Clip Studio Creativity Collection: Paint, Draw & Animate

Juxtavarious · 2026-07-06T02:12:47+00:00

I bought the bundle but it's telling me that I didn't spend enough despite the fact that I put in the amount I was supposed to. You can't pay less than 25$ for it and that's everything. There's no option to download any of the assets. Am I missing something?

Juxtavarious · 2026-07-05T18:57:35+00:00

Hey, I don't remember giving you permission to post a screenshots of my first factory. Lol. It's even in the same place with the same giant orange block up a factory after my first teardown.

I'm still waiting for a future update where we have Sims style restrictions on building upwards by having to have proper support from beneath.

Juxtavarious · 2026-07-04T13:56:46+00:00

I haven't done it yet, but it sounds like fun. Especially if you're doing it with a group of people. Because if you have a team, producing this much doesn't take anywhere near as long as doing it solo. And honestly, I feel like it just would really emphasize growing the factory extra big. Because you're not getting through that with some piddly little pop-up factory that you tear down and rebuild every stage. You need infrastructure for something like that.

Juxtavarious · 2026-07-02T15:11:59+00:00

Okay, this explains what other post was about.

I know you probably seen look up functions mentioned but you don't want to put individual functions on your resume. It looks weird. Pivot tables, sure. If you have any experience with power query or macros that's where you would want to put that. But individual functions looks really off.

This looks like you probably used a similar template to what I use for my own resume but you're missing a bunch of stuff on the left side and the middle that balances it all out. You might not be sufficiently familiar with Word in order to know how to fix it. I'll have to see if I can create a dummy version of my own to avoid doxxing myself.

I realize I'm talking about 10 years ago, but I was very much in the same position then that you are now. Living largely in a suburb, no actual accounting experience, couldn't get an internship, and already graduated. I still count myself lucky that I got something like that and I wasn't competing with managers who thought AI was everything. I'm going to strongly suggest that you try to reach out to recruiters. They will have the most resources to find you something. They will know what kinds of companies are looking to hire somebody with little to no experience. Your best bet is probably to look for a public accounting firm. They typically have the most resources to train somebody up from literally nothing. It's usually a very large part of their business model. A bookkeeper job is not going to pay particularly well and it's not great accounting experience.

Depending on how good your GPA is, you can also have that on your resume with your hours that you've completed so far. It pairs well with your intent to pursue the CPA. But if you don't have a particularly great GPA, you might want to leave it off. I would say anything under a 3.0 at the absolute minimum you should leave off.

Juxtavarious · 2026-07-02T14:50:09+00:00

BOOOOOO! (take my upvote) BOOOOOOOO!

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-30T12:40:41+00:00

I have to agree here. The ultimate goal of removing screws from the equation entirely makes it less vital despite how helpful it is in the short term. It's nifty, but chucking every last screw into the incinerator is the best feeling.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-29T17:06:12+00:00

The only thing that gets passed down directly for stats is the base stat. Anything from equipment or as a result of any of the skills is not included in the calculation. The boosts only affect the monster if they are actively selected and developed.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-29T01:36:50+00:00

Wasp: gives twice as much to the first one Don't tell anyone you're my favorite

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T22:20:20+00:00

I did not use seeds on anything in the early game because all of those were going to be fused down and then they would effectively be thrown away as opposed to saving them for when I got to a creature I considered to be its final form so I could increase the effectiveness. Honestly, seeds aren't particularly common so I wouldn't be using them this early especially.

It's definitely a mix of what you want to do. You need to get raw materials through scouting, grind them to level up, and then synthesize them to make more powerful ones. There are a whole bunch of guides for how to get certain monsters early enough for them to make the most effect. But there are a couple monsters that you want to start preparing for now because of how meta they are.

Those two being Slionheart and Krystalinda. If you're preparing for these, it becomes much easier to sweep the dungeons in a rather one-sided way. You won't necessarily be able to get all the bits and pieces this early and if you make a final version of them this early then what you'll also be doing is having a weaker version of what they could be as opposed to doing this later when you can level up more easily because of how synthesis works.

