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Casca posted:Occasional drama still flares up on this issue. Chinese companies are now considered legitimate since the majority are making original non-bootlegged sculpts, however they are often inferior products due to cheap plasticky resin, overuse of molds and sub-par sculpting/engineering. Don't get me wrong, some of them have do have artistic merit or are pretty enough to satisfy their owners. Hell, I own a couple Chinese dolls myself and I wouldn't have bought them if I didn't like them, but when compared side by side with my dolls from Japanese and Korean companies a visible difference in quality is seen. Of course the fans of these companies are still rabid in their defense and calling anyone who dislikes them "Volks elitists". A few said elitists will sometimes admit privately that they would ban all Chinese made dolls from DoA if they could. Get thee to a rapid-prototyping machine. I think you could whip out dolls with wanton customization and good surface finish with stereolithography.
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Sudden Guts Pill posted:For those wondering about a lolita A/T thread, I'm working on the OP as we speak, trying to cover all my bases as to explaining the origins, cattiness, etc and counterarguments to common misconceptions. It should probably be posted sometime later tonight or tomorrow, and either way I will definitely link to it. I'll soooo be there for that thread
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Dabbo posted:There's not really much I can say to this. Jesus Christ, both your mother and your brother need some serious help. At least your Dad seems a bit more mentally stable. How supportive is/was he towards you?
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Frozen Horse posted:Get thee to a rapid-prototyping machine. I think you could whip out dolls with wanton customization and good surface finish with stereolithography. There is one person who does BJD for 3D Printers. I think it's an awesome idea and hope more people follow, but since it's not a 'real' BJD made by a 'real' company it'll probably never get big. I just want dolls that don't cost me a month's rent.  Man I want that octopus so bad 
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Dabbo, it's fantastic that you are living with your dad now instead of your mom and brother. What does your dad have to say about all this? It's his kid too, he has parental authority just as much as your mom (obviously less so/none at all now that your brother is an adult). Would you also please elaborate on why you have been in a mental institution and not your brother?
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Zeroisanumber posted:I understand that, but what's he going to do when your mother dies? He needs to start taking life skills classes and start transitioning into a situation where he can start to take care of himself. And honestly, as much as it hurts to say I don't think he'll be outliving our parents. Despite all the work our dad's put in the kid has no idea how to take care of himself and refuses to exercise or eat real food. He's completely helpless when he has to do things like shop or talk to a teacher on his own. We try to encourage him to be healthier and independent, but.... ugh. He'd rather watch youtube LPs and write about fairies all day Finisher1 posted:Dabbo, how long has it been since the stories you just described took place? Is your brother still like that? Much as I'd like to imagine that he's gotten better, it doesn't seem likely. The reason I ask is because I'm genuinely fearful of what someone like him would be like in the adult world. Sudden Guts Pill posted:Now we should probably stow most of this discussion until it's posted and talk more about holy gently caress, Dabbo, how did you deal with all that? I can imagine it was hard enough having a brother who wrote/drew odd, violent sexual fantasies about you and other people he knew and murdering animals, but I don't think I could cope with my mother defending him at every turn and come out sane. First as a dumb kid I read shitloads of books and watched and drew lots of anime. I'm amazed I didn't turn into Denise, I was so loving obsessed. Later I discovered that sonic the hedgehog poo poo was easier to draw than anime and got even worse because of how terrible the fandom is. As I got older I turned to drugs, self harm and suicide attempts to deal with everything going on. I'm not sure what I'm more ashamed of. These days I'm severely socially awkward, have trust issues, seperation anxiety and stuggle with codependency. As much as the constant groundings hosed me over(staying in the same room for months on end fucks with you a lot) it also meant that I would have to stay off the internet and take a break from the anime for extended periods of time. I think that's the one thing that saved me from being like my brother, as depressing as that is. Also lots of therapy and medication. Acebuckeye13 posted:There's not really much I can say to this. Jesus Christ, both your mother and your brother need some serious help. At least your Dad seems a bit more mentally stable. How supportive is/was he towards you? Back in the day my dad was incredibly violent and unstable and tbh I can't write about some of the things he did without shaking and breaking into tears. I'm pretty weak, haha. After I moved out on my own I didn't talk to him for almost two years, even when it meant living in poverty and starving. During those two years he recieved therapy and took anger management classes. He also stopped drinking. He's much, much better