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Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
Congratulations! ^ - ^
Here's the screenshots: (If the image won't load click here.)
You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
Thank you for joining everyone! > v 0
Samples of my pixel icons:

10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
He told me because the Deviant Art community was so good to him (he said he met a lot of great people) that as a thanks I should give away half the points.
So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
You must:
*Watch me
*Advertise this journal
*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
Good luck guys

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
Thanks to those who participated! <3
#1 - :iconstellarhohoemi: =stellarhohoemi #145 http://gyazo.com/3c85275328e20e9c29b4df497496a3be
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#3 - :iconanichan7: *anichan7 #1069 http://gyazo.com/c13f0ba1315169bd8c3535e8f3c39b6a
#4 - :iconUnImmortalBunny: ~UnImmortalBunny #1027 http://gyazo.com/a805ffcc725b8d75d08cabc0f47496c8
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Fan Art Contest! UPDATE WITH FAQ

hi everyone! to show my appreciation for all the love here on deviant art i am holding an otto an victoria fan art contest. the grand prize will be a signed limited edition of my book with an original drawing included! submissions must be done by july 17th! that gives you a month. be creative and have fun! please tag "otto and victoria" and "brian kesinger" and make sure your your piece is appropriate for all ages!
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i created a group here called OttoAndVictoriaFans http://ottoandvictoriafans.deviantart.com/ when you finish your entry feel free to submit it to that group so that all the entries can be in one place!
also i wanted to reiterate that all artistic media is welcome from sketching to sculpture, hand drawn to cg. thanks again and let me know if you have any other questions! thank you!

Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

There will be 2 winners ( 50

each ) on this giveaway.

It's easy to participate

This journal.

Share your favorite youtube channel.
And that's it :iconfeelingfreeplz:
The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
Good luck everyone.

Win a Premium Membership! [Raffle]Ohaii everyone! Chieri here. >u< Still not dead yet. ~~Still just smelling like it.~~
I know I have been quite inactive the past month, alot of private stuff going on and upcoming exams, but I will try to be more active again from now on. I miss being here with you guys and drawing so much. I will try my best to at least submit something regulary and reply to all notes & comments sooner as I did lately. (I really apologize for the wait.) I promise. You may slap me really hard if I neclect it again.
As a little consolation / thank you / because I want to, I decided to raffle away

3 x a 1 Month Premium-Membership
^_^ Because I have some leftover points on my hand and I love hosting little events and raffles.
I hope everyone will enjoy participating. It's easy!
As usual I will use random.org to choose the 3 lucky winners, providing screens that everything will be 100% fair.

Microsoft Employees Disrupt Wii U Best Buy EventsRemember how Nintendo was showcasing some of their E3 games at participating Best Buy stores around the country? Well, apparently Microsoft employees have been hired to go to these events and preach about the Xbox One and make comments like "why would you buy a outdated Wii U when the Xbox One is right around the corner?"
However, the employees aren't getting what they hoped for. Most customers just start bashing the Xbox One in response. Seriously, Microsoft, the people attending these Best Buy Wii U events are people who are intimately familiar with the crap you pulled at E3. They ain't takin' your shit.
At first I thought this might just be a case of one really loyal Microsoft employee taking matters into his own hands (especially since the original source was /v/), but reports have come in from numerous Best Buy's around the country that indicate many Microsoft employees have ambushed the demo lines trying to persuade people to switch to the Xbox One.
Since so many reports have com

A giveaway??? Rules are below. (80 pts)Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.

The whole reason I'm doing this is because my group, #Traders-123, has reached over 100 members! And speaking of 100, I also got over 100 watchers!!!

What you have to do
Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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Prizes[Star!]
[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
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Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

10,000 Watchers! +PointsWow, 10,000 watchers! Shame it happened at the worst time (giveaways temporarily deleted).
Still...thank you all for sticking with me!
I guarantee we will have things running as normal again soon!
Much love,
Moomin-Man
PS: I'll giveaway 400

away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200

2nd 150

3rd 50

Join me on swagbucks! Get paid in gift vouchers if you don't have a credit card!

Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)

There are two ways to write a novel. Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind). So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me? Pantser? I think? But I kind of, um, do planny things?
And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink.
In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a plotter/pantser hybrid. And perhaps what I'm doing is something we could call Pantsing Responsibly. And, maybe, just maybe, I could share some of my responsible pantsing tips with other writers. Starting with paper notebooks.
Anyone can find a notebook. If there isn't alread

The Used Game ParadigmOver the course of this past generation I've been watching the video game market react to the way it's been forced to deal with increasing changes. I've come out against used game sales and even written a journal about boycotting GameStop because (like most people at the time) I believed they were the root cause of all the problems the video game industry has. But that's something I don't believe now as intently as i did then. From where I sit, piracy and used games sales are a problem, but not in the way game companies want us to believe that they are.
Used games are a good thing for consumers. We get to try games out, and if we don't like what we see or finish it early, we trade it in and try another title instead. It's a very good system for us since video game rentals are much harder to come by. Most video rental stores in America have gone extinct and outside specific Red Box Kiosks there aren't a lot of places for consumers to rent video games. The exception, of course, being thr

Draw my OC Contest! $35 in prizes!Drawing Contest Topic: Drawing my Original Character doing something! Seriously, anything PG.
Deadline: September 13th, 11:59pm http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com/

Guidelines for participants~

Your submission can be done in any drawing media (traditional, digital, pixel)
Please do not change or alter her gender without permission.
You can enter a maximum of three pieces, but only may win once
Send me a note or comment here with a link to your entry, and I'll add it to the entries folder. (I will not go searching for it)
You're free to submit your entry to any group you want, but you must accept my request to put it in my group #Collection-System

Drawing Smoochy is what this contest is all about!

Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
The entry must be made specifically for the contest! (You cannot use previous deviations for the entry, this includes bases. Collabs are fine as long as the

SPIKE updatesJust thought I'd share with you guys some updates on the progress of finishing my "SPIKE" novel.
A lot of people have asked me how it's going, when it will be published and stuff. I really appreciate getting asked these things because it shows that people are actually interested in my writings, and that it just such a great feeling

I've got two news for you guys today though: one bad news and one good news. Let's start with the bad news.
I haven't finished writing SPIKE yet.
And I honestly don't know when it will be finished - which oddly enough brings us to the good news:
I've made a new, major decision in the SPIKE story that I think a lot of you will be happy to hear. As usual I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a part in the story where Spike and Sam are separated from each other for quite a long while. At first I was planning on only writing from Spike's point of view, like, what he's experiencing during this separation period. I figured that since he's the main cha

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
• you must be (or can become) a watcher of mine
• make a journal or poll featuring this giveaway, then comment this with the link to your journal/poll
• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
after you comment i will reply with a number and i will choose the winner using http://www.miniwebtool.com/random-name-picker/
GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
have fun! CC:

Someone left $20 in an envelope at Fanime''
Hey guys!

Fanime was amazing but it totally left me sick for weeks

after I got better, I went through the letters I got and found one that had nothing but $20 and a note describing one of my posters. It looked like someone made a mistake and accidentally gave me their money without getting a poster. I want to return that money so If it was you, please e-mail me at Yuumei.yan@gmail.com with your name and address.

In other news, I will be at Anime Expo at table A24 and A25

Hopefully the Knite books will be ready by then!

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Shit happens... "a successful failure"

by ~ultimatebadass, Oct 31, 2005, 4:19:10 AM
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Recently watching: GunGrave
_{Comments:So far so good...}

Album of the moment: Space Manouevres 2005
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Since 3 days XSI has been acting up and I can't seem to determine the cause of the problem. First it would not open up at all displaying a nice "Failed to save sequence before system failure." message. I reinstalled it and it helped... for a while. After working a bit on my "Max Badass" model I saved the scene, closed xsi and when I tried to open it up again later - same error as before appears.

Starting to get irritated.

So I'm thinking maybe some preferences got screwed up so I backup and delete the XSI user folder (the one that holds all the configuration files). No effect - still the same error. Another reinstallation of xsi - wow, it works! I'm happy... for a while. The program loaded without errors but when I tried to open up my scene: WHAM! "Failed to save sequence before system failure."

