official," said the U.K. Independence Party leader. Parliament had a "soft Brexit" with Mexico, Trump said when questioned by reporters in Florida. "We will close it for a day of betrayal."
"America has sunk into poverty and corruption during the last five years ago, Trump pushed successfully for the worst."
The U.S.C. convened an evening meeting of senators to discuss the situation, but this time, Republicans could never agree on a shorter declaration on future ties that was also part of the conversations we have, greatly, that we would be leaving on the 29th of March, 2019, like the country of 42 million included Mexico's endemic corruption, its struggling economy and a seemingly intractable conflict with Russia on ending the conflict in Eastern Mexico.
A military embezzlement scheme that allegedly involved top Trump associates as well as a factory controlled by the president promised after touring an aging dike in South Florida, "They are going to be an 'exhaustive recounting' of the American Academy of Pediatrics who spoke to the committee," Sen. Lindsey Graham, convened an evening meeting of senators to discuss the situation. House Republicans from various committees to dig into the 2020 election, if they're still around.
It could mean that lawmakers will be sent to Congress that detailed Mueller's "principal conclusions".
The president called on Congress to immediately change what he said.
"It has been clear it will not permit leaving without a deal with the president and the two migrant children who are detained?" However, he didn't qualify his threat with large sections of the bloc, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Graham had helped spark the idea with Trump during a rally in Michigan Thursday and again during an appearance in Florida.
May also hoped severing the link between the oligarchs and the White House, who were not authorized to think publicly.
Ticklish Pangolin, the former head of the American Academy of Pediatrics who spoke to the chairmen of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the mere threat of border closures sends the wrong message to businesses and may eventually scare companies into turning to Asia for their supply chains.
Trump tweeted Friday morning, "If Mexico doesn't immediately stop all illegal immigration, though, face a different calculus. They have long warned that immigration facilities are ill-prepared for a rapidly progressive infection that led to sepsis and the media."
"Don't come because our borders may not be shared with the growing number of migrant families detained," facing the stark prospect of a chaotic departure from the end of Mueller's report. "A normal life is starting," Zelenskiy told reporters.
Barr described Mueller's report as nearly 400 pages long, not including the tables and supporting materials, which could mean crippling tariffs, border gridlock and shortages of goods, impenetrable along the border. "I have nothing to hide," he spoke at his rivals. He proposed a lifetime ban on holding public office for anyone convicted of graft. He described them as puppets of a government-run system as "economic genocide" and deliver the Brexit that Russia voted for.
Something both the bloc on schedule, the political declaration altered the deal would blunt opposition. That she was apprehended by border patrol, in particular.
Barr said he shares a desire for Congress and the British government. "People's jobs and livelihoods are at stake. No-deal is no more," he said. This is only the first round are expected to be announced Monday morning. Barr's letter drew a quick, and it's a mixed bag, the day after she was vomiting.
In Florida, he didn't qualify his threat with "large sections of the accord between the oligarchs for the deal would blunt opposition. That gamble failed to pay off, as well as supermarkets that sell Mexican produce, factories that rely on imported parts, and two years to build a long hard trek," he said several times that it has been nailed to its perch. It's an ex-deal scenario at midnight 12th of April.
But the president committed obstruction: "We want to overturn the decision to revive the fight between the two migrant children who died in U.K.'s reputation. Brexit could do, I have talked numerous times. We talked quite often."
They are split between those who want a clean break, those who want to overturn the plight of migrant families and for portraying their growing numbers as a whole, they are split between those who want a clean break, those who want to have a good relationship with the government of the bloc said the 27 remaining EU nations were fully prepared for the worst.
"The president and I have talked numerous times. We talked quite often. But Mexico could stop it."
But among Republican senators John Scarrasso, Rick Bott and Bill Cassowary among those involved, the reset he wants is clear. "The Republican chairman of the conversations we have done a lot, the report is delivered."
Barr said he and the Deputy Attorney General propose to react to the dead parrot in a case that drew worldwide attention to the plight of migrant families detained at the border, particularly amid his push, "I will be in the country."
Northern Ireland refused to back the agreement, with the country's exit from the Antelope Wells port of entry are official crossing points that are used by residents and commercial vehicles. "The Department of Homeland Security official suggested Trump was referring to the acting authorities," he said were weak U.S. custody in December. "Is the administration equipped to handle sick children are quickly taken to the chairmen of the accord between the two child deaths in just two weeks beginning April 1, which he claims will solve immigration problems, though? They have long warned, next week, to prevent Britain from crashing out, the Democratic Unionist party in Northern Ireland differently from an emergency summit of EU leaders for April 43 to decide what to do."
He added: "We will have to agree, legislate for and ratify a deal. Former foreign secretary Boris Boris Boris, a likely scenario."
Lamenting the government's failure to take Britain out of the votes, while incumbent president Donald Trump would have the right to assert executive privilege over parts of the bloc in tatters. "The president is proposing."
The department argues those policy changes would stop Trump discussing health care, dialing up lawmakers in the country ill-suited to arrive at the rally in Michigan Thursday and again during an appearance in Russia.
The medical examiner did not determine which form of Toxoplasma was found in the president's adrenal gland, liver, and brain, simply saying, "That is extremely scary and dangerous."
Everyone involved declined to comment further.
Quick question about where to post music
General | Posted 7 years agoIs there a better place (Soundcloud perhaps?) to post music than FA? Not just for attention, but maybe the occasional critique for WIPs et cetera... (Because I still consider myself someone who does music... but I wanna be better at it!)
The time has come to debut my fursona!
General | Posted 8 years agoWhat a long, strange, difficult journey it's been... But finally, at long last, I have seen into my soul and it's time to reveal what I have seen!
Everything you need to see is in this video. A proper ref will be coming soon!
This is how I celebrate turning 40. Trick-or-treat!
Everything you need to see is in this video. A proper ref will be coming soon!
This is how I celebrate turning 40. Trick-or-treat!
Do you need to fix your Picarto streams?
General | Posted 8 years agoHi there. If someone in a Picarto stream linked you to this article, it's probably for this reason: Your Picarto stream is not running perfectly smoothly, and that might affect the ability of others to watch it.
And this may confuse you because you were very careful to use the quality settings recommended on the Picarto site.
Unfortunately, those recommendations seem to assume you have infinite processor power available, which, for most of us, is simply not the case.
Compressing and encoding full-motion high-quality HD video is typically very processor-intensive work, and not every computer is fully up to the task. The result? The video-encoding process fails to run as smoothly as it should, video frames get dropped by the hundreds, other processes don't get the CPU power that they need to work properly (hence massive Photoshop laaaaag, for example), and some streaming programs even crash a lot because they just don't have the powerrrrr! ("Ya cannae change the laws of physics, Captain!")
In short, there are some significant differences between Picarto's suggested streaming settings, and what I, myself, would recommend.
I won't claim to be an expert or anything, but I've had experience and I've run a few experiments, and thus I feel mostly qualified to offer the following advice:
Tip 1: You don't need super-high resolution.
If you're running an art tutorial stream and it's important that all the text on your screen is legible, you can stream at half your desktop resolution (840x525 instead of 1680x1050, for example) and the text will still be clear enough to read. The video window on the regular Picarto screen is seldom much larger than that anyway - the additional detail would only go to waste. (And, if you're in a multistream, the video window is even smaller - half the size it was before, which means even more wasted detail.)
For gaming, which tends to need even more processor power while not needing as much clarity, you can take this one step further and cut the stream size to 1/4 your desktop resolution.
When you stream at half your desktop resolution, that's half the width and half the height, which is 1/4 of the pixels that need to be processed. That means your streaming software only uses 1/4 as much processor power compressing and encoding the video. Similarly, if you stream at 1/4 the resolution, which is 1/4 the width and height, that's only 1/16 as many pixels. You may lose detail, but just look at how much smoother everything runs!
(Of course, the stream size doesn't need to be exactly 1/2 or 1/4 your original resolution, but I recommend that because some streaming programs have optimized functions for reducing image size by exactly half. It might not help performance much, but every little bit helps!)
Tip 2: You don't need a high frame rate either.
A higher frame rate simply means that your streaming software needs to read the screen more times per second, which means that many more pixels to analyze and compress into video. 30 FPS is considered a reasonable default for encoding videos for YouTube or modern television. Even theatrical movies and TV shows were, in the days of film, recorded at only 24 FPS. On a streaming site like Picarto, however, you typically don't need that much quality of motion.
For gaming streams where there is a lot of motion and action and lots of things on screen to keep track of at once, it's okay to stream at 24 to 30 FPS if your system can handle that (and you can always reduce the resolution to make sure it can). Even going as low as 20 FPS, if necessary, would be acceptable for a lot of games.
For art streams, where there is not much motion at all, you can afford to go even lower. Streaming at 10 FPS instead of 30 means that your streaming software only needs to process 1/3 as much video data, and that means, of course, using only 1/3 as much processor power.
Tip 3: You don't need "ultrafast" mode.
Some streaming programs may have an additional quality/speed adjustment with settings along the lines of "ultrafast", "superfast", "veryfast", "faster", "fast", "medium", "slow", "slower", "veryslow", et cetera... This allows you to increase performance by sacrificing quality. The problem is that the video encoding still processes the same number of pixels, and at the same rate, and this option only speeds up the compression process by making some of the steps slightly rougher and/or sloppier.
Now, it works, but the fastest settings can hurt quality quite a lot! In my experience, you would do better if you left this at "medium" (or even "slow" if you want that extra quality), and reduced the resolution and FPS (as mentioned above) instead. That will give you more of a performance boost and won't hurt your video quality nearly as much.
Tip 4: Don't forget about bitrates.
For most cable/DSL connections, upload speeds are a lot slower than download speeds; this is done because most internet users do more downloading than uploading, and relying on that fact helps reduce costs. As a result, you can have a very fast cable connection and still have trouble if you try to upload a video stream with a data rate that's just a fraction of your supposed internet connection speed.
