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Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
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10,000 Point Give-AwayAlright, my brother just left dA, so he gave me the rest of his points (20,000)
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So, I'm going to hold a contest to make things fun.
You must:
*Watch me
*Advertise this journal
*Comment your journal here
*Favorite this journal
1st place gets 10,000 points
2nd place gets 2,000 points
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Fan Art Contest! UPDATE WITH FAQ

hi everyone! to show my appreciation for all the love here on deviant art i am holding an otto an victoria fan art contest. the grand prize will be a signed limited edition of my book with an original drawing included! submissions must be done by july 17th! that gives you a month. be creative and have fun! please tag "otto and victoria" and "brian kesinger" and make sure your your piece is appropriate for all ages!
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i created a group here called OttoAndVictoriaFans http://ottoandvictoriafans.deviantart.com/ when you finish your entry feel free to submit it to that group so that all the entries can be in one place!
also i wanted to reiterate that all artistic media is welcome from sketching to sculpture, hand drawn to cg. thanks again and let me know if you have any other questions! thank you!

[WINNERS!] Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]WINNERS!
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Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

There will be 2 winners ( 50

each ) on this giveaway.

It's easy to participate

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Share your favorite youtube channel.
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The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
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A giveaway??? Rules are below. (80 pts)Yea... and if you don't read the rules, you won't get anything out of this.

The whole reason I'm doing this is because my group, #Traders-123, has reached over 100 members! And speaking of 100, I also got over 100 watchers!!!

What you have to do
Favorite this journal... you don't have, you don't enter
Comment saying you entered; I'll be lenient on this one
Advertise; you don't have to but is looked up upon
No duplicate accounts; seriously, you need points THAT bad???
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Prizes[Star!]
[Bullet; Green] 1st place is 50 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 2nd place is 30 [Points]
[Bullet; Green] 3rd place is a llama.
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Deadline is July 4th. (It's an easy date to remember)

And some art exposure! (Just some random and a

Win a Premium Membership! [Raffle]Ohaii everyone! Chieri here. >u< Still not dead yet. ~~Still just smelling like it.~~
I know I have been quite inactive the past month, alot of private stuff going on and upcoming exams, but I will try to be more active again from now on. I miss being here with you guys and drawing so much. I will try my best to at least submit something regulary and reply to all notes & comments sooner as I did lately. (I really apologize for the wait.) I promise. You may slap me really hard if I neclect it again.
As a little consolation / thank you / because I want to, I decided to raffle away

3 x a 1 Month Premium-Membership
^_^ Because I have some leftover points on my hand and I love hosting little events and raffles.
I hope everyone will enjoy participating. It's easy!
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Microsoft Employees Disrupt Wii U Best Buy EventsRemember how Nintendo was showcasing some of their E3 games at participating Best Buy stores around the country? Well, apparently Microsoft employees have been hired to go to these events and preach about the Xbox One and make comments like "why would you buy a outdated Wii U when the Xbox One is right around the corner?"
However, the employees aren't getting what they hoped for. Most customers just start bashing the Xbox One in response. Seriously, Microsoft, the people attending these Best Buy Wii U events are people who are intimately familiar with the crap you pulled at E3. They ain't takin' your shit.
At first I thought this might just be a case of one really loyal Microsoft employee taking matters into his own hands (especially since the original source was /v/), but reports have come in from numerous Best Buy's around the country that indicate many Microsoft employees have ambushed the demo lines trying to persuade people to switch to the Xbox One.
Since so many reports have com

Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules

You can enter as many times as you want.

No shading required

You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808

Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!

The character needs to be full body.

try to fill as much as the shape as possible!

