@Shattered

no

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@Shattered BOTTOM

I made this myself by monochroming the pose and upping the contrast to the Nth gegree, but it came out really pixelly, could anyone help me make it look a little better?

I do not have one, I'm also not that skilled in the first place, even tracing; there are all kinds of scratches and gouges on his hands, plus the wrinkles in the clothing. All of those are skills I have yet to even remotely learn

the problem is that it's an already photoshopped image that's basically a rough cutout of him in a white t-shirt and a white ball-cap against a white wall with a white guitar. There's not a lot of contrast to be made in the first place, so that didn't help.

This is the image i modified, I ran it through Paint dot Net with the contrast settings and then ran a bit of layering and tweaking with the brush

This is the image that the cutout was gotten from

Those rifles have always looked a bit off to me

like they're trying to be a carbine but without a stock\

Even the E-11 had a buttstock, retractable as it may have been

I don't mind the blocky look, but there's an aspect ratio that's offset to me

I know just exactly what it is now

no trigger guard on the pistol grip, and the grip itself should be a little more slanted for how thick it is

B R U H\

to make a gun, any gun, without a trigger guard, *is not a good idea to say the least*

I haven't called you Aggie in months, so i dunno

O O F

@Deleted User Star Wars should take more inspiration from real-world firearms

like

I know, but I mean more

the mandalorian has a Bergman

no, the one that Aggie posted isnt, at least no model I'm aware of

Alright, let me put it this way, I want more old-style weapons in Star Wars, like, surely there's someone with a taste for wooden furnishings

@Deleted User It wouldn't be too difficult to make an SMLE semi-auto conversion rifle look like it belongs in sci-fi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOgw59_lt7o

AS A RIFLE

not some piddley little ion blaster

*fuckin jawas*

*sand jews*

ABOUT DAMN TIME BLAUNDEE

imagine getting into a conversation about star wars guns instead of going to bed *ohwait*

who the fuck is afterburner

I'm done, I need sleep

Depends on what you're talking about

If my employer were to increase wages to 20$ CAD, it could very well bankrupt them. I work in a Lobster Plant, and our main export location was China before the Coronavirus outbreak. After the virus hit, the company (as near as I'm aware) had no money after payroll was calculated.

As it stands right now, our entire profit margin is currently dying and no money is coming in whatsoever. Layoffs were a month early.

having had barely enough to cover payroll, there wasn't anything that could be done, but we're going to be on our hind legs when this all blows over. If payroll for 15/20 employees were increased by 7 dollars CAD, that could very well spell doom at times like these.

No, other coast

that being said, the company I work for is a new company. Paturel by contrast probably has enough banked by now to cover them for another decade with no income just because they've been around that long.

I'm currently being paid 15.25 to 15.50 (I have yet to see my updated paystub, so not sure on where the raise is) and in a few months, I'll be making 16.25. That's as high as wages will go.

Wages are as low as 13.00 for student employees

@Scythe absolutely nothing would stop it other than the fact that employees could leave for work elsewhere.

@Cortah so what about when we start increasing the common denominator?

so if your expenses are 10000$ a month and you're being paid 1$ an hour, you can't work that job and expect to get by.

So increase the denominators, your expenses are 250000 a month and you're being paid 25$ an hour

those numbers are examples and not to scale, but my point stands

1/5 is just 2/10 cut in half

it's also how wages work

20$/1000$ is the same as 10$/500$
if you can't make living wages work with 10$ an hour while your expenses are 500, why should the dipshit lawmakers who determine minimum wage expect you to like on 10$ an hour with expenses of 1000?

so you don't think there should be a minimum wage at all, or just not an increase in minimum wage?

RETARD

you know what, yes I did. You can't have a functioning work force in a capitalist societywhen the workers aren't being paid

at that point there may as well be no companies at all and the entire industry run by government

@TeletubbyCancer that's what would happen if there was no minimum wage

if companies aren't forced to do something, they won;t do it

@Dragun9500 is there any other way to live though? I probably won't see it

I made 19k last year working my fingers to the bone in that plant, that is nowhere near a living wage.

CAD

yeah, gets you by

not with any standard of living though

having a working car that isn't at risk of falling apart on the road comes to mind,

no, it is a true statement.

Have you ever worked in a lower-class job, or are you some dipshit lawer who thinks it's just as tiring sitting at a desk all day "bcuz am werkin mah braen"

because NO

that's not how muscle cramps in the middle of the night work

you know what? Good. We need a little Marxism I think.