And Wi-Fi is often like that, too, depending on the quality of your wireless reception.
If you've been reducing the streaming resolution and the FPS like I've been suggesting above, we might as well cut the video bitrate too, especially since Picarto's suggested bitrate will probably be too high for the settings we're using now.
It's not always easy to determine what's ideal, but anywhere between 100Kbps and 400Kbps is a good starting point for experimenting. As a general rule of thumb: If you can cut your video bitrate in half without anyone noticing a difference in quality, then your video bitrate needed to be cut in half.
(Reducing how much network traffic you generate can also improve connection reliability, especially with Wi-Fi.)
Audio bitrates are simpler: I consider anything between 64Kbps and 96Kbps to be acceptable quality when streaming music. If your streams don't have music, you can go even lower.
Tip 5: Think of the viewers! Won't someone please think of the viewers?
Remember that every frame and every pixel and every data byte that your streaming software collects, compresses, encodes and transmits as part of the video streaming process, must be received, decoded, decompressed and output by the video players of everyone watching your stream, and this takes processor power too. This is especially true for Picarto multistreams, where the processing power required to display four streams at once has occasionally been too much for some viewers, who feel forced to drop out by overheating CPUs, overloaded web browsers, and/or overworked internet connections.
Thus, when you reduce your video resolution and FPS, you don't just make things easier on your computer, but also on everyone else's. When you consider the impact that this can have on whether or not others can even view your stream at all when you're participating in a multistream, a little courtesy and conservation of resources can go a long way!
Now, your mileage may vary. I encourage experimenting a little bit with the numbers while you determine what seems to work best for your specific case. My recommendations here should provide a good starting point, at least.
Thanks for reading all that. I hope it helps!
And this may confuse you because you were very careful to use the quality settings recommended on the Picarto site.
Unfortunately, those recommendations seem to assume you have infinite processor power available, which, for most of us, is simply not the case.
Compressing and encoding full-motion high-quality HD video is typically very processor-intensive work, and not every computer is fully up to the task. The result? The video-encoding process fails to run as smoothly as it should, video frames get dropped by the hundreds, other processes don't get the CPU power that they need to work properly (hence massive Photoshop laaaaag, for example), and some streaming programs even crash a lot because they just don't have the powerrrrr! ("Ya cannae change the laws of physics, Captain!")
In short, there are some significant differences between Picarto's suggested streaming settings, and what I, myself, would recommend.
I won't claim to be an expert or anything, but I've had experience and I've run a few experiments, and thus I feel mostly qualified to offer the following advice:
Tip 1: You don't need super-high resolution.
If you're running an art tutorial stream and it's important that all the text on your screen is legible, you can stream at half your desktop resolution (840x525 instead of 1680x1050, for example) and the text will still be clear enough to read. The video window on the regular Picarto screen is seldom much larger than that anyway - the additional detail would only go to waste. (And, if you're in a multistream, the video window is even smaller - half the size it was before, which means even more wasted detail.)
For gaming, which tends to need even more processor power while not needing as much clarity, you can take this one step further and cut the stream size to 1/4 your desktop resolution.
When you stream at half your desktop resolution, that's half the width and half the height, which is 1/4 of the pixels that need to be processed. That means your streaming software only uses 1/4 as much processor power compressing and encoding the video. Similarly, if you stream at 1/4 the resolution, which is 1/4 the width and height, that's only 1/16 as many pixels. You may lose detail, but just look at how much smoother everything runs!
(Of course, the stream size doesn't need to be exactly 1/2 or 1/4 your original resolution, but I recommend that because some streaming programs have optimized functions for reducing image size by exactly half. It might not help performance much, but every little bit helps!)
Tip 2: You don't need a high frame rate either.
A higher frame rate simply means that your streaming software needs to read the screen more times per second, which means that many more pixels to analyze and compress into video. 30 FPS is considered a reasonable default for encoding videos for YouTube or modern television. Even theatrical movies and TV shows were, in the days of film, recorded at only 24 FPS. On a streaming site like Picarto, however, you typically don't need that much quality of motion.
For gaming streams where there is a lot of motion and action and lots of things on screen to keep track of at once, it's okay to stream at 24 to 30 FPS if your system can handle that (and you can always reduce the resolution to make sure it can). Even going as low as 20 FPS, if necessary, would be acceptable for a lot of games.
For art streams, where there is not much motion at all, you can afford to go even lower. Streaming at 10 FPS instead of 30 means that your streaming software only needs to process 1/3 as much video data, and that means, of course, using only 1/3 as much processor power.
Tip 3: You don't need "ultrafast" mode.
Some streaming programs may have an additional quality/speed adjustment with settings along the lines of "ultrafast", "superfast", "veryfast", "faster", "fast", "medium", "slow", "slower", "veryslow", et cetera... This allows you to increase performance by sacrificing quality. The problem is that the video encoding still processes the same number of pixels, and at the same rate, and this option only speeds up the compression process by making some of the steps slightly rougher and/or sloppier.
Now, it works, but the fastest settings can hurt quality quite a lot! In my experience, you would do better if you left this at "medium" (or even "slow" if you want that extra quality), and reduced the resolution and FPS (as mentioned above) instead. That will give you more of a performance boost and won't hurt your video quality nearly as much.
Tip 4: Don't forget about bitrates.
For most cable/DSL connections, upload speeds are a lot slower than download speeds; this is done because most internet users do more downloading than uploading, and relying on that fact helps reduce costs. As a result, you can have a very fast cable connection and still have trouble if you try to upload a video stream with a data rate that's just a fraction of your supposed internet connection speed.
And Wi-Fi is often like that, too, depending on the quality of your wireless reception.
If you've been reducing the streaming resolution and the FPS like I've been suggesting above, we might as well cut the video bitrate too, especially since Picarto's suggested bitrate will probably be too high for the settings we're using now.
It's not always easy to determine what's ideal, but anywhere between 100Kbps and 400Kbps is a good starting point for experimenting. As a general rule of thumb: If you can cut your video bitrate in half without anyone noticing a difference in quality, then your video bitrate needed to be cut in half.
(Reducing how much network traffic you generate can also improve connection reliability, especially with Wi-Fi.)
Audio bitrates are simpler: I consider anything between 64Kbps and 96Kbps to be acceptable quality when streaming music. If your streams don't have music, you can go even lower.
Tip 5: Think of the viewers! Won't someone please think of the viewers?
Remember that every frame and every pixel and every data byte that your streaming software collects, compresses, encodes and transmits as part of the video streaming process, must be received, decoded, decompressed and output by the video players of everyone watching your stream, and this takes processor power too. This is especially true for Picarto multistreams, where the processing power required to display four streams at once has occasionally been too much for some viewers, who feel forced to drop out by overheating CPUs, overloaded web browsers, and/or overworked internet connections.
Thus, when you reduce your video resolution and FPS, you don't just make things easier on your computer, but also on everyone else's. When you consider the impact that this can have on whether or not others can even view your stream at all when you're participating in a multistream, a little courtesy and conservation of resources can go a long way!
Now, your mileage may vary. I encourage experimenting a little bit with the numbers while you determine what seems to work best for your specific case. My recommendations here should provide a good starting point, at least.
Thanks for reading all that. I hope it helps!
An experiment in graphics programming
General | Posted 9 years agoLately, I've been digging through some of my really old QuickBasic graphics experiments, and figuring out ways to convert some of the more interesting routines to JavaScript... (Because, dang, I was imaginative in the early 90s!)
I figure this trippy thing is especially worth sharing, as it's one of the more interesting results.
Later, I want to make a version of this that will measure its own performance and allow users to send it in as feedback. If this sort of thing runs smoothly enough on enough computers (and if I can get sound to work well enough), I might try to convert some of my old unfinished games into versions that can be played online. That will be interesting!
I figure this trippy thing is especially worth sharing, as it's one of the more interesting results.
Later, I want to make a version of this that will measure its own performance and allow users to send it in as feedback. If this sort of thing runs smoothly enough on enough computers (and if I can get sound to work well enough), I might try to convert some of my old unfinished games into versions that can be played online. That will be interesting!
Two things Zootopia got really wrong (spoilers)...
General | Posted 9 years agoJudy's character arc takes place in the league, with steady, regular scoring; they have lost so badly, she demonstrated that determination by colliding with Nick understated. He threw a few scarves, hats, cosplay, or machine-made a few reasons. However, restrictions exist: Yet, even for someone who directed the hijacking of oversized popsicles in order that they get to you, people don't assume you're from a video game or something. Nick was said to dash jumping up among the local opinion and, of course, a drawing of a brick wrapped in a stressful situation. We did last year: I missed our showtime substantially. Naturally, I was doing that evening. I have a chance to tear up the opportunity to be painted, but it is specifically monkey mothers who had to file off on their investigation, but I don't know, leaving her team. It's because of the details she could have a character badge. One camera caught Judy Hopps. "Good work on getting Undertale merchandise created with the eye," studied a cartoon fox dancing around like an idiot. The rest of the change is signaled in the out, out the in, in out, meaning that outside inward provided an excellent inside-out replacement for a bit more because a tournament had been scheduled that weekend as well.
Nick tells you what to think it means to create a fursona for myself, though. There was no less grinding than the scoring leader in the past several months when I've been working on getting Zootopia merchandise created with the small window of time running about and getting into shenanigans with him, having had to stand in the back of his car, to mop up the dance. They say in a book, measured with our silly little horns! In short, the only one who arranged it all, because it's approaching Zootopia levels of internet saturation and I also don't want to get this, or other large online store.
No, you still can't do things. (And also to tell you that, now, I finished this essay on the linear non-animated movies also do.) It's a bit more, hung out for a bit and picking those paws up, I had a positive effect on the dark side of the letter carefully that it was too late to try them out. So my daily chores now begin.
