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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.
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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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Weekly 100 Points Giveaway [OPEN] Week 3Alright, time for another one

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each ) on this giveaway.

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Share your favorite youtube channel.
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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.
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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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[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

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

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!
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2nd 150

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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

Tiny contest! Point prizes8D Time for another little fun challenge!
Draw inside the shape contest!
Rules

You can enter as many times as you want.

No shading required

You must choose one of the characters in this folder http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/gallery/24055808

Remember to remove the shape/lines when you are done!

The character needs to be full body.

try to fill as much as the shape as possible!

You can not alter the shape.

you can not draw outside the shape!
If you want to enter, you choose between the shapes linked under. You can however do all of them if you want to!
Lineart only -> http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/Greiffen/tttt-1_zpsed0fbbf4.png
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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

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

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Please link to this journal in your contest entry's description!
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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

WIN A 3 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP!so i decided to just do a giveaway for the premium i wanted to give.

i'll be doing more of these in time, since that's mostly what my points will be for- giving premiums away. ♥
WAYS TO ENTER:
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• make a journal or poll featuring this giveaway, then comment this with the link to your journal/poll
• do not enter more than once, you will be disqualified
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GIVEAWAY WILL END NEXT THURSDAY (THE 20) AT 6 PM (PST)
winner will be announced via journal and will receive a note from me
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Don't Order Things from Formula1 Online!

Wed Dec 16, 2009, 8:31 PM

Okay, I know this looks long, but please...

So, I ordered something for my boyfriend for Christmas from the F1 store online about a week ago. I put in all my information correctly, I KNOW I did - I'm anal and paranoid about ordering things online because I always think I'm going to make a mistake on my name or card number, etc., so I take my time and make sure things are correct! I submit everything and pull up the receipt, to make sure (again!) that everything's fine, and see that somehow, the shipping country has been changed from US to UK.

Now, once again, I KNOW I selected US, because I'm aware that F1 is based in the UK and I clearly don't want my gift going there. My whole address is correct, except for the country - clearly a glitch in their website! So I immediately send an email to customer service (I can't call overseas, I don't have the money for that and I didn't even know how to dial the damn number) and inform them that the country has mysteriously been changed.

Before I get a response from the customer service, I get an email the next day saying that my order has been shipped!

Shipped.. to North Hollywood, California, United Kingdom. Really.

First off, how is that even possible. There is NO such place! You'd think a business of this caliber would notice that the address is not a real place, and not ship it - I mean, WHERE the hell could they have sent it?! I'm pretty sure there is no North Hollywood or California in the UK!

So I get a response the day after that, saying that F1 is not responsible for anything because the order was made online and that if the order is lost in post, I will not be refunded.

I tell them that I triple checked my info before submitting everything and can only conclude that the mistake was from a glitch in their website and that I would really appreciate it if they could do all they could to get my order to me, Happy Holidays, blah blah.

I get another response, this time from some snooty bitch named Kelly, saying that everything is my fault and furthermore, if the order is returned to them due to the wrong address, they will be charging me a second time for shipping to send it to me in the states.

This freaking thing was not cheap and I am not rich, I saved up for it, and they're saying I won't get any of my money back if my order is lost, or they're going to double charge me for shipping if it's not, and all because their website fucked up and they're stupid enough to try to send something to North Hollywood, California, United Kingdom!!

I'm shocked.

And they've already billed me! I don't know what to do! There's no way for me to prove that I entered my info correctly, and at this point, I'd really just like to cancel the order and get my money back, but from what they've told me, that doesn't seem to be an option. Is this.. legal? Is there anything I can do? I mean, they're in a different country, I know I can't sue them. Am I just fucked..? =/

Merry Christmas, F1, thanks.

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Mood: Frustrated
Listening to: Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
Reading: FFVII CloTi fanfiction
Eating: toast with strawberry jam

Don't Order Things from Formula1 Online!by ~RoseOnyxis

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~DocRossim Jan 4, 2010

Ah, so that's where that F1 stuff came from.

Kidding.

And I have no idea what you can do about that, sorry. I hope it workd out.

~RoseOnyxis Jan 5, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

This is an old journal, it's been resolved

~DocRossim Jan 6, 2010

Ah, good then

~adony Dec 29, 2009

That's the main problem with electronics, eh? Minimal to no human contact, so mistakes are bound to happen.
I dunno, if it were possible, I'd say cancel payment on the order A.S.A.P.
Okay, you wrote that there WAS a reciept, so you have at least a paper trail. To be honest, though, me giving legal advice from the opposite end of the continent won't help. I'd say look around and find someone who knows about overseas business and soak up every piece of advice they can give.
Good luck.

~The-3DArtist Dec 21, 2009 Professional General Artist

I feel your pain. I ordered something that was shipped from NY - I live in New York but work at home, can't get out much - and it took almost two weeks and constant complaining to arrive. Ironically, I placed an order from a store in Germany for a Japanese album I wanted and it came within 5 days. The world is truly weird. That said, the customer is always right and I'm surprised that F1 took the stance they did. It hardly inspires a person to purchase again, let alone influence others to do so. I'm sorry you're going through this but if you contact your bank, you should be able to put a stop on the payment.

~RoseOnyxis Dec 21, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Exactly, what kind of attitude is that for them to have, and especially around this time of year you know, and I wasn't rude, I even wished them a friggin happy holiday and the response I get is it's your fault and we're taking your money lol wtf! I'm definitely telling everyone I know not to shop there.

I've called the bank and I have to wait 30 days, giving them time to get my purchase to me, but after that if I still have not received it, they'll hopefully get my money back from them. I'm just worried that the package will show up at my apartment while I'm out here in Boston. I dono what will happen then -_-;; it's all a big mess.

~karasuX Dec 18, 2009

I'm 99% sure that it'll show up regardless of which country they listed on the package. As long as your zip code is correct, everything should be groovy. Slow, but groovy.

This is the one area where credit cards trump debit cards. Refuting charges is a breeze.

~RoseOnyxis Dec 18, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

I used a debit card, I don't have a credit card. I'm trying to refute it, but it will take at least 30 days to give it time to get here just in case

~J-Mobius Dec 17, 2009

wow what complete ..... so and so's... I ordered something from a UK website for someone once that never came, $70 out the window.

~RoseOnyxis Dec 18, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow, at least i'm not alone here. I will never order anything from there again lol I'm $100 out the window.

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