Wplace

[violet dew]

whatever, I'm going to bed now

[swift rock]

🫂

[normal aspen]

you could provide template and coordinates so others can protect it for ya

[abstract dew]

lookin great!

[normal aspen]

find it :#1405091622152175616 message

can also bring it to the manepxls so their people can help too

[normal aspen]

is it ok if I do this? @violet dew

[violet dew]

If you want to sure thing, sorry I'm already in bed so I wasn't checking messages
The template and coordinates for the sunset getting attacked and all my other artworks are in this chat already also, you can find them, I've shared the template and coordinates everytime I start a new one

[normal aspen]

great

[violet dew]

[hollow axle]

Face is now finished

[silk shore]

gonna try to get at least 1000 charges

[jolly mulch]

yessss

raritwi server has been hard at work

[swift rock]

RIP Anon/RD

Got nuked by a mod

On the bright side, it's free real estate!

On the less bright side, I wish the mods would nuke some other artwork instead. Namely the racist flags.

Also, Sunset is under attack again

Oh! Awesome! One of the racist flags has been covered up almost completely by the modern South African flag, the huge one is under heavy assault from multiple users, and the white supremacy flag is also being covered up. People are finally taking action!

[median moss]

that's what got nuked?

of all things around this corner is kind of wild

[silk shore]

yeah

[swift rock]

It got reported by a griefer, who accused it of being zoophilia.

Turns out the accusation was a confession, because now he's saying he'll leave if the ManePixls group replaces it with Starlight/Twilight ship art. He is totally a brony in sharp denial.

Shad0w_Galaxy even made a completely new OC for him on the spot, lol.

[silk shore]

😭

[swift rock]

Welp, the racist flag people are back again. They've already undone all the damage and completely reversed the South African flag cover. They're loaded with pixels. :/

On the bright side, this means they won't be able to make much more progress on the big flag for a bit because they had to undo all the stuff everyone else did.

And the anti-racism groups are already back to the siege.

Lots of drama today, lol

[abstract dew]

finally her whole head is done!

[silk shore]

[median moss]

ahh one of the manepxls is removing sunset's blush i think

[novel marsh]

do they have a server where we can tell them that

[abstract dew]

yes, let me send you an invite

[swift rock]

I don't think they knew it was supposed to be there.

[novel marsh]

It's not in the template

So to them, it looked like grief/errors

[abstract dew]

nire did the same to me with the first sunset, adding freckles without saying anything, so i erased them

[novel marsh]

They mentioned it here

[abstract dew]

after i started erasing them

[novel marsh]

Ah, gotcha

[novel marsh]

alright I've let them know about the blushing

[violet dew]

alright, I'm here

haven't checked on the website yet, so what's the damage...

Oh, it's all good

I was expecting there to be basically a black hole there

[novel marsh]

there was recent damages, but the gang got it fixed

[violet dew]

well I really really appreciate it

[swift rock]

So, as it turns out, the mods of WPlace deem kissing to be a lewd and inappropriate act that is not allowed on the canvas. They have nuked several innocent and completely harmless art pieces for the act of kissing, and have permanently banned people foe even contributing to art pieces that depict kissing. This is confirmed by several people who have spoken to the mods.

This info was not made public, and the rules were left deliberately vague. The mods are officially under the control of the griefers, and the griefers are calling the shots. The mods have prioritized nuking innocent parties and users instead of taking care of hate speech, NSFW art, multi-accounting, or griefers.

[novel marsh]

[hollow axle]

more likely little shits are mass trolling the report function and the mods are just removing shit to shut them big whiners up

[median moss]

ahh the mods have had a really broad definition to "nsfw" content before the report button, i mostly saw people complaining about how random moderation felt

[hollow axle]

it is totally random becuase they dont have a clue what they are doing

[swift rock]

The ManePixls group got hit HARD. Like half them are now perma-banned because they contributed to RDxAnon (either by fixing griefs or by helping create it) and the mods aren't allowing them to appeal. Some of them are considering abandoning the site and creating their own version of WPlace that has stronger rules and better moderation (and also isn't P2W).

[median moss]

yeah it's still bewildering how they saw that one single piece in a corner out of everything in it and decided that was what went too far

[violet dew]

that's kind of insane honestly

I'm pretty sure not even griefers are getting perma bans lol

[swift rock]

Nah, they're just getting suspensions for a few hours or a day.

[median moss]

i wouldn't mind if they took down the other stuff and were like actually consistent but it feels like

targeted

[hollow axle]

the mods probably care amore about accounts that throw money at them and listen to those complaints because they have to keep the income stream flowing now they have discovered what a cashcow its become

[median moss]

dropping the paid bits of the site would be nice lol

[hollow axle]

its never going to be possible to moderate something liek this because people kinda just suck

[median moss]

ya realistically this is just completely impossible to moderate

it would help if it felt like they didn't just roll the dice and blow up a random artpiece

[swift rock]

Some mods have actually been caught contributing to griefing and creating hate speech. And when confronted about it, the people who complained were banned.

[median moss]

and also if they weren't arguing with their own userbase at the same time

ive seen that personally in the like

subreddit

and the subreddit is basically all vitriol but it's like pretty shameful to see the mods contributing to it lol

[violet dew]

It's never gonna be super possible to properly and consistently moderate a thing like this but it helps if the mods aren't actively contributing to the experience being completely shitty

I'm almost sure it's in no small part due to pressure from other people too because I've seen a fair amount of people put up texts calling everyone zooph!les all over the pony stuff on equestria especially something like the RD x Anon thing

I bet that's why it got nuked

[median moss]

the maud is getting griefed by the same plainpencil crew too now

[swift rock]

Tbh, it's kinda just exhausted me. I'm considering just abandoning everything and just helping out with Long Glimmer, and fixing the Sunset griefs. If the mods don't care and actively hunt down innocent users to ban while leaving griefers and Nazis alone, then fuck 'em.

[abstract dew]

TBF, RDxAnon was super cringe and i'm not sorry it's gone

[swift rock]

It's one guy with like 50 alts, and he's been doing it for 5 days straight. We've reported him like 15 times. Instead he reports the Anon art once and the mods do his bidding immediately.

It doesn't matter if the art was cringe, it was still harmless. Not worth banning half of one of the biggest alliances on the site permanently.

[median moss]

i think the anon stuff in general is p goofy the issue is mostly how random moderation is

[swift rock]

It sets a bad example and an awful, demoralizing precedent.

It broke no rules

Yet one report from one multi-accounting griefer is enough to get it nuked within five minutes, even though Nazi art and entire towns full of white supremacy art are left untouched and even protected.

[median moss]

worse is that it's around that trans person's memorial too so it's also getting fucked up, though not as much

[swift rock]

Cringe or not, it's no longer users vs griefers, it's users vs entire mod team and griefers and bots and streamers.

With the mods helping the griefers.

[hollow axle]

i do love how long long glimmy is. its something so silly thats just working

[median moss]

anyway i'll just be finishing the one thing im helping with and leaving the site alone onwards lol

i would contribute to some pony version of they ever make that

that sounds fun

[hollow axle]

LOL

[swift rock]

Well, her parents were chickens.

[novel marsh]

it was called maneplace

[swift rock]

Maneplace, but with the charge gimmick. That would be sweet.

[violet dew]

It might've been cringe and I know a lot of people don't vibe with the whole anon thing but yeah the point is more that there's far 'worse' artworks around that it just kinda feels like they targeted that one for whatever reason

and I wouldn't be surprised if they actually started deleting some artworks like Maud because they arbitrarily deem it inappropriate

but hopefully not

Now that Aria is pretty much almost finished and just needs the white parts of the outfit filled up I was thinking of starting something else

yet again shamelessly putting one of my artworks in there

has to be dithered because otherwise it looks awful, still seeing what spot might be good to put it in though, the area below aria seems empty enough

[golden rain]

<.< >.>

[hollow axle]

mmm bacon

[violet dew]

yum

[novel marsh]

is this the biggest one yet

[hollow axle]

lol at the top of bunny celestia, Izzy is putting the tennis ball on her horn

[violet dew]

[violet dew]

yeah kinda it would be a pretty big one

about this big

could try and see if I can make it smaller

that looks maybe a little bit more manageable

303x270 pixels

[abstract dew]

i think having any kind of cleavage will attract the griefers

[violet dew]

maybe not then...

