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Some people literally think the term “graphic novel” means that it is a novel filled with GRAPHIC content. And that is why they fight to ban them. #BigOlComicBook Jerry Craft - "School Trip" | The Daily Show https://youtu.be/90yQCptXAyI via

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https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history GEN-Xer here... I'm gonna try some math, please check it if I messed up. A few things about this. Baby Boomers Pay between 1946-1964 Min Wage: __________________________________________________ 1946 Min Wage $750 / $0.40 = 1,875 hours needed to work If working 20 hours per week while at school they earned a whole $8 dollars a week. (Pre-Tax) so... 1,875 worked hours to pay a semester at 20 hours a week = 93.75 weeks. With that it takes over 1 year at part time work just to pay for 1 semester and only if all that money went directly to school. __________________________________________________ 1964 Min Wage $750 / $1.25 = 600 hours needed to work If working 20 hours per week while at school they earned a whole $25 dollars a week. (Pre-Tax) so... 600 worked hours to pay a semester at 20 hours a week = 30 weeks. Under a year, but most of the year to pay for 1 semester of school. _________________________________________________ I'm also going to make a wild guess, that the post might be confusing a Gen-Xer with a Boomer. With this next one, I'll go with the min wage from 1980, to pay $750 for a semester. 180 Min Wage $750 / $3.30 = 228 hours If working 20 hours per week while at school they earned a whole $66 dollars a week. (Pre-Tax) so... 228 worked hours to pay a semester at 20 hours a week = 11 weeks. This is more in the range of being possible ONLY if other stuff was paid, or they managed to make more then min wage. Then it was possible for them to pay off school BEFORE they graduated. _______________________________________________ Lets do a little more math for the 1980 tail end Gen-Xer. $750 x 4 semesters per year = $3,000 total per year $3,000 per year / $66 per week (at 20 hours) = 45 weeks of work. Unless they were making THIS MUCH a week is the ONLY way they would be able to pay for a year's worth of school, and odds are they may have made more or had somebody else pay for other things, like food, rent, gas, or lived at home with their parents while attending school. This leads me to believe the person on twitter was talking about a Gen-Xer who maybe had some resources.

It also depends if somebody was in school late in life. Also remember that one person is an example of somebody who was ABLE to pay for school... others choose to buy houses or raise massive families aka BABY BOOMERS. Not a ton of people could or were able to that either especially POCs and issues with redlining. ______________________________________________ Final thing with my own issues with paying off my $11,000 that I owed back in 2000, aka 23 years ago. I had to work 2-3 min wage jobs just to get 20-40 hours a week. No insurance, lived on my own with rent at $300 on rent, 50$ for phone, $100 for gas, $40 for electric $100 for food and $75 MIN payment a month. I had $665 in bills per month.... unless something happened like mt car breaking down. I couldn't live with parents either, wasn't an option. I made 6.25 an hour and on the BEST WEEKS if there were hours open I could get MAYBE 30 hours, working all 7 days in a week between 2-3 jobs. $6.25 x 30hrs = 187.5 per week x 4 weeks = $750 a month $665 - $750 = $85 (in my account at the end of the month) $6.25 x 40hrs (very rare) = 250 per week x 4 weeks = $1000 a month $665 - $1000 = $335 (This only happened in one or two months per year for 3 years) It wasn't till i got my first job at FILA making a whole $29,000 in 2003 that I was able to keep $1000 in my account a month to be able to buy a car, that I then added $250 a month to pay for my car, but also added another $400 a month because of gas being $3.50 - $4.80 at it's height when going to work. _____________________________________________ https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history

Pretty much don't shit on people when you don't know their own struggle or what they actually made an hour. It took me into my 30's before I had enough money to pay off my whole school loan and my car at the same time... and that was only because by 2013 I was able to make $52,000 a month, while having to move to BOSTON, and then having to pay $1400 a month in rent. _____________________________________________ I mean if I'm wrong I'm wrong, but people think my school was CHEAP... but not by my pay scale when I was an older teen, young adult. Plus... the only reason my schooling was 11,000 was because 7K was knocked off based on "need" cause my mom supported 3 kids on 14K a year in 1998-2000.

