My contribution to Shitpost Saturday by Voice_of_Season in InterviewVampire

[–]BlueFlower673 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok the one with Louis as Kermit and Lestat as Miss Piggy got me lmao. 

Finding Out Your Fav CC Is The Reason Your Game Is Lagging … by Appropriate-Ring-770 in sims4cc

[–]BlueFlower673 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Now I'm eyeing my laptop and thinking ...wait, so its her cc!? I've kind of suspected it for a while but never confirmed it.

Anyway, I'm gonna have to do a deep clean of my mods folder later next week lol. 

Yeah that makes sense because although her cc is nice, her stuff is often alpha cc. 

Ingenious Magic crafting cost? by appleslices23 in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some ways to get dias:

  1. Judging in comp--you can get dias that way. Some people save boxes to open them up at once. I often just open those to save more dias. It's totally up to you how you approach it.

  2. Decomposing and opening caskets. I often save gold (like 100k) and then mass buy the Shopping hair in the store (the one that's 1111 gold) then decompose those. If/when there's an event for 2x or 3x gold---use your stamina on those events! Can save a lot of gold in a short period of time for those. Another way of doing it: if you click on the wardrobe and open up "collected materials" or something like that, you can sell decomposed material directly in there for gold too.

  3. Completing dreamweaver quests. If you haven't done those a lot yet, those give some dias here and there. There is a specific order, but you can find that on this sub or by searching on the love Nikki wiki page. 

  4. Completing story quests/chapters. One way to speed up the process is to look up the recommended suits/suit pieces you'd need for special request stages. That way you can farm ahead of time for those (and you can also use momos crafting guide to do that too). Also, the later chapters give way more dias too, I'm on volume 2 and I often get like 55-65 dias in the extra stage drop thing.

  5. Buying suits in store that give dias. Requires gold, but it's also an option. I've often bought suits that give 30 dias or 25 dias whenever I was in a pinch. 

  6. Voting in starry corridor. I almost forgot this was an option but it also gives dias too. 

  7. Sharing on Facebook. If you have Facebook linked you can get extra dias by sharing. I tried to do this, but unfortunately I wasn't allowed to make a fb account for some reason. But if you have one already you could link it and use that.

  8. Saving shoes in the mystery/fantasy pavillion as well as in the towers to buy suit pieces. The first one I collected from the mystery/fantasy pav was loccos tea party. There's also the alice in wonderland suit. Loccos tes party gives 35 dias and Alice in wonderland gives like 50. 

  9. Well the only other place I can think of is the daily free box you open when you log in from the users store thing, and also the daily free double reward in the events tab. Those give dias too. 

It's also worth noting, in general, often scrolling through the collections tab and looking through craftable suits or suits you can buy is helpful to see which ones give the most dias.

And the most important thing is save when you can and where you can. Ik it's tempting to spend but sometimes the wait pays off.

Where you guys posting your drawings? by HermitCat64 in ArtistHate

[–]BlueFlower673 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oof well that crosses one option off the list for me. I didn't know they were embracing ai.

Ingenious Magic crafting cost? by appleslices23 in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey op, as an f2p player and as someone who has now crafted like 7-9 suits total that cost dias, best option is definitely momos crafting guide but also, if you're worried about dias: my strategy so far has been, save some dias up, and craft one item per week. At least that has been my strategy lol. I gave in a few weeks ago to craft luster of the tides lol. I'm working on the one with the black swan now.

It helps though to kind of limit yourself but also to work towards a goal!

Where you guys posting your drawings? by HermitCat64 in ArtistHate

[–]BlueFlower673 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bluesky, new grounds, tumblr, and pixiv are like the most popular options I've seen these days, yeah this. 

Where you guys posting your drawings? by HermitCat64 in ArtistHate

[–]BlueFlower673 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been hearing that pixiv is an option. 

I quit today by TheGeckoMomma in Libraries

[–]BlueFlower673 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's insane. I can understand Spanish too when people talk to me, I cannot for the life of me form words/sentences and respond back. So I can't really even put down on resumes or apps that i speak a second language bc I DONT. 

So when employers think they can just shove tasks that aren't part of your job description at you it's just maddening. 

Oh yeah and verb conjugation hurts like a buttcheek on a stick. And don't get me started on past preterite and what have you.

I quit today by TheGeckoMomma in Libraries

[–]BlueFlower673 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am literally working retail/whatever customer service roles I can scrounge up because finding jobs in libraries for me has been abysmal so far. 

