#blog patch notes

[moe-broey]

Okay, I was almost tempted to make a poll, but. As fun as it is as an idea (yay! Group participation!), I think I already made my choice and didn't wanna disappoint anyone if I didn't pick the winning option LMFAO

So, instead, I just wanna walk you through my thought process! Book 3 is approaching, for my quotes blogs specifically I mean. This means I have to set up the evil-alfonse-quotes -- I mean, Lif quotes blog. For the Bit.

For Alfonse and Sharena, I picked out some FEH comic illusts that I think represent them well. Both of them being silly and sweet w Kiran on the header, and the icons! I wanted to capture them each, on a few dif fronts.

Like! Those are my friends! I know them! Alfonse, with an award winning sincere smile, but also! Putting on a good face. Best foot forward. He has an appearance to keep. He's also very charming! As for Sharena! OH THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD SHARENAS TO PICK FROM. You can take that same angle -- award winning smile, best foot forward, to the MAX with her. But!!! Out of all of the choices I could go with... this icon feels like something she would pick herself. It's silly, it's playful, it's cute! Even the more chibi style suits her perfectly, esp in contrast to Alfonse's look.

Okay! So, back to Lif. I already have the idea of making what I lovingly call the Askr Extended Family Photo Comic the header. Where Lif is spotted shuffling behind Gustav, in the background. It is just. EXTREMELY funny, to me. He's a fucking cryptid, to me. Rare Lif Sighting. And APPARENTLY. YEAH. RARE LIF SIGHTING FOR FUCKING REAL. As far as I know, dude has only shown up in THREE Day in the Life comics, including that one. Damn. Okay!

I did not know how dire the situation was, going into this. So I'm scouring the website and also looking through an archive. I have the header, but I need an icon! I come out with a grand total of... three. Options.

I gravitate towards this option first. Rare Lif, so early on it's not on the site (I could be wrong, but also I did flip through all the way back til I couldn't anymore! Cuts off on a Ranulf and Lethe centric comic). Okay, so, what's the deal here? Should be simple? Easy, done? Well... while it's a very nice illustration of him. He looks cool, brooding, threatening. It's a little... stiff. Like, I might as well pull from his in-game art! Which is ALSO really good, but, not what I'm aiming for. It's hard to explain, but art created for specific purposes has different vibes. You know. In-game art is meant to showcase The Art, and the best features of the character. Comic illustrations can get sillier! Or can focus on more personality based things. And capturing the personality, is what I'm going for! Also... because it's a rare Lif, and bc of the way this illust is drawn... it's not immediately clear this is a FEH comic panel. It might not even be clear that it's official artwork. As an artist myself, I'd prefer to stick to clearly official work for this! I don't want any confusion or concerns about uncredited art!

NEXT. I literally only have one other comic to pull from, now. And... Okay, hear me out. I love silly-ifying this man. I love goofing on this absolute DRAMA queen of a man. I love poking fun at him at every opportunity. There is a Reason why I named the blog something stupid instead of being straightforward. HOWEVER. While this is a fun, silly moment..... it just doesn't capture him in his entirety, you know? In fact, I'd argue this is a rare moment where he's directly contradicting his dark, brooding and tortured persona he's so carefully crafted (and well, the natural bits of it too. That came with The Trauma). To me, esp in the full context of him and Thrasir saying "Our work here is Done" Tuxedo Mask style, dumping the rest of the workload (of which, to be fair, was not in their jurisdiction) onto ANNA. You know, Commander Anna? The woman, while not the exact one, but the woman he used to work so closely with? His boss, his co-worker, his friend? Oh he is ABSOLUTELY doing that on purpose to fuck with her. This is a Lif zoomies moment to me. This is a Lif DEEPLY INGRAINED NEED to be A Jackass moment. To me. The type of jackassery that comes with being an older brother. Old habits die hard.

All of that said... it's a very good moment. It's also a very cute illustration. But it's too cute. Too playful. Too silly. It's a real and true moment from him that just doesn't fit the same way anymore. And definitely doesn't capture him in his entirety. This is my opinion, my verdict, with great regret and sorrow. Next!