The only reason I had some of the money I had was because my high school teachers pulled together 750 dollars and I bought a 13 year old car to drive 80 miles per day to school and work (gas was 1.09), and it ended up dying anyways. It broken down on my way to school and I ended up being covered in radiator fluid, walked two miles with my art supplies and smelled like it till the day was done. Then had to drop out the semester, because I needed to buy another car to be able to get to school, and stripped the parts off the first car to rebuild the second car, during that missing semester, and take ALL my classes over again. ___________________________________________ Also I know... TOO LONG DIDN'T READ. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history

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Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence

READ MORE IN THE LINK! https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05321/copyright-registration-guidance-works-containing-material-generated-by-artificial-intelligence "If a work's traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it.[26] For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt [27] from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user. Based on the Office's understanding of the generative AI technologies currently available, users do not exercise ultimate creative control over how such systems interpret prompts and generate material. Instead, these prompts function more like instructions to a commissioned artist—they identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output.[28]" READ MORE IN THE LINK! https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05321/copyright-registration-guidance-works-containing-material-generated-by-artificial-intelligence

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BLACK NEWS BEAT 2ND ANNIVERSARY EPISODE STREAMING NOW!!! 💫 Our featured guests for the ANNIVERSARY SHOW: 👉🏾 Saliyma H. Chapman 👉🏾 Dr. Taylor Bryant 👉🏾 Darius Davis and Thomas Johnson WITH MUSICAL GUEST 🎤Mikkka3k!🎤 Dr. Kimeka Campbell explores the life and community of Harrisburg and its expressions in the black and brown community. Showcasing the poetry, music and activism of the city, Black NewsBeat uncovers the hidden gems of the capital region and how much sits just under the surface of the city. Dr. Campbell and a myriad of special guests talk about the civic, creative, and cultural pieces that shape Harrisburg and the people who live here.

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So there's still a TON of false myths about Spotted Lantern Flies... First thing is they do have TONS of predators, and if you've been out and about last summer and fall, you'll have noticed that there aren't as many, and the spiders are having a FEAST! Check the webs!

there's also information starting to come out that the plants they they've been killing were actually dying from other things and they just helped finish them off. It's also been stated that they don't kill as many plants and trees people think they do except for some weeds and grape vines. Some scientists think that they are using a specific weed like the Monarch Butterfly as a defensive tool, by absorbing their toxins, but nothing has been released on that fully yet.

Now that there are more predators and adjustments to them learning they can eat and kill them. Stuff like this happens all the time when a new insect is introduced to an area... and I mean "new" in the term of YEARS. It's like how in some areas Honey Bees should and can be considered pests because they kill off competition for other pollinators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYgDssQUtA

Overall with time there will be adjustments, but be careful when killing Lantern Flies making sure not to destroy the area, hurt other insects, or their potential food.

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It’s rough but coming together

Updated art for “Emergency Monster Team”

Currently I’m adding art from the mini comic I am working on into the background to help show the hospital grounds I have in game. I need to color that up too. I think this layout will really get things set off on the start screen to show who Nadel’s teammates are.

On the right side of this pic are the original pencil lines I did, on the left are the digital pencils. I decided to drop that in exchange for the ambulance. The main reason I went with this is to move the flow of the viewers eyes to the left side, because that;s where the UI is with the “START” “LOAD” and “OPTIONS” are located.

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Here’s the new design I did for Storm, coming this spring to the X-MEN comics! ⚡️❌

Was very happy to design more X-Men! The assignment was to give Ororo an updated version of her 80s mohawk costume — I wanted to merge that punk aesthetic with her goddess and superhero looks. 🌩

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Toro Comics Sketchbook Vol. 2

Now for sale on Indy Planet “Toro Comics Sketchbook Vol. 2″. LInk: https://www.indyplanet.com/toro-comics-sketchbook-vol-2 This book is loaded with hand drawn illustrations and sketches using only  gray and black Prismacolor Col-Erase pencils! + 63 pages of hand drawn pencil sketches/illustrations/comic pages + 126 different images + Monster Girls, Robot Girls, Fan Art, Transformers, Heroes and Monsters + Even more art from "Emergency Monster Team"

OTHER BOOKS FOR SALE!!! https://www.indyplanet.com/toro-comics

Here’s some examples of my work in progress when working on these illustrations.