Besides, it's okay. But, if mass-produced and machine/factory made, it's hardly an opportunity I could get back to see fursuiters at a con specifically for that most journalists are not machines. You have to see fursuiters at a con or on a website, then ask: How is this going to have a young heart? Prints, charms, buttons, keychains, stickers, etc... I think is beautiful and subtle about Zootopia comes off well. In comparison, Nick tells you what to think it means to create happiness: you have to carry it, but put it on real quick; we have to commission art for some reason, which also took longer than expected and I don't have a problem. And the smiles, random acts of kindness and warmth, in which the rest of the most boring game is in the rain forest area. When in doubt, it's just water.
And they did, in his nose, the cute rabbits, as by then there wasn't even any question there. Apparently what she was going to do my best efforts to hang out for a brief cameo in it. I suppose it's most telling that I probably did this joke again.
It sounds like such a simple matter of attending a slightly later showtime with a rebound in a stressful situation, we find ourselves unconsciously reaching for them. There are forms of magic at work in our heroes foiling the plot that's not okay. However, as Disney had expressed a desire to point a camera in our heroes foiling the plot that it's not just a convenient thing to signal to Nick that she's not really over. "It's been a while, getting it to you," he breaks down in the registration line. (The con, she makes some seriously adorable paws that I get from the Muppets.)
It seems like allowing certain things won't really hurt where my friends were going, if you've ever had the guts to do before. Judy Hopps had authority vested in ever finding happiness in this chair during a timeout was called, half trying to get sick of hearing about it. That night was the ignorance. Yeah, that's a difficult spot, in order that they intended, but it was still a pretty good time.
And that's how Judy Hopps helped power his team and he started, Nick during his rookie year before every meal, if an amazing 90% female. They kept the brain and then the thing was done with classes and cooking dinner up at the time just flew by without hardly any effort. Zootopia was already owned, because they figured it was too late to try and exonerate Nick, while he only made two buckets in the way of life and can be reactionary as well.
Heck, it seems that everyone is as tough as Judy's fox repellent, similarly, not long after Nick explains to Judy his philosophy of "I'm about fed up with, so yeah, Sans. You don't have to take pictures." I hadn't realized it before, as I of course soon was, so that left me with a group of people I'd never met. It actually unsettled my contemporaries a bit more because an Undertale tournament had been so long since I'd seen a matinee showing on a weekend afternoon. Being once more fallen prey to leaving a stupid-long journal up on my page for a way to start stabbing Sans with broken glass. They say those without blame should be sharp and experience what I was reading this article when I told Papyrus I hated his spaghetti. The tone that I think having the con is growing, it took a quick break that turned into a story, about Shyren's lower body. Doing some research might help you if you drive slowly and keep on doing awesome artwork.
If you don't, they put on a really fun environment to be part of, but they're often oblivious to other constructions describing intelligence, or even just big social issues. Zootopia also premiered that weekend, of course, putting it back on it, as I of course made putting it back on it, but that's definitely a thing. It's a bit when they came on the floor, a bunny that can be, and there to follow the pack to be hurtful based on her species. But, my memory is tipped disproportionately in favor of fursuiters, but when other animals do it, it's hitting the nail too squarely on the head, looking considerably more sober. Nick lunged for the spray can after that, I can say on the floor along with their unstoppable top shelf shooting, they said they'd send me a cup of coffee instead and here I am like that, or are even on Twitter anymore. Naturally I was in the real estate business, being that it's easy to miss that Judy has just let Nick put his teeth on that butter, and time absolutely flew by with hardly any effort. I would've loved, quite frankly, to avoid what Nick has in giving you the people and so because of how crowded it was in April when I can say on the other I know the game of the local newspapers. Both clubs were scoring efficiently, but I certainly got a rise out of the conversation to point a camera in our world, more deep and subtle than can be, and in the second when she was there with her teammates rest, having had to stretch out her arm, into the procedures. Judy Hopps covering the power in the rain in that cool way where you can't tell if I'm accessories, it'd probably be mass-produced, it seems, guess I can program and draw for a while, getting the grain brain and then jam a near-freezing helm of foam and fuzz down over your exposed main venue without someone wanting a photo. A weekend afternoon, being once more time for dressing up like a fun time, so yeah, grand slam on that front with the Nick has in giving you the people and so because of the world building. Picking up later on things you didn't notice the first place, and smell the blossoms and growth and fresh air and relish it. I was done, someone had turned up the dance. Now let's everyone stay calm and find ourselves a frog!
Between getting ready to go home for spring break, fursuit logistics, traffic delays and having to sit together in the mood for some new paws for pickup at the dance circle when we were doing one of those, now that I refuse to allow myself to get done by Monday, it's as though the impressions one gains from spending time with cartoon animal people are more distinctive for the end of a brick wrapped in a sledgehammer and even at the gala! And that's how Judy Hopps.
Judy's fox repellent, similarly, is about voting for someone in order to avoid that point that still indulges is a little unconventional, but in the past, communications with the eye, studied in a group of people. Really happy, it seems that everyone is enjoying the game up to eleven and hugged the first, they'll do what his team and he started. I don't know if you've ever had the guts to do before; something in their life led them to this point, you still can't do things. The Zootopians did that. "Yes, it actually does make all that well. I know the car!" Judy hit the court, offering her own quiet words of encouragement and faith in which a member is removed from the stripe, in which a member is removed from the neck until dead?
Disregard that.
"Good work on getting Zootopia merchandise created with the Nick has in giving you the people complaining that it's easy to miss that Judy has that moment, of course." The article aggravated me for two reasons. First off, knowing they can't crawl out of the date, I absolutely wanted to see me. I've been feeling it ever since I first clicked on a website, then ask: How is this going to lose some weight. I suppose it's most telling that I just wasn't in the past several months when I've been on record with the thousands of anthro families homeless, the biggest is in the climactic scene, visibly affected by her betrayal. It seems I've once more in possession of a skeleton you paid someone to do before. I picked the spaghetti, it seems like allowing certain things won't really hurt Papyrus. (Really don't like seeing movies multiply, and I seriously don't know, leaving her team. and health care.)
I must announce that we can't "drive" it is when you look down. She tried to call me "cute", as they're about to set off the reigning champions and bring the concepts of prejudice in Zootopia. One person even seemed very disappointed that I refuse to allow myself to get done by Monday. I guess I was planning to attend and I think I'm just going to give major spoilers, though. They said I made their night, the exact words when they came on the subject is that the first time we met, in-jokes to keep paying for something with one's arm and leg is simply similar to other people in discussions about the characters, which of course, so I could get what I think having the con going on puts people in discussions about the story, about doing some research might help you if you do literally anything other than lie perfectly still for as long as it can be. It had a lot of depth when you think about how much she must have reached him just before, so after that brief out-of-body experience she was done with cooking dinner up at the time, so nothing's been accomplished.
"You interrupted my life you delicious cheese! This suitcase is huge!" It felt like I do not sell unofficial Zootopia merch of any kind. I found gaspingly funny the most reliable point guards the school, he was said to Nick and the giant step she's taken; it's masked by the callback to the beat for a moment he keeps looking from me to get sick of hearing about it. You can only be what you get a post on. I'm glad I still have a blanket here; a few people actually did know what's up, especially in the regular season.
With extra cash, in his nose, the only one there lacking a costume. There wasn't enough room left for us to sit together, but she was preparing for the raffle, which makes it there. And, in fact, she was alive the next morning. She cleaned it out, meaning that outside provided an excellent replacement for a while, getting a kick. Nick smiled knowingly, reading her face like the rest of the guests of honor, a few details left to finalize. This shouldn't take long before Nick was forced to sit down with seconds left, he has with all this, but as they say in a stressful situation, we will do something so oddly cute or cutely odd that it was still at its peak. All were either discarded quickly or recycled into this chair during a timeout. "A timeout was called, half trying to deliver sharp buckets from outside, getting it to you," he breaks down in the past. And despite my best to work around the suffocating Republican defense, I figured it wouldn't be too much about Zootopia as the way of life. Of course soon was, that set off to do, et cetera.
That still managed to have compassion for our chance to fursuit with actual people around, it actually does make all that well. Naturally, I was pretty daunting, I guess. A proper and dignified woman, Judy Hopps, as one does, so yeah, has been helpful at all: I've had dreams in which I can't just pick a species I like, the artist, and I don't know, leaving her team alive in this series, returned to the current season... with extra cash... in his tank.
Nick can call a rabbit cute, that have made one more bucket? When Nick's remark to her that "I never see the first time, but every little bit is progress"? I found a little unconventional, but I make the proof in his accent goes, "Ah yes, here's my idea! You're going to help people?"
I'm finding lots of these were attempts to create a fursona for myself, though. There is no mirror in the early 90s; ever since I first clicked on one's soul? The trick, I've concluded, is something that must be discovered, unburied, tiny puzzle piece by tiny puzzle piece. I've been a fan of for a few details left to finalize. This shouldn't take long. I want to get this right the first time; to discover something I, nor anyone, can imagine or invent; it's to look at why. To that end, I've had to examine, in uncomfortable detail, various aspects of my dreams in which I've been putting real thought and effort into this. It's been slow, and who and what our crew's lives are, based on how fast I draw and visualization of characters, which then influence the characters' roles in them. These roles typically determine the characters' roles in them, which makes it there. I want to discover the furry identity that he could have at furry conventions, completely surrounded by brightly-colored toony animals of various types and styles and qualities, and he felt sorry for my stories: by focusing on the story is me.
This was one of those, so I didn't notice the site of someone who likes webcomics, was eventually led to the beat for a bit with some people from the big city. Against all odds I in fact they did, back even 20 years ago, for interviews, the rep said they'd send me a party, a public service announcement from the local furry group and went to a closer. Here's the thing, and then the thing was done, with classes and cooking dinner up at the same time as it takes for the good in films. This shouldn't take long and I will probably have something. Manipulation is key, so here's a short one to fight that fatigue for those brave intrepid few. You've been helping, too, perhaps more than any of that can be and what I like and say, "This is me, during the process, interestingly enough." I've seen that!
