Shane D Freed Software

Official blog (yikes!) for Shane D Freed. Pun enabler, Dudeist, artist, writer and indie game developer. All that glitters is probably radioactive. This blog contains absurdities, obsessions and hot trash.

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GAMMA TWINKLES #1

The beginning of a new Science Fiction Comic Book Anthology made by unique artists and writers.

I did a story in this excellent Al Gofa ran sci fi anthology. on kickstarter 

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Midori the Drunken Warrior! An action platformer by yours truly featuring my sexy OC, Midori. 

Don’t tell Tumblr that the rocket launcher looks like a penis pump, because that is not my intention.

Click this link to see the latest test footage: https://twitter.com/sdfcomix/status/1413217920642134018?s=20.

There’s still quite a bit left to do. But getting the main things figured out first means the rest of the project will go smoothly. Progress, baby!

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I’m Back, Tumblr!

Nice to see this website is not completely dead. It’s not nice to see they’re still clinging on to the NO FEMALE-PRESENTING NIPPLES policy, which is really freaking lame. Had to delete dozens of posts to restore this blog, which is also really freaking lame. 

Moving on to things that aren’t lame! 

Putty Comix #4 is back in the works after a long hiatus. Unfortunately I can’t post anything from it here, but I will be posting a link to my Twitter, where my Twitter will link it to a website. I haven’t quite figured out whether I can get away with posting it on my own website or not. Y’know, kids these days have to deal with school shootings and COVID, but gods forbid they come across pornography. This will likely be the final entry in the series. When I first started, it seemed like this ambitious and grand experience as a beginning artist to experiment with, but years later I learned I can do so much more. We’ll have to see. I know I’m ready to conclude the series after four issues.

And speaking of learning to do more, I am currently working on an action platformer! You read that correctly. Midori the Drunken Warrior, my original character (which I admit, owes a lot to Po-Ju’s Goku from Secret Journey), is getting her own video game! I’d include pictures in this post, but evidently I forgot how to tumbl, so I’ll have to show you in another post. I’ve been designing sprites and other assets using Aseprite and importing those into Pixel Game Maker MV. I’ll also be making the music and audio files. I’ll also be directing and starring in it. Wait...no. I’m not Tommy Wiseau. I wish I had his hair though.

There’s a number of things I’ve been keeping busy with during these past few years. Recently I’ve went back to building models out of K’Nex and doing stencil graffiti art. I’ll post some of those. Really dig this miniature air compressor I got for like fifty bucks, but man...I need to get a respirator mask. And yes, I am still a dumbass who doesn’t read warning labels.

Let’s see if we can keep this Tumblr alive! Stay tuned!

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RE: “Science says liberals, not conservatives, are psychotic” by The York Post

The post in question, which I am responding to.

