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twstunes · 1 year ago

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I am OBSESSED with your colored in manga pages!!! They’re beautiful I can’t stop thinking about them, how do you do your TWST page edits??? I’m really wanting to color the chapters too! It looks so fun!

I downloaded the pages (of chp1) straight from where I read them, and edited over (im using krita! Maybe photoshop would be better??) but I can’t seem to make them look the way I want them to. The line quality is nowhere near yours, yours looks so professional! I hope I’m not stepping on your toes by asking but I feel like I’m missing something 😭 would you mind explaining where/how you download the pages with such high quality? Do you turn them transparent like coloring books or edit overtop of them? I hope this ask isn’t too much!!

XOXOXOXO I hope you’re doing well!! You’re easily one of my fav twst blogs!

kicking my feet and giggling,,,,,, I hope you're doing well too!! you're not stepping on my toes at all, don't worry!

The pages I've been using for color edits are from turtlesoupscans' uploads – they're a scanlation group focused on TWST, and currently have stuff up for the manga (both the main story + anthology comic) as well as translations for the official novel. To my understanding, their scans ARE okay to use for color edits, but not for re-translations or mass-reuploads.

I do all my edits in photoshop using a lot of multiply & lighten layers! The coloring book method u mentioned is so enticing yet so traitorous…in photoshop, the selection + erasing method tends to damage the lineart, and the inverted channel method for removing white backgrounds quickly will keep a 'film' if the background isn't pure #ffffff. (Maybe krita has a more effective solution? 👀)

(Also bc I brought up using photoshop I'm ethically obligated to mention that photopea, an online equivalent to photoshop, exists and is free to use)

I've never used krita before, but from what I'm seeing of its layout/capabilities, the process I use should translate over fairly well–

(Added a black bg to the "fill" portion to make it easier to see)

First come the "fill" layers, which are for covering up halftones & similar shading techniques. This step isn't super necessary (and sometimes involves a lot more editing to replicate halftone gradients/patterns), but I heavily recommend it for scenes that involve a lot of dark colors. Leaving halftones in can cause colors to look darker & grayer than they should, the latter of which you specifically want to avoid when making color edits of darker-skinned characters. (They can also be really good for conveying texture tho, which is why I left the statues' shading alone in this example.)

Next are the color layers, where the bulk of the editing happens. As I mentioned above, I use a ton of multiply layers for this so I can just draw over the image. Darken layers also work, but I've found they tend to affect line density & smoothness. The shading and highlighting here is done using masking layers for individual objects/structures – I think quick group + choosing inherit alpha for the mask layer is the krita equivalent? Layers for darkening the overall lighting (like for nighttime scenes) would also go in this section.

Finally, the lighten layers are solely for the lineart. This is to help "soften" the the lineart, so to speak, making the scene feel a little more 3D/fleshed-out. This step is especially important when dealing with hard shadows, like on the Dark Mirror's frame, Pomefiore's windows, and Ignihyde's central pillar-thing. What I do is put down a bunch of lighten layers, typically at 50% or 75% opacity, and color-pick the darkest part of whatever feature I'm editing the lineart for. Because I'm using a darker color, the surrounding multiply layers will usually go unaffected by the lighten layers – if not, I just gotta zoom in and be careful about it. These layers need to be on top of/closer to the 'front' than the color layers, or else the multiply effect of the color layers will apply to the lighten layers as well.

Thanks for bearing with my kinda long-winded explanation! I've been learning as I go, so there might be easier/better ways of doing things that I haven't stumbled across yet.

I hope this helps & that you have fun doing color edits!!

#ask #anonymous #twst #twisted wonderland #twst manga #manga editing #color editing #twstuned edits #sorry for the delay on answering btw i was rereading it 20+ times to make sure i didn't forget anything fgjhgfjh

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the-cryptographer · 8 months ago

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I'm maybe 1/3rd of the way through Mass Effect and I guess I'm being normal about it because I'm not emotionally hyped to rip it apart even though it's not very good.

The combat is clunky, but I have a soft spot for third person shooters (though I guess technically this game switches between third and first person shooting). I started out as Vanguard, but then restarted the game as Infiltrator after deciding that fit my style better and absolutely zero regrets on that choice. It's all about pistols and sniper rifles and not having to rely on your companions for decryption and electronics.

The writing could be better, but the characters are likeable enough and the plot serviceable enough and the worldbuilding bad enough I'm not encouraged to take any of it too seriously. Idk, I just can't take any of these fake alien species and their fake politics seriously. Like, the Asari, c'mon? The weird incel breeding obsession they're exploring with the Krogan? Hanar and Elcor being funny speak foreigners? Quarians clearly spoofing China's old one child policy that we were all obsessed with in the aughts? Just the way that male is the default gender for all these aliens unless it's fuckable? Idk, I know that alien species in media are going to be reflections of humanity but... you could have reflected something less transparent than gender existentialism and orientalism, lmao. It's just so fourth wall breaking, it's funny instead of offensive. At least in my opinion.

My favourite part of the game so far is RPing military personnel tbh. I don't feel this fits well with the morality system, but I am absolutely loving playing sole survivor PTSD compassion fatigued Shep - trying her best to be professional and give a good face to humanity and the Alliance. Never failing to be polite to her superiors, but acting out violence and aggression on 'acceptable' targets. Strutting through a world of civilians who have to follow rules that she doesn't, walking into situations and making snap decisions about who are the sheep and who are the wolves - who she is or isn't justified in using force and threats to control. Idk, it's fucking great.

