#Accessibility and Design Systems

[geodesick]

[ID: a drawing of pye from outer wilds, standing with her writing staff. she's wearing an orange nomai space suit without the helmet, and she has a light brown face with curly darker brown fur. end ID]

figuring out how i want to draw the nomai, so here's a pye since i am obsessed with her !!!

[quartzdecay]

I have a request for people with experience with wheelchairs, if you personally use/used them or have people in your life that do: PLEASE COMPLAIN ABOUT THEM TO ME! TELL ME ABOUT THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY CAN SUCK! IN GENERAL OR SPECIFICS!

I need this information for a project I'm doing in my design class, wherein my group is going to attempt to prototype a wheelchair with both offroad and indoor capabilities, per say, that is still reasonably light and inexpensive. I'm asking this of you all on tumblr because to begin our project, we need to familiarize ourselves with the nature of this problem. We want our solution to actually be made with the opinions of wheelchair users in mind. I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could reblog or comment with any gripes they have about wheelchairs, especially in relation to their maneuverability, but anything works! Thank you so much for your time!

[jaerockyaoi]

i'm deep i'm sea and i'm requiem! the deep sea requiem friends!!

[amity-creates]

Now offering a dyslexic friendly font option for easier accessibility!

(If there is a specific font that you prefer, lmk the exact font and we can try our best to find it and download it)

[vee-more-afraid]

Creatation's Types, Stats and Classes

This is a semi-long post going into some Creatation game mechanics – namely, the different kinds of Types that both Creatatures and moves can have, a Creatature’s different stats, and the different Classes of moves available.

TYPES

In Creatation, there are a whopping 27 different elements, or types, that a Creatature can be, having up to two of them at a time.

While some types are more common or rarer than others, they’re found across many different Creatatures across the world. For example, Forest biomes are likely to have more Plant, Fungus, or Bug types in them; Deserts and Canyons have plenty more Earth or Fire types, and Creatatures found deep in the Underground or Caverns are likely to be Stone, Dark, or Undead type, to name a few.

Creatatures’ moves have types as well, and some types are stronger against others. For example, Fire is weak to Water, Plant is weak to Fungus, Dark is weak to Light, and so on and so forth. (More details about Creatature’s moves, both attacks and utility uses, will be in a later post.)

STATS

            Each Creatature has 8 stats. While Creatatures of the same species will have generally similar points in each stat, between training, randomization and the strength gained by increasing your level, no two Creatatures will be exactly alike! However, don't be put out if your Creatature doesn't have the best stats it possibly could - you can always get the absolute best out of any one you catch with the right training! I'd never stick y'all with a subpar 'mon just through sheer bad luck, these are your partners in crime! The stats are as follows:

HP: The maximum amount of Health a Creatature has. When a Creatature’s health hits 0, it will be incapacitated and unable to battle until manually healed. Corporal Attack: Calculates the amount of damage a Creatature deals with Melee and Ranged moves. Corporal Defense: Calculates the amount of damage a Creatature takes from Melee and Psionic moves. Ethereal Attack: Calculates the amount of damage a Creatature deals with Magic and Psionic moves. Ethereal Defense: Calculates the amount of damage a Creatature takes from Ranged and Magic moves. Speed: How fast or slow the Creatature can move. Stamina: The total amount of Stamina a Creatature has. Each move a Creatature uses takes away a bit of stamina from it. When it runs out of stamina, it will need to stop battling until the meter fills back up. It will slowly refresh over time, but keeping your Creatatures from getting exhausted is a top priority. Intelligence: This stat controls how smart the AI of the Creatature is. Smarter Creatatures will prioritize more effective moves, using non-damaging moves to buff allies and hurt enemies, keeping its Stamina from dropping too low and using the surrounding environment to their advantage. While it does the least in the mathematical sense, Intelligence is arguably the most important stat for a Creatature to have.

CLASSES

In addition to types, damaging moves also come in 4 ‘classes’ that determine the type and effectiveness of the damage. Each class uses one of the Creatature’s Attack stats, compared against one of the opponent’s Defense stats. As a result, a Creatature with a high attack stat in one category is strong in at least 2 classes, while a Creatature with a high defense stat in one category is able to resist at least 2. However, further specialization into classes will largely come from the moves each Creatature has access to.

Melee moves: the most close-ranged of the four, this uses Corporal Attack against Corporal Defense. Ranged moves: dealing heavily with throwing or firing projectiles, this uses Corporal Attack against Ethereal Defense. Magic moves: a class that involves mystical energy of the elemental variety, this uses Ethereal Attack against Ethereal Defense. Psionic moves: focused around aura, physic abilities and resonant frequencies, this uses Ethereal Attack against Corporal Defense.

There will be plenty of moves of different types and classes, making sure that every Creatature can stand out and find its own ‘niche’ making it worthy of bringing with you. However, with Creatation’s wide open plains making it more likely you’ll run into situations where your current Creatatures are less effectual, it's encouraged to catch and train many different Creatatures of a variety of uses and niches, instead of only training one singular 'team' that you bring everywhere. Keep on collecting!

[morgenlich]

my laptop's favorite hobby is overheating

[quadrantadvisor]

I'm trying so hard not to be a hater but the more I learn about other ttrpgs the more the way that people talk about dnd annoys me

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

I wish whoever made Hayate’s Raijin’s combo throw string in DOA4 so fucking difficult a very step on a Lego for the rest of your life and I hope you NEVER touch fighting games EVER AGAIN.

[coriander-candlesticks]

I've been wanting to make my own set of tarot cards for a while now but wasn't sure how. I found out that my local metaphysical shop sells blank decks (!!) so I'm finally starting to design them! It's going to take a while, of course, but I'm enjoying just kinda going on instincts instead of exhausting myself by overthinking a theme I may or may not want to stick with by the time I'm done sketching and start painting them.

[gammija]

have fun with the first eps of tmagp yall!!!

[marginal-notes]

But one of the biggest things out of this whole mess is the weird sort of. Egalitarianism? What the fuck are words, I don’t know. Whatever, the weird places where people could just not give a shit about gender or sex in Naruto.

AKA, let’s talk a bit about ANBU, land of the “no one knows your face, no one knows your name, fuck your personal identity, no one’s allowed to even remember your body shape since that can give away secrets, just stab that target real good and do your job.” It’s the kind of place where all that matters is how good of a weapon you are, and we can turn it into the fucked up little deadly meritocracy we want to. Because I only have so much patience for dealing with chauvinism in my dumb little fiction project.

The general shinobi forces also broadly has this attitude, though it might not be to the extreme of ANBU and ROOT. At the end of the day, as long as you can carry out your missions well, based on your specializations, the distinctions between male and female shouldn’t be a massive impediment to your ability to serve the village.

It’s the extra politics and the civilian cultural expectations that start messing things up.

[medical-angel]

Posting this on my lesser-known blog bc I don't want flak but I AM anti-ai. I am. But. Ai Overlook has given me more clearly-outlined coping strategies and emotional validation and support than anyone in my support system over the last year, so....

[celestial-tapir]

people seem to assume I'm joking when I say that I think we should have universal child suffrage but the more I learn about it and reflect on the way society treats children as a class, the more convinced I am that we should do it