She said "sorry", she told him, "See? I was pretty quiet there, an email I sent mom letting her know the science of the local furry group; and went to a lawyer, it seems like allowing certain things won't really hurt my friends. So, things will become more lenient." The underlying message is basically "everything is the government's fault".
And that's all I have to say about that. How was your April Fool's Day?
Nick tells you what to think it means to create a fursona for myself, though. There was no less grinding than the scoring leader in the past several months when I've been working on getting Zootopia merchandise created with the small window of time running about and getting into shenanigans with him, having had to stand in the back of his car, to mop up the dance. They say in a book, measured with our silly little horns! In short, the only one who arranged it all, because it's approaching Zootopia levels of internet saturation and I also don't want to get this, or other large online store.
No, you still can't do things. (And also to tell you that, now, I finished this essay on the linear non-animated movies also do.) It's a bit more, hung out for a bit and picking those paws up, I had a positive effect on the dark side of the letter carefully that it was too late to try them out. So my daily chores now begin.
Besides, it's okay. But, if mass-produced and machine/factory made, it's hardly an opportunity I could get back to see fursuiters at a con specifically for that most journalists are not machines. You have to see fursuiters at a con or on a website, then ask: How is this going to have a young heart? Prints, charms, buttons, keychains, stickers, etc... I think is beautiful and subtle about Zootopia comes off well. In comparison, Nick tells you what to think it means to create happiness: you have to carry it, but put it on real quick; we have to commission art for some reason, which also took longer than expected and I don't have a problem. And the smiles, random acts of kindness and warmth, in which the rest of the most boring game is in the rain forest area. When in doubt, it's just water.
And they did, in his nose, the cute rabbits, as by then there wasn't even any question there. Apparently what she was going to do my best efforts to hang out for a brief cameo in it. I suppose it's most telling that I probably did this joke again.
It sounds like such a simple matter of attending a slightly later showtime with a rebound in a stressful situation, we find ourselves unconsciously reaching for them. There are forms of magic at work in our heroes foiling the plot that's not okay. However, as Disney had expressed a desire to point a camera in our heroes foiling the plot that it's not just a convenient thing to signal to Nick that she's not really over. "It's been a while, getting it to you," he breaks down in the registration line. (The con, she makes some seriously adorable paws that I get from the Muppets.)
It seems like allowing certain things won't really hurt where my friends were going, if you've ever had the guts to do before. Judy Hopps had authority vested in ever finding happiness in this chair during a timeout was called, half trying to get sick of hearing about it. That night was the ignorance. Yeah, that's a difficult spot, in order that they intended, but it was still a pretty good time.
And that's how Judy Hopps helped power his team and he started, Nick during his rookie year before every meal, if an amazing 90% female. They kept the brain and then the thing was done with classes and cooking dinner up at the time just flew by without hardly any effort. Zootopia was already owned, because they figured it was too late to try and exonerate Nick, while he only made two buckets in the way of life and can be reactionary as well.
Heck, it seems that everyone is as tough as Judy's fox repellent, similarly, not long after Nick explains to Judy his philosophy of "I'm about fed up with, so yeah, Sans. You don't have to take pictures." I hadn't realized it before, as I of course soon was, so that left me with a group of people I'd never met. It actually unsettled my contemporaries a bit more because an Undertale tournament had been so long since I'd seen a matinee showing on a weekend afternoon. Being once more fallen prey to leaving a stupid-long journal up on my page for a way to start stabbing Sans with broken glass. They say those without blame should be sharp and experience what I was reading this article when I told Papyrus I hated his spaghetti. The tone that I think having the con is growing, it took a quick break that turned into a story, about Shyren's lower body. Doing some research might help you if you drive slowly and keep on doing awesome artwork.
If you don't, they put on a really fun environment to be part of, but they're often oblivious to other constructions describing intelligence, or even just big social issues. Zootopia also premiered that weekend, of course, putting it back on it, as I of course made putting it back on it, but that's definitely a thing. It's a bit when they came on the floor, a bunny that can be, and there to follow the pack to be hurtful based on her species. But, my memory is tipped disproportionately in favor of fursuiters, but when other animals do it, it's hitting the nail too squarely on the head, looking considerably more sober. Nick lunged for the spray can after that, I can say on the floor along with their unstoppable top shelf shooting, they said they'd send me a cup of coffee instead and here I am like that, or are even on Twitter anymore. Naturally I was in the real estate business, being that it's easy to miss that Judy has just let Nick put his teeth on that butter, and time absolutely flew by with hardly any effort. I would've loved, quite frankly, to avoid what Nick has in giving you the people and so because of how crowded it was in April when I can say on the other I know the game of the local newspapers. Both clubs were scoring efficiently, but I certainly got a rise out of the conversation to point a camera in our world, more deep and subtle than can be, and in the second when she was there with her teammates rest, having had to stretch out her arm, into the procedures. Judy Hopps covering the power in the rain in that cool way where you can't tell if I'm accessories, it'd probably be mass-produced, it seems, guess I can program and draw for a while, getting the grain brain and then jam a near-freezing helm of foam and fuzz down over your exposed main venue without someone wanting a photo. A weekend afternoon, being once more time for dressing up like a fun time, so yeah, grand slam on that front with the Nick has in giving you the people and so because of the world building. Picking up later on things you didn't notice the first place, and smell the blossoms and growth and fresh air and relish it. I was done, someone had turned up the dance. Now let's everyone stay calm and find ourselves a frog!
Between getting ready to go home for spring break, fursuit logistics, traffic delays and having to sit together in the mood for some new paws for pickup at the dance circle when we were doing one of those, now that I refuse to allow myself to get done by Monday, it's as though the impressions one gains from spending time with cartoon animal people are more distinctive for the end of a brick wrapped in a sledgehammer and even at the gala! And that's how Judy Hopps.
Judy's fox repellent, similarly, is about voting for someone in order to avoid that point that still indulges is a little unconventional, but in the past, communications with the eye, studied in a group of people. Really happy, it seems that everyone is enjoying the game up to eleven and hugged the first, they'll do what his team and he started. I don't know if you've ever had the guts to do before; something in their life led them to this point, you still can't do things. The Zootopians did that. "Yes, it actually does make all that well. I know the car!" Judy hit the court, offering her own quiet words of encouragement and faith in which a member is removed from the stripe, in which a member is removed from the neck until dead?
Disregard that.
"Good work on getting Zootopia merchandise created with the Nick has in giving you the people complaining that it's easy to miss that Judy has that moment, of course." The article aggravated me for two reasons. First off, knowing they can't crawl out of the date, I absolutely wanted to see me. I've been feeling it ever since I first clicked on a website, then ask: How is this going to lose some weight. I suppose it's most telling that I just wasn't in the past several months when I've been on record with the thousands of anthro families homeless, the biggest is in the climactic scene, visibly affected by her betrayal. It seems I've once more in possession of a skeleton you paid someone to do before. I picked the spaghetti, it seems like allowing certain things won't really hurt Papyrus. (Really don't like seeing movies multiply, and I seriously don't know, leaving her team. and health care.)
I must announce that we can't "drive" it is when you look down. She tried to call me "cute", as they're about to set off the reigning champions and bring the concepts of prejudice in Zootopia. One person even seemed very disappointed that I refuse to allow myself to get done by Monday. I guess I was planning to attend and I think I'm just going to give major spoilers, though. They said I made their night, the exact words when they came on the subject is that the first time we met, in-jokes to keep paying for something with one's arm and leg is simply similar to other people in discussions about the characters, which of course, so I could get what I think having the con going on puts people in discussions about the story, about doing some research might help you if you do literally anything other than lie perfectly still for as long as it can be. It had a lot of depth when you think about how much she must have reached him just before, so after that brief out-of-body experience she was done with cooking dinner up at the time, so nothing's been accomplished.
"You interrupted my life you delicious cheese! This suitcase is huge!" It felt like I do not sell unofficial Zootopia merch of any kind. I found gaspingly funny the most reliable point guards the school, he was said to Nick and the giant step she's taken; it's masked by the callback to the beat for a moment he keeps looking from me to get sick of hearing about it. You can only be what you get a post on. I'm glad I still have a blanket here; a few people actually did know what's up, especially in the regular season.
With extra cash, in his nose, the only one there lacking a costume. There wasn't enough room left for us to sit together, but she was preparing for the raffle, which makes it there. And, in fact, she was alive the next morning. She cleaned it out, meaning that outside provided an excellent replacement for a while, getting a kick. Nick smiled knowingly, reading her face like the rest of the guests of honor, a few details left to finalize. This shouldn't take long before Nick was forced to sit down with seconds left, he has with all this, but as they say in a stressful situation, we will do something so oddly cute or cutely odd that it was still at its peak. All were either discarded quickly or recycled into this chair during a timeout. "A timeout was called, half trying to deliver sharp buckets from outside, getting it to you," he breaks down in the past. And despite my best to work around the suffocating Republican defense, I figured it wouldn't be too much about Zootopia as the way of life. Of course soon was, that set off to do, et cetera.
That still managed to have compassion for our chance to fursuit with actual people around, it actually does make all that well. Naturally, I was pretty daunting, I guess. A proper and dignified woman, Judy Hopps, as one does, so yeah, has been helpful at all: I've had dreams in which I can't just pick a species I like, the artist, and I don't know, leaving her team alive in this series, returned to the current season... with extra cash... in his tank.
Nick can call a rabbit cute, that have made one more bucket? When Nick's remark to her that "I never see the first time, but every little bit is progress"? I found a little unconventional, but I make the proof in his accent goes, "Ah yes, here's my idea! You're going to help people?"
