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Posted in Hypothetical Questions
Posted 5 years ago
@pachi: I was thinking no considering I remember vividly weird, uncomfortable things and don't want others to see it but you bring up a good point about revisiting things. My family might appreciate the dreams I have about my hometown. Still wouldn't due to the really stank dreams I get every so often
Posted in Throw something...
Posted 5 years ago
I catch it but my grip is too tight when I snatch it from the air, the lid flies off and coffee spills all over me. I grab a Shamwow™ to clean myself off, wring out the coffee, and toss it to the next poster
Posted in Rate The Avatar Above You
Posted 5 years ago
That's a pretty sick avatar, very well constructed and consistent theme/color scheme. It's a tad cluttered, but otherwise very nice work
8/10
Posted in How rich ARE you?
Posted 5 years ago
Currently got 1,700 volts. Working towards getting enough to buy a Showstopper off of someone and some other little things
Posted in Online clothing stores
Posted 5 years ago
I can't believe I forgot about Shein!! It looks so much more different from other dropship sites so people overlook any possibility that the shop sells wholesale products that they didn't have a hand in creating. I thought it was an original store at first until I started intensely sleuthing different dropship sites to find fakes. Seriously, if you are ever suspicious of sites like that, feel free to message or ping me :)
On a lighter note, Kokopie is a legit shop, I follow the designer on instagram so I can see product designs before they're actually released (tbh forgot their name but they are a very skilled designer)
On a lighter note, Kokopie is a legit shop, I follow the designer on instagram so I can see product designs before they're actually released (tbh forgot their name but they are a very skilled designer)
Posted in Hypothetical Questions
Posted 5 years ago
I'll start off by answering one:
Question 1:
I've thought about this one for a while. My biggest inspiration for it is That 70s Show.
It takes place in a small town with a small group of friends in high school that hang out at the apartment of a girl named "Cass Drew" who's an artist (haha "Drew" also I think an artist trope is very very underrated, so much hilarious potential that is overlooked) who has intense body issues from being short and extremely underweight and basically being bullied about it. There's a very obvious seperation of classes (lower income at the complete opposite side of the town from higher income).
The cast also includes Orchid Mcalister, daughter of *those* kinds of parents who want to look like they have a high (but fake) status, and use her as a trophy of sorts during the many unnecessary house parties they hold, but are completely broke due to really bad impulse-shopping of overpriced designer clothes by her mom. Her parents are very controlling and put a lot of pressure on her, which when she stays the night as Cass's apartment, Cass promotes her to take the pounds of makeup and super fancy clothes in exchange for comfier clothes to help her relax.
Then there's Grace Lemmen, next door neighbor of Cass, who's tall and a chunkier build which she also has bad problems with. Her parents are definitely on the lower side of the income issues in the town and always has something on her mind that she keeps quiet about outside of Cass's bedroom where they all hang out. She tends to act extremely differently between the outside world and in Cass's room.
Jamie Toddson is a freshman who's the son of very white-bread parents who - since they grew up in a small, midwestern town - haven't been exposed to a whole lot of diversity in races and non-cis/het people. They're excepting of other races and non cis/hetero people but just don't exactly understand or know how to interact with those things. Jamie is kind of secretive about who he genuinely is as a person since he acts a lot less white-bread than his parents and doesn't want his parents to act weird towards him.
Production-wise there's absolutely no laugh track since I think a lot of shows use it as a crutch for poor writing. Set design would be an important deal, I want settings for everyone's places to reflect them and/or their families, and I want the town to feel genuine. I want the characters to seem more realistic than just stereotypes you can drag from every other sitcom, but at the same time still reflect how people stereotypically act when they've grown up in a small town with a lower population. I want a catchy and simple theme song people won't want to skip over when the theme comes on (again, pulling this from That 70s Show). The layout of the town wouldn't have a grocery store , instead they have to drive to the next town over to get actual groceries, there's very few stores and certain services (dentist, hair stylists, etc) are ran out of houses that were modified to be small facilities. The only stores in the town are a dollar store with very very very basic groceries (if you can even call them that), a gas station (that Orchid works at), a small thrift store, and a store that sells things local citizens of the city make like candles, paintings and whatever else the citizens decides they want money for (that Cass works for to make money off of her art). There's a small performance center for local bands and a bar.
