The Facebook debacle & other issues

11 hours ago, Katsudon said:

That's not the part I was referring to 😛

(Gotta do something with those things now no one listens to radio though)

i still listen to the radio, believe it or not.  i listen to talk radio every morning.

On 1/27/2022 at 1:59 AM, Katsudon said:

That's not the part I was referring to 😛

(Gotta do something with those things now no one listens to radio though)

DIY project maybe? 🤔

On 1/28/2022 at 9:59 AM, Starwaia said:

DIY project maybe? 🤔

My CD player doesn't even have an aerial like that 😅 it has a weird square hoop one instead. It's, uh, really old...

If I had a 3D printer, it would be very tempting to engineer some interesting doll stands. 🤔 Get some telescopic thingies, and have different printed attachments for different stand types.

Oh no, I thought too hard about it! I really shouldn't think.

This actually sounds like a fun, creative and interesting project. 🤔 

 

On 1/26/2022 at 4:30 PM, Tierparkzone said:

I'm actually eyeing this contraption if it ever comes back into stock. Could be a passable compromise.

Since you’re in Japan and can speak / read Japanese you might look at the Asa-chan stands. They’re made for DD, but they should work as well with SmD. The wiki shows the stand options. 
 

http://mddasatyan.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-292.html

47 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

Since you’re in Japan and can speak / read Japanese you might look at the Asa-chan stands. They’re made for DD, but they should work as well with SmD. The wiki shows the stand options. 
 

http://mddasatyan.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-292.html

I remember seeing a thorough review of this stand and dug it up.

https://mlkt.sakura.ne.jp/blog/2018/09/doll-stand-4.html

5 hours ago, chef_mai said:

I remember seeing a thorough review of this stand and dug it up.

https://mlkt.sakura.ne.jp/blog/2018/09/doll-stand-4.html

That’s one of several stands they make. The other two have a bit of a base that folds out into an L shape, but the stick gives the benefit of the SmD stand without the socket in the back. 

On 2/2/2022 at 2:11 PM, BeyondTime said:

Since you’re in Japan and can speak / read Japanese you might look at the Asa-chan stands. The wiki shows the stand options.

http://mddasatyan.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-292.html

Yes, I already checked them out.

But it looks like they currently only accept orders in very limited time windows. I'll keep an eye on it, though.

 

On 2/2/2022 at 2:11 PM, BeyondTime said:

They’re made for DD, but they should work as well with SmD.

My SmDs all have their telescopic stands. I'm looking for something similar for the rest of my crew. Although I'm pretty sure they would come in handy on SmD, too. - Especially in case the socket in the back is blocked by clothing.

I have question, since when did being a burn victim become a disablity?"   ya seen the burn feet proto's right?   hoepfully no one's gonna ignore that.       sorry for the off topic rant.  needed to get this off my mind.  

15 hours ago, DollyDearest said:

I have question, since when did being a burn victim become a disablity?"   ya seen the burn feet proto's right?   hoepfully no one's gonna ignore that.       sorry for the off topic rant.  needed to get this off my mind.  

I would say depending on how badly the burn is it can definitely be a disability.

Let's say you have a mild burn somewhere on your body that isn't causing any trouble for you in general, it probably won't count as a disability. However, a lot of more severe burn victims definitely fall under the category of disability in my opinion. Examples being a great part of your face being burned off, limiting a great chunk of your senses like hearing, seeing, talking... Another example would be having a burned leg or foot, limiting your ability to walk and in some severe cases putting you in a wheelchair or having to use some other form of help to walk. Burn victims can definitely be disabled. All depends on the severity of the burn and the placement I would say.

Even if it doesn't disable you in any way, a severe enough burn can leave a nasty scar, or require a skin graft which leaves an even nastier one. A lot of burn victims, especially those with extensive ones, are very self conscious of the scarring left behind, so I imagine this is less a "disability shout-out" like the prosthetic limbs and hearing aids were, and more along the lines of Danny's attempt to try and make a doll for them, just like the ones he has for people with port wine birthmarks and vitiligo. An "all skin is beautiful" statement more than anything.

