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Here we go again.
Aug. 2nd, 2023 07:46 amAfter tucking into Magical Girl Raising Project two days ago, I started craving some Cibi, posted to Upwork just for some designs, and wound up getting way more applicants than I expected. Spent these past two days doing almost nothing but negotiating (aside from mowing the frontyard on and off yesterday).
Combined with how much I'd end up depositing into escrow for several different applicants, plus critiques from Mayti Hoang, I have decided this morning to cut my losses already, take down the listing, and call things off with those who had yet to show me anyone.
Some of the samples were also of more typical magical girls, carrying wands and how they were dressed, as opposed to the more diverse casts of the Puellaverse and MGRP.
Obviously, I should be more than ready later just to look into the actual ebook series, once I sort out with Brian how to go on about that. The first thing I'd probably do then is ask people to come up with story and design ideas and show me their art style, before I decide who will actually be in charge of the series itself.
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FxSound cancelled out audio several times, remained as the dominant program when I tried to switch back to the speakers (although that did restore the sound just temporarily each time), and I had to uninstall it.
Asked Mom at one point if we could buy some new speakers at BestBuy when she'd be home. She asked me to check out other YouTube videos and even my laptop.
I eventually settled for keeping the knob at 12:00, seeing how much louder the speakers could still be set than my laptop.
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Called Brian yesterday, and he confirmed that he could probably replace specific components in my desktop if worst comes to worst, once he has a chance to diagnose it when he comes to visit.
Redirects have been relatively uncommon lately, but just last night, I saw my computer off for the first time since Saturday. Sent Brian an email, specifying how I deduced this to be nothing other than a virus that somehow survived, but all he could suggest for now was to see if others have had the same problem, which I had already done to exhaustion before rebooting.
Got up at 2 to run a full scan, and then a Microsof Defender offline scan. Neither turned anything up.
Here's hoping he'd have a better idea than Mom when he's here to look things over.
Combined with how much I'd end up depositing into escrow for several different applicants, plus critiques from Mayti Hoang, I have decided this morning to cut my losses already, take down the listing, and call things off with those who had yet to show me anyone.
Some of the samples were also of more typical magical girls, carrying wands and how they were dressed, as opposed to the more diverse casts of the Puellaverse and MGRP.
Obviously, I should be more than ready later just to look into the actual ebook series, once I sort out with Brian how to go on about that. The first thing I'd probably do then is ask people to come up with story and design ideas and show me their art style, before I decide who will actually be in charge of the series itself.
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FxSound cancelled out audio several times, remained as the dominant program when I tried to switch back to the speakers (although that did restore the sound just temporarily each time), and I had to uninstall it.
Asked Mom at one point if we could buy some new speakers at BestBuy when she'd be home. She asked me to check out other YouTube videos and even my laptop.
I eventually settled for keeping the knob at 12:00, seeing how much louder the speakers could still be set than my laptop.
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Called Brian yesterday, and he confirmed that he could probably replace specific components in my desktop if worst comes to worst, once he has a chance to diagnose it when he comes to visit.
Redirects have been relatively uncommon lately, but just last night, I saw my computer off for the first time since Saturday. Sent Brian an email, specifying how I deduced this to be nothing other than a virus that somehow survived, but all he could suggest for now was to see if others have had the same problem, which I had already done to exhaustion before rebooting.
Got up at 2 to run a full scan, and then a Microsof Defender offline scan. Neither turned anything up.
Here's hoping he'd have a better idea than Mom when he's here to look things over.