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Hi ! I have an RPGMaker project in the works... One of the most daunting things to me is planning out all the maps, locations, and making tiles for everything in the overworld... How did you approach doing that with slarpg? How much planning went into designing the locations, and spriting them?
Not to scare you off or anything, but making the world itself was definitely the most time-consuming part of making SLARPG.
Usually I'd start working on the basic tileset before anything else, to figure out the vibe of an area. This early experimentation is usually the most fun and invigorating part for me. Then I'd do very rough sketches in a drawing program to block out the overall layout and flow of an area, trying to envision how that will shape the pacing of the story. This is more about the big picture of every map than trying to make it look pretty. How does this area connect to other areas? Do I need some kind of diversion to make this section longer? Should it open up more over time as you find certain key items? Are there shortcuts for backtracking? Are the layouts varied enough from room to room to keep players from getting lost? And then from there it's just about building the maps one by one, tile by tile, rigging up any necessary event logic and going back to add the tiles for additional details as necessary. Which is the most time consuming part. But then you have a whole area you can run around in. Wow!
Granted, my tilesets can be fairly complex in their detail, and that added more time to the process for me. Many hours spent manually arranging grass and tree and cliff face tiles so everything lines up right. Using simpler tilesets and cramming in less detail on every screen would save you time. But there's always going to be some amount of tedium here. That's just game development for you. You get used to it with experience.
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printed a bunch of photos today! some from my instax evo, some from my canon selphy. I used to think I don't like taking pictures, but it turns out I just don't like posting them online lmao. I like them better in my hands. also, something about the process of posting digital photos doesn't really suit me. I don't like tagging, I don't like editing, I don't like putting faces on social media. whereas printed photos kinda allows me to just point and shoot, you know? something about physical photos makes non-professional very amateurish photos look charming
#mine musings#i probably would like film photography more than digital but. i don't want to commit to a film camera yet#and the whole process of getting it developed#i have a friend whose hobby is digital photography and i just know from watching her#that that's not for me#and i think that's why i thought i don't like taking photos#but i actually like making collages and albums of physical photos#and i like! giving physical photos to others!!#like the reason i got the evo was so i can hand out pictures to the people i'm with (while retaining my own copy)#also bc i have the instax 11 and it's fun but. i wasted a lot of film on it lmao#the evo gives me more control in that regard#i soooo want to try polaroid but polaroid film is just not accessible here
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As much as I love angst I think it would be funny if he just didnt give af
#Hazel you cant just ask people if they have a dead mom#fairly oddparents#fop a new wish#fop#fairly oddparents a new wish#headcanon#fop hazel#hazel wells#fop dev#dev dimmadome#I think he has mildly positive associations with it tbh#He asked where babies came from and his dad actually took him aside and explained how he was super special and important#and better than everyone else because he was a clone and talked him through the whole cloning process very excitedly#(Dev did not understand a word of it but it was probably the most positive interaction he'd ever had with his dad)#later Dev came back and asked where normal kids come from and he got uncomfy and made an Au-Pair explain#other than that Dev has basically no thoughts on being a clone its just a fact to him.#Actually thinking about it now that could be a really dark explanation for why his real name is Development#I mean you dont just get cloning right on the first try#and nobody wants to name and get attached something that might just fall over dead any minute#HAHA anway angst over teehee :3#fop nature au#<-for organization since this HC applies to it too
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Taika Waititi as Nelson in Snakeskin (2001)
this movie is something else but he is soooo pretty
#and he is 60% chin#snakeskin (2001)#taika waititi#taika gifs#ida.stuff#even the dvd quality sucks ksdjhjsk i had to develop a whole new sharpening process to get tolerable results#snakeskin posting
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tdov was like a week ago already but I just wanna say when I came over to vacation slash help my sworn brother move flat he told me, "ever since you said you wanted to get top surgery I've been thinking about it. it's straight up number two on my bucket list"
#bakuspeech#number one is a house bc obviously. if u can own a house wouldnt u#he was very drunk at that time of the evening. I was not bc I have the constitution of a hot air balloon and any stimulant will blow me up#(relatively new development. france fucked me up big time turns out)#we held hand on his bed for like the whole evening. it was honestly very funny in hindsight but we were extremely earnest in the moment#and Im like. working on this thing as well. I dont got meds or therapy lmao Im bootstrappin here#but yeah early last year his bf offered to get me meds and I... turned it down... I think I was worried abt like. idk. something#but one year past looking back Im fully like that was a stupid move you shouldve gotten meds. youve once again fucked urself baku#but yeah with that kinda realization Ive also come to realized I've somewhat? accepted. that I'm just gonna be. like this#this in light of a number of likely chronic stuff too (hence my balloon-like constitution lmao) and#that's kinda bled into the