Yeah, but the morality system so far my worst gripe. I think in general the Lawful Good Paragon vs Chaotic Evil Renegade axis is really not in line with the story being told - friend of mine said really the conflict probably more in line with Lawful Evil vs Chaotic Good if you're going to reduce things to this single axis in the first place. And personally I think we need a separate axis for Shep's attitude towards alien races apart from any hastily adapted dnd & star wars morality systems. Ubb- But all of that aside I really don't like having my dialogue choices restricted. I don't mind a pass-fail mechanic where my attempt at intimidation doesn't work if I'm not practiced enough in it, but I feel I should at least be able to say what I want in the situation I want. So yeah, I took advantage of the bug at Noveria to max both scales bc fuck this.

Also annoying DA2 style dialogue wheel where I press an option and watch my character say something wildly different than I would have guessed based on the text I clicked. Doi!

Ashley and Garrus are my current favourites. I appreciate Ash's clear lower class POC military brat background and the way it's influenced her prejudices. (Idk, another thing I like about this game was the super HR approach to dealing with this shit. Like... yeah, rather than 'fixing' everyone involved into having the proper unbiased opinions on these issues, you sort of have to accept that everyone involved has their baggage and convince them its in their best interest to set that aside so we can work together effectively anyhow.) And I appreciate Garrus being a raging hypocrite. Brought him to Noveria and watched him complain about companies moving there to avoid legal and political oversight, like- Bitch. Isn't that what you did when you quit being a cop and decided to stowaway on my ship? So you could shoot people without having to file paperwork about it 🤔

#delurk plays mass effect

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felassan · 4 years ago

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Gamers For Groceries 2 event

A Twitch stream event from a few days ago. It can currently be re-watched here (it was fun & interesting, so I do recommend to check it out direct). This post contains some notes on things of particular interest & relevant timestamps, in case this is useful to anyone (for example bc of accessibility reasons).

First up is the All About Animating panel, a series of mini-interviews with game devs (animators) asking what they do, how they got there, and advice for anyone interested in getting into the industry. Some or all of the devs that were interviewed are currently working on DA4. They talked a bit about their day-to-day work and a lot about the craft of game dev animation in general. This segment runs from timestamp ~38 mins 40 secs to 1:07:50. Some notes:

[sounded like DA4] Right now the creature team are working on different creatures in a way which involves going through a lot of mocap data

At BioWare they have a pretty big technical animation team, to support their animators, so each tech animator has a different specialty. Tech anim involves animation support, character art support, and rigging the characters so that the animators can pose them

[not sure if re: DA4 work specifically, another project or a general comment on the craft] One of the featured animators’ area of specialty at the moment is faces and hair (building the control structure for face animations). First they had to decide how the face rig and its control structure would work. This involves a lot of performance capture of live actors for things like cinematics and gameplay animation, therefore the rigs for bodies and faces have to be able to accurately capture the full range of expressions and emotions that the actor is portraying. Right now the stage that this dev is working on most is setting up the heads that they’re getting through the pipeline from character art e.g. making adjustments based on feedback from the cinematics team. “Polish - just trying to get realism”

Hair tech has come quite a long way in the last few years [in the industry]

[not sure if re: DA4 work specifically, another project or a general comment on the craft] Hair is very complex to get right. “In the past most games have used card-based hair, which is basically like sheets of polygons with a texture on it that looks like hair, through layers of transparency. But real hair is strand-based, digital strands, so we’re starting to look into that kind of tech - try to get more realistic, more beautiful hair, but there’s always a performance cost to hair. Layers of transparent things are always an expense, they need to balance like, it looks good and moves well, but it doesn’t make your computer or console chug. [...] I guess we’re in the prototype stage but we’ve almost got a set pipeline. It’s always fun to experiment”

In Mass Effect 2 or 3, Miranda’s hair was as expensive as a whole character (!)

[on balancing hair costs/performance, general] It depends on things like character importance and how many characters are on-screen at the time. When you’re in gameplay fighting a bunch of monsters you’re not going to be giving full beautiful hair to all the characters and the monsters, as it will cost too much. (Having a helmet on is a convenient way to get rid of hair.) But if it’s a cinematic scene, with 2 characters talking to each other in a dramatic context, there’s a better budget for nice hair allocated

Some of the hair in Anthem was quite expensive in cinematics. They kept getting bugs from QA saying (for example) that a character’s hair was tripling the performance cost in the scene, so it would go back to character art so they could take away some of the hair cards. “Tough balance, quality versus cost”

“I wish all the characters could have beautiful strand hair”

For p-cap, a lot of the time they don’t want to be too prescriptive in terms of the direction that they’re giving the actors, as the actors know what they’re doing and have a lot of experience, so they give them vague instructions that they then riff off of

[sounded like DA4] They recently did a mocap shoot

[sounded like DA4] There’s a bit more productivity happening now in the pandemic situation; now that the animators are not all going to the capture lab in Vancouver in person for shoots, if it’s not their turn to direct a shot they can instead be working on something else on their computers (multi-tasking). ((Lead DA4 Producer Scylla Costa recently gave a talk at a games festival on the challenges of DA production during the pandemic. In part of this talk he talked about various benefits and drawbacks to the remote-working situation. He also talked about and showed some behind-the-scenes stuff for p-cap and mocap. Notes, images and link here))