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Resident Evil Monster Girl Art

Here’s a collection of my hand drawn monster girl are based on different characters from the world of Resident Evil. 1. G-Infected Annette Birkin (RE2) 2. Morpheus: Dead Aim (t+G Virus) 3. G-Infected Annette Birkin (RE2) 4. “Misty” zombie mid mutation to Licker (RE2) 5. Lisa Trevor: Resident Evil (Remake) “Mod Fashion Version” All of these were hand drawn with paper and pencil.

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EMT: Chapter 1 ver 1.10 UPDATE

https://shadoboxxer.itch.io/emergency-monster-team/devlog/501237/emt-update-110-battle-update Chapter 1 ver. 1.10 of Emergency Monster Team has some serious new updates. +New Downloadable Version: OSX and Linux in addition to the original Windows version. https://shadoboxxer.itch.io/emergency-monster-team/devlog/501237/emt-update-110-battle-update

+ New Key Items: These key items can be used in battle to help move them along without the need for using the turn based combat system. You have to find them to use them though. Each one of these items has new Pixel Art

+ Battle Damage: (Latrine) Now in the Latrine battle, you as the player can see how much damage you've done based on how beat up they are. Latrine starts to show small cracks all the way to having her leaking. 

+ Updated Art: - Latrine has a new battler image. - Vincent has a place holder icon. - Vendi has an icon now

+ Battle Flow: During the updated battles, enemies will interact with the party to change the flow of battle. The way Nadel responds to them can either help or hurt the party. These can include more damage, extra money, Critical Team Attacks.

+ Various Fixes - Fixed some text issues where it would flow off screen - Fixed the "What's the tea?" and "Care to Dish?" rumor system to help players find some things. - Added text to the Title Page in the hidden spot below Options to hint at more changes to come. - Added the Misty Road background to the 3rd floor of the apartment room with the wandering IVs. - Made "The Package" that progresses the Sewer Clown quest, a Key Item with pixel Art. - Adjust each character's special attacks to do more damage and more critical damage so battles could move faster. - Added more health to Latrine, Vendi and Sue for better combat endurance. https://shadoboxxer.itch.io/emergency-monster-team/devlog/501237/emt-update-110-battle-update

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Did some sketches of The Beyonder from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Loved their version of the character. Super awesome and the singing and music killed it!

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Starting on a new group images of the playable characters from “Emergency Monster Team: Chapter 1″. Unlike Ai Prompters... I share my work process. This is how I lay down rough lines to get my ideas out. https://shadoboxxer.itch.io/emergency-monster-team

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Emergency Monster Team UPDATE Ver. 1.00 Demo

Emergency Monster Team: Demo Ver. 1.00!!!

https://shadoboxxer.itch.io/emergency-monster-team

Included in this latest demo

+ Limited Voice Acting (More will be added when possible)

+ New Side Quests

+ More NPCs

+ New Pixel Graphics for Items

+ New Shops Open

+ Hidden Sewer Boss Quest

+ Cook At Home

+ 1-2hr game play varies depending on completion of side quests and hidden events.

Voice Over Talent:

+ Marion N. Toro as Nadel Peirce http://mariontoro.com

+ T. Nicole Graham, MBA as Basalt https://www.taneshanicole.com/

+ Chaunice Figueiredo as Tamika https://www.instagram.com/curlswithcoffee/

+ Marquiz Moore as Matar https://marquizvo.com/

Theme Song Vocals

+ Chibuzo Akaolisa singing "Someone There For Me" https://soundcloud.com/mahogany-defined

Other Notable Content Information

+ Hand Draw Original Art, Characters, Backgrounds

+ Teen Plus Rating (Horror, Adult Situations, Violence, Drinking, Language)

+ Original and Fun character designs

+ Monsters, Mutated Medical Equipment, and Skeleton Surgery Additional Images!!!!

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Here is my wife, Marion Toro, being all kinds of Ayanas!

Go check out her out voice work hosted on her site and look for the games and animations she’s stared in! https://mariontoro.com

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Dinobot Pinups! Leaning heavier on the Dino bits!

While I have plans for two more Dinos... I think this bunch came out great. I think I have enough content to make a robot girl art book at this point. I want to get the other two done at some point so I can make the entire team and place them in a single image.

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Now even more original characters added. Blue, Dreanna and Jett. These 3 are old characters I’ve had around for a long time and redrawing them and updating their designs has been fun. I’m kind of shocked at how fast I’m doing these at a rate of 2-3 per day.

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Back to EMT....

Yeah... I might have had a drink or three.