Question 1:
I've thought about this one for a while. My biggest inspiration for it is That 70s Show.
It takes place in a small town with a small group of friends in high school that hang out at the apartment of a girl named "Cass Drew" who's an artist (haha "Drew" also I think an artist trope is very very underrated, so much hilarious potential that is overlooked) who has intense body issues from being short and extremely underweight and basically being bullied about it. There's a very obvious seperation of classes (lower income at the complete opposite side of the town from higher income).
The cast also includes Orchid Mcalister, daughter of *those* kinds of parents who want to look like they have a high (but fake) status, and use her as a trophy of sorts during the many unnecessary house parties they hold, but are completely broke due to really bad impulse-shopping of overpriced designer clothes by her mom. Her parents are very controlling and put a lot of pressure on her, which when she stays the night as Cass's apartment, Cass promotes her to take the pounds of makeup and super fancy clothes in exchange for comfier clothes to help her relax.
Then there's Grace Lemmen, next door neighbor of Cass, who's tall and a chunkier build which she also has bad problems with. Her parents are definitely on the lower side of the income issues in the town and always has something on her mind that she keeps quiet about outside of Cass's bedroom where they all hang out. She tends to act extremely differently between the outside world and in Cass's room.
Jamie Toddson is a freshman who's the son of very white-bread parents who - since they grew up in a small, midwestern town - haven't been exposed to a whole lot of diversity in races and non-cis/het people. They're excepting of other races and non cis/hetero people but just don't exactly understand or know how to interact with those things. Jamie is kind of secretive about who he genuinely is as a person since he acts a lot less white-bread than his parents and doesn't want his parents to act weird towards him.
Production-wise there's absolutely no laugh track since I think a lot of shows use it as a crutch for poor writing. Set design would be an important deal, I want settings for everyone's places to reflect them and/or their families, and I want the town to feel genuine. I want the characters to seem more realistic than just stereotypes you can drag from every other sitcom, but at the same time still reflect how people stereotypically act when they've grown up in a small town with a lower population. I want a catchy and simple theme song people won't want to skip over when the theme comes on (again, pulling this from That 70s Show). The layout of the town wouldn't have a grocery store , instead they have to drive to the next town over to get actual groceries, there's very few stores and certain services (dentist, hair stylists, etc) are ran out of houses that were modified to be small facilities. The only stores in the town are a dollar store with very very very basic groceries (if you can even call them that), a gas station (that Orchid works at), a small thrift store, and a store that sells things local citizens of the city make like candles, paintings and whatever else the citizens decides they want money for (that Cass works for to make money off of her art). There's a small performance center for local bands and a bar.
Posted in Regarding the forum rules thread
Posted 5 years ago
Some of the terms in the official main Forum Rules can be confusing for people that aren't entirely "in the know" about what they mean. I feel like there should be a section containing clear definitions of what everything is (for example, I didn't entirely understand what "triple-posting" was for the first month or so of being here), especially for newcomers who have no idea what the rules are to begin with.
Posted in Hypothetical Questions
Posted 5 years ago
The forums are all going pretty slow so I thought this would be a good way to get some movement. Feel free to do multiple (just make sure you don't break the triple posting/spam rules, this isn't the undercurrent!). Include the number of which question you are answering. The credit for some of the longer ones go to Chuck Klosterman, creator of the game "Hypertheticals". Go ahead and pick your poison:
I apologize if this belongs in a different category, I wasn't sure where else to put this. Feel free to suggest new questions to add to this and I will update it if I think it fits and is thought-provoking enough.
1. You get to create a sitcom, guaranteed to air. What would it be about and how would the production work (i.e. would you have laugh tracks, what tropes are in it, how would you work with censorship)?
2. If you got to have any magical power (not super power, this is fantasy magic), what would it be and how would it function? -OR- What stereotypical power seems like a really trash power, magical or super (reading thoughts, flight, being invisible, etc.)
