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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · 9h

Been a minute since I drew anything, so I rolled a MitN character and ended up with a middle aged professional illustrator who got turned into a Flying Squirrel due car accident-based goop exposure. He's just trying to make rent.
#gear-art #mutantsinthenow #flyingsquirrel #digitalart

A semi-anthro flying squirrel guy wearing a blue "beach bum" tank top and red shorts, holding a tablet in one hand and a style in the other. He's wearing square glasses on the bridge of his snout and has Jimmy Newtron hair with a bit of graying. His expression says he just wants to get paid, but no one takes him seriously because he's just a lil guy now.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 2d

When you mention Halloween is over and all you get back Is that Witch Hat Stare.

Digital colored pen sketch of an anthropomorphic female black cat with unkempt hair, a tattered purple skirt with yellow and red stripped gloves and stockings, and a purple witch hat with two points resembling ears. She sits hunched in a dark room over at a computer desk looking back at the viewer away from her screen showing a colorful clown.

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · 16d

Tsk... kids these days. No respect for history.

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 30

Someone on tumblr suggested someone should make an umamusume horse girl based on Hayseed from the "Everyone hates my big stupid horse in Red Dead Online" article... So here's Hayseed, Front Runner, Special Skill: Road Block
#gear-art #umamusume #horsegame #hayseed #biglady

two rough and partially colored sketches of an Umamusume-style horse girl based off of Hayseed from Red Dead Online, who is built like a brick shithouse. On the left, she wears the typical tracen uniform, carries a bag of oat cakes, and is currently eating one. On the right, her signature racewear (I guess) featuring a flat cap, a denim long coat, a double breasted vest, and a large horse shoe belt buckle.

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Oct 1

Oh yeah. Here's the article in question
www.polygon.com/2019/2/28/18...

Everyone hates my big stupid horse in Red Dead Online

He is my friend

www.polygon.com

Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 30

Someone on tumblr suggested someone should make an umamusume horse girl based on Hayseed from the "Everyone hates my big stupid horse in Red Dead Online" article... So here's Hayseed, Front Runner, Special Skill: Road Block
#gear-art #umamusume #horsegame #hayseed #biglady

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Sushicatz @sushicatz.bsky.social · Sep 16

All Night Forever #deltarune #puppet

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 14

A few more

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 14

Took a spin through the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest today!

It was a genuinely cool place to see a lot of well-loved old technology as well as getting a chance to talk to the people who are really passionate about it.

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 14

So I didn't just dream up that entire show...
(I have never come across anyone else who has even heard of it, let alone 4 other people who have actually watched it)

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 9

I meant to include a thought that this may entirely be on Toei, but I think the point stands either way: If they really want people to legally watch and support their shows, they have to stop partnering with SHOUT and renegotiate their contracts with Asahi. No one is benefiting from this arrangement

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 9

I have to wonder what Toei expects to accomplish when they run things so sloppily with SHOUT and then gives up every time. Then everyone who wanted to watch and support these shows has to pirate everything anyways. It's not even that pirating is easier, just that there's often zero legal options.

Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 9

So what's the point of partnering with SHOUT when they only hinder the promotion of the newest show and only provide streams of far older super sentai shows otherwise?

The biggest promotion KR has seen in the west recently was VS Wolves talking about Gavv and they ignored that!

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 9

Toei just gave up on promoting Gotchard and Gavv in the west. May as well have not existed. Then they decided they were really going to try again and posted a bunch of promos

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 9

Toei was supposed to stake out an official Toku presence on youtube in 2019. They posted a couple episodes of a lot of old series and then neglected to provide english subs for most of them. Then the channel was dormant for the last 2 years before they posted some Korean shorts and then Zeztz promos

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 9

Instead of just posting the episode after its simulcast premiere, SHOUT is running an endless looping livestream that only enabled rewinding a couple days later. It's still ONLY in livestream mode on youtube. Not even available on their website, which also insists on running endless livestreams.

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Sep 9

Every few years, Toei takes another stab at trying to seriously promote Kamen Rider to the west, and every time they fuck it up because the only company they work with is SHOUT, a barely functional third-rate streaming service.

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Aug 30

We did not deserve a movie as good as Mystery Men, but we were gifted it anyways 😔

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Aug 24

Holy crap, Cap! 😭
There's so much about this that is so good!

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Capsule @capsulecomics.bsky.social · Aug 24

NEW CAPSULE COMIC COMIC JUST DROPPED.

ITS ABOUT HOW MUCH I HATE TECHNOLOGY
capsulecomics.itch.io/digital-world

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Ben Elliott @benelliottsound.bsky.social · Aug 9

Today we're taking a look at the taishogoto! The portable keyboard koto!

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Aug 8

I fully intend to keep making more and working out how to make them better, so who knows? Maybe I'll have them for sale at some point, or I'll just have more on hand to give out for next GenCon!

Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Aug 5

I saw three books with blatantly bad, not even passable AI art all over them, but all for the same "Katana-Ra" system. Went and looked it up after getting back, and they insist that there is a human drawing some the art, but that they use AI as "filler" which was 99% of the art in them.

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Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Aug 4

I think there is a point I could reach where all of the design and engineering problems could be solved, but then I'd be left with all of the marketing and business problems to figure out and that's a headache I don't want to consider at the moment.

Mr. Gear Grinder @geargrinder.bsky.social · Aug 4

Maybe a kickstarter? It's a more reasonable way to fund such a thing (if I found someone who could make clear/tough/water tight dice blanks and possibly also caps without a 6 figure pricetag) and also sell directly to potential customers at the same time, but I also have a distinct lack of following

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