rest of me without me really noticing#but him bringing that up fully unprompted... kinda jolted me out of it#its just. really incredibly sweet. that someone doesn't want me to settle for what I make do with#and like. preps for that work. just kinda held my hand and told me it's possible to do this actually#I didn't really express how I felt very well in that moment I think my brain is very bad and I process emotions with like a day of delay#but. well. Im thinking abt it Right Now. so yknow thats the kind of impact that had on me lol#not super sure why I wrote all this down here really. I think I just want a good n nice reminder that object permanence is real#and I exist in my friends' life even when Im going insane in a hole by myself#and with the power of friendship we can alter the universe's plan for ourselves and also kill god#that's that. anyways I eat lunch now and then pass out probably. last night was... eventful lmao#but!! very good things on the horizon hopefully. well manifestly we hold hammers and we use them#have a good day lads. let's go out and slay monsters under a highway
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i know Zelda team said theyre kinda done with this iteration of hyrule so theres no DLC and thats fine i guess but i wanna know why they made certain choices
#trying not to feel the resentment for the development cycle aches only to be a bit stiffed on the lore side yknow#like as a creative type with a fucked up attention span i get it 100% but OOF hard mode at least#i dont need a whole ass novel i just want a little bit of thought process#ALSO GIVE ME KASS#i refuse to believe they killed him off in the blizzard what a bullshit move thatd be#Penn seems to think he's alive anyway#rory's ramblings#botw/totk blogging
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I really like romances that highlights a complex relationship with desire. what’s that one quote. found it, it’s the siken quote that goes “the enormity of my desire disgusts me” and “there’s only one thing I want, don’t make me say it” LOVE that. it’s so fun. denial and repression and self-loathing! some of my favorite ingredients for a romance.
#time to talk the romos#it can show up in any narrative in many ways#but the way in romance it pulls another person into the process#is SOOOOO fun for me#with romance being character-focused and with the plot tied to emotional/relationship development#(when it’s done well) you get to see it in both an individual and systemic context#how it manifests in solitude and its impact on relationship patterns#how it’s masked or displayed#whether the character is aware or unaware#whether the character is trying to break these patterns or are furiously clinging to them#fight or flight lol#anyway that’s why I just ended up rotating that one single father bl in my head for so long#I feel like writing-wise I’m kind of lukewarm on it? but themes-wise it grabbed me by the throat and shook me like a rattle#the love interest’s whole thing is how at his core he wants affection but has only gotten it through dysfunctional means#because what he’s wanted has always been dismissed or rejected or minimalized for the sake of someone else#well yknow he’s an orphan and was taken in by his maternal uncle so there’s always been resentment if he does better than the ‘actual’ son#so the pattern is#starting from his cousin and his cousin’s girlfriend#is seeing affection and going ‘I want that’ and ‘stealing’ another person’s partner#and then instantly being disinterested because if it’s so easily ‘stolen’ it’s not the affection he actually wants#and since it continues outside of that context of. well essentially revenge#it just continues into solely experiencing unfulfilling relationships#so when the love interest recognizes his own interest in the main character#he’s trying to continue his cycle of ‘surely if I sleep with this person I’ll lose interest’ except by this point *that’s* the self-delusion#he’s found a person that he connects with and with whom he wants a genuine relationship#and it’s devastating to him!!!!!!#lmao I love it
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i'm so fucking stressed out
#dude my dog had acl repair surgery in march#she's healed fine with that but developed stomach issues#so she's been back and forth to the vet with that#and now when i was at work she just randomly started walking weird as fuck. she kicks her leg that was operated on backwards as she walks#and sometimes looses balance in both legs#and then when i pick her up she acts like it hurts her spine or something#i'm gonna wake up in 4 hours to call the vet and see if they can see us today and pray that this isn't something that she'll need surgery#for again#i also am supposed to work tomorrow and then friday we have a rehearsal dinner and then saturday the wedding which is two hours away.#vets closed on sunday so if she can't get seen tomorrow it'll be a whole new fiasco trying to get her helped somewhere else#this dog is my lifeline like it#ruins me#seeing her like this#genuinely if i didn't have her i wouldnt be here#it's so hard to watch her not even be able to walk#but it's so fuckinf weird bc my mom said she was just laying in her bedroom and she came back out doing it? there's nothing she could've#gotten into it just makes no fuckinf sense#like it's possible either her kneecap or her acl implant thing popped out of place but#she stiffens her entire body when i pick her up#and she acts like she's losing balance#it's so fucking weird#i'm also terrified that i'm about to get told she has some kind of onset of neurological problems and she'll have to get put down#or something along those lines#it's just too much rn#pls keep my doggy in ur thoughts#we just spent 3k on her surgery in march if she has to get operated on again first of all the recovery process all over again sounds like#a nightmare#but just the cost alone#i'm gonna FUCKING KILL MYSELF
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Occasionally we debate on illustrating random bits from our Discord PMs that we find really funny but then we remember that we're, like, the physical embodiment of the "ace that makes sex jokes" stereotype and phrases like "iterator dick discourse" would both be remarkably difficult to illustrate and probably require us drawing something at least somewhat NSFW (we do not particularly care to learn how to draw this)
