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I want to watch the fallout show so bad. I just know it will make me wanna play fallout so I need to. mod my game first
#ambie.txt#I miss fo4. my comfort game fo4.#since I lost my stuff it means I get to do a proper clean modlist tho. and organise it#and honestleee I am stoked for that#so yeah to do:#1. organise a proper modlist for fo4#2. mod fo4#3. watch the show#4. get back into fallout hyperfixation#5. play fo4#6. profit#god I might go and replay the others too!!!#I don't post abt fallout much but I am a fallout girlie. it's one of my top top fave game series
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There's some dude (derogatory) on FB who is PISSED people are pricing their farm fresh eggs at $2 and $3 a dozen instead of $4+, saying it's "disrespectful" and "undignified" and "I'm trying to feed my kids" like Sir, you are on a Facebook group page bitching about your neighbors egg prices because your pet chickens aren't earning you a living wage and you think it's your neighbors' fault, you do not have a leg to stand on here wrt dignity.
Also half the answers are like "I give them to friends and family free" or "I donate them to food banks" or "I'm making them affordable to folks who might not otherwise be able to get them now that they're so expensive in the store" and "if you think you're going to turn a profit keeping backyard chickens you have been wildly misled" and so on, and so forth, and I'm so living for it.
and I can tell you right now, he did NOT like my answer of "if you're trying to feed your kids, I hear eggs are edible."
#chickens#like buddy you are never going to actually make a profit#and if by some miracle you do#it's going to be VERY SMALL#Considering the money you put into building or buying a coop#plus feed and bedding and equipment (waterers feeders perches etc) costs#egg cartons and enrichment and gas to go get the feed#the cost you (personally) probably put into building the egg stand you mentioned#a 50lbs bag of feed will feed 12 adult chickens for 8 days#12 chickens generally lay 6-12 eggs per day#usually less in the fall and may even stop in winter#a 50lb bag of feed is usually $12-15#and you wasted the first 6 months going eggless until they were old enough to lay#and that doesn't factor in oyster shell or anything else you may need to do for them#like worming or treating for coccidia or anything#and doesn't take into account your time#like asjh;dsfkgdh you really thought you were gonna make a buck doing this???#wank for ts
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John 6:63 (NKJV) -
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
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frank: gets teary eyed at a wedding, is most likely drunk/high
THOSE fans: OMG HE LOVES GALLAVICH HE LOVES IAN HES A GOOD FATHER HE JUST HAD ISSUES HE CANT HELP IT HE CRIED OH MY GOD-
this scene existing:
#not to mention the 104° fever- profiting off of ian’s mania- and locking him in the basement for days on end when he was 6#frank was abusive!!#i know peope who cry at strangers weddings#doing that doesn’t make you a hero#and it doesn’t justify the years of abuse he put ian through#i literally hate frank so much idgaf how his mother or monica treated him#like yes his character and backstory are interesting but you cannot blame everything on other people#he was abusive- PERIOD.#shameless#ian gallagher#frank gallagher
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the new video was greatly needed if watcher had any hopes of staying afloat. unfortunately, this backpedaling does not change the fact that
1) high production "television quality" content is what they want to make
2) this content is evidently not what people want to watch (even post-apology i'm seeing a lot of people saying they liked bfu better than anything watcher has produced)
again, if they have a clear vision of what they want to make, that's great. but unless there's a market for that content, then it's not going to turn a profit, or break even for that matter. yes, artists deserve to be paid for their work, but art is always bought by people who want and have an interest in said art.
im an artist pursuing my dreams too, but i don't expect people to buy my niche paintings just on the principle that i am an artist creating what i want. if i wanted to make money from this and turn it into a business, i would take commissions and specifically create what other people want. that is what having any kind of artistic job is about, unfortunately.
