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lost children & crocodiles

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don't let me cry
ken; also known as kazz, rek, jakkal/jakkalope, glitchgoat. vancouver washington-based 20-something bloke.
personal blog; no separate blogs for fandoms, we lose followers like men. likes MOTHER, WoW, digimon, goats, cats, boku no hero academia, idolish7. grumpy, usually. slightly pretentious. frequently disillusioned. a 24/7 all might appreciation zone. yamato nikaido is my 2d idol husband
blog is sfw, but please don't follow me if you're a minor. don't vent to me.
i'm more active on twitter (link below) lately
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i am a bright and colourful piñata and god is a 13 year old birthday boy whose parents have just announced their divorce.

this reads like a john mulaney bit

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reminder that ive been way more active + talkative on twitter for a while now, even before the apocalypse, so follow me there (@/glitchgoats) if ur interested

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bogleech

I see some HEATED debates over the risks of “toying” with ouija boards in Halloween/horror groups I follow and I just want to say a ouija board is literally a toy for kids and if polterghosties existed I’d still seriously doubt that a piece of wood invented by Milton Bradley is a real magical conduit to their dimension

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lokirulz
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i only come here once in a blue moon anyway so

feel free to follow me on twitter (@ glitchgoats ) in case tumblr decides to fuckin mercy kill me

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embersign

So I had a spark of inspiration for an outfit for Ranirus in WoW, so I combined a Northrend Wind Serpent and the shaman tier from Throne of Thunder for some nifty gear. I shouldn’t have taken this long haha. Bottom photos are just concept and lineart <3 

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Worked on this girl for 9 months. Now this new music video comes out and she’s immensely popular, arguably one of the most popular characters in the LoL universe.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad she’s a huge hit, it’s super exciting to see so many people love the character design and the gameplay, and know that I contributed directly and significantly to the behind-the-scenes engineering that makes it all work. It’s validating.

But it’s also so fucking melancholy to know I did so much work and put in so much time for such a shitty company, run by shitty people, and the reward I got for it was unemployment. 

I threw a lot into this character. I cried at work. I started getting panic attacks, which I’ve never gotten before. I developed persistent heart palpitations from the daily overwhelming stress and had to go to the hospital (this is true, seriously.) I basically dropped all my friends outside of work. My manager (and his manager!) lied to me constantly to keep me working. They said I was doing a great job but to keep it up. Don’t worry, it’s going to turn out great, and it’ll all be worth it in the end – recognition, a raise, probably a promotion in short order. They promised me the world. When she was finally finished, I didn’t even get to go to the release party, they just walked me out. 

I remember a quote from my last day, it sticks out in my mind: “I know you realize this is really hard for me,” my manager said. Yes, in the end, when he awkwardly informed me I didn’t have my dream job anymore – or any job at all – and then stared back at my shell-shocked face, my thousand-yard stare, the only thing he felt was sorry for himself.

She launched with no major bugs and was considered a technical success. Doesn’t matter. Get the fuck out.

I don’t know how I feel. A weird sensation of pride and intense bitterness. I did a good job; at least, I think I did. Unfortunately, internal validation is the only kind I’m going to get.

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hexcolour

Everyone reposting KDA should see this. Riot has successfully distracted everyone into forgetting their culture of sexism, exploitation, and toxicity mere months after it was all revealed.

Look, I get it. Akali is EXTREMELY my type. It’s obvious how much love and care was put into her development. But it makes me furious to see all the free advertising that Riot is getting from people who I thought would know better.  And now? One of the people who is arguably responsible for all that free advertising? Who’s work is undoubtedly making Riot hundreds of thousands of dollars a day? Who was overworked to the point of near breaking? They get nothing. WORSE than the scant bit of credit that most devs can get in a big company like Riot. They got let go.

Fuck Riot Games.

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maxofs2d

One thing that I thought really sucked a lot is that the production company who made the KDA video isn’t even credited. They credit a lot of other people on their videos, usually, but the actual animators of the video are hidden; almost a lie by omission. At best it’s a honest mistake, at worst it’s sneakily trying to pass off the video as something made in-house when it’s not. :(

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The persian is so cute!!!! I might need to buy two!!

nidoran lines!!

as someone into pokemon merch this is so exciting

many of these pokemon have never had a plush or have very rare and limited plush releases

even they acknowledged this!

i hope this does well so they do this for gen 2 and gen 3 which also have many pokemon which never released plushies of!

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