The Velour Fog

I don’t disagree with the content of this post but take this OPs hour-old account with a large grain of salt; this is likely another self deleting spam account.

From my understanding as someone who is also neurodivergent, “normal” people seem to be born with an instruction manual built into their brains that lets them socialize without much trouble. Those of us with autism/ADHD/etc were not born with this instruction manual so we have to figure these things out by trial and error.

I’m 36 years old and still learning some things said or actions can be construed as a faux pas. It helps to run it by a close friend who understands you, like “hey, I want to say this to that person, do you think it would come off weird or is it okay?”

I do that a lot with my partner, and it helps.

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I’ve tried Affinity, it’s got a few dealbreakers.

No ability to save a workspace or have it be cohesive across projects. Searched online to see if there was a fix for it and there’s not, you just have to set up your desired workspace for every single new project you start. Controls are not intuitive, i.e. right click does not bring up brush size menu. Can’t select parts of the drawing and just flip horizontal/vertical, you have to put it on a new layer and do a bunch of extra stuff to flip it. Also tried to import my PS brushes into Affinity and a lot of them had broken or mangled textures or just, did not operate the same and no amount of finagling could restore them to how they were.

I really wanted to like it but it’s still got some kinks that need to be worked out.

I’m pretty much in the same situation you’re in. I use Clip Studio Paint and a 24-year Photoshop user, and finding a suitable alternative to both is a crapshoot. I’m gonna try GIMP and Krita again, but I’m not optimistic…

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OPs account was created about an hour ago.

So far, their posting pattern is a match for another one of those self deleting spam accounts that keep popping up on this community.

I’ve seen some folks mention that this might be someone who was mad about being banned from one or more communities, so now they repeatedly make accounts, post a bunch of times and then delete the account to circumvent being banned again.

Yeah, the content of the post is fine, it’s just this community in particular has been getting a slew of spam accounts that delete themselves within an hour or a day of being created.

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Might be another one of those fly-by-night accounts.

Apart from a lot of us (myself included) appreciating high quality animation and story that didn’t predisposition itself to be dumbed down for their intended audience, the main mantra of the Brony movement was “Love and Tolerance” which in the early days was practiced pretty cohesively, even extending to aggressors who would pop in and call everyone gay/other slurs to try to get a rise out of others, and whatnot. We’d just be like “ok, that’s just like, your opinion man, we love you anyway” and proceed on with our lives instead of engaging them in arguing and namecalling. At the time your typical garden-variety internet troll didn’t really know what to do in that situation. The Encyclopedia Dramatica page on Bronies was especially amusing because they admitted they didn’t have any viable way to cause flame wars or upset within the fandom.

As the fandom got bigger of course it was going to get people that take the bait so from my perspective it wasn’t as much of a unified front in later years as it was in the beginning.

But I was part of Mumble/Teamspeak servers, Minecraft servers, Steam groups etc and they were all very welcoming. I think it was just that most of us were well intentioned people that enjoyed us a good cartoon, lol.

I was one of the wholesome Bronies. Met a lot of great people that I still keep in touch with to this day.

The movement and the mindset really helped me in my darkest time.

TikTok is literal brain rot. Stop using it.

You’re better off without it tbh. This is coming from someone who had an account on there for 13 years, it used to be okay, but big corps, bots, and especially the owner Spez absolutely ratfucked it into a shadow of its former self. It’s no longer reliable as a source of information or entertainment since it’s roughly 60% bots by volume. You never know if you’re actually talking to a real person on the other end.

If you really want to get back, you’re going to have to be careful about it. You can use a VPN on a device you’ve never accessed reddit on before, and you will likely not be detected. But again you have to be really careful. Even so much as opening a reddit link with your new account logged in on a device/IP your banned account was on almost guarantees your new account will get permbanned within a couple of days. They are unreasonably heavy-handed with ban evasions.

As an aficionado for good animation and storytelling, it is very good, I highly recommend it.

Is this another fly-by-night account?

Reported for ad spam

Probably 6th/7th grade. My mom joined the school board around that time and started ruffling a lot of feathers and in general being needlessly meddlesome. The teachers targeted me to try to get her to back off. They’d poke fun at me, “lose” the homework I’d turned in, mark my grades down for petty reasons, etc. That is also on top of the constant bullying by other students for being one of the Unpopulars™.

8th grade got a little better and then after that, I departed from that awful school district and the rest of my time in secondary school improved substantially.

Oh well

I could’ve told you that.