Writer, TF Finatic, Recohoster, and Game dev. Wasnt able to post here as much as I liked, but I'll miss it and all of yall. Till we meet again, friends!
you'd be a fool to pass this up, these are almost all absolute bangers
If you have a Pixiv account already, it's two clicks to link it to YutaONE, and then you can download a zip with 178 MB of fonts for free!!!
Getting a headstart by collating this as time progresses rather than trying to go through a backlog way at the end of the year, though this in no way means I'll keep up with doing this each month. Going to be missing a lot of good posts (and probably including the same people a fair bit) simply as a consequence of what crosses my timeline.
During the late stages of evicting its residents in the early 90s, a Japanese research team was allowed unprecedented access to its mostly-empty structure, in order to document as much as they could before the structure was demolished. Their work was compiled in a 1997 book, cited above, which remains a major source of information about the enclave.
I promise, if something happens that will impact your life, you'll find out. Someone will tell you. And if they don't, then it doesn't impact you. (This is kind of a self-fulfilling bit, but... well it works!)
If anything, these things criticize the sanitized image that people tend to have in their heads about magical girls and heroes — which ties back into my point in that if you see these things as inherent mockeries of the genre just by their sheer existence, you’re just as guilty of reducing the genre to that sanitized image.
It’s always been a high priority, especially for my mental health, that I’m okay with being alone with myself and alone with my thoughts. It’s not something that I want to be kept away from. I want to be able to reflect on things, plan for the future, sort out of my feelings, and think deeply about things that are stressing me out. And, obviously, there are things online that are very good at distracting you from that.
People talk about "never believing anything about your life after 9pm" and that's the same phenomenon. It's easy to interpret physical sensations as emotions about the state of your entire life, and not the state of being tired and sleepy right now.
If you put a niche game for a niche audience on Steam and you haven't farmed mainstream appeal 5-figure wishlist numbers beforehand Steam will not do any of that. It will notice your game isn't selling copies day 1, it will drop your game on the floor, and not even the niche audience that would enjoy it will see it. Your game will make no money, but Steam will gladly take 30% of the sales you drive directly to them for the privilege of nothing
i feel grief because i don't even feel allowed to claim this part of my identity because i'm so divorced from it, even when i stop to realize that it wasn't even my choice to be divorced from it, but that of the institutions and systems in this country pushing me and my family towards it.
Internally, this was a very simple "spin up a subsidiary with a specialized focus, so we don't have to micromanage in the same hierarchy" move. To the public, this was positioned as "whoah!!! LONG TIME, STORIED PUBLICATION HOUSE PAIZO PRESS (who you've totally heard of obviously you just forgot) APPROACHED US BECAUSE THEY'RE FANS OF 3'RD EDITION!
In Japan, things were very different: the DSi Shop had an absolute glut of games that were conspicuously titled to appear at the top of each category/listing, from publishers of all sizes, and it's something the core audience picked up on very quickly, too.
Most people are actually not stupid enough to click on anything in a banner ad! No matter how dumb we think the unwashed masses are, they really aren't; it's just that there are so, so, so many people, moving so fast, that if .05% of them are feckless enough to click on an obvious fucking lie, that still ends up being a couple dozen purchases. Enough to pay for the scam.
We are getting torn apart by the right while we devour ourselves. We have become so focused on morality and ethics- the seeming of being right. We fight over what's the best way for a country to be run in a hypothetical world we will never see. Being moral is a good thing, but it's not about fucking shaking your finger at others. It's about seizing the opportunity to do something good when you can.
At the time of writing, there are multiple genocides occurring that are motivated in part by desire for oil, cobalt, and other mined materials. As no animal products are present, these things can be labelled as "cruelty-free".
People don't get into journalism to write Top 10 Black Friday SSD Deals posts. But before too long you realise the demands of playing to ad rev and SEO have destroyed the ability to put time into good critique and journalism, or that the long term institutional knowledge at these outlets simply doesn't exist to train new writers.
while teaching, the robot would not move unless you squeezed the pendant’s grip hard enough. its tiring for your hand but a very good thing as you invariably startle and let go right before you command the robot to collide with you. it stops instantly. it is extremely cool and equally terrifying to be next to one of these big steel arms, even more so when you’re in control.
Values aren't innate or static; people can change what they value. But it will always be an emotional process because it can't be a rational one. There's no way to decide if you should care more about your country or your family based on logic alone; logic can help you explore the consequences but only emotion can answer a "should."
empty spots on this map do not exist, in any shape or form. you cannot go there. under no circumstances can you "boundary break" and visit one of the empty spots on this map.
Early on, you'll want to figure out what parts you deem important enough that it's core to the adaptational process. What is thematically important, how to mechanically represent it, the aesthetic ideas behind it, etc. This is where you quickly find out that some issues that aren't cursed in any other medium become cursed when you're adapting them to TTRPGs.
Is it better? Worse? I have absolutely no answer for you. It doesn't function within my existing paradigms for understanding politics. What reading about it does is shake my preconceptions about what is natural or normal about how societies can be structured. I probably can't form a solid opinion on Singaporean politics without living in Singapore.
There is a misconception that feedback/critique should focus on pointing out flaws and or mistakes, which I feel results in that commonly awkward "silence" in art classrooms, discord channels, and even professional meetings when work is presented. Focusing soley on the "bad" is discouraging and from my observations hinder growth or promotes an unhealthy/destructive approach toward growth that plunges people toward burnout.