#we speak#realistically it would just require more specific tinkering w what we choose to include but we still think the dickscourse is funny#it's the image of a bunch of ancient monks gathering around to very seriously debate decisions with the upcoming iterator project#and then the whiteboard is just like. “ITERATORS: dick or no?”#(vital context: we got hung up on the semantics of people giving their iterators actual genitals in smut)#(as the existence of that on the puppet implies that someone had to design and manufacture and ship that shit for the finished iterator)#(and the general aura of the ancients instantly catapults this to fucking hilarious because it implies job titles like “dick director”)#(and work emails about iterator pipe written in the exact same cadence as all of the ancient correspondence we see in-game)#we dont think a lot of people designing iterators really Get the sheer amount of semantics and construction and effort and PEOPLE#that go into a project of the iterator's scale#especially when hundreds of them have been constructed! theres gonna be a whole ass trail of design changes and iterations!#youre gonna have hundreds of years of iterators being designed and technology coming into fashion and out of fashion#and things being integrated and things becoming obsolete and things being more or less practical as time goes on!#you cant really say that All Iterators have a trait because the sheer scale and timeframe theyre built on means thats near impossible#our windows 95 writing computer has different construction and deeply different design to a laptop from 2023#despite them technically being the same type of technology#you expect tech developed hundreds of years apart to be The Same? absolutely not. theres gonna be eight trillion weird design quirks#accumulated both in the construction process and in the continued design refinement and improvement stage#...which is to say that you can and should write what u want but if youre gonna include pleasure inducing wires then we want like#a 40k word essay on how this got into the design how it wound up in future designs what function the wires perform that makes them Like Tha#and so on and so forth#we admire the confidence and ingenuity of the people who want to fuck the robots but we cannot get into their fantasies with good conscienc#we live in the same house as an engineer who manages largescale construction and we also know too much about designing technology#...we should segment these tags into a separate post or something. we've gone WAY off-topic.
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tears of the kingdom could have been so good if it were built around like, its story or its characters instead of being a clunky shell to show off the mechanic no one asked for that it forces you to use
#*#text#totk#mechanics#i had fun scuttling around in the depths for a while but that got old eventually. for obvious reasons#what i liked about zelda games was always the atmosphere and character interactions#like. one of my favorite games is twilight princess. which is. deeply unserious in many ways#bit it COMMITTED to its setting and what the writers went ham making sure#that it was still full of whimsy and affection.#totk doesn't have that. the characters are all 1) instruction manuals or 2) vehicles for what small and disparate semblances of plot#survived whatever disaster must have happened in development that made them cannibalize several different ideas#and stick them into the shell for the fucking. arm#totk plays like a gallery or again just an engine for the building thing.#it's pretty. the music is good. the building thing is well made. but as a zelda game totk Fucking Tanks#i HATE overinvolved mechanics. i HATE having to stop and rely on a Whole Process that i have to keep stocked#to get anything done. i've always liked loz again bc of characters and whimsy but also bc it's always been mechanically vert streamlined#and accessible to someone like me who is disabled and finds fiddling EXTREMELY tedious#you have one required tool per dungeon and they're QUICK they're SIMPLE they're A GOOD TIME#totk. to me. is just clunky and has no redeeming qualities outside of again being pretty and still sort of nominally letting you run around#collecting things. some of the side quests were cute. but even then the characters were very.#THE THING ABOUT ZELDA GAMES IS THAT IM used TO THEM BEING ABOUT. NOT JUST THE FUNCTION!!!!!!#there were things— many of them! sometimes most of them even!!!— there just for fun. again almost especially The Characters#totk is so goddamn UTILITARIAN on all levels ITS. CLUNKY and BORING i don't WANT to have to do 30 things just so i can do something else.#hey nintendo. if you have to force people to play your game. like if you specifically have an ''open'' game and then subsequently have to#manufacturer MANY blocks and caveats to the idea of ''do whatever have fun!!'' so that it's''but only how WE want you to''. maybe thats bad.#maybe you've done a bad job. if again. you have to FORCE players to go about things in the way and order that you want. it's no fun.#like even zelda games where you have less options and linear progression feel less restrictive bc like. they don't fucking punish you.#for. playing the game. you just can't do things. totk really punishes you for going off script. which like. why even do that.#anyway. this is all probably incoherent. i'm right tho.#wow there are so many typos. pretend there are not <3
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immediately when the episode opened i was planning to make a tumblr post that just said MY BITCHY EMO CRANKY DICKHEAD SON IS BACK but then the rest of the ep delivered so many successive worthwhile all-caps textpost sentiments that like. somehow hunter processing grief and stress and pain by being kind of a cunt ended up like. the LEAST important of my most important takeaways. THAT is how much this ep delivered. jesus christ. i was not prepared. i did not underknow
but.
