Collecting All The Dragon Balls

I collect most of them, except the bad 1.0s and some of the 2.0s that were too expensive even when I started (I wasn't paying $120 for SSG or SS3 and I'm not paying $200 now).

I display based on saga. I don't buy multiples. I get why people would (I considered two Kid Gohans in particular) but I'd rather just have stick the character in the saga that I prefer to have them in. Like I'll have Kid Gohan in the Saiyan Saga with Piccolo. If they ever, say, release an Imperfect Cell and I want to depict that fight, well, that's a good opportunity for me to change up my display a little for a while. I like having reasons to repose figures and change displays instead of having them be static for long periods of time.

I usually only get major characters for any series that I collect. So protag and antag, maybe a side character I really liked. So I have Frieza and Cell but I don't want any other Cell forms. For DB I have my figs set up by arc in front of the manga. I don't buy multiples of a figure, but DB is, as we all know, an exception. I have a Goku for every form, and Awakening, MUI, and UI for battle damaged looks. Also, I like buying the 3rd party accessories and heads that people come out with. I have most Vegetas as well, but I don't have any Gohans or other side characters like 16 and 17. From this point forward, the only Goku I would need is an official SS2 one, and then who knows? Moro for sure, maybe a cool looking Heroes character like Towa with the fluffy hair. I'll be getting FF Frieza but I'll have to wait until they make the Bardock from Broly to complete that set up.

Anyone kind of depressed at the state of the line in terms of how they are dealing with character selection?

I mean, I am kind of miffed that Cobra's gotten the shaft. Destro's the only villain available, CC's an exclusive, Baroness is tied to a bike no one wants making her more expensive at retail, combined with the fact that she's only available at Target and most likely has been scalpt to hell and back meaning you'll have to pay $100+ for her. And same with Cobra Trooper, while the fucking Red god-damn Ninja is getting a mass retail release instead!

I really fucking hope we get an all villain wave soon. Zartan, Zarana, Major Bludd, Firefly, and Dr Mindbender to give the Joes people to fight.

That's the central reason why a lot of people have been dreading GI Joe going six inch.

That the money/wave assortment size would create a huge clusterfuck of only a handful of characters getting made. And Hasbro pissing people off either way with who get made in the scale.

Maybe HasLab can solve this problem: instead of making six inch scale vehicles, we get Hasbro doing once a year "fan 

favorite" multi-packs with 3-5 figures made via crowdfunding.

The fact that we’ve gotten two waves and a ton of exclusives within like four months is insane. The PR Lightning line took FOREVER to get off the ground, it was like a four month break between wave 1 and 2 and there were zero multipacks at the time. The fact that people already have like 5-8 figures on average is nuts. Hasbro is really pushing this line hard, I wouldn’t sweat not having X villain yet or not being able to get X character. They clearly want everyone to have the five or six main Joes and a bunch of villains, they’re just building up to it.

The whole thing was a pain for me. The hinge orientation makes you think he'd be left-handed, same as Duke and Beach Head for some reason, but I couldn't get him shouldering the weapons properly because of the giant knife sheath in the way. And the vertical hinge on his left hand doesn't articulate well if it's plugged in all the way.

Also the shoulders are too small or imbedded too far into the torso, so he can't put his arms down at his sides all the way or reach around his bulky vest too well. I know I'm bitching a lot about what should be a fodder figure, but I was pretty excited for him by the artwork and everyone else's photos. Just disappointing that I don't enjoy messing around with him

Games & Trans Rights

The whole TRANS RIGHTS shit is really interesting to me.

Because trannies are a very small minority and are rather irrelevant in real life, mostly active online since they sit 24h/day in their basements and fuck themselves with Bad Dragon dildos, 99% of people do not actually meet them. So they latch onto this retarded message of supporting yet another "opressed" group, while having no idea what it is about.

Normies will know mostly two types of trannies: confused tomboys/teenage girls who say they are "male" now aka cut their hair short and start wearing baggy clothes and idealized image from Netflix shows/media.

They will basically never meet the wide shoulder, huge manjaw hairy pedophile incel who became a tranny for brownie points and special treatment or because his fucking crossdressing fetish wasn't enough anymore to get him going.