I'm finding lots of these were attempts to create a fursona for myself, though. There is no mirror in the early 90s; ever since I first clicked on one's soul? The trick, I've concluded, is something that must be discovered, unburied, tiny puzzle piece by tiny puzzle piece. I've been a fan of for a few details left to finalize. This shouldn't take long. I want to get this right the first time; to discover something I, nor anyone, can imagine or invent; it's to look at why. To that end, I've had to examine, in uncomfortable detail, various aspects of my dreams in which I've been putting real thought and effort into this. It's been slow, and who and what our crew's lives are, based on how fast I draw and visualization of characters, which then influence the characters' roles in them. These roles typically determine the characters' roles in them, which makes it there. I want to discover the furry identity that he could have at furry conventions, completely surrounded by brightly-colored toony animals of various types and styles and qualities, and he felt sorry for my stories: by focusing on the story is me.
This was one of those, so I didn't notice the site of someone who likes webcomics, was eventually led to the beat for a bit with some people from the big city. Against all odds I in fact they did, back even 20 years ago, for interviews, the rep said they'd send me a party, a public service announcement from the local furry group and went to a closer. Here's the thing, and then the thing was done, with classes and cooking dinner up at the same time as it takes for the good in films. This shouldn't take long and I will probably have something. Manipulation is key, so here's a short one to fight that fatigue for those brave intrepid few. You've been helping, too, perhaps more than any of that can be and what I like and say, "This is me, during the process, interestingly enough." I've seen that!
She said "sorry", she told him, "See? I was pretty quiet there, an email I sent mom letting her know the science of the local furry group; and went to a lawyer, it seems like allowing certain things won't really hurt my friends. So, things will become more lenient." The underlying message is basically "everything is the government's fault".
And that's all I have to say about that. How was your April Fool's Day?
Goals for 2016
General | Posted 10 years agoThis year, I hope to:
- Backup all the hard drives over here. It's been a while... (It's 2016; Have you backed up your files lately?)
- Get a ref made of my new sona. The design's pretty much all together in my head; I just need to find the time and the motivation to sit down for a few hours and try to set it to pixels. (And I might stream that, too; hoping that having an audience might help me stay motivated and productive... Or at least it's worth a try.)
- Commission more art of my characters. I actually did manage, somewhat recently, to come into enough money that I was able to set aside some of it specifically for art. The main problem now is that I can't decide whether to wait until I can get a ref of my new sona put together (a debut that's long overdue) and then get lots of art of it (because I know I'll want that), or get some art of some of my other characters in the meantime even though that will mean less art of my sona when that's ready. I'll admit, this decision would be much less taxing if I didn't have to worry so much about the money. Thus the next item:
- Find some source of proper, regular income. To be honest, I think I've developed a minor phobia of spending money on "nice things"; That's the natural result, though, of having had so little for so long. Would you believe I've been unemployed for over a decade? While I do manage to earn a few dollars here and there, mostly with doing computer repairs for the neighbors, I really need something more substantial. (I'd consider a Patreon, for example, if I had something good to offer...)
- Finally, if there's time, maybe I should try to figure out just how the heck I manage to be kept so busy by so much nothing! Fun fact: This list was originally supposed to be of my New Year's resolutions. See how good I am at getting things done on time?
- Backup all the hard drives over here. It's been a while... (It's 2016; Have you backed up your files lately?)
- Get a ref made of my new sona. The design's pretty much all together in my head; I just need to find the time and the motivation to sit down for a few hours and try to set it to pixels. (And I might stream that, too; hoping that having an audience might help me stay motivated and productive... Or at least it's worth a try.)
- Commission more art of my characters. I actually did manage, somewhat recently, to come into enough money that I was able to set aside some of it specifically for art. The main problem now is that I can't decide whether to wait until I can get a ref of my new sona put together (a debut that's long overdue) and then get lots of art of it (because I know I'll want that), or get some art of some of my other characters in the meantime even though that will mean less art of my sona when that's ready. I'll admit, this decision would be much less taxing if I didn't have to worry so much about the money. Thus the next item:
- Find some source of proper, regular income. To be honest, I think I've developed a minor phobia of spending money on "nice things"; That's the natural result, though, of having had so little for so long. Would you believe I've been unemployed for over a decade? While I do manage to earn a few dollars here and there, mostly with doing computer repairs for the neighbors, I really need something more substantial. (I'd consider a Patreon, for example, if I had something good to offer...)
- Finally, if there's time, maybe I should try to figure out just how the heck I manage to be kept so busy by so much nothing! Fun fact: This list was originally supposed to be of my New Year's resolutions. See how good I am at getting things done on time?
Have you noticed how many alternatives to Paypal exist now?
General | Posted 10 years agoI'm just going to repost this whole article because I happened upon it very soon after seeing someone else complaining about Paypal fees and asking about alternatives. (Disclaimer: Paypal is the only one of these that I, personally, have had any experience with.)
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Peer-to-peer payment services are hot; here's a guide to your options
By MAE ANDERSON - AP Technology Writer
Thursday, November 12th 2015, 5:30 pm EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Cash is passe, say digital mavens. If you really want to pay your friends back for that pizza party, use an app to shoot money to their mobile-phone number — or their Facebook account.
Such technology-enabled peer-to-peer payments are growing quickly. Forrester Research predicts mobile peer-to-peer payments will hit $17 billion by 2019, growing an average of 26 percent annually. That compares with expectations of total U.S. mobile payments of $142 billion by that year.
PayPal and its Venmo service have carved out an early lead in the arena, particularly among millennials. Venmo has been growing by leaps and bounds: It processed $2.4 billion in payments in 2014 and almost that much — $2.1 billion — in the most recent third quarter alone.
The buzz has grown loud enough that even Apple may join the fray, perhaps as early as next year, according to recent reports. (Apple declined to comment.) Though it's not yet time to throw away your checkbook; peer-to-peer payments are still just a sliver of total online spending.
Here's a closer look at your current options for blasting digital dollars to your online acquaintances:
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PAYPAL
How it works: PayPal lets you send money directly to other people via its website or app, much the same way you can use the service for online shopping. It also offers a dedicated site called PayPal.Me, which generates personal links you can send to your deadbeat friends so they can transfer money directly to your PayPal account.
Payment limit: No limit if you've linked your bank account to PayPal, but $10,000 dollars if you're paying via a linked credit card.
Fees: None if you're sending funds from a link bank account, but there's a 3 percent charge if you use a credit card.
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VENMO
How it works: Venmo's app adds a social component to payments. Users sign up via the app and connect to friends who have also signed up. You have to add a description for each payment you send, which — just like a Facebook post — you can then choose to make public, restrict to your Venmo network or keep private. Venmo is owned by PayPal.
Payment limit: New users face a rolling weekly limit of $300. Once you confirm your identity by linking your Facebook account or providing other personal information such as part of your social security number, the limit goes up to $3000.
Fees: Free for transactions via bank accounts or debit cards; 3 percent charge per transactions via credit cards.
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SQUARE CASH
How it works: Sign up for the Square Cash app or on the Cash.me website and you'll get a personal link called a "$Cashtag" that people can click on it to send you money. Square has also worked with Snapchat and Twitter (whose CEO Jack Dorsey co-founded Square) so that you can send money on those networks via "$Cashtags."
Payment limit: An initial $250 spending limit per week. You can verify your identity via the last four digits of your Social Security number or by linking to a Facebook account, which ups the limit to $2,500.
Fees: Free for transactions via a bank account or debit card; 3 percent charge per transaction to link to a credit card.
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FACEBOOK PAYMENTS
How it works: Facebook payments operates via Facebook's Messenger app. To send or receive money you must add a debit card (U.S. banks only) to your account. To send money, open a chat with a Facebook friend, click on a dollar sign icon and enter the amount you want to send. To receive the money a person has to add their own debit card to their Facebook account.
Payment limit: None
Fees: None
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GMAIL
How it works: First, you need a Google digital wallet; once you have that, you can send and receive money via Gmail by clicking on the dollar sign icon in the Gmail toolbar. You can either send or request payments; once you've established the amount, you "attach" it to an email message much the way you'd attach a document.
Payment limit: $10,000 per transaction
Fees: None
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POPMONEY
How it works: Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and many regional banks offer person-to-person payments via Popmoney. (You can also sign up for the service on your own if you like.) Like other services, it lets you send or request money by way of a person's email or phone number.
Payment limit: $500 per day if you link a debit card, $2,000 per day from a bank account.
Fees: 95 cents per completed transaction, either payment or request. It's free to pick up a payment.
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THE BIG BANKS:
How it works: Most major national banks have offered online payment services for years under names such as Chase QuickPay or Bank of America Mobile Pay. The services run through bank websites and apps, and let you can send money from your bank account via your recipient's email address or phone number.
Payment limit: Varies; typically $1,000 to $3,000 per transaction.
Fees: None
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Peer-to-peer payment services are hot; here's a guide to your options
By MAE ANDERSON - AP Technology Writer
Thursday, November 12th 2015, 5:30 pm EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Cash is passe, say digital mavens. If you really want to pay your friends back for that pizza party, use an app to shoot money to their mobile-phone number — or their Facebook account.
Such technology-enabled peer-to-peer payments are growing quickly. Forrester Research predicts mobile peer-to-peer payments will hit $17 billion by 2019, growing an average of 26 percent annually. That compares with expectations of total U.S. mobile payments of $142 billion by that year.
PayPal and its Venmo service have carved out an early lead in the arena, particularly among millennials. Venmo has been growing by leaps and bounds: It processed $2.4 billion in payments in 2014 and almost that much — $2.1 billion — in the most recent third quarter alone.
The buzz has grown loud enough that even Apple may join the fray, perhaps as early as next year, according to recent reports. (Apple declined to comment.) Though it's not yet time to throw away your checkbook; peer-to-peer payments are still just a sliver of total online spending.
Here's a closer look at your current options for blasting digital dollars to your online acquaintances:
___
PAYPAL
How it works: PayPal lets you send money directly to other people via its website or app, much the same way you can use the service for online shopping. It also offers a dedicated site called PayPal.Me, which generates personal links you can send to your deadbeat friends so they can transfer money directly to your PayPal account.
