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what up ! its time for my yearly art giveaway that i try to do every year around this time ! anyway work is kicking my ass so its only headshots this year !

rules :  -reblog once  -thats literally it 

i’ll pick three winners by December 20 to doodle things for them ! (it can be ther characters , friends characters , canon characters idc man go nuts)  all i need is a color you associate with that character

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mm scruffy

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FINALLY I’VE FINISHED THIS

this was supposed to be completed long ago, like after ova 5 was released. But by the time it was released, my exam was coming up ;-;

even after the exam, i was struck with other obstacles… which i dont want to mention here

the comic is kinda cramped im sorry

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chess patch notes 1.02

knight buffed to move five spaces fix crash when bishop attempts to move horizontally rooks removed

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“Baby at one minute per caster level I’m whatever you want me to be.”

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If you had a bad day here

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this is the kinda shit that keeps me up at night

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How to End Adblocking

UK culture secretary John Whittingdale gave a speech declaring that adblocking is piracy.

Let’s be honest: there are some people who adamantly refuse advertising. Just refuse. They don’t want to be bothered. It annoys them. It ruins their “user experience,” or whatever other self-involved phrase has been invented. They’ve been skipping ads since the days of the VCR, and they’ll always block them.

But it’s not piracy. If I toss the Sunday inserts in a newspaper without even glancing at them, am I a pirate? If I go to the bathroom during a commercial, am I infringing copyright somehow? If I willfully ignore two pages of ads in the middle of a comic book, have I just stolen the artwork?

The thing is, there is another reason for adblocking: over a decade of bad behavior on the part of advertisers.

Since the early 2000′s when online ads came to fruition, advertisers have displayed a constant disregard for those who would have to see the ads. They sent out Flash ads with malicious code, which helped form the backbone of many botnets and DDOS attacks. They pioneered the autoplay ad, otherwise known as “JESUS CHRIST MY EARS WHICH TAB IS DOING THAT?” They put inappropriate ads everywhere, some borderline NSFW and some just straight up “CALL ME AND FUCK TONIGHT” with tits in your face. They tracked our online behavior, which sites we visited, how long we were there, and compiled that data in big banks that were ripe for hackers and law enforcement alike. When mobile caught on, they didn’t give one red shit on just how much battery life their ads consumed, how much expensive metered data they devoured, how many processing cycles were monopolized.

In short, online ads were a “Lord of the Flies” bonanza. Users fought back: they blocked the ads.

When adblockers started to catch on, panic began to rise. It came to a head not long ago with the release of the first adblocking apps on iOS, Since iPhones and iPads were considered the default consumption device, online media went into a frenzy to declare the impending death of their sites at the hands of mean, nasty, good-for-nothing audiences who wanted everything for free.

It hasn’t happened, but they did a good Chicken Little impression none the less.

But I have one simple solution that will bring back some of those users who blocked ads just to save themselves from the onslaught: clearly state your ad policy on your website.

Are you going to vet your ads so nothing harmful or inappropriate gets through? Say so. Are you going to disallow autoplay, Flash, or anything else that consumes inordinate amounts of data, could be potentially dangerous, or impacts the audience’s system performance? Tell them that. Are you going to do what television, radio and print has done since time immemorial, and take responsibility for the ads your web site shows? Put it in writing.

Audiences don’t block ads solely because they want something for nothing. They don’t trust ad networks and ad providers anymore. That trust was absolutely destroyed during a period where ad networks treated their recipients like garbage. It’s going to have to be rebuilt, bit by bit, by the web sites that show those ads.

“But it’s hard! It takes time! It’s expensive! I can’t control my ad network!”

Sorry, but the onus isn’t on the audience to deal with those things. You helped break it; you’ll have to fix it. You’re going to have to show that you can be trusted to deliver advertising in your site’s content that isn’t going to set my computer on fire, get me fired from an office or violate my privacy. If you can’t do that, then you don’t value your audience.

Calling them “pirates” and stamping your feet isn’t the solution. Rebuilding the relationship with the audience you depend on for your financial well being is.

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Someone: *is late*

Me: Were we supposed to meet at this time? Is this really the place we were going to meet up? Is it actually Thursday today? Were we even meeting at Thursday? Do I actually know this person? Do they really exist? Do I exist?

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dear people who never sit down in the shower : how do you find the strength to keep standing there? don’t you ever get tired?? does your ass never long for the sweet embrace of the shower floor?

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he Mars Curiosity Rover’s True Size

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Sometimes when I’m feeling down I like to remind myself that once, on /v/, I sang A Whole New World, as Jigglypuff, with a guy doing a solid impression of Professor Oak.

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OH MY GOD PAPYRUS