That being said, the preview he posted a bit ago needs a bit of work I think. The marbling is too subtle and just made the feet look a little too much like realistic wrinkly feet skin for my liking, lol!

For those who haven't seen it...

I expect these ones will end up in Chaos soon enough whether this side project is successful or not. Wonder what people will do with them? 🤔

Edited February 5, 2022 by Oculae

The exact thing I thought @Oculae — they look like some Reborn baby feet or something else realistic. Maybe the intended effect will be more obvious if they’re put on a body, next to the usual smooth-textured parts (though will the burn then end right at the edge of a part? That would look pretty unnatural. And can he do this effect on just some of a part or is he planning to release whole heads in this texture?)

My hope is that for maximum realism, he'd cast the parts with marbling (cause you can only cast in one tone of vinyl) and then blush everything that's not supposed to be a scar one solid color. Otherwise yeah, this'll look very weird and pretty unrealistic.

I don't think that marbling effect is the best way to achieve this result, but maybe (with enough work) it may lead somewhere nice. 

I don't see your point @DollyDearest. I believe that being a burn victim isn't a disability, the same way that vitiligo or birthmarks aren't, either. It's all for representation purposes. 

 

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by Bellatrix

Fucking hell, shit like that needs to have a content warning, which I presume it doesn't on instagram. I have a lot of scarring - although not burn scars - and my brain just went to a bad place because thinking about it now. If I put scarring on my own dolls, I would cw it out of courtesy. 😰

Sorry, this isn't intended to offend anyone with burns. I just had a really visceral reaction to these doll pieces because of my own scars. Making the decision to paint/mod my own dolls is fine and personal to me, especially so because I can customise it to reflect me and me only. If it became an object of corporate fetishism, I would not be okay with that. Scars differ from person to person, and it's a lot more than just some marbled skin - it also affects the texture, ie. keloid scars, which also occur from burns. (Yes I realise my situation is not the same thing. Never felt this negativity when it comes to actual people with scarring.)

Ironically, vision impairment is a disability, at least beyond a certain point, but where are the free glasses for the legally blind?

Edit: just to clarify again that this isn't disfiguremisia. When a person has scars for whatever reason, I see the person. With this, it reminds me of schlocky b-movie effects, rather than something carefully and delicately created to match a real person. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Katsudon
Extra clarity

10 hours ago, Roxanne said:

I would say depending on how badly the burn is it can definitely be a disability.

Let's say you have a mild burn somewhere on your body that isn't causing any trouble for you in general, it probably won't count as a disability. However, a lot of more severe burn victims definitely fall under the category of disability in my opinion. Examples being a great part of your face being burned off, limiting a great chunk of your senses like hearing, seeing, talking... Another example would be having a burned leg or foot, limiting your ability to walk and in some severe cases putting you in a wheelchair or having to use some other form of help to walk. Burn victims can definitely be disabled. All depends on the severity of the burn and the placement I would say.

I always assumed disabilites were somethin ya born with.   but okays,   thanks for answering my question

4 hours ago, Bellatrix said:

I don't think that marbling effect is the best way to achieve this result, but maybe (with enough work) it may lead somewhere nice. 

I don't see your point @DollyDearest. I believe that being a burn victim isn't a disability, the same way that vitiligo or birthmarks aren't, either. It's all for representation purposes. 

 

 

what ment was, being burned isn't something ya born with like hearin loss, MS, or a birthmark.     people get burned by accident, not on purpose. 

The marbling does not look like any type of scarring to me. After all of the surgeries I have had, I know scars pretty well.  But this looks like someone messed up while mixing the color and so he is now trying to pass it off as him doing something special while making money off of an error.  If that is the case (*IF*), then that is pretty darned low.

Just butting in again out of morbid curiosity, because I found this to be more and more in line with Katawa Shoujo that incidently had its tenth anniversary last month...

 

13 hours ago, Katsudon said:

With this, it reminds me of schlocky b-movie effects, rather than something carefully and delicately created to match a real person. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

I mean...I think it's important to keep in mind that these ARE still prototypes. There's no delicacy about them yet, prototypes are meant for experimentation to see if an idea is even feasible. Just something to keep in mind - it's not like this was a "BURN VICTIMS - AVAILABLE NOW!" kind of post. Now THAT would be a new level of scummy that I don't think anyone could defend.