Something like only 1.5% of Twitter users checked Twitter more than once a week, and most people weren't on Twitter at all. We had a distorted sense of Twitter as being this global town square representing the global collective consciousness where important ideas were discussed and organizing happened... because journalists and a few major politicians really like using it. But most people just weren't in that world at all. Everything that happened on Twitter was an unrepresentative sample. It was all always a bubble all along.
This is the index post that collects all my thoughts and reviews about the 16th Wolf RPG Editor Contest for easy reading. The Wolf RPG Editor Contest is an annual festival showcasing creations made in the Wolf RPG Editor, an engine made by SmokingWOLF of One Way Heroics fame.
i think its just funny that:
the most recognizable term for gun cavalry: dragoon
but also: would you like to define dragoon in a simple, short way? god fucking help you, and final fantasy certainly isnt helping either
It's also worth pointing out that the difference between playing a new game and playing an old game in this example is you - you get to share your knowledge and experience with others, and ground the practice of the game in the history and tradition that you understand. It's important to pass these on to the next generation, I think. I like to teach the NorCal kids how to play Capcom vs. SNK 2 because I believe that it's NorCal's game, and that learning strong footsies is their birthright.
Eating enemies and using them as weapons is only a weapon of last resort and not the main aspect of either the character or the game.
It is the wrong argument because the problem is rarely actually that the character is a stereotype or isn't an archetype. The real problem is that the character is the only one.
It's generally been my philosophy that you can measure narrative pacing in any RPG about a pilgrimage that goes terribly wrong by comparing its pacing to Final Fantasy X, the quintessential (and very focused) RPG Pilgrimage Gone Wrong story.
Analogue TV is measured in terms of lines: on NTSC TVs (used in the Americas and parts of Asia), a signal is about 4802 visible lines filling the screen, while on PAL TVs (used in Europe, Oceania, and parts of South America and Asia), a signal is about 576 lines. Your horizontal resolution, on the other hand, is what's variable: you can ask the TV to render as much or as little detail as you want within a line, so long as the signal can fit that much detail.
Remember, all of this is a journey, so if some weeks you don't cook as much or even at all, that's okay. Meal planning, cooking, food management - all of them are skills to be learned. Again, fed is best, for both babies and you.
Extremely good collection, as usual. Every month I hope to be picked, but alas. I must redouble my efforts to write gooder!
I like that this article doesn't just talk about the financial side of it, but also at least in part how much harassment game developers get for absolutely no reason. It's clear who the villains here are, and as the crash continues to gain momentum, I think unionizing and banding together no matter where you are is the only choice for survival at this point. Odds are still slim but what other options are left?
I've been making games for 22 years this year, or two-thirds of my life. And I've been getting paid for twelve of those years. I'm in the credits of six AAA titles, and I shipped my first game when I was fourteen. (It was rated 6/10 on GameMakerGames.com)
But for the first nine months of my career, I worked in security software. A local company made a software package that combined security events from different hardware vendors into a 2D overview, and they had outsourced a new 3D version of their management software to a games company. They had now brought that version back in-house, realized it was shit, and needed a Junior Programmer fresh out of gamedev college to tidy things up. On paper, it was a great job. I was paid a livable wage that supported me and my girlfriend, now wife, to write C++ professionally. I learned test-driven development there, and how to write a driver for a device you don't have physical access to. At twenty-three years old, I had a company-provided lunch, discounted health insurance, and a pension plan. But I was miserable. One night, I had a dream that I was in prison. And it was fine for the most part, but it had a strange schedule. Every day I would get up, go to prison, sit there for nine hours, and go back home in the evening. So when I saw on Twitter that a games company had an opening, I jumped on that right away.
When I handed in my notice at the security software company, the CEO wanted to have a chat with me to see if he could convince me to stay. He pointed out that a lot of the work they do is very similar to games, and that they have great career advancement opportunities. He showed off some of the future plans they had for expanding the business and asked if I would reconsider. And I smiled, nodded, and said I had already made up my mind before I came in. Because all of what he said was true. But it wasn't games.
The weird thing is, it's because people so badly need (art, games, stories) what creative work makes, that creative workers are so badly treated. There is an element of moral envy. You get to do something meaningful and express yourself, and it's games, which are also fun! How dare you also want time off and a living wage and health insurance! It's the same thing that happens with teachers and low to mid level nursing staff, in this respect.
Plus there's the related aspect of the passion tax. If there's any reason someone might want to do the job other than money, it will tend to pay less, because skinflint employers figure they can get away with it. So it's both coming and going, from the perceived value of the work intrinsically to both the public and the workers.
This is bizarro topsy turvy idiot logic though. Passion doesn't pay any bills, and shouldn't we reward people doing the valuable jobs more not less if anything? But of course, it's not actually a decision made by the people swept up in the moral envy. That's just one of the layers of cultural baggage locking people into continuing to replicate the status quo every day. The few who are owners instead of workers benefit from this greatly. Resenting each other instead of them is exactly how they hope to keep their clutch on riches.
I am on mobile but dropdowns aren't even allowed on vidya gaem consoles! We use option steppers for our menus, and they look like this:
⏪ Apple ⏩
First Option Selected ⏩
⏪ Last Option Selected
