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Tidewalker and Gilded Official Reveal!

We are Thrilled and Excited to officially reveal the Official Art for our Gilded and Tidewalker colors, as modeled by the Direfang!  

The Gilded theme reflects the essence of Ancient guardianship, with rich golds, deep blues, and radiant Gemstones woven into its design. This pet is a living relic, imbued with the Energy of sacred locations and powers of the Ancient. The shimmering jewels suggest a connection to Mystical wonders, making the Gilded pet a vigilant Protector, always watching over with a serene yet commanding Presence.

The Tidewalker theme enchants your pet with the Powerful, mystical energy of the Ocean. Plunge beneath the waves with scales and fins perfect for Exploring the depths of the sea! Watery magic empowers Tidewalker pets to embark on undersea Adventure. Your pet will truly embody the essence of the Ocean, resembling the powerful Guardians of the deep. 

Thank You to each and every one of you for your Support and enthusiasm that makes Santae's growth possible. We hope you love these new pet colors as much as we loved Creating them -- and that you're excited for everything more that is to Come! Every Alpha Member and Kickstarter Backer will receive one Gilded Shimmer Dust and one Tidewalker Shimmer Dust as a huge thank you for achieving this goal as a community! Stay tuned for more information on how these Legendary Guardians will be released in the future! These will be issued as we roll into our Beta Testing phase. 

If we can reach our $75k Stretch Goal, we'll unlock yet another brand New Pet to join the world of Santae. And Beyond that, there's even more to unlock. Join your friends in an Adventure Party to take on quests as a team. Tend to your collection of Minimals in a dedicated Terrarium and Aquarium system. Even more new pets, a pet Battle System -- all this and more awaits beyond our additional Stretch Goals!

Thank You All so much for your continued Love and Support! Our Community is what makes Santae truly special.

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If anyone wants to join and come say hi, (I’m Grechtinjuarez on santae) you can get a beta access key by supporting the kickstarter!

Santae Kickstarter Making Waves!

The official Santae Kickstarter is underway now, and we are absolutely thrilled at the outpouring of support from our community. Not only was our goal fully funded in 28 Minutes, we’ve also already achieved four of our exciting stretch goals!

We’ve now unlocked 2 new Pet Colors, 5x HTML5 Games, a new Pet Species and Pet Auras and Backgrounds — and our next stretch goal, another brand new pet species, is right around the corner! 

Between all the exciting backer tiers and a rich selection of available add-ons, there’s something for every Adventurer to enjoy. We’ve even recently expanded the Kickstarter add-ons to allow you to select the color of your choice when adding Phasmic, Seamso, or Kyree figurines!

We've also added 3 new stretch goals to bring 4 new pet species to Santae! These have been added in-between our previous Stretch Goals <3 

Equip yourself for adventure in the world of Santae by making your pledge to the official Kickstarter today!

With Love and Gratitude

~The Santae Team

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like actually this game is so cute. I’ve been alpha testing it since early July and I’m really enjoying it so far

My username there is Grechtinjuarez, you can say I sent you in the alpha testing application

Greetings From Santae,

Adventurer, Thank You for joining us on our exciting journey and being a part of our community during Alpha Testing at Santae! We're thrilled to have you following our progress and signing up for our newsletter. As a valued member of our community, you'll enjoy exclusive perks and stay informed about our upcoming updates, including what we've accomplished and what we plan to continue building. Be sure to check your email and click the link we sent to redeem your special reward. We are beyond grateful for your support and look forward to sharing more of our adventures with you! Also, click the link below and hit that "Notify Me Button" and anyone who signs up to follow our Kickstarter will receive a Divine Synthwave Harlowin Figurine as a thank you gift!

The Official Santae Kickstarter Is Kicking Off Soon!

Exciting things are underway in the magical world of Santae, and there’s no better time to begin – or continue – your adventure with us.

We’re thrilled to announce that the official Santae Kickstarter campaign will launch August 30! Backing the project will grant you exclusiveaccess to the site during our Beta launch, in addition to an incredible variety of rewards.

Tier Rewards range from beautiful Animated Wardrobe items for your avatar, to the companionship of the Kyree, Phasmic, and Seamso pets, and much more. You can even unlock the opportunity to collaborate with our art and design teams to design your very own site content: A Minimal, hairstyle, on-site item or clothing set, NPC, or even pet species!

Visit the Official Santae Kickstarter Today!

