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    New character and drawing, I have a general idea for the story, but I'll have to see how I get it written down with my now limited free time. 

  2. My career really is a wild one, I went to school for IT, never did anything with it, then I went to school to become a construction worker, worked there for two years, then the company I worked for went bankrupt, and now I'm getting hired in a fish-product factory. :crackle:

    If that's not mixed enough, I draw, sometimes try to write things, I'm looking into wood carving, and I'm currently also trying to make a game. :griiin: 

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    2. Rikifive

      Rikifive

      Relatable. My career - if I could even name it like this - is a complete mess and I'm yet to find a job I'd be proud of. :twi:

      Making a game huh, that's interesting. I'm often thinking if I should lock myself in the basement and try to make a game, that anyone hopefully would be willing to buy. :eager:

       

      I just can't seem to find "my place", so to speak.

      Either way, good luck with stuff! I hope everything works out well for you in the end!

    3. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      The "game" is currently just a very close up of a cat's face that can move surrounded by gradient black and white boxes that activate basic game mechanics :P but it will be a game, someday, probably :griiin:

       

    4. Rikifive

      Rikifive

      Nice! Small steps, it's good to not start with too ambitious projects. ;p

  3. https://mlpforums.com/blogs/entry/26830-mia-and-mio-ocs/

    New drawing and OCs. The least cat looking cats to ever cat are here, and the designs aren't that great either, or the writing...yeah, I'm not too happy with any of this, but it is what it is, not everyone can be the winner, but I do like the concept.

     

    also what's with the links, I haven't been able to embed blog links since Rose. :crackle:

  4. I have a new drawing under works, and I have come to realize that, ironically, the catpone can't draw cats. Catpone famously looked more like a dog than a cat, and now, as I have colored one of two characters, this one looks more like a rat than a cat, and looking at the sketch of the second one, he looks more like a wolf :crackle: but hey, this time I remembered the whiskers :maud:

    In another note, a planned to be sad female character, ended up as mildly bothered....male? they may end up being ambiguous, I don't know yet, who knows, maybe the rat look will work with the character.  It turns out that there's very little difference between male and female characters when you don't draw The Shapes™, maybe I should try adding eyelashes :griiin:

     

    1. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      Update- I added lashes, and it worked?:umad: you can barely see them and it worked??:zipp-wut: 

  5. I got a message that I'll get a call, in that call, I was told that I'll get a message, that message never came, so I had to send an Email to get the message, a message which told me about the time and place of a meeting. 

    Gotta love modern day Hide the Pain Harold is the meme of the decade (according to Imgur)

  6. New drawing, this time one I actually liked to make, not perfect, as I started to burn out in the end, but I'm fine with it.
    A wandering kobold, who's name is just a translation of "Doom Speaker" using an online draconic tranlator. He communicates by speaking through the spirit above his shoulder. 

    His sketch has been sitting on my PC for few months now, so I finally finished it. 

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    1. Props Valroa

      Props Valroa

      Looks pretty cool!

  7. Finland has election thingy going on again as we'll elect a new president soon, and having been watching "debates" and interviews...why is this country obsessed with "experts", in an hour long episode of a thing where they interview each candidate alone(episode per candidate), like half of it is some "experts" analyzing it.

    It has really made me realize that this country is really a country of "experts", any time anything happens, a relevant "expert" is asked about it, often even getting more time to speak than the people directly linked to the thing. It's weird :P 

    1. Tacodidra

      Tacodidra

      I've also wondered how to become one of these experts... Sometimes it's obvious they know nothing about their supposed field of expertise (especially unnamed experts – I wonder if they even exist). :derp:

    2. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      It probably annoys the candidates too, they ask you to hold a short speech and answer questions for like 30 min, and the other 30 min is some two randoms trying to analyze what you said :P 

  8. Gotta love winter, after 2 hours of work, my car now has a broken handle and it will maybe start tomorrow. :crackle:
    Almost -30 °C, and while I'm not a spiritual person, this feels personal from some kind of god of weather:P 

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    r/europe - Temperatures on the first day of the year

     

  9. I said some time ago in the comments of one of my Status updates that I would draw my own take on the Gen 5 dragons, so here it is. I had like 2 pictures to base the design from, but it is close enough.