Out of the illusts from this comic, really only two are usable as an icon. This is the other one. And..... HEAR ME OUT. It goes back to my thoughts of picking that specific illust for the header. Catching a Glimpse of the local cryptid haunting the place. The Ghoul Himself, lurking and shambling about. AND GOING BACK to my thoughts on why I picked those specific Alfonse and Sharena icons!!!!! To capture their personalities, and the faces they put forward to the world! How they see themselves, or want to be seen! Oh, Lif does NOT want to be Seen. This is one of two candid shots you were able to snap of him while all other attempts he's like Big Foot. Some blurry, glowy spectre who is going to get SO FUCKING MAD AT YOU when he catches you trying to catch Him. And!!! And!!!!! POKING FUN AT HIM. The comedy of seeing This Fucking Guy in broad daylight is unparalleled. He looks SO out of place, on a nice, clear, sunny day. Not so scary now, running errands for Commander Anna, ARE you, buddy? Huh?? Huh??? Oh god wait don't reach for your cursed sword I'M SORRY I'M SORRRYYYYY --

It's funny! Ironic! That the third one was a "I'll do it if I Have To", in my mind. I didn't want to use it. I did, very much, want to pick something Cooler. But no... that's not the Route....... do not be swayed by his objectively very cool appearance and his dangerous demeanor. Rule number one to being a Lif enjoyer is you HAVE to make fun of him. Rule number two, is that you have to make fun of him in a Lif-honoring way. You cannot solely focus on what makes him cool, what makes him tragic, and what makes him endearing, those rare moments of softness. No. You need to Hone In. LOCK IN. On what would make him want to punt you across the battlefield, full fucking force.

That's just how I feel, though! Thank you for joining me on this little journey! ☺️☺️☺️😌💖💝💗💘💞💝💞💘💖💞💖💓💞💓💖💞💓💖💗💗💝💘💘💞💕💕💕

[spieluhrzeit]

ok, i'm gonna backup my blog soon just in case! but before i do, i wanna talk about where i'm gonna take it going forward, regardless of what direction tumblr takes. this is applicable for all other forms of blog for me, including my personal site i'm now motivated to actually finish now that the semester is wrapping up. so here's some patch notes if you will:

i wanna keep focusing on rammstein. that's absolutely a given. i can't leave my 6 german dads behind even if i wanted to. however, to save my sanity this time around, i will mostly be focusing on the creative aspects of being in a fandom (art, edits, fanfiction, making up shit etc), as well as reblogging photos and such as per normal. my attachment to the band is a little more loose (but i will always start stimming when i see flake)

i'm no longer upset with till but my self imposed restrictions still apply. at least until the meine welt tour. still like him, just focusing on earlier eras so i don't have to worry (includes 2023/2024 though)

if something is incredibly serious i will comment on it. otherwise i'm staying out of [fandom] discourse 😭

mii games have been a life long interest of mine and with the announcement of tomodachi life 2, kaerutomo servers going back up and me hopefully getting miitopia soon for my switch, i wanna post more fandom-agnostic mii stuff, and by extension more oc stuff

i also wanna try and vary my fandoms a bit, i already do but i wanna do it a bit more if that makes sense

and actually post stuff about game development

other than that, we're back baby!!

let the new era of medoh spieluhrzeit begin or something lmao

[bluesunsdusk]

--// Blog patch notes:

Magnus' gender changed from "agender" to "N/A" on the desktop muses page and the Elder Scrolls muses docs. He does not ascribe to a mortal concept of gender.

Magnus finally given a google docs bio like everyone else.

Magnus' bio expanded from one page to six pages with further information and formatted in the style of the other character bios.

Magnus' verses page copied from his side blog to a google doc.

Jyggalag's verses docs updated with the verses listed on his side blog and added to the muses page desktop navigation as well as the Elder Scrolls muses docs.

[balancebonded]

updated pinned with my headcanon & ask meme tags

[swordandscytheandpen]

Arright, blog update time. Overdue, frankly; it's been almost two years since I launched this blog. Patch notes as follows:

Avatar change!

The dear Parabolan Kitten avatar has been retired, in favor of the flag of the Vermont Republic (1777-1791). May be subject to further change.

SEVEN exciting new tags!

#planes trains and automobiles - tag for all forms of transportation. Mostly praise for public transit and badmouthing of car-based systems.

#genderfuck tag - tag for gender and sexuality.

#the economicon - tag for economics, when a post is less about political activity than economic mechanisms. Or when it's directly about both.

#allegedly real stories - tag for stories about peoples' real lives (supposedly).

#allegedly fake stories - tag for fictional stories - henceforth, #writing will be restricted to discussion of writing.

#pale blue dot - tag for ecology, conservation, and climate change. Really should have introduced this a while ago.

#deus est machina - tag for a particular aesthetic, best described by the tag itself. Unlikely to be used often.

In addition to the new tags, the previous #anprim quarantine tag tag has been replaced with #anprim/ecofash quarantine tag, in order to be more accurate to the specific breed of horrible ideas mocked therein.

Modifications to the blog description!