[sounded like DA4] Special mocap suits were sent out that they can use with a laptop to go anywhere and shoot motion capture. It’s not as high fidelity as what comes out of the capture lab, but it’s really good for prototyping stuff. Before the pandemic they did some of this (going to a park and shooting some running around)

[sounded like DA4] In one of the shoots they had some actors who were really well-trained in dancing. They were trying to get them to do some combat stuff. This was a bit challenging in the pandemic situation as there’s only so much they can demonstrate/portray as an example to the actors from a distance on camera. “It’s hard to describe what a ‘dodge to attack’ is through the camera to somebody who has no idea what combat looks like in video games”

[not sure if re: DA4 work specifically, another project or a general comment on the craft] The pandemic has really affected performance capture for the face side of things badly, as in order to record, the actor gets dots painted on their face in specific locations by a makeup artist. They can’t do that right now because of social distancing/restrictions, so they haven’t been recording faces at the moment

The more detailed a face, the more joints it has, the more the cost to performance is

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There was also the Writers’ Block panel, featuring DA writers Mary Kirby, Sheryl Chee and Patrick Weekes, and DA editor Karin Weekes. The timestamps for this segment are ~2:37:50 - 3:26:20. Some notes:

PW has never been weirder than when they were writing Cole on DAI

PW thinks that they accidentally wrote part of “Timber” by Kesha into Solas at one point and they were like “Well, okay, I have to stop listening to Kesha”

For Sheryl, after a while Blackwall’s VA always nailed doing his lines. She loved the quality of his voice and so after a while would always hear his voice while she was writing. This really worked out

^ Mary had this with Merrill. As soon as they cast Eve Myles she listened to several hours of her in Torchwood, and then just wrote to the way that she spoke as much as possible

^ PW had this with GDL as Solas and FPJ as Bull. As soon as they heard FPJ’s delivery, they were like “Oh, okay, I have to write some lines differently, because Bull is smarter than I realized”. With GDL they were like “Okay, he’s going to put poetry into anything I say, in the best way possible”. In early drafts of Solas lines there were parts where they [PW] wondered “Is this too melodramatic? Is this too tragically-angstful?” and then they would hear GDL and be like “Oh! [It’s fine] Game on!”

For localization, German words are often quite long so they often have to make sure that everything fits on the GUI

They think scenes like the romance scenes sound prettier in the Italian versions

Behind the curtain in creating the in-world languages: PW: “There are some awesome websites that have every elven word, like ‘Here are the translations and verb tenses and conjugations’ [etc], [...] and usually Mary and I get very sad slightly looking at those pages going like ‘Does that mean that we have to stick to that?’ [...] The rule is, if I’ve looked at the Wiki and the words, and I go ‘Here’s the correct grammatical way to do it’, and if that turns out to be too long or too many disconnected syllables and it just looks bad or sounds bad, then we shorten it to something simpler, because the key is we want to give the flavor of a foreign language, but we don’t have the world-building budget and capacity to make something that is going to be dictionary-real [in a way that] someone could go through and translate all the background things written on the old temple walls”. Part of the reason for this is the consideration for VAs, who already have to act while bearing lots of things in mind, like the cues in the script for each line

Mary: “For building a language, the first things that I started with for qunlat, elven and dwarven, was what words do we need to use the most? Greetings, farewells, words for friend and enemy, basic things that will come up easily in conversation. After that it’s ‘How difficult is this for other writers to use?’ Can they just pick it off the Wiki? Do they need just one word? Do they need to write whole sentences, and how does that work? Qunlat has almost no grammar to it because asking anyone to learn how to use Qunari grammar and conjugate verbs in a pretend language is impossible, and then once you’ve done that a human being has to be able to read it, while not knowing what any of it means”

PW: “One thing that I was really impressed with with Mary in particular doing, Mary was one of the big lore people across the entire DA series; I can look at a word and go like, ‘That has two A’s in a row, that’s definitely a Qunari word. That word is kind of long and maybe has some apostrophes and has a couple of flowy vowel sounds, that’s probably elven’, I think that’s what’s important. You want players to be able to look at a word, players want to feel smart, [like] ‘Oh I don’t know what that means but I totally know that’s a word from the Qunari people!’”. Mary: “Every language has its own set of phonemes, the sounds that they make, and the sort of word structure and spelling so that it gives a flavor to that language. Hopefully that is always chosen to be pronounceable, because again, very important that the words can be said by human beings :D”

Sheryl: “One of the fun things to do is to make up swear words in the fake languages [...] Recently Brianne wanted a word, I don’t know if she managed to find one”

The origin of bosh’tet in ME: it’s just saying “bastard” and slurring it

PW: “I feel like there are times when past writers kind of leave traps for future writers, where past writers will go ‘Okay, I’m going to write this detailed phrase in a codex entry but don’t worry, it doesn’t matter if it can never be said aloud, because it’ll never have to be voiced!’ and then, next game, guess what guys! Look what you have to make someone [a VA] say! And you’re like [facepalm], c’mon!”

Karin: “Now, four games in, we have pages and pages of all these examples, and I wanna say this, well that’s how we said something before, well that’s ridiculous, I don’t wanna say that, but now we’ve said it and it’s out there, so it’s like, how do we, y’know, how do we evolve, and sometimes we just go ‘Screw it! Languages are living languages! We’ll just say it like this now!’”