it's great if what you want to create and what people want to see overlap, but that's not always the case. and i really fear this is the case with watcher and they won't pivot enough to fix any of their problems
#here's an example#i know gmm is a way bigger company but#rhett and link do gmm stuff#but occasionally produce something a lot more involved and creative that is inspired solely by their wants#those videos dont do nearly as good as gmm does#but its an outlet for them to still have some creative control#and the people who like those videos love them (im one of them!)#so it is possible to both produce content that is profitable and to make content that pleases you as an artist#you just have to find a balance with it and unfortunately watcher has no balance at all#like even watcher's 'lower quality' work uses so many resources like. guys theres a reason youre bleeding money#and people giving you $6 isnt going to fix it#they need an overhaul#cut back to basics to find their footing before trying these super ambitious projects that they're not sure will pay off#watcher#im talking again
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The worst part is that Volition was on the edge of entering a new golden age. They were getting ready to completely stop with the Saints Row series and delve into new IPs and adventures. There were talks about reviving the Red Faction series too. Even had the original Red Faction's writer on board for this one.
And it looked so great for them too, with Gearbox's help that is. They pretty much cleared the studio of all the bad apples (the upper management that sabotaged Agents of Mayhem), had a lot of the old staff that worked on SR1 and SR2 brought back specifically for reboot that were ready to delve into new franchises too, upgraded several of its departments (they were supposed to finally get their own marketing department. There are people at Volition that got laid off that have worked less than 6 months there), didn't have to answer to crackheads from Deep Silver (check out flippy's latest video on more info about that), even had Randy Pitchford himself give Volition his stamp of approval because "Volition needs to be Volition to make good games".
They were actually getting ready to make a game they were truly passionate about, without any micromanagement from Deep Silver ruining it in order to keep it "market safe".
It sucks how now they'll never get that redemption arc. They'll never get a chance to make a game from start to end. Not even selling millions could've saved them.
#saints row#sr#my conspiracy theory is that Embracer found out Volition isn't planning on making SR6 and decided to kill them#cuz they thought it was too risky to let Volition make a brand new IP#because reboot sold millions; its the 2nd best selling SR game and one to earn back its budget the quickest#all that... despite being a bad game with 6/10 score#which means that the fact it was called Saints Row is the only thing that made the game profitable#hence why they didn't let them risk making a bad game that wouldn't be carried by its IP
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after deducting the cost of materials (charms, findings, the little display cards they go on to) and, hell, even rounding it up an extra 20% for such things has "had to buy a £2 pair of pliers once"
right
after deducting that and being generous with it
i get paid roughly £165 per hour for labour making earrings. i'm serious. £5.50 for two minutes of work
#and that is - once again - still charging less than big corps whilst also paying more in materials#i could take my sweet ass time and spend a whole 5 min making one thing and still be on nearly £70 an hour#you tell me that's not just as unhinged as getting paid £5 an hour for yarncraft but in the other direction#you look me in the eye and tell me that's not a ridiculous development#i'm not also going to undercut fellow indie creators that's a dick move#and we seem to have generally established that £5-6 is a fairly standard price for earrings that also still undercuts the corporates#but when i say it's a bizarre experience i mean i get Lawyer Wages for one thing and Poverty Wages for the other. normally in the same day.#and the lawyer wages is the easier thing#if we all set the price of earrings at materials+minimum wage they would be about 75p btw#materials + double minimum wage + an extra 100% pure profit would be........ £3#when i say nothing in claire's should cost more than a fiver i mean it with my whole chest
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tw fire / arson
The street is engulfed in a burning blaze. The buildings next door will adopt the flames too, and before long the entire city will be alight with the villain’s master plan.
Everything is coming together just as he wanted. By the time the heroes get here, the destruction will be too great to do anything but salvage whatever little remains. The fallout will give them plenty of time to get everything in place for his final big show.
The villain lets the flames warm his face from where he’s watching the carnage. Everything is perfect.
There’s a light tug at the end of his coat. “Mr. Evil?”
The villain gives the spot next to him a frown, before pointing it downward—a child, a wholeass child, clinging to the hem of his coat with a little too much force, wrinkling the usually smooth fabric. A glance around gives him no inkling as to how they got here.
