Pixel Icon Raffle! - Winners!I have now raffled the winners! > v <
First winner is ~Kiwi-San and the second one is ~Frangasm.
Congratulations! ^ - ^
Here's the screenshots: (If the image won't load click here.)
You can now delete this journal from your favourites.
Thank you for joining everyone! > v 0
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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)
He told me because the Deviant Art community was so good to him (he said he met a lot of great people) that as a thanks I should give away half the points.
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
Good luck guys

OPEN Raffle/Giveaway! [1000 points + Free Chibis~]I barely noticed that I reached 1,000 watchers! :iconpapcryplz::iconpapcryplz::iconpapcryplz:
I can't thank you gaiz enough. AND OMG--
Just thanks so much for liking my art and stuff. It means so much to me. I can't even describe it in words. :iconuhuhuhuplz:
So how about I describe it in a picture instead? A picture is worth a thousand words~
:iconureshiiplz:
So let me give back and thank everyone by doing a raffle! YUSH!
So let's begin!
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How do I participate?
You /must/ be a watcher to participate. Please do not watch me if you are just entering for this raffle. ;_;
If you are already a watcher, just favorite this journal. (:
Can I be entered more than once?
Yeup<3 If you make a journal about my raffle and show me proof (like a link to your journal), you get entered 1 more time.
If you comment here with corny/cheesy pick-up line or a funny picture,

CONTEST! Win 1500 points! P.Membership! And More!

Draw My Naruto OC Contest!!!
Manku Urakami
Shippuuden – right outfit

colors take from here http://tonemi.deviantart.com/art/Manku-Urakami-345814033
Pre Shippuuden

Her pairing Sora - http://s001.radikal.ru/i193/1305/de/d7f6152c3bc8.png
I want join! What I'll do?
If you want join:
*READ A RULES.
*I don't do some list of contest members, if you want draw for my contest, just do it!
*MOORE CREATIVITY!

*Send me link in finished draw here in comments, or in notes.
*I'll put your draw in *Entries
*Congratulations! Your' a member! :iconimsrspervplz:
Rules

Draw my Naruto OC Manku Urakami. It's can be all thet u want, fan art, face screenshots, couple art or else.

ART must be drawd for my contest! Not commission for me, not AT's, only new and your draws.

No base! No trace! Only own draws!

You may enter only one draw for every contest c

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!

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

This journal.

Share your favorite youtube channel.
And that's it :iconfeelingfreeplz:
The winner will be announced June 23
Extra: Please comment if you take point commissions :iconmikulaplz:
Good luck everyone.

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

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!
As usual I will use random.org to choose the 3 lucky winners, providing screens that everything will be 100% fair.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Music Is My Inspiration ContestWell guys I've decided to start my own contest, because I had awesome feedback on the idea ^_^
It'll be my first contest that I've held...EVER! So it's very exciting :3
So, about the theme of the contest. Well whenever I've felt down and blue because I've been slapped upside the head with an art block, I like to wallow in self pity and blast my favourite tunes XD (LOL) It's extremely therapeutic

and it really does help to inspire me with new ideas

.
A perfect example would be my OC's Medi-kate & Black Nova, both created from inspiration from music.
http://fav.me/d609vsk http://fav.me/d5tfe4z
So basically the gist of it is, I want you guys to listen to some music, find a song that inspires you, pick one of my OC's, and create something awesome

With all that being said, let's get down to the nitty gritty details!
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Theme: Music Is My Inspiration
Deadline: 2 months from now (12 August 2013)
Rules:

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my computer...after 8 days of being fixed just through another hissy fit. it wouldn't shut down...then when i turned it back on it got stuck on the openning screen again- just like the problem i had before i got it fixed..

omg i thought i had died again...but for some reason it turned back on after a few tries..

i tell ya...if i don't die of old age i will die of PC anxiety and stress.

hmm...

any of you who use MACs? Are they really more reliable than PCs? Should one just invest in a MAC instead of throwing hundreds of dollars into fixing PCs?}

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~tartleigh Aug 13, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I work on a macs for my job, I have a PC at home. I believe macs are better, more steady and they don't crash as often, but they are way more expensive. my next computer will be a mac, but I'm having to save up for that one.