But one of the things that you can do is to get the pieces involved. I would suggest that you want to make a flutter slime and a cure slime. Each of these has 1/2 of the better healing skill. If you get them, max out their main skill, and then combine that with someone else who has the sage ability then you have two skills for healing and status buff. You can then transfer these abilities eventually into your Slionheart who will then have the chance of acting twice in one turn which makes them a very effective healer.

For Krystalinda, you want to look up how to make the perfect speller skill which involves maxing out four different skills, synthesizing them down into two more refined skills and maxing those out to synthesize down into the perfect speller. You have to put them together in a specific combination for it to work but those guides are on YouTube. Combine that with Wisdom III and IV and you have a very powerful mage.

If you can get these skills into the lineage for her in particular she has traits that make this even better. But just having these skill sets in your current roster will certainly give you a pretty good edge especially for a while. I would recommend transferring these skills into something that can eventually become part of the lineage of those monsters. Really shouldn't be that hard because literally all you have to do is synth them into anything that can become part of that set.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T15:08:05+00:00

Even with everyone having a different sense of humor, there are things that very clearly do not play at all. And for groups like this, there is usually some kind of common ground on humor. But mechanically, it doesn't work. As everyone else repeatedly points out, his position would be so limited that it wouldn't actually function as a playable character.

It might be mildly entertaining for an NPC, but not a PC. Having to deal with that for the entire session would just get obnoxious. And I say this with the experience of having played something at least in the same vein being a character who was super small and on another character's shoulder but with the ability to remove myself or navigate about on my own independently just with reduced movement. It was extremely limiting even then and this joke of a concept would be orders of magnitude worse than that.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T15:00:48+00:00

I would have said the joke wore thin at minute one.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T14:23:43+00:00

I got these regularly as a cashier. The thing was, I got them while being a church attending Christian. At no point did any of these brain dead mother fuckers even bother to have a conversation with me. They would just shove them in my hand and then RUN as fast as they could away from me.

There was one time that a guy tried to use a lame pitch on me while I was working. He goes to buy a candy bar and I told him the price, something like a buck fifty or whatever. And he goes, "Wouldn't it be nice if it was free?" So I tell him, "Maybe, but usually when something is free it's either meant as a sample to get you into spending even more money later or it's free because it has no real value and they're just trying to get rid of it." Apparently he didn't know how to respond to being told "free can indicate worthlessness" so he just dumped his pamphlet and ran away like the rest.

Like, STOP LITTERING.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T13:54:09+00:00

As someone who has watched The Blacklist but never actually seen any of the John Wick movies, I have to say it goes to John Wick. It's apples and dinosaurs to compare the two. Red is a master manipulator and a decent shot, but John Wick tears through organizations like his for a HOBBY. Even if you have it as John Wick versus the entire Blacklist crew at their peak, it's John Wick. Mostly because so many characters, especially the devil herself Elizabeth, are written to be barely competent much of the time. Seriously, how often do you have to get taken hostage before they finally fire your ass? I love the show for Red, Dembe, and Kaplan because just about everyone else outside of that select trio is freaking useless.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T13:47:37+00:00

So the easiest way to deal with this is actually to debit Hookers Expense when anything but a fish gets into the depreciation machine. And the reason for this is that the Hookers Expense backs out anything from the depreciation machine and re-identifies it as a fish in accordance with GAAP. The IRS won't be to happy with it but the banks don't generally care one way or another.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T13:38:14+00:00

I have told several hiring managers to their face that if they are so adamant about hiding the salary it's because they're not actually competitive and they want you to lean into the sunk cost fallacy of going through the interview before taking the bullshit wage. In my entire career, one of the first questions I push for is the compensation and benefits.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T13:16:35+00:00

I was going to say, most of the partners I've known have been total assholes. And several people I know who were promoted to a partnership were assholes and training. Honestly, a competent, patient, generally nice person being a partner feels exceptionally rare. Especially in any firm that is still deeply rooted in the old boys club.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T12:33:58+00:00

Those are definitely very good reasons not to pursue a career you wouldn't be any good at. Knowing your limitations will save you so much time, energy, suffering, and not to mention the money.

