I know Dracula is the bad guy of Castlevania and all, but if some zealous Christians showed up at my home and horribly murdered my wife because she did medicine too good I too would probably have gone absolutely fucking feral
In case people weren’t aware, there seems to have been a massive issue throughout Patreon. People have had their subscriptions cancelled and many had their payments flagged as fraud with their bank. 150$ of my patronage disappeared, that’s 150$ a month as a disabled artist that took months to build that I’m unsure I’ll ever get back..Gone. It won’t allow me to message anyone whose payments were declined.I also had around 10 people’s payments flagged as fraud, some have had to re-patron.
If you’re supporting Patreon creators I advise you look to see if at least the people you remember supporting are still there / that your payments aren’t marked as fraud, especially if you’re supporting for physical rewards you’re expecting.
if you’re supporting folks on patreon, please take a peek & try to re-pledge if you can! this comes as a surprise to many who cannot afford to be surprised. thanks so much!
Check on your creators, see if you still have access to the comics you want to see!
Reblogging another notice about this - I was somewhat impacted but some friends have lost a huge portion of their income; if you support artists on Patreon please check to make sure you’re still subscribed!
So to sum up WotC’s latest fuckup concerning their new giant themed book
Back during the creator’s summit, WotC said this about LLM images
Now more recently, WotC was caught using blatantly LLM images for their new book, along with some category 10 classical Gygax racism and genocide endorsement
As outraged fans investigated, similarities were noticed between earlier concept art, which WAS done by real artists, and the LLM images
Now April Prime was only credited as a concept artist in the book (and not credited at all in that post), so what happened?
Enter Ilya Shkipin: an NFT shill, LLM enthusiast and overall waste of flesh. Ilya took credit for these LLM images, which as you’ve probably guessed now, were concept art that he stole from concept artists like April, ran through his plagiarism bots and claimed was his own work.
Now, you would think that WotC would admit their error and drop Ilya for this blatant theft of art and credit
And you’d be wrong
WotC not only refused to name or punish Ilya, but they’re continuing to work with him and simply having him redo the LLM images he turned in for future printings of the book.
Sounds horrible enough? Here’s the bonus round: CATEGORY 10 CLASSIC GYGAX RACISM AND GENOCIDE ENDORSEMENT
Yes, that is a group of people being referred to as an “infestation” to be exterminated. And you have to make sure you ethically put them all to the sword, lest they rise as an icy mummy called a Frostmourn. If the name Frostmourn sounds familiar, that’s because it’s one letter off from the World of Warcraft sword: Frostmourne. A difference small enough for ActiBlizzard, one of the few game companies worse than WotC at this point, to turn angry copyright lawyers loose in their direction.
And that about sums the whole clusterfuck up. Remember to drop 5e and pick up a ttrpg that doesn’t suck, such as Pathfinder, Savage Worlds or Fate: Core
My grandfather used to grow watermelons, among other things, and he told me about most of this, especially the orange spot. Those are the absolute best!
i have been given nothing but shiny elongated watermelons with small webbings and white spots. and they make me wanna kill myself
My grandfather used to tell me the best watermelons are the ones you steal from the back of a truck so I guess we all learned some watermelon knowledge from our grandfathers
I heard reference to something about how all anime are required to have good looking cabbage because of That One Time. So simply looking up “anime cabbage” I found the source.
Some harem anime way back in the day had an episode where the characters cooked, and they animated cabbage so terribly like this it left a bad mark on the anime community forever. Apparently this is part of the reason why all food usually looks good in anime, even moreso than the regular show sometimes. With cabbage being especially well drawn.
A complaint, apparently in a paper.
The first show when released internationally was reanimated in this part.
And high quality or low quality cabbage is sometimes referenced.
I learned of this because the most recent Hologra episode has noel eating cabbage, tearing apart a fine quality cabbage into two low poly halves.
i love learning about other cultures’ memes, especially like this
every time I reblog this my sister sends me a message to the effect of “thank u for reposting that cat video on your tumblr i have seen it so many times but it delights me every time because their paws are so gentle and graceful”
the time travel agency seamstress (that one Tumblr post) |
Karolina Żebrowska
For those who haven’t watched the masterpiece for themselves:
There is literally a time-travel costumer character in Connie Willis’s excellent and hilarious novel, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and she is EXACTLY this salty. She’s so intimidating and Done With Everyone’s Shit that the main character keeps describing her as a biblically-accurate angel.
Corn dogs are named for their traditional meat, the unicorn. As unicorns are now extinct, they can only be referred to properly as ‘Corn Dogs and not “Unicorn Dogs” as they were prior to 2009.
This is actually a common misconception! While the Unicorn Dog did exist and was discontinued following the extinction of unicorns in 2009, the Corn Dog is not a rebranding of the Unicorn Dog! The Corn Dog was created in 2003 by James H. Corn, though it remained a relatively unpopular Ohio treat until 2010 when Mr. Corn took the opportunity left by the Unicorn Dog’s exit from the market to take over the niche.
