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Puppetcancer
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[2006-08-26 04:09:16 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 165; Deviations: 824; Watchers: 85
Watching: 19; Pageviews: 37204; Comments Made: 3399; Friends: 19
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Mike Mignola, td, Guillermo del Toro, Ed McGuinness (especially Superman), Arthur Adams, Dan SmithFavorite movies: Bill and Ted 2, Ghostbusters, The Phantom Menace, ROTJ, Coppola's Dracula, The Shadow (1994), High Noon (1952), Falling Down, LA Story, The Man in the White Suit, Death of Stalin, Valkyrie, Midsommar, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Asteroid City
Favorite bands / musical artists: Def Leppard, Dar Williams, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Bangles, Metallica, Eliza Rickman, Kat Robichaud and the Misfit Cabaret, The Kingston Trio, Pink Floyd
Favorite books: Guns, Germs, and Steel by J. Diamond; Mean Genes by Burnham and Phelan; Wicked by Maguire; Project Hail Mary by Weir
Favorite games: Strider for NES 1989, Strider 2 for PS1 2000, Strider 2014, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 1, Dungeons and Dragons (tabletop), Mage: the Ascension (tabletop), sudoku (printed newspaper), volleyball (indoor gym floor)
Tools of the Trade: mechanical pencil, thin black marker, thick black marker, Crayola markers, Prismacolor markers, Microsoft Paint, Premiere air-drying clay
Other Interests: science, religion, watching how people in society remember the past, spiders, mole machines, masks, integrity
# About me
Current Residence: North American MidwestFavourite genre of music: Every genre has at least a couple songs I really like.
Favourite style of art: High-contrast b&w always attracts my attention big time.
Operating System: Hey, I can still upload my artwork; how old could it possibly be?
Personal Quote: Safety is an end, not a means.
# Comments
Comments: 163
Thanks fer the watch, brah! *snicker*
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Hey, this is my new account, check the other account's journal if you can't figure out who this is
Hint, goldfish
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Hello! (Even before my screen loaded the pictures, I recognized you at the moment I thought steampunk and saw the word, "Gnome." 
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Lol yeah everyone remembers the Gnome, but to be honest I remember your costume the most. I still can't believe how many deviants where at the con and who knew I just had to post my photos to find them
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Hey John! How's it going? Not sure if you noticed, but I did the dumbest thing... I deleted my UniquelyYours account. Crushing- So, I decided to take this opportunity and start anew... just need to find my old friends. Glad I got ya-
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Yeah, it's good you had another account nearby as a sort of back-up disk. Still, losing that many comments is really unfortunate. One thing I've always been uncomfortable about during these early years of the Information Age is that our parents and grandparents have all these boxes of letters in their attics. We, on the other hand, have e-mails, phone messages, and DA comments which can vanish overnight all because some faceless company's server got replaced or "upgraded".
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Nope, no back-up account. This one is brand new. Luckily, my "back up disc" is my external drive. I'm starting from scratch... all new deviations, friends, and galleries. Sorta weird.
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You're my first "watcher". Too funny.
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I finally made good on my promise to steampunk one of my characters. [link] [link]
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I'm adding you to my watch list because I saw a picture of you from Steamcon by and Ezra sent me towards your page. 
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Wow! Now THAT'S a compliment. Thank you, KineticLightning!
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Your book is freaking EPIC! Holy crap, If more books about vampires were like yours, I'd read more vampire books. What a great book! I'd love to read more!
I also have a few new ideas for vampire hunting in D&D thanks to your book, too.
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Whoa... Thank YOU, DarthRonius!
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Wow...
Now compliments like those can make a guy's day. Thank you!
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You are most welcome!
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np
BTW, happy birthday.
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I finally finished the Ray Beethoven Lego guy. I'll have the picture up as soon as my camera'll cooperate.
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Awesome! (I've been wondering about your Lego idea, but I wasn't going to bug you on it, since you might have had other priorities both art-related and unart-related.)
