Ye Olde Flaggy Sea Bastard & his Flaggin’ Cannon!
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Hi again,
I have just finished a pirate baddie in voxels. I don't have a whole lot to say about it, to be honest!
Baddie #2
Keep in mind, I'm going to try to make a series of these and perhaps a game environment. This is all just for kicks :)
Fun fact
The pixel cannon I made is more of a Revolutionary War cannon. It seems that ship's cannons have two sets of smaller wheels, like the photograph below:
Dramatic lighting courtesy of @fabiyamada, who is an undisputed expert in drama. Thanks for suggesting atmospheric lighting!
Well, that's about it for now...
Today I hung heavy blankets on my PVC frame to seriously reduce any sound reflections. It's off to a good start!
Thanks all, I’m out...
Might take the doge out to the YAAARRRRRR-d or whatever.
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Seems like we are starting a war here :D Enjoy your weekend!
I wish I could create games, this could be a fun one :)
Yes indeed! But I think it is a bit complicated and takes a lot of time. Unless it is a small kids game.
Arghhhh! No need to fire my flagging cannon here.
Haha... Good thing, I can't afford the tiniest of flags...
Batten down the hatches!
Well hell no, not the guy who thinks thinly veiled post of girls saying Hi! is worthy of being rewarded. We shouldn't be surprised at all that you think this information-less piece of tirade is worth forty five bucks.
It got voted up by the community and he put some work into it. If the community like pretty ladies then that's okay too. Steem needs any content that gets people using it.
Oh, and I don't attack people for their opinions, so don't worry about that. Post what you like.
Translation: It's all good, the community is rigged to work this way regardless of quality or content.
Translation: It's all good the community allows selects accounts to use rigging of bots to rape the rewards pool, if not like we can just let everyone post useless content that will enable them to become a dolphin like @ soldier in less than six months.
Translation: It's okay that the feature/ap doesn't bring any real humans aboard, that idea escaped us a long time ago and as such we've transitioned over to upvote bots being treated the same as human.
Translation: I have people that do that for me.
Your universal translator may be faulty and I don't 'have people'.
Peace.
Yeah mine and a whole lot of other people, even thousands who have left the platform, we are always wrong and you are always right. That's the whole problem with this platform, bots never argue against your point(s). That's why ultimately you and those like you will forever hold this place down from thriving. You guys can literally be a joke, laughable to say the least, you guys are so obvious you should have a saying: Like father like sock.
Strange when my main motivation is to make Steem succeed and I give up rewards to help others, but some people choose what they want to see. They tend to be those who just took and gave nothing back. Still got plankton accounts flagging me after I addressed their bot abuse a year ago. Imagine if nobody had ever taken them on...
I fully admit there are serious issues with retention and I'm looking for ways to fix that because I give a shit.
Cry me a rainbow when people like myself spends countless hours on here engaging and once spent hours on stuff to post while playing by the rules that saw rarely any recognition, response, and slight rewards then sit by and watch as you wave in a group of people who can post a picture with the word HI! and make as much as I did spending hours writing stuff...sometimes ten fold what I'd get. Not even three months later that person is half way to dolphin....yeah you care all right.
Well you obviously have your own fictional ideas about what I am like, but there is no secret chatroom where we plot the downfall of regular Steemians. I have done okay, but the way things are going I am on cents per hour for my tens of thousands of posts and comments. I am obviously doing it wrong. I do get votes from some big accounts, but some of them I have met at Steemfest or other events. I find making friends is a good way to make progress. You seem to give me too much credit as it's not me bringing in Instagrammers who could bring in thousands more. I can only give them a few cents with a vote anyway. The whales and orcas have it in their power to decide who gets the big rewards and we have to hope they make the right choices. Of course some of them use their power purely for personal gain. Maybe you should question their motives. I'll keep trying to help people get somewhere and recruit more where I can. That is what makes me happy. What do you do for fun?
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No, there is a backroom where you plot who gets downvoted, you are part of steemflagrewards right?
