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The Year of the Light of Hope by germanname, visual art

The Year of the Light of Hope

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In 2017, Adobe announced that their long-time animation program, Adobe Flash, would reach its end of life as a program at the conclusion of 2020, after over 20 years of prominence on the internet. Along with it, support for the animation viewer Flash Player was discontinued, and at this point modern web browsers have blocked the Flash plugin from running, as it is out of date. While the circumstances of Flash reaching its end of life are out of our control, it goes without saying that Flash animations were a significant part of DeviantArt’s past. Viral sensations like Line Rider and Animator vs. Animation were highlights of the internet as a whole during the early to mid-2000s. The impact Flash animation had — especially in the early years of its existence — is impossible to ignore. For many, the creativity that came from Flash artists around the globe shaped the way internet humor and conversation of the time happened, guided how internet humor would evolve, and encouraged many

Art Raffle! (CANCELLED) by Feral-Spirit, journal

Art Raffle! (CANCELLED)

Jan 11, 2021

Edit: Art raffle is cancelled do to lack interest. Hi guys :wave: , So after experimenting a bit more with my new tablet I've decided I want to hold an art raffle :D ! There will be two winners for the raffle the first winner will get a fully shaded, highlighted, and detailed bust like this: The second winner will get a fully cell shaded and highlighted bust like this: To enter all you gotta do is favorite and share this journal and then comment below with a ref of the character you would like to be drawn. I will only be be drawing the fallowing: humans, anthros, and Sonic FCs. You do not have to be a watcher in order to enter, but if you do watch me its greatly appreciated :D . I will be using a random number generator so once you enter I will give you a number and whosoever two numbers are picked will be the winners. The winners will be chosen on January 18th, 2021. Thanks for reading, and good luck to those who enter :D !

Celebrating 20 Years of DeviantArt! by team, journal

Celebrating 20 Years of DeviantArt!

Aug 7, 2020

DeviantArt is 20 years old! Celebrate this milestone birthday by joining our Recreate This in Your Style Challenge, then comment on our journal to get the exclusive 20th Birthday Badge! #DA20thBirthday Get the Badge On August 7th, 2000, when the Internet was just beginning to become a household staple, DeviantArt.com launched and became a home for artists worldwide. Twenty years later, we're honored to still be a place for creative people to find kindred spirits and share their work. Beautiful art and equally beautiful friendships have developed between these digital walls. That's what makes this place so special. Whether you've been here f

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About germanname

Artist // Hobbyist // Varied

Mar 2
United States
Deviant for 14 years
He / Him

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Wheel of Fortune layouts (ALWAYS OPEN AND CHEAP!): germanname.deviantart.com/jour…

Sonic drawings (CLOSED!): germanname.deviantart.com/jour…

Name: Bill Gename

Birth Time: March 2, 1990, 22:18 Chicago Time

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Member Since: December 29, 2006

E-Mail Me

germanname@yahoo.com

Sites to Check Me Out

Fanart Central www.fanart-central.net/profile…

YouTube www.youtube.com/user/germannam…

Facebook www.facebook.com/william.genam…

Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of…

Wikimedia Commons toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSen…

Buy A Vowel Boards buyavowel.boards.net/

Instagram www.instagram.com/germanname19… (You can see part of my SEGA collection over at Instagram.)

Hobbies:

Game Shows (esp. Wheel of Fortune)

Video Games (esp. Sonic The Hedgehog)

True Stories (Truth really is stranger than fiction, which is why I find it compelling)

Cars (esp. early 1990s Dodge Viper RT-10 and Saturn Sky)

Airplanes (esp. Commercial Jetliners)

Ships (esp. Ocean Liners and Cruise Ships)

Classic Rock (esp. Boston and Bon Jovi, the latter who by the way is exactly 28 years older than I am)

Marital Status: Single (and I'm keeping it that way)

Love Life: Despite my marital status preference, my love life consists of Sonia, Amy, Cosmo, Zooey, Tikal, Jani-Ca, and the other heroines from the Sonic series as well as my Sonic OC gals (They all feel like family to me).

What I don't like: Racism, misogyny, misandry (seriously, there's WAY too much of that), or bias. I will not tolerate sayings or actions that state that there are such things as superior/better/weaker races or gender. They're not fair! Everyone's equal, plain and simple. Now if you feel like you're on the minority side (or have even been victimized) when it comes to stuff like this, I'll be more than happy to do what I can to help you out with that. Besides, I like sticking up for the underdog.

Current Residence: Southwest Side of Chicago (Go Blackhawks! Go White Sox!)

Favourite genre of music: 70s & 80s Rock

Operating System: Windows 7 and 10

MP3 player of choice: 64GB iPod Touch

Favourite cartoon characters: Ladies from most Sonic, Disney, and Warner Bros. series

How I feel about others: I feel like all else's lives matter more than mine, but that's one reason why I help them.

How I feel about Sonic: If others hate Sonic, fine, yeah, whatever the [BLEEP], but if they try to make me hate Sonic, .

