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I'm reposting the Erasmo stuff for anyone who may have found their way here by way of Psu's Sketchie Book 2. With some additional material.

Ruff Ryder

Once…. there was this dog. who… shot lighting bolts from his eyes. and…

he had robot legs. given to him by gypsy golems.

But they wern’t dog legs. They were grasshopper legs. The dog lost his original legs in… THE WAR

The war against the terrible space frogs.

They were called that. But they actually looked like thishttp://pazzojinn.tumblr.com/post/37007111940/astronomy-to-zoology-helmet-urchin

The reason for this remains a mystery to this day.

Most of the earth was destroyed in the war. What was left was rebuilt into scattered islands on a sea of clouds

The clouds are actually a heavier than air gas that is all that remains of most of the old Earth

The dog travels these gas seas, fightan crimes with his lightning eyes. Seeking the severed cyborg head of his lost love

His nemesis is a hideous half spacefrog/half gorilla who used to be his best friend

They met in basic training. Before… THE WAR

The war against the Terrible Space Frogs. Which, as previously stated, didn’t actually look like frogs. And were really kinda cute

Part of the dog’s brain was removed to give him is lightning eye powers, and he no longer remembers his name. Only his lost love. He seeks her in the hope she can unlock the secrets of his distant past.

When the Gypsy Gollems found him after… THE WAR. The War against the Terrible Space Frogs. They nursed his broken body and gave him the name… ERASMO Elvert

…THE WAR. The War against the Terrible Space Frogs. Lasted for one hundred years. The lightning dog soldiers, that were Earth’s best defense against the Terrible Space Frogs, where given hideously extended lives thanks to dark magics

Erasmo’s terrible nemesis SANTO Kieck, seeks to destroy the great engines that maintain the cloud sea and keep it from dissipating. The last of the Terrible Space Frogs are bound within these engines, powering them. Santo desires to free his former masters.

The engines are all but indestructible The severed cybernetic head of Erasmo’s lost love, Zulema Bulwinkle, holds the only key.

Also, Erasmo’s current worst nemesis, former best friend, Santo, used to be a lightning eye shooty dog too. So the whole half spacefrog/half gorilla thing is just super weird.

The original Erasmo drawing is courtesy of Bug

I later commissioned Psu for a picture of Erasmo

and Formaldehyde for a picture of Santo

I didn't really have any idea how a half gorilla/half terrible space frog would look, but I was very pleased with how it turned out.

Finally, I was lucky enough to get ICS to draw Zulma

This one turned out significantly more horrifying than I could have imagined. It's pretty sweet.

#ruff ryder #Erasmo #Erasmo Elvert #SANTO Kieck #Zulema Bulwinkle #Bug Art #ian samson #ICS #psudonym #Psu #4ma #formaldehyde #This is stupid

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they should invent a hobby that doesn't require potentially destroying your wrists

discoursedrome

If you broaden your horizons just a little, there's a whole world of hobbies out there that destroy your knees instead

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Anonymous asked:

Part1: Thank you for the reply! Sorry if I keep pushing the subject, but what I don't understand is Penders' disdain/hate for Chronicles. For someone who always boasts about his contributions to the Sonic IP, one would have thought he would have been elated to be the inspiration and starting point for what would become a plot and setting of the IP's core media, games. Plus, you said it yourself, to everyone's knowledge (Even Penders, maybe?) they were seen as fair game at the time of production.

thankskenpenders answered:

Part2: I would understand if he was asking for acknowledgement/compensation, but his ownership claims seems to be made out of malicious spite, rather than a proper sense of injustice. Like if DC would have dressed Superman in a red & white costume for a few issues after the Fawcett case (I know it's not exactly the same legal case). But why do you think he acts like that? I would love to read your thoughts as you are one of the few capable of reaching unbiased conclusions when it comes to him.

