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    How does your avatar look today ?

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    7 hours ago, Seicher Rae said:

    Oh, so you got one of those ridiculous messages, too? About how the only reason EVERYONE posts is to get likes? (To get a higher forum score.) And here I thought I posted for other reasons, but I was told, in multiple messages by the same nutjob person that it is ALL about the likes and to say anything else was to be lying. Hey, what do I know, right?

    I never get on the good lists.

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    7 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    What a GREAT look!

    Thank you so much!

    The look comes a bit from the backstory I've been working on for her. I think that backstory is coming together while trying to balance personality traits and quirks without being too emo or too trope-heavy, but including plot hooks that can be developed through gameplay.

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    So lately I've been watching Critical Role from Campaign 1, Episode 1. By Ep. 16 I looked into character design and started creating my Witch (Warlock). A Fey Path 1/2 Elf Witch.

    Aaannd, not being the artistic sort, I used my usually blonde alt to make her.

    Here's the result...

    Wren_001.thumb.png.5c409e39c7590ce06c3599d428294caa.png

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    Slink elegant hands?

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    They are an older product. They're static, NOT bento. You'd be better off ditching the nails than buying an outdated product no one is making anything for anymore. Since the advent of Bento, I don't even know if SLink even sells those hands any longer.

     

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    giphy trouble

    26 minutes ago, TDD123 said:

    Apparantly not the grinch I would be. Would steal that right from under her nose.

    I' d leave her the wrapping though.

    It'd depend on where her nose is at, at the time...

    Likely her response would be something like..

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    What attachment points do you use for various rigged mesh?

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    I have a system. Dresses and tops go on the left pec, coats and such on the right pec. pants, panties and skirts go on the left hip. If say a skirt and panties are part of a set, the skirt goes on the right hip. When I sort out new items, I apply that system to the new items before I sort them into the final category for clothing. That way, when I change something, i can just double click on the the new item to wear and whatever I was wearing there gets taken off.

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    Election advice

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    So, it's been said I have no 'facts'.

    Trump on Social Security
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2019/08/23/trumps-second-term-plan-for-social-security-starve-the-beast/#211c7c7f3794

    Trump on SSDI, Medicaid and Medicare
    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

    Trumps VA spending
    https://www.veterans.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019 budget one pager.pdf

    https://www.stripes.com/key-veterans-groups-blast-trump-s-va-budget-proposal-as-falling-short-of-veterans-needs-1.572485

    Sure, there are short term gains, but there will be long term losses if he gains a second term. As explained in the articles, it's an old Repug strategy. Cut taxes to the point where the deficit requires cuts to 'entitlement programs'.


    These are four different outlets all reporting virtually the same thing.

    Let's not forget the cuts to other departments that independently oversee inspections and compliance.

    Putting up charts is disingenuous as they fail to show the actual shortfalls. To not equivocate, the budget crisis is a direct result of the tax cuts. Tax cuts that peter out for most Americans except for the ultra rich.

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/29/18642928/trump-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-analysis

    *drops mic*

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    1 hour ago, Tolya Ugajin said:

    I'm sorry, there is simply no point in debating politics or policy with someone who argues purely from an individual perspective devoid of facts.

    Fox News is not a credible source of facts. Like Fox, while part of what you wrote was technically true, it isn't the full story.

    As Theresa pointed out above, Governor Rick Snyder, a Repug, appointed a (Repug) supervisor over Flint. Pretty much suborning the actual will of the people and gave them Legionaire's, lead filled water and an excess of carcinogens. I'm always astounded by the almost cartoonish level of villainy displayed by Repugs at almost every turn. But you be you boo.

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    Election advice

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    2 minutes ago, Tolya Ugajin said:

    While I cannot respond at a local/state level, not knowing which would apply to you and unable to respond for all 50 states. this is simply untrue at a federal level.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/

    Go to table 3.1.

    Projections over the 4 fiscal years of the Trump administration show a 22.5% increase in non-medicare health program spending - around triple the rate of inflation.  Medicare to go up 20%, Social Security 24%, veteran's benefits 32.7%.

    You can use table 3.2 to get a different breakdown, and there you will indeed see a decrease in food assistance programs - but considering those programs were 25% higher at the end of the Obama administration than during the height of the great recession, one would think some decrease in spending would be appropriate, given the economy is far stronger and the need for those programs would have declined.  On the other hand, federal spending on transportation continues to increase at about the rate of inflation.  But, most transportation programs are local.  Now, which party controls most large city governments?  Hint, it ain't the Republicans.

