The alternative I've considered is launching a quarterly crowdfunding campaign for each of our new toy lines.

The benefits are the same (early access, limited edition colorways, optional add ons, etc) but without the ongoing commitment (and, under the standard crowd funding setup, no one gets charged if we don't raise enough to do a full production run.

I'm not sure I like this, but I'm open to being convinced.

We're doing, as a team of two (well, four really. It's me @ajroach42 @djsundog, my wife, and my good friend Wanda Sue, with occasional support from the incomparable @MannycartoonStudio, but most days it's just me and sundog in the workshop) using consumer grade equipment, an array of open source software, and some techniques that were essentially impossible in recent memory.

It's working, people are responding to the toys and the characters and the stories.

We're producing video games and comic books and cartoons to support our toy lines, and we're doing it all because each of us deserves some joy.

Tamagotchi Turns 30 With a Times Square Takeover After Winning a Prize for Wasting Our Time

https://lockergnome.com/tamagotchi-thirty-years-times-square-virtual-pets/

#history #retro #GenerativeAI

Tonight on Star Trek: The Next Generation
Guinan moves into new quarters though actually finds hundreds of inhabitants.

@davidculley fascinating the USA Assistant Secretary of State has just immediately backed the new president

@evan I'm left-handed. I hate it when only right-handed knives are available.

I mean I live in a country whose political environment was irrevocably changed because of Cambridge Analytica. And facebook’s algorithm is partly being blamed for the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. It’s not really about you that I’m worried with, but for others in general.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 11.07.47

@jaz @asakiyume this sheep confirmed everything I’d dreamed about Wales, thought it would slightly improved if there was a tea and cake stand nearby.

But earlier this year Violet was kind enough to record the theme song for our new cartoon Kumiai-Ki The Mighty Labor Union Mech.

https://hurlyburlyandthevolcanicfallout.bandcamp.com/album/kumiai-ki-the-mighty-labor-union-mech

There are three versions of the track up at that link, a clean(ish) version, a super distorted version, and an instrumental version of the super distorted version.

And, at least as far as I'm concerned, it is now the must Hurly Burly thing to ever exist.

With the production of Tesla’s Cybertruck coming to a close, this seems like the end of an error.

Alright y'all, what's new?

@brainwane @drew my god, our entire society runs on computers. If we can't give the people maintaining computer systems a steady living wage, unlike most musicians, crucial systems will grind to a halt and people will die. Your prediction may be accurate but that sounds pretty grim.

Of course, everyone deserves a living wage and the necessities of life, including musicians.

Have you seen a movie that didn't get a theatrical release recently?

or really any movie you wanna talk about that didn't involve Lance Oppenheim?

Mehhhh

#DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon #SheepOfMastodon #Photography

Do you have a favourite sheep breed?
I love a texel, especially the rams. Like the pitbull of sheep.
Mr tm loves the southdown with their wooly faces.
And I also have a soft spot for the cheviot
#defaidodonday #DyddDefaidodon
https://nationalsheep.org.uk/for-the-public/culture/sheep-breeds/

Apparently it’s #defaidodonday?

Sheep can wear a bindi too, right? #DefaidodonDay #defaidodon

Endlich wieder #DefaidodonDay !

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