also.
MY BITCHY EMO CRANKY DICKHEAD SON IS BACK
#i know that by the end of the ep he's processed enough to once again be angel son boy but. cranky hunter i missed you#cranky hunter is EVERYTHINGGG#owing my fucking LIFE to the writers for keeping the whole#'hunter responds to enormous stress / grief / repression with cranky bitchery' thing consistent#sometimes bad things happen and it is hard to be nice or gracious or happy or relate to people you love. and it's normal#and fine and good! and just how some people are! and not something that gets washed away with character development!#cranky hunter u will always be my boy. i know this is shocking for anyone who's read any hunter fic i've ever written ever.#toh#toh spoilers#hunter toh
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the idea of adoption as an alternative to pregnancy because you "don't want to pass on your mental illness" to your child is incredibly laughable when you know just how mentally ill kids in the adoption/foster system are
#aka So many. So Incredibly. The Most#also good luck getting cleared to even be able to adopt if you have a documented history of mental illness#also not all mental illness is genetic id argue even most isnt but thats a whole tirade abt medicalization and psychiatry in general but#like. your mental illnesses WILL impact your child even if not like. thru the process of development and birth alone#i dont think thats a reason to not have children though to be clear. like if you are so unstable that you cant have kids obvs dont but like#the idea of perfectly pure 100% perfect parenting is uhhh an impossible goal bcs even if you are a perfect robot alien from outer space#without human flaws We Live In A Society and SOMETHING will inevitably happen to your child that you will not be able to make all better.#nobody escapes childhood unscathed or life in general
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Posts I've seen in just the last week:
AO3 is one of the most visited sites in the world
It's ok if your fanfic [that you're writing for free in your spare time] is unfinished! You do you!
How very dare these WGA writers not finish writing my stories for me [that they spend full work days every day working on] just because they don't get compensated fairly for their paid labor and decided to go on strike?
Respect unions! Unionize your workplace! Respect picket lines!
Posts I have not seen ever but maybe it's just me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
AO3 would not exist without the paid writers who are currently striking. You would have no stories to write fanfic of. The entire world your fic exists in was created by someone else's labor.
