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Anybody want to explain what's going with Corust's "adoptions"? What are these people paying for exactly, hi-res pictures or something?
Basically people "adopt" the right to use the character. It's a dumb furry practice since they don't have enough creativity to split between each other.
 
Now, why would Louie be so concerned about people on SSI having their bank transactions tracked by the IRS? I mean, according to him, he doesn't receive disability payments (still no denial of receiving any other kind of state or federal financial assistance). So why would any of this concern Louie? Really gets your noggin joggin', don't it?
I really don't understand this one either. Is he bitching that "if" he collects SSI the IRS will know or that if he collects SSI they'll know if he gets extra somewhere? Because I hate to break it to him but the IRS already knows about disability payments and they're non-taxable income. Extra stuff, depending on the amount, is taxable and it already requires the payer to file a 1099-MISC.

He's so fucking stupid, how do you get to be his age and just generally be such an idiot?
 
Something about thinking that Europe will be dominated by Germany or France now that the UK is no longer a part of their union.
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Joke's on you fatass, Germany's been de facto ruling the EU since 1970-ish? Maybe a bit earlier. There's a good reason why most of the European heavy industry belongs to various German corporations and why the Euro was actually weaker than the Deutsche Mark. Used to be the second largest international reserve currency.

This recent election and the ramifications of its results are kind of a big deal on the continent.
 
Joke's on you fatass, Germany's been de facto ruling the EU since 1970-ish? Maybe a bit earlier. There's a good reason why most of the European heavy industry belongs to various German corporations and why the Euro was actually weaker than the Deutsche Mark. Used to be the second largest international reserve currency.

This recent election and the ramifications of its results are kind of a big deal on the continent.
Yeah, that's kind of a weird take. Wanting to get out from under German domination of the EU was even one of the stated rationales for Brexit.

I mean, heaven forbid Lou Gagliardi and his idiot friends have a weird take, be grossly misinformed, and say something stupid. But this one is particularly bizarre.

Anybody want to explain what's going with Corust's "adoptions"? What are these people paying for exactly, hi-res pictures or something?
Like 0 1 said, they're paying for the "right" to use a character. You don't necessarily get hi-res pictures of the character (although most artists are nice, and throw in a "free" reference sheet along with your adoptable), but you do get the "right" to pay to commission hi-res pictures of that character.

It's exactly as retarded as it sounds. In theory, it's like buying the ownership rights to a copyrighted character. Except in this case, the character isn't a popular one (just a random doodle of a sparklefox or whatever), there is no formal, legal transfer of ownership rights, and whatever "copyright" the character you bought might have had in the first place is completely unenforceable anyway.

(well, mostly unenforceable. If furries find out you're "stealing" adoptables and commissioning - or worse, DRAWING - art of characters you don't "own", they'll try to get you blacklisted from commisisoners, ERP servers, and whatever other microcommunities furries congregate in. However, because the furry fandom is so massive, and most characters look the same anyway (who the fuck is going to know your black-and-pink scene hair wolf fursona wasn't invented by you?), the adoptable market typically operates on the honor system. Piracy usually only generates drama when furs try to "steal" adoptables from a popular closed species - if you want to learn about THAT bullshit, check out the Closed Species thread here on KF.
 
Like 0 1 said, they're paying for the "right" to use a character. You don't necessarily get hi-res pictures of the character (although most artists are nice, and throw in a "free" reference sheet along with your adoptable), but you do get the "right" to pay to commission hi-res pictures of that character.

It's exactly as retarded as it sounds.
Lol. It does sound totally retarded, I am impressed with the grift though. At least they're doing something to earn money.

I mean, if there is a gap in the market and people are willing to pay for it, why not?

It's only a scam if you're not in on it.
 
Lol. It does sound totally retarded, I am impressed with the grift though. At least they're doing something to earn money.

I mean, if there is a gap in the market and people are willing to pay for it, why not?

It's only a scam if you're not in on it.
Yeah, I've never done it personally, but a couple of my friends had "summer jobs" selling adoptables to furries, and I'd totally do it, too, if I were better with anthro. It seems... unethical? But the adoptable trade has been going on for years, and apparently the furries who pay for that stuff are genuinely excited about it, so whatever. It's their money!