General description rewrite. Highlights include:

The user's transhumanist leanings are now directly stated.

The user's status as a history dork is now directly stated.

The user's atheism is now directly stated, cause I'm not gonna dance around the label dammit.

A warning has been added about the presence of furry content in this blog. Cowards.

Blog title change!

The Fallen London phrase has been retired, and replaced by a different phrase from Fallen London. This lack of variety is because Fallen London is cool.

Please note that it will take some time to backwards-propagate the new tags. Propagation on posts earlier than 01/01/2023 is not guaranteed.

[qpenpals]

rituals and such

[evilfarmin]

Jiuxiao's horrible terrible no good introduction to the capital

Real "four page" comic enjoy more inside VVV

Jby: so nice to be back home and see my annoying ass baby ass chubby cheeked neighbor who is now taller than me

Wuxi was like "we're holding hands now" and jby did not protest... Give an inch situation....

Jiuxiao: zishu I don't feel good :(

Zzs: well maybe you shouldn't've peeved off the one person in the capital whose special interest is poison get bell soon *wep *wet

solution: don't get within biting range of the thing

[brightatmidnight]

Surprise! The Obstacle Revamp Update AND the Flight Simulator Update for The Chaser’s Voyage (Version 0.8.0.03) are Now Live!

Hello everyone! Sorry for the weird mix up, apparently our posts for the Obstacle Revamp Update never got pushed through. So now you all get to hear about TWO updates worth of info for The Chaser's Voyage! Read on for Info about how we reworked our obstacles and how the new Flight Simulator works. There's a lot to these two updates!

Obstacle Combos

As we were working on the UI finalization of the Flight Simulator, Eos had a devious idea: “Can we have multiple obstacles active at once?” This prompted quite the conversation regarding how we would attempt this (both design wise and implementation wise) and, more importantly, the pros and cons involved. Long story short, the pros definitely outweighed the cons, so we got right to work with revamping how we do obstacles in The Chaser’s Voyage. So let’s get into it!

Obviously the big feature in this update is Obstacle Combos, so here’s the run down. We’ve made it possible for up to 3 different obstacles to all be active at the same time! So you could have something like an asteroid field and a ship graveyard near a star! Speaking of stars, we decided that stars and the electrical obstacles wouldn’t make sense to overlap, so stars cannot combo with Sentries or Mines. Also, now that stars can have obstacles you have to dodge AND enemies to fight off, we decided that a Star with a radiation storm is just too much to handle with all the different sources of system breaks, so we’ve made stars no longer appear with radiation storms. They already could not spawn with a hail storm, since we found it silly to have everything frozen AND on fire.

As if stars weren’t bad enough, now we have to dodge Asteroids as well!?

For determining how often to have Obstacle Combos and how many obstacles to be active at once, our existing tier based encounter randomization system worked wonderfully. We normally have 1 Obstacle, 1 Encounter, and 1 Storm and depending on what Tier the player is in, we’ll limit how many of these can be active at once. So we just added in Obstacle #2 and Obstacle #3 to those calculations. This means in Tier 1 you’ll get no Obstacle Combos, as you can only have 1 thing active at a time, but in Tier 2 you can have 2 active at once. So you can then get an Encounter + Obstacle, Encounter + Storm, Obstacle + Storm, or now, Obstacle + Obstacle.

As you continue to progress we keep upping how many things can be active at once, maxing out at 4 different things. This gives a good amount more variety than previously and also makes for some really kick ass jumps. Fighting a Pirate in a Mine/Asteroid field with a Radiation Storm is TERRIFYING. It’s wonderful! This also lets us make the Ace, Voyager+, and Captain+ modes a little more. . . devastating. Since Tier 4 maxes out at 4 things active at once, you can’t actually get all of 3 Obstacles, 1 Encounter, and 1 Storm active in the same jump. Which is good because that’s really challenging. So we made the non-Tiered modes have that option available, and from the get go! Good luck everyone!

Running into a Pirate hiding out in obstacles has never been scarier!

While testing out these Obstacle Combos, we realized that when using autopilot, the day timer and the life support gauge were changing at half the rate compared to when autopilot was off. That’s quite the bug, so we fixed that immediately! But, by fixing that bug, we also increased the amount of time it takes to complete voyages. Every mid-jump that was autopiloted through was now twice as long in-game. This paired with the now more dangerous Obstacle Combos required us to make some balance tweaks. We reduced the damage the Chaser’s hull takes by 10% and increased all client payments by 1.3 times. Since the Obstacle Combos resulted in harder to dodge obstacles and the autopilot bug fix resulted in more in-game time being taken up than before, we felt we needed to slightly compensate on both damage and money. Even in a good run, repairs were stacking up to be much too expensive and the 100 day goal was significantly harder to reach.