SEGA Systems I currently own (in order of release)

SG-1000 II

Mark III (Two units)

Master System (US version modded with Region Switch and FM Chip)

Genesis (Model 1) complete with Power Base Converter (for Master System games)

Game Gear (Regular Black, currently not working, and Limited Edition Blue, currently working)

Victor Wondermega M1 (Yes, you read that right! The M1!)

CDX

JVC X'Eye

Pico (Japanese and North American)

32X (currently atop my CDX)

Saturn (Japanese and North American)

Dreamcast (Japanese Pearl Blue and US SEGA Sports Edition)

Favorite Real-Life Quote:

"You know what pressure is? When you have seven kids and you make only one dollar a month!"

- Ozzie Guillen comparing pressure to baseball during the 2005 White Sox season.

Favorite Movie Quote:

"So shines a good deed in a weary world."

- Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka quoting William Shakespeare

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Favorite Documentary Quote:

"Occasionally, life sits on your head. But hey, I've been knocked down before. We all have. We get up. We go on. I think that's what makes us great."

- Lewis Abernathy upon hearing the news of the September 11th Attacks

Ghosts of the Abyss

Favourite Visual Artist

Ken Marschall

Favourite Movies

Sonic The Hedgehog, Both Wreck-it-Ralph films, and any disaster films

Favourite TV Shows

Wheel of Fortune, The Price is Right, Sonic X, Sonic Boom, Seconds From Disaster, various shows on Investigation Discovery

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Boston (God Bless Brad Delp), Bon Jovi (We have the same birthday!), Bentley Jones, Crush 40, Amy Hannam

Favourite Books

Books about whatever I like, I guess, but my childhood favorite is the Railway Series.

Favourite Writers

Dave Pelzer (He's inspirational)

Favourite Games

Sonic Series, especially with Amy; WOF Series, Especially PS3, Wii, Sega CD, and Tiger and Parker Brothers' Live Play; Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Super Mario Odyssey, and the Mario Kart series

Favourite Gaming Platform

New Nintendo 3DS, Switch, Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (Yep, I have one), and all SEGA platforms

Tools of the Trade

Colored Pencils, Paint, PowerPoint, and Publisher

Other Interests

Ships (Especially the Titanic, the Normandie, and the SS United States), Gaming, Narrating, Acting

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Mid February 2021 Updates by germanname, journal

Mid February 2021 Updates

Feb 16, 2021

I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day back on Sunday, although I didn't. I spent it freezing myself out at work. In fact, this whole month weatherwise has been absolute-les misérables. Even so, Chicago is not the only place that's getting cold, snowy, windy and outright miserable weather. I just read that twenty-five states have been hit with such weather. Although I can take the cold rather well, this weather has been beyond my limits. As I stated at Facebook and Instagram, I got my first COVID-19 vaccine on February 2nd. My second will be March 9th. That does not mean I'll be off the hook come then. I read it can take weeks for the vaccine to take effect. I also read that due to the time it can take, there have been some folks who have gotten the vaccine only to come down with COVID-19 anyway. I feel giving it until Easter would be too soon. I think I'll be in good shape by May 4th, which will be four years since I adopted Lisa. I'm working on a set of drawings for then. I

End of January 2021 Updates by germanname, journal

End of January 2021 Updates

Jan 28, 2021

An online friend of mine is turning 35 today. I just submitted my birthday drawing for him, but speaking of 35, today is also the 35th anniversary of something much more poignant: the 1986 loss of NASA's space shuttle Challenger over Cape Canaveral, Florida. Whenever I think of the Challenger disaster, I think of the late Roger Boisjoly, the gentleman who tried to prevent it. He was an engineer at Morton Thiokol, the company that manufactured the shuttle rocket boosters. He knew disaster was going to happen because he had scientific evidence, and he did everything he could to stop the launch. The problem was that the launch was delayed numerous times due to cold weather, which is not all that common in Florida even during the winter. The weather on January 28, 1986, was too cold to launch the shuttle safely, but at the same time, the delays cost money. Despite this, NASA ended up losing one of their shuttles, all seven people on board it, and much more money than they could have had

Mid January 2021 Updates by germanname, journal

Mid January 2021 Updates

Jan 16, 2021

Okay. Where do I start? Yeah. January 6 was 46 years to the day that America's Game, Wheel of Fortune, premiered on NBC. While this occasion would've pleased many hardcore fans of the show such as myself, I'm sorry and sad to say that it was completely overshadowed by something totally un-American. What have I got to say about that Hollywoodesque nonsense that took place at the Capitol a week and a half ago? TWO WORDS!! Hollywoodesque nonsense!! And there are a lot of people, myself included, who are worried that this isn't over yet. While many are fearing violence at Biden's inauguration on Wednesday, that is not the only day that concerns me. Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and I've got plenty of reasons to worry about trouble happening that day too. All I can do is hope and pray for peace this upcoming week. The only thing that the rioters did a good job of at the Capitol besides spreading mayhem was spreading you-know-what, which leads me to my next subject. I heard about