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XGem-ini

@xgem-ini

Artist | Hobbyist | Alexa | June 20th
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I decided to be more active on here... it's gonna be super hard to adjust to this site I'm so used to deviantArt's layout but I'm unwanted there. Therefore here is my first post here in hopes I'd get more active! Please treat me well and don't ban me because of my country :")

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Beautiful episode 😭👌🏻❤️

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xgem-ini

I am legit crying.. I CRIED, THIS IS TRUE THIS IS HAPPENING, YAS TO EPISODE 5. In every damn ep there is that LOVE BETWEEN YUURI AND VIKTOR THIS IS GONNA BE CANON YES YES YES YES<333333333

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today i found out that my favorite vine has an extended version and i couldnt be happier

Where has this been my whole life?

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xgem-ini

NVM my life is a better place now V u V

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what the hell is konami doing: a response

so with metal gear survive announced and people wondering why the hell konami’s destroying themselves, i thought id give some insight into this matter.

i have friends in japan - both natives, and expats now living there. and according to them - and i say this because i have absolutely no sources on this, and based on the nature of this none probably exist - konami is basically the yakuza’s gaming branch. most of the higher-ups have some ties to the yakuza, and have basically since the company’s inception.

so, what does this have to do with konami tearing themselves apart? easy - yakuza no longer wants konami around. maybe someone at konami specifically did something to piss them off and now they’re cutting off ties, maybe theyve found another company that’s better for their purposes, maybe they just don’t want to be involved in gaming anymore.

what matters is - they want konami out of the picture. but they can’t just close them down, or people would get suspicious. so what theyre doing is, theyre frantically laundering money out of the company while deliberately misusing its assets to turn the least profit possible for plausible deniability. fire kojima to erode consumer trust. cancel a high-profile, high-budget game. spend a bunch of money on fox engine remasters of snake eater cutscenes for a pachinko machine that wont make a tenth of that money back. for that matter, use your licenses on pachinko machines - its a dying market and doing so will both erode consumer trust and potentially wring a bit more money out of pachinko from diehard fans before the industry collapses entirely. do pointless microtransactions in mgo because (i would imagine, i dont exactly have a lot of experience in this field) microtransaction profit is an easy number to forge if you need the numbers to line up. and now - make a zombie survival game under the metal gear license, which is doomed to fail due to market saturation and fan backlash, but give it a aaa budget so you can sneak in a couple thousand extra dollars that no one will suspect youve just laundered out. these are all things that they can easily claim are just bad business decisions, despite actually forming a clear pattern. this is intentional. they dont want your money, because that means more they have to launder out before they can close the company entirely.

like i say, i have no hard evidence or sources on this, but it explains a hell of a lot - my guess is, they started this process around when mgs5 came out and silent hills was canceled. the best we can hope for is that, when they finally close down the company, they hold a thq-style auction for all their ips.

theres a lot of evidence to this too, I will cite sources. Pachinko often (at least up until the mid 90′s) used Yakuza safe houses or gathering spots as prize exchanges, so you could trade in the cheap crap from the pachinko parlor for money, often this was a formal thing too, like contract, money everything legit. Companies like Konami, Sega and Namco got their foot in the door gaming wise with gambling games like pachinko (no links here, as it can easily be found on their wiki’s) because of this, and the often brutal ways that japan runs their business, with pressure being put on people who need to perform, and companies, and some of the people left to sink with it being a common tactic for organized crime….it all makes sense.  http://www.japansociety.org/pachinko_nation http://www.economist.com/news/business/21620248-legal-gambling-and-changing-tastes-threaten-huge-pachinko-business-balls-air http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-08-07-konamis-draconian-workplace-raises-no-eyebrows-in-japan http://gematsu.com/2015/08/nikkei-report-bad-things-happening-konami

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xgem-ini

You hear that? No you can’t. My heart stopped. <////3

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wolfnanaki

>Konami dumped some of its most passionate and creative minds, including Hideo Kojima, to drop all major console game production and instead pursue the mobile gaming and pachinko industry

>after news about employee abuse and refusing to let Kojima accept any awards for his work on the game, public trust of the company has tanked since 2015

>Konami ends up taking a huge financial hit in pachinko in 2016

>suddenly come crawling back saying they want to earn gamers’ trust

>put out a trailer for a new Metal Gear game

>it’s a 4-player co-op zombie survival game

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xgem-ini

fuck you Konami you broke my heart way too many times >:’’’’’T

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ART THEFT!! My art has been stolen and I am not making one penny from it! They cropped my signature and even edit the picture to block the rest out! I am beyond upset and heart broken… please voice your complaints and help me out https://viralstyle.com/c/Qleb9#pid=1&cid=5084407&sid=front

To the person who stole this, if you see this. Once the site sends me back your information, I’m taking you to court.

UPDATE THIS COMPANY DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT THAT ART WAS STOLEN AS LONG AS THEY MAKE A PROFIT!!!SHARE FAR AND FUCKING WIDE PLEASE.

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xgem-ini

Reminds me when somebody asked me if they can copy my art onto mugs and t-shirts to sell them, well, that person might have asked but there are so many others who will steal and make money off of something you worked so hard on. AND THIS makes me SO ANGRY.

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hikarunohana

I’m so nervous right now (/。\)

Wow. I never thought that making gifs was so easy. I mean, not the “draw 100 pics” part, but since I don’t have PS I thought it was impossible for me to do one xD 

Well, I really hope you like it :3 I want to make more in the future but it might take a while since I don’t like to do things quickly (?) so every frame is pretty detailed (argh!!)… This was really a long work… and actually I should add another frame but I’m too tired to do it and it works quite fine without it anyway so yeah >.>

This is dedicated to chiapeto! (´∇ノ`*)ノ since I never gave you a birthday gift D°:

I have to add my signature like that because it’s pretty easy to repost it without crediting the artist, sorry if it’s ugly! (i like rainbows ahaha)

Reblogging this because I miss Seiji and want my new followers to see this amazing art by Daph.

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xgem-ini

Nononono I can’t take this my heart is just--- gonna explode ajgsdjgsjhjhjed

My nerd standards can never reach their spy ones unf UNF UUUUNNNFFF

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