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    Ninja Dino reacted to Rollo for a status update, It's kinda funny how fad had a bigger impact on a Minecraft animation forum than Mine   
    It's kinda funny how fad had a bigger impact on a Minecraft animation forum than Minecraft Story Mode in the long run
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from crustyjpeg for a status update,   
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    Ninja Dino reacted to mbanders for a status update, This may be the most painful thing I'll ever do to myself.   
    This may be the most painful thing I'll ever do to myself. 
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    Ninja Dino reacted to Extro for a status update, WHOOO HE SAID YES thanks for the inspiration, I really needed it   
    WHOOO HE SAID YES
    thanks for the inspiration, I really needed it
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    Ninja Dino reacted to NietyFox for a status update, so i've barely existed for nearly a year 'n' stuff i randomly had once decided to com   
    so i've barely existed for nearly a year 'n' stuff
    i randomly had once decided to come back to this website and hurrah i remember mine-imator
    so during my time of absence i've decided just messing around with it and well, did some lil' tests that are in no way worthy of an entire thread but just a little status
    i don't know how links work again so if i mess up entirely, f
    they are absolutely nothing special but i'm just going to leave them here
     
    also goodbye for another year
     
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from GamingQuick for a status update, How dare you point at me.   
    How dare you point at me.
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    Ninja Dino reacted to Benji for a status update, Was practicing Blender today. And took this. and made it into this:   
    Was practicing Blender today. And took this.

    and made it into this:  

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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from 9redwoods for a status update, I watched Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse yesterday, and I really loved it. Such a g   
    I watched Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse yesterday, and I really loved it. Such a good movie, great writing, animation, soundtrack, style, and many other things. The only problem I had with the movie was that damn annoying Peter Porker character, and don't even get me started on that anime *****. That character was a damn mistake...
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from crustyjpeg for a status update, It sucks that Mumkey Jone's channel was taken off YouTube. I really liked his content   
    It sucks that Mumkey Jone's channel was taken off YouTube. I really liked his content #JusticeForMumkey
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from Bugleberry for a status update, It sucks that Mumkey Jone's channel was taken off YouTube. I really liked his content   
    It sucks that Mumkey Jone's channel was taken off YouTube. I really liked his content #JusticeForMumkey
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    Ninja Dino reacted to Rollo for a status update,   
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    Ninja Dino reacted to Rollo for a status update, Sorry for the double status but I've been having some thoughts and only just got my f   
    Sorry for the double status but I've been having some thoughts and only just got my finger on what exactly they are. I didn't really know why I took my little break but after people on foreign affairs talked about some of their problems I really started to figure out what was going on. Well, there were some personal things I wanted to fix, which I did, but I also realized some of those problems were caused by the same thing that caused the forums' problems, and I gave in.
    You see, the last straw, the nail in the coffin that made me take my break, was the profile picture thing. If you weren't online to see exactly what happened, basically me and a couple other people copied the profile picture of a certain user and mocked them a little. It was pretty harmless, but pretty toxic as well. That was when I got my first warning point in the last 2 years. That was when I knew there was a problem, I just didn't know exactly what problem drove me to some silly, immature, and kinda unnecessary joke.
    Older members have been leaving, which isn't a bad thing in itself, but new members have been taking their place. That isn't a bad thing either, but it can sometimes feel like they're overpowering good, wholesome content. Again, they have every right to post their creations, but there is a certain attitude among a lot of them. I keep feeling the need to say it, but none of this is anyone's fault. It was all happening kind of subconsciously, don't blame anyone for having a toxic attitude. Anyway, there are a lot of new users who I think just don't really understand criticism that well. It's okay to make bad content, it's normal. It is always possible to fix, and it should be encouraged to fix. But it seems like a lot of the newer users take emotional responses to people practicing this mindset. Criticism is always a good thing, and it kind of baffles me that anyone takes offense to any criticism. Whether or not it's good criticism is up for argument, but in any case, criticism should never be considered a personal offense, to you or your work.
    Still with me? Good, I'm just getting started. So this attitude, this attitude that implied criticism was worthless and that new users should be told they are perfect and that this attitude was the right attitude and that anyone who disagreed is just inherently rude, started to cause some problems. Older users who actually gave advice, sometimes jokes, couldn't help but feel offended by this new mindset. A lot of people were antagonized or invalidated, which only made things worse. These same older users felt the need to push their criticism further, getting more aggressive. After all, you can't really argue against the mindset of the newer users, so the only thing we know how to do is practice ours more aggressively. This escalated and only made it easier for new users to antagonize them, both sides thinking they're doing the right thing. This only created a very toxic atmosphere, with the divide getting bigger and bigger. Some new users felt the need to defend each other and gather together in groups, upvoting each other and downvoting others when there was a disagreement.
    There is more I could talk about that, but I'm pretty confident on the cause of some trivial things that piled up over the last couple months (more or less). This affected all of us, including me. I finally gave into the toxic atmosphere and I realized there was a problem I needed to fix. At the time I had no idea what was wrong with the community, so I just took a while off to refresh myself and think about all of it.
    In short, the whole community lost itself and made people feel unwelcome. The only change we can really make to fix it is personal improvement, nothing that can be encouraged. I think we all just need to kind of take a step back and keep an open mind to the input of other people. We're all important, and it's never healthy to invalidate other people, even if it's for the sake of helping yourself (yet still, in this case it does not help yourself).
    Happy day my friends.
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from KaryuGraphics for a status update, I wouldn't have known that Stan died today if I weren't on the Mine-Imator forums rig   
    I wouldn't have known that Stan died today if I weren't on the Mine-Imator forums right now, ha ha. Now we won't be having any more cameos of him in Marvel movies. I literally don't have any other reason to care about the fact that he died other than that, those cameos were always funny.
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from 9redwoods for a status update, I wouldn't have known that Stan died today if I weren't on the Mine-Imator forums rig   
    I wouldn't have known that Stan died today if I weren't on the Mine-Imator forums right now, ha ha. Now we won't be having any more cameos of him in Marvel movies. I literally don't have any other reason to care about the fact that he died other than that, those cameos were always funny.
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from Ian_The_One for a status update, I wouldn't have known that Stan died today if I weren't on the Mine-Imator forums rig   
    I wouldn't have known that Stan died today if I weren't on the Mine-Imator forums right now, ha ha. Now we won't be having any more cameos of him in Marvel movies. I literally don't have any other reason to care about the fact that he died other than that, those cameos were always funny.
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    Ninja Dino reacted to YoshiHunter for a status update, I'm deeply saddened by the death of Stan Lee. May one of the greatest human beings wh   
    I'm deeply saddened by the death of Stan Lee. May one of the greatest human beings who ever lived Rest In Peace.
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    Ninja Dino reacted to 9redwoods for a status update, Ninja Dino has come over to the dark side. @Ninja Dino Welcome, young one. I will tea   
    Ninja Dino has come over to the dark side.
    @Ninja Dino Welcome, young one. I will teach you the ways.
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    Ninja Dino reacted to Floofy for a status update, And now progress has been made.   
    And now progress has been made.