[novel marsh]

almost like she's getting Thanos'd

[abstract dew]

it's a reverse thanos

[violet dew]

I still don't know anything in the slightest about G5 so the visual of the main villain casually checking her dms/doomscrolling is deeply funny to me

[median moss]

a mare can do whatever she wants

checking instagram and like propagating pony racism to name a couple things

[violet dew]

there's our friend again

luckily I'm almost fully done with Aria by now so I'll be able to fight back against the griefs on my own from now

I have 1107 charges

[silk shore]

mods casually turning a blind eye to griefers

[violet dew]

I've been reporting the guy for like 4 days straight now and I guess they either did nothing or gave the guy a slap on the wrist

but hey they deleted the super omega evil dash artwork, great work mods

[silk shore]

yeah, but they banned a lot of manepixel users, including the one making the huge one piece x mlp artwork

[sullen void]

b-but....but whyyy

[violet dew]

I know I was being sarcastic

[sullen void]

so much great art lost

[violet dew]

I think the one piece art is still going but it's gonna take the much longer now definitely

wouldn't blame them if they gave up and just stopped even going on the site entirely honestly

[sullen void]

[silk shore]

anyone who even touched that nuked artwork was banned

[novel marsh]

im fixing the sunset rn

[violet dew]

thanks, yeah me too I kinda wasted all my charges earlier finishing Aria so I'm going at it slowly now

[abstract dew]

i'm probably done after opaline is finished

[violet dew]

I have been having fun putting down all these pieces, but I do wonder when I'm gonna start getting tired of it and how much longer this is gonna run for

[hollow axle]

wow opalines mane is a pain with the dithering but it does look good

[abstract dew]

i've been going color by color in relative small batches

her barrel curls do look fantastic though

[hollow axle]

ive been doing a mix of colour by colour and lines. so chunks look fully coloured

this picture has been some of the 1st time ive seen some colours symbols

[abstract dew]

i think it uses some of every color

[hollow axle]

yeah i think its pretty close

[abstract dew]

oh hang on it hadn't removed the symbols all the way in my screencap

left barrel curl done!

[violet dew]

aaaaaaaand done! and with 600 pixels to spare!

I guess before I think of what and where to start a new thing I can help finish opaline

Oh wait, I can't I'm too poor and don't have the paid colors

[novel marsh]

There's a couple that use free colors
Instead of the pay walled dlc colours

[violet dew]

I would need the coordinates, I think I'm using a different overlay thingy

Oh I think I got it

[novel marsh]

w

Sunsets are also hanging in there

[violet dew]

Yeah, thankfully, so since they're doing fine and I finished Aria I might as well help out here

someone else with the paid colors is gonna have to fill up those remaining spots

gonna try and save up my charges now for a while, maybe the rest of the day until I get all of my charges back just in case

[merry gorge]

Hey, does anyone know how to contact users or groups in Wplace?

Cause i just saw someone using my drawing in WPlace

only have this but no clue where to contact them

[swift rock]

Unfortunately there isn't really a way to do so, afaik

[novel marsh]

unless they linked their discord to their wplace account, but here this user didnt do that, so I dont think theres an easy to way to reach out

[merry gorge]

nvm found it XD the pxls.space is a giant discord and hes the admin there XD

[swift rock]

Ah nice

[hollow axle]

lol. im the one whowrote 'cute bug' beneith it

[merry gorge]

well, ill take that compliment then XD

[hollow axle]

ive been writing it over lots of buggos and battos

well cute bat or batto on battos

[violet dew]

might hold off on doing that Dashie for now probably, but I found something a bit more fun I could get started

there's a nice spot near the (current) end of long glimmy I could put her in

trying to see if the size looks good enough

[abstract dew]

almost done!

[hollow axle]

Finished

[violet dew]

it begins

1191-1173 848-811
in case anyone wants to help out
Just ignore the other wing poking out on the left side there

[hollow axle]

CAKE

[silk shore]

how do you get the secondary coordinates under the normal pixel coords

[violet dew]

For me I think it's part of the Blue Marble overlay extension

[novel marsh]

i will help out with cakelestia
(i like cake)

[hollow axle]

{
"version": 1,
"name": "Cellycake",
"imageUrl": "https://files.lunaraurora.com/wplace/converted_fghfgjgfhdgh.png",
"pixelUrl": "https://backend.wplace.live/s0/pixel/1191/1173?x=848&y=811",
"offsetX": 0,
"offsetY": 0,
"opacity": 0.7
}

for overlay pro

its a shame blue marble doesnt ahve the same import that overlay pro does

[violet dew]

Oh yeah I don't know if other overlays use a different way of doing things, I was told not to use blue marble when this started but I had already installed it by then

[swift rock]

Ngl, I could see a looooot of griefing happening with this one. Especially with the mouth.

Might not want to put the icing bits there.

[hollow axle]

i know overlay pro can easily import and export configs for others to use

i havent looked directly at blue if its got the same compatability

i guess the chrome+windows is a big limiter for others using overlay pro

ok yep BM doesnt have the same import capabilities

[violet dew]

Noooooo I put the wrong pixel colors

damn you deceptively similar looking colored pixels

[hollow axle]

thats one of the reasons i use symbols

[shrewd mesa]

omg another sunset pfp

[sacred sigil]

we argued over where the left hoof ended lmao

[violet dew]

editing the text and the border to say 'griefing allowed' to make it seem like we wrote that it's okay to grief our art

this guy is so childish and petty I can't even believe a grown person can behave like this

[swift rock]

I finished fixing the sign, and I cleared up a little bit of the grief, but I'm out of pixels. I'm spread too thin, there's like 5 places I'm trying to be at once.

And there's griefers everywhere. I think all the Pony groups made a tactical error by coming here. This place is surrounded by genuine hate groups, and the Pony area is spread out too far and too thin. We don't have nearly enough people to defend the art, and with the mods banning half of the ManePixls group, we lost a ton of our defenders.

[violet dew]

That's okay I can fix the griefing now I appreciate the help with the sign because honestly that worried me more than the grief in case people actually took it seriously and just went to town on these three

[swift rock]

That's why I made it the priority fix

[violet dew]

If all three of them got attacked at once I think I would actually just give up

To be fair we've been doing much better than I thought considering how long this has been going for

I'm pretty sure a lot of people that initially did a bunch of art everywhere have slowly trickled away by now, these types of things are really meant to be super temporary and for a limited time

Now all that's left is people maintaining their art and griefers probably...

It's gonna start getting less fun I fear the more it goes on

can't really enjoy creating a new art if you have to be going around the entire place fixing everything

[swift rock]

There are currently 13 different griefers (or 1 griefer with 13 alts) attacking a single Pony artwork. Even 10 different people defending against it wasn't enough. It's been overrun.

The mods aren't doing a thing.

