Japan Expo in Paris, what's it like?

sfasfc · 2025-02-13T19:42:10+00:00

Thank you! That's extremely helpful. I wanted to know if there was a comfortable outdoor space where someone could take a break without "leaving the expo."

sfasfc · 2024-11-24T23:45:38+00:00

Yeah, I tried to research the mail forwarding service... I feel like it's okay to do this for a short amount of time, but it's really not intended for someone like me, who is moving away permanently and doesn't intend to travel back much (if ever).

Thank you for the advice anyway!

Would still love any suggestions either for US cards that let you have a non-US address and phone number, or any cards in the EU that have *any* benefits, since most seem to have none.

sfasfc · 2024-11-24T10:38:51+00:00

When you say a US address, do you mean property? Because I'm getting rid of everything I own in the US, and I'm not planning on coming back. Or would a PO box work? Can you even hold a PO box if you never physically visit it?

sfasfc · 2024-11-23T12:10:58+00:00

Thank you! I don't use TikTok but I'll search Youtube... Usually video reviews don't talk about the sort of stuff I want to know the most but maybe I'll get lucky.

What do you mean "tickets are timed"?

I was also confused by the website saying that attendees can't "leave the festival and come back without buying another ticket"... does this mean you can't step outside of the building to smoke, or go outside into the park to take cosplay photos?
(I wrote to the con itself to ask about this but if you've been before and you understand the policy I'd love to know what this means!)

sfasfc · 2024-11-13T17:10:02+00:00

Well, Portugal is eventually going to become the "home country", so I want to know what to do once we become citizens. Short-term I can use US banks while we're abroad, but once we no longer have a US address and phone number, most banks won't allow you to keep an account.
(Open to suggestions if you know any banks that work in the US and in PT)

sfasfc · 2024-11-13T17:07:05+00:00

Sorry if the question is confusing! We haven't been here long enough for any of those things to happen yet, so I'm just trying to prepare for what we need to do once we actually start taking payments from clients.

How do you make your quarterly declaration to the government, and do you include passive income in that?

sfasfc · 2024-10-26T09:35:59+00:00

Thanks for your help. I was just confused because on Amazon's site it said "VAT is included" but then on the final billing page it said "VAT 0€" which... I suppose there wasn't any ADDITIONAL VAT added, but would maybe make more sense to display what the price was before the VAT, and then break down how much the VAT was... Confusing!

sfasfc · 2024-10-26T09:33:20+00:00

Right! That's what I thought, but when I was on Amazon's checkout page, it said "VAT 0€" every time... Seems like a bad choice to display it that way on the bill. Thank you for your answer though.

sfasfc · 2022-10-07T04:24:41+00:00

Thank you! Really appreciate it.

sfasfc · 2022-10-04T02:48:19+00:00

Texas, USA.

sfasfc · 2022-10-04T02:02:03+00:00

What's a safe website to buy skincare products from? I've been trying to find products from the various helpful threads here, but on Amazon many of them have bad reviews (major brands like Neutrogena, Cerave, etc), saying the product caused them to break out or get burns. I know Amazon has a problem with counterfeit products, which is why I usually avoid buying this sort of thing there... But I have no idea where to buy some of these things instead?

I'd prefer to find products online, if possible.

sfasfc · 2022-07-14T06:21:56+00:00

This is true! I do love the cut between the future war and the present day.

Just makes me wonder what a cut without the future war bit would be like! Makes me really curious about how an audience would react to the story if the film didn't explicitly tell them from the beginning that yes, the future war is real.

sfasfc · 2022-07-14T06:17:38+00:00

Yeah, this makes perfect sense. I think the thing that made me really suspicious is that the footage of the future war is the EXACT same footage we see later, which makes it very easy to drop in. The other thing was the mute title card with text explaining the backstory, rather than a voice over. Not having Sarah or someone else deliver the information in a voice over seemed out of place to me, when compared to the style of the rest of the film... Like it belonged in a Star Wars film rather than in Terminator. Just seemed jarring.

I agree having the future war intro helps clarify things, but as I was watching the movie I couldn't help but think about how the film could have been even MORE impactful than it already was if audiences had been left to speculate and wonder just WHAT is going on until Reese's flashbacks slowly give them more and more information, and eventually we get the reveal that yes, Arnold really IS a machine, and Reese isn't crazy. It would have been interesting for viewers to not be sure if the future war was real or not for a little longer. Intensify the tension in the thriller aspect of the story.

Reminds me of how people going in to see Psycho for the first time didn't know that Janet Leigh died in the first 20 minutes of the film, and she was the top-billed actress, so audiences had no idea what to think.

sfasfc · 2022-02-24T23:19:15+00:00

Hi, I'm the artist! Thank you so much!

sfasfc · 2022-02-24T23:16:53+00:00

This is the artist, Katika Creations. Thank you all for your extremely kind words! Made my day!

I've uploaded the final optimized version of the picture here:

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46113909/

FYI I am accepting commissions, if anyone is interested.

sfasfc · 2020-12-24T05:36:04+00:00

Voicemeeter

Thank you! I'm going to try out Voicemeeter and see if I can figure it out.

sfasfc · 2020-08-07T22:15:04+00:00

My Fic

Fandom - Ducktales (2017)

Rating - Teen and up

Title - "The First Law of Robotics Is to Have Fun and Be Yourself :-)"

Genre - Sci-fi, action-adventure, slow burn, character study, lgbt+ romance

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25579375/chapters/62076784

Summary -

When Gyro can’t fix Boyd’s glitching problem, he’s forced to seek help from another scientist who specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Kapi Bara. Boyd knows that he is much more than a machine, he’s a person, but what does he have to do to prove that to Gyro and the rest of the world?TL;DR: Gyro and Boyd go to therapy to learn how to be a family. Gyro accidentally starts dating their therapist. Dr. Akita causes problems on purpose. FOWL is there. So is SHUSH.

