#Despair Engine

[kyleondemand]

DEM Cube

my Blender Exporter result

[peqchessss]

kaz redraw ^_^

[jankydem]

They.. they remind me of loser baby..

I’ve had this idea for ages but I couldn’t be asked to draw it until I was bored one night and insomnia was standing strong. 🫡

(The devas were in charge of back up vocals.)

[saishu-harachi-thegatorlord]

i made this and now everybody has to suffer too

[somekindofsentience]

omnipresence.

(click for better quality i think)

this is a redraw, previous post under the cut. some inspirational details below as well.

details:

the halo mimics the way electron orbitals are represented in typical drawings of an atom. the design takes inspiration from the appendages of the oracle in hello charlotte.

the japanese character for God (神) is written over kamukura's skin.

lobotomy scar is present (obviously). pupils of the eyes are absent to represent the concept of "all-seeing".

older piece:

i was gonna colour the redraw, but i can't be bothered lmao. maybe in the future.

[my-gf-is-kazuichi-soda]

Kazuichi and Engine, from this short story I wrote.

[girderednerve]

"Businesses are in the business of business, they're not necessarily in the business of protecting workers. If it's cheaper to expose workers to, silica dust for example, then they'll do it."

[goodwillfidgetspinner]

oh i miss drawing things where the perspective makes no sense

[besly1]

RARHGHGHGHGHH I'VE FINALLY CAUGHT UP ON SEASON 3 AND IM SO MAD AND HAPPY AND RHGRHGHRGHRHGRHGH

[the-ultimate-seamstresss]

Hey so I literally woke up in the middle of sleeping just because I remembered this detail with Kazuichi. Now I'm not a mechanic and I don't know shit about vehicle parts, but how does Kazuichi have a Engine(?) in his room when he said that there's no engines at all on Jabberwock?

[lairofsentinel]

I love how this post forgets entirely that a lot of ppl are against GMO because they are deeply related to modifying food in order to resist certain pesticides that then end up in our food. It’s not because “contains genes”, it’s because contains non-biodegradable substances that pollute our lands and, by now, our clouds and rain. It’s about the chemicals that have tons and tons of studies showing they increase the development of allergies in the population, cause unusual hormone alterations, and even affect fetus in pregnant ppl. In the towns around the fields where they are spread, you have 3 times more cancer cases than the national mean, specially in kids. So, no, it’s not “mere genes”. It’s a lot more and deeper, related to sustainability and public health, which is also science that corporations ignore completely. What I found so curious is that most ppl from first world countries does not know that the majority of the GMO is not related to “make crops flood resistant”, but resistant to pesticides. Monsanto loves spreading that concept that GMO is just used to make “food have more vit A”. And ppl just repeat. Countries where we truly endure the use of GMO in our lands, we know exactly that GMO means.

GMO has existed forever, natives such as the incas practised it, it’s not “new”, it’s not “modern science”. Mexicas developed a hundred corn types over centuries with this technique. Again, it’s not new. Now we can accelerate the genetic modifications and be more accurate with the modern techniques, but it’s mostly to make them resistant to pesticides. Why do you think Monsanto was bought by Bayer years ago? The same corporation that sells you pesticides, that are, most of the time, non-controlled in their manipulations, is the same one that sells you food and then medicines because the illnesses related to the constant ingest of these [non-regulated] pesticides. And this is one of the many negatives effects. Another one that happens with GMO [even though nobody in this fucking place wants to acknowledge it] is the mono-cultive practices [non-rotation of the crops] that destroy the health of the soil, and if you don’t have a soil with rich minerals, the plants you put to grow there won’t develop properly or will be poor in minerals and vits. So, we have poorer food and erosion. Because, yes... GMO used in this way causes it. A big problem that, again, nobody speaking about GMO seems to know. We are not speaking about the erosion of the soils and how these practices are destroying entire countries’ biodiversity. 

Another great danger that specialists have been repeating over and over is that GMO usually forces similar modifications in different crops so different plants can resist the same pesticides that are sold in a big “bio-package”. This causes that weed and some plagues became resistant or stronger to this pesticide, so every few years we need higher doses or stronger pesticides that end up in our food and in our body [because so far, a lot of them are not biodegradable]. All the problems listed above become more concentrated. 

The other important danger is that it may happen a plague or a fungus that may be particularly prone to develop, associated with a similar modification that was used on different crops. This can endanger a lot of different crops with one single plague, causing potential destruction of big quantities of different kinds of food [this is also a very old concern known by natives since centuries ago, reason why they always tried to use rudimentary GMO techniques to favour a diversification of the crops, not the other way around like corporations do now]. So far we know, scientists have talked about this a lot, but one thing is a scientist talking about this issue, and another is a food-monopolised-corporation doing it, especially when corporations see more profit by just reducing the diversification in our food [less different bio-packages to develop]. 