A little fascism as well

I call for immediate execution of bankers who launder drug money and then bitch at the lower class for being poor

oh fucking really?

b r u h

I can tell you a good chunk of the working politics and economics behind how World War One was fought and won alongside World War Two.

it basically boils down to Germany Can't Win, but keep thinking it's because of the American shotguns, yeah, those things really showed the Germans. It wasn't a lack of resources and over-engineering and outdated tech at all, it was all american shotguns, nevermind the soviets, it's not like they made more tanks than we did or anything

Also

it's a lot more than most people know, let's be fair

I've been in a modern history class

they don't teach jack shit

just a bunch of hot takes about angry Germans

because that was the whole war, sure

*wrong, mr twit*

*tell me about the German supply lines and the active tactics at work in the Battle of Stalingrad, not about one-ball hitler*

As for the minimum wage thing, you need to realize that the Rich get richer and the poor get poorer. All the time, the rich either just laugh at the poor, or bitch and complain when the poor actually have a point and demand a little more in the way of actually being able to live.

@TeletubbyCancer I'm not reading your points, you demonstrated your failure to grasp sarcasm and then said you were done.

no, I'm actually not reading your points, I'm actually trying to talk to the other guy in this conversation

yes

*for the love of Christ*

Alright then, why do companies pay more than minimum wage? Unions. That's it.

Unions can't generally happen if there's no legal recourse to back them up either, it'd be like going on strike and then the company just fires everyone and replaces them.

As for places that don't have unions? lack of monopoly, which again, is enforced by law

@Cortah Where do you work then?

Oh programming

skill set

that's it

*I have half a mind to just stop, because you people aren't giving me any chance to address one point letalone the 15 or 20 yo make while I'm still typing. at least have the decency to not send 30 separate messages consisting of sentence fragments

so let me get THIS straight, I'm not allowed to call you people retarded, but you're allowed to be condescending twats?

Regardeless, skill set isn't the be all and end all of a work force, reason being that I drag lobster crates around each weighing a total in excess of 115 pounds. That takes some muscle, the kind of muscle a desk-top dipshit lawer generally wouldn't have, or at least I can't picture many of them bothering to go to the gym.

By that logic, I should make the same amount as a layer, because I have a marketable skill for slinging heavy crates around with the same care as you'd treat a crate of eggs for 10 to 12 to 14 hours a day. Meanwhile, a lawyer makes astronomically more money than I do in a day despite not waking up in the middle of the night with muscle cramps. I don't think that's very fair considering that all he has to know how to do is argue the law in a very clean, quiet room.

There is a very stark difference, I work for a company and a lawyer (as near as I can tell) are pretty much freelancers, however the fact of the matter is that despite my shitty conditions, despite my inadequate benefits, despite the INSISTANCE of my employer that I should have to work 7 days a week which is already against Canadian law, my employer thinks I already have it too good. Legally speaking, an outright lie. You can't expect people to break their backs doing slave labour for 14 hours a day, and then expect them back bright and early in the morning for chump change an hour.

Meanwhile, some pompus rich jackass wonders why the lower class is in such a shitty position, it's because we can barely get by, letalone thrive.

I think I hit the character limit, but I'm not quite done, that's just my basic stance on the whole thing

As for what you're saying, give me a minute and i'll catch up

Well someone got pissy at me for it.

using those who the system has failed is just a testament to the fact that the system needs to change. The unemployed can barely get employed as it is regardless of minimum wage. Depending on the area you're talking about, this could be for numerous seperate reasons, however i don't believe that the entire think can be just hand-waved away as "oh well they don't produce more than minimum wage."

most homeless people I can imagine would be just as hard a worker as any one of us who had a home at least in a hard labour job. on the other side of the coin, there are some people who think they're too good to spend even 8 hours a day for 5 days a week in a lobster plant. I actually had a coworker who was like that, but there was far more than that to do with why he was fired. Namely, he was an asshole to anyone and everyone who was better than he was at working the job they were given. he could talk the talk, not walk the walk.

@Farunel an argument about minimum wage is about as cancerous as it will be for a few scrolls up

lol

labour boards won't do anything but report me to my next employer. No it's not legal, but money talks

we have workers rights, sure, none of which can be enforced without pissing off every employer in the province. that's an even bigger problem than not being hired because you can't produce more than you're paid

At least that depends on what job you're talking about

rolley couch

lol

I don't need to man up, I need to beat some sense into my brother with a blunt object

because hes a dipshit