PW's favorite is the sarcastic Mythal’enaste, “Because it’s the sarcastic Mythal's blessing that basically means you’re getting screwed over somehow. I love it because Mythal nasty! Whoever wrote that clearly never thought that someone would have to say this out loud”

Sheryl wrote Bull’s joke icicles line. She also wrote Isabela’s big boats line - Jennifer took it out but then DG was like “No it has to come back”

They have a pun test, they get a few of them and have to allot them wisely so as not to oversaturate on the puns. “Is this good/bad enough to be one of the times that we pull the trigger? We did have one of those recently, I obviously can’t talk about it, but it was pronounced Okay to go ahead”

The ‘baby-est’ writer is Brianne, who’s been there 8 years

It makes PW sad that the players never get to see the writers’ temp-text [placeholder text when portions are a WIP]. “People have the best temp-text". Mary: “The number of conversations that I’ve temped in like ‘WELL. I hope nothing BAD happens HERE’”

Q. If you could bring in anybody from outside of gamedev, who would you like to work with and do a writer’s session with? PW: “I will say romance novelist Nora Roberts, she is really smart and also she knows how to write inside a genre, and do wonders within it. Her structure is so good. If you pick up one of her books, you know here’s when this is gonna happen, here’s when they’re gonna meet, here’s when this first moment will happen. We’re all experienced and I feel pretty good about that but I really like all of the things she does that way, and also I am a sucker for romance so I would love to bring a romance novelist in and just have them look at our scenes and go ‘Okay here, no, they should pull the tie so that the article of clothing comes open, we need a sense of how warm the skin is here’ - something like that. I’d wanna see what they could do with that”

“Luke writes the best worst lines”

“I’m always impressed with Mary getting away with lines. There are lines that I look at like, wow, you buried that one. [...] The only players who get that line, I feel like they earned it if they went that far into it. [...] And then Varric or Merrill says a ridiculous line in a one-time throwaway”

Karin: “The group dynamic, you’ll see conversations or snippets of a lunch chat or a thing we’ve been joking about and you’ll see it get pulled in, and how all of you [the writers] are able to take a normal kind of thing - as normal as we get as a group anyway - and then turn it into a moment, and use it to further the plot or use it to further a character. It’s just the cleverest thing and it happens in so many different ways. [...] The little snippet of life, then how you crafted it into this very cool thing”

Quartermaster Threnn was written by PW in half a day. “When I was writing Threnn, ‘Okay, this is a good-hearted [person], I was doing a little bit of Steel Magnolias, southern, no-nonsense, but like, blue collar Steel Magnolias’. This is someone accustomed to the ways of the world so she’s going to call a spade a spade. If you come up to her and you’re an elf she doesn’t recognize you and says ‘Buckets are over there’ because she thinks you’re there to clean, [but] ‘Anyone calls you a knife-ear you come to me I’ll take care of it’. It’s problematic but she’s trying - the good-hearted person rooted for the wrong group on every occasion. She was a proud Loghain supporter, she gets really exited if he comes to Skyhold. That was a fun character for me to write because I had a viewpoint in my mind. I remember someone was like ‘Threnn is really important to me’. And you have to honor that, cause you’re like ‘Cool, it means so much to me that this connected with some part of you’”

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Also of interest was the Mass Affection panel, in which BioWare devs looked back in over a decade of history to remaster a classic. It featured devs who worked on MELE. The timestamps for this segment are ~3:36:09 - 4:24:37. Some notes:

When the pandemic hit the MELE team were in a relatively awkward spot. They were really entering into what they consider full production and were on-boarding a bunch of teams, as well as training and on-boarding third-party external partner specialized teams worldwide. When the pandemic hit, BioWare and EA were super on top of it. They were tracking it weeks beforehand, getting everyone their computers ready, and getting everything encrypted. When the middle of March 2020 hit they were home rightaway. EA were nothing but supportive throughout the entire thing. They got money every quarter for stuff. It functionally ‘hit’ at 4-6 different times for them as the pandemic occurred in different places throughout the world at different times depending on each country’s response plan (and their external partners were in different countries). “So it was one of those things where it was just like, every day we’d come in like can we still work with this company anymore? Do we need to find someone else? Do we need to pull people in off the other projects at BioWare to fill gaps here and there?”

There was a bug on Virmire at the part when you’re coming into the STG camp. If the Mako had its new boosters on and you came hurtling in really fast, it cut to the cutscene, but the Mako hit a jump and when Ash was like “What do we do now?” the Mako ended up literally flying around in the background sideways and then crashing into the camp

Another bug: when they were re-tuning the guns, the physics force on some of the guns with Hammerhead rounds was so high that when you were fighting some of the Thorian Creepers, you could ragdoll them so hard that you could basically embed them in the roof. They’d be moving so fast that they’d penetrate all the walls with their legs dangling out. It was so easy to do and you could do it to everybody. You could launch a geth halfway across an Uncharted World

Another bug: with Shepard’s casual appearance in ME3, if you didn’t have it set up perfectly correctly it would default to Grunt for some reason. You’d be walking around as Grunt, going on dates as Grunt, and your face would be all scrunched up because it was all mapped to human bones still, so it was just, like, Nightmare Fuel of Grunt

Another bug: in ME2 on Illium when trying to recruit Samara, the Asari enemies just would not stop screaming - regardless of whether they were hit or not, it was endless screaming. Later one of the devs got an audio file of the scream, endless and looped, and now one of the devs has it on their phone and uses it for their morning alarm tone

“Shepard would come up to characters and they’d just be screaming”

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There was also the Programming Variables panel, talking about what hurdles game programmers face. Some [or all?] of the devs that were part of this panel are currently working on DA4. They talked a bit about their day-to-day work and about the craft of game dev programming in general. The timestamps for this segment are ~ 4:24:46 - 5:06:02.

