isn’t it creepy that from the day you are born you start to die
Actually! Fun fact!
If “starting to die” is defined as “cells start dying at a faster rate than they are replaced” then you don’t start dying the day you’re born! You’re still growing and cells are still being replaced pretty quick for about 22 to 25 years!
You need:
- this berry that grows on one tree in the middle of Russia
- crystals that cost more than your life is worth
- some substance that is probably illegal
- be sure to throw it into mount doom when you’re done uwu
Just gonna copy-paste an FA journal on the subject, cause I haven’t seen people talking about it on here? Or at least, the post about wallpart.com went around like crazy, but not this info about it.
Please be advise it’s all a Ruse by sneaky Russian to get your personal information!
So, I have been notified by several people about pages of Peter &
Company and other pieces of my artwork being supposedly “available for
sale” through Wallpart.com, and in the past 24 hours have seen many
other artists make journals/submissions talking about finding their own
work on there as well. Naturally, the inclination of any artist finding
their work available for sale without their consent is to head to the
“Report Violation” link attached to every listing and file a complaint
to have it removed.
PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT DO THIS ON WALLPART.COM’S WEBSITE.
I’ve dug into their site code and reviewed some audits that were
performed by other folks in various places online who were aware of this
site’s existence, and there’s some very devious bait-and-switch going
on. Essentially:
- They are not actually selling any of the images that appear on their
site. Their “search function” is nothing but scraper software, which
essentially just loads up hits from Google Images and displays them
within a pre-built “shop” template based on the image’s resolution. This
is why every single piece on there has a title that is lifted directly
from whatever gallery site (FA/DA/Weasyl) or general website was hosting
it. Example: They have my title card from my Kickstarter page for the
P&C pilot, with the title lifted straight off the description.
- The dependence on Google Images is also why doing a search for your
own name will turn up different results each time, or possibly no
results at all. Their “search” function never actually searches their
own listings, because they have none. Confusingly enough, performing the
same search multiple times often returns different results at different
times throughout the day. I was able to find dozens of P&C pages
supposedly for sale by searching my name yesterday, but today none of
them show up in search results – even though the direct links to the
page forms (which I saved) still exist. - Their “Report Violation” link is actually a 100% phishing form. If you
fill it out, no matter what you put there, you will be sending them a
LOT more than you anticipated. This is actually the main purpose for the
site’s existence – they completely anticipate artists being upset
about their work supposedly being sold, so they developed a system to
exploit those who complain. - Various pieces of malware and other malicious code have been found
embedded throughout their pages at different times. This site is just
bad news all around.
- The site itself is hosted in Russia, and has already swapped web hosts
4 times in the past few months. The current host is listed as ENOM, and
other bloggers/artists have already sent complaints and reports to
their contact page, with little luck. It looks like it’s already been
branded and caught in the past and is trying to keep itself alive.
- Also, for a site claiming to have “billions of images” available for
print, to only have a little over 3,000 “happy customers” should be a
pretty big red flag on its own.
So please – DO NOT EVEN VISIT THIS SITE. Do not give it page views, and
most absolutely DO NOT FILL OUT ANY VIOLATION FORMS, EVEN IF THE
ARTWORK ON THE PAGE IS YOUR OWN. Instead, there is a Change.org petition
asking for the domain to be stripped and brought down.
Please share the word around as much as possible so other artists don’t
potentially fall into their trap by thinking that their “Report
Violation” page is actually what it claims to be. These people are pure
scam artists, plain and simple. Avoid them at all costs.
As someone working in the online payments industry who deals with phishing attempts far more often than I’d like I can only second this-
For the love of God do not fill in their contact form- this is what they’re looking for!
This is actually the best scam I’ve ever seen online. I kind of need to take a moment to appreciate this.
Anyway, stay safe everyone!
I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”
like what stupid frenchman saw this:
and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE POMME DE TERRE!”
j'adore comment ananas se dit pineapple en anglais, ce qui veut littéralement dire “pomme de pin”, genre quel type anglais a vu ça:
et s'est dit : “ow cette étrange big fruit ressemble à une, how do you say, POMME! hmmm… mais plutôt une pomme qui pousse dans les pins… HU HU HU! OH YES, IT’S A PINEAPPLE!”
(z'avez vu, on peut le faire aussi… hon hon hon!)
pineapples should never have been discovered anyway
I’ve started a diary on how often my food ordered is incorrect. I don’t eat out all that often, maybe Panera once a week, another place once or twice, and coffee a few time.
It’s day two of my catalog and I’ve got 33% accuracy.
The one correct order was black coffee.
So far I’ve been given the wrong bagel, shorted on a salad, and overcharged almost $7.
I hate my city.