Press “Notify me on launch” on the official Santae Kickstarter to become a follower, and invite your friends to do the same. As our Kickstarter page hits certain follower thresholds, the entire Alpha community will unlock tiers of prizes!

At 500 followers for the official Santae Kickstarter, we will release a new pet species, the Luffin, early. At 1000 followers, we will unlock early access to the brand-new Synthwave color! Don’t miss your chance to unlock rare rewards while also helping to make our Kickstarter a success. Visit this page for a sneak peek of all available Kickstarter tiers and rewards!

The Road So Far…

The beginning of Santae’s Alpha test on May 12th, was the start of an incredible journey. In the weeks since then, we’ve enriched the game with dozens of regular updates and exciting new features.

Here is just a taste of what we’ve added to enhance your experience on Santae:

New pet species

On Santae, mystical pets are your adventuring companions. There are plenty to choose from, and many more species on the way! Over the course of Alpha, we released 5 brand new pet species for Santarians to befriend. We’ve also increased the amount of pet friends you can add to your adventure party to 10 when you start!

The adorable moth-like Nochturn is ready to join any Santarian’s adventuring party as soon as they join the site. Brave adventurers who journey to the Lava Caves of the Flamefall Cascades can find the draconic Harlowin and fearsome Grusim. The elegant Drava can be found at traveling merchant Vespera’s exclusive shop. And finally, the friendly Quibbit evolves from its tadpole-like Minimal form.

Which pet species will become your faithful adventuring companion?

New Pet Colors

No matter your style, you can customize your pet companions on Santae with the help of magical shimmer dust!

We announced FOUR exciting new pet colors over the course of Alpha, with more to come in Beta and beyond. Will your pet let its true colors shine with the beautiful Prismatic shimmer dust? Will it become an adorable Pipsqueak? Will they show class and elegance with a RegalShimmer Dust? Or will you give your pet a taste of retro digital style with the brand-new Synthwave color?

New Minimals

In the world of Santae, your pets can adopt enchanting companions of their own called Minimals! Choose from dozens of types to find your pet’s perfect match.

Santae’s Alpha phase has brought many new exciting types of Minimals to join the herd. Which will your pet adopt?

Exciting New Site Features

The world of Santae is rich with opportunities to explore, gather, and discover. During the site’s Alpha phase, we’ve unlocked engaging on-site mini-games that bring you and your pets all across the vibrant world of Santae.

Send your pets Gathering at locations across Santae and they will bring back exciting items to share with you! Your pet might bring you a magical rune from the mysterious Stormforge Caverns, gather useful plants from the Ancient Grove, or maybe even discover an egg that can hatch into another pet at the volcanic pools of Ember Springs. You can also direct your pet to pluck rare berries from the Great Berry Tree!

When your pets go Fishing at the sunny Solar Sands – or in any gathering location across Santae – there’s no telling what they might find at the other end of the line. You might reel in a delicious fish, an eel that can join your pet as its Minimal companion, a piece of useful equipment that only needs a small repair, and so much more. More discoveries in the depths of the waters around Santae are sure to come.

If you want to tame wild Minimals, go visit Silvershade’s Ranch in the Lani Archipelago! They will send you out into the wild to catch and tame a Minimal through an interactive Herding mini-game. Bring berries, toys, and plushies to tempt and distract the Minimal as you and your pet cooperate to befriend it.

A Dynamic World

Santae’s sunny days and mysterious nights each hold their own mysteries to explore, watch as the clouds move while you play, and every hour on the hour you can watch the transition to day/night. As the world cycles between states every hour, you and your pets have the chance to make exciting new discoveries!

Visiting the Lava Caves in the dark of night will bring you face to face with the opportunity to tame a fearsome Grusim – but during the light of day, the Grusim retreats. While the sun shines over the Lava Caves, you can instead bring your Harlowin egg there to hatch into a new companion.

Exciting Events

The most important ingredient in the world of Santae is you: The community!

Over the course of THREE exciting events, our Alpha Testers have been able to participate in and shape the future of the game’s world. Together, we’ve discovered new Minimals, locations, and even new pet species.

The Goopper Swarm

Mysterious slug-like Minimals swarmed Gathering locations all across Santae, prompting adventurers everywhere to collect them in an attempt to learn more.

By collecting the Gooppers and discovering their source, Santarians discovered a brand-new location: The Goopper Grotto. This tranquil forest clearing holds an amazing secret: When you bring a Goopper there alongside certain powerfully magical items, the Minimal will transform!