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queen-mabs-revenge · 5 years ago

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I think a lot of the backlash against the Joe Rogan thing is based in pure class discrimination.

No one came at Warren and Klobuchar to denounce the NYT who literally lied to the American public from the highest levels of power about weapons of mass destruction, warhawking us directly into the Iraq war and leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Not to mention the NYT who has very openly advocated every US imperial war and coup change in the last century.

But the NYT is part of the upper echelon power -- the mouthpiece of the ruling class. The paper of record. Respectable.

Were these same people demanding Hilary Clinton denounce Henry Kissinger’s endorsement in 2016? Henry Kissinger, one of the most absolutely vile war criminals in recent United States history, responsible for millions of deaths and the imperialist oppressors left around the world from those war crimes?

But Kissinger is a statesman from the absolute heights of power. Respectable.

And then you have Joe Rogan, who yes, holds scientifically-inaccurate transphobic views about trans athletes in combat sports, and who has hosted some of the most insidious characters from the alt-right intellectual dark web (but who has also hosted some of the most radical voices on the left who are given no platform except their own anywhere else [Dr. Cornell West, Abby Martin, etc.]). And yes, who has a massive listener base, but also who has relatively no power in the system of oppression. Like obviously he has sway over his massive audience, but he’s not in the halls of power shaping policies that have lasting effects on the very lives and existence of millions of people around the world.

And what he does have is an audience of the powerless. Rogan isn’t a kingmaker whispering in the ear of warmakers and policy builders, he’s got a popular podcast with a bunch of working-class listeners looking for a parasocial relationship in their isolated, despair-filled lives.

And like, idk if some of those people are like, ‘hey Joe likes Bernie and I like what Bernie had to say in that interview, while I’ve never heard anything but the news call him crazy before’ -- and start looking into the campaign platform, and maybe even start looking into interacting with people who they know are supporters irl? Getting into contact with people who can compassionately educate about trans experiences and rights? About the ecofascist myths of overpopulation? About why racism and sexism are functions of class-based economics? That’s............kind of what this is all about?

But the fact that Rogan’s audience is for the most part working-class, low information voters is icky to these fucking liberal fucks who just want to go back to the respectability politics of violent oppression.

Genteel Liberals celebrate the endorsements from institutions of power who have actually shaped the system of imperialist violence and social oppression bc ‘that’s just how it is’, but get disgusted at the possibility of having to talk to one of the filthy rubes who has been affected and shaped by those systems of imperialist violence and social oppression. It’s transparent classist thinking, and frankly it’s not only disgusting, but maliciously harmful to a true socialist movement.

As the old socialist slogan goes, agitate, educate, organize -- and if we want working-class movement, we have to believe in and have confidence in our ability to explain our systematic analysis, and also have the confidence in it actually addressing the material circumstances that lead people to be susceptible to narratives of fear and hate, and not shun situations that lead to interacting with people who have been lead that way!

#bernie sanders #socialism #it's class discrimination babey!

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merrilldidnothingwrong · 5 years ago

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I've never played a single mass effect game but from ur posts i swear i'm noticing similarities between the type of hate kaidan gets and the hate anders gets 👀

ohmygod DEFINITELY. thats part of why i hc him as autistic, bc of the way he is coded, i guess? and the way he talks. he has his shit together (like other than me3 shepard doesn’t have any quests with him) but when he talks to shepard he is more working things out with them more than anything else.

he is really transparent to me, like what you see is what you get. he doesnt do things purposely to make people uncomfortable. like anders does in da2, he has no filter, like he kinda blurts things out in the spur of the moment, like to the other companions, to break the ice, get to know them. get that out of the way so they can really get to know each other.

but if people take the time to actually talk to him and listen, they’d know he’s not at all what youd expect from a military man. just like anders, if they understood where he was coming from they wouldnt hate him so much.... but they don’t.

#trans-magnusburnsides

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mistresstrevelyan · 7 years ago

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So, in regards to the game development industry, I see a lot of fans making assumptions on how things are heading for games/studios based on past experiences and 'insider' accounts, and getting mad based on those - do you think it would benefit the industry to start being more "open" to the public on how development & sales go, like keeping and maintaining weekly/monthly development blogs to put aside concerns properly?

Hiya Nonny!

These are all excellent questions and while I’m not an AAA dev I’ll do my best to answer them.

Ever since the Internet came along but moreso since it has become as natural to us as the air we breathe (I still remember the gaming Internet of the 90ties), there has been an immense shift in how publicity works in both Gamedev and publishing. When I started gaming the main connection we had to the devs, publishers and gaming news were rags like Gamestar, PC Gamer and so on. They ran specials after visiting a studio, they’d review, sometimes speculate, often provide disks with patches for games (LOL, post Launch patches were always a thing) and sometimes they’d answer their readers in funny or serious columns. I don’t want to gild the lily here but it WAS an easier time for the industry.

Over the last years you add several new media to the mix: Youtube, blogs, vlogs, indie mags covering games.....and perspectives as well as expectations shift. While no one moderated the gaming rags of my time, they at least made attempts to be professional and coherent. But (in)famous Youtubers themselves have admitted that clickbaity, negative headlines and rants make them revenue and clicks while just covering games generates far less of either. So speculation turns into facts, hearsay turns into (former) dev confirmations and NDA breaking sources are completely trustworthy.