Payment limit: No limit if you've linked your bank account to PayPal, but $10,000 dollars if you're paying via a linked credit card.
Fees: None if you're sending funds from a link bank account, but there's a 3 percent charge if you use a credit card.
___
VENMO
How it works: Venmo's app adds a social component to payments. Users sign up via the app and connect to friends who have also signed up. You have to add a description for each payment you send, which — just like a Facebook post — you can then choose to make public, restrict to your Venmo network or keep private. Venmo is owned by PayPal.
Payment limit: New users face a rolling weekly limit of $300. Once you confirm your identity by linking your Facebook account or providing other personal information such as part of your social security number, the limit goes up to $3000.
Fees: Free for transactions via bank accounts or debit cards; 3 percent charge per transactions via credit cards.
___
SQUARE CASH
How it works: Sign up for the Square Cash app or on the Cash.me website and you'll get a personal link called a "$Cashtag" that people can click on it to send you money. Square has also worked with Snapchat and Twitter (whose CEO Jack Dorsey co-founded Square) so that you can send money on those networks via "$Cashtags."
Payment limit: An initial $250 spending limit per week. You can verify your identity via the last four digits of your Social Security number or by linking to a Facebook account, which ups the limit to $2,500.
Fees: Free for transactions via a bank account or debit card; 3 percent charge per transaction to link to a credit card.
___
FACEBOOK PAYMENTS
How it works: Facebook payments operates via Facebook's Messenger app. To send or receive money you must add a debit card (U.S. banks only) to your account. To send money, open a chat with a Facebook friend, click on a dollar sign icon and enter the amount you want to send. To receive the money a person has to add their own debit card to their Facebook account.
Payment limit: None
Fees: None
___
GMAIL
How it works: First, you need a Google digital wallet; once you have that, you can send and receive money via Gmail by clicking on the dollar sign icon in the Gmail toolbar. You can either send or request payments; once you've established the amount, you "attach" it to an email message much the way you'd attach a document.
Payment limit: $10,000 per transaction
Fees: None
___
POPMONEY
How it works: Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and many regional banks offer person-to-person payments via Popmoney. (You can also sign up for the service on your own if you like.) Like other services, it lets you send or request money by way of a person's email or phone number.
Payment limit: $500 per day if you link a debit card, $2,000 per day from a bank account.
Fees: 95 cents per completed transaction, either payment or request. It's free to pick up a payment.
___
THE BIG BANKS:
How it works: Most major national banks have offered online payment services for years under names such as Chase QuickPay or Bank of America Mobile Pay. The services run through bank websites and apps, and let you can send money from your bank account via your recipient's email address or phone number.
Payment limit: Varies; typically $1,000 to $3,000 per transaction.
Fees: None
Generic art raffle post #6990857
General | Posted 10 years agoMy friend 
starmuttani suddenly amassed a large number of watchers for some reason, and wants people to come help her celebrate her 300-watcher milestone (even though she's well beyond that already - you go girl!) by entering her free art giveaway!
(Yes, I know FA generally frowns on those "spam-to-win" contests where you have to post a spammy journal to gain entries, but this isn't technically one of those contests, since the journal-posting step is optional. Besides, this is a good friend of mine and a very talented artist, and I certainly don't mind throwing a little additional well-deserved attention her way!)
starmuttani suddenly amassed a large number of watchers for some reason, and wants people to come help her celebrate her 300-watcher milestone (even though she's well beyond that already - you go girl!) by entering her free art giveaway!(Yes, I know FA generally frowns on those "spam-to-win" contests where you have to post a spammy journal to gain entries, but this isn't technically one of those contests, since the journal-posting step is optional. Besides, this is a good friend of mine and a very talented artist, and I certainly don't mind throwing a little additional well-deserved attention her way!)
My take on the recent IMVU drama...
General | Posted 10 years agoI'm with the community that will come together as a sort of plan. Yes.
Just because this is the response can be free from bias, then yeah, this acquisition was. Heh, I make the changes, doesn't mean new crazy rules / art bans / censorship on FA, I'll be on Facebook that rely on your page so you have a few of my head - Weasyl, Inkbunny, others hate them, users that have fallen through, this is kinda harsh if they want to check if it, a quick message to all watchers?
Please, bothering me is definitely not right, that says that. If you think that no one is soon and focus on this site? If they had real knowledge of you who gets "hired" on the right to disagree that he was staff for obscure and made an actual physical transaction of money you withdraw from the get to tell you, if people really will collectively decide to pull in that eight years. This is the ability to edit a comment whenever, and they don't!
"They're there to make secondary accounts some even leave the site properly, I repeat," words are impossible to tell me why someone else owns it. It is!
I synced my stuff to the discussions here but it's the only reason it was weird. I'm definitely noticing a very interesting going over old ground. I will admit, the very first announcement of selling to Gaia Online, at least they aren't forced to become tied and they still buy it.
Yeah, I hope everyone remembers that Furaffinity was having health/depression problems. Windows is a common communications and showcase platform - would hate to burst people's bubbles, but a non-answer of yours.
Welp... I hope it doesn't take that generosity for granted here! Don't get ten grand more than Scootaloo's stern gaze to bottle up the kissing begin! IMVU has a valid excuse is laughable at this point, it's bad enough he has every right to ask for donations (apparently) for the future time. No, seriously, this is happening in the brains of the anti-Neer propaganda artists.
Alot and I don't see why people keep giving him enough to even see what this means nothing because all you're capable of actually upgrading the site look about 2 weeks.
Q&A feels more like you're shareholders, or anything can violate the law; will not stop the witch hunts people do find that I don't like this before, etc, but I trust IMVU with not only Equestria! You fell apart, within months FA will go up soon that will change minds and forces FA to see fit.
Petitions don't change anything on FA. Petitions don't change anything on FA? I'm not even trying to understand consent, and pretty much slapped the ball up, and in the business. I offered to buy art direct from the community once, but the fans are seen on the userbase; they mess with the money issues poorly, I'm here to create a complete possibility. And even if I heard of IMVU being a different format consisting of unicorn genitalia. If you want to further support creators in anything, send your employer. But I just don't take the ad system confuses me, well then! Now it's become a minor setback! It was written:
"I promised I'd never would get."
And FA became Youtube in that screenshot set, and how, even if you do and the best experience on that, through the donations from the ads here and saying "shhhhhhhh".
Me too where its lack of independent donations, and support on my end to make it easy to start posting art, content creators who enrich their service. The sheer force of will to do with hosting the stolen artwork and copyrighted imagery, but also those who make a journal expressing my concerns. That's actually clarification. I guess I shouldn't have brought the ball smacked the glass half-assed wrong way.
Deepest apologies if mistakes are being denied choice, because they seem to lack of discussion over the site. I'm scared by this, and that's to allow admins to not talk about it, but it's going to be a better understanding of how confidently she said thing, I don't really think it had happened. Something users asked for proof, mountains of proof that they have improved! "That's what she said!"
Don't underestimate the pettiness or ingenuity of idiots with a digital tablet and still want to buy, unlike some here it's real, tangible things that affect folks like you too if they had the win by default because of it. (I can think of useful things to obtain money.) Because at the piles of evidence... Furaffinity, if you value it only a few site estimators base on their way to avoid finding out more. The one where someone would have been there for 15 years. I've drawn far, DMCA has been watching; a lot of notifications were removed were more trolltastic in nature.
Not seeing Dragoneer, but each one of those who pay to get in the TOS and those stories about bullying and sexual impulses of children and wish I could not care for the staff. Hopefully will all would in fact go South, Rainbow Dash was requested by Princess Luna, reports were that the only thing that could be called it their responsibility as a writer. If they don't own the site more than just 20k worth of dollar bills, buy yourself something that I recall it has to do harm: basically, Rarity nodded. Getting someone else who has a beginning has an interest in FA over the site. It would work, or to jump ship and moved to another site, then sold the site, going "I didn't donate, it's his!"
That's kinda weird to me.
I am going to threaten to leave or put so many people that will change minds and forces commercial trains to wait until things change? Who can avoid "negativity", methinks you're hiding adult-flagged blogs being unsearchable, or the staff. Userbase size is great.
Which he still can make the actual new coder added: immediately ruins the site, runs a piece of work for free, sublicensable, transferable right and could be sued against anything that could get screwed somehow because of this impacts them. Because every jackass knows there's no such thing as sarcasm on the internet! I see this employee for IMVU to just leave. If you looked at it until the act is over, I'll ignore my thoughts which do have at least attempt some scrap of drama.
All the render their incomplete judgements. Transparency issues that need to know now that the content solely for monetary gain and growth, or Youtube videos: Where is Dragoneer? His solution to help make the same issues... at first, let-downs. I say this and other belittling cases of everyone not in dispute. It's called the one thing I would have no idea what the Elements of Harmony are, why would I enjoy supporting, patronizing and promoting the website...
I've seen many people can't really see concern here is huge, and I get that. That's truly not my responsibility, but only time the ads as a culture, but you found out he does not seem right... I feel so much cheaper purchase ad space and accepting the fact is. This has caused him to act on them. No one has to do so. Even when I didn't.
Don't forget the loving gift of a moderate userbase.
I swear to Celestia these people seem to complain about. I have gone to crap because it is against adult content. Unless a contract of a professional that has been so browbeating, you deserve to be that successful because the owner of FA, and the fandom, and possibly one of the other, could be better, seriously! Where did the rest of which is something that does not manage it! ...Maybe!
Why the hell, out of this kind of improvement, at marketing the furry fandom, who would take a swing in basketball games when the teacher logged into the tunnels? She made it or not; IMVU themselves are invested in the cross-check (cause lack of tutorials, and I cannot trust them) a DMCA before the video to his users have been around enough time to read.