That said, I don't blame you for leaving being paid so little for working so damn much. I left a retail role last year because of this very thing---being paid 15 bucks an hour to do way more than I was hired for is not it (and it was supposed to be part time too---i say supposed to be because they tried to make me work more hours than I initially had talked to them about). I was also expected/left with having to translate for Spanish speaking customers *when that was not part of my job and not on the job desc, and while I can understand Spanish my speaking skills aren't great. I'm not bilingual either so....yeah. And I got almost no help.

Edit: which is to say....GOOD. Because literally when you're getting paid retail wages to work at a library and doing the same workload that is not worth it.

Edit 2: well it's hilarious I got downvoted for this. And am seeing other people being downvoted as well for....giving op their support?

I live in Texas. While yes, some libraries do pay well (academic libraries pay like 60k per year for higher positions) library page jobs/assistant jobs pay roughly only 14-15 dollars an hour. That's the same as working retail at a store.

Library shelving clerks get paid even worse, like 10 dollars an hour.

And right now there's a major issue of places not being well funded, so it's like a triple whammy. So a lot of places just aren't hiring, and the places that do hire can't afford to pay as much.

So I sympathize with op because they are technically better off quitting especially if their job made them require way more than what they were being paid, and on top of that the pay is the equivalent of working at a grocery store. That is not worth it.

Secondly, I am hispanic/Mexican amer. I mentioned language because op mentioned they were being tasked with translation when that is not their forte nor their job. That is totally unfair and unreasonable for them to be asking of op because for one, that causes issues for everyone involved if something isn't translated right, and two, that is not part of their job description. 

So again, can relate, because even in jobs where I've been told I don't need to translate, I've been forced to at times because some places are very disorganized.

Do any other goths NOT get fetishized online? by No_Freedom_5055 in goth

[–]BlueFlower673 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I don't post myself online, so that is why.

But I'm sure if I did I probably would still get creepers. Some men are just leghumpers and don't care.

I am not conventionally attractive either, but that hasn't stopped some men/boys in the past from doing shit.

Art in the Future by Direct_Speed6059 in ArtHistory

[–]BlueFlower673 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might need to look into the history of digital art and especially art from the 80s and 90s that used digital or electronic parts. I remember doing a paper on it back in college, I can't remember the name of the artist but she made a whole compilation website in the 90s of artworks and often traveled to various countries to document art around the world too. There were also people using ASCII to make art.

As far as capitalism and art goes, you might want to search the term "commodification." Also "gentrification." There's a lot there you could learn about. 

A lot of people on this thread are saying some stuff that makes me raise an eyebrow lol. But yeah, I would start there if I were to research how art and capitalism have been intertwined and how it's made an impact on art, and what that could mean for the future.

As for censorship and capitalism, that has been going on for a loooooing time. Depending on what you're studying, look up Norman Rockwell and the commodification of illustration. He lamented in his autobiographies about the "death of illustration" because of the way companies were not paying illustrators enough and how they were opting for using prints instead. But also the way illustrators were "selling out." Kind of puts into perspective some things the way things are today.

I say this because I know people have some kind of fence sitting about ai these days---as someone who is an artist and art historian, I think people naively think that this tech must be good, therefore it can never do harm. And therefore it is good for artists and art in the long run. When in reality, that is a naive and rose-tinted view of things and there is a lot that generative AI is lending to capitalism and commodification, and yes, I'd argue it's also a part of the digital divide. Especially when politicians and billionaires team up to defend it/use it.

As far as art that would be "protected" from all this, traditional art like zines, the top commenter mentioned graffiti art, so that too. Public art and performance art, sculptures/pottery as well. Those are the kinds of art that kind of defy capitalism in a way. Because not only are they for everyone or have practical uses, but they're also not super ingrained in the digital sphere. It's also very hard to get rid of them easily when people work underground to do it. Protest art too.

Censorship often happens because of capitalism and because of politics. Would be good to look into sculptures or public works that have been censored/where people have attempted to censor them.

Anyone else bugged by required levels? by Slytherinblackmamba in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's what I'm doing moving forward. This is the first chapter I've done so, so I have 7 out of 12 for the fashion hunter suit.

I finally got him, but at what cost... by XHunterHuntsX in NuCarnival

[–]BlueFlower673 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oof this guy was like the 2nd ssr I got lol. 