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Here it is: pic 1 [link] pic 2 [link]
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Ok, due to the sheer volume of Evil Ray pics, I am posting here. I love this costume. Love it. The beard is so not you, it totally freaks me out and I love it. I love the tiki machine gun. I love the creatures in the jars on the backpack. I really love the skull and how cool the details are with that. A++
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I got an A++ and that made my day.
Thank you in a big way.
BTW, nobody's going to spot this, but do you remember all the trouble I had attaching and reattaching the ammo belt to the inside of the gun's box? It turns out that with the new barrel in place, the lid on the gun's box once again easily opens and closes, allowing for me to easily attach and detach the ammo belt now. Also, there is JUST enough room inside that box for me to store the multi-lensed spectacles if I wrap them in a dishtowel.
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Well, on a slightly separate note, I just watched about 5 or 6 videos on Youtube concerning vacuforming. It's what those costumers who make their own stormtrooper armor do.
Over the past few years, the mystical process of vacuforming seems to get mentioned more and more often in the most professional-looking costumes, but nobody I know around here knows anything about vacuforming. Up until a few minutes ago, I assumed it was one of those Hollywood-level prop-making machines that only a rich person living in a metropolis on either coast would have the shop space or the cash to buy. Heck, I live in an apartment and can't find enough room to stick my costumes NOW.
I love living from both the Post-Industrial AND the Information Age, don't you? For me to grasp what the heck vacuforming was all about would have taken weeks of searching in the old way. Nowadays, I learn umpteen details just by watching Youtube.
Why didn't anybody tell me that vacuforming was as easy as literally hooking a shop vac hose into a crate with a holed peg board on top of the crate, then quickly scooting a wooden rectangular frame from the kitchen oven onto the crate. The oven-heated styrene plastic held aloft in that rectangular frame gets sucked down over the mold, and in under a minute the plastic cools and can be removed from the frame. That's all vacuforming is! (Where's the little emoticon featuring a V-8 forehead slap of increased knowledge?)
Granted, I don't have any costumes or work projects that require a thin, rigid replacement part at the moment, but at least I finally know how and why vacuforming is done.
On a closely related note, if I was really really cheap (and really really married), I think I simultaneously figured out how to build a BDSM vac-bed, too. Tell Jake and pop a cork on the schampag-nge! (Except they're much bigger in surface area and don't require a quick jog while wearing oven mitts.)
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LOL! on the other hand, being able to make armor pieces may come in handy as Jake has always wanted to make a Space Marine suit. You may groan now, and commence with the drawing plans, LOL.
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Is it wrong that I kind of actually like Evil Ray?
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Hey, it's written in his profile that he always gets the girl solely because he's evil.
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so basically Evil Ray isn't so much Evil as he is far thinking and pragmatic?
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Mind you, I intentionally don't make it too deep because I don't want to limit either character's personality needlessly, but while both Rays like thinking ahead, Evil Ray thinks ahead to the point where he has a bit of a disconnect from his fellow human beings. Regular Ray would appreciate the truth of Stalin's (paraphrased) quote, "Kill one man and it's called a murder. Kill a thousand and it's called a statistic." Evil Ray would go further in mentioning that both 1 and 1000 are statistics, DUH.
Regular Ray will follow through on a strategy but might falter or get distracted whenever his morals are in conflict, but Evil Ray sticks to the plan without getting stressed out every time he sees short-term suffering. Regular Ray is more of a patriot, while Evil Ray would sell out his own country in order to save his entire species. Regular Ray wouldn't have the internal strength to cope with being thought of as a traitor even if the long-term goals would redeem him in the eyes of history.
ex. The ship is going down and the last remaining lifeboat will sink if more than 6-8 people are in it. You and five others are in the lifeboat already. Seven more survivors are frantically swimming towards you. So are the sharks. You can row away if you act quickly, but if you stay the lifeboat WILL tip over and lose everybody to the sharks and to drowning. Regular Ray would risk everybody's lives until the last second to try and find a better solution, but he would still make sure that the other 5 people aboard the lifeboat would get safely clear in time. Granted, he'd hate himself if he had to start whacking the in-the-water survivors over the head with an oar, but Regular Ray would also be morally outraged that the swimmers would selfishly risk the lives of those who were already otherwise safe. Evil Ray wouldn't lose any sleep over leaving the seven swimmers to the sharks, but Evil Ray wouldn't kick anybody overboard just to play it safe, either.