You can not alter the shape.

you can not draw outside the shape!
If you want to enter, you choose between the shapes linked under. You can however do all of them if you want to!
Lineart only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/tttt-1_zpsed0fbbf4.png
Shape only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/llll-2_zps87cb9751.png
And then you draw the character you choose inside the shape as best you c

10,000 Watchers! +PointsWow, 10,000 watchers! Shame it happened at the worst time (giveaways temporarily deleted).
Still...thank you all for sticking with me!
I guarantee we will have things running as normal again soon!
Much love,
Moomin-Man
PS: I'll giveaway 400

away at random to celebrate! Leave a comment and I will enter you for the chance to win!
1st 200

2nd 150

3rd 50

Join me on swagbucks! Get paid in gift vouchers if you don't have a credit card!

Please Pants Responsibly (Paper Notebooks FTW)

There are two ways to write a novel. Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind). So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me? Pantser? I think? But I kind of, um, do planny things?
And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink.
In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a plotter/pantser hybrid. And perhaps what I'm doing is something we could call Pantsing Responsibly. And, maybe, just maybe, I could share some of my responsible pantsing tips with other writers. Starting with paper notebooks.
Anyone can find a notebook. If there isn't alread

The Used Game ParadigmOver the course of this past generation I've been watching the video game market react to the way it's been forced to deal with increasing changes. I've come out against used game sales and even written a journal about boycotting GameStop because (like most people at the time) I believed they were the root cause of all the problems the video game industry has. But that's something I don't believe now as intently as i did then. From where I sit, piracy and used games sales are a problem, but not in the way game companies want us to believe that they are.
Used games are a good thing for consumers. We get to try games out, and if we don't like what we see or finish it early, we trade it in and try another title instead. It's a very good system for us since video game rentals are much harder to come by. Most video rental stores in America have gone extinct and outside specific Red Box Kiosks there aren't a lot of places for consumers to rent video games. The exception, of course, being thr

Draw my OC Contest! $35 in prizes!Drawing Contest Topic: Drawing my Original Character doing something! Seriously, anything PG.
Deadline: September 13th, 11:59pm http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com/

Guidelines for participants~

Your submission can be done in any drawing media (traditional, digital, pixel)
Please do not change or alter her gender without permission.
You can enter a maximum of three pieces, but only may win once
Send me a note or comment here with a link to your entry, and I'll add it to the entries folder. (I will not go searching for it)
You're free to submit your entry to any group you want, but you must accept my request to put it in my group #Collection-System

Drawing Smoochy is what this contest is all about!

Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
The entry must be made specifically for the contest! (You cannot use previous deviations for the entry, this includes bases. Collabs are fine as long as the

SPIKE updatesJust thought I'd share with you guys some updates on the progress of finishing my "SPIKE" novel.
A lot of people have asked me how it's going, when it will be published and stuff. I really appreciate getting asked these things because it shows that people are actually interested in my writings, and that it just such a great feeling

I've got two news for you guys today though: one bad news and one good news. Let's start with the bad news.
I haven't finished writing SPIKE yet.
And I honestly don't know when it will be finished - which oddly enough brings us to the good news:
I've made a new, major decision in the SPIKE story that I think a lot of you will be happy to hear. As usual I don't want to spoil too much, but there is a part in the story where Spike and Sam are separated from each other for quite a long while. At first I was planning on only writing from Spike's point of view, like, what he's experiencing during this separation period. I figured that since he's the main cha

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
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GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
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by ~jimmymcwicked, Nov 26, 2010, 3:13:35 PM
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help out - what is a movie you find to be overrated? i can think of many, but i'll start out with just one...