[novel marsh]

signs are doing a decent job at wasting his pixels at the very least

[swift rock]

Yeah

Every little bit helps

[median moss]

there's probably a nonzero chance it's someone below the age of 13 realistically haha

[golden rain]

looks at 4chan users

i can beleive it's an adult

[violet dew]

this might've been too big.... oh boy

it's gonna take a while

~~the irony of the celestia art being too big ~~

[violet dew]

you'd think but unfortunately a child would behave much better than this

[swift rock]

Someone has started a Pipp

Up north

[novel marsh]

:pippwiggle:

Nice that there's still new stuff

[violet dew]

I was actually gonna put my celestia under there

but I thought it might look a bit cramped

so I moved her near where the (at the time) end of long Starlight was

[abstract dew]

ok i need more g5 art on there

[hollow axle]

i wish it was easier to strip the background on images used for the templates its hard to tell when the actual cahracter you want to draw ends

[abstract dew]

oh i'm doin the background too

[hollow axle]

I want more lings and battoes but right nwo im happy just to help with everything else posted

thats a crazy amoutn of extra pixles

[abstract dew]

{
"version": 1,
"name": "Jazz Table",
"imageUrl": "https://files.lunaraurora.com/wplace/jazztable.png",
"pixelUrl": "https://backend.wplace.live/s0/pixel/1190/1175?x=441&y=613",
"offsetX": 0,
"offsetY": 0,
"opacity": 0.7
}

[hollow axle]

you should upload the image to Luanar Aurora's server and use that link for the image URL. the discord ones expire

[abstract dew]

lunar's server is still down i think

[hollow axle]

naa its been fixed

i used it yesterday for cakelestia

[abstract dew]

ok, updated

corner pixel https://wplace.live/?lat=-25.73870788776233&lng=29.257294590527337&zoom=16.272590537632396

that one

[heady cape]

it was a weird bug that I had never seen before and there was no possible way i was fixing it from Seattle

but i fixed it

[abstract dew]

of course i just used all my pixels outlining cloudy canvas

[hollow axle]

i wish overlay pro let you jump to the location of an image by clicking ones imported

hmmm that ones going to be good when im in a rush to use pixles before work or during break

where i cant focus on lots of indervidual ones

[swift rock]

...What server?

[hollow axle]

#1405091622152175616 message

[abstract dew]

it's pinned

[swift rock]

Ooooooh, template server, I thought you were talking about Discord for a minute.

[hollow axle]

LOL

[abstract dew]

who would have their own server

not me

[hollow axle]

yeah for hosting the image templates since discord links are not static/permanent and allows oyu to use the import/export function in overlay pro easier and share with others

[hollow axle]

not me either

[heady cape]

it's literally just some bodged together Docker services that I made public so y'all don't have to bother me to upload files

[hollow axle]

its a pretty damn useful docker container for something bodged together

[abstract dew]

(if anyone wants my emotes DM me for an invite)

[heady cape]

[abstract dew]

and DAO goes straight for the eyes, as usual

[novel marsh]

[abstract dew]

ok, rough dotted border is done. i will dump my pixels in the morning

[violet dew]

this goober is coming along well too

I mean princess, this princess

[swift rock]

Sunset's been hit hard again, but I am out of pixels and I need to go to bed.

[violet dew]

I think I got a couple to try and fix that let me see

Ah well, not enough to cover up all of it but almost

thanks for letting me know anyways

this friend of ours is starting to get on my nerves now

I'm not even gonna try to report again it clearly isn't doing anything

also why even target the face?! You'd think if his problem was it being ''gooner'' art he'd go for trying to cover up the lower half of it, the more I think about why this guy is even doing this the less I understand it's so random

Right!?!?

[normal aspen]

yep

[violet dew]

It's been a week

does this guy not have a job or something

[novel marsh]

Reinforces the child theory

I'll fix her when I wake up, I also need go sleep

[violet dew]

Don't sweat it no worries, I'm also going to bed and I got no pixels left

I really wanna just write "get a job v8x" or something but you know what's funny?
Is that I would probably be the one getting banned for that I'm sure

Because I'd be "harassing" or something

[normal aspen]

meanwhile people at pxls already have art of griefer's ponified OC at ready

I mean maybe can write smth like v8x ❤️ sunset

that wouldn't be harassing?

the point is to waste their charges

[hollow axle]

hmmm i wonder if i can do a batpony hanging by its tail from long glimmy

lol TIL they have a cap on favourite locations

[normal aspen]

v8x doesn't mind his own name showing it seems

[hollow axle]

i wonder if the 8 is how many accoutns they are using

[normal aspen]

the attacks are sparse, probably just do nothing all day to wait for us to clean up, and then strike again

yeah really bored person

the smiley face is theirs, what does that mean?

[normal aspen]

oh, large chunks of it get nuked by another griefer

get ready for griefer OC kissing art, it's about to happen

[silk shore]

how many max charges yall got rn

i currently have 430

[normal aspen]

555

[hollow axle]

1985

[hollow axle]

i jsut realised with overlay pro that the heart symbol is the one for Chrysalis green

[median moss]

his own name?

[normal aspen]

account name?

look at sunset's face, I erased it that way so v8x show (vaguely)

[normal aspen]

(pencil's the griefer)

(that removed sunset's arm and seems to be having a lot of fun griefing around with alts and lurking in the discord server)

[jolly mulch]

hopefully they'll be too busy making art to grief it?

[normal aspen]

griefer doesn't want the art

[novel marsh]

the only art they do is maybe voids that destroy other art lol

[normal aspen]

surprisingly, they did build a decent-sized starlight with alts

[swift rock]

Wait, which Starlight?

[normal aspen]

even go as far as leaving message "do this(big kissing sg×ts art) and I stop" on the canvas

the complexity of human mind...

[normal aspen]

it's right here in the bottom left corner, that's why this spot for kissing art is chosen

[swift rock]

Oh that motherfucker. I helped him with that art. I didn't even know it was the same guy!

And not all of the people in that art are alts, afaik

[normal aspen]

you've done nothing wrong

yeah, it's collective effort

[novel marsh]

man

[hollow axle]

damn celestias mane is crazy

[abstract dew]

...this is gonna take a while

[hollow axle]

hmmm i shoudl split my time between these 2

[novel marsh]

This and Celestia are gonna take several moons to complete

[swift rock]

You know, I think I'm gonna make my own art at some point. But it won't be near the South African area, it'll be in a secret place that some friends and I have picked out (not posting it in here, just in case there's a secret griefer lurking about). I think I'm gonna draw Denzy, Poppy, and me. Real original, I know. :P

It's far away from all the other Ponies, but at least it's safe from griefing.

It'll be a while before I can start it though

[novel marsh]

i didnt think of the possibilty of there being double agents

[silk shore]

Btw the flags extend into the sea. So if you got the south african flag, you can go pretty far into the ocean while still getting the 10% charge bonus

[novel marsh]

that would be useful when we continue building long starlight's journey to australia

[normal aspen]

even antarctica is still South Africa

[swift rock]

Anyone doing Long Glimmer, STOP. Someone messed up and threw the whole thing off at the end. It needs fixing.

[silk shore]

fixed the bottom pixels. will add the top pixels for that line when i have more pixels

[swift rock]

[swift rock]

Guess who's back?

[normal aspen]

v8x is bored comfirmed

(he said yes right there)

at least they are some what communicatable

[fallow jolt]

I fixed it

[normal aspen]

maybe a therapist or someone can talk them out of it

somehow

[abstract dew]

What if we send the boys over to his place and rough him up a bit

[compact bridge]

Bones Malone and the Spooky Boys? I'm sure they can rattle him

[normal aspen]

I kinda want to draw angry eyebrows on sunset

"V8X Y SO BORED"
"YES ☹️"

thoughts?

[swift rock]

The frown is someone else

It's been there for days

[normal aspen]

part of it is his, odd

[novel marsh]

It was a smiley face he made
Someone changed it to be a frown

[swift rock]

Ah

[normal aspen]

vx did

I'm feeling like psychological warfare might actually tame them...

[swift rock]

It seemingly tamed one griefer when the ManePixls group actually started making fanart of them. Shad0w (yes, the same Shad0w from the G5 Revival server) even created a brand new OC for them and everything.