Some people are trying to create a fanart NFT market, too. I know at least one guy who's been trying to sell NFTs of non-furry capeshit art for upwards of $1,000 a picture, which is simply insane. It hasn't taken off yet, and I'm hoping it never does - because holy shit, art NFTs are basically adoptables in data file form, and could well spell the death of all that is good and pure on the internet - but if any of you Farmers are down with blockchain tech and know some rich furries with poor impulse control and no families to support...
 
Yeah, I've never done it personally, but a couple of my friends had "summer jobs" selling adoptables to furries, and I'd totally do it, too, if I were better with anthro.
FWIW it's not purely a furry thing, if that's something you're interested in; I've dabbled in adoptables here and there because they're a good way to whip something up when you have spare time and then just wait for it to sell. It's kinda like the 'Your Character Here' thing, you can frontload a lot of your work when it's convenient and then basically have it on hand like inventory to sell. Works better if you've cultivated an audience for that sort of thing, but it can really be just about any design; furries, humans, creatures, even stuff like outfits or weapons. It's wild.

Honestly, if Lou had any sense (or a stable sense of identity, or money) adoptables would be a better bet for him, since he has no creativity on his own. Yet here we are.
 
Yeah, that's kind of a weird take. Wanting to get out from under German domination of the EU was even one of the stated rationales for Brexit.

I mean, heaven forbid Lou Gagliardi and his idiot friends have a weird take, be grossly misinformed, and say something stupid. But this one is particularly bizarre.


Like 0 1 said, they're paying for the "right" to use a character. You don't necessarily get hi-res pictures of the character (although most artists are nice, and throw in a "free" reference sheet along with your adoptable), but you do get the "right" to pay to commission hi-res pictures of that character.

It's exactly as retarded as it sounds. In theory, it's like buying the ownership rights to a copyrighted character. Except in this case, the character isn't a popular one (just a random doodle of a sparklefox or whatever), there is no formal, legal transfer of ownership rights, and whatever "copyright" the character you bought might have had in the first place is completely unenforceable anyway.

(well, mostly unenforceable. If furries find out you're "stealing" adoptables and commissioning - or worse, DRAWING - art of characters you don't "own", they'll try to get you blacklisted from commisisoners, ERP servers, and whatever other microcommunities furries congregate in. However, because the furry fandom is so massive, and most characters look the same anyway (who the fuck is going to know your black-and-pink scene hair wolf fursona wasn't invented by you?), the adoptable market typically operates on the honor system. Piracy usually only generates drama when furs try to "steal" adoptables from a popular closed species - if you want to learn about THAT bullshit, check out the Closed Species thread here on KF.
I kind of hate hearing dumb non-Americans go off on America, even if America is pretty fucking stupid a lot of the time, so I imagine the rest of the world is just as annoyed by stupid fucking Americans inserting their opinion on their countries.
 
Maybe a bit late, but I do eagerly await the TTRPG Lou arc. He's going to struggle with a system as simple as 5E, floundering every step of the way when he fails a roll or save.
I just hope he can get into a buy-in sort of game that will likely be streamed and recorded.
seeing Lou embarrass himself in something like a D&D campaign would be amusing, but he has so little discipline or dedication that it would only last as long as it failed to provide any kind of challenge or difficulty to Lou. at the smallest bump in the road, or the first sign that he would have to do something for himself and would not have his hand held every step of the way, he would let it fizzle out. the only question is will that moment come at the character-building stage, or five minutes into the campaign when Lou needs to roll for initiative.
 
seeing Lou embarrass himself in something like a D&D campaign would be amusing, but he has so little discipline or dedication that it would only last as long as it failed to provide any kind of challenge or difficulty to Lou. at the smallest bump in the road, or the first sign that he would have to do something for himself and would not have his hand held every step of the way, he would let it fizzle out. the only question is will that moment come at the character-building stage, or five minutes into the campaign when Lou needs to roll for initiative.
"No, Lou, you can't change your character's race again, we've been playing for like ten minutes."
 