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    Ninja Dino reacted to The Tan James for a status update, woAH   
    woAH 

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    Ninja Dino reacted to Rollo for a status update, Okay, there's some stupid stuff going on between Swift and 9redwoods and I just want   
    Okay, there's some stupid stuff going on between Swift and 9redwoods and I just want to hopefully put an end to it, since people have been mentioning me and wanting me to be apart of it. Take it as you will, this is all I'm going to say on the matter, and I'm going to stay mostly neutral. Yes, neutral. Anything I say here should not be taken as a personal offense, because everyone is at fault and it can be fixed.
    I'm going to explain everything either side is doing completely wrong and why this feud still exists. I'm telling you all this so you can understand where the problem lies, and so that we can fix this together. At this point it should be us against the problem, not us against each other.
    First off, Redwoods and his pals. @9redwoods, you're a huge hypocrite. You tell Swift and Karyu to stop downvoting everything you say, and that the rep button should be used for things you agree or disagree with. But you do the exact same thing. You downvote what they say for the same reason they downvote you, because neither of you agree with each other. What both sides need to understand is that everyone is doing something wrong and everyone thinks they're right. You, Redwoods, don't take criticism well at all, and it rubs off on the criticism you give to other people. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of criticism and wallpaper-making in general and act like your way is the only sure-fire way to do anything. You give people advice that not even you follow in your own wallpapers, namely the whole camera angle thing. You seem insistent that placing it lower and facing up is the only way to make any wallpaper, since you comment that on every wallpaper ever. That is not how criticism works. That is terrible advice. The camera is meant to bring attention to certain areas of the wallpaper, and to possibly make it more exciting. Which means it's very conditional, every wallpaper is different. There is no one way to make a wallpaper, otherwise every wallpaper would suck. And when people call you out on this aspect, your two excuses are used interchangeably. One says "that's how I've always done my criticism" and one says "I've changed, I used to give that kind of criticism and now I don't". Which are complete polar opposites. Make up your mind or come up with a better excuse, because that's the reason no one falls for that bullshit. It feels like you don't actually know what people are telling you is bad, or just don't want to, so let me spell it out for you. You give bad criticism because you have a very strict and actually incorrect standard of wallpapers. There is a difference between short and blunt criticism and just not giving a shit. You're extremely unapologetic as well. You don't care that people don't like what you say because "that's just how you've always been". People get mad at your criticism because it doesn't actually help the creator of the wallpaper. Sure, it's not rude or anything, but it tries to get a mindset into the creator that we don't want them to have, which is that everything has to be a certain way, your way. And also that their work can only be improved if they do it the way you would do it. It's so frustrating to people because they know there's a problem, they just don't know how to call you out on it, and that's why you get so defensive when it's mentioned.
    Then, of course, there's the rep circle. No matter how much the little rep circle over here can downvote yours, your circle with MikTRF and all those guys will always be enough to boost you back up. In that regard, we're all at fault, so it's best if we all just calm down and recognize that the digital down-arrow is pointless to the person we're fighting against, on BOTH SIDES. Let me repeat myself, BOTH WE AND YOU ARE AT FAULT. The rep circle argument is really stupid and I hope everyone reading recognizes that, because Redwoods could easily turn around and say the same thing about Foreign Affairs. Listen, rep circles aren't an inherently bad thing. Most of the time we don't even notice they exist, as with Redwoods right now. But they can also be weaponized, and that's when it becomes rep abuse. Soon enough, the upvote circle becomes a defensive downvote circle, hurting others while boosting itself. That sounds dramatic and yeah, it's stupid. But that's how it works. And it works.