Note to self: screaming at the computer does not fix problems. It does however bring some stress relief.

Right now I have two more things to try: reinstallation of the SPM server (license manager for xsi) and if that doesnt help... next comes the thing i hate most: goddamn windows reinstallation. Just when I had it working since may and set up the way I like... dont you just hate it when that happens?

Ok... I'm off to see if the SPM reinstall will help... what a beautiful and productive way to spend the weekend

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Well what do you know... IT DIDN'T HELP

So to sum it up:
- user preferences directory deleted: no effect
- xsi uninstaled, program directory deleted, xsi reinstalled: no effect
- license server reinstalled: no effect
- attempt at opening up/saving a different scene (the obvious test): no effect

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Ok... I just wasted my weekend on a bunch of pointless activities (like formating my drive and reinstalling the os) but all of them didn't bring me any closer to finding the cause of my problems.

I was able to find a temporary workaround though - seems like running and closing xsi setup before starting xsi fixes it... somewhat. I'm able to run the program, work, save and load files without problems until I close it. If I want to run it again I have to do the "setup thing". Takes only a few seconds and it's not that big of a burden but... this thing is going to bug me now.

I WILL figure it out someday. For now I'm fed up with it and I'll leave it as it is for now - I'm just glad I'm able to work again.

Thanks for your support and attention

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Shit happens... "a successful failure"by ~ultimatebadass

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~Burmston Sep 5, 2006

Hey, I've just solved this problem on my machine. I've installed XSI|Mod tool under my account called "Ross Bambrey" and it came up with the usual error however it seems that it doesn't like the space in the path name since it sores user data to C:\users\<name>\ so I changed my account name (in Control Panel -> User administration) to simply "Ross" and now it works fine. You may have already discovered this but thought I'd let you know since I contacted you about it 6 months ago

~ultimatebadass Sep 6, 2006 Digital Artist

Hey! Thanks for the tip but i'm afraid that was not the cause of problems in my installation - my account name was a 4 letter word with no spaces. I still have no idea to this date what caused it but since I completely moved to linux for any work i'm doing it stopped being an issue a long time ago

~Burmston Sep 6, 2006

Moving to Linux is always the best plan

It seems there are a few dozen issues that can generate this error. All the best.

~ultimatebadass Sep 6, 2006 Digital Artist

BTW, I also read somwhere that QuickTime 7 doesn't play nice with XSI so uninstalling it might be worth checking out.

~Burmston Apr 2, 2006

Hi mate, I was just wondering if you ever got this problem with XSI fully fixed - I'm deperately trying to get XSI|Mod Tool 4.2 to run and keep getting the same error. It's driving me insane

~ultimatebadass Apr 3, 2006 Digital Artist

Well, I'm afraid not - I still don't know what caused it or why starting and closing setup fixes it. It got to a point where I just had a setup shortcut next to my xsi icon on the destkop...
I moved to linux a couple of months back though and I've never seen that error again

~Burmston Apr 3, 2006

Ok, maybe I'll use it on linux - seems a pain though as I'm going to use it for modifying/creating HalfLife 2 assets so everthing will be moving backwards and forwards between partitions. I've tried everything under the sun and nothing has alleviated the problem, your work around didn't work for me

Thanks for the reply

~Nivak Nov 1, 2005

To mi przypomina moje problemy z tabletem pol roku temu. Moze nie siegnalam tak daleko zeby robic reainstalke systemu, ale... nerwicy dostalam porzadnej. A okazalo sie, ze... rozladowala mi sie bateria w piorku...

Dobrze, ze udalo ci sie jakos rozwiazac ten problem chociaz i tak to jest dziwne o_O

~ultimatebadass Nov 1, 2005 Digital Artist

Ten problem dolaczy zapewne do zagadek wszechswiata ktore nie zostana rozwiazane przed zgasnieciem naszego slonca

....
No chyba ze na kiblu rano na cos genialnego wpadne...

~Nivak Nov 1, 2005

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