3. You get to solve one big problem in the world. What would the issue be and/or what would you change in the world to fix it?
4. Do you think that war can end at some point and people would no longer engage in it, or do you believe that it's too far ingrained within society to come to a final end?
5. In a zombie apocalypse, you get the choice of one very untraditional weapon (no guns, bows, knives, etc), what would it be?
2. If you got to have any magical power (not super power, this is fantasy magic), what would it be and how would it function? -OR- What stereotypical power seems like a really trash power, magical or super (reading thoughts, flight, being invisible, etc.)
3. You get to solve one big problem in the world. What would the issue be and/or what would you change in the world to fix it?
4. Do you think that war can end at some point and people would no longer engage in it, or do you believe that it's too far ingrained within society to come to a final end?
5. In a zombie apocalypse, you get the choice of one very untraditional weapon (no guns, bows, knives, etc), what would it be?
6. You get to finally have your dream career instantly and be paid graciously, but in the process you will lose your mind. Would you choose to continue and have your dream career or stay in your current state to save your sanity?
7. You're now in a youtube group with your best friends, creating genuinely good content together that people love. The problem is - one of the members slowly starts to get more power/money hungry and starts changing the group dynamic, slowly making members leave out of frustration with the path the group dynamic is headed. Would you break off with some of the group members and abandon anyone that doesn't choose to come along or attempt to (and more-than-possibly fail) to bring the dynamic back to its original state?
8. Wattpad becomes a platform for new authors to make actual stories that they can't get published (for whatever reason) after fanfiction is banned. The quality of the new abundance of stories are much much higher than before the ban happens. Would you read the stories or avoid it to save your image due to Wattpad's legacy?
9. You are able to send a letter to yourself at any past stage of your life. You only get one sheet of wide-ruled notebook paper to get all of your points across (you cannot write multiple layers of text on a single line of the notebook paper). What age/stage of life would you send the letter and what would you tell yourself?
10. You own a multiplex building that has three seperate units in it. You are planning to move into one of them while collecting rent money from the other two units, but have medical/psychological needs that require someone to take care of you in a manor (it's not too serious, rather just inconvenient) and you have no one to move in to make sure you're okay. Because of this, you have to live with your parent(s) for the time being. Someone that you're close with that lives in another state is willing to move in with you to take care of you but they have to stay where they are for the time being for college or some other reason keeping them there. They will move to your city in four years, so in the meantime you decide to rent out all three of them, but when you need to move out, you would have to kick someone out in order to live there. You cannot move into a different building at that point until you can afford to buy another property, which would take years more than when you friend will move. Would you be okay with kicking someone to the curb (and losing their rent money) in order to finally live (kind of) on your own?
7. You're now in a youtube group with your best friends, creating genuinely good content together that people love. The problem is - one of the members slowly starts to get more power/money hungry and starts changing the group dynamic, slowly making members leave out of frustration with the path the group dynamic is headed. Would you break off with some of the group members and abandon anyone that doesn't choose to come along or attempt to (and more-than-possibly fail) to bring the dynamic back to its original state?
8. Wattpad becomes a platform for new authors to make actual stories that they can't get published (for whatever reason) after fanfiction is banned. The quality of the new abundance of stories are much much higher than before the ban happens. Would you read the stories or avoid it to save your image due to Wattpad's legacy?
9. You are able to send a letter to yourself at any past stage of your life. You only get one sheet of wide-ruled notebook paper to get all of your points across (you cannot write multiple layers of text on a single line of the notebook paper). What age/stage of life would you send the letter and what would you tell yourself?
10. You own a multiplex building that has three seperate units in it. You are planning to move into one of them while collecting rent money from the other two units, but have medical/psychological needs that require someone to take care of you in a manor (it's not too serious, rather just inconvenient) and you have no one to move in to make sure you're okay. Because of this, you have to live with your parent(s) for the time being. Someone that you're close with that lives in another state is willing to move in with you to take care of you but they have to stay where they are for the time being for college or some other reason keeping them there. They will move to your city in four years, so in the meantime you decide to rent out all three of them, but when you need to move out, you would have to kick someone out in order to live there. You cannot move into a different building at that point until you can afford to buy another property, which would take years more than when you friend will move. Would you be okay with kicking someone to the curb (and losing their rent money) in order to finally live (kind of) on your own?