That being said, I'll edit and slap the image in a spoiler. Sorry about that, I didn't think about it til now!

Currently I am not sure what to think of the burned skin parts. It is for me different than the birthmark or Virtiligo marks. I think these where created with respect towards real people who have this condition.

Then we have the parts like the leg protese, insuline pump and hearing aids. Those are parts created to make the life of people suffering from a certain condition more bearable. I think this isn’t a bad idea but for other reasons. The Smartdolls wearing these aids in combination with suiting outfits. It shows that medical parts could be stylish too without being disrespectful to the actual people wearing them. 
on the other hand. What Danny provides is a 1/3 scaled version of the medical equipment. I actually think that manufacturers making these equipment could use the scaled down version to improve the style of the equipment. 

The burned skin is different from the above things that are created by humans. Burns are connected with trauma in most cases. The burned mark is more than just a mark because it needs daily special care, itches, hurt and affects your daily routine.  And then there is the unmeasurable emotional impact.
For that reason I am not interested in the Smartdoll with burn marks. 
For educational purpose I think that the burned skin Smartdoll is a good addition. 
The way the burn marks are presented by Danny is not my cup of coffee.

 

Edited February 5, 2022 by Rajke

18 hours ago, DollyDearest said:

I always assumed disabilites were somethin ya born with.

From the CDC: 

A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities (activity limitation) and interact with the world around them (participation restrictions).

The legal definitions for the purpose of benefits or protections will add to that.

 

5 hours ago, Oculae said:

it's not like this was a "BURN VICTIMS - AVAILABLE NOW!"

That actually highlights the fact that selling dolls with major burn scars just seems really creepy and more than a little fetishy. Maybe it’s because burn scars are the stuff of Hollywood horror films, but this seems likely to appeal to the same demographic as zombie dolls, even if it does also appeal to actual burn victims.

Again, I think there's a difference here between children/young people who have a disability* and want a doll that represents them to help them feel "normal" and cope with it; and grownups who have a disability but have already come to terms with it and don't want or need to see themselves represented in this way because it makes them uncomfortable or they don't agree with the way it's been displayed.

Not that DC is going about it right, but if there are kids out there with conditions and these dolls are genuinely helping them deal with it and accepting it as part of themselves I think it's okay.

...the fact that the representation comes in the form of $500+ dolls and not cheaper/more accessible/more child-friendly formats is a different matter though.

(*On definition: you can have someone who was born blind vs someone who went blind because of an illness/accident, and they would both be considered disabled.) 

3 hours ago, monkeypizzasonic said:

Again, I think there's a difference here between children/young people who have a disability* and want a doll that represents them to help them feel "normal" and cope with it; and grownups who have a disability but have already come to terms with it and don't want or need to see themselves represented in this way because it makes them uncomfortable or they don't agree with the way it's been displayed.

Not that DC is going about it right, but if there are kids out there with conditions and these dolls are genuinely helping them deal with it and accepting it as part of themselves I think it's okay.

...the fact that the representation comes in the form of $500+ dolls and not cheaper/more accessible/more child-friendly formats is a different matter though.

(*On definition: you can have someone who was born blind vs someone who went blind because of an illness/accident, and they would both be considered disabled.) 

okays thanks everyone for clarfiing stuff    i was just wonderin is all.    

When I was eight years old, I was playing on my backyard and fell headfirst into a bricked-off fire pit that my dad had been burning wood remnants in. The fire had died but the ashes were still hot, and my right arm was buried up to my elbow on them. I consider myself lucky. Had I not caught myself it would have been my face in those hot ashes. 

A trip to the hospital for about a week. 2nd and 3rd degree burns all over my lower arm. First degree burn on my side, which didn’t scar thankfully. But I’ve had my arm scarred badly for the majority of my life. A year after the accident I had skin graphs done to lessen the scarring but it’s still really obvious. I can tell you, those prototype feet don’t look anything like real scars.