[normal aspen]

things are looking good, at least for now... yet another griefer with at least a dozen alts arises. This one doesn't talk at all, just remove arts at alarming speed wherever they goes

[median moss]

yeah i changed it to a frown haha

i was surprised bc v8x actually went through the effort to change it back to a smile early in the morning

so i

changed it back to a frown

[shrewd mesa]

what app/software is this

[median moss]

wplace.live

[swift rock]

I think they meant the overlay

[median moss]

i think nire uses

blue marble was it called?

https://github.com/SwingTheVine/Wplace-BlueMarble

[shrewd mesa]

oh

thx for letting me know

[median moss]

no worries

[violet dew]

Yeah the ''app'' is just wplace which we're all using, the overlay extension I have is blue marble but I've been told it's not the best one to have and everyone else here uses a different one that I probably should switch to

I appreciate the help with the Celestia I noticed there's been a lot of work put into the hair I'm unfortunately standing by and saving pixels to fix all the griefing on Sunset as fast as I can but I have progressed a fair bit just now on that too

[shrewd mesa]

Wdym by "griefing"

[violet dew]

Other people intentionally trying to cover up or delete my pixel art

[median moss]

yeah wplace.live is a sort of "collaborative" pixel art project with the whole world** map as the canvas that anyone can join into

ofc that means a lot of people who spend their time ruining it for others

which is what "griefer" means, basically, people in usually online games who intentionally mess with other players

if that's what's being asked

[shrewd mesa]

oh dang thats sad

ur art is amazing

i have an obvious bias cuz sunset is my fav character

[swift rock]

Not just US, it's the whole world map.

[violet dew]

thank you
it's not a bias if she really is the best character though...

[median moss]

oh yeah i

brainfarted

LMFAO

[shrewd mesa]

i agree

shes my fav character

i like ur pfp btw

did u draw that

[novel marsh]

USplace

[median moss]

wplace but like, more freedom and eagles

alternatively the whole canvas is the US flag and you can only color in shades of red white and blue

[novel marsh]

[abstract dew]

jazz looks like she was punched in the face now

[novel marsh]

Ouch

[violet dew]

No no, the artist is RileyAV

[shrewd mesa]

oh

from far away i thought the pfp was sunset holding a dog

its hard to tell

but when i look closer its just sunset with a really big mouth

[hard cosmos]

hi i have a question

what is the plugin that lets yall put in the photo overlay

[abstract dew]

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/545041-wplace-overlay-pro

[hard cosmos]

thank you

[swift rock]

I return home from a 12 hour shift to see my old "friends" are back at it again with that Palestinian flag. I fixed most of their griefing, and at least made their "message" far less vulgar, but I am out of pixels. Once I get that South African flag I am gonna just grind for more charges.

I am 300 droplets away from getting the flag

[swift rock]

You know the drill:

[normal aspen]

too clean

[abstract dew]

after my morning pixel dump

[hard cosmos]

these people seriously have nothing better to do

[jolly mulch]

she's the joker

[swift rock]

Finally got the South African flag. It was very worth it, because it enabled me to fix a huge grief in one go instead of having to wait longer, due to the recouped charges.

Now I can focus on getting to 1000+ charges.

[violet dew]

damn this one got majorly nuked

I know some people don't like the contents of parodies like that but the art itself isn't breaking any rules

Whoever is going around deciding what is an isn't appropriate has very.... particular judgement, considering what other things there still are floating around but apparently that one was a big priority for them

I don't even know if the people deleting others' work for being ''inappropriate'' are even mods or just people that suddenly decided they're the ones that get to decide what is and isn't allowed

[shrewd mesa]

what am i seeing

why is there a weird pixel gap between the tail

[abstract dew]

evening pixel dump

[novel marsh]

That really does look like a creepy smile wtf

[abstract dew]

yeah

and it won't look any better until her whole face gets shaded

finally over 800 charges

i'm aiming for 1600 so i have 8 hours to build up

[violet dew]

I have 1374 myself

Only took like... how long has it been now? two weeks?

[wraith dew]

that's not a tail, I don't know if you really want to know what that is

[shrewd mesa]

What else could it possibly be?

[wraith dew]

I do not know if you’re asking sarcastically or not

[median moss]

it's fluttershy's face

she just has it really shaggy cuz it's like

a serial killer lol

[novel marsh]

What liv said, It's fluttershy from the .MOV series, has a recognizable artstyle

[shrewd mesa]

oh

i see now why people would vandalize it

[hollow axle]

1800 more pixles placed on celestias mane

[normal aspen]

the person has 20+ alts to delete anything he doesn't like, and mods ignore the reports completely

what a fun game

If they play fair and just use one account that can totally be tolerated

idk how many more arts will perish

[violet dew]

Seriously they might as well delete the report button since it does nothing

That V8X guy had been at it for a whole week and nothing, and he wasn't particularly being subtle

having some guy with a bunch of bot accounts larping as a cop deciding what's allowed or not is insufferable, especially when they target artworks that aren't even that bad compared to straight up nsfw going around

seems like they got the pencil guy a bit mad though with that giant art of the ocs kissing

[median moss]

suggestion box of wplace

the one the landlord definitely checks

despite its precarious placement above the shredder

[hollow axle]

wplace admins dont seem to want to ban anyone who has given them money

on another chat it was theorised that due to a lack of proper terms and conditions and the fact they are taking money they could get in legal trouble banning an account that had paid for the service.

[violet dew]

they should add another line into the guidelines box that says ''welcome, if you pay us we won't ban your account''

[normal aspen]

imagine v8x having alts

believe it or not, he's already relatively mild in comparison...

[violet dew]

Nah I don't think so, it's always the same username with him, but he is part of a 'VX' alliance

[normal aspen]

presumably only one member is in the alliance

it's become a daily routine now. besides, now that I don't have anything to fill, maybe I'll be on watching duty

due to griefer and mod shenanigans, fandom creativity overall definitely tanked. very few new arts are created each day now

[normal aspen]

what's worse, there's another unrelated person doing the same thing

at least this person thinks they are representing justice. the other person just do what they can, the victims including a completely-OK starlight art, a small harmless batpony art, and more

[violet dew]

They all think they're doing a good thing, the guy vandalizing my Sunset thinks it's ''gooner'' art and that's why he's so adamant on getting it covered up

the guys that got all the others banned for drawing things like kissing all probably also think they're doing a good thing keeping away all the ''inappropriate'' art

[hollow axle]

there are just lots of people on wplace who would count as clinically braindead but their bodies just haven't died yet.

[shrewd mesa]

that guy is such a meanie ur sunset art is way better then what i could ever draw

[silk shore]

gonna try get all the locked colours

[median moss]

i got only 4 left

n nothing to work on baha

[silk shore]

you could help me with the keldeo

[median moss]

whats the overlay

[silk shore]

Blue Marble Coords: 1190-1174 500-0
Normal Coords: 2500, 2000 @ Middelburg #1

[abstract dew]

face shading is happening

[normal aspen]

jumpscare

[hard cosmos]

ohhh it's that one with no ears

[silk shore]

What if someone griefed jazz hooves but the only they did is give her ears

[violet dew]

whaaatttt

I need 2K points to get my max charges now???

[novel marsh]

ur trying to buy 4

[violet dew]

I got scared for a second there, it didn't reset the amount when I closed and opened up the menu again

[swift rock]

[violet dew]

she's coming along nicely!

it's hard work but every pixel we get a bit closer

[shrewd mesa]

nice floating hands u got there

How does this thing work tho

It has a lot of faded out pixels

[violet dew]

With an overlay so you can see where you need to place the pixels on the map, I'm placing pixels of the same color first since it's easier and quicker than doing every single individual pixel of a different color in a row

[median moss]

they're being filled out progressively

so the missing pixels are jus the parts that aren't done yet

[violet dew]

horse is still in construction

[median moss]

tru

[shrewd mesa]

where is this on the wplace map

I wanna see it for myself

[novel marsh]

https://wplace.live/?lat=-25.471446019949422&lng=29.532919590527335&zoom=12.697673333185287

[shrewd mesa]

Wow

It looks nice

Do i have to login in order to paint

[novel marsh]

yea, u need an account

[shrewd mesa]

oh

[shrewd mesa]

I see that other people are also working on this project

[violet dew]

Yeah thankfully I'm getting helped

[shrewd mesa]

Wow they even have eqg on here

Amazing

@violet dew in ur opinion is it easy or hard to draw stuff in wplace

[shrewd mesa]

how do i get more pixels to paint in wplace

[violet dew]

Depends on the size of whatever it is you want to make and whether or not you have an overlay or you want to do it completely manually
and you get more pixels the more pixels you put down

[shrewd mesa]

Im so sorry for being stupid earlier but now i understand ur pain, as im struglling to even get just 1 pixel every 30 seconds

[shrewd mesa]

wow it looks much better with no silly griefing on it

[shrewd mesa]

so u like sunset shimmer as much as i do id say

Do u draw these by hand?