11. Some animals have the same level of sentience and intelligence as the average human, and also have proper vocal chords to communicate in human languages and can cross-breed with humans, making animal-human hybrids. Do you believe it would be morally okay for intimate relations with these animals to exist since they can fully consent and understand consent or is it too far in a moral grey area for it to be morally okay?
12. You/your partner (pretend one of you is a girl if the relationship is two men) are pregnant and very excited to have a child together. You've tried for years but nothing ever happened until now. During a checkup for the pregnancy, the doctor tells you the child will have down syndrome. Would you terminate the pregnancy to avoid having someone that would live with the struggles of down syndrome or not?
13. Someone builds a paranormal "Honesty Room." Within the walls of this room, it is impossible for anyone to tell lies (or to avoid answering whatever questions they are asked). This same inventor also creates a memory loss drug that is released into the air inside the Honesty Room as an airborne mist; what this means is that people who enter the Honesty Room will not remember what they said, what questions they were asked, or even that they were ever there. The only antidote to the memory loss drug is a pill, and you have this pill. So--in essence--you have access to a room where every guest who enters will tell you the absolute truth (about anything) and then immediately forget what they were asked and what they said. But you will retain everything you learn. You get to go in with a convicted criminal or someone who is suspected to have committed/been involved in a crime. Who would you bring in, and what would you ask them?
14. At long last, someone invents "the dream VCR." This machine allows you to tape an entire evening's worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device of you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don't agree to this, you can't use the dream VCR. Would you still do this?
15. You are hired by the government to help solve crimes related to murder or suicide, since you are a well-known medium that can actually talk to spirits (unlike all the phony tv show scammers). You are able to interview the spirits of the murdered individual(s) (or individual(s) that are suspected to be suicides but people are unsure of) to find out who killed them at their death sites. A long since closed case is being highly scrutinized by people across the world since the evidence around said case is very fishy. You are told that this case takes place on private property that the owner is very not okay with letting you on, which has ramifications with your career as a spiritual investigator. The court does not allow you a permit to be on the property without the owner's permission. In short - you are given the chance to finally put this huge and rather suspicious case to rest, but in the process you can possibly be fired and prosecuted for trespassing. Would you still go forward with your investigation in hopes to find the truth or would you avoid it to make sure you won't lose your job?
12. You/your partner (pretend one of you is a girl if the relationship is two men) are pregnant and very excited to have a child together. You've tried for years but nothing ever happened until now. During a checkup for the pregnancy, the doctor tells you the child will have down syndrome. Would you terminate the pregnancy to avoid having someone that would live with the struggles of down syndrome or not?
13. Someone builds a paranormal "Honesty Room." Within the walls of this room, it is impossible for anyone to tell lies (or to avoid answering whatever questions they are asked). This same inventor also creates a memory loss drug that is released into the air inside the Honesty Room as an airborne mist; what this means is that people who enter the Honesty Room will not remember what they said, what questions they were asked, or even that they were ever there. The only antidote to the memory loss drug is a pill, and you have this pill. So--in essence--you have access to a room where every guest who enters will tell you the absolute truth (about anything) and then immediately forget what they were asked and what they said. But you will retain everything you learn. You get to go in with a convicted criminal or someone who is suspected to have committed/been involved in a crime. Who would you bring in, and what would you ask them?
14. At long last, someone invents "the dream VCR." This machine allows you to tape an entire evening's worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device of you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don't agree to this, you can't use the dream VCR. Would you still do this?