When faced with this "triggering of the Libs" phenomenon and its modus operandi to turn political discourse into a game of playground insults and strawman arguments, as an educated progressive I can respond to a particular petty and childish bit of yellow journalism with some much needed deconstruction—and derision, to boot—even though doing so is kind of beneath me. Then again, this was a post shared on Facebook and while I am good friends with people who are conservative, I will respond since I believe it is beneath my friends to engage in childish behavior, a la Trigger the Libs. My understanding of this "Trigger the Libs" approach is that it is an occupation for those who are secretly coming to grips that their worldviews are maintained and informed by unearned privilege and that is a discourse which serves nothing more than a meme for die-hard Trump supporters to pass around in the void of their respective echo chambers; these memes are devoid of effective and reasonable argumentation against the progressive ideas shared by liberals such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Ideas such as Medicare for all, single-payer tuition, a $15 minimum wage and an end to the War on Drugs are all examples of ideas that are popular with the American people and will have a major impact in the 2020 election. As they should be, for these are the policies shared by most developed nations. The aforementioned group is especially salty that these ideas are gaining traction, though they insist that liberals are still salty over the 2016 election. They still haven't gotten over Hillary Clinton running for office (bUt HeR eMAiLs!!!) and they certainly haven't gotten over AOC taking office (oh, please tell me again how she’s just a bartender and not qualified for office, despite having graduated cum laude with a BA in international relations and economics and having worked under Ted Kennedy! those are always my favorite of smears! they’re the saltiest of delights!), hence the constant smears on conservative media. They are in denial of an apparently inherent misogyny in the coverage of these two women, though their misogyny is best exemplified in the anti-abortion laws their constituents are passing across parts of this nation. Such laws have been decried and denounced for what they are really about, which is not about the life of the child (which they don’t give a damn about, since they routinely object to a progressive maternity leave and pay policy for the mother) but the control of the sexuality of women while simultaneously rejecting gun control laws on the basis of the 2nd Amendment and on the American principle of being able to protect oneself from tyranny, despite conveniently ignoring the other American principles of privacy and individual autonomy for the purposes of promoting their double standard of women. Though these laws force women to give birth as a means of enforcing responsibility for their having unprotected intercourse, men are given a free pass to have unprotected intercourse with no social or political repercussions; further, women can only carry one pregnancy to term per year (excluding premature births), while men can be responsible for an untold number of pregnancies, both wanted and unwanted. Men can have Viagra covered under insurance, but a woman cannot have birth control covered. Simultaneously, many men refuse to even wear a condom. Double standards. Plus, as a man myself, the thought of being forced to push out a child from my body is extremely unpleasant. C-sections are on the rise, since the heads of infants are so big and the birth canal is not big enough. Apparently, this is a problem that has been getting worse. I once looked up how a baby’s head is supposed to fit through the pelvis and it’s no wonder the woman is in such pain. To force a woman to go through that when she doesn’t have neither the desire nor the finances to support such a decision as a means of punishing her is simply a cruel and unusual punishment. I may be biased here, since I was actually wanted. My support of abortion rights is not clouded by a misguided sense of self-preservation that I project those who are anti-abortion must feel when they think of the possibility that they could have been aborted. I can only project, because I, too, was once against abortion and the following projection is something that had bothered me. Knowing that I was actually wanted and was in fact planned (much to my disgust, as the exact day and hour of my conception were revealed to me, which is too much information), I can put my mind at ease of feeling like my own mother would abort me if she could. By the way, if life at conception is supposedly sacred, is foreign life also sacred? How does that work out with us dropping bombs that inadvertently kill civilians? Is parasitic life sacred? Is only sentient, human life sacred? Honestly, I don’t see how the argument that “women have all the same rights as men” applies when men can’t give birth and wouldn’t be forced to give birth if it were possible but women are just expected to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. 

I digress.

Note that the article is referring to a study that utilizes the ideas put forth by psychologist Hans Eysenck, who would object to The New York Post's use of the contextually incorrect word "psychotic" as opposed to the contextually correct word "psychoticism." I believe this to be evident of the rightwing-leaning bias of The York Post and an example of their tendency to use loaded language to reinforce their points. Scoring high in psychoticism, as The Cut correctly points out here: https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/why-it-took-social-science-years-to-correct-a-simple-error-about-psychoticism.html, means that one is more likely to disregard the rules. In the context of politics and the study in question, liberals are more likely to reject the establishment and thus they score high in psychoticism. And understanding the context of American establishment politics is understanding a history where land treaties with indigenous people were repeatedly violated, where slavery was law, where Jim Crowe laws were enforced—all of which the rightwing conservatism we know today seeks to conveniently forget as they enact policies that are merely fresh updates of these barbaric practices. Conservatism is not about individual choice and autonomy but about blind allegiance and subjugation (who seeks retribution for those who make the choice to kneel during the national anthem? who bemoaned and sought retribution against those who speak out against unjust wars, such as the Vietnam war and the Iraq war? who appropriates patriotism as an allegiance not to a nation and its people, but to a political party or a political position? who has the discussion of freedom of religion in the context of same sex marriage and baking cakes, but not the wearing of the hijab or the burqa? who accuses their opponents of being easily triggered, but is ironically triggered at the mere sight of a group of Muslims and insists such people are attempting to take over the country?) and the willful ignorance of the systemic oppression affecting vulnerable and marginalized groups (who is the first to decry fundamentalist Islamic terrorism but has yet to take white supremacist domestic terrorism seriously? who refuses to acknowledge the racism of police departments across the nation and the brutality those police engage in when they're supposed to protect and serve? who refuses to acknowledge that while the party of Lincoln established voting rights for women, it continues to deny them today of the privacy and autonomy of their bodies? in fact, who refuses to acknowledge that the Democratic Party has evolved into the party of progress while the Republican has devolved, far from the vision of Lincoln who led a war to preserve the power of the federal government over the power of those states that were pro-slavery?). 