So the thing with the Sonic Chronicles case is that by that point Ken had discovered Archie had lost his contract, cooked up the story that it never existed, and started filing for copyrights for his work. As such, he argued that Sonic Chronicles taking inspiration from his work was an instance of copyright infringement. In his eyes, Shade literally is Julie-Su, and the Nocturnus Clan literally is the Dark Legion, just with the names changed, and if he never signed a contract then that stuff wasn't fair game for other Sega projects to touch. To him, it wasn't uncredited inspiration, it was theft.

The case was dismissed in court because the Archie v. Penders case to determine who actually owned the copyrights for his work was still ongoing, and then by the time that was settled the statute of limitations for the Chronicles case had passed. (In basic terms: it had been too long since Sonic Chronicles came out to sue over it.) So it ended in a stalemate, with both sides still arguing ownership, and Ken would only be able to revive the lawsuit if Sega did something new with Sonic Chronicles or those characters - a sequel, a port of the game, Shade appearing in new stories, etc.

Since then, it's basically turned into a game of chicken with the copyrights. Ken believes Sega has just washed their hands of Chronicles because they don't want to deal with the legal trouble, which is honestly probably true. Meanwhile, Ken has been testing how far he can push his claims of ownership over Shade before Sega does anything, such as when he announced that Shade NFT that declared she was literally the same character as Julie-Su. (Or at least it would have if he'd ever released it.) If Sega doesn't do anything about it, then they're at risk of forfeiting the copyrights, which Ken will take as a sign that they've fully abandoned Sonic Chronicles as their property and therefore he can do whatever he wants with its elements.

So, basically, yeah, he's still just bitter and spiteful over the plot of Sonic Chronicles being based loosely on his Knuckles comics without his involvement. And to a certain extent I'd get that. Comic artists and writers are paid in table scraps and get no benefits, then they see the companies who own their work turn it into billion dollar movies and video games and mountains of merch, and they don't see a penny of those profits. They don't even tend to earn royalties off of their comics' sales. It's unfair. But while I think he deserved some form of credit and maybe some form of compensation, there's a difference between adaptation and inspiration, and Ken's just being a copyright troll here.

There's immense irony in Ken believing that Bioware's homage to Julie-Su should be seen as the same character as Julie-Su in the eyes of the law, while he's out here publishing a comic featuring K'Nox, The Legally Distinct Character Who Is Totally Not Knuckles. Also, like, one of his pet characters has always been a blatant homage to James Bond. He was out there basing Archie Sonic stories on Star Trek episodes and Superman comics and shit. My favorite Sonic story of his literally just ripped off the plot of "For the Man Who Has Everything." I don't see him out here cutting Alan Moore a check. He's nothing if not a hypocrite.

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GIF by blueeyesdreaming

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noonmutter

Biden just pardoned every person who was court martialed for getting caught being LGBTQIA+ under Don't Ask Don't Tell.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/06/26/a-proclamation-on-granting-pardon-for-certain-violations-of-article-125-under-the-uniform-code-of-military-justice/

arandomshotinthedark

This is REALLY fucking good news. It means those put in prison for consensual gay sex are free. This changes their discharge status; meaning, they will be able to get benefits from the VA that they had been unjustly denied! It means they can travel to other countries (it was a felony), not get fucked out of jobs because of being a felon and so much more!

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macabrecabra

Tired and need to go sleepies, BUT some sneaky peak WIPs of my next three art fights! The last one is one of the headshots for a character ref I'm working on c:

Hopefully tomorrow can get more work done!