[hard cosmos]

no theyre using a template overlay

[shrewd mesa]

whats that

[hard cosmos]

^

[shrewd mesa]

OMGG THANKS SO MUCHH

[shrewd mesa]

wait how do i use that

theres errors in the script for some reason

[hard cosmos]

watch a tutorial

i couldnt get it to work either but i watched a tutorial and figured out that certain things needed to be toggled on

[shrewd mesa]

should i buy 25k droplets for 5$

[wraith dew]

If you feel this is worth spending $25, then sure

I got all the colours for free through sheer grit and projects going on in different places than south africa

Only Nire knows where they are

[shrewd mesa]

i mean its only because it takes an insane amount of time for me to just have even one pixel

i would only spend it out of impatience

[wraith dew]

Do you not have an account? Making an account on it gives you 50 and then after a certain amount it increases the charges by 2 so you’ll have 52

[shrewd mesa]

I do

I have 86 rn

but i ran out of pixels and its taking a ungodly amount of time to refill back again

[hard cosmos]

im working on 3 different images in rotation until i run out of usuable colors then work on a different one so i can make the droplets up to buy the colors i need

[normal aspen]

I suggest you don't, until mods do their job properly

30 charges is only 15 minutes, take a break at something else, have patience

I think the best thing about wplace is mass pixel holding, no need to stick to the screen for a whole day like rplace

I can carry on my daily life while still enjoy pixel painting at the same speed

the second best thing is nearly infinite size map, a lot less intense fighting for space, so people can focus on creating

yet some people choose the dark side of destroying other's work

really, if mods are going to pretend blind at griefers, might as well remove those rules, let it be total anarchy

allow alting, allow nonsensical griefing, allow hateful speech, allow doxxing

allow every type of content, but mods have complete control over deleting any art and banning people, no reason need to be given

let it be chaos

[wraith dew]

in some parts of the world, it is chaos

I've done some exploring

[swift rock]

"Some"?

Europe and half of Asia are warzones, as is the entirety of the USA.

Canada is relatively peaceful for the most part, but is a chaotic mess nonetheless, especially in Toronto.

Haven't checked anywhere else though. I should see what Japan has.

[wraith dew]

japan has a bunch of really cool anime and otaku culture stuff

like this

[violet dew]

I remember trying to find that Rarity but I wasn't succesful

there's this huge uma shrine at Shinhidaka Hokkaido, I don't know if there's any significance to the location

[wraith dew]

that was the origin of the grass wonder memorial that was subsequently vandalized (and then brought back)

timeline:
grass wonder dies
memorial image is made (one with all the hearts around it)
gets shared on twitter with the triple popularity explosion of uma musume, w place and grass wonder's death
memorial art gets vandalized
other users start putting their own uma musume art after vanzlalization
current section posted by Nire is restored memorial art piece

[silk shore]

wasn't og memorial image in the phillipines

[wraith dew]

oh whoops, idk lol

[normal aspen]

daily drill

[swift rock]

I cleaned up as much as I could with Sunset, but I'm not as certain about the eyes or any detail pixels

[abstract dew]

900 pixels doesn't look like much

[shrewd mesa]

if only they let us use unlimited pixels..

[shrewd mesa]

Wow did u make this all by urself?

[abstract dew]

mostly

[shrewd mesa]

The entire face is made by u apparently

But the other parts were made by other people

[hard cosmos]

i found this cute fluttershy randomly in indiana

[shrewd mesa]

Wow it looks cute

[swift rock]

Made it to level 100!

Currently at 765 charges, but that's going up quickly. Just a couple days ago it was 650-ish.

[violet dew]

welcome to the 100 club, I'm lvl 131 myself

1492 charges

[swift rock]

It seems that I need to play catch-up, lol

In fairness though, a lot of my pixel-placing hasn't been art, but rather fixing griefs.

And my work schedule also means there's time gaps.

[novel marsh]

I'm 148
but i think Nire surpassed me

[violet dew]

Once you get to this point it's mostly just dumping all your pixels in the morning and then basically waiting for pretty much the entire day until nighttime to dump the rest and wait for next morning

because it takes a while to get all your charges back at this point

[swift rock]

This is why I like the Wplace charge model versus the "wait several minutes for one pixel" model that r/place has. You can do a big pixel dump, go on with your day, and then do another later.

[median moss]

level 91 and ive only one color left to unlock

buut im only 272 charges

only other thing i bought w the droplets is the south africa flag and a couple charges when i didnt know you could get colors

[abstract dew]

i'm level 96 with 957 charges

[silk shore]

I am level 92 with 474 charges

Bought south africa and mostly colours

[normal aspen]

lv. 145, 820 charges, basically use up charges whenever I'm free

[abstract dew]

i have south africa, a pfp, and all the colors, everything else went to max charges

[silk shore]

Opaline pfp

[swift rock]

I've still got a bunch of colors to unlock. I'm waiting on those until I get 1000+ pixels.

Because then I can level up multiple times pretty easily and unlock each one quickly

[hard cosmos]

im working on like 4 different image templates rn until i run out of usuable colors and then make enough droplets to buy another color, rinse and repeat

[violet dew]

alright so now he's trying to straight up delete it rather than cover it up

[hard cosmos]

this guy needs to touch grass

[violet dew]

it's been over a week this guy needs to get a job already

[abstract dew]

tonight's progress

[fallow jolt]

hmmm

[hollow axle]

cakelestia was a little over ambitious

the mane is such a nightmare

[violet dew]

Yep.... I'm actually even debating whether we should keep the dithering on the skin and the eyes, since it's a bit of a nightmare and it may not look that great

I tried filling in one of the eyes already, but the dithering didn't seem to help that much on the areas that are fully white

I appreciate the help over the past few days though I know if I tried keeping up with the constant griefing and doing this I would never get it done

[hollow axle]

if you remove part of the dithering and not the rest of it it will look off

best to keep it all

its not liek there will be less to paint

just would be easier to paint

[normal aspen]

white grief looks slightly better than black grief lol

[swift rock]

(Note: it's someone else's design, not sure who, but I'm making it too.)

[novel marsh]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1019590422655406201.webp?size=44&animated=true

[shrewd mesa]

Where did u get that much pixels

[shrewd mesa]

I see its coming along nicely tho

[novel marsh]

leveling up (just place pixels) and buying more from the store

[shrewd mesa]

Ohhh

Am i making a mistake by using the recharge thing

I was dumb and i thought this would add 30 to my max compacity..

[novel marsh]

[shrewd mesa]

Im new to wplace so i didnt know much

[novel marsh]

its a common mistake

[shrewd mesa]

Do u have any idea what this purple path thing is

[violet dew]

That's Starlight

[shrewd mesa]

oh

starlights arm?

