u/Saint_Damien

I'm an actor at a haunt in New England and I recently made a silicone appliance for a pretty big costume upgrade. It's supposed to look like someone burned my face with a cross similar to Evil Ed in Fright Night (but upside down). A piece above my eye and one below, attached to my cheek. I did a makeup test with one of the first appliances to come off the mold and it was a pretty janky appliance but I eventually figured out how to consistently get a decent result with the molds. I have some questions, though.

I put it on with Pros-Aide and it seemed to hold well. I passed on a silicone adhesive simply because it's a little more than I can afford to pay right now (plus it seems like you need to also order remover and thinner which just jacks the price up even more (for Telesis 9, at least). I let the Pros-Aide dry with a hair dryer before I put it on so it's not like it went on wet but when I pulled the applications off they trapped a lot of sweat underneath and I worry that this thing is going to end up falling off in the middle of the show. Is this something I should worry about? Will the same thing happen if I use the silicone adhesive?

The rest of my face is made up like a skull (think Papa Emeritus from Ghost) using black and white Mehron cream make up. The cream make up blended real weird with the appliance, though. It made the edges REALLY stand out even though I felt like I blended the edges pretty well with acetone. The makeup on the appliance appears thicker and not as translucent as the makeup on my skin. It basically looked like I was wearing something on my face. I obviously need a new approach to the makeup I just don't know what that is. Any thoughts?

A couple of things work to my advantage here. My set is dimly lit and I'm not in guest's faces. I also wear a sort of wreath of thorns around my eyes and all of this obscures the flaws a bit but it's going to bother the shit out of me and cast photos will look ass if I don't fix this.

It's been a little while since I've had a regular gaming group and I'm missing it. I have played nearly all of the core WoD books (excluding Wraith) going back to the 90's and have experience running but not playing Vampire 5e which is ideally the game I'd like to join. My favorite games are horror games (WoD, Kult, Delta Green, and Call of Cthulhu, in particular). I recently came up with an idea for a Lasombra that I'd really like to try out so hopefully I find a group that's open to that.

No paid campaigns, please.

My ideal VtM campaign is light on action and combat and favors drama, story, and character with an emphasis on kindred society, politics, and the various conspiracies. No shade, but I'm of the opinion that if your vampire game involves a lot of action and combat you're doing it wrong.

Lately, our analytics suggest pretty strongly that our episodes are being downloaded in bulk and probably used to train AI. I've done some googling but I'm not finding anything useful. There's a lot of articles about poisoning audio files and github repositories meant to sidestep AI poisoning but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I'm looking for either a script to post-process my audio so AI models get nothing from us. Ideally, there's a VST plugin.

Any ideas?

I'm at a loss to explain what this movie is even about but it's easily one of the most original things I've seen in a while. A cosmic horror story told by a rapid-fire series of Canadian TV ads that become more aggressive and sinister as the movie goes on and a buffet restaurant that keeps expanding in the city until everything is absorbed into it. It'll seem familiar to fans of I Think You Should Leave, Tim and Eric, Too Many Cooks, and the Adult Swim Yule Log.