| Fursuit Creator Wanted ASAP |
[Jul. 19th, 2011|10:06 pm] |
This will be for a professional sports team (Not me) and they need to find someone reasonable (through me) who is not going to charge an arm and a leg for a costume. I will go into greater detail to those who respond.
Here are the specifics. And I am saying this because I am a mascot and that is why they asked me to do this for them.
1. Must be well made. Strong stitching is a must. This is for a basketball team so it will be getting the crap beat out of it most likely.
2. Since this will be a mascot costume, it will be generic sized. By that, I mean meant to fit someone between such and such and such and such heights. Most likely between 5'6 and 5'10. So it isn't going to be snug. Which I will assume makes it a little easier to build.
3. The head will be a hockey helmet base. This is just a simpler way of making sure the head will fit various sized people while giving the head itself something sturdy to be built on.
4. This will be a shoes AND paws costume. That being said, a pair of paws and a pair of shoes will be utilized, but not at the same time.
I will go into further detail to those who respond. |
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| MFM |
[Jul. 11th, 2010|08:44 am] |
I know I know, I haven't posted anything in a long while. I think I am going to again, Facebook is just getting really...boring. Do I care that you just ate some barbeque? Or that you are going off to see some cover band?
Just saying.
I am thinking I might go to MFM this year. I missed last year and in previous years I just felt that I served no purpose. That is what bums me out in general, lacking a purpose. I want to do things that accomplish something, help someone, produces something. So I've come up with something that should be fun and be productive.
The first thing is that I want everyone to bring their baseball gloves to MFM. From what Tyger has told me, there is a baseball diamond at the new hotel and I'd like to play a game while there. Or maybe we can just play some kickball, who knows. I think fursuiters would be fine to do some practice stuff, but it is usually a billion degrees in that area with 400% humidity. So heat stroke is something to watch out for.
Now a second thing is, I will be recruiting probably 10 to 15 fursuiters for a project. You won't have to be on stage or anything. you just have to like hugs. More to come on that later.
A third thing. If I can, I plan on getting a table in the dealer's den. I can't draw, but what I going to be selling are my paperback books. I have a few hundred of em and I'm hoping to sell all of em, or at least enough to pay for my journey. I will also be selling stuffed animals with half of that going to Tiger Haven. All of this is dependent of my getting a table.
A fourth thing. I am hoping to have a new fursuit by then. I have the fur, have had it for months and months, so I am going to try building one. |
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| Business Plan |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|11:26 am] |
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Does anyone know how to write a business plan? I've looked online and finding a template and instructions on what it all means has not produced anything helpful, so I figured I would check on here. Anyone have experience writing business plans? |
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| ODST |
[Sep. 23rd, 2009|08:30 am] |
I will give a small bit of backstory on this. I've never played Halo before. It never interested me. Seemed too popular for something that didn't seem to be worth the praise. I guess it could potentially be fun with online multiplayer, but noone ever talked much about the regular game beyond wetting themselves about some character named Master Chief. *shrug*
So I rented ODST yesterday and had stuff to do during the day, so took care of that. Then I put the game in an went to play it. The story just drops you in where I guess they are giving you some kind of starting point and everything where you are supposed to start caring about each of these characters, but it's like you pop in in the middle of a 45 minute conversation and now it's over and you have no idea what the hell they were talking about.
So they run you through some training stuff to get you used to controls and how to do things and all that, which wasn't too bad except they ask you if you want to go through it again when they are done. No, if something requires me to push a button to activate anything, just put that on the screen when the time comes like you do for normal crap like doors.
The game isn't ugly. I won't say it's shiny, but it isn't terrible graphically. They have some kind of HUG thing you can click over to to tell enemies from friendlies, but in the daytime, it completely makes the game too bright and i ended up shooting some guy on my side because I thought he was shooting at me.
Another issue I have. Who are the covenant? (please don't tell me now, i don't care) Why are they here, what is the point of them being here. The game gives you no real story of why they are there and blowing crap up....and why doesn't more stuff look like it's been blown up?
But now for my main complaint in the whole thing. The game is a series of playbacks that the main character has to make his way to (presumably by himself) to find other members of his drop team. once he finds them (presumably all of them are dead) he grabs a piece of their armor or whatever is left of them and you suddenly are reliving their last moments alive from a certain point to where they are dead now. Part of me thinks the entire game is a simulation run by someone else about the life of the last guy to be alive and you are reliving all he did and saw. I'll never know and don't even care. The problem is with the way they made this game, while "interesting" it totally removes the interest in caring about the characters. I made it to the first guy's thing and was playing through it when I started not caring. This guy is going to die, why do I care about him or anyone else I am going to be playing as? So I turned it off and returned it.
So really, not even worth the money. I don't do online multiplayer, so the game has nothing for me. |
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| I made a sale |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|07:58 am] |
I am dealing with a "professional" in the ticket sales world lately. Already i am sick of their 'I know best' attitude and they haven't been here long enough to understand how this city works. Guess what, you may have worked in big name places, but you haven't had to compete with the big names as a small fish. Dismissing people's ideas is not a great way to endear them to you either. I bring up an event that *gasp* she didn't know about and when I said bring the cheerleaders, I am blown off because cheerleaders take attention away from ticket sales and that is my concern. It is your concern because the owners are going to be on your ass every day looking for ticket sales for something that is over 6 months away. Guess what, you want the cheerleaders there because you are probably not going to sell dick at this event and what you would do, if you had cheerleaders there, would be to get people's information and get our information to those people. Gosh, I hate it when something I say makes absolutely no sense at all.