“Hey, uh…” The villain has to raise his voice over the sound of the buildings crumbling around them. “If this is your kid, can you come and get them? I won’t attack you.”
Nothing. Either no one is willing to risk their neck or this kid is somehow out here alone. Wonderful. Of course this would happen to the villain as he’s trying to reach his peak in life.
“Look, kid.” The villain squats down to the child’s level. They don’t let go of his coat like the villain had hoped, and so he sets about carefully prying their tiny fingers off. “It’s dangerous. You shouldn’t be out here. Where’re your parents?”
The kid laughs brightly, as if the arson of the city they live in is entertaining. “Mr. Evil!”
Clearly there’s been an attempt to teach this thing stranger danger, but maybe the concept of ‘evil’ hasn’t quite gone in yet.
The kid points up to where the building opposite is ragefully burning. “Boom!” they squeak, and they clap their hands joyfully when it responds by creaking on its supports.
There’s no one around but the villain and this child that looks to barely be in the double-digits. He can’t leave them here. He’s a villain, not a degenerate. There’s screaming nearby as people flee the impending blaze.
He stands back upright with an irritated sigh. He can’t believe he’s letting morality he shouldn’t technically have get in the way of everything. He holds a hand out to the child expectantly.
“Come on,” he says with what he hopes passes off as kindness, “we should be going.”
The kid has a concerning lack of hesitation in taking his hand, a bright grin on their face as they watch the flames engulf everything.
There’s people making their getaways a few streets over, moving from the flames like a terrified flood. The child watches everyone absently as the villain tries to pick out anyone he can hand them off to.
“Hey, you!” the villain calls into the fray. “You, in the blue shirt!”
A woman miraculously slows down, swimming through the current of people to reach them. “This kid needs to go,” he tells her urgently. “They’re lost—find their parents if you can.”
The kid turns up to the villain with wide, puppy-like eyes as he lets go of them. “Mr. Evil?”
“You’re going to find your parents, alright?” he says. “Go now, before the fire spreads. I have to, uh, go look for other people.”
The woman nods, bending down to the kid with her hands out. “Come on, kiddo, let’s get going then.”
The villain has let go of the kid, but said kid doesn’t seem to have the same idea. Their grip is back on the bottom of his coat, tucking behind him like he’s the safest person in the world. It takes a frankly embarrassing amount of effort to push them into her arms. They fight it the entire time like they’re being kidnapped.
The woman turns on her heel to continue her escape, and the child gets one last look at the villain from over her shoulder.
“Mr. Evil…?” they say uncertainly. The moment it’s clear the villain’s getting further away they burst into tears, their wails echoing through the collapsing city around them.
The villain lingers worriedly, waiting until the pair are out of sight before turning on his heel to finish what he started.
God, he’s a villain. An upset child shouldn’t make him feel bad. His heart hurts though, much to his dismay, and he knows that he never wants to see a kid caught up in his plans again.
Goddamnit, he doesn't even like kids.
#creative writing#writblr#writers on tumblr#writing#writing community#heroes and villains#tw fire#me: hm. im not very good at writing kids. lemme do it anyways#i went to a car boot this morning too. woke up at 6:30 in the am for it rip#made a lil profit and got rid of a load of my junk so essentially got paid to clear my room out!!! hell yea!!!
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also last night i assembled thee prototype…dw the real copies are gonna be made with expensive glossy card stock for the cover not this shitty computer paper i jst didnt wanna waste money for the practice run…
#am gonna be selling them for $10 which covers the cost of production ($6) and then the rest is profit to fund my future projects#also $1 for every copy will be donated to local harm reduction in orlando which i will post more abt when i drop the link#and if u dont wanna buy and/or wanna leave a tip im making a kofi page
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there are doctors there are hospitals there are specialists there is medicine there are systems in place so people do not have to suffer and be tortured under their own chronic pain daily and yet. they're all fucking inaccessible to the people who need it most!!! to what I would argue is most disabled people!! I'm so fucking done with the medical system.