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    I still don't like their design, I didn't like drawing it. I realize that the eye could be smaller, it looks quite odd, but to be fully honest, I don't care enough to fix it, or to even sign my name on this thing :P 

    The design sucks, I will not be drawing more of these, ever, I'll stay in bipedal dragons and more dragon based dragons, thanks. 

     

    1. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      It's bit blurry because I accidentally saved it as jpg rather than png :P 

    2. Tacodidra

      Tacodidra

      I think you did a much better job than the show crew. :)

      I agree dragons are better on two legs – no idea why Spike switched to walking on fours. :please:

    3. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      It's not really even the amount of legs, we had 4 legged dragons in G4, in fact, how I understood it from what I remember, was that the dragons were bipedal until certain size, after which they became more traditional dragons, be it still with more bipedal build.

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      Dragon Aging | MLP Fanatic

       But it's the design in general I don't like, because the new one is less a dragon and more a dragon-pony, and with Spike coming back, it connects it to be the same dragons, thus rising the question, what in the god's green earth happened? What caused the dragons' fingers and toes turn into those hoof/elephant foot things that the new design has?

      Some theorized/head-cannoned that it's because dragons and ponies got...closer, making the future generations hybrids, but then there's Spike, what happened to that poor guy? did he fall into a nuclear reactor or something? And like, we already had older Spike 

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      Spike has a HUGE GROWTH SPURT and goes on Rampage!! - YouTube

       

      and the funny thing is, my despise of these new dragons have actually nothing to do with MLP, I haven't watched G5, and while I compare them to G4 dragons, that isn't really the problem for me.  The problem for me comes from me being a dragon fan in general, I like dragons, I collect dragon themed things and so on, I have seen and seek out different styles of dragons, and the G5 dragons are, up to this point, the worst take on dragons I've seen. :crackle:

      I'm fine with hybrids, hay, I have made few myself, but these official designs look more like trying to make a dragon out of pony mold, which is probably exactly what happened here, since it's cheaper than making actual designs. 

      Though I do admit that the new design is scarier than the old one, these faces haunt my nightmares. 
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  10. I learned today that there exists an actual conspiracy that nukes are not real. Where did that one come from? Did flat earth and ancient aliens become too mainstream for them? 

    One of the funny things in conspiracies like this is that, even ignoring the huge amount of people you would need to somehow keep quiet for it to work, it really overestimates the competence of governments in doing things like that, and also ignores the whole concept of politics. Like, your government can barely agree with itself to do its job, how do you think a world-wide conspiracy would go :P 

     

    And since I'm talking about conspiracies, my favorite kind of evidence is anagrams, and other kind of things where something a teenager could figure out brings out some word or set of numbers or something that "proves" everything.  Are you saying that some secret group like Illuminati, that is apparently smart and capable enough to control the entire world to hide that the planet is certain shape or something, uses puzzles of a difficulty level that you find in children' books, as secret messages?

  11. I see people sometimes say "think of the children" when it comes things like violence in things, and while I get the idea, I did not get trauma from GTA, or V for Vendetta, you know what I got trauma from? Religion, more specifically, Dreamworks movie called The prince of Egypt. I've not watched it since, only confirmed it is indeed that movie, but one scene in it specifically has, and still haunts my memories.

    It doesn't give me any emotional response anymore of course, but it still to this day randomly appears in my mind. 

    The scene in question being the one where the holy spirit kills the firstborns. How was that made into a children's movie?

     

     

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    2. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

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      I've never seen that movie, but the scene sounds awful from your description.

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      but the only cartoon I remember finding scary was Varokaa heikkoa jäätä (I remember we talked about it before).

      That's a classic one.

      But from that and the rest of what you said...of course there's things that I found creepy or disturbing too, I was scared of Mörkö as a child and so on, but nothing has stuck to my mind like that scene, don't know why exactly, because as stated, I have no emotional reaction to it today, but it is the only scene in any movie that has burned so deeply into my mind that it pops out for no reason. In fact, Mörkö being the only thing I remember at the moment, is good show on just how well this thing stuck :P 

      I wasn't even religious :crackle:

       

    3. Props Valroa

      Props Valroa

      Yeah I have to agree with that..."think of the children" only really seems to apply to the "other side" and when it comes to whatever one side believes, their own violence is the exception. 