#tbh I don't like how you can't say anything remotely critical about fanfic without people getting up in arms like you're invalidating it#I very much agree fanfic is a valid art form#but most of it very much does rely on the work of writers who are able to develop narratives in ways that a lot fic writers don't need to#and who are practicing a craft they are trained in#and granted I don't really rove in fandom circles#but fanfic very much would not exist if not for someone else's world building and character development#and I haven't seen that acknowledged during this strike at all#people are expecting writers to finish their paid work when they can't even afford health insurance#I see so many posts about how fanfic is a valid genre and it is but that doesn't mean it's the same as professional writing#I love that people have such a passion for writing and storytelling that they do it for free in their spare time!#but that's not the same as doing it for a living and planning out a whole TV season's story arc before writing any episodes#it's not the same as writing every single character and plotline from scratch and understanding that process#it's not the same as understanding how to structure a novel and plan and implement literary motifs and themes and metaphors#which isn't to say fanfic can't do these things but how many fic writers do?#and tbh that's not the point of fic and that's fine but where's the acknowledgment that fics exist because other people DO
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Thisng that are being manifested : kaname changes state (preferably wakes up and maybe joins the cast) during the graduation events very quickly followed by himeru fs2 as they scramble to gather an understanding of themself to project outside of their self imposed role of HiMERU
#as moth ahs been saying to anyone who s willing to talk to thwm for more than 5 minutes um the only way for meru to significantly evolve in#their character arc is for kaname to not be in a coma as himeru is currently just stalling in the grieving process full of regrets that#they cant mourn for obvious reasons but they cant act anyway outside of the preset parameters of HiMERU just in case so they are stuck#they cant move on(?)#bc of the constant cloud of regrets and selfloathing/blame#and um while slowly watching them open up to crazy b is fun and all moth loves fictional characters in intenseemotional distress#and so with kaname waking up you get the relief of well kaname not being almost dead + a very direct callout of himerus plan being fucking#illogical and fueled by the worlds least healthy coping mechanism#+himeru not wanting to sacrifice the relationship theyve made with crazy b + but also just the whole mes s of youve been lying to us for a#year and the mixed feelings that come with that#and and and um moth is tired but majnly they just feel like meru is stalling in their development not really allowed to change almost just#survival instincts#oh and also if kaname dies idk it feels cheap almost like himeru and kanames relationship never gets fixed or atleast flattening out to a#more normal sibling dynamic#bc himeru regrets how they treated kaname and just need them to sort that out#god#moth is sorrybthey are rambling words have been difficult lately#hope this made sense as always#moth chitters#might delete later#oh this is vvvv himeru centric but honestly at this stage we can safely say teh si is specifically on himeru so no otehr characters exist#anyway the younger himeru sprite from obligato is wrong they re not a carbon copy of kaname and and mmm trust mlth they are happy elements
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about to close my folder and seeing these aauuuuuUURRRRUuuGGGHHHGGGGHHGGHGHG <-person with lots of thoughts on akira & the twins
#stardust speaking !#the no1 ppl of akira forgetting but knowing but also not rly getting their actual age#the trust....the comfort.................the 'since ure the child in need of reassurance we will be the adults' jumpscare#everytime i rmbr their bday cards this year and how they look 5 i laUGH THE CARDS ARE SOOO CUTE BUT ITS SSOOOOOOOO FUNNY#how is akira supposed to react knowing they have sm knowledge while looking like they barely started school#them saying Anything about figaro n oz while sounding like granpas but its the yt loading circle over akiras head while they process (again#that snow n white are older than them#head in hands white in the snow and akira brushing the snow off him. aurgh.#IN MY MIND the twins n oz (n figaro sometimes) r the ppl akira will turn to first when it comes to this n that#after that its development specific#cain is also up there. cain n the twins especially have Rly good first impressions w akira#figaros mostly up there cuz the whole 'tell me whats wrong and i will tell u itll be fine' event + if its doctor stuff....the obvious.....#oz is oz#i actually have so many thougyts about this whenever im writing & somethings involved witht he wizards LOLLLLLL
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I love making problematic male characters
#he started out problematic bc he's a templar and oh BOY does it keep getting worse#man's cheating on his wife with a mage he had a crush on 7 years ago#and he treats said mage like garbage now#the end of that story is already plotted and don't worry he effectively goes to therapy gets a divorce and becomes a simp later but LORD#the DRAMA in this romance#sometimes you let the order make your crush tranquil so they don't kill him and then later when he's cured of said tranquility he blames you#and then you both hate eachother for a long time and then you bang and then you convince yourself it was blood magic and hate your ex crush#even more than before but your crush still digs you anyway so it all snowballs into a personal crisis bc Mother Giselle was right you don't#actually believe it was blood magic or you would've killed him so now you just have to sit with that and pick apart this whole narrative#you've built over the years to keep yourself from feeling all the things you didn't want to#and it eventually culminates into divorcing your wife that fed your unhealthy coping mechanisms (ie spinning a narrative in which you did#nothing wrong) admitting you were in the wrong going through the process of rebuilding trust with your crush and building a relationship you#never let yourself have with him before bc as a templar you're not supposed to get close to your charges and you took that very seriously#back in the day but the divine abolished the circles so you don't have to do that anymore and you can relax and let your feelings *exist*#and you adopt a dog together and go on adventures and the first time you ever admit you love him is in front of your extremely pious father#which is a hell of a move bc your boyfriend is A) a mage B) a man and C) an elf#and then you sort-of adopt your niece together bc she started developing magic and your brother is an asshole#and then you drag your boyfriend out into the Vimmark mountains where you get the best view and propose to him but you're awkward#so you tell him to forget it and then later you try again somewhere else#and then you honeymoon in Antiva#and you make sure he gets to see all the things he wouldn't have gotten to locked up in a tower
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