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  1. Here's some Care Bear styled art I just got of my character Rosy Sky, by creaturelingart.carrd.co/

    The artist gave multiple very good sketch ideas when we were trying to figure out a commission initially and I ended up coming back to get another one of them finished up.

    #furry #furryart #carebears

  2. Niche rant alert.

    I'm very much enjoying the complaints on Reddit from the Star Citizen players that decide to go and run missions in *the lawless system* and then get blown up for no reason by bored players. "there should be dedicated PvP servers" - there are - they serve *THE LAWLESS SYSTEM* you were in.

    It's just like the WoW players that used to try Eve Online, and sink all of their cash into a ship and then take it somewhere dangerous, get it blown up, and then whine on the forums that the game's broken. Except Eve was brave enough to implement full loss, whereas you lose nothing in Star Citizen when you blow up apart from time (and now potentially a small amount of cash).

    And for full disclosure, I'm a carebear - I'm rubbish at PvP stuff, always have been. But I *like* the risk element of trying to operate in scary places. I also respect the developers for creating worlds like this (I still regard Eve as one of the pinnacles of online video gaming).

    Star Citizen has recently put a trade route into the game (i.e. they tinkered with prices for commodities) that means you can earn buckets of cash buying low, transporting, and selling very high. However there are only 2 places offering the very high prices, and they're in Pyro (the lawless system). Apparently the constant battles for control around these two locations is creating some great gameplay - mass ship-to-ship combat, combined arms efforts, lone wolves zipping in amongst the chaos, etc. This is exactly what sandbox games should do - encourage emergent gameplay. These are stories people will remember. No one really remembers "that time 5 of us did that mission in a protected instance".

    We need more reasons to go to Pyro - make rare minerals more likely to appear there. Put all (or most) of the shady traders there. Have the outposts offer to buy commodities at higher prices (like food and water and medical supplies). I think CIG know this, but it's frustrating that they don't seem to want to lean into it much (without apparently needing complex changes to the game).

    #StarCitizen #MakePyroGreatAgain #EveOnline #Carebears #GoBackToWoW

  3. When your grown up children are driving you insane so you get back at them by singing along to the Care Bear Movie soundtrack

    #CareBears #1980s #Nostalgia #Family

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd0

  4. I still think that the 1986 "Care Bears Family" and "The Dreamstone" would make for a cool crossover.

    Both feature cute, furry creatures fighting against nightmarish powers of some evil darkness. No Heart and Zordrak would certainly be an impressive team, well, you know, until one of them inevitably tries to betray the other.

    And just imagine how hilarious the interaction between Blob, Nug and Frizz with Shriek and Beastly could be. 😁

    I've already added that to my never-ending "list of fanfics to write", but...yeah. 😅

    #CareBears #TheCareBears #TheDreamstone #Dreamstone

  5. Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 111: Lunch Box Identities

    What is “Canadian food” and how does its interpretation affect our identity and sense of belonging—especially in primary and secondary schools?

    rss.com/podcasts/digesting-foo

    This episode unpacks the packed lunch, in particular those that the kids of first-generation immigrants bring to school. Two articles from Canadian Food Studies are covered, both co-written by Yukari Seko, “Unboxing the bento box” (Vol. 8, No. 3) and “Feeding children while Asian” (Vol. 12, No. 2). And in response, PhD student Shay Quinn offers up several perspectives on meaning-making, involving research participants in research, and arts-informed methodologies.

    #DigestingFoodStudies
    #SchoolLunch
    #Lunchboxes
    #SchoolFood
    #FoodPrograms
    #StudentSuccess
    #PrimarySchools
    #SecondarySchools
    #SchoolBoards
    #Hunger
    #MentalHealth
    #CulturalIdentity
    #Families
    #TheSixMillionDollarMan
    #SteveAustin
    #CareBears
    #SchoolCafeterias
    #FoodPodcast

    photo: David Szanto