Of course, this is not something The New York post (or anyone who has shared this bit of biased drivel to "trigger the Libs", for that matter) has clarified or will be willing to clarify. Fun fact: The New York Post is owned by Robert Murdoch, the same billionaire dipshit who owns Fox News. I keep saying it, but for all the rightwingers bemoaning of fake news, any right-leaning outlet is automatically the harbinger of truth to them. CNN covering the president’s incendiary tweets? Fake news. Info Wars talking about crisis actors in mass shootings and Pizzagate? Truth. BBC journalist calling out Ben Shapiro’s hypocrisy and generally just refusing to suck his pecker? FAKE NEWS. Some shitty meme about Somali immigrants and Sharia Law shared on Facebook? TRUTH. There’s an apparent lack of fact checking, understanding science, discerning fact from fiction, etc etc. And in the case of this particular article, it’s not meant to be informative. It’s not news. It’s not even fake news. It’s clickbait that aspires to be a meme. The decision to include a picture of a Bernie Sanders rally further cements this as an article whose purpose is not to inform, but to smear the other side as crazy and unrealistic and whatever nonsense. What’s with this picture, anyway? Bunch of people holding up signs that say, “A Future We Believe In.” What’s so objectionable about that? Also, some of them have their fists raised. Now, I know some people have a problem with that, since they associate that with Black Power, anti-white sentiment and white genocide (which is LOL-tastic and not a real thing). Oh, I forgot to ask who is the most likely to spread fear about a WHITE GENOCIDE. Hint: It is not Bernie Sanders. Are the raised fists the problem? Nevermind that Black Power was a statement the Black Panthers created in response to segregation, Jim Crowe laws and the drafting of black men into the Vietnam War to fight a war that was very much a white man’s war. Also, they’re not to be associated with the New Black Panther Party. Is anyone on the Right paying attention at all? Because if Black Power is racist because a few black people who said it hated white people, then I guess white people who say America First should be called out if they are white supremacists, right? That’s fair, right? Anyway, this photo looks like a good mix of people, both in terms of gender as well as race, having a good time and being enthusiastic about Bernie. As they should be! To me, the ideas of Bernie Sanders and AOC are not psychotic and those of us who support them are not inherently psychotic. There is indeed a plague of mental disease spreading throughout this country, but it is a product of the ignorance, callousness and paranoia that produces rightwing policies. Booyah.

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Tumblr Doomsday Prep!

Hey gang! Making notes of everyone I follow. If you have a blog or whatever, message me on Twitter @sdfcomix. I'm also on DeviantArt as firthwright and as sdfcomix on Pixiv. Planning on building a profile on Newgrounds and Hentai Foundry. Best of luck to us all!

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An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

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They flagged this post immediately and I’ve submitted it for review… this is… quite a week.

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If you believe these words, reblog it, please. I want this to be right in their face because I couldn’t email them directly. 

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When I was in middle school, I took commissions from classmates for drawings of Spongebob characters for about a quarter a pop.  It was one of my first forays into “professional” cartooning, and only a small example of the monumental impact of this plucky underwater sponge.  

I know I’m not alone in believing that the show has left an indelible mark on the face of cartoon and internet history, and its aftershock will continue for many years.  

Rest in Peace, Stephen Hillenburg.  Thanks for the good times.  

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We’ve lost another one. Rest in piece to the guy who gave us the Yellow Talking Sponge that will make us smile and laugh, no matter the issue.

( August 21, 1961, November 26, 2018 )

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Commission of @thinkingbooty ‘s character Knocks, who is cute.

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morning reblog

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Happy Halloween!

Beanie dressing up as Britain’s best butt

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morning reblog

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Hey all! Sorry about the delay! Figuring out how I wanted to draw this page during this difficult time was very...well, difficult. The one good thing going on in life right now is making progress on this thing, so there’s that! Expecting a release sometime this week!

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Drew Eddy from Ed, Edd n Eddy, using a frame from the opening sequence as a reference! #Inktober

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