Add to that the likes of GamerGate, Incels, the Alt Right crowd and you have a deadly cocktail that will poison plenty of wells before they are done.

Would Dev transparency or publisher transparency not counter-act that? Well, yes and no. Take Mass Effect: Andromeda as an example. Kotaku stated that the franchise, according to unnamed (NDA breaking) sources has been put on ice. Both haters and fans took that as the franchise being dead. Then BioWare’s GM, and Mass Effect’s creator, Casey Hudson confirmed that Mass Effect wasn’t dead on Twitter. Did that have nearly as much impact as unnamed (NDA breaking) sources cited by KOTAKU? Unfortunately no.

But why so many NDAs? Why not go back to the times of Dev Diaries, community input (IE the way BioWare shaped NWN’s expansions) and work openly for all to see?

I would personally love it and I can honestly say that not a single dev I’ve ever worked with or whose games I got to represent in social engagement or to support as a Specialist wouldn’t like to do so as well. They LOVE talking about what they do. But I can see why they don’t. After how Jennifer Hepler was treated? After how David Gaider was treated? After how it was ofc the female “SJW” devs people targeted for whatever people thought wasn’t done right in ME:A (BC it had to have been THEM ofc!)........and those are just a few egregious examples I can come up with. These people believe that death and rape threats online don’t qualify as harassment (!) but cry bitter tears when a Dev insists on their boundaries or tells them off in the mildest way possible. (Now WHO has the thin skin here?)

I am not putting it all on the gaming community either, transparency and communication are key on BOTH sides but it MUST BE done in good faith. There are all too many people on here too only too eager to misconstrue things devs or publishers do, but instead of “falling prey to SJWs” they’ll be called problematic and so on. (That’s not to say that devs don’t fuck up but I’ve abandoned gaming discourse here after seeing the BioWare Critical tag filled to the brim while the CDPR Critical tag is all crickets, lol, that’s just idek)

To get back to your questions: Would more transparency help? Yes. But devs and publishers opening up to a largely hostile crowd isn’t something I’d want to see. I also believe that sometimes devs should be more assertive about how they are spoken to on Twitter and so on. Because those aren’t corporate accounts, this is people worming themselves into private spaces to hop on a soapbox. And that’s not helping anyone.

I believe two lessons must be learned here before communication and transparency of that kind can even be considered:

Devs should undergo Community/Social Engagement training (Every community manager does that) to internalize how this shit works.

And the community should internalize that behind the large dev and publisher labels are real people with real feelings, families and mental health often putting in 80+ hour weeks on end to make the shit they love to play and bitch about and then act accordingly.

A simple quid pro quo.

#Calling Cards #Persephone works in the gaming industry #Sorry this got long #Anonymous

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Reiki Energy School Victoria Bc Incredible Tricks

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22 Jan 2019: Food data + shopping data = health data

Hello, this is the Co-op Digital newsletter - it looks at what's happening in the internet/digital world and how it's relevant to the Co-op, to retail businesses, and most importantly to people, communities and society. Thank you for reading and please do send ideas, questions, corrections etc to @rod on Twitter. If you have enjoyed reading please consider telling a friend about it!

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Food data + shopping data = health data

Whole Foods has launched a digital product catalog which helps customers shop according to their dietary needs - they’ll be able to find items by dietary preference, see ingredient lists and nutritional information. You can imagine that dietary preferences from Whole Foods and body mass index data from clothing sizes shopped on Amazon could be very useful input data for the Amazon health business, particularly if they have plans for a long-term wellness service.

Elsewhere in health, Microsoft’s latest partnership with industry is with pharmacy giant Walgreens to provide Office365 and cloud services, but also “tests of ‘digital health corners’ within some Walgreens stores”. Industry/tech partnerships are often viewed through a defending-against-Amazon lens these days: Microsoft and Walgreens, Microsoft and Kroger, Ocado and grocers various - all partly presented as being someone’s answer to Amazon turning up in their market.

The weight of attention

A research paper suggests that “people automatically and unconsciously treat other people’s eyes as if beams of force-carrying energy emanate from them, gently pushing on objects in the world”. This is interesting because it reflects the extramissive theory of how vision worked, which dates back to the fifth century BC.

But do humans have a similar mental model for VR or machine vision? Do we feel the “weight” of all of the mobile phone cameras, surveillance and cctv, watchful self-driving cars and, more generally, the big tech cos collecting data from uncountable sensors and apps?

Web of intent

Google and Facebook are the dominant digital admedia cos these days. Everyone else seems to be struggling as G and FB attract more attention and ad dollars. More attention and data = better targeting. But the other company doing well is... Amazon! They’re growing fast because they’re arguably the only company closer to the point of purchase and to the consumer intent than G and FB are.

AI and apps replace faxes in NHS long term plan

The digital parts of the new long term plan for the NHS aim to give citizens new ways to access healthcare services, to speed up existing workflows inside the NHS, and to do a lot of things with data to connect everything together and reduce waste.

Adding a lot of technology will be a challenge because historic attempts to modernise the NHS have famously struggled. NHS still has widespread use of faxes and pagers, which both indicate the need for modernisation and perhaps hint that the journey will be tough. For instance, faxes are currently a key communication channel in many GP-to-pharmacy workflows. Can they all switch?

The plan lists ten practical priorities that “will drive NHS digital transformation” (p92 of this pdf). Eight of them mention or involve data (access to data, AI decision-making, predictive techniques, capturing data easily, protecting privacy, data in clinical research, securing data, interoperable data) so there will be some interesting tensions between access/sharing and privacy/trust.