What is this starlight thing about is there something im missing here

I see starlight everywhere no matter where i go its like i cant escape the glimmer

[novel marsh]

bc shes the best pone

its her body, not arms

[shrewd mesa]

Is there lore behind this

Why shes everywhere

[novel marsh]

just a meme of her being long

[shrewd mesa]

oh

[novel marsh]

idk the exact origins

[shrewd mesa]

when i was young i thought starlight glimmer was twillight sparkles long lost sister

[hard cosmos]

starlong

[shrewd mesa]

Wow looks almost complete

What are the floating yellow hands for

[median moss]

it's her magic

she made hands to feed herself with

[abstract dew]

finally hit lvl 100 and over 1000 charges

[hollow axle]

im lvl 209, 2033 charges

[violet dew]

I'm lvl 135, 1550 charges

[swift rock]

Currently dealing with a very annoying grief. I am out of pixels, and one griefer decided to grief one half of a Plaestinian flag, then a different griefer decided to grief the bottom half after I had exhausted myself trying to fix the top half, and then while I'm am slowly fixing the grief at the bottom, the first griefer returns and undoes my fixes at the top.

Greeeeat, and a third just joined

[violet dew]

this rarity is getting griefed too for some reason

The Pinkies on Maud are back

[swift rock]

That's nothing. Half of downtown Pretoria is getting actively bot-griefed.

[violet dew]

Yeah some guy with incredibly obvious alt accounts started completely spamming brown pixels all over pretty much every single pixel art in the area

[swift rock]

I know exactly what he's drawing

It appears to be a Fluttershy version of this:

And it's gonna cover dozens upon dozens of artworks

The mods aren't doing a thing

[violet dew]

What, you want the mods to do their job?
You're simply asking too much of them

[median moss]

oh yeah that looks to be it

i thought he was just randomly smearing shit on every art piece

i can see the teeth outline though

[swift rock]

The hilarious thing is that it's a bot vs bot war. You see these two big flags? They're apartheid flags and racist hate symbols in South Africa, yet they have an active bot defense and they have been vehemently defending their territory for weeks now. They've survived countless griefing and erasing attempts, even coming back from full erasure after about an hour.

Those racist bots are currently fighting against this new bot swarm that are trying to make the gigachad horse art, because it covers their territory almost entirely.

[novel marsh]

"Let them fight"

[abstract dew]

after-work pixel dump

her face is almost done

[novel marsh]

She's not longer the joker

[jolly mulch]

got serious

[median moss]

The Seriouser

[swift rock]

I'm sorry, but I have to say it: Jazz's snout here makes her look like a duck.

Which isn't Rom's fault, it's simply the screencap itself

[normal aspen]

meanwhile planning to do this

uhhhhh source makario

derpi 3023320

[wraith dew]

there is some amazing pieces all over the place, oh my goodness

I get Nire's art being griefed is fucking awful, but that is the only thing I see people post in here, and there is more amazing art but I felt like they're a little to spicy for manechat

[median moss]

well mostly cuz we see all of it around when we go online to place pixels haha

but my favorite remains as a really simple one

just text

"far to the west, across the sea" in iceland and if you go allllll the way to the historical vinland there's a "there's a place called vinland..."

[abstract dew]

finished Jazz's face finally

now i can focus on something else when i have more pixels in the morning

[median moss]

im alternating between the big rainbow dash mural and agua's keldeo on each milestone in my head

signal boosting agua's keldeo here tho haha

[median moss]

^^

[wraith dew]

gomenasorry, I'm off in other parts of the world, so I sometimes forget to check in on south africa

[median moss]

no worries \o/

it is ofc really cool stuff no matter what

[hard cosmos]

the gradient is crazy

[hard cosmos]

this is so cute

[hard cosmos]

there's also a huge memorial for stefan karl [robbie rotten] in iceland

[abstract dew]

final bit before bed

[golden rain]

Gotta give this guy credit for their dedication lol.

[silk shore]

manepxl is turning the bunnylestia art hd

[hollow axle]

thats going to take a lot of pixel updates

[normal aspen]

only text below gets griefed wth

do I fix or not lol

[normal aspen]

I or

[silk shore]

wplace website is showing a white screen for me for the past few hours

[normal aspen]

nothing else?

try on another device?

[silk shore]

Works on my phone, but no overlay is available for samsung internet

[silk shore]

gonna download google chrome if that works

got it working on chrome

[shrewd mesa]

Oh nice

[shrewd mesa]

Noo the grief virus is spreading

[shrewd mesa]

This my favorite one i love this scene espacially the musicc

[novel marsh]

Grief virus has been pandemic status for a long while

[shrewd mesa]

Ikr

[violet dew]

I think DAO wrote some of those but yeah if we could get them fixed that would be cool

otherwise this V8X guy is gonna write stuff himself like ''griefing allowed'' and stuff like that

I think you wrote some of the extra text asides from the no griefing signs so you might remember what those said better

[novel marsh]

yeah, I can fix it back up

[violet dew]

I already tried to fix some of it back but I don't know if I got it quite right

[violet dew]

We did it

I'm fixing up the typo on the sign to the left just in case you're also trying to work on it DAO

to the right*

[novel marsh]

go ahead am done for now

[violet dew]

Well GT was right the extra points did allow for others to grief easier but it does allow us to defend easier too

bug

[novel marsh]

I cant see anything
Minuette's big ass ears are on the way

[violet dew]

sweep sweep sweep

it's R.U.M!

[novel marsh]

[hollow axle]

https://derpibooru.org/images/1555666

Needs Tempest

[novel marsh]

manechat doesnt have tempest emotes

[median moss]

my favorite princess including orchard blossom

[swift rock]

No, we do. One, anyway.

Unfortunately the others were replaced

We used to have these as well:

[hollow axle]

[novel marsh]

I assumed they were from different servers, and not you know, animated

RIP tempest emotes

[violet dew]

ay gunbuster and urusei yatsura art

and of course....

[normal aspen]

neat

celestia cake is finished?

[abstract dew]

celestias's cake is never finished

[violet dew]

not yet, I have to finish the hand and after that it's filling up her colors, but I still think I don't want to keep the dithering on the white parts, which is like 80% of her

similar to what they're doing with biglestia over here

dithering only in the shadows sounds like it'd probs be more manageable

[novel marsh]

What does dithering mean

[swift rock]

You see these differently-colored pixels on Jazz's face? That's dithering. It basically gives texture and a more "3D-esque" appearance to the art.

Otherwise Jazz would look fairly "flat" without it.

[normal aspen]

another way to say color averaging in my opinion

[novel marsh]

Ah I see

[violet dew]

Yeah that's basically what it is, it works great for any pixel arts heavy on the detail and for shading transitions, but for areas that are fully one color it's just a big hassle to actually do it and it doesn't look particularly better or worse so it's probably easier to just fill it in with one color and do the dithering on the shadows for something like the celestia we're working on

[hollow axle]

It's also used when you have a limited colour palette to choose from. Dithering uses tricks on the eye to make different colours from a smaller set as your vision merges the pixels to give the effect of a combined colour

[novel marsh]

Makes sense, it feels more "real" when looked at a distance

For that celestia, its for the best probably to just have it be a single white color, its also been a hassle trying to figure out 2 colors that look almost the same
And constantly spamming color pick isn't exactly ideal either

[violet dew]

:flutternod:

[hollow axle]

It's not that bad just do blocks of the same colour to avoid switching then the next batch change colour. It will all need to be coloured either way even if it's white but given the image size the dithering will look better. It doesnt work on smaller images but this one is big enough that it will work

Plus switching now will make it look off

[median moss]

ya i just switch to focus on one color and keep on that in a little area

[violet dew]

seems like being called out upsets our friend

[novel marsh]

minimal damage on sunset herself, at least

[violet dew]

just leaving some screenshots of the text so it's easier to remember next time as I clean it up and if anyone else wants to clean up the text later, because he surely isn't gonna stop now

[novel marsh]

i thought that said "NO GIRLFRIEND ALLOWED"

[violet dew]

probably true for this guy

[novel marsh]

[normal aspen]

so early today

only 8:42 in ZA

[violet dew]

I might consider putting a big ''V8X GRIEFER'' sign tomorrow morning somewhere around once I have enough pixels to spare, just to see if that catches his attention, he's being so unsubtle I can't imagine he cares about others knowing he's griefing but maybe he does care, might distract him from griefing the artwork for a bit

[normal aspen]

you could clear my text(those outside of the box) for space, I want some new ones anyway

[violet dew]

I don't have enough charges to delete text right now, I'm just restoring it as best I can as I go, but they're fine to leave there, I can put the text I'm thinking of in some other place, preferably a place that's easier to spot for anyone watching, just so others know

luckily I've been getting help from outside people here with this sunset, some other random users have helped out now and again I've noticed

I don't know if they're from ManePxls or just random users but still, they show up every now and then, so as long as people know that the artwork is getting actively griefed and by who I'm hoping it'll at least make this guy focus on the text instead of the artwork, or at the very least attract any other users willing to help out

[normal aspen]

v8x gets naughty today

[shrewd mesa]

Nice

[shrewd mesa]

I wonder why people even grief artwork in the first place

[violet dew]

It's quiet.....
too quiet....

