wankgate | 251: back in my day wank meant something

251: back in my day wank meant something

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no need to apologize for asking for deets. fwiw i think he's good about honoring individual opt outs and he's not one of those "my canon middle schooler is 17 soon is that okay? :)" creeps.

he IS one of those "are you attracted to my prepubescent-looking loli? i bet you are, you fellow kidliker teehee" creeps (but i imagine someone finally asked him to knock that shit off too, at least on public memes)

this is true. the incel community was started by a woman.

ngl, that person sounds emotionally immature and like they had a superficial friendship to begin with if they're deeply mourning the loss of something so minor in the grand scheme of things. i feel bad for their friend and hope for their sake, they haven't invested too much emotioally in that bond.

of course i have, but it's okay when they do it.

it's pretty common in my experience, especially if you're on the older side.

This. And a lot of those places are not actually hiring. The place I work now has had a sign out front for months saying they are hiring....when the truth is that in a few months, they're planning on transferring 20+ employees to another facility in another town completely...so be prepared to move if you want to keep your job.

Those signs can also just be total bullshit to keep the employees happy thinking that they will be getting help eventually or it’s code for “we have an internal person already in mind for this position but must post the job publicly as a requirement”.

the problem with picrew is the site's become near unusable with ads that ad blockers don't catch. it used to be a decent option but it's becoming impossible to use now.

icon commissions are too high priced for the privilege of playing internet barbies when your money has to go to actual necessities.

pbs, whether they're LA or illustrated, come with limitations since they're of specific characters. that tends to warp character voices to match those visuals which isn't great.

echoing thread op that ai generated icons are a workable option for oc players who are too poor to throw money at icon commissions. just don't claim it as your art because it's not.

a lot of people in this community live privileged lives or come from privileged backgrounds. it shows in the way they prioritize their spending and the way they expect others to do the same no matter what the state of finances.

the sheer amount of financial exploitation that gets a pass or is actively encouraged in this community is mindboggling, too.

how is this a problem, though?

like, if someone's got the money to drop on icons, good for them! spending money on hobbies is absolutely, one-hundred-per-fucking-cent normal for people who have even a tiny amount of disposable income, and paying for icons is one of the better ways to do it. it involves either or both of paying dw itself for icon space, which is good because dw is one of the precious few sites on the internet that isn't fucking blanketed in shitty ads, and paying icon makers directly, which puts every cent over and above any payment processing fees directly into the hands of the person making the icons.

how is this something worse than the money people spend on literally any other hobby in existence? whether it's crafting materials, endless books, art supplies, snooty craft beers, what have you.

+1

always honor and respect when someone admits they were wrong about something.

good on you for going back and checking, anon, and for providing corrected info. the world could use more of this. you're a good'un.

ehhh, true but also not. the term 'incel' was coined by a woman but much like 'red pill' it was shitty reddit dudes that warped it into its current form.

yeah it's super privileged to suggest anons might try to pay *checks rpanons for icon commission posts* 10 to 30 cents an icon on average

btw anon aren't they gonna kick you out of the mcdonald's soon, i know the wifi is free but you're really supposed to grab some fries or something while you're there

and ai icons are going to have people giving you a wide berth because ppl can tell they're ai with all the negative connotations attached

genuinely an iconless journal would give you less stigma

anyway this entire comment just reads like you shooting down every other normal solution so you can justify to yourself how totally fine using ai icons definitely is. if you're really this unable to compromise on your oc's extremely specific features then maybe it's time to try a less visually sparkly oc

or, better yet, just stick to canon characters and leave the ocs to everyone else who've been finding suitable pbs just fine for years before ai was ever a thing

because spending money on hobbies is bad and you should feel bad as a person for it, anon

you've gotta spend money only on the moral plights of the world (as personally approved by ayrt ofc)

plus, like i've said elsewhere on this mess of a post, if your oc has extremely specific features the ai probably can't conceptualize that anyway

so congrats, now your oc looks nothing like the image you have in your head for them, AND you've isolated a community full of both artists and people who respect artists enough to think they deserve to get paid rather than using the Art Theft Machine 5000

can you expand on "financial exploitation" that sounds way more interesting than chiding randos for throwing ten bucks to an acquaintance for icons

lbr they're probably just using the most dramatic term they can think of for ebeggars

it's ebeggars

again

tbqh it's a pretty gross misuse of your internet connection to be wasting it posting drivel on wankgate? internet costs money? so shouldn't you be using it to better yourself with productive online resources instead of wasting precious time?

some people in the world don't have internet right now? talk about gross misuse of your privilege?

it's like 10 cents an icon, not counting the average 15 icons you can request for free

just say you're too cheap to commission icons and don't have any friends you can ask to make you any

privileged is choosing to use technology that drains 700k litres of clean water every day and not giving a shit, actually

please this is all i have to grasp onto in this thread

remember: every dollar you spend on your own comfort and pleasure is a meal you're taking out of the mouth of a starving brown child!

this is in fact an unpopular opinion, good job! +10 points for understanding the assignment

however, this is unpopular for the very good reason that it's a piss-stupid opinion. -10000000 points, see me after class for supervised grass-touching.

yeah but we're not allowed to wank on psls, we need to keep games alive or else wg will only have memes to chortle fatly over

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