    4. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      It's especially interesting when it's relating to things that have nothing to do with kids, like GTA, sure kids play it, but they shouldn't :P 

  12. I think I had the closest thing to sleep paralysis I've ever had in my life last night, yet I'm also pretty sure I dreamed it.

    Because of my Mon-Tue night went absolutely terribly, I yesterday, went to bed around 7 pm, however, I woke up at 11 pm, after an experience that I only describe as confusing and uncomfortable. The details are lost, both because i forgot, and because it was all such a mess that I couldn't really comprehend anything.

    I know that at least part of it was a dream, because I remember seeing a room something similar to this

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    Pure and simple attic bedroom
    not this room specifically, but the concept, a roof shaped room with beds on both sides and window in the middle. 

    I remember hearing blood rushing in my ears at some point, and I remember hearing my cat growling, and the last memory before the real waking up, was me trying to roll from my stomach to on my back, but feeling myself be extremely heavy. That last part is partly why I ultimately came to the conclusion that it was a dream rather than actual sleep paralysis, because I rolled around after coming to my senses, and in the case of me being heavy, I ultimately succeeded at moving somewhat, thus, either I had returned to the original position without remembering anything, or it was in fact a dream.

    After that I got up, took melatonin, watched a youtube video in bed, and slept rest of the night normally. 

    But that was honestly awful, and I still feel awful from it. 

    1. Props Valroa

      Props Valroa

      I have experienced this before, but not in a very long time. 

  13. It's that day of the year again.

     

  14. What in the god forsaken earth is this?

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    r/mylittlepony - What do you guys think about the new dragon designs?

    What is that face? why do they look like that? It reminds me of that one creepy twilight face with realistic human eyes.  
    #NotMyDragons :crackle:
     

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    2. Tacodidra

      Tacodidra

      Is that real? :please: I haven't looked at the teasers and stuff like that much (I try to avoid spoilers), but it seems so... The other pictures in that link aren't as bad, but this is really awful – I thought it was a meme edit or something like that. The other images look like something out of a low-budget PS2 game, which isn't as bad, but not exactly amazing either. :P

      But compared to something like Spike (not chad Spike, the original one), Smolder or Ember, this is a huge step down. As for what you said about the 2D style looking better, I can't help but wonder if some of the G5 designs were originally created with 2D in mind, as they look so much better that way. The Mane 5 and Misty look fine in either form, but I think the designs of Opaline and Sparky work so much better in the TYT versions. Opaline's color scheme isn't as garish as in MYM, and I think the 2D style actually makes Sparky cute instead of just weird-looking (though I'm not a big fan of him as a character). And I think some of the background ponies, like Dahlia, also stand out a lot more with their TYT designs, though the 3D ones aren't bad either.

    3. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      Oh yeah, Opaline, wasn't that the alicorn? I remember the teaser or whatever where she was first shown, her colors hurt my eyes. :crackle:

    4. Tacodidra

      Tacodidra

      Yeah, that's her. I really don't know why they went with that exact color scheme for her.

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      The TYT design uses a slightly darker purple, which is a huge improvement – and the lack of MYM-style shading helps too.

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  15. Habits are a weird thing.
    For years now, me and my friend start our steam chat with specific emoticon/emoji/whatever you'd call them. We don't greet each other, no hi, no good mornings, nothing, just the emotes. Specifically, I send a chicken, he sends a duck. My chicken has changed with time, as I have gotten better looking emoji, but his duck  has always been the same, it's this wooden duck-toy thing, the name of which is ":DuckPlz:" 

    I have no memory of why or how this started, but nowadays that's like our secret handshake, it is our way of saying "Hi, I'm now online". And if you really think about it, it's very weird. Every single day when we both are online, the chat starts with those two small pictures, and in some days, they are the only thing we send each other. 

  16. Some weeks ago, I wanted to draw a snake character, I almost finished it, but then my motivation just stopped, and for weeks this character sat in my PC unfinished, more specifically, without a tail. Now finally I finished it, by just quickly making some kind of tail, am I happy with it? not really, but I liked the character idea too much to leave her to rot like I have done to others.

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    I should probably draw more silly kobolds like the one in my last status, it was kinda fun. 