In the Pokemon fandom, every once in a while you stumble upon a ‘Pokeballs are $200′ joke. In reference to how Pokeballs cost 200 of the in-game currency:
What a lot of fans, especially more casual ones, don’t seem to realize is that the currency in the Pokemon games it based on the Japanese yen. The symbol for the currency in the games even resembles the yen symbol:
In fact, according to Bulbapedia, the ‘Poke dollar’ symbol was specifically created for the English translations of the games, and the original Japanese versions use the yen symbol.
Now, for perspective, although the exact exchange rate naturally varies, a US dollar is equivalent to about 120 Japanese yen. So, 200 yen is about $1.67.
A Pokeball in the Pokemon games actually cost less then two bucks.
There’s a REASON we see so many young kids training Pokemon, especially early in the games. The cost of investing into a Pokeball to try catching their own Pokemon easily falls into the range of a typical kid’s allowance. A Potion for healing after battles is 300 (or about $2.50), but since Pokemon Centers offer their healing services for free, that’s a moot point.
Youngsters in the early game only give within a range from 50-150 of the currency, which is about equivalent to $0.40-$1.25. The first Gym Leader in Hoenn Region, Roxanne, give 1,680 in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, equivalent to about $14. Which is about right for the equivalent of a middle or high school honors student. A later Gym Leader, Winona, gives 4,200, or about $35. The Champion, Steven, gives 11600, or $96.67.
The winnings from enemy Trainers varies, but Ace Trainers seem to give out about 1500 or $14 on average, give or take. Swimmers (especially common later in ORAS), award a range from 400-800, or $3.33-$6.67.
Vitamins (such as Calcium, Iron, and HP UP), cost 9,800 or $81.67 each. An Ultra Ball cost 1,200, or $10. A Paralyze Heal costs the same as a Pokeball, while an Awakening is half that. A Revive is 1,500, or $12.50.
What’s the point of doing this? Well, for one, to get a better sense of the in-game economics, which can be hard to grasp if one doesn’t realize the in-game ‘Poke dollars’ are based on the Japanese yen. And a look at said economics reveals some interesting details.
First, it shows basic Pokemon training and raising is well within the affordability of a ten-year old, or older. Which makes sense as Pokemon is aimed at younger kids, and the develops would want them to have the sense that going on a Pokemon journey is something they could do if they somehow ended up in the Pokemon world.
On the other hand, it also shows there’s really not that much money to be made in Pokemon raising and training, unless you battle frequently and regularly against higher-level opponents regularly and and win. Which is…very much in line with how professional sports work in real-life. Pokemon battling gets compared to a sporting event a lot for a reason. The initial 3-D games were even called Pokemon *Stadium.* Parallels are frequently drawn between the Pokemon League tournaments and the Olympics in the anime. The low money output is probably also why we often see Gym Leaders and the like working other jobs.
Just something interesting I decided to look into. I’m a Pokemon fan first, before any other fandom, and always will be. It’s shocking that I haven’t written any meta on it yet.
Hope you enjoyed!
that still doesn’t excuse this bullshit though
Hold up now.
Grown adults don’t recognize the yen sign in the pokedollar sign?
I recognized that before I was 10. Cmon now.
One of my favorite things about Catholicism is its abundance of Masses.
Sunday? Mass.
Feast of St. So-and-So? Mass.
Remembrance of some wonderful event? Mass.
Someone born? Mass with baptism.
Someone died? Mass.
Someone sick? Mass.
Someone acted the fool and hosted a black mass? COUNTER MASS.
A bunch of college students got together to discern their vocations at a retreat? Mass.
Planned Parenthood dismembered children and called it progress? Mass.
New church built? Mass.
New organ installed in an old church? Mass.
Every day in between? Mass.
I truly love that our answer to everything life could possible throw at us is “let’s get together and worship Jesus Christ.”
We’re so into Masses priests have to be restrained by Canon Law to celebrating only two per day, three on extra-special days, unless their position or necessity warrants more…
So I’ve seen a lot of people being frustrated with not being able to get a character’s face to look “right” and believe me, I feel your pain. keeping faces recognizable and consistent is far and away the hardest part about illustration.
I only recently figured out a system for it so bear with me as it’s not quite as streamlined as it could be but I thought I’d share some of my process in the hopes of relieving some headache for the rest of you too :)
Under the cut because this is about to be one looooooooooooooooong post
i’ve heard a lot of stories about writers that i love but i think my favorite one is that the dragon age writers called the game world “thedas” because it was originally short for “the dragon age setting” and then they just didn’t change it
Okay but naming things is really hard so this is actually clever
everybody who skipped dragon age origins is missing out b/c at some point you help a tree who speaks only in rhymes steal an acorn from a homeless man in your quest to locate and kill a naked woman and some werewolves for an 800 year old elf
Maybe you stole an acorn from a homeless man. I bartered for it like a decent human being.
