And Baffoonery Ensues

tip toes

head in the clouds

My (late) contribution for Make A Terrible Comic Day! I've been going to the library more often lately so this has been coming up a lot, cause I want something to read but have had trouble finding anything that I'm comfortable with.

1. Rhodes Kitchen

Peak Margaret. The artist understood the assignment and portrayed the pure essence of Nearl. While she's wearing the outfit of her Guard form her presence and strength are that of someone who will Defend you. A culmination of all the greatest Margarets.

Rating: 12/10 Nearl

2. Defender Nearl

The Original Nearl. Truly the quintessential Margaret. Strong. Capable. Protective. Beautiful.

Rating: 10/10 Nearl

3. Nearl with her sister

While the face is a bit off from usual due to a difference in artist, this is still very much Nearl. Still a strong, beautiful horse that will protect you.

Rating: 9.75/10 Nearl

4. Nearl Alter

A different form of Nearl that deviates from the base concept, but still retains the feel of Margaret Nearl. Could easily be 3 instead depending on your viewpoint, but the sporty competition-ware bumps her down for me. Still a strong, beautiful horse that protects you, though the difference in artistic vision does cause her to drift a bit in recognizability.

Rating: 8-9.75/10 Nearl depending on viewpoint

5. Nearl Alter Skin

While she gets points for having somewhat proper armor instead of her competition garb, we are starting to deviate a bit from what Margaret Nearl is. The artist did their best to portray Nearl while still satisfying the given outline of a "lithe and sexy" skin. As an optional, alternate look meant to differentiate from the base art, I don't really dislike it, even though it is losing the plot a bit. Still can be considered Nearl Margaret for the most part.

Rating: 6.5/10 Nearl

6. Ambience Synesthesia Nearl

Really does not feel like Nearl. Too lithe. Too exposed. Slightly forgiven since it's supposed to be a "fashionable and extravagant dress" look instead of her normal wear but this is for the most part not Margaret

Rating: 4/10 Nearl

7. This is just Platinum

The artist accidentally drew Platinum instead of Nearl. The only remnants of Margaret are her having larger breasts and thighs than Platinum.

0/10 Nearl, this is a different character

8. Cafe Nearl

No.

Bioware management denied to give the laid off workers the severance they were contractually obligated to give. They were entitled to one month's pay for every year they worked at Bioware but were given far less than that (Mary Kirby specifically worked for Bioware for 17 years).

tethered

ink + sketchbook

tokyo google maps

edit I’m going to try to find the exact location somehow since everyone likes this picture haha

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.