  17. I needed to let out some steam so I did this :P 
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    Thanks this tweet for the idea 

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  18. @Blitz Boom@StrawberryMilk Simp@Props Valroa
    Sorry about not responding, I'm having very busy and stressful time at the moment, I'll try to respond asap, but no promises, as things are quite hectic. In the current moment, I'm hoping to get a breather in Wednesday that would allow me to post, but as stated, no promises.:crackle:

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    2. Evil Pink One

      Evil Pink One

      Would you like to join our club so it would bee more hecticer?

      :muffins:

    3. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      Update: Nope, no breathers for me, next attempt, Friday :scoots:

    4. Blitz Boom

      Blitz Boom

      I hope things will ease up for you soon mate. Don't worry about us in the RP's. We'll still be here when things slow down. :)

  19. The job market in the fields I could go to is really something nowadays. I've been scrolling through job ads for two days now, hours each day, I've read through hundreds of ads now, and you want to know how many of them have been a company looking workers for themselves? 7.

    Over 99% of the "open" jobs, are recruitment companies and lease/rental-labor companies.  Now, nothing wrong with those necessarily, some of them are honest companies, but like...really? they say we have a labor shortage, but considering that 99% of jobs go through third parties seemingly, it seems to me that employers just don't want to hire people. 

     

     

  20. I'm writing a response to an RP, and I just realized something. Yet again the culture I've grown up in, and who I am as a person, have subconsciously had an effect on my characters. Many of my characters are, at least, bilingual, and from those who are, for most of them, English, or whatever the equivalent is in that universe, is their second language. 

    This is not a conscious decision from me, it just happens, probably because for me, a bilingual person with English being my second language, who is surrounded by other people that are the same, it's a natural thing.

    That's probably also why I find it so hard to understand how so many Americans online seemingly have so much trouble with basic grammar, like, they only speak one language, their native language, yet they have more trouble with it than someone like me, who learned it as second language, with my native language being so different that it can't even really be translated well without changing everything about a sentence. 

     

    This also means that I don't really have any explanation why my characters speak English so well other than "yeah, they studied it", because to me that's the norm, rather than something unusual. :ooh:

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    2. Props Valroa

      Props Valroa

      @Catpone Cerberus

      I have seen what you mean. Do you see examples of my thinking in terms of how I play my characters, now that you have come to know me a bit?

    3. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

      @Props Valroa
      For Sombra yes, I can see what you said.

      However, I can't really comment more than that, because the only character I remember well enough to "judge", is Sparkly, and she was you. So my sample size is bit too small to really say if I notice it or not :P 

       

    4. Props Valroa

      Props Valroa

      @Catpone Cerberus

      Yeah I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with the Sparkly RP. Perhaps if you are interested we could think of ways for it to continue - I just kinda lost ideas at that point in time for it. 

  21. Something is going on with me it seems :crackle:for last 10 or so years, I haven't had a single nightmare (at least not bad enough for me to know it in the morning), until now. for the last 3 nights I've been having nightmares. Now, it's not the scary kind of nightmares, so no monsters or such, but more....discomfort inflicting? Losing one's home, bad things happening to a pet, people I love turning against me, my apartment being infested with wasps....

    It could be my stress, as mild-depression caused ...lethargy? torpor? Inactivity?... combined with the stress of needing to look and apply for work, combined with whatever our government is doing, it has really taken a toll on my mind, and just hearing or reading the word "work" activates everything stress related in my body.  

    Cat in fire meme pinup pop art vector | Creative Market

     

    1. Tacodidra

      Tacodidra

      *hugs* :sunny: I hope things improve for you soon, my friend, both in real life and in dreams.

      I've had some pretty unpleasant dreams lately too, they mostly have to do with school for some reason (that's always been the case). :derp:

    2. Catpone Cerberus

      Catpone Cerberus

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      I've had some pretty unpleasant dreams lately too, they mostly have to do with school for some reason (that's always been the case).

      I don't remember the last time I dreamed about school of any level. I only remember dreaming about the Army some time after it was over, and then later about work when I had that. Even now people from the old work place still make an appearance sometimes (granted it has been only like 2-3 months since that job ended.) 

      Now that I think about it, i don't remember ever really dreaming about school, the buildings yes, but not about being in school :ooh:

  22. I have one of those days where I just can't get anything done, but instead of staring at a wall, I stared at youtube, and, this was an interesting video if you have 1h 20min free time 

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    In summary, it talks about the mass extinction events in earth's history, and it really puts things in perspective, life really is something. 

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