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    Alright, now @Swift. Just like I said before Redwoods's, don't take this as a personal offense. I'm just stating my opinion on the current situation, everything can be fixed. Swift, I agree with you on a lot of the stuff you've said, but there are problems aside from your opinions on the matter. There is a point where it's healthier to just ignore them. And I know you've heard that a thousand times, so I'm going to elaborate. Clearly, the methods you've been using to argue against him are not getting to him at all. He's a lost cause, so I would just leave it. Don't give him the attention. If you downvote him, he accuses you of rep abuse. If you reply to him, he thinks it's blind hate. If you bring it to DMs or even Discord, it all ends with a plain misunderstanding of the other side's opinion, so there's honestly nothing else to do. And I know Redwoods is probably like "Yes, just leave it alone, Swift! It happened a long time ago so just leave it alone!" But Redwoods, you're guilty of the same thing. The same exact thing, actually. Redwoods, you are no better than Swift and Swift, you are no better than Redwoods in that regard. That part's on both of you.
    And then there's the part where Redwoods and MikTRF downvote anything you and Karyu say, regardless of whether or not it's meant to hurt them. Yes, that is a valid thing to be concerned about. However, you need to remember that they think you do the exact same thing, which you might. There's no way to argue against it because they can argue the same points towards you and have just as little meaning. So, at that point, I would just report them and try not to stoop to their level. Revenge rep is never a good thing for anyone, because then you can't actually get someone punished for rep abuse because you're guilty of the same thing by definition. So stay level-headed, keep your head up, and let mods know about it without doing it yourself. It's a really easy pit to dig into, so don't let yourself fall into it. Because if there is actually something bad going on, the mods won't do anything about it if everyone involved is guilty of something.
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    Long story short, everyone is at fault for something, so it's best to be able to recognize your own problems, so you can avoid them in the future and let the mods handle anyone who isn't able to do so. Both of you. Don't think that just because I'm calling the other person out that you're not at fault for the same thing, that's a really easy mindset to get into. Redwoods, you are at fault. Swift, you are at fault. Mik and Karyu are at fault too.
    That's my opinion, stop messaging me.
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    Ninja Dino reacted to Jake_28 for a status update, I made some logos, any feedback? And heres a logo i Edited   
    I made some logos, any feedback?




     
     
    And heres a logo i Edited

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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from crustyjpeg for a status update, Minecon is looking as stupid as ever this year. Glad to know that they kept the tradi   
    Minecon is looking as stupid as ever this year. Glad to know that they kept the tradition of being completely cringey every time they host it.
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from JB Animations for a status update, According to a test on the internet there's a possibility that I might be a sociopath   
    According to a test on the internet there's a possibility that I might be a sociopath!
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    Ninja Dino reacted to Hagus for a status update, I think Minecraft should add more fresh content, not just more animals/mobs. I think   
    I think Minecraft should add more fresh content, not just more animals/mobs. I think they add something new besides the Nether and the End, because everyone knows how to easily go through those places now. Add another dimension, or something that makes people say "OMG I WANNA GO THERE AND SEE STUFF" instead of "oh wow, new animals, a lion and an elephant, I can't wait to kill them, get more useless materials, and forget about it". Maybe also add some other NPC thing that isn't just villages with idiotic annoying villagers who can't fend for themselves. Maybe a castle, with NPC guards and stuff that would be interesting to see. Idk just my thoughts on it.
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    Ninja Dino got a reaction from Rollo for a status update, The idea that linear animation is bad and shouldn't be used is actually really dumb.   
    The idea that linear animation is bad and shouldn't be used is actually really dumb. The linear transition is very useful in Mine-Imator animation and other 3D animation. Animation with only non-linear transitions is really ugly, you need a little bit of linear transitions to make animation look better.
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