TUCstarter

The Trades Union Congress tried a Kickstarter-like feature to solicit new union members in the visual effects industry. “28% of joiners chose the ‘join now’ option, with 72% choosing to ‘join if we hit the target’”. This suggests that the Kickstarter-style conditional commitment is a transferable mechanism of “social proof”, and a reassuring way to people to join a new thing.

Other news

M&S is trialling “90 lines of loose fruit and vegetables completely free of plastic packaging”.

France fines Google E50m under GDPR - the French data regulator said the Google’s data consent policies weren’t transparent or easy to access.

“Not using modern techniques like computer systems is a great mistake, but forgetting the computer simulates thinking is still greater.” - from 100+ Lessons Learned for Project Managers (at NASA, mid-1990s).

MPs use WhatsApp heavily, to communicate, plot and sometimes leak. It makes you wonder if there’s a WhatsApp clone with a Chatham House Rules switch, which anonymises the sender’s identity after a while, but not the content.)

A survey suggests that consumer safety concerns and industry concerns about liability are the biggest barriers to adoption of self-driving vehicles (pdf). But in both cases, industry is confident that self-driving will reduce accidents and consequently liability exposure.

Co-op Digital news

We are not our users: we should not tell them how to feel. “To create services that people want to use, we must make a deliberate effort to remove our emotional attachment to the things we’re creating and let our users decide how to experience them. By appreciating that we are not our users, and being considerate of their circumstances, we create services that are tactful, inclusive and respectful.”

Doing this is doubly hard because humans love projecting their hopes and fear onto services - and technology as a whole. Designers believe they’re making a service that is easy to use, but Jo Schofield reminds us that users may feel differently. And other stakeholders will bring their own emotions and perceptions to it: a front-line worker might wonder if a new system will lead to redundancies or whether The Management are using this system to track them. A manager might hope that this new service will fix all of the problems. So technology is an unreliable, wobbly mirror, and because of that it’s harder to see it clearly.

Events

Health team show & tell - Tue 22 Jan 2pm at Federation House 5th floor.

Food ecommerce show & tell - Tue 22 Jan 4.30pm at Federation House 5th floor.

Engineering community of practice meetup - Wed 23 Jan 1pm at Federation House 5th floor.

Web team show & tell - Wed 23 Jan 2.30pm at Federation House 5tfloor.

Line management drop-in clinic - Thu 24 Jan 1pm at Federation House.

Heads of practice community of practice meetup - Thu 24 Jan 2pm at Federation House 5th floor.

Startup tool-kit discussion group - Thu 24 Jan 5pm at Federation House.

Delivery community of practice meetup - Mon 28 Jan 1pm at Federation House.

Funeralcare show & tell - Tue 29 Jan 2pm at Angel Square 12th floor.

Open:Data:Night - Tue 29 Jan 6.30pm at Federation House.

Digital Transformation meetup - Wed 30 Jan 5pm at Federation House 5th floor.

Line management drop-in clinic - Thu 31 Jan 1pm at Federation House.

Heads of practice community of practice meetup - Thu 31 Jan 2pm at Federation House 5th floor.

Universal Basic Income - Thu 31 Jan 6.45pm at Federation House.

Intro to Open Street Map - Sat 2 Feb 11am at Federation House.

More events at Federation House. And TechNW has a useful calendar of events happening in the North West.

