Posts

Perhaps it’s just my situation or my age, but I tend to not let much of anything get to me. After all, it’s just meaningless words that don’t have any impact on me unless I give them a reason to impact me.

While your situation is most likely different, trying to take a hands-off approach to things might help you out. As in, just ignore it. If you are brought up in conversation either directly or indirectly, don’t feel the need to respond if you don’t actually need to. Interacting with negative stuff can usually impact a person negatively as a result and cause stresses that otherwise wouldn’t be there if you had simply ignored it to begin with. Interacting with it will give that stuff some substance in your mind and cause it to impact you more then simply letting it be. But, yes, if it is a problem that continues to be brought up and mentioned then you can always silently report when you feel it’s necessary and mods can deal with it.

Also just taking a break from the forums or the site in general might help as well. The content will still be here when you decide to return and you can also still peek at the discord chat to see if there’s any updates there as well. If it’s problematic to keep peeking around here, then try to limit yourself on it if possible.

BUT… all of this is just me rambling a bit and your situations and feelings on the matter might differ entirely from mine. Just do what you feel is best in your situation regardless.

Anyway… I still intend to throw the final thing together in the end for this project so take your time on that if you need to. Even if this runs into next year, I am still willing to do it. Still no idea on potential due dates but I would imagine we still have a little while yet.

@runner2
I honestly don’t even care about the Anon posts, Anonymous user is being a troll, what’s new? :/

It’s the fact that Twiface keeps up this two-faced bullshittery of playing polite-and-understanding to me in private, then constantly posting in public as if I disavowed this entire site and ran off in a huff, never seeming to miss a single opportunity to call me a bitch with passive-aggressive snipes like a craven.

Sometimes he even tries concern-trolling in public and it’s quite frustrating that he expects me to keep polite to him when he won’t stop it no matter how many times I ask him to.

So that’s why the post at the bottom of the last page is the final word, if he’s going to keep acting like a bitch then I can’t stop him. But that’s going to be the last time I bother calling him out for it, beyond a simple one-two word response containing a link back to that post.

As for unsubscribing from this thread, I would but I do need to keep apprised of when the deadline is finally decided. My friends and I still intend to submit our ponies in a group vector to the collab event, as we have done every year before now.

Responding to an obvious bait like this isn’t a good image for you. It was already a bit of a tense situation that had been discussed a bit and was settled now. The random anon troll trying to stir it up again should just be ignored… not agreed with.

Just so you know, at least from me, is that I know that we all were/are just simply volunteers in this project without any set expectations or responsibilities. While there were misunderstandings about certain things and design choices, I don’t fault you for leaving the situation as it was getting a little tense and stressful in some regards. For something volunteer related, you didn’t have any obligation to stay or to continue to provide anything more to the project. As such, given these occasional troll/bait comments from anons, you could consider simply unsubscribing from this thread so you don’t have to worry about it anymore. If you don’t, then just be mindful that stuff like this still might pop up from time to time. Outside of reporting it as spam/trolling, there’s not much to be done about it currently.

Anyway… just simply leave the trolls alone and try not to interact with them. You are only capable of losing time and patience and will never gain anything from them.

@Twiface
I am really tired of repeating myself on this subject, enough of this.

I was already on shaky grounds with the artist anyway, he really didn’t want to work on an entire custom casino background in the timeframe originally allotted for the project. He just didn’t want to risk saying “no” to me because I’ve been such a loyal return-customer for him.
As soon as I so much as implied that we might not need it anymore, he was eager to drop it. Even if I went back to him with all the money and goodwill in the world he won’t do it.

“Took my artist with me”, motherfucker I basically had to drag him kicking and screaming as far as I did. >.<

As for me leaving the volunteer team: practical decision, not an emotional one. I like the idea of organising something for the community, but everyone else had already taken other roles and rulemaking unto themselves leaving me with nothing to do except organize a custom background and assets…which again, the artist didn’t want to do anyway.

So when I was told that actually, people didn’t want the idea I had envisioned, they just wanted a basic anniversary commission like always, I had nothing to do. When you have nothing to do on a volunteer team, you ain’t part of the team, simple as. I decided to be honest in recognizing that fact and while I understand random ass users on the booru are either not going to understand the finer points of things - or just want to stir shit - so I don’t bother responding to posts like the one from Anon above. The fact that YOU however, keep pushing this narrative that this is “Exactly” the situation when you know that’s not even slightly fucking true is getting a little aggravating, especially since you keep trying to play polite conversationalist with me in private.