Because i simply refuse to believe that people would unironically look at these abominations, see what dilating fucking means and shit like neo-vagina or neo-penis looks like and how it's done and support this fucking death cult. I just fucking refuse.

It's typical kikery with gaslighting with comfy messages ("What's so bad about trans rights?" etc.), cute imagery, colorful flags etc. to fool retards into supporting what is basically a body horror sect.

This is fucking perfect.

If western society is so rotten that shemales and trannies need special rights, then why not allow it break all the way down and let the pedos in.

Then when the next war of moralfaggotry sweeps the west to make history right, they couldn't call themselves anything but villains.

I would ask why he thought that, what inspiered him, what he watches, ect and then take it all away, maybe send him to queer rehabilitation camp and nonstop red pill him on all the shit LGBT movements lie about and cause while forcing him to do manly shit. if it doesn't work I'd just disown him and kick him out the moment he turns legal and get him removed from the family.

You're so mean anon!

My counsin got brutal rapped because fagots are nothing but horrible abusers and child molesters and he ended up killing himself because they are also horrible drama fagots who doxxed him and he freaked out. My sister I haven't talked to in years because after coming out she ran away from home and got addicted to coke and is now a gross antifa fagot in a very abusive relationship with fat lesbians. Luckily me and my other brother came out generally fine and not completely gay aside from posting on here and being in to anime.

worry about this a lot. Like, on one hand I can be the good parent, tell him its wrong and offer to take him to therapy, but he might feel like I'm antagonizing him and kill himself.

On the other hand, I can tolerate it, but it'll be way too uncomfortable to ever talk to him again. He'll notice this, blame himself and kill himself.

Basically I'm afraid that no matter what happens my son's gonna kill himself.

I might need to rework a system because people don't understand it very well.

The player starts with 3 dice in the top row, they find more and can add a second one to the bottom row with different statuses like burn and poison. The lets them have 6 possible status effects in battle.

When the character Attacks(red), Shields(blue) or Charges (green) in battle, reusing that action a second time uses the second row dice, then back to the first.

I might scrap the second row entirely and replace it with an item which adds the bonus to a plain dice. So the Poison item makes the dice above it a poison dice and the player can find lots of these bonus items

I'm curious, how much time do people spend on games? Personally, I spend ~2 hours every day, using my own system.

Basically, I have a period of time, during which I cannot, let's say, entertain myself, so no videos, no games, no porn, stuff like that. I still allow doing literally nothing or just walking outside. Because during this time I get bored as fuck, I typically just go and work on my game, though, sometimes I go workout or just walk my dog. I find this to be a really healthy way of not forcing myself to work on the game and instead I work, because I want to, and still retain the every day routine.

there's too much muddy detail and contrast in random places while the face is lacking in definition. the soupy sketchy mess of greys betrays a lack of understanding of form and an attempt to overcompensate with noise.

if you're using that many tones, it needs to apply to the face too. he looks like a scarecrow made of garbage bags wearing a rubber mask. the eyes especially are lacking in definition around the edges and the shadow colour you picked isn't heavy enough to create the depth you're looking for.

lay out a proper colour palette and ramp your colours based on the scene lighting, don't just use greys, even for things which are grey unless your lighting is stark and white like a hospital room. don't use solid blacks either unless you're going for pitch-darkness with no indirect lighting implied. the shadows of a moonlit night are blue-ish since the moonlight is bounced around. highlights tend towards warmth and shadows tend to be cooler, and they pick up some of the colours around them. highlights are a reflection of whatever the light source is, just scattered and disffused by the material it's landing on. if it's outdoors your highlights will glow warmly like the sun.

eyes are a concave bowl shape covered with a transparent covex dome. the iris part has flipped lighting, like the inside of a bowl. the bottom part picks up the highlight and the top corner is in darkness. the lens highlight goes over that, and since the lens is convex it's flipped back around, so there will be a solid highlight facing the light source over the darkest part of the iris.

coincidentally, the amount of detail in his eyes versus how washed out the sockets look gives him the appearance of a little anime girl on the verge of tears.