The chances that most those accounts on appics are legit and not socks is pretty good. I think the where you miss is the point where we get these people who gain so much power from cheating then it's near impossible to reign in the behavior later when they rule the roost. It takes an incredible amount of power coming together to gain back control. APPICS was a failing ap on another blockchain, Instagrammers weren't interested in joining them. Why would they as most people aren't interested in crypto sites. On that blockchain the highest level of participation by an ap saw six thousand people and that wasn't APPICS. (Knowing the blockchain and how it operates you could take half to three quarters of that number and attribute it to socks) The chances that any "live" accounts on APPICS is going to come here and participate on this site isn't likely....and why would the owner of APPICS want that?....as she is taking a cut of what they make?....why would she encourage a loss to herself? I've done enough digging to be convinced they are farming dead accounts off Instagram, using mannequins/dolls then using their own bots to upvote that content....these are the people you think will be good for this platform? Not to mention the total slap in the face it is to everyone else on here that such behavior as posting a picture with HI! or two, three words and getting rewarded would find themselves downvoted. There's no verification that any of these accounts are legit. I could run around with a camera and take pictures of people even totally unknown to them, create a fake account for them, then have bots upvote them.
It's this type of behavior as why no one wants to invest here, why people leave here. Taz posted an article about a guy/gal who was making a lot of money posting pictures of socks, that was his/her accounts name. He said the guy/gal was making to much money on such low grade effort but he/she gained incredible amount of steem and it was quite an effort to bring it under control. Why shouldn't they have been allowed to do such?...as don't you think once appics gains that kind of power they are going to do the exact same thing? Right now it's a nickle, dime, dollar, five....and the very fact some reach five should be alarming. Why isn't anyone doing anything about it? I don't know, maybe they know whose pushing this behind the scene's, maybe it's someone at steemit inc they don't want to confront, maybe it's someone with to much power to go up against...it has to be something along those lines as I have yet to see anyone say it's okay for someone to come on here with such a low grade effort that will not produce onboarding of any masses rake over the rewards pool for their own self gain on track to become a dolphin within six months for such a low grade effort.
I hang out with my grand kids when I want to have fun.
There is such a 'back room'. Come join the SFR discord and you can tell us who you think is abusing Steem. Most people there are fairly small accounts. Even a dolphin may only be able to vote a few cents. Members highlight accounts they think need action and each person gets to decide if they act. I disagree with some. Those accounts who react badly may be subject to ridicule, but retaliation is up to individuals.
I am not against people earning if they can attract others to Steem. Instagram is not my thing, but it's huge. See the photographer I resteemed who has over 200k followers there. We want a slice of that. If Appics accounts are seen to be ripped off then I expect some big accounts will take action. Not much I can do. Projects like Tasteem, Steem hunt, Splinterlands etc will promote their users. Is that a problem?
I have enough junk content with paid votes to deal with. Is it wrong to downvote that? My impact is minor, but I will still do it because I think it matters. I will also keep recruiting and supporting small accounts. I could earn more voting up the big accounts, but I don't mind losing out.
Complaining about Steem is easy. Doing something about it is harder.
Have fun with the grandkids. I've not got any yet, but hope to eventually. I'll admit I can't even get my kids to use Steem. They're just not interested. Shows how much influence I have :)
There's a difference between promoting your users and taking a cut of of users rewards. All the rewards go into the soldier account....whereas that don't happen with other sites, they resteem and upvote but they don't deposit their users rewards into their own personal accounts and then give them a "cut" of it. That leaves a whole lot of incentive for voting on anything posted regardless of value, leaves a whole lot of incentive to increase those votes regardless of content as power is accumulated, leaves a whole lot of incentive to create tons of alt accounts as all those alts account rewards will go directly into the account of soldier. Like I said why would she want them to open their own accounts here?...she'd be defeating her own purpose...that's to make money off them using her site. Anyone with any brains or commonsense who did come here would be saying to themselves geez I don't need to use appics and pay them I could just post my own stuff and get the full rewards. Which is exactly the incentive someone would want to hack old dormant accounts off instagram, use mannequins, dolls to set up fake accounts. I know you all think I am full of shit but as a blogger I've seen some shit weirdo guys do with these dolls playing dress up with them....I can't be the only one to see how they could be used for an alternate purpose...why share the pie if you can have the whole thing. I am not saving everyone is fake I am just saying there's potential there for some fraud. There is no verification outside of taking someone's word for it.
