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237 - Drawing, Inking and Coloring.
🕑 Added 2022-08-15 13:19:14 +0000 UTCHello, bros. How is life? It's Monday and that means another Monday Post from yours truly. Let's goooooo! ^^
New Patreon UI. I completely hate the barebones look of it, but I already talked about this in the last week's Monday Post. The text editor remains completely broken on OPERA so I had to download Google Chrome just now so that I could edit this post properly. Everything seems to be working fine now. But it was always working fine on OPERA as well, and new update broke everything. And here I thought updates are supposed to make things better. I guess that is just me being and old man with my oldfashinoned thinking. These days UPDATE = DOWNGRADE -_-
The MEGA bulshit. I already talked about this on my twitter, but I know some of you have don't use twitter(in which case I don't blame you, twitter is a trash basket), so let me tell you what happened. Several days ago I was trying to login to my MEGA account and got greeted with "Your account was terminated" message. I have been a paying member for over a year by the way and all I ever did there was upload my PSD files there for safe keeping in case my HDD suddenly dies or something.
This made me realize (yet again) that every digital thing you think you own can be taken away from you at any instant. And "I like" how poorly the whole thing got handled by MEGA. There was no warning, no nothing. They just nuked my account, deleted all my files without even explaining what I did wrong.
Good thing I was always paying monthly. Imagine if I decided to pay a year upfront?They could have at least suspended my account or something, but no, they deleted all my work and also made it in the most obnoxious way possible. They behave like complete assholes but instead of apologizing they keep pushing. Like if me getting banned resulted in them not seeing me as a human being anymore. That's how corporations do business now. We need to adapt or perish.
Nothing new to see here though. A lot of my russian friends who were dumb enough to pay for their PSN subscription for entire year upfront will never get compensated for anything. I personally lost around $300 when my PayPal account got frozen about 3 years ago. Scammers can get in trouble with the authorities, but corporations who do exactly the same thing openly always get away with it.
Fortunately enough I was actually mirroring all my backups on another cloud service as well. And by now I already signed up with another cloud serves and uploaded all my files there as well. So it's all good.
The Movies. Watched Mr.Baseball last night. Never seen it before, really enjoyed it. Not the best movie ever or anything, but an enjoyable picture non the less. ^^
The Games. Currently I am playing Valkyria Chronicles 1 on my SWITCH. Since I hacked my PS VITA I can now play VC3 that was never released in the west, but I want to beat 2 previous games first. VC1 is a lot of fun. Also being able to hire Visa and Aika (from Skies Of Arcadia) was a nice surprise.
The work. As the title of this post suggests all I did last week was drawing, inking and coloring. And I am almost done, but it will probably take another couple of days to finish everything. After that I will move on to coding-in the events and importing the artwork into the game proper.
EXTRA! I will be sharing a lot of art sneak peeks in the EXTRA post, make sure to check it out. And that is all I have to say this time. Thank you for taking the time to read this post all the way to the end. You guys are true gentlemen and scholars.
-Aka-
Comments
AKAMAN
Same. Although it kind of made me upset to find out that localization of that game was made in a way that the localizers were basically just making stuff up half of the time. I didn't care about that as a kid of course. Well, maybe one day I will play the japanese version on an emulator or something. A game about sky pirates where you get to build your own base and hire crew... It's just the best honestly. I remember you could even hire an exotic dancer to dance for the crew. Ah... the good old days ^^
AKAMAN
Thanks. And since I had another cloud service as another back up, I didn't actually lose anything ^^ Well, I did lose my money I guess, but at least I was paying monthly and not early. In any case, thank you for the words of support!! ^^
AKAMAN
You and me both. But like I said, I was ready for that kind of bullshit so whatever. Thank you for your words though ^^
AKAMAN
I know. They could suspend me or something. Instead they deleted all the files I gave them for safekeeping. And also took my money. Classy.
AKAMAN
I think you overthinking it a bit. They didn't tell me why they deleted my account. They could just the same delete my encrypted files without any reason.
AKAMAN
Oops. The original reply was for a different comment. To you I actually wanted to say that I wholly approve of you measures. Better safe than sorry.
I never thrusted in any cloud service. I keep my personal files backup on different harddrives and the most important of them always lay double mirrored in a fireproof safe. So it is a little bit uncomfortable to handle , but as long as my home dont get exstinguished my belongings are safe. Learned it the hard way from a hdd crash years ago.
Nikraria
I have everything in a hard disk in my desk, but I like to have it online too because is more easy to work with them. I think I need to make a back up more often. Thanks for the tips man 😁
AKAMAN
^^
AKAMAN
Well you can tell somebody something, but it often takes them to experience it first hand before they actually start to hear you. That being said, it didn't happen with mega for me. The realization was sort of dawning on me for the past year. I am just glad I am finally in a place in my mind where it is obvious now.
AKAMAN
Don't worry I don't feel like MEGA went after me personally. If anything I feel the opposite, I feel they give so little damn about me as a customer that they don't even consider me a human being. But whatever, lesson learned. Adapt or perish. And I don't have plans to perish. ^^ Also I am about 30 hours in with the VC1. Things are getting interesting. Really enjoy this series so far.
AKAMAN
At the very least it is always a good idea not to have all the eggs in one basket. If you can, you should always have multiple backups.
Nikraria
Nice you fixed the edit problem. I have all the links of my games in MEGA, I guess it's time to looking for another place.
GamerLegend09
😄 well I guess that makes you a saint Akaman, mega‘s been a little bit of a pain on my end too…while I’m not subscribed to them The links from other creators 9 times out of 10 Reads as file unavailable, at least other creators have trouble with it and it’s not ONLY you. But for what it’s worth I’m sorry you’ve been dealt A shitty hand like that, and I’m relieved that you backed up all your work to another cloud service And don’t have to start from scratch😅 Also Valkyria Chronicles is an Awesome series! one of my top favorite tactical action RPG games ever!!! 😆
Jon P
Highly recommend encrypting your files before uploading them - it's a huge pain but it (theoretically) prevents them from being able to see what they are. Can't delete your stuff and ban you if they have no idea what's in it! ...well they can cuz they're assholes but at least it's more difficult to justify. Not that our corporate overlords feel the need to justify anything anymore. Damn, this train of thought got dark fast. Better crack my vita too just in case.
Trevor Bond
Man, I've been telling people this for years: you don't OWN anything digital. It will be changed and downgraded or straight taken from you on a whim because of actions of OTHER people. This is why I stopped buying video games. The minute I couldn't get a physical copy that didn't need to be online and registered to something to play, I was done. Always backup everything and always expect to lose access to anything.
Joseph
Today's gif is from Katawa Shoujo.
Bjorn
I legit LOVE Skies of Arcadia and it kills me they have done nothing with it since its re-release on Gamecube. There has also really been no other games like it recently. Gimme some damn sky pirates and exploration!
Naked_SoNUshka
Well, thanks for all the news provided in this post. I'm sorry you lost all your work at MEGA. And I'm glad you made some drawing progress last week.
UNDRESS_ME
Oh, I'm just shocked by the actions of MEGA and what they did to you. This is just outrageous and disgusting of them. Do not worry. Leave it as it is and hopefully we will see their collapse in the future...
Hivedragon
Well glad you got back-ups but damn that was a dirty move from them, other users leak/share the content and its offensive or illegal towards some. And they just nuke it sheesh way to warn your paying users.