The Mourning Grusim

By following the traces of an ancient legend, adventurers learned of a mythical creature lurking deep within the Lava Caves.

Together, Santarians discovered sanDust: A secondary currency earned through site activities. This magical dust proved to be the secret to calming the ferocious ancient beast within the caves. By working together to collect sanDust, the community unlocked the ability to tame and adopt the Grusim for everyone!

The Quibbit Cove

When Santarians began to discover mysterious eggs around the site, they banded together to collect them and learn more about them. Together, we learned how to hatch Quibbspawn eggs into a brand-new Minimal: The Quibblet!

But the Quibblet was no ordinary Minimal. More ancient clues pointed the community towards a newly-discovered location, Quibbit Cove. It was there that the true secret of the Quibblet was revealed: Feeding it in the cove causes it to evolve into a fully-fledged pet, the Quibbit!

Thanks to the community’s efforts of research and discovery, the location of Quibbit Cove and the secret of Quibblet evolution are now unlocked for everyone.

Thank You For Being A Part of the Magic of Santae!

Whether you’re an experienced Alpha Tester or a brand-new applicant to the game, we’re so happy to have you as a part of the community we’re building together.

Alpha has brought so many exciting updates – but we’re even more excited for what will come next as we continue to work together to make Santae the most magical site it can be.

Make sure to sign up for notifications about the official Santae Kickstarter so you don’t miss the start of our next big adventure as a community!

With Love and Gratitude,

~The Santae Team

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I hate that I can't just do stuff lol my brain is like "well I don't wanna therefore I can't" like bro just act normal

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been howling at these for half an hour

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The teriyaki sauce Xbox

If you told me a week ago that I’d end up in possession of an Xbox that was full of teriyaki sauce I’d probably have laughed at you. How does one get teriyaki sauce in an Xbox? Why would teriyaki sauce even be anywhere near an Xbox? It’s such an absurd thing that wouldn’t have thought it was even possible.

I still have no idea how or why there was teriyaki sauce inside this Xbox, and I don’t think I’ll ever know, but here’s it’s story of being repaired.

Two days ago I found some broken XBoxes for sale. One supposedly had the RROD (it didn’t, the cord was bad) and the other wouldn’t turn on. The one that wouldn’t turn on was blue. I didn’t even think that an Xbox could come in blue, let alone an xbox 360.

It was missing a few pieces and someone had tried to open it up before, but I had to get it because of how cool it looked.

The next day I start to open it up and I notice this dark brown sticky substance on the internal clips

I thought maybe it was motor oil. Perhaps the person who tried to open it up earlier tried to use motor oil to lubricate the clips to make it easier to open. It was kinda gross and was getting everywhere but I persisted and got the bottom cover off.

I then stuck my face close to it and realised that it smelled exactly like the teriyaki sauce from some instant noodles I like to eat. It also later turned out to be water soluble so it wasn’t motor oil.

I then wrestled with the rest of the plastic case which was also covered in sauce, until it eventually opened. I was then met with a fan that was covered in sauce and stuck to the heatsink because of how sticky the sauce was. I finally removed the fan and was met with this

That is a heatsink, covered in sauce. It’s all up in the crevices and the heatsink itself was very firmly stuck to the motherboard with a combination of heatsink paste and teriyaki sauce. I was not able to remove it.

The motherboard itself also had a lot of teriyaki sauce on it. It was basically cemented down to the bottom of the case. After a lot of struggling I was able to remove the motherboard and the back of it was covered in even more sauce.

Most of the plugged in components were also coated in sauce.

The sauce also corroded most of the metal that it was on. So a lot of the pieces are discoloured and tarnished.

I then threw everything that didn’t have electronic components into the bathtub so I could wash it.

The water turned brown very quickly

After nearly five hours of scrubbing. I managed to remove a lot of the sauce. There was still sauce under and inside the heatsink because I was unable to remove it, and some of the smaller components on the motherboard didn’t get as clean because I was afraid of scrubbing so hard that they would break off.

I then haphazardly threw everything together and tested it. Somehow it turned on.

I then put it back together, which took a few tries because I hadn’t marked where each screw was supposed to go and I forgot to put the fan cover back on because it was behind me and I didn’t see it. I tested to make sure it could open and close the disc drive too.

It’s a little slow, and it makes strange noises while it reads discs, but considering the situation it’s perfectly understandable.

Unfortunately there is no sound. To be honest I’m surprised that there isn’t more wrong with it.