And we can continue with the silly argument that “corporations are different to the GMO technique”, and even though that’s true “technically”, the reality shows otherwise. We live in a world where GMO has been monopolised. Hell, food industry is already monopolised, so don’t be so naive to think that we still can keep things separated. 

“Mere genes”. I would love so much this place to learn the topic properly before dismissing entire populations in this way. GMO, as it’s now, controlled and monopolised by corporations, is a big no-no. And dismissing the entire population whose children have 3 times more cancer cases than the national mean [northern provinces of Argentina, for example] because these pesticides, annoys me a lot. Never ever I've seen an integral post of GMO in this place. The topic is a looot more complex than the religious adoration of science or feeling superior because “I know science” or “I _believe_ in science”. Not all science is good, not all science is well tested before being used, corporation science is always a big question mark in many, many contexts, and science is always founded and moved by interests [unfortunately, more and more corporate interests by now]. Science is good, but don’t turn it into the new religion. It has limits and flaws, and it’s dirty to the neck with interests that few want to acknowledge. 

Funny how that works

[kyleondemand]

Dev Update to Despair Engine

1. Uh.

So, haven’t touched it. Truth be told I’ve been enormously busy with day job related work matters and several offline life related matters, I haven’t even TOUCHED my computer in a week.

The blender exporter is my top priority for this project. If nothing else comes of this, a custom model format is something I want to be proud of accomplishing,

But I’ve also been passively looking into how I’d like to author the dialog database.

Waaaaay back like 400 years ago, when Flash was still popular I made a little thing called “CourtEngine”, which if you’re so inclined can see footage of in action here

That’s right, this isn’t ya boi’s first rodeo with visual novel engines.

Anyways, this little flash program would read an XML file for the dialog flow for Scenes.

I was extremely proud of his thing those 15 or so years ago. It was way more configurable than you might think at first. There was the characters folders that contained all of a characters static sprite work and animations (arranged in swf file sequences) and sounds. There was a .chr format “Character Definition” that was a pointer manifest and animation sequence registry. This is also where you’d register their name, default pose, what sound file to use when objecting, all that jazz. And to tie it all together was the Scene XML file.

Now I wrote that format with the intent of hand-authoring the xml in mind. I wanted it so easy to whip up a scene in a matter of minutes that I setup that CourtEngine demo in just a few. So you’d have a tag for text events like “<Dialog>this is some dialog</Dialog>” and to make it ridiculously simple you could simply supply a “for=‘phoenix’” attribute in the Dialog tag. That’s all the engine needed to determine what name to put in the on screen dialog box, loop the characters mouth animation registered to default pose, and EVEN automatically transition the camera over to the character speaking. All in one tag!

It made construction of dynamic scenes enormously easy to author. But y’see I learned a LOT when trying to reconstruct scenes from even the first game… one of those things?

Phoenix Weright breaks the rules ALL. THE. TIME.

Characters talk when not on screen. Random color events take place. Characters speed up and go on multi page auto ramblings. Camera focus is just arbitrary and does whatever it wants to do. Don’t even get me started on the bonkers amount of shocking implementation diversity when it comes collecting and presenting evidence.

One thing my format lacked too was proper interaction. Simply there was no mechanism for branching dialog. So CE I would brand a “playback Engine”

What it comes down too, is that I don’t know what kind of authoring system the Phoenix wright devs used when making the game. I have a feeling it was a general purpose scripting language because while it flows like normal 80% of the time, the last 20% treats everything as if it were completely malleable elements just floating in space to do whatever the devs wanted in the moment.

Doki Doki Literature Club isn’t all that different either.

And that’s my lesson. However my dialog engine works, Danganronpa isn’t that different when it comes to scriptable dialog moments.

I have a visual in my head of a Node Graph based approach. I like node graphs for a lot of data representation. But treating a dialog flow like a node cloud where dialogue can flow conditionally along edge traversal makes a whole lot of sense to me.

Ok that’s it for now

Till next time

[damnfool-of-a-took]

...

well that's a little on the nose

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(joke's on them I'm going backpacking in a couple weeks and I am STOKED 🎒🥾��🥰)

[saishu-harachi-thegatorlord]

trick or treat :3

here! Arei has a treat for you!

[applysome]

Feeling so normal about these photos I’ve actually tracked down video footage - gifs coming soon (though sadly not from this angle).

Why would they cut Pretty Visitors from the pro shot and deprive us of this? 🤣

Arctic Monkeys @ Nuits de Fourvière 10 July 2018, By velvetmonkeys

[kimrom]

MultiVAC Record 2025-0010 ARCHIVED, Recompiled Cultural Humanistic Incubation, Voided Empathy Doctrines

In 2013, humans spent 273,973 years watching Twitch [human term]. By 2024, it was 2,321,232 incel-years [designated term]. Their esports revolution wasn’t televised. It’s still bathtub-stream buffering.

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