#Customer rant

[snarkspawn]

I really enjoy playing through tnp again like hi it's been a while

[befuddled-calico-whump]

anyone who calls service industry jobs unskilled labor has never watched a teenager wrangle a burrito the size of an infant into one square foot of aluminum foil

[tornado1992]

I get the appeal of Sonic the Hedgehog being its own urban legend in his world (IDW can we now call it earth) like, a blue blur that appears out of nowhere, destroys some robots, maybe picks up some wildflowers while he saves entire civilizations like it's just a walk in the park and just a few people get as much of a glimpse of him from up close (and that means you're also getting a close glimpse to this week's god of destruction so maybe be careful with that)? it is really cool, but the side of Sonic that is well renewed, the one that it's known by the world as a protector, a hero to some level, the side thay annoys restoration members, the side that gets recognized by the masses, praised by children, feared by villains and admired by almost everyone to a certain level... one that is big enough for him to get bootleg merch? It's just really funny to me like

Popular is an understatement

[lumenniveus]

I have to vent this out. It's hilarious though.

You know how I run a cc fixing side gig? Yea someone was asking about that "functional" toaster from Cowbuild and why it wasn't functional at all today. I took a look at it. It is an atrocity of an object.

Watch me lose braincells under the read more cut

The custom tuning of the toaster was made by Necrodog. That's fine on it's own, but it is incomplete. As in: Cow's toaster is NOT functional at all because half of the code is missing. You can't do anything with the CC you paid real money for. Cool, huh?

Second thing is the weight of that file. You know how EA uses 256x256 or sometimes 512x512 for smaller appliances? Cow's toaster uses 2048x2048 as texture. Just to put that into perspective, that's larger than the texture used for an entire sim and completely unnecessary for an object about the size of a microwave.

The mesh isn't any better. It has no LODs at all so you will run one single mesh the entire time. Okay, fine, I do that too sometimes when I can't shave off polygons but mine aren't 9938 Vertices to 15024 Polygons large. Yo, I could fit 6 of my Lamborghinis in that! Just saying, I'd rather have the cars than one broken AF toaster. Besides that none of the objects have shadow LODs. Yippee.

Anything else? The whole set is a problem zone. Everything is unoptimized and I know those of you who are running her CC have a laptop that's doing its best to imitate a jet engine. Those meshes are made for rendering, not for gameplay.

I love it when you bring me broken stuff to mess with. I love it even more when it gets fixed in the end. THIS is above my non-existing paygrade. I'm considering to blacklist Cowbuild CC from my cc-clinic just because there is no saving that. My sincerest condolences to whoever paid to get it.

[aspd-confessions]

PSA- retail and customer service workers are not your fucking baby sitters.

Do not let your fucking child run around my store screaming. Do not let your child have a tantrum on my floor. Do not let your child block my door so other patrons can't get out. Do not let your child throw products around. DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD HIT ME. And when your child is screaming, DON'T fucking scream back in my store, you're not fucking helping. *I* should not be the one correcting your child's behavior. *I* should not be the one picking up after them when they knock shit off the shelves during a tantrum. *I* should not be the one following your child around because you won't watch them, but if nobody does, he'll make a mess. If your child is having behavioral issues this frequently and this bad, don't fucking bring them along.

[foxinaround]

please- please someone here me out

night shift by lucy dacus

pizzaburger(007n7/elliot)

"you've got a 9-5, so i'll take the night shift; and i'll never see you again, if i can help it"

CAN SOMEONE SEE THE VISION????? PLEASE????????? I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS RIGHT NOW AND I THINK THIS WOULD BE GLORIOUS

[microsofttothemax]

when your son somehow manages to discover the best gossip so you keep him around the pizzeria simply to find out the most recent rumors of the customers

a continuation of this au which is now my roman empire

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

henlooo just wondering if you have any sketches of morax' parents? or you can describe them and who he'd taken after?

i did have a sketch lying around, so i've cleaned it up and colored it!