these days, enough that I currently live with him now. Speaking of which, I should clarify our living situation. Both me and my brother live with the dad, and occasionally visit our mother. He tends to stay with her on the weekends, while I put off visiting her as much as possible. fork bomb posted:Dabbo, it's fantastic that you are living with your dad now instead of your mom and brother. What does your dad have to say about all this? It's his kid too, he has parental authority just as much as your mom (obviously less so/none at all now that your brother is an adult). Would you also please elaborate on why you have been in a mental institution and not your brother? Our dad seriously worries about my brother and is working hard to undo my mom's damage. He's constantly venting to me about his frustration over what a mess my brother is, how angry he is over my mom's treatment of him and constantly blaming himself for everything. It's really depressing. It's uncomfortable to talk about, but I was a huge loving mess when I hit my late teens. I was addicted to meth(still working on that oops), had untreated bipolar, was cutting and burning myself constantly, and tried to kill myself several times. I should have gone sooner, but my mom insisted I was just doing everything for attention while my dad was too busy being drunk or sleeping all day to even notice. When I was old enough I admitted myself and finally got the help I needed. I'm in debt for life but it was worth it. My brother hasn't been institutionalized because no one's made him go, basically. Dad doesn't have the money, and mom thinks that its only crazies and fuckups. I can't imagine what having two kids put through it would do for her ego. Dabbo fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Dec 6, 2011 |
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Nessa posted:As she posted a few pages ago, she found her brother's rape/torture/murder stories just the other day and is now staying with her dad. He's 18. Oh, I should point out that no one ever dies in his stories. Sometimes they get tortured nonstop for eternity but never murdered. I don't know what that means  I should also clarify that while the institution I went to was terrible, it did lead to me getting a good therapist and rehab. So I guess I was too quick to say it did more harm than good.
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Dabbo, seriously, gently caress your mom. I mean, don't like actually gently caress her, mean just...gently caress... But seriously, when your mentally disabled son is writing torture porn about people he knows and torturing animals...god, it just absolutely blows my mind that someone can be so oblivious. And then to encourage that behavior. I really wish you and your family the best and hope you can continue to overcome your hardships.
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Uh, this is quickly going from "haha my crazy brother thinks hes a fairy" to "haha my whole family is terrible and batshit," which is pretty off topic. I still have more stories and I want to keep answering questions, though. Should I make a new thread or keep posting in this one?
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Dabbo posted:Uh, this is quickly going from "haha my crazy brother thinks hes a fairy" to "haha my whole family is terrible and batshit," which is pretty off topic. I still have more stories and I want to keep answering questions, though. Should I make a new thread or keep posting in this one? I'd move this to E/N. It's interesting, but not really in line with thousand dollar dolls and bolliwood movies.
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Wandering Knitter posted:I'd move this to E/N. It's interesting, but not really in line with thousand dollar dolls and bolliwood movies. I gotta side with Knitter here. It's interesting, but not really in the same vein as everything else at this point. By all means, make a thread (either in E/N for "advice" or in Ask/Tell for discussion) and link it here. I'm sure at least a few of us will trek over to keep you company. Edit: Just want to say, as well, Dabbo I've had several friends go through at least vaguely similar poo poo and it never gets easier to hear about. It's a big part of why I want to go into psychology. Totally give you a hug if I could, for the good it'd do.
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Mongoose Face posted:Has anyone started an ask/tell about lolita yet? I feel bad for derailing. Wow, I was expecting a lot more crazy from your pictures! Thanks for answering, but I'll stop derailing as well. I'll be sure to ask you more questions in the new thread though!
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:I gotta side with Knitter here. It's interesting, but not really in the same vein as everything else at this point. By all means, make a thread (either in E/N for "advice" or in Ask/Tell for discussion) and link it here. I'm sure at least a few of us will trek over to keep you company. Dabbo, I think you should start a thread in A/T, unless you want advice (and namecalling) from E/N.
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Alrighty, went ahead and made a new thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3453360 I should have a new story up sometime tonight or tomorrow morning!
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What a coincidence, I just started a new thread too: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3453361 So all lolita-related discussion should go there. Now to gently caress off and go read Dabbo's thread. Can't wait for the next Denise or Henriette story!