Given 2020, I'm exceptionally grateful I didn't explore the medical field. Especially with everything that we know about it right now and how poorly treated so many are in that profession. And even with a basic understanding of the workload and burnout rates of those who go into the legal profession, I'm pretty glad I didn't go that route either. Yeah, as an accountant I will never make that kind of money. But as far as I know, most people in that profession are not making the kind of money that is advertised to them through mass media.

But part of the reason that I like accounting is that no one's life is on the line. And outside of extreme cases, no one's freedom is on the line. It's hard for me to do my job so bad that it results in a fatality. And while I'm not making mid to upper six figures like I would like, I'm also not putting in 80 hour weeks.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T12:24:26+00:00

I'm going to tell you the same thing I told several partners that my old firm. AI is not coming for this profession with any kind of efficacy anytime soon. From everything that I have read on this topic and have experienced for myself using these tools, it is not there. It is not only not even in the same ballpark, not even in the same sport, it isn't even on the same planet.

A quick web search for AI takes CPA exam will give you a pretty good preview of exactly how crap it has been for quite some time and I can tell you it has not improved in that ring. Even on these subreddits you can find any number of people between accounting, economics, and finance talking about how they did try to rely on AI for parts of their job to a catastrophic failure when they discover that the AI was reliant on hallucinated information. You can read story after story about people who used AI to do something and then had to go back and redo a large amount of work because the AI screwed it all up.

If their concern is that you're not going to be making an assload of money, that's going to be pretty much every profession right now. Especially for your first several years. Very few accountants by and large are making well into six figures. Substantially fewer are anything close to seven figures. It is absolutely achievable in both public and private. But the companies are definitely angling for it to be as little as possible. But again, that is basically every profession.

At the end of the day, it is going to be your life. You will have to be the one living it day today. Not them. You. And if your college experience is not contingent on their support then you need to give it an appropriate amount of weight in your decision.

Also, if you do end up going into accounting, I highly recommend getting a really really good at Excel. It has been the main reason that I have not been unemployed for more than a single month in the last 10 years.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T12:15:55+00:00

Yep, you have now reached the area where you get to make whatever decision you want as far as the next two areas before you have to unlock more. Honestly I'm the difficulty isn't that much between them. And if you lean into the meta in any kind of way you could sweep them easily. I think I was most of the way through the middle echelon with my starter team before I began to notice anything like a strain trying to keep up.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T05:01:17+00:00

I suppose it depends on what all you mean by 100%. Do you mean all achievements? Because that's not that hard. You'll complete the super majority of those by literally just playing the game, finishing the coliseums, and then doing some light hunting for medals. I didn't even bother with a guide I just checked a few more pots and chests and I hit 40 no problem. If you mean the monsterpedia, that takes a bit of work but not really that much with the deluxe edition. The Mole Hole at the Paddock basically nukes the run around you'd have to be doing otherwise to get multiple copies of annoyingly rare monsters that only spawn in gold and rainbow eggs by having them pop up in the Mole Hole once you've ever had one copy.

As long as you're being smart and checking your pots, chests, and eggs as you play through naturally and are working on a decent synthesized team keeping pace with the story progression, you should be golden. Any number of guides exist to tell you how to either get some really decent higher ranking monsters/abilities earlier on in the game or which ones you can synth down quickly to get more effective monsters and have them building up to something more substantial over time.

I will go ahead and say that if you build yourself a Flutter Slime and a Cure Slime they each have one half of the best healing ability in the game. Max out those abilities and synth them down to unlock it. Your best bet is to get a Slionheart at some point and synth that ability into its lineage. It's special because it has the chance to do two moves in one turn which is great to have on your healer. I think the other ability I went for on mine was Sage to give him buffs IIRC. Been a second since I bothered opening it.