15. You are hired by the government to help solve crimes related to murder or suicide, since you are a well-known medium that can actually talk to spirits (unlike all the phony tv show scammers). You are able to interview the spirits of the murdered individual(s) (or individual(s) that are suspected to be suicides but people are unsure of) to find out who killed them at their death sites. A long since closed case is being highly scrutinized by people across the world since the evidence around said case is very fishy. You are told that this case takes place on private property that the owner is very not okay with letting you on, which has ramifications with your career as a spiritual investigator. The court does not allow you a permit to be on the property without the owner's permission. In short - you are given the chance to finally put this huge and rather suspicious case to rest, but in the process you can possibly be fired and prosecuted for trespassing. Would you still go forward with your investigation in hopes to find the truth or would you avoid it to make sure you won't lose your job?
I apologize if this belongs in a different category, I wasn't sure where else to put this. Feel free to suggest new questions to add to this and I will update it if I think it fits and is thought-provoking enough.
Posted in Baggy Shirt.
Posted 5 years ago
I would suggest adding this to the "item suggestion" thread that's pinned in Feedback, I think they check there more for items to add
Posted in Daylight Savings.
Posted 5 years ago
Damn farmers, going around and ruining the days of city folk. Honestly never understood the complete purpose of keeping DST around. Sure it might kind of help with the changing of seasons for the farmers but overall it's just another insult to add to the allergies spring already brings
Posted in Steaming hot yellow liquid
Posted 5 years ago
Wow this looks really great, especially since allergy season is kicking in, definitely gonna try this one once I'm able to. Thank you
Posted in Online clothing stores
Posted 5 years ago
I don't really like spending money on things, I like to buy experiences or thrift store finds. However, I have a list of online shops you should NEVER buy at. I've found sosososo many "dropship" websites online that are unnecessarily popular and basically scamming people out of their money.
Basically what "dropshipping" is buying a whole bunch of wholesale items from China and reselling them all for profit. Sometimes this results in the same exact outfit from the original producers costing tens to hundreds more on the resell site. Overall try to be careful with instagram shops, there are both really legit stores and very ingenuine stores
- Youvimi
- Aesthetic Thrillz
- Aleeby
- Alien Mood
- All Things Gothic
- Andester
- Anibiu
- Axcid Shop
- Black Milk Clothing
- Blurry Clothing
- Boogzel Apparel
- Cutie Kill
- Dark Mirror
- Harajuku & Kawaii/Fashion Cute Kawaii
- Harajuku Basics
- Harajuku Fashion Shop
- itGirlShop
- Ivy by Crafts
- Juv Kawaii
- Juwas
- K-Waii
- Kawaii Babe Shop
- Kawaii Bottles
- Kawaii Fashion Co
- Kawaii Mori Store
- Kawaii Tee Shop
- Kawaii Therapy
- Kiniyo
- Kiss Me Bang Bang
- Kosmo Shop
- Kutie Crafts
- Little Kawaii Store/Shoes
- Lucky Peach Co
- Mochipan
- Normcore Studios
- Nothing Back Here
- Onyx Bunny
- Pastel Love Store
- Penny Craft Studio
- Rags n Rituals
- Rock n Doll
- Sanrense
- Shop Cheeky
- Sleepy Eden
- Soaesthetic/Aesthentials
- Sour Puff Shop
- Spreepicky
- Store Dog Dog
- Syndrome Store
- The Gothic Shop
- The Kawaii Factory/Store
- Tokyo Dreams Kawaii
- Unzzy Store
- Uoobox
- Yihfoo Store
- Yoh
- Youvimi (This one is SUPER popular please please stay away from them)
Basically what "dropshipping" is buying a whole bunch of wholesale items from China and reselling them all for profit. Sometimes this results in the same exact outfit from the original producers costing tens to hundreds more on the resell site. Overall try to be careful with instagram shops, there are both really legit stores and very ingenuine stores
Posted in Metalheads: Favorite Bands?
Posted 5 years ago
@Miss Sandman: Wow I don't think I've ever heard of Opeth, Pantera, or Megadeth, must be really obscure bands! Those other bands are going straight to the list, thank you for the recs
Posted in Reminder to drink water today!
Posted 5 years ago
@pachi: That's what I'm here for! Always good to have some sort of reminder for those of us who forget to all day