Boosting an orbiter's begpost. Recall that Pidmon doesn't work because his longest lasting job gave him a lifelong fear of bald men for some reason.
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It's never skinny people begging for food money online. If you purely need nourishment of some kind, you live in an industrialized country near a city, and you have a functional kitchen in which you could cook, it's amazingly tough to actually starve. Food banks, free groups, dumpster diving, even scraping together ten bucks can get a person a week's worth of meals from the dollar store if they don't mind rice, beans, eggs, oatmeal and frozen veggies.

But no. I'm sure aussie Lou desperately needs his tater tots, cheetos, and pepsi to survive.
 
It's never skinny people begging for food money online. If you purely need nourishment of some kind, you live in an industrialized country near a city, and you have a functional kitchen in which you could cook, it's amazingly tough to actually starve. Food banks, free groups, dumpster diving, even scraping together ten bucks can get a person a week's worth of meals from the dollar store if they don't mind rice, beans, eggs, oatmeal and frozen veggies.

But no. I'm sure aussie Lou desperately needs his tater tots, cheetos, and pepsi to survive.
No joke the Salvation army in towns across the U.S every day makes lunches for the poor and homeless as well giving out coffee and doughnuts for breakfast. Plus They give out cakes and other day old Bakery goods. Staving to death in first world nation a should be a fucking Xbox achievement or something
 
No joke the Salvation army in towns across the U.S every day makes lunches for the poor and homeless as well giving out coffee and doughnuts for breakfast. Plus They give out cakes and other day old Bakery goods. Staving to death in first world nation a should be a fucking Xbox achievement or something
Lardass going to the Salvation Army? He'd get into some kind of EUPHORIC FEDORA TIPPER argument with a volunteer which would quickly develop into a physical altercation (assault and battery) and he'd be thrown out and banned with charges pressed against him. Good thing he's too fucking lazy to lift his fat ass and waddle over to the nearest soup kitchen and far too picky to accept any kind of food.

In general though? Yeah, with charity kitchens and food banks starving to death in a large-ish city in the first world is near impossible.
 
Lou takes a political spectrum quiz that OP says seems to be poorly made, is surprised that it sees him as far left.
I'm pretty sure these quizzes are all done under American political spectrum standards so they probably aren't as far left as they think they are, especially compared to other countries.
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Lou feels like shit, which seems to be normal for him.
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Lou bumps their birthday shit
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These two seem related, which makes me wonder who they're specifically referring to when they say 'living NEAR the city' because Lou doesn't live in Pittsburgh proper as much as he pretends he does.
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The government is apparently likely to shut down again on Lou's birthday.
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Edit: Lou makes someone else wondering if the problems resulting from a head injury makes them disabled in a sense that makes talking about art processes ableist entirely about himself my making it a question about whether or not he's actually disabled. The answer is no.
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Lou has a pretty fatalistic outlook on life huh
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No joke the Salvation army in towns across the U.S every day makes lunches for the poor and homeless as well giving out coffee and doughnuts for breakfast. Plus They give out cakes and other day old Bakery goods. Staving to death in first world nation a should be a fucking Xbox achievement or something
Personally I would Lou to show up to a SA location (or however they distribute, they're not super active in my area tbh) and have someone RECOGNIZE him as their former retarded bellringer.
 
Lou takes a political spectrum quiz that OP says seems to be poorly made, is surprised that it sees him as far left.
I'm pretty sure these quizzes are all done under American political spectrum standards so they probably aren't as far left as they think they are, especially compared to other countries.
I'm sure he cooked the books to come across as cool Zoomer commie to fit in with his Twittter friends. We've seen his slapfights--Lou barely has any political beliefs, except that he wants whoever he thinks will give him gibs, and he'll pretend to believe in anything it it helps him win a slapfight. Just think of how many times he's vacillated between "Biden good" and "Biden bad."

Also @Norman B. Normal my fiancée was browsing through my Microsoft Word folders looking for last year's tax documents or something, and I hear her say: "Dusk, who's Norman? Should I be worried?" Guys, I am here to report that explaining the relationship longtime Lou-watchers have, which is why she still doesn't get it, but I know I like it. Y'all are funny as fuck and always brighten my day :)
 
I still laugh when I recall Lou turning down a box of free groceries from a Twitter friend after whining for food money.
I always thought that was a rude stereotype about american homeless people but no it’s literally just normal Americans turning down free food because they want cash instead. I don’t get it.
 
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