~RoyBoyRoyBoy Aug 8, 2006

denigmaz hit it on the head, computers do what they're told! ... and that they're just wack sometimes

cold mornings can affect startup as well, if it boots up after a few times, it may have just warmed up enough to get over that hurdle! Asus motherboard?

~tenshi-789 Aug 8, 2006

I don't use MACs O.o But my IT teacher says they're better

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*denigmaz Aug 7, 2006

Hey there mel, PC anxiety I understand all too well.
the last offer's still up if you ever do need it, i seem to be recovering for now so it's all good...

Concerning the mac, you'll find that a majority of professional graphics designers actually use a mac instead of the PC as it has a more comfortable workflow, not because it's necessairly more stable. The stability of an operating system stability in the end basically boils down to the user, whether it be mac, windows, linux etc. Though some have a better reputatoin for robustness compared to others. you basically need to ask if it's worth your while porting over to a different OS, don't forget you'll have to learn the details from scratch virtually. Although both have GUIs, the way the mac works is slightly different to the PC. Who knows - maybe you'll like it better.

Anyway, back to your pc, what exactly did the guy do? Perhaps try checking your graphics card and RAM (manual check take it out of the motherboard), since it's fizzing on startup. The ram's normally the first to fry, and the graphics card's also called during startup. If you do get stuck, let me know - it's hard to debug like this remotely.

~silent-reverie Aug 8, 2006

ahhh...thanks man! you have helped sooth some of my anxiety..

Hey...what you said is right. It does depend on the user and I gotta learn to be a better user. I do like the MAC (used it for 3 years at uni) but it is quite expensive to change everything over to MAC so I will stick with PC for now.

Yeah...when I took it to the computer shop the person also changed my RAM cos she said it was unstable...so the RAM is a new one. Motherboard is new. But the graphics card is from 2003 so maybe i should look at that first if the problem arises again.

Hey can i get your number in case i need to consult you in the future? hehe. maybe note me so no one else sees it.

*denigmaz Aug 8, 2006

lol, no probs gal!

computers hate me and tend to drive me nuts as well. I have to say that I'm not the best user either - I tend to stick my comp into overdrive mode given the dodgey specs

I'll do what I can. Chances are if I don't have the answer I should know someone who does.

I'm thinking it may be a connection problem, or the comp just deciding it didn't want to work during that round - which happens from time to time, these damn things have minds of their own, I tell you...

~In5omn1ac Aug 7, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

I use PC, and never had any crashes or anything wrong with mine because it's been built personally by my husband. We bought all the compatible top of the range parts for our computers. The trick is to know exactly that 'all' systems/hardwares installed and used are 'compatible' with each other nicely.

My advice, never buy a factory-made computers from the stores. you don't know exactly the types/versions/ of hardwares that mostly are pre-installed in them. The best way to have your own good and reliable computer is to build it yourself (by hiring a computer tech that you know does this kind of stuff) Tell him what you want to have in your system and ask him to write down all the parts that he's going to buy for it. He'll then build it, customize it based of your preferences. Always have Firewall on, and a virus scanner active with auto updates on as well. Don't use any download softwares such as 'LimeWire' or Kazza.. those things will do nasty things through the back door sort of thing, you'd never know. Because it leaves your system open for attacks anytime.

I've had my PC for over 4 years, and all the changes I've made was adding RAM and harddisk. It's always been stable. If it gets to act funny, I'd defragment my drives and uninstalled unused programs properly without deleting anything 'manually' .. I always uninstall everything using the Windows add/remove programs option.

Good luck! If you want some info on what to get, let me know.. I can send you a list of stuff that you can try to get in order to build a new kick-ass computer and that will last you years!

~thia

~silent-reverie Aug 8, 2006

Ooo your PC sounds like a GEM. hehe maybe what I need to get is a MAN..who can build me a good computer.

Yeah you do need to have a PC with top hardware. I think mine was built with cheapo stuff so I've had to change the Motherboard 3 times in 3 years.

And I learned from experience that those downloading softwares are a big no-no. But I will definitely remove programs the proper way in the future.

Can you please send me some info on how to build a kick-ass computer?! lol just in case...

~akka Aug 7, 2006

eh. osx is more stable than xp in it's own right, let alone considering how many fewer viruses/spyware on macs. but right, what they say is true.. xp really isn't a bad os so long as you take care of it. at least as far as stability goes.

~antonia22301 Aug 7, 2006

macs =

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