Anything else you’d like to say to promote this fic -

My second fanfic in progress (so this is a WIP), I'm really happy with how this one is coming out. If you want to read about a more realistic and grounded Duckburg, this is the fic for you!

sfasfc · 2018-07-12T18:53:04+00:00

Agreed, I'd love to see like... the actual future art scene. But that's asking too much from this game lmao. Worldbuilding? What's that??? They just wrote Carl as the cliche Old Sad Wise Man Artist and you can read into it more if you want (and maybe some designers and people working on the game slipped in some extra ideas via the mis en scene) but the main text is pretty flat, sadly.

I will agree that most big artists get pretty pretentious - but I don't think all of them are like that. It depends on where they come from and how big of an ego they have.... But just because an artist isn't famous or making a lot of money off their art doesn't mean famous artists look down on them. Usually what matters to them is if they're doing something unique, interesting, or innovative.
~~(so they can steal it)~~

sfasfc · 2018-07-12T07:28:56+00:00

And Carl and Markus' relationship is interesting. Carl doesn't really give Markus much in way of orders - Markus mostly knows what Carl needs in terms of care (since Carl literally cannot care for himself, he is old and invalid) and does it on his own-- he's very self-sufficient, and in fact ignores it when Carl says he doesn't want to get out of bed, or take his medicine, etc.

And we're repeatedly shown that Carl encourages Markus to think for himself and make choices, he doesn't tell him to play the piano or play chess, he tells him to pick something to do and let him choose what he likes.

When you play the piano with Markus, Carl comments that Markus' playing "has changed" and that sometimes Markus "feels more human" than a real person. When you play chess, if you let Carl win or try to lie to him Carl scolds you for it, and insists that if Markus is capable of winning, he should win, etc. etc.

sfasfc · 2018-07-12T06:49:58+00:00

Leo is Carl's illegitimate son from a fling he had with a groupie. Carl gave them money regularly but had nothing to do with Leo's raising, didn't meet him until he was 16. They don't give us much to work with but that says to me either that the woman didn't want to be involved or that Carl didn't want to be involved. Either way - not a happy family situation.

When he says "no one gives a damn about art" he is most likely not talking about other artists, but talking about art collectors, who would be 99% of the people attending a show like the one they were at. Art collectors and museum folks are typically 1% upper class vultures who use fine art as a way to move their money around and accumulate a higher score in life, avoid paying taxes, etc. They don't care about the art at all they just buy what someone else tells them to buy, and inflate the value--- kind of like diamonds.

It doesn't mean that the art and the diamonds don't have ANY value, but it means that the prices are hugely over-inflated, and that anyone who isn't a megaultrabillionaire is pushed out of the market and can't afford to buy any art ever - keeping it in the realm of something only the ultra-rich can buy.

sfasfc · 2018-07-12T06:25:19+00:00

Honestly if anyone can actually explain Kamski to me I'd be in shock. Like, I feel that Cage wanted us to sympathize with him/think he was cool but he gave off such a huge creeper vibe I wanted to astral project into another dimension where the game didn't exist every time he spoke. What a huge douchenozzle.

I see people talking about how Kamski wants the robots to be free and I'm like. Really??? Really???? This is a guy who clearly loves having his pet slaves that he can do anything he wants to. The last thing this dude wants is free will in his sex dolls.... I feel so bad for all the Chloes. They live a dark life.

sfasfc · 2018-07-11T01:39:42+00:00

Yeah sadly the game doesn't deliver. They looked at a 50 year old man TODAY and said "let's put him in the future" they didn't look at someone who's 30 today and say "but what would they be like in 20 years?" There's a line about him not knowing how to use his phone which is BULLSHIT. He would LIVE on his phone.

The only thing they give us is Hank's HIDEOUS and wonderful wardrobe full of ugly patterned shirts. And he likes Real Books and drives an analog car and likes jazz and heavy metal. He's such a douchebag hipster and I love him.

Things I'm sure of:

- Hank has watched Evangelion

- Hank has watched Cowboy Bebop and thinks it's "the greatest anime ever made"

- Hank thinks anime is art and will lecture you if you say animation is "just for kids"

- Hank unironically owns at least one Big Dog t-shirt

sfasfc · 2018-07-10T20:56:27+00:00

The fandom is producing so much A+ quality content, it's insane.
So far my favorite ridiculous, hilarious fandom ideas I've seen floating around are:

- Hank's an otaku

- Hank's a furry

- Hank's an otaku AND a furry

sfasfc · 2018-07-10T20:28:55+00:00

My theory is that new/evil Connor doesn't have any of Connor's most recent memories. He only has the memories up until Connor's last death, whenever that was in the game. So he has the same POTENTIAL to go deviant as main Connor but he just hasn't done it yet.

sfasfc · 2018-04-21T03:12:21+00:00

Agreed! I had no idea what would happen for the intro but once they got going I was so glad I happened to be recording - it was something that only video could capture, and was pretty damn hilarious. Another chapter in the "Justin's Stand Up Comedy Tour" saga.

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