If you’re mad at me, don’t be a bitch about it with passive-aggressive snipes. Just fucking say it already.
I am tired of having to explain myself over and over because of this. I’m not going to waste time doing it again. This is the final word on the subject. Anyone who continues the “Feather left in a huff” narrative is trying to start shit and I’m just going to link back to this post from now on.

@Anonymous #5E02
Well, not exactly…

@Anonymous #5E02
I forgot about that, and I was the one who set that deadline! 😂
That was my original plan, but the project has hit a snag and is now stalled. We have suspended the deadline until we can resolve it.

We do have a potential lead for a solution, but we don’t have a committed yet. I’m busy this month but I can devote more attention to this issue in October.

I will discuss this more with the rest of the team (or what remains of it) sometime soon. I promise we WILL have something up by the end of the year, even if it has to be thrown together at the last minute.

@Twiface
Well to be clear: the artist was already chaffing under the proposed idea and only agreed to it because I was a regular customer and he didn’t want to risk making me upset.

As soon as I indicated that the background/theme idea probably wouldn’t be happening he was eager to be rid of the job and make something else instead. I couldn’t ask him to do it again anyway, even if I wanted to.

September now, it’s time to end the submission :3

Hello.

I think commissioning an artist is actually the easier way. Google images isn’t giving us anything that suits our needs, so the project’s been stalled for a month.

We were originally going to get a comissioned background, but when FeatherTrap left he took his artist with him.

@Twiface
sure, as things are starting to get better with my issues lately i may have time to make it and I would be glad to !
here’s an idea of the pricings, not going to assume they are all the same depending of the job but I feel motivated for that one, that’ll change my mind too.

@runner2
that would be the easy way but can’t let that happen !

@Patachu
If you’re willing to make one for us, that would be excellent!
Could I commission you to make it?

It wasn’t really discussed on what the background idea was really supposed to look like for sure… but my personal idea was something Las Pegasus style with plenty of upper space for flying characters along with game tables and slots on the ground. Optionally a sort of stage for shows and a bar/lounge area to relax and drink or eat at. Plenty of general floor space and space around the game areas to accommodate various characters that might be designed for them and/or have the tables and other assets be on separate layers to be moved around and positioned as needed.

But that was mostly thrown out due to certain issues that came up. If you want to throw something together for it then you are certainly welcome to. But as I mentioned above, it’s more likely just going to end up being a good quality image from a google image search or the like that I poke in photoshop a bit to make work out in the end.

@DuskenDraws
wish i had time or rather, inspirations to make one. I may try a thing when I have time between a couple of commissions. I like the idea!
like more a vegas casino with poners or rather a more modern stylized saloon, comfy with a bar in the background

okay

Currently the background is leaning more toward something found from a general image search that would fit the submissions adequately. The theme isn’t really something that’s a sure thing anymore either as there were disagreements in how the theme concept should be implemented that led to it being dropped altogether. So for right now it’s more just a normal collab with general posing and such.

I might still be able to find a casino type background to toss everyone into but any themed posing (gambling tables, slots, etc.) might not be available. A bit of this is more waiting to see how many submissions we might have overall so I have an idea on what sort of spacing I should look into for a background I find.

There is no real deadline decided on yet, as disagreements have caused us to continue searching for an image to be the collab’s background. Won’t be thinking up any deadlines until we have that, first and foremost.

@Chal Horn
Yes.

what’s the deadline again?

[](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/779533782459451922/DB7ED4A253E4550C426B8944D9B4B8883163F9DC/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false)

@Deserter
You’ll have plenty of time to draw. We still don’t have a background yet.

I mean, I needed more time to draw anyways, so I guess it works for me.

Due to creative differences with the rest of the volunteer team, I officially resign my position and withdraw from the project.

From now on, Twiface and runner2 will be the ones you need to go to with questions.

Please await further updates to the schedule, as lack of a custom made background is going to effect the timescale in which the collab will be complied.

Thank You for your attention.

Very fair! I have fetched a safe one! The safe one that might not be so safe in a different way give they’re lighting a firework in the image and the theme is INSIDE a casino.

I would probably say yes. That would be getting into a sort of sub/dom/bondage type of thing so I would say that wouldn’t be allowed in this case. If you just want a character in a collar or having a leash on that would probably be fine. But the sexual fetish implications of the pose and expressions make this one too unsafe.