I guess I'll look around for any new artworks for now

see what's new

...when the server comes back anyway

[abstract dew]

school must have started

[violet dew]

mom found out and took the 'puter

oh yeah this one's finished

[real hamlet]

school starting mid september, those were the days

[violet dew]

one of the glimmers from glimmervile escaped containment

oh yeah there's a huge dash piece being worked on over there

and an opaline

pbbbbt

[normal aspen]

psst, check dms

[violet dew]

I really like this Twi right here
something about that face

[swift rock]

Same vibes, lol

[median moss]

yeah ive done a decent bit of work on the hair / head of the one on the far left

and just a lot of missed outlines bc it was mostly missing paid colors

[violet dew]

might be a good area to put the dashie I wanted to do somewhere around there, maybe do it a bit smaller, or I could put her near Aria who's still over there just chilling

they're doing a big pixel pinkie on top of the one piece art thing

that one's gonna take weeks

[normal aspen]

it serves as a dump lol

whenever I'm close to cap and have no time or no thoughts I can dump pixels there

[normal aspen]

it's coming along nicely!

[violet dew]

cute

I am now also officially at a point where going to sleep and coming back will not give me all my charges

It takes 14 hours for all my pixels to come back

[novel marsh]

i thought that was pipp at first

[wraith dew]

I'm only at 432 charges right now

so it's 3 and a half hours

spent all my drops on unlocking colours, changing pfp and unlocking country flag

also didn't know this about the country flag until I unlocked it

drops 100 pixels, get another 10 back

but it really does is drop the next charge by 3 seconds

I'm sure otheres learned this, but I just didn't read

[median moss]

atp it's probably more economical to buy 30 charges now

[violet dew]

maybe

I think unless there's some kind of dropoff in points from buying the 30 charges, I could just constantly be putting down the pixels I get and getting back those points so I can keep buying the 30 charges

[swift rock]

Soon™

[hollow axle]

lol i forgot to log in this mornign and paint anything

[violet dew]

cakelestia could use some pixels if you got any to spare

it's mostly just filling up the colors now, it's pretty much done

[swift rock]

Just saying this now, her mouth is gonna be a very big target for griefers, especially with the icing bits around it

Very good job though! Glad to see her almost finished

[novel marsh]

You just gave the grifer sleeper agents lurking in this server and idea

[violet dew]

I really wouldn't worry too much about it I seriously doubt anything's gonna happen to it especially so close to long starlight and other artworks

Aria has been up there for a week and she's been pretty much fine the entire time too

might wanna look for a spot to put dashie somewhere in later, but I'll start her up once I have most of my charges back
though I can't even have full charges anymore, because it takes 14 hours to get all my charges back because I have so many of them

1726

[hard cosmos]

omg what if the guy that keeps scribbling on sunset's eyes is in here

[normal aspen]

fat chance

[hollow axle]

Booring colours should only count at half value

Painting white and grey sucks

[violet dew]

images with dithering look so good but painting them is so painful

[median moss]

unlikely i would feel like so no worries probably

[hollow axle]

They need a painting mode that doesn't overwrite something already coloured

[median moss]

though it would be funny if like

v8x came here to negotiate like some sort of hostage situation

[violet dew]

we're not a big group in the slightest and any of the artworks being done by any of us here are pretty small and not big collaborative pieces or anything so it would be extreme jobless behavior if anyone actually managed to track any of us down to this server and lurked here just to get at this one artwork

[median moss]

that's def why the rainbow dash mural is undithered but some of the colors look ultra off from the actual pic

which is just the sacrifice u have to make i suppose

the 3rd one from the left is missing a lot of its contrast i noticed

and a lot of blushes are jarring grey pixels

[violet dew]

That's because most of them are probably done using the wplace color converter website which granted I have used and does a good job most of the time, but undoubtedly some of the better works in wplace in general are any works that actually do the pixel art part well and know which pixel colors to use and where to achieve the desired effect

the blushing on the sunset I made for example wasn't there at all in the original picture because I took out the specific colors for it because the website didn't really know how to handle the blush gradient so it just made her whole face red and grey, so that's why I manually did it myself with alternating pixels to get that gradient look from afar

[median moss]

yeah ive noticed the converters u'll come up with on google try to differentiate from light levels that are genuinely impossible to perceive and i guess it's just like

how a machine has to do it

[abstract dew]

i had to do a lot of dicking around with the contrast, brightness, and saturation with the cloudy canvas piece to get the colors to look right

[median moss]

this particular difference is just insane haha

[abstract dew]

i finally have 1200 charges, so i will stop expanding those and spend droplets on recharging instead now

[median moss]

source tbc

iunno what artist it is specifically

but one of them

[violet dew]

I don't have 1200 charges yet but I probably should start doing that anyway too because mine already take 14 hours to even get to max anyways so it's not like I'm gonna be having max charges for long anyways

[abstract dew]

but 1200 is 10 hours? if it takes you 14 hours then you have to have at least 1680 charges

and that's not even including the flag math in there

[violet dew]

The answer is that I'm stupid and I wasn't paying attention

I somehow interpreted it as a bigger number for whatever reason, I have 1726 charges

[hard cosmos]

i think they should do like crosshatching with a darker color

[violet dew]

this is some next level petty shit at this point

I don't know what I did to piss on this guy's cereal but this is getting impressive now

I still can't believe he hasn't been suspended too it's kind of insane how blatantly you can grief someone else and nothing happens

the funny part is that the alternating colors doesn't even particularly make it harder for me to clean this up, he actually hates this particular sunset image so much he's going out of his way to select different colors to mess with it

[hard cosmos]

this is why ive been drawing stuff in kind of empty places, i'm doing a cutesaurus [from g1], but i'm putting it in massachusetts and not the mlp south africa area

[hard cosmos]

like what does this guy have against sunset shimmer, this has been going on like a week by now

[violet dew]

It's not even against sunset shimmer, the other two he didn't even touch, it's just this one, I'm guessing he has a problem with the artist being a nsfw artist, but this one isn't nsfw so it's not a problem

[violet dew]

I'm kinda wishing I did that by now, but I wasn't really expecting to catch the attention of a crazy guy

[hard cosmos]

so does he know the artist, because if i saw art that wasn't nsfw and didn't know the artist i wouldn't immediately know it was an nsfw artist

[violet dew]

I don't know, all I know is I remember he put up a text saying ''gooner art'' or something very early on after he started griefing

so that must be the reason, but still, it's deranged behavior at this point

and I must've reported him 30 times by now, and mods don't do a thing

[hard cosmos]

there is far more "gooner" looking art on wplace

i don't see anything "gooner" about the sunset art, she doesn't even have cleavage or anything, it just looks like sunset shimmer in a tanktop

[violet dew]

the reason hardly matters now anyways the guy is clearly deranged and is not going to stop until it's completely deleted, luckily I have enough pixels now to fix it up as many times as I need to, it's just getting increasingly more annoying the more pixels each of us gets and the fact that it hasn't stopped is also annoying, and confusing

I just wish the mods actually did something, it's not even a different account with a different number, it's the exact same account for over a week now

[hard cosmos]

this guy must be so bored

[violet dew]

I wonder if maybe writing his ID number under his name in the text would result in something happening

I'll leave this here just in case maybe I think of doing that later, because it is the same user number ID

maybe I'll do that later

[silk shore]

Try reporting him on the wplace subreddit and discord
Maybe then they will actually see it

[hard cosmos]

i just went to where the sunset was, there's literally a fluttershy in a bikini next to it yet they're attacking this modest sunset for being "gooner art"

[normal aspen]

well, it's their daily routine now, may not be that bored lol

I have a headcanon(?) where this person in fact likes sunset, but somehow not in this particular way

the wplace event has broaden my view of people so much

anyway who cares, they should seek help on their own, we just degrief

[violet dew]

I didn't even consider that or know that those existed, I don't use reddit anymore, but I guess if push comes to shove and I want this situation over with I may have to consider the discord option...