#today is an absolutely wretched pain day that makes me want to not be here anymore but guess what!#wasted a whole year trying to convince my doctors I was in significant and disableing pain daily and the best they could do#is tell me to go to PT and to wait 6 months and tell them if it gets better#to prescribe some shit like gabapentin or otc pain meds and write me off#tell me they'll get new X-rays to see if it got worse by the summer#disability exists!! specialists exist! good doctors fucking exist!! somewhere!!! I'm sure!!#but here I sit. in excruciating amounts of pain unable to convince any fucking doctors of anything#and that year I spent pushing myself to the limit is wasted bc at the very end of it all only one guy listened to me#and he said no one in their giant ass facility could diagnose me#so I'm back to square one bc I got a new job which means new insurance and new doctors to try and convince again#I just want to be on disability so i can want to be alive again#I'm so frustrated and in pain constantly#what are people like me who have to work 40hrs to afford to live but don't have any family to rely on supposed to do??#just die? am i supposed to continue to work until im too disabled to move and be profitable unless i get lucky?#bc some fucking doctor finally decides to actually listen???#ive tried ALL THE DAMN TRICKS TOO. telling them a friend has it and thats how i found out. that my previous doctor was looking into it#etc etc#I'm SO done living like this i am exhausted.#and to know that i COULD BE HELPED. RIGHT NOW. is the worst fucking part#these systems are in place so people like me dont have to fucking suffer.#but i cant even do anything about it bc i have a cat.
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idk it's still completely wild to me that rvb started as a dumbass parody made my some gamer dudebros wiggling their guns in halo multiplayer for their crummy 98% dick and boob jokes voice over track then randomly 6 seasons later they were like actually we're going to quintuple our budget and start taking a hard and splintering look at the ethics of AI, the ceaseless setting/pushing/crossing of moral boundaries in science order to feed the industrial war machine, intergenerational trauma and the military, the elusive nature of true bodily autonomy in a capitalist society, and the inherent selfishness of seeking our your soulmate through a thousand lifetimes (but also still dick and boob jokes) and its like. what the fuck
#They put us through a whole three act clown show with pies in the face and fake squirty flowers#Then sent those clowns to the trenches where they could be mentally physically and spiritually brutalised for profit#It's probably rly dated now but MAN did seasons 6-10 have a profound effect on younger me#I stopped watching after the chorus trilogy but man. Man! I miss the freelancer arc especially. It clapped.#Rvb#(obviously I'm sure it wasn't TOTALLY random in terms of set up & intention but it felt pretty random at the time)
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Okay here's a little story time for you!.
Back in the old days, before TT2, we used to get a new Tekken game every 5 or so years. But that changed when TT2 didn't meet up with the success Bandai Namco wanted. But even with that, they gave us Tekken 7, even with the little budget it had.
Oh, but miracles do happen! And Tekken 7 ended up being a successful game. At first, they only planned around 2-3 seasons and the game to be final one in the franchise. But fortunately, that ended not being the case because people really loved and really bought the game!.
During it's time, around 2019?, after seeing the profits, the Dev team was divided in two parts one working on Tekken 8 and one on the patches and DLC's in 7. ( I assume this because Nina's VA in Bloodline said she was recording the lines before the pandemic in 2019 )
Now, where am I going with this? Well! Here what my point is! Let me explain. Tekken 7 had to recover from TT2 loss, and the pandemic brought T8's development back. Thankfully, Tekken 8 won't have that for Tekken 9. So with that, we can assume that Tekken 9 won't have a long wait like Tekken 8 did. But rather, we'll be back at a normal pace before the TT2 Era, having the Tekken 9 game starting development in 2026 and being released in 2030!.
