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      Extra Life 2018
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      Thank you everyone who donated, came by to chat and hang out, or spent most of the stream with me. Thank you for the mentions too! Thank you especially for everyone who put up with my once a year spam! Thanks to you guys I made my goal again. It's you guys who make Extra Life awesome every year!

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      Video Dump
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      I have been listening a whole lot to this channel

      Ideas of Ice and Fire

      Obviously a channel that was originally Game of Thrones oriented but it has been going heavy on Dune recently and is well worth listening to.

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      My first cellphone
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      Arkandel

      My Pixel 2 rocks. Quick updates, great battery life and charging times, awesome interface, Google Assistant is amazing while I'm in the car and need to tell it to do stuff for me.

      On the other hand no memory slots and it's not the cheapest device.

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      Interest Check: Alternate Supernatural (TV) Game
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      Oooh! I didn't know about that. Thanks for sharing!

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      Shameless Self-Promotion part IV
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      @auspice I also suck at it. Luckily how good I am at it isn't dependant on people winning keys!

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      Pitch me your WoD
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      Tinuviel

      I'm Fabian on Fallcoast, and I'm the best Vampire because I RP at a decidedly Vampiric pace.

      ETA: If a decent v20 edition of Wolf or Mage... or Demon (please) shows up, I want to know about it.

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      Looking for an Artist, actually willing to pay...
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      @tanyuu said in Looking for an Artist, actually willing to pay...:

      @nightshade said in Looking for an Artist, actually willing to pay...:

      What I'm saying is, you can sit on your high standards and never get your work off the ground, or you can get the wheels turning through imperfect means. At least this is my personal experience, and what worked out for me. I suppose your mileage may vary, but I hope this perspective helps someone.

      For certain situations, I'd agree, if it was due to circumstances, the client, or because it's something an artist feels is a good deal in other ways. What I often see is where it's someone pricing themselves below minimum wage out of the idea that 'this is normal'. Work can be cheap and fast, cheap and good, or fast and good, but it can't be all three at the same time.

      Oh, I completely agree. The last sentence is also why I don't worry about underpaid work affecting professionals. A client will get burned if they expect that to work, and next time will understand why it's worth paying a professional.

      Yes, people price themselves below the worth of their work, and I think part of the reason is the confused connection between self-esteem and financial reasoning.

      I suppose there's a reason why undercharging and dumping prices is a reality of the business world: it works. If someone shows up in the market offering same quality for lower prices, they're suddenly taking all your clients. But they can't viably continue to provide that kinda quality for that price, nor will they want to. So these things are a blip on the radar and should be regarded as such. It does suck when it happens, but the market is dynamic and shit keeps changing.

      This can be a thing if we're talking, say, retail. It's one thing to dump prices when you're selling extra stock of a mass-produced item, or when you're trying to stand out from listings in retail. If I remember right, a retail store bought those items at manufacturing cost, so if they sell below the retail price, they still make their money back.

      Actually, this is a thing in so many other areas of business and industry, like outsourcing production to China, helpdesk or programming to India, etc. However, the balancing of fast/cheap/good still applies - you get what you paid for and have to work with less than ideal results, most of the time.

      However, for a personal commission, there's no way to spread the cost of an item around. If I draw someone's OC, I can't really sell prints of it, or sell it to someone else as a cover for their magazine.

      No, but unlike retail items, you can use your past work to leverage future work. "I've already drawn 50 OCs, as you can see. I can easily do this, but my price is so and so." Of those 50 OCs you might have 10-20 who bring you more business through word of mouth.

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      Ever wanted to learn Photoshop?
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      Shameless Self-Promotion: Extra Life 2017
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      @thenomain I mean... it was in the first post... and linked on Discord when I went live. And Twitter. >.>

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      Issues with SimpleMu
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      Sunny

      It does come with your name attached though, so be aware that you're giving that out. If you used your name originally, that is. I give mine out too, but it's good to know.

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      So apparently Samsung Galaxy Note 7's are blowing up.
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      @GangOfDolls They don't, they're trying to CtA.

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      Shut up and take my money
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      Humble Book Bundle
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      Chime

      A friend of mine is a major Ocaml/F# addict (well, did it for a living, too) and has been adapting Unity to work with F# (or vice versa, I suppose), with some promising success so far.

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      Rise of the machines
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      HorrorHound

      U wna fitem8?

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      Client suggestions
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      I'm a fan of Mudlet, and it meets all of my needs for all kinds of MU's

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      Storium
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      Booo! Ah well, it looked neat anyway.

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      Shameless Self-Promotion (Again!)
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      So this isn't really self-promotion more a WTF internet so I really don't know where to stick it, but Tay Zonday just randomly started following me on Twitter?

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      Bloody Valentine's Day Massacre 2016 (More shameless self promotion)
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      @Bobotron Your liver might not think so! Playing a drinking game with it. Take a drink every time they say mitochondria. We're at 58 and at the hospital...

      Probably going to finish Oxenfree first though.

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      Steam
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      Jaded

      If you liked Dying Light, The Following is not going to disappoint.

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      Shameless Self-Promotion: Extra Life 2015
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      Up next: Dragon Age Inquisition

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