Posts made by Taika

@Groth This is amazing. $5 each @ 120 items is rough, but batching them 3-4 at a time would be sweet and afforadable, for certain!

Looking at Amazon Handmade, there's a lot less blood and sweat involved. You don't have to have those /ten/ frikking pictures - you can have 1-3 or so and be alright. People don't go to amazon to invest in a story, they go for products and concise descriptions - which is where I might excel. The amount of work is surprisingly diminished for the much larger company, and it's really a surprise.

It almost feels like the expectations are totally different. With Etsy it's 'stay at home crafty moms have ALL the time ALL the creativity, let's make them do the heavy lifting' and Amazon is more... 'We understand a business has X resources to put into these things in a day, let's give them what they need and keep it on point.'

@surreality Right?!

Seriously about the pictures. I swapped to a google pixel 2 xl specifically because it can tell my blue from purple. On an average post (cause I hangups) it takes me... probably an hour of fiddling to get a couple of not-claw-your-eyes-out boring af pics. Then you upload and fill in all those blanks - which isn't too bad. It's the 'write 300 words, minimum, of nice things about the product and get people invested in some bs story'. When all I wanna do is be like: It's shiny, this long, these materials, and this one jingles a bit when you shake it. Buy my stuff.'

In my case, I was just starting to get things back up on Etsy, and decided to back out of it again. There's a lot of speculation in the article, but the money DID get shipped around and pulled out, and even just stripping it down to:

They took the money.
They knew the same day.
It's taken a while and not everyone has been fixed yet.
They tried to sleaze around and give store credit versus giving the cash back.

Nevermind not refunding the overdraft and bounce fees they're not reimbursing and the like.

It's just really soured me on it. They had a chance to fix a spectacular fuck up and make themselves shine with amazing customer service... and they really pooched the screw instead.

@Raemira I was looking at that! It might be the way I go. They have a whopping 145 handmade chain bracelet listings and I have about 120 finished bracelets. Only about 20 of the postings were chainmaille, so I'd almost double their overall postings and be way ahead on the chainmaille crowd.

When I had Shopify, I was paying $30/month, so $40/month for a lot more visibility and 'brand trust' built into Amazon is definitely worth another ten bucks, in my mind.

So, I guess Etsy did a dumb a couple weeks ago.

I know there's a handful of people here that sell or craft show and the like. What's the next best place to be for selling online? I have done Shopify, but it's a much harder 'self-push' forum than Etsy was. I know Square has a similar set up to Etsy, but after Etsy did the dumb, I'm leery of just jumping onto any old bandwagon and hoping they don't do something similar

Anyone have any info about these things or recommendations?

@Thenomain - What I want looks like the $400 range. I want a drawing tablet that is touch sensitive and has a screen on if, since we don't have a desktop or windows/apple laptop. I have a pretty good idea from what was suggested here - just gotta save up and see if I can't swing it for her birthday.

<- Pestilence on Discord/Chupathingy @ City of Shadows. Been a bit bent over the ol' greased barrel of life. Just came down off a jaunt with the noro virus and my laptop keyboard lost a spacebar in the last week. Plus 4 adults and 5 kids under one roof is an insane amount of chaos. I should have a Bluetooth keyboard to limp along with shortly.

Please send coffee.

Looking to reclaim some time to work on CoS post-Holidays. Hell or high water.

I am not familiar with graphic tablets/drawing pads/etc, but... The 11/yo wants to get into graphic design and do digital art.

I don't even know where to start.

Tablet? Specific type of tablet? Software?

Gimme a list!

I'm so envious of you people that can take these drugs of brain fixing

IIRC, I have mine set to 200,000.

No dogs in the fight, but: Thank you, @surreality something like this isn't easy, and it takes a lot to step up like this.

Someone popped by CoS about two months or so ago and told me as much. Was a guest bit on an unfamiliar IP, alas.

Guest3 pages: He was helping with the new chargen for Miami which is the next incarnation of Fallcoast.
You paged Guest3 with 'and just yanked the flat and bounced?'
Guest3 pages: He had access to the flatfile and took it.
Guest3 pages: Pretty much.
You paged Guest3 with 'fucking gross :/'
Guest3 pages: And then he came back after Sonder popped up on his game and said something.
Long distance to Guest3: Taika just shakes her head
Guest3 pages: But it is part of the reason why the code is jacked.
You paged Guest3 with 'cause it's a bad/incomplete'
Guest3 pages: The original flatfile is comprised of code done by Thenomain, Chime, Cobalt, and Glitch.
Long distance to Guest3: Taika nods
Guest3 pages: But when he took the flatfile, he did not port everything over completely.
You paged Guest3 with 'oahhh, yeah that would do it'
Guest3 pages: So you can still see references to 'The Reach'.
Guest3 pages: Hidden in the various files.
Guest3 pages: There are references to Roanoke and Pompeii.

ETA: found the date stamp in Discord. 8/14/18

Magnus and Ink? I haven't heard stories about them! Do tell?

@Ganymede - Except I know for a fact Rex/Ashur/Sovereign was on Eldritch playing as a demon.

Set SSL Encryption to never.

'Mundane'

Lyme doesn't show in blood work. That's why it's hard to diagnose. It hides in organs and tissues, to my understanding. It has a crazy high rate of both false positives and false negatives in bloodwork.

Yup! It's just slow, cause I'm wanting to get it perfect instead of half-perfect. The big to-do's are grid descing and data entry. The wiki lives at cityofshadowsmux.com and the game is the same with the port of 2860.

Need to get Theno's mage code in, comb through help/news/shelp files and update. Right now I'm wading through the tilts and conditions code to update to the current splats (M/m+/mage/vamp/wolf), then to get them on the wiki. Lots to do if you're bored and want to help :3

The discord for it is: https://discord.gg/fnCqTVg

Bugger. Do I need to update CoS?

This is amazing. Thank you.