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Listen, sweetie, my critique was not for your picture. It was for someone else's picture, and she ASKED for a critique and she thought my critique was fair. If she didn't think it was fair, she would have marked it as 'unfair'. Don't get on my ass for trying to help an artist improve. I love giving and getting critiques, and so does SilverBeastLaguz. So butt-out.
X-Men '97 Is Just Around The Corner!
I've seen some reports from people who have seen the first three episodes. From what they said, it's awesome! Cal Dodd's voice has gotten rougher, but hey, he's old. I don't have much issue with Morph being nonbinary since well... Shape shifter. Beast's voice is still like a hug or being wrapped in a fleece blanket fresh from the dryer. I've heard a clip of Jubilee's new voice. Her original one is more familiar and like strawberries. Her new one blends the strawberries with milk, bananas, and ice cream. Kinda less tart and more milkshake. Rogue's voice is still Rogue from the 90s - gingerbread, cookie dough ice cream, cinnamon roll, and dairy cough. Age has given her voice some more satisfying dairy cough, but it's cool 'cause it's just classic Rogue to me. Cyclops' voice is much like the original - nice salty sweet ham and maybe crab or shrimp. Haven't heard Jean's new voice yet, but it needs to have some sorrowful gale and magnolias. Storm's is still very spot on - blast of wind and rain in a sever thunderstorm. Gambit's voice is still yet to be heard, but I'm hoping for sweet shrimp cocktail and red wine. Wolverine's voice is a bit less beef and more lean, but still has a good bite. Lots of mustard and relish. As for Professor X, I hope his new voice will have a similar gust of chilly wind, crackling fire, and cinnamon as the original. Yes I'm weird. Doubt I'm really a synesthetic because their voices just remind me of certain textures and flavors, and at times some visuals. It's... Rather strange.
Found the full version of Arturia Storm
Managed to find the non-demo version of Arturia Storm 3.0, a classic Digital Audio Workstation that was discontinued in 2004. It works, and so does the key generator. Now people who spent almost $250 in 2024 money on this DAW can use it again. I uploaded it to the Internet Archive and hopefully, people will find and enjoy this piece of history. I did this for software preservation. Apps as cool as this shouldn't be allowed to disappear.
My 2 Cents About X-Men '97
Dunno what I think about the art style. Kinda bright and shiny compared to the original. As for Rogue getting flattened a bit in the back and front, I have mixed feelings. I like the original better, but I also think the original design looks kinda... Silicone. I understand where the guys are coming from because yeah we do need some exaggeration in a very visual medium, but I also would like girls to not aspire to get big boobs that might realistically give them back issues. Plus, my very Christian mom would probably like the more proportional design better because for as long as I remember, she always hated Barbie and thought she looked horrible. Her boobs were too big, feet and hands too small, various other issues, while I and the other girls just liked to play dress up and stuff with Barbie and her friends. Of course there are lots of articles about how inaccurate Barbie's proportions are, how she wouldn't be able to stand or eat or whatever. They are kinda focusing a little too much on that like I am on the itty bitty annoying scratch on my glasses lens. Let's just forget that maybe most dolls are rather inaccurate when it comes to anatomy. Like, most little girls don't look like Strawberry Shortcake or Raggedy Ann, or the Cabbage Patch Kids. And even the more realistic baby dolls aren't so completely proportionate either. But I digress. Basically, we need some design exaggeration in visual Media - especially comics and cartoons. Like maybe adjust her design a little bit to somewhere in the middle, so she looks voluptuous and seductive, but not like she's had a boob job or needs to sleep in a Milwaukee brace? Also, uniboob is at least a little realistic. Like, a lot of my bras do make my boobs look like that. I'm sure a lot of women can attest to that. Maybe try to balance the two design extremes out? Now for Morph. Generally I'm not into neo pronouns (ducks from possible fruit projectiles) but for Morph it does kind of make sense. They were male in the original cartoon, probably understandable in the 90s when everything was 'satanic' and even strict rules like Hellfire Club being renamed and Wolverine not being allowed to use his claws on people didn't matter. Morph is a shape shifter and can be male or female. In fact, Marvel wanted the female mutant Mystique to be Nightcrawler's 'father', having shifted into a male and fertilized Irene Addler, her lover. That didn't fly back then, but in the new continuity, Mystique is apparently now the father. It's pretend, because nobody can currently change their gonads from one sex to another. However, in the X-Men universe, some mutants and the Skrulls - also shape shifters - can. In 'The Runaways' one Skrull character mentioned changing sex for them was like changing clothes. Morph can and has been both male and female, and can change at the drop of a hat. Morph has been multiple people. So if Morph wants to be they, more power to Morph. Then there's Alyson Court giving the role of Jubilee to an actual Asian. I'm not sure about that because honestly, I think race should not matter when voicing a cartoon. Cartoons are pretend. That said, I'm not opposed to her giving the role to someone else either. If the new actress can mimic the tart strawberry voice of Alyson Court, awesome! And if George Buza for some reason has to retire from voicing Beast, I would replace him with Ross Bagdasarian Jr. because Ross's voice has that same warm hug quality to it. Whenever I hear Hank 'Beast' McCoy speak, I imagine a hug or sitting by a toasty fire wrapped in a fluffy, fleecy blanket and drinking hot cocoa. (Side note, if Hank had a female counterpart in another universe, I think she would look kinda like Martha Generic, Bobby's mom from the cartoon Bobby's World, and be as strong and buff as a Rose Quartz or the average Amethyst, and would have a fluffy, sweet, marshmallowy high voice like the YouTuber Wolfychu) Just give the character a good voice even if the VA doesn't look like the character. They can't all be inksuit actors. Finally, I don't care what topics the episodes touch on or which way they slant. I don't need to agree with a story to like it. I have enjoyed several episodes of Picard, Orville, and plenty of other series that I didn't agree with. Including the piggy episode of Black Mirror. My opinion is, the Prime Minister was in a no-win situation. I think he shouldn't have given into the demands of that asshole because honestly, it would be the asshole who killed the princess - not the Prime Minister. And his wife still is cold and gives him no sympathy. He should have said that the princess is not a bargaining chip and his sexual purity is not for sale. It would just be better, in my opinion, to be clean. As for a "San Junipero", I believe human euthanasia is wrong, but I am able to enjoy the drama and the love story. With the more recent one, "Joan is Awful", I think Joan was an idiot for doing what she did in that Church. Her rights were violated and it's my opinion that putting those kinds of terms in a big end user license agreement is kind of like slipping something in someone's drink - very scummy at the least, and it may be tantamount to rape. I can understand why she did what she did, but I don't condone it. Though again, I digress. Basically, make some leftist storylines, that's fine with me. Just make stories with messages rather than messages with a little story. Don't talk down to your viewers, and don't beat them over the head. Some anvils need to be dropped, but they're the spice, not the meal. So I don't know your opinions on this, but I have no desire to just parrot either side on this when I may not know all the facts. Make of it what you will. Enjoy the show. And the shit show.
R I.P. Nibbles
My beautiful little yellow birb died today. He was my baby. He didn't live long, maybe three years, but he was such a sweetie, and he talked and made kissing sounds. I'm heartbroken, and I wish I had known he was sick much earlier. He was fluffing up yesterday, and I thought he was doing better today - he even looked like he was eating. Then he started losing his balance and couldn't stand. He was giving up. Within about a minute, he was dead. My poor baby bird is dead! My beautiful bird. I just wanted him to get better. He died too soon.
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