#tekken#bandai namco#i should also mention that normally preparations for the next game in a franchise happens after the release#or ar least after they see some progress and profits#but for sure tekken 8 will have 4 seasons at least.#and 4-6 seasons sounds good to me personally for a game like tekken
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There is a program to feed AI bad data apparently…
It’s called nightshade. I don’t know much about it though. You can check it out here:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
Oh I heard about Nightshade... For some reason I thought it wasn't free. 😅
But it's neat to learn it is! Thanks for the link! I'll be seeing how to run this.
#Anything that is really good but free makes my defenses up for some reason. 😅 😅 😅#It feels like my stuff aren't noteworthy enough style-wise to be fed to the AI but it also feels like#these AI peaps are garbage enough to find a way to do so with any single thing they lay their eyes on if they can profit off it.#Eughh I see the advantages of AI-generated art-mimickery images to help with someone's drawing journey but these#AI bros are being such asshats about it. 😑#I wanna say a lot but I gotta go do some 6 am chores before preparing to work.#Ask#solphegepensato#Thanks for the response!#sc answers#text#I mean. If I were a Nightshade creator; getting to be mean to asshats in itself IS a great enough of a payoff. 🤔
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I'd like to think in the hypothetical post-scarcity/capitalism utopia there would still be people who want to make movies and there would thus also still be people like me, who want to open theaters where you can go and watch them.
#sometimes I think in our desperation to imagine a better future#a lot of us forget that like#you CAN make movies and video games ethically#and people will still WANT TO DO THAT#and I don't think being like 'you're just gonna have to get used to not having movies and video games' is helpful#bcs yeah we probably wouldn't be able to have a marvel movie every 6 months or dozens of AAA games#but people still love telling stories#indie films and games exist and are often BETTER than huge budget ones#and they can be made in ways that don't harm the environment or the people making them#and so yea we will still have fun things in the future#it's not gonna be all books and nothing else#and idk I think there's something very special about going to a movie theater#and tbh if I had no profit motive at all#if I was super rich#I would love to run a theater that's accessible and ethical and environmentally friendly#and I know a lot of other people would love that too
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It really drives me nuts how Capcom made Maya Fey seem like a major character in the 456 collection like how she's the 3RD CHARACTER SHOWN IN THE TRAILER. And how she's prominent as the 1st thing you're supposed to see on aa6's art book cover and on the game cover itself buts she's barely in 6 let alone 4 and 5.
Of course i know it's to market to trilogy fans to say "look, our collection isn't that different from the trilogy! Jump right in to see ur faves in new wacky adventures." But yea as someone who doesn't prefer 5 and 6, Capcom's cowardice ticks me off. The least they could do is market the game for what it is then decieve audiences.
She's a cameo character through and through in aa6. She shows up halfway through the game in only 2 out of 5 cases and is a literal plot device in both. One where she's a client again and the other where it was the only way a new character could be in the spotlight. You barely talk to her compared to any other main character too.
TLDR: How the hell did u put Maya Fey before Trucy Wright AND Athena Cykes in the trailer for their games???
#Reminder that Capcom is a business who hires artists to do what they want#Not artists themselves or respectful of artists ifbthey disagree tbh#Or else 5 and 6 would be led by Shu Takumi or even not exist along with Apollo#Aa456 spoilers#ace attorney spoilers#Aa spoilers#ace attorney#Maya fey#Justice for literally every girl and woman who isn't Maya in ace attorney#Bc Capcom only sees her as the profitable one#One time i saw someone be so sad/surprised that Capcom focuses on popular characters and I've never gotten over it#Ofc they do that they want the most money#AND why does the Capcom Election Committee not use Edgeworth's older sprite in videos???#Phoenix and Maya get their newest sprite and current age but Edgeworth is still stuck in the past with commemorative art#Rany and unnecessary tangent over
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one of my fav tweets
#this is from a while ago but this is relevant rn 😭 like r we just supposed to forget that 6% of their profits were stolen by lsm?#double in ten’s case. n nothing happened they’re so evil they treat them like shit n steal from them n then act like they’re flops that dont#make money anyway SM KILL URSELF#.txt
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