in this hc zhongli would've gotten his dad's facial features, but like,, all the colors from his mom save the skin tone. also her smile. his dad is a qilin and i gave him a tail bc 1) qilin have tails 2) ganyu has no tail but she's half-human so that tells me nothing and 3) i can do what i want lmao

remember the mom was a jewelsmith so all the dangling bits and everything gold was made by her. the only reason the dad isn't absolutely decked in baubles like a christmas tree is bc he thinks it gets cumbersome at some point n the mom is like "you're no fun". he does let her use his horns as hangers for necklaces n shit while she works tho. the dad was also the one who saved baby zhongli from being a christmas tree, too.

zhongli does get his androgynous swag from both of them

[fishpout]

Okay, so like for the past 19 days I have been unable to draw or do anything productive really but that's because I have been working on a LONGAN DRAGON COOKIE PLUSHIE!!

!!! AND THEYRE DONE NOW

please just look at them for a second. Look into those badly sewn eyes. Do you feel sympathy, love, or hatred? You should! Feel at least one of those idk.

Something about the eyes makes me laugh because they're so pathetic looking...

(more photos below + long discussion/breakdown on sewing this as an almost complete beginner)

This was like definitely top 10 on the "things you dont try to attempt as someone who has only sewn 4 plushies before" list 😭 But the good news is that I was able to make their clothes 100% removable (they're a dress up doll now >:D) including accessories!! (I'll probably try to see if I can get any doll clothes to fit them soon. )

I attempted to make it as game accurate as possible but uhh their clothing was NOT designed to be brought into the third dimension at all.

Their gem, a bit wonky because i didn't really sew it right, is attached via a small button the back, which goes underneath the hood and clips onto itself:

I wasn't able to add some of their cooler armor sadly :( I LOVE ALL THE GOLD BUT ITS SO STUPIDLY HARD TO TRY AND ATTACH???? While I could have tried to sew it onto their robes, I didn't really want to be forced to wash the gold with the white in case it ever needed to be cleaned.

I did end up adding a cheap real ring as an accessory (from TJ max) because it was too big to fit onto my fingers. I think it looks cute + makes up a little bit for the lack of armor :3

I'm not really sure how many people have tried to make cookie run characters in real life, but has anyone noticed they have the vastly different proportions than most other chibi patterns available? Their limbs are thinner and longer urgh. Anyways because of this I used a base head pattern from a pre-existing pattern but I had to MAKE MY OWN BODY PATTERN!!! Which is both exciting and a bit terrifying as a complete beginner 😭, but I wanted to at least try to make it similar to the game!

Again I am NOT experienced in sewing AT all. I have made 4 plushies total WITH PREMADE PATTERNS and I have no sewing machine! I have never, ever, even attempted a body pattern before.

So here's the various problems I encountered while making this plush:

#1: The pattern for the body had to be continually readjusted because of how big the head is! Seriously the body has to be so small compared to it, but not too skinny otherwise it looked like a glorified skeleton. I ended up looking at a bunch of anatomy guides for CROB and CRK.

(This is a test piece that I pinned together and it looks utterly horrifying. I went back in after this to adjust the seam allowance to be thicker 💀)

#2: I decided that I was going to add all my HCs to this design, which included gradient limbs! That sounds great, right? While it looks cool (if they're not wearing clothes) it required SO MUCH EXTRA SEWING. I am happy with the result but wow, lots of sewing and confusion.

( These are the arms sewn together with their respective colors, but not fully assembled yet. There was the front piece + back piece which both needed the gradient.)

#3: I uh, made their head a bit asymmetrical... I was still getting used to cutting minky (as I'd only ever used fleece before) with my dull little scissors and got stuck with a face thats a little bit wonky. They're still cute... I think?

( I am really sad I wasn't able to make the black portion of their markings as pointy as they are in game :( but I was literally struggling so bad at this point that I couldn't cut anything evenly.)

#4: Okay this one wasn't on me but why do they not have like a canon haircut, Devsisters? In their default outfit I literally cannot figure out what kinda haircut is going on there 😭 I gave them similar hair to their costume (Emperor of Eternal Paradise,) but with some minor alterations (it looks like they have mini goat ears and I find it adorable)

(This isn't really a complaint about sewing as it is about the fact I just found it really confusing.)

OKAY PATTERN COMPLAINTS OVER!!! NOW FOR RANDOM DETAILS TIME:

the random detail is them laying down dead.