What really bothers me is that they don't understand, neither do the owners, that we are in a baseball town until right about when the baseball season ends. And then it is a hockey town and a slight professional football town. And guess what happens again? Baseball. I grew up here, I've seen how this town works. Before I worked for this organization, I didn't even know it existed. And because of last season's debacle of marketing and such, about 90% of this area doesn't know we exist.
The main thing is that (back to the original story) I was told today that even though I doubted we would make any season ticket sales this early in the year (doubted, I didn't say it was impossible) they made a season ticket sale. Um, where you are contacting season ticket holders from the previous year, you stand a good chance of selling something. It's called the law of averages. Hate to tell her but I could sell about 20 season tickets right now if I wanted to. I don't because I know the people and know they are waiting to see how the team goes. So hey, screw you and your sale you ignorant ass. |
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| Thanks Microsoft! |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|10:01 pm] |
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Because of your latest update, you have effectively bricked my xbox360. My 360 red ringed and now it's useless because one, my system is a second owner system, so no warranty. Add to it that the previous owner modded it with a different disk drive (no reason for it) so Microsoft won't touch it. Not even sure what to do at this point. Save up for a new system(refurb maybe) or just sell all the games I have for it and just not have video games anymore. Any thoughts? |
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| Organic! Yer an organic! |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|08:11 am] |
Recently, one of our local news broadcasts did a story on organic foods. Their stance was this...
Organic foods are not all that much healthier than standard foods. That the health benefits were slightly exaggerated. You know, the only health benefits I remember hearing about were that you wouldn't be digesting pesticides and hormones and all the crap they toss in and on food during the growth process. I've never bought organic because it was supposed to have boosted nutrients, I bought it because it was supposed to be grown without the use of pesticides and whatnot.
Buncha muncha cruncha idiots. |
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| They ain't got no alibi |
[Aug. 13th, 2009|04:46 pm] |
I have a question. Why the hell do so many minor league and even some pro teams have U-G-L-Y they ain't got no alibi, they UGLY, mascots?
This is what I think actually goes on in meetings when a team starts thinking about a mascot.
Hey, mascots are pretty popular, just look at the Phillie Phanatic.
You're right, maybe we should get a mascot.
Yeah, but I heard they can be expensive....and then we have to hire someone to be the mascot don't we? This could get expensive.
Well, let's find out who everyone else uses and maybe we can get a discount or something. As for hiring someone, we can just put one of our interns into it, that way we don't have to pay them.
Good idea (calls around) I found out a lot of teams use this one company and they do all the work for us, we just tell them what we want and they just make it for us.
So now, months later, we have some monstrocity and it blows. But the team can't admit that, so they just go ahead with it even if it looks like shit and noone knows what the heck they are doing. Noone talks to the mascots around the league or anywhere else, they just listen to some company that doesn't really care that much how it ends up as long as they do their job. Here is my list of mascot types that should be outlawed.
1) Anything from Dave Raymond. Yeah, for all you people who know who that is, guess what. I think the costumes are unimaginative and the performers in them are forced to do things that are old and sad. I don't hate them, I just think it's unfortunate that they are stuck doing shtick.
2) Enormous heads. Ok, you have to put a helmet and whatnot in and that will make the head bigger than a human head, but when they start becoming the size of a bean bag chair, it's too much.
3) Humans. Here is the goal with a mascot. You want to embody your logo/identity. Yes, I know that some teams have names that don't lend towards anthopomorphics, but guess what, use your imagination and again, get outside friggin help. Don't just say, that would be cute or that could work. ASK SOMEONE ELSE! No more Steely McBeam, no more jet fighter pilots and all the other nonsense. Stop it, they look creepy as all hell and show no sense of effort from the designers.
I understand that it isn't just the costume, but the performer inside, but aside from team fan support, you really aren't making a positive impact.
The reason I am venting about this is because I am tired of seeing these poor excuses for organizational identities. And no, I don't hate Dave Raymond, I appreciate what he did in his time, but I just am so tired of the design. |
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| Verizon sucks it hard. |
[Jul. 20th, 2009|08:30 am] |
| [ | mood |
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| | Rockabye Baby! - Long Slow Goodbye | ] |
I've been with these knuckleheads for over four years and this last year I guess has been filled with a bunch of BS. For who knows how long, I had a plan that was 300 minutes, which was usually enough for me, but a few times I went over my minutes, that is my bad. My problem is that at some point in the last 4+ years Verizon themselves discontinued the 300 minute plan and neglected to tell me. The plan changed to 450 for the same price $39.99 (yes, I know, pretty much a ripoff). They never changed my plan to 450 minutes. So any time I went over 300 minutes, guess what, I was being charged overage charges. The only reason I found any of this out (and would still be at 300 minutes if I hadn't) was because I saw I was over 300 minutes last month and changed the plan up to the 450 minute plan because that was *gasp* the same friggin price as my plan and gave more minutes because *gasp again* my 300 minute plan was discontinued. Then they don't explain HOW to change your plan, they just give you the option to and don't explain that if you want to avoid overages by switching plans, you have to backdate it back to the start of your billing cycle. Oh, and the best is this. They are still charging me the taxes and fees associated with the higher bill after removing the overages when I complained. Their excuse is that they already billed me for it and can't take it off, but I will get a credit on next month's bill for the difference. Ok, so I haven't paid that bill yet, I've been after you for over two weeks about this and you can remove cost from the bill itself, but not the taxes and fees that you charge....Uh huh. Makes sense to me. Basically, Verizon went out of their way to piss me off.
So at this point, I'm going to go to Best Buy and look at some new phones from a different carrier, I haven't decided which. I am thinking maybe T-mobile or Sprint. |
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