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This is literally the greatest thread I have experienced in all my time on Something Awful. In fact, expect a contribution either tomorrow or the next day. It will detail the adventure of the crazy kid that my brother stopped being friends with, and how in a soul-crushing revenge email from him I discovered that I'm actually a half blooded demon that he never liked anyway because he's racist against half blooded demons (but not full blooded demons, like himself).
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Ugh, reading this thread dug up whole repressed memories of my first girlfriend (insane attention whore) and her friend (worse insane attention whore). Long story short, My ex's friend was a "were" and tried to convince my ex that she was a "werecat". Me? A wolf, apparently, or a fox. Obviously, it's stupid and I didn't buy into it at all. It should've been a red flag, but I was 17 and horny. God drat it, what an embarassing disaster. I won't post more about it because there's really not any amusing stories related to it, but it's a load of anime-otherkin-bullshit and they're the first people I've ever met in real life who were like that. And the last, come to think of it...
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Dabbo posted:What he really needs is an extended seperation from our mom, but I have no idea how that could be arranged. Would they be able to keep her from contacting him at an institution? Yes, if they are committed to different ones. This thread has been mind-blowing. I have my own friend who has an anime obsession (no merchandize, just watches a truckload every day) and there was a period that he claimed that there were two other people living in his head, one of which was a demon, but he is also the kindest person I know and he has helped me and even people he just met many, many times, so I'd rather not talk about him in these forums. Not to mention that there was absolutely nothing he did that was even close to the caliber of the stories in this thread. Mostly things like walking into his apartment and finding notes left from one of his personalities to another.
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Poor dragon. Do you remember specifically what image, or images, was projected up there for all the world to see when Henriette opened the folder? Like uh... the severity. If you purged it from your brain I entirely understand, I'm just curious as to the extent of the horror.
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Corridor posted:Poor dragon. Henriette never opened it, she just deleted immediately upon seeing the folder title. The little eyes of the audience were safe for another day  (Also if the head of college saw a gigantic dragon with multiple cocks I doubt the show would ever go on)Also re: fallout, patience 
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All this talk about Lolis reminds me that Denise dabbled into that, too. Now that I have a mini-vaca from school, I get to continue the stories again. A question, though: should I keep sending them through Uglynoodles, or just start posting them on my own? I notice that the thread has evolved since I started contributing, and people may not be following only Uglynoodles' posts now. Up to you guys. Also, I'm sure I've missed some questions about Denise. The one I can remember reading was something like "How can she have babies if she's SUPERDEMONMAN Parrier?" The answer is that she was not ALWAYS Superdemondragonincubusman Parrier. She started out as Magnolia, a female who was into Heero Yuy and, then, Sephiroth (among other things?). THEN Parrier started to make his appearances, and eventually took over.
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la_fausse_tortue posted:The answer is that she was not ALWAYS Superdemondragonincubusman Parrier. She started out as Magnolia, a female who was into Heero Yuy and, then, Sephiroth (among other things?). THEN Parrier started to make his appearances, and eventually took over. Ok. I wasn't sure if she spun some sort of mpreg thing, or what. So, once Parrier took over, no more phantom rape pregnancies? How did "Magnolia's" "children" react to this situation? Edit: You could post the stories, and UglyNoodles could link to them. Guesticles fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Dec 6, 2011 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Henriette never opened it, she just deleted immediately upon seeing the folder title. The little eyes of the audience were safe for another day Can't help feeling a bit disappointed. la_fausse_tortue posted:A question, though: should I keep sending them through Uglynoodles, or just start posting them on my own? I notice that the thread has evolved since I started contributing, and people may not be following only Uglynoodles' posts now. No don't post them through her, that would be silly now you're here. Just label them as ABOUT DENISE and we'll read. Oh how we will read.
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Did you ever find out what specifically Henriette found objectionable about that folder? Did she need to purge it because it was porn, or because it was gay porn?
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But it wasn't porn! It said so right on the file!
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This thread. Oh my lord, this thread.  I just spent the afternoon reading all of it and I don't regret a second of it.uglynoodles, you have my sympathies. I mean, I've got a friend who's a bit gaga for anime and calls himself otaku and has anime pillowcases, but he's not even a thousandth as bad as Denise. What a hosed up mind. Rhino's stories have not failed to make me break out into laughter at several points. Holy mother of god.