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探偵の仕事

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Furby

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if kirby had access to the internet he would go on google images and look at pictures of fruit

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All the time!

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The Legend of Zelda

(Yay, I finally made the poster!)

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I wanted to have all of the information for fish and bugs in a quick easy format, hope this can help others. Green are bugs and blue are fish.

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quick comic based off a tweet my friend made

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Got really bored so I decided to test the fuses. I determined that fuse 2 was blown so I grabbed a dead motherboard with good fuses and tried to remove one. After crushing the fuse in trying to remove it I decided that I didn’t care enough to actually replace the fuse. So I just bridged the fuse with solder.

It’s probably the ugliest solder job in the history of the world, but it did its job in bridging the fuse and now the DS works reliably.

I’m sure electricians and electrical engineers everywhere are dry heaving and turning over in their graves because I bridged a fuse instead of replacing it. However it’s not really possible to replace said fuse, it’s too small. I do know that if this DS encounters whatever caused its fuse to blow in the first place it’ll die for good, but I figure I can get a few good years out of it before that happens. It’s not like it’s a common occurrence, if it was nobody would have a working DS because they’d all have blown fuses.

Here’s pink. As pink’s price tag says, it won’t power on. I have a hunch that pink has an inductor that has popped off because I can hear something rattling around inside the DS. I know I literally always say that but there is definitely something in there that’s moving around.

Test 1: does it turn on? No.

Test 2: does it charge? No. The light turns on for a second and turns back off. A DS without a battery or with a blown fuse will do this.

Test 3 A: does it have a battery? Yes.

Test 3 B: does the battery work? Yes. Battery works fine in other DS. Other DS’s battery doesn’t power on pink.

Test 4: are the moisture indicators triggered? No more than usual. The one by the headphone jack is triggered slightly more than the other.

Test 5: are the inductors attached? Yes.

At this point I must add that I wasn’t wrong about there being something rattling around inside the DS. There was a little metal ball rolling around inside of the DS. Idk what it is, but it isn’t magnetic.

There’s nothing I can see that’s physically broken, corroded, or missing, but I also haven’t checked under the lower screen. Not that there’s really anything under there, but I have found signs of water damage there before.

I just checked under the lower screen, it looks fine. Idk what’s wrong with it. Maybe a blown fuse.

Since I have another DS that I know can be fixed, it will take priority over troubleshooting this one. I’ll test it’s screens when I fix the other and then this one will go into the pile of lost causes where I might get around to it later. I don’t have as much free time these days and thus things that are 100% fixable (or that people are paying me to fix) are more deserving of my time and spare parts.

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This little shit finally decided to work right as I was about to use it for parts.

I was using it to try to charge a spare battery and it wouldn’t charge for more than a second. I decided to try to turn it on during one of those seconds where it would charge and it turned on.

It will only turn on if you turn it on while the charge light is lit up, and then you can plug the charger in the rest of the way and it won’t turn off. However, you can’t unplug it otherwise it turns off.

It’s probably a blown fuse and I could fix that by bridging the blown fuse with solder but idk which fuse is blown so it’ll have to do for now.

Here’s pink. As pink’s price tag says, it won’t power on. I have a hunch that pink has an inductor that has popped off because I can hear something rattling around inside the DS. I know I literally always say that but there is definitely something in there that’s moving around.

Test 1: does it turn on? No.

Test 2: does it charge? No. The light turns on for a second and turns back off. A DS without a battery or with a blown fuse will do this.

Test 3 A: does it have a battery? Yes.

Test 3 B: does the battery work? Yes. Battery works fine in other DS. Other DS’s battery doesn’t power on pink.

Test 4: are the moisture indicators triggered? No more than usual. The one by the headphone jack is triggered slightly more than the other.

Test 5: are the inductors attached? Yes.

At this point I must add that I wasn’t wrong about there being something rattling around inside the DS. There was a little metal ball rolling around inside of the DS. Idk what it is, but it isn’t magnetic.

There’s nothing I can see that’s physically broken, corroded, or missing, but I also haven’t checked under the lower screen. Not that there’s really anything under there, but I have found signs of water damage there before.

I just checked under the lower screen, it looks fine. Idk what’s wrong with it. Maybe a blown fuse.

Since I have another DS that I know can be fixed, it will take priority over troubleshooting this one. I’ll test it’s screens when I fix the other and then this one will go into the pile of lost causes where I might get around to it later. I don’t have as much free time these days and thus things that are 100% fixable (or that people are paying me to fix) are more deserving of my time and spare parts.