[violet dew]

I think clearly by this point it's super personal for this guy for whatever reason, and the gooner thing was just an excuse

[violet dew]

who knows what this guy's deal is really, it could be anything, it could be another mod larper trying to 'clean' things up but he doesn't really seem to be involved anywhere else around here or actively trying to delete anything else, maybe he has a problem with me specifically, maybe he just really hates the artist or that specific sunset art and has a super strong fixation on that, who knows really

I'm gonna put his number ID under his name on the text i put over to the side there, see if that catches his attention instead

well this one's pretty much done now, I guess I could go ahead and delete the borders since the only thing left to do is add some of the shading on the torso there but really I'm fine with leaving that blank just for the added fading effect

oh I guess I should put ''by:nire'' under this one too, maybe I should think about adding the respective artist names on the others too

[hard cosmos]

shouldn't there be magic on her horn

[violet dew]

maybe but it's been a year since I drew that now so there's no going back to fix it

[hollow axle]

what about her wings?

[hard cosmos]

maybe someone else offscreen is making the hands

maybe it's lyra

[violet dew]

If you're talking about the wing popping up from the left side then that's not her wings, it's from the other sketch that's over to the side on the full picture

[hollow axle]

ohhh

[swift rock]

There's a place I know of where a friend and I are making a new site of Pony art. It's a secret and safe place, and only a few of his followers know of it too. It's quiet, and we're slowly building things up there too. So far we've got a big Starlight and Trixie, and a few smaller pieces close by. There's a few memes but it's all fun and games, everyone's on good terms.

Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you a DM with the coords. (Note: do not share them with anyone.)

[hard cosmos]

ive already started the cutesaurus but maybe when im done with it i'll make another one there

right now im working on several different big photo ones until i run out of colors to use, and im doing them all in the US since i have the flag so i can get more droplets faster

[swift rock]

Well, good luck then! Let me know if you'd still like the coords later once you've got more time on hand. :)

[silk shore]

What overlay works in mobile

[novel marsh]

If I could get coords, i can help out. Apart from Rom and Nire projects, I've been running out of things to do recently

[swift rock]

Well, there's nothing to really "help with" down there, we're just letting it grow as people make art at the spot. But I can send you the coords anyway, just make sure it's kept secret. Also, go to your profile and disable the "last pixel placed" feature, because that can be accessed by anyone, afaik.

[novel marsh]

Gotcha, will do and ill hop on later and disable that first thing

[swift rock]

[shrewd mesa]

Im glad u finished ur drawing its really nice

[novel marsh]

not quite

but its like 90% done

okay, who let the bats out?

[abstract dew]

[violet dew]

SSS-

darn i actually completely forgot to chime into the site today

[violet dew]

what else is there to finish?

[novel marsh]

the bottom left

[violet dew]

Oh yeah that part, I'll make it easier and I'll draw in the outline for where i want it to end since I do want to do a bit of a gradient just so it doesn't abruptly cut off or something

and then later if I get all of my 1700 charges back I could start up the dashie somewhere

that should work

wait you can't see it too well

tttthhhheeere... 👈

[hard cosmos]

i like how the road kinda lines up and makes it look like she has a lumpy butt

[hollow axle]

its all the cake

[swift rock]

[violet dew]

Welcome to the club

https://tenor.com/view/cult-the-craft-ritual-gif-11800002

this is where the fun begins

[novel marsh]

quadruple digits gang rise up

[hollow axle]

todays wake up saved pixels went to the mane

[abstract dew]

much appreciated

[violet dew]

does this spot seem alright enough to put this in or is it too cramped maybe?

I kinda thought it'd be cool to put it near the big dash piece there but there isn't much room left

[swift rock]

I

Ack

I'd say it's fine, it's close enough to the big Dash piece

[violet dew]

Yeah.... unfortunately not too much space anywhere around other than there

I could move it somewhere else though just to not bother any nearby pieces

[abstract dew]

is there space between that big pic and the QR code?

[violet dew]

I was gonna put it there, but it doesn't seem like it, the borders for the QR piece kinda take up all that empty space

[abstract dew]

i'd say those barely count as borders, but it's probably not worth the fight

[violet dew]

Yeah I would rather avoid any problems, I wish they actually deleted those or at least used that space

reminds me to delete the borders on the cakelestia now that she's finished actually

[violet dew]

oh no starting with the face was a mistake this looks so uncanny

[novel marsh]

👁️ 👄 👁️

[violet dew]

okay that's better, now she's just a floating head

[abstract dew]

moisturize me

[violet dew]

Pixel: 1978, 3771
(Tl X: 1185, Tl Y: 1171, Px X: 978, Px Y: 771)

if anyone wants to throw in a pixel or two while I'm away

[silk shore]

Just unlocked all the colours

[median moss]

bless

i have them all just been getting capacity upgrades now

[shrewd mesa]

Whats supposed to be there

[silk shore]

No idea, it is right over the qr code though

[normal aspen]

https://derpibooru.org/images/3023320

I'm currently working on pixelating this, just saying

[novel marsh]

Did someone ping me here?

[violet dew]

got that little left corner finished and deleted the border
cakelestia is now fully finished 🍰

[hollow axle]

morning pixels done on Jazz mane

[hard cosmos]

i put a little cutesaurus in south africa

[hollow axle]

I think Il have enough charges to finish the mane by the time I go to bed to tonight

[abstract dew]

her tail only has one color left too

[hollow axle]

I dread when it comes to the background

[abstract dew]

yeah that'll be so much more tedious

[normal aspen]

looks near complete to me

[abstract dew]

nah we still gotta do all of this

[hollow axle]

guess i didnt have enough before going to bed

[normal aspen]

pixelating progress

nothing much is left(me lazy) but still have to wait until at least tomorrow

bc work happens

[abstract dew]

mane and tail done!

[swift rock]

@violet dew Permission to rename the Sunset Corner to the Sunset Boulevard? :P

[violet dew]

Sure I didn't really give it a name or anything myself there wasn't really a big enough spot to put something like the glimmerville sign on it and I ran out of space to put any more sunsets in too

I'm actually just now logging in, I'm gonna go see what the damage today is...

[swift rock]

It's actually quiet

[violet dew]

For the entirety of yesterday nothing happened and I was very surprised, I thought maybe the mods really did something after all, but then at nighttime he came back unfortunately

[swift rock]

He may have figured out your sleep schedule, and thus now chooses to attack when you're asleep. It was bound to happen, unfortunately

[violet dew]

That's gonna be tough, because not even I know my own sleep schedule

I'm making a small sunset in the little empty spot just to add something else to complete filling up the area, maybe I can do smaller ones like this to fully fill this place up

Pixel: 3976, 3512
(Tl X: 1187, Tl Y: 1175, Px X: 976, Px Y: 512)

[swift rock]

Awww, cute!