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befuddled creator and artist of the webcomic megatokyo.com

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Experimenting with different brush tools to find some different kinds of shading to try that works with my drawing styles in Procreate…

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I hate ERs.

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Omg, it's like you were there! Oh, hey Mookie, yep, those were good times. Boy, did we have people fooled :)

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The darkness of old forgotten sounds…

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Pretty much every move I’ve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but don’t own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.

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And a nice example of early l33t sp34k too. I still have my cassette of this :)

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My favorite line about war applies here: "The aggressor is always peace-loving... he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." No man, if you're trying a revolution against the Constitution of the United States, pro-Constitution Americans aren't going to simply get out of your way. Hard no.

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At the Saline Pride Picnic with the fam (including pupper)

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That boy, never cast a look in your direction…

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Yume Nikki surfaced 20 year ago... there is a small part of my damaged soul that is deeply colored by this enigmatic little game and the shadows it left on our world. (a tweaked and fixed up post of my Pirokotsuki illustration from 2010) #yumenikki

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The funniest thing I can tell people who know nothing about anime or manga is that is that my professional nickname "Piro" comes from a cat in a porn game.

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Even when results are meh, the joy of finding that hyperfocus as I lean into creating something is a REAL FEEL these AI-grifting souless motherfuckers will NEVER understand. My work lost all its value years ago, but the zone of creating is something this old man still yearns for.

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OMG the AI prompts Meta is adding to my last sketch LOL:

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All Your Worlds Belong to Me But I Don’t Want Them

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And it just occurred to me that I might need to tell everyone who might not know that my nickname "Piro" is a reference to this guy in #Kanon and predates me doing Megatokyo by several years:

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Early on in Megatokyo, there is a strip where Ayu from #Kanon shows up referencing a fan comic where Makoto dropped Piro (the siamese cat) off the bridge but it didn't turn out so well for Piro because of the Taiyaki eating gurl... megatokyo.com/strip/67

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1999 me is going "huh, what a long strange trip it has been..."

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Felix sat through the band’s entire new album, and a few of the radio hits, impatient for them to play the old school stuff. Then he heard the familiar bass line start, feeling the rumble deep down in his belly. Finally, it was time to get into the mosh pit and fuck some shit up.

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Ok, im live streaming and im talking about some of the things im trying for processing comic work using Procreate and other non adobe products to pull a comic together. Still figuring this stuff out, so i figured id share the process and see if it works live twitch.tv/fredrin #process

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Interesting. Affinity Designer 2.5 might actually be a good replacement for Illustrator (working on building a sheet). Hrmmmmm...

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Ok, comic art is scanned and I'm going to use Procreate to clean up the artwork for this comic, which I've already experimented with in recent weeks, so yeah :) #procreate

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I've been really overwhelmed lately, if you haven't noticed... TP;dp, dad's house, etc. I have hardly streamed at all -_- That said, i have managed to get the artwork for this next comic mostly done, just need to shade and fix up the last two frames: twitch.tv/fredrin

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I'm so sick of this ai bullshit and everything these assholes are trying to use to create a people-free world. Fuck you all, I'm just gonna do things this way and the hell with you.

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It's going to be a pain, I've been using Photoshop and Illustrator since the early 90s, owned full versions and everything, and even with so much bad vibes from @adobe for years I still stuck with CS... but yeah, that's enough. I'll be making sure I don't renew in January. Sorry.

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The best thing about Godzilla Minus One coming out on Netflix is how many people gave it a watch without a clue how amazing the film is. The recent flood of posts about it is heartwarming. :) #godzillaminusone

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Yeah, this was Peak MT, which I admit was a long time ago now, but at least it happened.

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