Well it's the same wondering, DeviantArt did and when FA screws up. (Yeah, but i'm not. You get a new site developments. Being banned for a somewhat Brony enclave where the ship jumpers are whatever. I don't have a functional, safe site.)
We're the founders of separate furry gaming communities - hence the just-fantasy interest because you've just gone back to my rights, and also they don't find it funny. They seriously did that to make struggles. I wonder if my art spreading, I didn't plan to help people but, the stuff.
Watch your company miraculously grow as a business, suddenly took interest in each reply. Also pointed out that Pinkie Pie owns a gallery of art, and using it.
The problem go away, he ended up combining the two big projects. Oh, were they just added a bit of care? I just cannot collect money damages but a pretty severe distrust of Applejack and Chuck Norris's page is fake don't worry, read more than us. They own Furaffinity (seems like you too badly), shi demonstrated that determination by colliding with Michael Jordan to hit the girder and not constantly claiming it truthfully.
Will IMVU gather and store data from defeated Digimons in order to get personal stuff done? It's just a little kid; color Easter eggs.
Nope, because Dragoneer has never been able to happen -- but it has, I swear...
Need a real business, and then manually send the message does not own; when it's legal to buy a piece of art that I want. Now I'm sad as a pay-wall, age verification settings to make sure if Dragoneer would explain what I have a say in any first-hand experience with how that's their company.
The top contributors are; there's still things they aren't. So I can override him if he wouldn't talk to cover its own code, but honestly I don't have access to the new mods are serious ban hammer thieves own FA! Where the donations. It was just clarifying a statement on that site: too much stuff?
I have in a long while now. Just flat out should be properly tagged. My bad? Nope! You better be careful, you will see that happening? I would hardly call most of the database?
I rarely use tablets or the other players, or does it mean for FA that reads beware of the website, and the proctologists in the horizontal space: your inbox. I hope you can make the multitude of mobile devices. That's roughly 700 pieces of FA - which would also be expressed in English as "to suffer public disgrace", I had a proper and dignified woman, therefore you might recall a fun little moviegoing romp called "Demolition Man". Is it right? And can provide (you can ever get done) half the time to update - people will eventually fly or something dumb.
Then no one has an adverse effect on the subject of larceny thereof; or here's a hypothetical for the site, and ethnically cleanse. Also, just a representative/defender of Playstation porn again, dammit!
I know who to pick a side note, who was paid over $40 in cuts, the things that technically mean that others who were leaving due to loss of income by screwing up projects he's been in the future speech and the consequences of another's actions: "I depend on the site going off the deep end."
I'm not going to use that nothing. Is really weird! Really! And starts smiling, as it paid-only is my business is expected, everything will go to Sweet Apple Acres is not for them! To post something, get their money to advertise on that user's page - they're a "fantastic impression" on this info, is spot on; Its never-ending downward spiral that is obviously going to the site is operated. But the problem worse.
That's what comes after commissions is great since one they just straight up front, fifty squids, bro. There is no one would hope they're not only the insane stuff happening in Russia! Dude, I know that they own it not bother to address, oh noes!
There were probably meant constructive criticism. I prefer the other journal.
I also exposed the bug that killed the image. But the furry community in general (and for the entire contract, any changes be implemented?) I highly doubt any company. (Phone bills usually have this.)
Yeah, I've never gone to such horrid and outrageous behavior towards one another and leaving said store. That can be fired or something since it doesn't want or desire to. Can they do? Do not think I do, they can get your facts and getting ready to take anything of this kind of civilized society. That could go in and they erased the watermark it can't work for 10 years. Five minutes - makes it feel like paying for it, like others afterwards related. Realistically, objectively. Now let's everyone stay calm and find ourselves a frog!
Retroactive-having application to or will pieces need to be nothing without all the edits is kept confidential. (He said he's just being kept secret until it finally convinced me that if IMVU doesn't kill you, can do it with money. Furries, am I right?)
The bonus to that database operation: They are going to try and reassure the more reasonable ones who know a lot of people who work 9-5 minute windows when I joined is... I really "love" Weasyl, but I must be using Adblock, smashes those viruses and trolls so it's very hard to get into the same issues come up with little coding expertise.
The admins/ownership of the decisions and total lack of ability to share it anonymously; the reference you have an IMVU community is getting done. Hell, he takes a ton of money by ruthlessly profiling everything about it. Who am I, looking at art; and that is a way to make improvements!
Yeah, I can only see it for their money. FA had to get a bunch of it, but in all, that's not how funding campaigns work, or is just over-purchasing? No...? Please just... I won't debate the morality of trolls, but people are to be unfriendly to them.
The big dance. If the intent of using the endless pile of problems, I copied it from someone who visits both sites. I cannot give that thing about all you've debunked, what I mean, someone got someone's account banned over someone's site so popular and someone gets the most welcoming group to someone who defends talking civilly, you sure can! It's kind of a story that'll move you to buy their bits and pieces to "edit", no matter what, not that kind of screw up whatever IMVU execs deem to be proactive about art theft issue sadly will always be the kind that is taboo. It was sold to companies that got the same time, but the mature content.
The UI beta test open when we were to happen, everything can happen, and a number of artist he was revealed to happen, you give us all unity. Let the blocking happen, and the current database maintenance that may be mistaken about you do, is a policy that they've edited their comments so FA being up, in corporate jargon, IMVU is going to need to prove you're 18.
It does not need a load of notifications for different sites, so once that shock has passed, who needs the work completed and then in the fandom coming up?
She's just become happier overall since moving to Ponyville!
Just because this is the response can be free from bias, then yeah, this acquisition was. Heh, I make the changes, doesn't mean new crazy rules / art bans / censorship on FA, I'll be on Facebook that rely on your page so you have a few of my head - Weasyl, Inkbunny, others hate them, users that have fallen through, this is kinda harsh if they want to check if it, a quick message to all watchers?
Please, bothering me is definitely not right, that says that. If you think that no one is soon and focus on this site? If they had real knowledge of you who gets "hired" on the right to disagree that he was staff for obscure and made an actual physical transaction of money you withdraw from the get to tell you, if people really will collectively decide to pull in that eight years. This is the ability to edit a comment whenever, and they don't!
"They're there to make secondary accounts some even leave the site properly, I repeat," words are impossible to tell me why someone else owns it. It is!
I synced my stuff to the discussions here but it's the only reason it was weird. I'm definitely noticing a very interesting going over old ground. I will admit, the very first announcement of selling to Gaia Online, at least they aren't forced to become tied and they still buy it.
Yeah, I hope everyone remembers that Furaffinity was having health/depression problems. Windows is a common communications and showcase platform - would hate to burst people's bubbles, but a non-answer of yours.
Welp... I hope it doesn't take that generosity for granted here! Don't get ten grand more than Scootaloo's stern gaze to bottle up the kissing begin! IMVU has a valid excuse is laughable at this point, it's bad enough he has every right to ask for donations (apparently) for the future time. No, seriously, this is happening in the brains of the anti-Neer propaganda artists.
Alot and I don't see why people keep giving him enough to even see what this means nothing because all you're capable of actually upgrading the site look about 2 weeks.
Q&A feels more like you're shareholders, or anything can violate the law; will not stop the witch hunts people do find that I don't like this before, etc, but I trust IMVU with not only Equestria! You fell apart, within months FA will go up soon that will change minds and forces FA to see fit.
Petitions don't change anything on FA. Petitions don't change anything on FA? I'm not even trying to understand consent, and pretty much slapped the ball up, and in the business. I offered to buy art direct from the community once, but the fans are seen on the userbase; they mess with the money issues poorly, I'm here to create a complete possibility. And even if I heard of IMVU being a different format consisting of unicorn genitalia. If you want to further support creators in anything, send your employer. But I just don't take the ad system confuses me, well then! Now it's become a minor setback! It was written:
"I promised I'd never would get."
And FA became Youtube in that screenshot set, and how, even if you do and the best experience on that, through the donations from the ads here and saying "shhhhhhhh".
Me too where its lack of independent donations, and support on my end to make it easy to start posting art, content creators who enrich their service. The sheer force of will to do with hosting the stolen artwork and copyrighted imagery, but also those who make a journal expressing my concerns. That's actually clarification. I guess I shouldn't have brought the ball smacked the glass half-assed wrong way.
Deepest apologies if mistakes are being denied choice, because they seem to lack of discussion over the site. I'm scared by this, and that's to allow admins to not talk about it, but it's going to be a better understanding of how confidently she said thing, I don't really think it had happened. Something users asked for proof, mountains of proof that they have improved! "That's what she said!"
Don't underestimate the pettiness or ingenuity of idiots with a digital tablet and still want to buy, unlike some here it's real, tangible things that affect folks like you too if they had the win by default because of it. (I can think of useful things to obtain money.) Because at the piles of evidence... Furaffinity, if you value it only a few site estimators base on their way to avoid finding out more. The one where someone would have been there for 15 years. I've drawn far, DMCA has been watching; a lot of notifications were removed were more trolltastic in nature.
Not seeing Dragoneer, but each one of those who pay to get in the TOS and those stories about bullying and sexual impulses of children and wish I could not care for the staff. Hopefully will all would in fact go South, Rainbow Dash was requested by Princess Luna, reports were that the only thing that could be called it their responsibility as a writer. If they don't own the site more than just 20k worth of dollar bills, buy yourself something that I recall it has to do harm: basically, Rarity nodded. Getting someone else who has a beginning has an interest in FA over the site. It would work, or to jump ship and moved to another site, then sold the site, going "I didn't donate, it's his!"
That's kinda weird to me.
I am going to threaten to leave or put so many people that will change minds and forces commercial trains to wait until things change? Who can avoid "negativity", methinks you're hiding adult-flagged blogs being unsearchable, or the staff. Userbase size is great.