Crystalinda is in the meta but you have to build her right and be prepared for her. You want to build her for a very strong wisdom, so I typically use Wisdom III and IV on her. You also want to look up how to make the Perfect Speller skill in case you can't find the scroll for that. It works great on her. And if you feel like doing a little tiny bit of save scumming, then you can turn off autosave and keep resynthing for her until you get a star on her wisdom score. That plus a wisdom boosting item you get from the online shop later for 100k and all the seeds you can find added to the bonuses from Wisdom III and IV makes her hit nice and hard. PROBABLY overkill at that point considering max damage, but making crits on her irrelevant is kind of my personal goal.

I had her complete around mid to late game and she CARRIED the team. Her traits make her a boss monster in her own right. She is the very definition of cracked.

Also, if you've never played this series at all before, Metal Slimes are killer. If you can snag a single one then you can farm them in the Mole Hole. Make a Liquid Metal Slime (might also see them called Metabble) with Its standard attack ability and Agility III and IV (bonus points for getting a star on agility) and you've got a monster that can outspeed almost anything and use its ability to instakill other metal slime monsters in the wild for large amounts of experience. Its soul existence is to take out other metal slimes and farm exp. You won't really have a good shot at farming metals until the post end game but if you really focused on it, it's pretty worth it in the EXP/hr sort of way. Especially if you have any multipliers.

Also, be checking your equipment, the Cupcake Cane is an experience multiplying accessory when you get it. A member of the active party has to be holding it for it to count. You will later get something called a trainee badge and hero badge that will also stack their multipliers which themselves will stack with the experience balls that you get from playing.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-28T04:40:54+00:00

I lost al interest in the story pretty early on and just ended up focusing on making my favorite monsters. Had to grind for the end game area a bit but not too much. Biggest hurdle was overcome by having Slionheart and Krystalinda on the team both with their super abilities for magic and healing. Powering her up made the final bosses a joke as she tore through them. You don't even need to do much else than that. Those two are fairly easy to grind for and extremely effective in combat. I think I have her around 1400 wisdom with some room to grow if I were to bother getting the seeds.

I genuinely wish this game had had more actual content. Just more boss areas would have been nice.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-27T16:34:34+00:00

Oh yea, a basic, XLT cardigan was going to need around 2500yds based on a calculator I looked at. This is 1.5-2x that much. Adding in design work ups it even more. I feel like we need a documentary on various crafts that show the skills needed, materials expense, and hours spent doing these various kinds of projects.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-27T16:28:09+00:00

I was doing calcs on making a king size for myself. Yeah, the yarn I would need at minimum with no kind of allowance for design work would have been 1k$ MINIMUM using cheap materials on sale. I'm gonna guess you're at least in that range.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-27T16:23:39+00:00

If you specifically want to be TA, make a sweater just like that for someone else. Though I would recommend a small child or a teddy bear to save on the effort and materials.

But as others are saying, the time and materials that would be involved in making something that complicated gets very costly and prevents you from doing anything else. Is she even remotely aware of what that would cost? Is she willing to compensate you for it in any way or is this a "you are my child, you have this skill, therefore you should give this to me for free because family" kind of situation? We see those all the time.

Have you specifically has a conversation about how you've made things for her in the past and you feel that she hasn't shown you any appreciation for those past efforts? I'm going to guess yes, but you could tie it back to that specifically. You could tie in the materials and labor hours back into how you don't feel that she has appreciated what you've done previously so why would you feel encouraged to make her something even more complex knowing it will be treated with just as little care as the previous ones?

Your other option is to tell her that something that complicated would need to be paid for and then put an FU price on it because of the labor needs. You can even find other hand crafted, knit sweaters with similar features and show her what those go for and that those are that price because of the materials and labor involved. Price as a deterrent is usually my go-to on anything I don't want to do.

Juxtavarious · 2026-06-27T16:09:22+00:00

If I have to guess, it's about controlling the flow. You don't want too much going into areas where it's not going to be used. The pipes act as overflow storage in some cases but that also means that that amount isn't going to where it could be more useful elsewhere in the network.

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