You need to address your concerns to @soldier and @appics. They have done a lot of work for Steem. I've seen them at Steemfest and other events. What rewards she is making are not going to cover the cost of those. I'm not generally supporting them, but if it looks like they are recruiting then I may. That's my choice. If you have proof that accounts are fake then @steemflagrewards will be interested. I see @soldier has challenged a new one to show their content is original. That's easy enough to do with a quick video.
Anthony did try to intervene and asked for verification, he was shut down by the nigerian dude. That in itself should be concerning to everyone here as there has to be a reason...if it's a legit situation there'd be no reason to shut him down and it would seem quite a logical request for one business to ask another for verification.
I tried to bringing attention by calling attention to their site, I was meant with flagging of all my post, flagging of all my comments, threatened and told I didn't have any idea of what was about to happen to me as soon as they found out who I was...which I was then hit with bots attacks, then I started receiving dirty sex text messages which ironically came to an end after I told them when they said I should go watch more porn on my phone that my phone was a ten year old phone with a tiny screen that I couldn't view stuff like that on anyway.
Yeah, these are really, really nice people you are dealing with. Right now maybe it's at a loss to them but making dolphin in less than six months as I predict soon it will be orca then whale then to late to do shit about it when they start rewarding single picture content with ridiculous rewards.
What do you really care for?...what's in it for you to be so defensive in the whole debate?
I care for good looking women. I don't care for self-entitled whinny people.
You?
The friend I think you alluded to as being confederate also said this: “Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression ‘the weaker sex’ was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part.”
That's just how very shallow you really are. You and women like those stated above are the ones who feel self entitled...to each other, often at the disadvantage of other woman wanting to prove/earn their self worth, not be given it based upon their looks and desires.
ps....before you send you ade boy to get me I haven't posted any articles in weeks, save you some time.
"ade boy"? I sincerely hope that's not me you're referring to like that. I'm well versed with American terminology and that's unacceptable.
What am I looking at another lashing by bots? Pretty soon the nigerian dude will be here.
I'm surprised you didn't spell it with the double "g" like your confederate friend.
One: I know low to spell nigerian, of course it should be capitalized but your friend don't capitalize his name. I don't have any confederate friends that I am aware of, I just un-followed someone a couple months ago for saying Eric Holder needed to be strung up by a rope, only he said it much nastier, I don't even like Eric Holder but that's the kind of behavior I deem unacceptable. Two: I am related to black people, my older sister was married to one before her death, had another child prior to that with another black man who went up for adoption. I often times had her kids for extended periods even before I had my own children. Two of my best friends in life were African American before their deaths. One I wrote about here when I first got here, Three Trees In A Triangle. So please do, once again, excuse yourself.
So you understand that referring to me as someone's "boy" is unacceptable then.
If you thought I meant it in a sexual manner then yes but that wasn't my intent.
Using the term 'boy' to refer to a black man is a well known American slur that references slavery days.
I find it hard to believe you are not aware of this, but I'm willing to accept it wasn't your intention. Fair enough.
Oh, okay. I think I've seen references to that before, sorry for the misunderstanding. I admit it doesn't quite click with me as I am so use to demeaning references used during my generation that to me seem so harsh that it makes you forget how others related in history back then. I would imagine it to be like a post traumatic analogy...your mind pulls forward the worse of what you experience/see/hear.
Pirate looks good in the his pirate tuxedo... even if he's a flagger!
Heavy blankets are great... one time I didn't have any blankets so I stood 2 sofas on their end and sandwiched the talent in between.. it was an instant sound booth!
Looks awesome and absolutely great!
Is this a game?A work of art?
Would like it to be a game, but for now, I am just creating a lot of characters & will plan for that later (if at all).
Thank you for your interest!! :)