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goading retribution

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Doing the opposite of the disposable black girlfriend trope by inventing the "guy really really really crazy obsessed in love with their black girlfriend" trope

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Some Onti stuff

I’ve been working on all the character designs and then I’ll do the backgrounds and things ready to model / learn blender

It’s… a lot, that’s why it’s taking so long (blame employment)

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it is, i think, symptomatic of the way larian has built this brand: bg3 was always marketed as being mature (read: sexual), and that was one of the big draws for players - myself included! especially as media pulls more towards extremes, with mainstream video games starting to get increasingly graphically sexual, graphically violent, and the vogue for 'grey morality' becomes the norm, those boundaries get pushed, and it becomes more and more of a selling point.

larian obviously focused on this, along with the How Do You Do, Fellow Kids brand, the increased accessibility of game devs on twitter, and adopted it heavily into their marketing strategy, and are now pretty reliant on the horny gamer crowd for a lot of their audience, and more importantly, they're doing this on purpose.

which is how you end up in situations like this.

characters (white men) the players want to fuck get centred: they get updates, they get more content, they get favoured. halsin's gone from a side character in EA to a half-fledged romance option, to a full romance option: he shows up in the promotional material, is larian's poster boy for the sex scenes, he gets more content with every update.

now gortash gets more heavily implied situationship lines with the dark urge, because players are horny for him. nevermind that some people aren't playing that way, or that he was originally set up to be a lower-level antagonist; nevermind that if the durge's storyline needed expansion, it should've been with orin and sarevok and bhaal, or that it muddies the writing for the rest of gortash's arc + characterisation: people want to fuck him, so it gets put in the game. it's not even to do with karlach, whose quest so desperately needs expansion! it's specifically catering to the people who want their character to have a Relationship with the slaver, because they're either not interested in or not able to focus on strengthening the weak spots in the narrative: they're just doing things that will net the 'my favourite dating sim' people lmfao.

meanwhile, literal main character wyll gets his quest demoted to a subquest, doesn't get bugfixes, doesn't get a single unique romance greeting after 6 patches and months of requests. he's not a Horny character, so he doesn't get the focus: he's not a player favourite, so he gets nothing. it's just... so unbelievably, indisputably racist, and it's incredibly grim and disappointing to watch it happen in real-time.

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If you're using gen AI because "you want to make art but don't know how/can't learn/it's easier/whatever"

You don't want to make art.

You want someone to make art for you, but you don't want to pay or exchange anything of equal value for it, and also you want it right now, in whatever style you fancy that moment, and in whatever quantity you want. You're greedy and entitled and it is just that simple. You don't want to make anything.

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We've lost some of the greatest posters of our generation to employment

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ah!

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it's their month! Happy Black History Month, Lunar New Year, and (eventually) Valentines Day!

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Ljubljana, Slovenia (2) (3) (4) by Steve L Knight

Via Flickr:

(2) Central Street Market     

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Some panels from the last few Onti chapter 5 pages, I've now finished it :')

Up now on Patreon, goes up on Webtoon / Tapas / Onticomic.com on the 19th!

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Wips pertaining to the rpg art book

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arcane s2 fun

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I know I've said this a hundred times but if you're worried about palestinian fundraisers being scams at least consider donating to MSF. It's a highly reputable organization which has broken its long-standing neutrality to denounce Israel in front of the UN. Here's all the aid MSF is providing to Gazans (documentation available in multiple languages).

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Besties take selfie (had to redraw this to reflect their current designs)

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old drawings of my OC Octavia

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old drawings of my OC Octavia

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A valley in the town of Chiatura (Imereti region, western Georgia), where manganese is mined.  The factory processes raw minerals for steel-working operations in Georgia and abroad.

Soviet engineers installed a network of “rope roads” to transport workers to the mine, and the passenger cable car has been running since 1954, almost continuously.