Actually I wanted to make their horn a lot longer (as shown in game) but discovered I HATE sewing this long ass branch. And I was still trying to factor in how comfortable they'll be to hold. Uh. So yeah, no giant branch. BUT THERE IS A MINI ONE!! And maaaybe at some point I'll extend it to look similar to the massive outreaching stems.

The ring isn't actually holding it in place, but if you have a ring and place it there it just looks super cute. The actual pieces are sewn together around where the ring is.

Their actual horn is attached to the forehead while the larger one(branch?) is secured onto the back of the head with a small stich. The rest of it is free floating and can be flicked around like a tail and flops around when moved :D

Another detail is their helmet... which isnt attached very securely 😭

(looks like a banana peel)

Its attached with a stretchy piece of fabric i had laying around and (badly) stitched in place around the edge so I could slide it around their hair a little bit. I had to tuck the front part INTO their bangs in order for it to stay upright. The helmet itself is the yellow minky fabric + some off white felt in order to make it stiff enough to hold its shape :D

ANOTHER FUNFACT, THEY ARE ACTUALLY LIFE SIZE. ISH. Actually they're a bit larger than life. IIRC Longan is like 21cm or 8~ inches irl, and this plush is a bit over 11 inches 😭 (excluding the horns, w the horns they're over a foot in height.)

IDK IF ANYONE WILL READ THIS BUT I AM ACTUALLY HAPPY WITH HOW THIS TURNED OUT!! Despite the uh troubles and lots of confusion, they're super super cute and I hope to continue to improve if I make another plush. :D

Honestly I made this out of complete love and admiration for Longan. They're so evil but not in the way you'd think. They're extremely morally reprehensible but still care for the other dragons, yet their love comes off so twisted and manipulative/controlling to the point of violence. Such an interesting creature, I'd love to hit them continually with a table at some point. Im just really REALLY not ready for what will happen to them.... oh my sweet(?!) creature.

(I'm actually a bit anxious posting this since I know they look a bit awkward, but hopefully it just adds to their cuteness factor...?!?!)

[3-2-whump]

Idk whether I’ve said this before, but I love writing nightmares. It doesn’t have to make sense, I can experiment with first person POV, and I get to explore fears and character development in a very whumpy way, even if the official whump part is over.

I also get to play with symbolism, although I feel like a lot of the dreams I write take a more literal interpretation. But at least I can resurrect dead characters in dreams and/or hypothetically kill off characters without committing to it in canon, among other impossible feats!

[tootditoot]

Wondering if I should focus on animal drawings again

[pastasuccubus]

I've been enjoying getting to relearn who Taliesin is as a character ever since the update. Ngl, before so many of his lines were rewritten, I was getting to point where I was repulsed by him, due to the near-constant dirty commentary.

I think the rewrite was very welcome and needed for longevity. Otherwise I think Taliesin would have gone the route of being mainly praised by gooners, like Sophia.

Is Taliesin still a bit of an ass? Yes. It's called character flaws, which adds ✨flavor✨. But is he a gross ass? No, and we love that.

He has more depth, is more mysterious, and is more thought provoking with his new lines and I'm excited to see where his mod goes.

Thank you Dynamite124 and Pat Mahoney for all of your work and artistry in making Taliesin!

[dynamite124]

These request for Taliesin to have interactions with Lucien, Inigo and Kaidan are going to be the death of me.

I want those too but I don't think I can make it happen...😭

[luckyblinkies]

dungeon meshi blinkie set :D

[ababel]

doodled some region art for a region idea I had ^-^ it’s called Transportation Facilities The region would be connected to industrial complex, five pebbles, and metropolis. Before global ascension, the benefactors had created this region as a way to transport goods from industrial complex to other areas. (Holy ash and resources to five pebbles, masks and other goods to metropolis.) The region layout is shown below.

(It looks a bit confusing so ill probably remake it at some point :)

(this region might be important to The Afflicted’s story)

[sniffanimal]

drew up a better full color idea for what I want Salt and Pepper to look like. I've decided to go with a "full English breakfast" kind of vibe instead of my previous waffle-based design. I have a few materials I'll need to source for her, but I've got kinda the hard parts done already