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mamoru

anyone at GDQ: trans rights!

the entire crowd, every time: WOOOO!!!!! YEAH!!!!

mamoru

many years ago, games done quick had a problem. there were trans people in the community, and there were a lot of transphobes in the community. for a while there, trans members of the community got treated like shit. not by everyone, of course, but by enough people that it was clearly a culture problem, and it was getting BAD. (and frankly, transphobia was far from the only issue.)

so games done quick had a decision to make: keep things how they were, or fundamentally change the community's culture and kick out anyone who refused to stop being an asshole.

they chose to switch things up, and things changed IMMENSELY. they leaned into being trans positive, implemented pronoun tags for runners and staff, and started banning people who sought to make trans people feel unwelcome in the community.

since then, there have been a ton more trans speedrunners. long-time speedrunners have since come out, and trans rights are constantly celebrated with even more casual-ness than the transphobic vitriol that used to be spewed at trans people.

games done quick even chose to move their events out of florida (and eat the cost of doing so) in part because of transphobic laws that could endanger trans members of the community.

GDQ has come such a long way, and has fundamentally transformed itself into a much more kind and welcoming community. for everyone.

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amtrak-official

I could be a terrible mayor for pretty much any midsized american city, I would begin building a light rail and then immediately start a fight with the police union

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I might also try to build social housing on a golf course

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I'd be very unpopular on the rich side of the city

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sparrowlucero

The greatest injustice ever faced is that I almost certainly started the still thriving "clown husbandry" tag on here, but any discussion about it (from a know your meme page to a youtube video with 500k views) says it's a joke of "unknown origin" or credited to this post, likely bouncing off of mine (which was actively circulating at the time with like 30k notes):

This is a tragedy for many reasons, most of all because it wasn't just an offhand joke but actually a direct response to some of the funniest online hate I ever got:

They're erasing the truest history of tumblr: its desperate need to seethe and argue over every obvious joke with more than 10 notes.

anyways here is the canonical pet clown. according to me

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doctorwhogifs

#how long have we been holding on to this one?

adulthoodisokay

i’ve had this queued for 365 days

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lilybug-02

Just played Hollow Knight for 7 hours strait with a friend.

Needless to say I am having a blast and think it's an amazing game :)

You can buy it on Steam for the Summer Sale at $7.49! Best McDonalds meal of my life.

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benevolentdinosaur

Bramble has activated bottle brush tail

Somebody stop him he's too powerful like this!

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battlecrazed-axe-mage

We've all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think

battlecrazed-axe-mage

So I've hidden this reply, both because it's obnoxious and because I don't want the person who wrote it being harassed for it, but I need you to understand: I don't know you. We are not friends. This is not fun or cute, we are not sharing a charming joke together. You are just being an asshole.

battlecrazed-axe-mage

literally that is what the post is about, I am saying people should be less eager to jump on any chance to be snarky and rude to total strangers on the internet

princessbonecrimes

looks like it’s time to bring back scalzi’s evergreen “the failure mode of clever is asshole”

1. The effectiveness of clever on other people is highly contingent on outside factors, over which you have no control and of which you may not have any knowledge; i.e., just because you intended to be clever doesn’t mean you will be perceived as clever, for all sorts of reasons.

2. The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”

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unhauntng

actually not emotional over graduating university, just over losing my jstor access

jstor

A registered personal account will get you free access to 100 articles per month!

magiccarpetman

Never clicked a link faster in my life.

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dwarf fortress update

The serpent people in my cavern have killed 5 forgotten beasts.

I sent my militias down to fight them a couple times, ended up losing a lot of dwarves but also clearing a path to the magma pool, and serpent people drop a TON of good gear, including steel, iron and bronze spears and shields.

I made a library and designated scholars, I set up beehives and a screw press to extract honey from combs, and i'm farming rope reeds for paper.

Dwarven mental health is finally doing well, I figured out that making lots of jewelry was an easy way to improve the mood of dwarves since they like to have nice things, and I also make lots of soap and put statues and gem windows everywhere.

still can't figure out how to get my militias to consistently wear armor

I still have a vampire problem but it's honestly the least of my worries

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2024JUL05

clara x bruce and country breakfast.

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sindri42

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

gailcarriger

I knew pastry would save the world one day.

rosalarian

This is a good use of AI! Do the tedious work so the worker can socialize with the customer. And then use that same AI to fight cancer. This is fantastic! I hate AI “art” but not AI as a whole.