Hmmm. I'm not explaining it too well, am I? I guess the biggest difference isn't in their behavior as much as it is with the comfort zone of their making morally conflicting decisions. Regular Ray has a conscience and might hesitate when unexpected twists in the plan turn up. Evil Ray doesn't lose any sleep at night when the hard decisions have to get made.
ex. Assume that the villages of Onnerstadt and Lauthaben are an equal distance away from Ray's tower, while Otto's tower is twice as far. Onnerstadt has a population of 500. Lauthaben has a population of 700. Otto lives alone. The entire forest is about to be overrun with a vampiric mosquito swarm within the next two hours but there is only enough time to warn one of those three locations. (What would Greta do in this situation?)
Regular Ray would accept that Onnerstadt has to perish because 700 > 500 but he will have to stop and deliberate on whether to save the villagers of Lauthaben or warn Otto. After all, Otto saved Ray's life two weeks ago, and Otto is on the brink of curing an illness that often strikes sheep herders.
Evil Ray would go warn Otto since the villagers of both Onnerstadt and Lauthaben are a bunch of illiterate superstitious fools who solve all their problems with torches and pitchforks. If there is time, Evil Ray might listen to Otto's bleeding-heart blathering and try and save one of the two villages, but it's more likely Evil Ray will just roll his eyes and try to knock Otto out cold in order to get only the two of them out of the region before the vampiric mosquito swarm arrives. Granted, if Evil Ray knew beforehand that Otto is in Portugal all week, Evil Ray will go warn the 700 villagers of Lauthaben, mostly because of the challenge of reaching them and not because they deserve to be saved.
A really crass villain would get out of the area immediately without bothering to warn anybody because warning people takes time.
A really quixotic hero would loudly declare that all three must be saved, and he would die from massive blood loss two hours and fourteen minutes later while the villagers of Lauthaben were throwing overripe vegetables at him for scaring their children with his wild tales of vampire bugs.
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Otto, while appreciating the lure of Portugal but deciding that one visit a decade is about right, would minimize the blather and offer Evil Ray a few enticements to help spread the word in a timely manner. (No, no, I worked out the kinks in the linkages for the Sleeve-Mounted Personal Flamer. And what better time to give them a field test!)
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Greta would likely try to remember any instances of vampire bugs in her research, and barring that, would probably try to implement a solution to the bugs that used what were known to be reliable techniquesi n defeating other vampiric beings and then contacting her associates and having them help her implement said plan.
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AWW! 
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I finally finished it!
For you!
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In reading your comments with *UniquelyYours , I felt I had to definitely tell you this:
I consider you the one who inspired my... I suppose you could say "advancement" to Steampunk, long before it became a mid-subculture phenomenon. I don't remember how I found your sight, or discovered Ray Beethoven, but I won't forget it either. Your Grey Wool Science Guys costumes are awesome, and your inventive ways of coming up with props on the frugal side... well, they were something of a tipping point for me and my love for costume/prop design. It opened up a new avenue for me, and I've been on it for at least four years now, and I'm enjoying every minute.
So, thank you for creating Ray Beethoven, and the GWSG. If I could shake your hand through the internet, I would.
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Wow! You just made my week in a big, big way. Thank you thank you thank you!
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I'm glad that I could. I had to let you know.
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this is a nutty place.
thanks for the comments!
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hey you have some nice strider concept arts here, pretty cool.
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