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Frozen Horse posted:Get thee to a rapid-prototyping machine. I think you could whip out dolls with wanton customization and good surface finish with stereolithography. Wandering Knitter posted:There is one person who does BJD for 3D Printers. I think it's an awesome idea and hope more people follow, but since it's not a 'real' BJD made by a 'real' company it'll probably never get big. There are actually several BJD companies that are "digitally sculpting" dolls this way. Iplehouse does ALL of their sculpts digitally and makes the master with a 3D printer, and Soom scanned in their 70cm Megagem body and digitally sized it down to 30cm (Barbie size) for their new Minigem fairy line. Should I follow suit with the Loli convo and make my own A/T thread about BJD so I stop derailing or is there even enough interest in the subject? That octopus is loving cool!
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There's actually a BJD A/T thread already! Rhino, your story is incredibly hilarious. Sai Baba be with you.
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uglynoodles posted:x. There are nearly infinite levels of existence that exist simultaneously. These levels are multiple dimensions which contain variations on the tangible realm as we understand it. For example, there is a dimension in which Hitler never existed, one in which he won the war, one in which dinosaurs never went extinct... All down to relatively tiny differences like for example, a dimension in which nothing is different except that I was born a male. drat near necromancy here, but I just wanted to chime in on this. I had a similar but inverse idea when I was 14 or something. I dove headfirst into imagination whenever the opportunity presented itself, but I drat sure always knew the difference between playing pretend and reality. Edward Scissorhands was actually what made me visualize it completely. Everything you think of that seems like an original thought or a dream is a vision or sensation coming from a parallel multiverse universe or some nonsense. Your thoughts are created by the existence of the imagined events, so the events of Edward Scissorhands happened somewhere out in the wild red yonder and Tim Burton felt it or something (never worried those important details too much) and wrote it down. I also had the idea of multiple universes in concentric circles around ours when I was 5 or something. I'm pretty sure I was just telling stories, but my mom was gobsmacked when she learned about the multiverse theory a decade later, that her 5 year old son once had the same idea. She also swears I could read when I was 2. I love your stories and I'm glad to hear you're doing better!
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Wulfolme posted:Edward Scissorhands was actually what made me visualize it completely. Everything you think of that seems like an original thought or a dream is a vision or sensation coming from a parallel multiverse universe or some nonsense. Your thoughts are created by the existence of the imagined events, so the events of Edward Scissorhands happened somewhere out in the wild red yonder and Tim Burton felt it or something (never worried those important details too much) and wrote it down. If I'm not mistaken, the DC Comics universe pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths worked in a similar way. They needed to explain why some of the Golden Age of Comics heroes (such as the original Flash, Green Lantern, etc.) only existed as comic book characters in the Silver Age while some of their contemporaries continued to fight crime and so on. The explanation was that there were multiple parallel dimensions, and the that writers of the in-universe comics detailing the exploits of the Golden Age heroes were actually receiving their inspiration from these parallel dimensions. I'm sure I didn't explain that very well, but here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on the history of DC's multiverse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_%28DC_Comics%29
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He has a fro going on but otherwise this is accurate and beautiful thank you.
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This thread is one heck of a read. PiratePing posted:For people who are interested in hearing lolitas attack eachother for having the wrong kind of lace there is Lolita Secrets I know the girl that secret is about in real life, and she's the sweetest girl ever. She gets a lot of hate because she dresses in expensive, coveted poofy dresses, but she doesn't take lolita as seriously as some of the other local girls do. The lolitas are crazier than the BJD people in some cases. Above mentioned girl is also one of the local BJD collectors. She is quite normal. But there are a handful of crazies in the local doll community, including one pathological liar that supposedly nearly gets raped by every man that looks at her and carries her doll with her EVERYWHERE (including hockey games and gay bars). There's another who invited the press to a private doll collector's get together. And another who is in her fifties and carries her doll around in a baby carrier sling type thing and went to a convention with a colander on her head. Oh and a bunch of girls who had their dolls have gay orgies in a public park with children around. I'm a doll collector myself and enjoy making things for my dolls, but mostly they sit on a shelf and look pretty until I want to make something with or for them. Unrelated to dolls, I totally had a close friend once who thought he was the reincarnation of a bird god. Or something. And that all his friends were the rebirthed souls of his bird children (myself included). Sad to say that these delusions had a tendency to suck people in. I have a cousin who is also a furry whose fursona is a grizzly bear with pink hair who is dating a wolf.
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