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Hallo #PortfolioDay I'm Joshua Clarke, a fantasy and sci fi illustrator looking for freelance work in concept art, creature design, ttrpgs and everything inbetween

@soulsobreezy While I have criticism for absurd prices on wow items I'm at a bit of a loss. I already had a giant tree house, I made it myself. It really feels like theres a bit of a self inflicted fomo here, with folks that don't want to fiddle with housing but want the fancy exterior

@Ruel1991 Let's not be obtuse about how many "exterior choices" there are.

iirc isn't the house demolished/plot lost if the sub lapses for a while? I'd argue that's a different (worse) sort of fleecing. Trash the shop for what it is but game v. game rhetoric is just a distraction

@FreydaFox the shit stirrers went berserk. Haven't seen a tide of doom like this since shadowlands.

a lot of negative ass people…yeah the patch was bad but they kinda fixed it and there’s still a LOT of content and the expac is overall pretty good. tww was much worse imo and still tons of people were playing…what is it about this one that tilted people so bad?

@raymondjr1984 There's no one man tv shows, you need a cast so it needs to be reasonable for people to do the job

@Variety I mean, I would hardly say he "starred" in anything. He has had bit parts in just about everything he has done. I can't even remember the last thing he was in. Maybe it is time for a new career.

Kirk Acevedo had to sell his home because working actors are being "squeezed out of Hollywood." He's starred in series for Marvel (“S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and DC (“Arrow”) and in major Hollywood movies such as “Planet of the Apes” and “Insidious.” "Like in any economy in any country, the middle class always gets squeezed out. We’re getting squeezed out," Acevedo says of the working actor. “We’ve been in the business working steady, and then all of a sudden it just stops. They don’t pay you quote. They make top two on the call sheet regulars. Everybody else is recurring. And because everybody else is recurring, they can lowball you. There are actors that would do it for free. We have no leverage.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/k…

#PortfolioDay My name is Ibrahim but you can call me IBI, Im a Pakistani artist, I specialise in drawing Robots and other fun stuff

Always repost for #Transvisibilityday. If you have a problem with trans identities, get the hell away from me and never speak to me again.

@Yeegrek This nonsense of "woke is when I can see the politics and good is from before I could see them" is just about your lack of nuance context and rage bait as a kid. There is zero chance Deep Space Nine wouldnt be hated as "woke" by modern media grifter standards.

@TopherStoll Old Trek was progressive for its time and certainly has always been diverse. What it hasn't been was woke (the pejorative version of the word). Old Trek didn't focus on gender and/or identity at the expense of good writing and stories. Kurtzman Trek does, hence the revulsion.

This discourse is going to kill me. The entire world, including Andy Weir, cannot wrap their heads around the truth that- A. Star Trek has always been very progressive and political and that’s a key part of its identity. B. Modern trek is mostly very stupid and bad and it’s not because its politics have shifted.

It's an insidious move to sell snake oil that promises to be able to detect the problem - it ensures that people think the issue is glaringly obvious and thus easily dismissable, while replicating the exact issue that people have been warning about.

@vidalamortis Achievement is Back From the Beyond - Zovaal's Soul Eater wowhead.com/achievement=20…

@tomeofscribbles What’s the name

weapon enchant goes hard

@vidalamortis There's an unarmored shadow dragon for the shadowlands expansion meta achievement

@Hardstyle_HHZ @kesslive And mounts 🫠🫠🫠🫠 I saw a literal shadow “dragon”mount yesterday and it was a gladiator one

@kesslive Another pvp thing most hunters and druids can never enjoy, they need to apply enchant visuals to druid paws and bows asap

@KonInBlack @M0hawkMark severe lack of contrast is a common issue with some of the new cel shaded designs animations have taken to. The colors are too often washed out and unsaturated.

@M0hawkMark Yeah you can do this with pretty much any cartoon adaptation of a comic book character, its always gonna look simpler

@lulu_renii nope, was possible as of 15 minutes ago, I didnt use the exploit but the book didnt disappear from the vendor

@DaDvaerg @Wowhead they fixed it?

Abundance has been nerfed recently and is no longer Abundant. #Midnight #Warcraft wowhead.com/news/abundance…

Yes the hell I can. 😂

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@NukitToBeSure All it would have required is some basic research on their part to be clear that far from being a threat you were an outspoken ally but nope. Some of the dumbest days on an already dumb internet. Had fuckin ten tigers fighting on their side and couldn't just shut up and win.

Sorry, it's a sore point. Thousands of disabled and marginalized people still can't borrow Far-UVC from their local Mask Blocs for medical appointments because to this day, less than a dozen people still actively supported by the CC community can't say "we goofed" and let the Blocs know they won't be denounced for lending out their donated Nukit Far-UVC. But hey, the myth of an infallible perpetual victim class that can do no wrong, only be wronged, has never had a bad outcome for other marginalized folk. /s

Still running strong...

Let's start by fighting for monetization of content. Push down whoever door. What's the world class digital economy if folks can't make a dollar?

@CBCBARBADOS With what water? And will this get clean water before St Andrew and St Lucy residents or will it further contaminate the groundwater? Is the already strained grid going to be able to support this constant strain? What roi will the country see for the inevitable massive cost?

Barbados’ first data centre will be established at Greenland, St Andrew. tinyurl.com/4wx6zckc #CBCNewsBarbados

@HansenSB2 So the obvious next step is clearcutting? Then acting confused when the water table is shot and there's even more fires?

@ECOWARRIORSS The environmentalist have failed the American people when it comes to forrest management. After the CA debacle in 2025 who would trust the environmentalist to make the right decision?

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 20 days to make your voice heard. They filter drinking water for downstream communities. They hold soil on steep slopes above salmon streams that are already in crisis. They’re home to the northern spotted owl, the marbled murrelet, coho salmon, steelhead, and hundreds of species that evolved over millennia in conditions you can’t replicate by planting seedlings in rows. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announce…

@cowboy082478 If that were true then tesla wouldnt be being outperformed by byd so handily. The marketing is not the material

@BetterCallMedhi It reminds me about how people describe how musk operates his companies where it’s getting first to the finish line and innovating as you go until you work out the kinks.

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

@Drexxel1996 The light responds to conviction, its not that "the light can be as bad as the void" its "people confuse channeling the light with the endorsement of their behavior" if the light was restricted to good only then the scarlet crusade and early BE paladins wouldn't exist

@Velravyn The writing made me really dislike Lor'themar which is a shame since I used to love him Arator is great despite the whole 'Light can be as bad as the Void' thing being awful modern Blizz writing Velen not having a major role feels perplexing since he's so linked to the Sunwell

Finished the starter campaign! Feels odd that this is the first xpac in a while that doesn't have me at level 90 before finishing the MSQ. Every A-Story FUCKS. HARD. No bad notes. Except fucking Harandar. It feels like it never got an editor's pass before being finalized. 1/3