I say - Fight Club
Hexit says - Batman Begins
Jonii-Gakou says - Godfather Trilogy
irthepwn says - The Hangover
benitogallego says - Avatar
Cenaris says - Donnie Darko
memorypalace says - The Shawshank Redemption
zimeta08 says - Watchmen and 300
Capn-Chaos says - Forrest Gump and Titanic
I add - Pulp Fiction
ComicBookArtFiend says - Moulin Rouge, ET, Matrix, Metropolis and Empire Strikes Back
SWHalo2 says - Napolean Dynamite
TheAmoebic - How To Train Your Dragon
Pyro-The-Maniac says - Citizen Kane
Weidel says - Cloverfield
jhwood9 says - The Blair Witch Project
Mr-Greeley says - Scarface
perezmig577 says - Reservoir Dogs
Arnie-Sketch says - Saw series
CaptainUnobservant says - Tropic Thunder and Superbad
Redcavalier says - Star Trek (Abrams)
mdavidct says - Juno, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven and Erin Brockovich
Beerovich says - Harry Potter series
Arnie-Sketch adds again and says - The Big Lebowski
midnightheist says - The Dark Knight and Shrek
VivaJimmy says - The Boondock Saints
MyronStanley says - Wall-E, Up, Pirates of the Caribbean, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Alice in Wonderland (tb)
strongstuff says - Top Gun
CousinWalter says - Kill Bill
hangemhigh13 says - Clockwork Orange
DeadBilly27 says - The Terminator, T2, Aliens, No Country For Old Men, Borat, Grindhouse and 2001: A Space Oddysey

add to the list!

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~FictionFan21 Aug 7, 2012

Avatar, How To Train Your Dragon, Happy Feet, and the first Spider-Man film.

~nakedDerby Jan 2, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Natural Born Killers and the Departed, both highly overrated, in my opinion...

!Kairiann Dec 2, 2010 Digital Artist

I dont know if its over-rated or what...i just think its awful, lol and im talking about "Twilight" *gag*

~MarkArandjus Dec 2, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

Heh, Fight Club's my fav film actually, but to each is own.

A recent ultra overrated film is The Hurt Locker.

Its has NO PLOT.
It's just a bomb squad driving around Iraq... doing stuff.
But you know what, Pulp Fiction has no plot when you think about it, but it at least had cool characters and memorable dialogue, not the Hurt locker though, it's just some normal-ass dudes in a bomb squad talking about stuff.
No action either, there's a tense moment or two... and then it just turns out to be no big deal:
'Hey I think some kid is dead! Wait he's not.. nevermind!'
'Oh no some snipers, let's shoot them... okay we've shot them. Neat.'
'The insurgents went that a-way let's go chase them... we've lost them... some guy got shot... stuff.'

Let's recap:
Normal-ass dues in a bomb squad talking about stuff, making no big deals. Thrilling?

SO I THINK TO MYSELF! Wait, maybe this is like a documentary it's supposed to show the situation, the stress, the mundaneness and the stress of Iraq right now, maybe it psychological and shit! Well guess what! It's totally unrealistic, veterans have complained that that's not how patrols, operations or bomb defusing missions happen at all.

Boring & pointless.

~Kaal-Jhyy Nov 29, 2010 Professional Interface Designer

There are a lot of very good movies that are indeed overrated. Just see IMDB's top list (Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, The Dark Knight,...). They are not the "best-movies-evar", but they're still good and strong movies, so I'll not complain about them.

But if there IS a movie that absolutely not deserve so much rating, it's Avatar!
While I can understand that many people love its universe, well... except that... It's all about technical, CGI, 3D... and nothing more, just look at the story : Avatar = Sci-Fi Pocahontas.
Waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy over-rated imo.

~jimmymcwicked Nov 30, 2010 Professional Filmographer

you are correct. a lot of these movies on the list i do like, yet i don't believe they are the apex of filmmaking which people claim.

~aannttee Nov 29, 2010

Will you make a list of Overrarted Games? Or will that cause a massive flame war that will destroy deviantART?

~jimmymcwicked Nov 30, 2010 Professional Filmographer

my list is short - everything on PS3 and 360 = OVERRATED!

~aannttee Dec 25, 2010

Nah i wouldn't exactly say that.

*manycomics Nov 29, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Starship Troopers. My husband and a LOT of guys I know LOVE that piece of poo. Feh.

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