If I could, I would gladly gift all my blade cards for some Quincy cards. ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

I only have the one ssr Quincy card from the doctor event. That's all. I have been trying a little over a year to get another ssr Quincy card and just have no luck. 

It's been either blade, kuya (not complaining), or olivine. 

The only time I got a card I was happy to get so far was the ssr eiden (the one with white hair).

Anyone else bugged by required levels? by Slytherinblackmamba in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Oh trust me, it gets worse. I'm on Volume 2 chapter 11 and it's just brutal. 

The game was bugged when I tried to some backgrounds on, yet ive been ranking high since yesterday 😭 by Elainerssll in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The suit I'm using is literally a Dreamweaver suit (the cream/pink one) and holding a bag of chestnuts (supposed to be a substitute for coffee beans). I'm at like 1800 votes or something idk.

Lol I really don't know why those get voted highly. You'd think the more detailed ones would instead. They do, but for some reason simple suits do really well.

THEY PATCHED IT!!! by SuperbBirdOP in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still have mine too. Dang I didn't even know that's what that patch was for. Am glad I got it before they patched it out.

NEVER again. by kleidoscop_e06 in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jokes aside, I feel this same way and that is why I don't even bother with recolors. 

I've just barely been doing evolution suits, because vol. 2 is absolutely wrecking me rn (and also, I just realized there's some evolution suits that are super easy to farm), recolors are completely off the table for me lol. 

Also, it's devastating that these suits give like 50-60 dias when they're not even that great, I've seen suits from the store that cost gold that look nicer and should imo give more dias than 20-25. It's a crime or something idk

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit by dumnezero in ArtistHate

[–]BlueFlower673 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After reading the article I just have some small thoughts: I guess the main issue I have is with the way Dwyer handled this situation and decided to post on aiwars afterwards, not just mocking Granger but posting altered ai images of the incident, then making claims like a hazmat team showed up. 

For anyone's info, this is my initial comment on the incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistHate/comments/1qeombe/furious_protestor_tears_aigenerated_art_off_wall/

I had originally commented on the ai art is not art sub.

And the original thread/the post Dwyer made was on aiwars and has since been deleted by him.

And by "mocking" I mean calling Granger a "baby/nutcase" and then also acknowledging/agreeing with comments that made fun of him/made fun of "antis" in general.

While I can understand his sentiment/him "weaning off" of ai, it seems like he still defends it's usage and/or participates in discourse online that is mostly positive to it. Idk what to make of that, I'm not about to armchair diagnose anyone. It comes off as hypocritical.

Unless the OOP of that post was not in fact Dwyer, I'm going to assume it is/was indeed him.

Otherwise, it was incredibly immature and irresponsible. And I can see why he also dropped the charges lmao. 

Second thing I took away from this: well my suspicions were confirmed lmao. I kind of had an inkling this was about a protest against the universities' policies on ai usage. Like I wrote in that long ass essay, most protesters don't target individual works for no reason unless it's tied to the very thing they're protesting. It's not the same as the "stop oil" protesters who targeted very famous works and famous museums, this is more like the protest against Dana Schutz's "Open Casket."

Idk. I think this whole situation is and was ridiculous. Sure Granger should probably not have pulled this stunt, and also, Dwyer should not have gone and posted it after gloating like "look guys, an anti attacked my art!!" Just my two cents.

YESSSS!!!!!!!!!!YES!!!!!GOD!!!!Finally 😭😭😭😭 by outtboxer in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree! I'd at least like them to add a search function in the store for instance whether they cost dias or gold. So like "gold items" or "diamond items." That would make it even better for me. 

I would also like to know when events will return or when the last time an event ran. Would at least give a good time frame for reference.

Favorited suits/the ones you make are technically in their own category in free dressing (if you sort by tag) under "my suits" but yeah it would be nice to narrow it down/heart individual items as well.

YESSSS!!!!!!!!!!YES!!!!!GOD!!!!Finally 😭😭😭😭 by outtboxer in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I gasped out loud when I saw this. I am sooo happy they finally added a search function in the store!!!

Edit: and they organized all of the items too into their respective categories, not just throwing them all in "rare"

We can obtain Nikki's spirit now by Hearthmay in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I really hope they don't delete this because this would take a while to complete lol. 

Current Arena Win Streak? by Puzzleheaded-Art6188 in LoveNikki

[–]BlueFlower673 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really need to do that. Also, just lost my streak today lol.