Thank you for reading

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The Agency

After joining The Agency, I came to know a great many wondrous horrors that existed within our world. Things we would never understand, or things we would desperately attempt to stop, just to be met with the halting hands of gods, both wicked and divine. We were nothing in this world. All those strange creatures and beings and objects that lived beside us in our world wanted us dead. Their only purpose was the eradication of all things human. They came from places of pure nightmare long before I or my associates had ever walked the earth. It was now our job to collect and document them. And what a time we had doing so. These are just a few of the things we had collected in the summer of 1976 starting with an object called ‘The Refusal of Fate’. ‘Refusal of Fate’ is an 18-inch-by-24-inch acrylic painting, depicting varied shades of corrosive formations on a rough black painted surface. 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The corrosive material carried on the painting cannot be removed with tools and it is unable to be studied as any attempt to take samples ends with experiments concluding that only black acrylic paint resides on it’s surface, and no evidence of any other materials or substances can be found. After an individual has been completely deteriorated by the painting, they will then appear on the surface of the canvas, as if painted themselves. This occurs roughly five seconds after complete disintegration. The individual remains on the surface of the canvas for ten seconds after appearing and then slowly fades away. Two people cannot be absorbed at the same time. If two individuals touch the painting at the same time, the canvas will randomly select one and begin the corroding process. In the ten seconds in which the deteriorated person appears on the canvas’ surface, the canvas will not absorb others who touch it. This is the only time in which the surface of the canvas can have samples taken off of it. Samples of the paint used to depict the individual’s who were transferred into the painting reveal varied other acrylic paints, with microcosmic elements of human flesh mixed into them. DNA tests before and after an individual has been absorbed by the painting prove that the individuals killed by the canvas’ corrosive surface are indeed transferred to the painting’s surface five seconds after deterioration. It is believed that the painting contains an unknown microorganism that absorbs and eats biological organisms, as only living beings such as people or animals are effected by the canvas’s corrosive. It is also believed that the unknown microorganism transfers the deteriorated victim onto the canvas as a sort of ‘final feeding process’, yet it is unknown how or why the victim’s exact frontal likeness is adapted to the painting. There are those who also believe the painting to be a living being of supernatural origins; and that this ‘feeding process’ is a way to absorb victims, sending them into another dimension, actually teleporting them during the deterioration process. No studies can be conducted or exist to support this theory. Next on our list was ‘Osiris’ Ring’. Osiris’ Ring is a large glowing ring of pure neon yellow light. It was discovered one night, on an expedition through the Arctic and spotted floating through the starry sky. The ring does not hold it’s original shape, as echoes and direct sound shakes it like a circular mass of gelatin. The ring is not sentient, but reacts to wind, physical contact and sounds. The center within the ring becomes solid and fades into focus when loud noises occur close to it. When the area around the ring becomes silent again, the center becomes transparent once more. The surface of the ring is said to feel like nothing ever felt before and it is believed to be made up of a type of pure solid energy. The ring emits great masses of energy and warmth, all while giving off a deep humming sounds. As far as anyone knows Osiris’ Ring is harmless and really just focuses as a possible energy source, as it seems to hold no direct destructive capabilities. Then, we came across ‘Adam’s Box’. This small wooden box, bearing no identifiable marks, was discovered beneath the Vatican Archive in 1996. It is theorized that Adam’s Box has been responsible for the Plague of Athens in Greece, 429 to 426 BC, the Plague of Cyprian in Europe, 250 to 266, the Black Death Incident in Europe, 1346 to 1350, the Italian Plague of 1629 to 1631, the Newcastle Incident in England, 1636, the Great Plague of London, 1665 to 1666 and lastly, the Great Plague of 1738, in Balkans. In all instances the box, simple in design, was opened following the orders of religious leaders at the times of the outbreak’s inceptions. These multiple religious leaders, after discovering the box, incorporated the object into their rituals and practices, eventually resulting in them opening the box, unknowingly having plagues visited unto multiple major populous’. It is believed that the box, though appearing empty on the inside, carries an invisible virus, obtainable and infections by any means. This illness is reported to be ever-changing and always evolving. This illness, dubbed “Virus-A”, is estimated to be the oldest sickness known to man and can be dated back as existing since long before the Fall of Rome or the supposed Birth of Christ. The virus can only be spread when the box is open. When Adam’s Box is closed the only remaining effects of the virus are found in those already effected. If the box is closed no harm will come to those handling it. The virus exists purely within the interior. No amount of research or study can determine what the virus within the box is, where it originated or how it is unidentifiable. Professional opinion has made it clear that the best course of action is to keep the box closed and never have it opened again. A short time later I had personally met, by chance, ‘The Doll Maker’. I met him on the streets of Boston a few years ago. He occupied Salem and said he’d made his way all along the east coast. He wasn’t initially violent or mean tempered, but the old stories I had heard about the man I had assumed to be true. In Philadelphia, two hundred or so years back, legends circulated of a man who would craft homemade puppets and dolls, taking to festive streets to sell his creations. A few decades later and the legends began to change. people began to say how the Doll maker was a merchant of death, and how the figurines he sold were once humans who’d committed atrocities, and whom he’d turned into dolls and puppets; Toys to be sold to children. In my line of work I knew the legends to be true, and when i finally seemed this man out he didn’t waste any time in hiding who he was. I think it was the fact that he wants the world to know who he is. Even after questioning him I still don’t understand all that much about him. I know he’s a couple hundred years old, I know he’s a practitioner of magic and I know he has this seriously warped sense of retribution and righteous judgment. Nevertheless, he wasn’t after my head, and that I am extremely thankful for. Along with these encounters I also keep logs of experiences, recordings, interviews, reports and accounts some of my associates had with some of their first missions, obtaining creatures, beings and items of interest. Mere snippets of their experiences still send chills down my spine.

“The scariest thing besides having some bloody axe-wielding southerner come at you, growling, with a knife between their teeth, is putting four bullets in their chest and watching them just keep on coming. Glowing eyes and all.” - James Duncan

“When we went down there… to the sewers… there were people strung up in these bubbly cocoon things. Like sacks of pulsing webbing hung up with slime. All this people. We knew they were still alive, slowly dissolving inside those things. Like… their flesh was melting together. Ten people all becoming a sack full of fleshy goop, mixing into one mass of… oh god. The sacks were hanging from the ceiling and as we walked throughout… we could hear the people still screaming inside those things. I’ll never forget that.” - Harry Cooper

“A while ago, in the city, five of our men became phantoms. Those floating things, without faces or forms. Just masses of blue and white energy, like concentrated mist. We detained there situation well enough, but… we also had to capture our men. There’s no way to run them back. Once your a phantom your body kinda… evaporates on the spot. Never seen anything like that.” - Gary Jacobs

We still continue our work today. Now, The Agency holds more than a thousand objects and beings that defy both science and religion. The world has become a darker place, and the pure existence of these evil things makes me truly believe that humans are no more vital to this vast universe than a handful of dirt is after falling into the ocean. Life has no purpose, and we just keep these things locked up so that others may have a chance to live just a little while longer. The clock is ticking and this world of man hasn’t got much time left. But I guess we’ll kept fighting. At the end of the day… we’ll probably just lose anyway. Believe me. We’ve captured god and questioned him to high heaven. He told all of us how it ends. With darkness. And you know what?… I believe him. If you could only see this approaching sunset, then you’d believe… that soon, very soon… it will all be over.

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