    How wonderful for someone with money. Do you have any idea the legal hoops you have to jump through to get disability on any of those programs you mentioned? SSI disability pretty much requires you to have an attorney, it's that labyrinthine. And you might get it before you die. maybe.

    I'm a vet. I get seen by the VA. My costs are going up. I'm not even going to get into the quality of care except to say that after having seen a Doctor at the VA (for something, I'd had before* and had to seek emergency care for mind you) I had to go to an emergency clinic and received better, faster and more comprehensive care.

    *The first time because it was a holiday and the VA was closed the second time because after telling the VA Doc exactly what it was I was under-prescribed the necessary antibiotics. I have the luxury.. LUXURY! of being financially stable now and able to afford that emergency care. I weep for my brother and sister soldiers who cannot.

    And if you really want to talk about the 'responsibility' of Repug governments, how about importing yourself some of Flint's finest tap water. That's all due to Repug oversight punishing a Democratic stronghold. Stupid is as stupid does.

    Oh and as for you last stab in the dark, it's Repug on city, county and state level where I'm at. I'd love to live in any of the Dem controlled urban areas. I do have hope however. The projections are that by either 2020 or 2024, the state will turn blue.

    Oh and while I'm at it, let me give you an example of 'voting against your interests'. I work in healthcare. When the state had a Dem Governor, and healthcare for mom and dad was superimportant, A law was made that had a maximum on how many patients per CNA. Well in the years since that number has increased and increased under R lawmakers not-at-all-influenced-by-lobbiests. The state I live in has a huge retired population that vote R. Yet they continue to vote in people that, eventually will make their lives a horror show when they're at their most vulnerable. That's just one small example of voting against your interests.

    Here's who's been harmed by Repug policies and 'lawmakers': The young, the old, the sick, the poor, the middle class (whatever is left of them), the LBGTQ community .. you know? I'm finding it hard NOT to find someone harmed by them. But hey, as long as it's someone else and not me, amirite?

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    Election advice

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    On 12/13/2019 at 2:23 PM, Tolya Ugajin said:

    It's happening throughout the West today, including America.

    No, quite the opposite in fact. Services to and for the poor are being cut, largely by Republican controlled legislatures.

    Food stamps for one most recently in the news. Certainly in my area cuts are happening to any and all services. Generally the type of thinking you exemplify with those tidbits are of the 'hey I don't use it why should I pay for it?' mindset. Here's the rub, until you need it, you don't need it.

    Here, where I live, one service being chipped away at is public bus lines. Lines are being cut or with 'reduced service' typically in low income areas. If you've never had to rely on Public Transportation, then you don't know what it's like to be poor. plain and simple. When I used to use it, it typically took an 90 minutes to get within a 20 minute walk to work. Rain or shine. Of course on Sundays add to that an extra hour because of reduced service that had me walking that hour to the nearest active stop. So that's an extra couple hours each way. Of course, I also had to take the one that would get me to work an hour early, because the next bus would make me 15 minutes late.

    So, my days working an 7 hour shift would take up roughly 12 hours of my day. No time to look for, let alone work a 2nd job. But I guess my needing food stamps was just my lazy butt milking the government for a free handout. I'm glad I don't need them anymore, because in the same circumstances then juxtaposed onto today, I'd never qualify for them.

    TL;DR: Social safety nets aren't there for when you don't need them. They're there for when you do.

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    On 12/13/2019 at 2:18 PM, Matty Luminos said:

    Maybe we need a "PRS" (Politics, Religion, Society) subforum. Allow these discussions, since they affect us all, but keep them separate so those who don't want to follow them can choose not to.

    NO

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    On 12/13/2019 at 12:29 PM, Tolya Ugajin said:

    You seem to have ignored the part where he routinely offers to debate people who are not "unprepared college kids" - and they decline because they know they will lose.  He routinely has people from the other side of the aisle on his show to debate, and they do so civilly and rationally.

     

    Or, they might not want to lend a two-bit blowhard any legitimacy.

    Here;s AOC's response:

    “I don’t owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions. And also, like catcalling, for some reason they feel entitled to one.” 

    Shapiro is a demagogue, not a debater.

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    Skin talk

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    I second that. Her new store is Ritual. The newest skins come with a Head Hud, Body Hud, BOM skins and elf ear support.

    Body skin comes with 3 bewb shapes, freckles and no freckles. Heads come with various eyebrow colors or no eyebrows and of course a freckle option.

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