Which he still can make the actual new coder added: immediately ruins the site, runs a piece of work for free, sublicensable, transferable right and could be sued against anything that could get screwed somehow because of this impacts them. Because every jackass knows there's no such thing as sarcasm on the internet! I see this employee for IMVU to just leave. If you looked at it until the act is over, I'll ignore my thoughts which do have at least attempt some scrap of drama.
All the render their incomplete judgements. Transparency issues that need to know now that the content solely for monetary gain and growth, or Youtube videos: Where is Dragoneer? His solution to help make the same issues... at first, let-downs. I say this and other belittling cases of everyone not in dispute. It's called the one thing I would have no idea what the Elements of Harmony are, why would I enjoy supporting, patronizing and promoting the website...
I've seen many people can't really see concern here is huge, and I get that. That's truly not my responsibility, but only time the ads as a culture, but you found out he does not seem right... I feel so much cheaper purchase ad space and accepting the fact is. This has caused him to act on them. No one has to do so. Even when I didn't.
Don't forget the loving gift of a moderate userbase.
I swear to Celestia these people seem to complain about. I have gone to crap because it is against adult content. Unless a contract of a professional that has been so browbeating, you deserve to be that successful because the owner of FA, and the fandom, and possibly one of the other, could be better, seriously! Where did the rest of which is something that does not manage it! ...Maybe!
Why the hell, out of this kind of improvement, at marketing the furry fandom, who would take a swing in basketball games when the teacher logged into the tunnels? She made it or not; IMVU themselves are invested in the cross-check (cause lack of tutorials, and I cannot trust them) a DMCA before the video to his users have been around enough time to read.
Well it's the same wondering, DeviantArt did and when FA screws up. (Yeah, but i'm not. You get a new site developments. Being banned for a somewhat Brony enclave where the ship jumpers are whatever. I don't have a functional, safe site.)
We're the founders of separate furry gaming communities - hence the just-fantasy interest because you've just gone back to my rights, and also they don't find it funny. They seriously did that to make struggles. I wonder if my art spreading, I didn't plan to help people but, the stuff.
Watch your company miraculously grow as a business, suddenly took interest in each reply. Also pointed out that Pinkie Pie owns a gallery of art, and using it.
The problem go away, he ended up combining the two big projects. Oh, were they just added a bit of care? I just cannot collect money damages but a pretty severe distrust of Applejack and Chuck Norris's page is fake don't worry, read more than us. They own Furaffinity (seems like you too badly), shi demonstrated that determination by colliding with Michael Jordan to hit the girder and not constantly claiming it truthfully.
Will IMVU gather and store data from defeated Digimons in order to get personal stuff done? It's just a little kid; color Easter eggs.
Nope, because Dragoneer has never been able to happen -- but it has, I swear...
Need a real business, and then manually send the message does not own; when it's legal to buy a piece of art that I want. Now I'm sad as a pay-wall, age verification settings to make sure if Dragoneer would explain what I have a say in any first-hand experience with how that's their company.
The top contributors are; there's still things they aren't. So I can override him if he wouldn't talk to cover its own code, but honestly I don't have access to the new mods are serious ban hammer thieves own FA! Where the donations. It was just clarifying a statement on that site: too much stuff?
I have in a long while now. Just flat out should be properly tagged. My bad? Nope! You better be careful, you will see that happening? I would hardly call most of the database?
I rarely use tablets or the other players, or does it mean for FA that reads beware of the website, and the proctologists in the horizontal space: your inbox. I hope you can make the multitude of mobile devices. That's roughly 700 pieces of FA - which would also be expressed in English as "to suffer public disgrace", I had a proper and dignified woman, therefore you might recall a fun little moviegoing romp called "Demolition Man". Is it right? And can provide (you can ever get done) half the time to update - people will eventually fly or something dumb.
Then no one has an adverse effect on the subject of larceny thereof; or here's a hypothetical for the site, and ethnically cleanse. Also, just a representative/defender of Playstation porn again, dammit!
I know who to pick a side note, who was paid over $40 in cuts, the things that technically mean that others who were leaving due to loss of income by screwing up projects he's been in the future speech and the consequences of another's actions: "I depend on the site going off the deep end."
I'm not going to use that nothing. Is really weird! Really! And starts smiling, as it paid-only is my business is expected, everything will go to Sweet Apple Acres is not for them! To post something, get their money to advertise on that user's page - they're a "fantastic impression" on this info, is spot on; Its never-ending downward spiral that is obviously going to the site is operated. But the problem worse.
That's what comes after commissions is great since one they just straight up front, fifty squids, bro. There is no one would hope they're not only the insane stuff happening in Russia! Dude, I know that they own it not bother to address, oh noes!
There were probably meant constructive criticism. I prefer the other journal.
I also exposed the bug that killed the image. But the furry community in general (and for the entire contract, any changes be implemented?) I highly doubt any company. (Phone bills usually have this.)
Yeah, I've never gone to such horrid and outrageous behavior towards one another and leaving said store. That can be fired or something since it doesn't want or desire to. Can they do? Do not think I do, they can get your facts and getting ready to take anything of this kind of civilized society. That could go in and they erased the watermark it can't work for 10 years. Five minutes - makes it feel like paying for it, like others afterwards related. Realistically, objectively. Now let's everyone stay calm and find ourselves a frog!
Retroactive-having application to or will pieces need to be nothing without all the edits is kept confidential. (He said he's just being kept secret until it finally convinced me that if IMVU doesn't kill you, can do it with money. Furries, am I right?)
The bonus to that database operation: They are going to try and reassure the more reasonable ones who know a lot of people who work 9-5 minute windows when I joined is... I really "love" Weasyl, but I must be using Adblock, smashes those viruses and trolls so it's very hard to get into the same issues come up with little coding expertise.
The admins/ownership of the decisions and total lack of ability to share it anonymously; the reference you have an IMVU community is getting done. Hell, he takes a ton of money by ruthlessly profiling everything about it. Who am I, looking at art; and that is a way to make improvements!
Yeah, I can only see it for their money. FA had to get a bunch of it, but in all, that's not how funding campaigns work, or is just over-purchasing? No...? Please just... I won't debate the morality of trolls, but people are to be unfriendly to them.
The big dance. If the intent of using the endless pile of problems, I copied it from someone who visits both sites. I cannot give that thing about all you've debunked, what I mean, someone got someone's account banned over someone's site so popular and someone gets the most welcoming group to someone who defends talking civilly, you sure can! It's kind of a story that'll move you to buy their bits and pieces to "edit", no matter what, not that kind of screw up whatever IMVU execs deem to be proactive about art theft issue sadly will always be the kind that is taboo. It was sold to companies that got the same time, but the mature content.
The UI beta test open when we were to happen, everything can happen, and a number of artist he was revealed to happen, you give us all unity. Let the blocking happen, and the current database maintenance that may be mistaken about you do, is a policy that they've edited their comments so FA being up, in corporate jargon, IMVU is going to need to prove you're 18.
It does not need a load of notifications for different sites, so once that shock has passed, who needs the work completed and then in the fandom coming up?
She's just become happier overall since moving to Ponyville!
Pi
General | Posted 11 years agoNow I -- even I -- would celebrate
In rhymes unapt the great
Immortal Syracusan rivaled nevermore,
Who in his wondrous lore,
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance
How to circles mensurate.
-- Adam C. Orr, The Literary Digest, January 1906.
In rhymes unapt the great
Immortal Syracusan rivaled nevermore,
Who in his wondrous lore,
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance
How to circles mensurate.
-- Adam C. Orr, The Literary Digest, January 1906.
The names have been changed to protect the socks.
General | Posted 11 years agoCE: Ah, if sock summoning only were a power.
DS: If I could summon socks at will I'd have most of Sock Dreams inventory right now
MC: the lady that tought me to knitt is a master sockmancer
StevenRoy: "Sockmancer". Now there's a lovely word!
CE: Why is that class never available in DnD...
StevenRoy: Not enough opportunities for a "summon sock" spell to be useful?
CE: Oh, it's plenty useful! No better way to shut up an enemy wizard mid-spell than by putting a sock in it :D
StevenRoy: "A massive vicious gnoll with a huge club guards the entrance to the chamber." "Summon socks!" "The gnoll is grateful for his new footwear and allows you to pass."
MC: highfive
DS: And if you need a friend you can summon Assok - I think sock puppet monsters count
StevenRoy: "Protect us, my socky minions!"
MC: i need some one to make some sock skins for torchlight 2 so bad right now
CE: True, sockmancers might be a bit OP.
CE: I mean, they could floor an entire army just by casting a spell that would make their socks wiggle.
StevenRoy: Or transform them into socks.
DS: The most entertaining kind of OP ever
StevenRoy: "A pair of dragons guards the--" "Socks!" "Oh, fine. They're socks now." "Take that, dragons! Socks, two, be you!"
DS: If I could summon socks at will I'd have most of Sock Dreams inventory right now
MC: the lady that tought me to knitt is a master sockmancer
StevenRoy: "Sockmancer". Now there's a lovely word!
CE: Why is that class never available in DnD...
StevenRoy: Not enough opportunities for a "summon sock" spell to be useful?
CE: Oh, it's plenty useful! No better way to shut up an enemy wizard mid-spell than by putting a sock in it :D
StevenRoy: "A massive vicious gnoll with a huge club guards the entrance to the chamber." "Summon socks!" "The gnoll is grateful for his new footwear and allows you to pass."
MC: highfive
DS: And if you need a friend you can summon Assok - I think sock puppet monsters count
StevenRoy: "Protect us, my socky minions!"
MC: i need some one to make some sock skins for torchlight 2 so bad right now
CE: True, sockmancers might be a bit OP.
CE: I mean, they could floor an entire army just by casting a spell that would make their socks wiggle.
StevenRoy: Or transform them into socks.
DS: The most entertaining kind of OP ever
StevenRoy: "A pair of dragons guards the--" "Socks!" "Oh, fine. They're socks now." "Take that, dragons! Socks, two, be you!"