For more minor changes, we added minor randomized pitch shifting to most of our sound effects, increased the sound effect volume for obstacles being destroyed, edited “KTC CEO Defends Illegal Minefield After Fatal Disaster” to no longer say that battleships don’t go through minefields (since, you know, they DO go through them now), added destroyed battleships to the background of space battles, fixed some typos, and squashed SO MANY BUGS. We’re really happy with how the Obstacle Combos have turned out and how they add more variety and a fresh layer of difficulty to the game and hope you guys enjoy them as much as we do!

Flight Simulator

The Chaser’s Voyage’s Flight Simulator is finally completed and available for you, the players! We’ve been using the Flight Sim for ages to test various things in our game, and from an early point, planned for it to be accessible to players as well. It has been functional for quite a while, but with incomplete and outdated UI. We obviously had to give it a fresh coat of paint before letting our players get our hands on it, but that also was one of our lower priorities. We already made it so that when the player loses to an encounter, they could practice it in the Flight Sim and playing the game itself also serves as great practice. So having a mode dedicated solely to practicing and training for certain encounters felt less urgent than adding in features like the obstacle combos, crew journal, playable tutorial, etc. But those updates are already done, and now the Flight Simulator is too!

Before I get into the details on the Flight Sim, I want to do a quick look back through the year and a look forward. This year, we got THREE major updates out vs the two per year we’ve had before! The crew journal was on of our biggest updates and we could not be happier with how it came out. The obstacle combos were a pleasant surprise tangent, but they’ve added a really great level of variety to the game. And of course, the Flight Sim is now out, which leaves only 2 main updates left, options and release! Next year we will be finalizing the options menu and after that, adding in some final polish and then we’ll be leaving Early Access and fully releasing The Chaser’s Voyage! It’s been one hell of a voyage and it’s so nice to see the the release coming up. Okay, with that stuff out of the way, let’s dig into the Flight Simulator!

The Flight Sim lets the player customize and practice almost any encounter that they’d find in the main game. The purely friendly encounters, like Merchant Fleets of Neutral/Friendly Aligned Fleets are not selectable since there’s nothing in those encounters to actually, you know, practice. Every other encounter is available though! The player starts by choosing their difficulty and insignia, just like when starting a new Voyage, then they select their encounter. Each option in the Flight Sim is accompanied by a fun little wireframe depicting the option. There’s also a preview window that shows what your encounter settings are. After that, if the encounter can have any obstacles, the player chooses how many and which obstacles to have. Just like the main game, only 3 obstacles can be active at once, and stars are incompatible with the electronic obstacles (Sentries and Mines). After the obstacles comes the storm if applicable, then onto the Chaser’s Options. Here the player can customize exactly how damaged the Chaser is, including which systems are disabled and the hull integrity. Once all those setting are chosen, the player can go up against their chosen encounter as many times as they want! One of the neat things about the Flight Sim is that it lets the players choose some options that are a bit more hidden in the main game. You can choose what bounty level the bounty hunters are, how dense asteroid fields are, and what the sentry affiliation is!

We also made a couple of changes to mines to make them a little more interesting and have a few more ideas for them for next year. We fixed a bug regarding Pirate’s chances to be friendly with player over Space Ports and straightened out a continuity error in one of our Crew Journal entries. Until next year, safe flying!

You can read the full patch notes for Obstacle Combos here and the Flight Simulator here. If you'd like to give feedback directly to us, then join our Discord! If you wish to play The Chaser’s Voyage, you can buy it while we’re in Early Access on Steam.

-Cameron

[softgrungeprophet]

hell yeah... now between my phone and ipad, i've got both tumblr and rco ad-free... living in luxury....

[nowoyas]

the ABC store should let me buy One Shot of sake. I literally don't need this much for cooking. I can't use it. I need half a tablespoon. I'm probably going to have to omit it because I don't want to buy a bottle of sake for one (1) tablespoon

[moe-broey]

hiiiii sliding in here to ask about the Alfonse-quotes blog. if you haven’t thought about it yet that’s fine but I wanted to know if you’re including the “Alfonse” quotes from Book IV? Bc that is technically Alfonse for most of the story but also not? I hope this isn’t rude or anything I’m just curious

have a great day!

No worries!!! That's... also a really good question, actually. I've only thought about it briefly, esp bc I'm still working my way up.

At first, my answer would have probably been Yes, but since seeing a specific post REALLY highlighting how "Alfonse's" speech patterns change, ever so slightly (... or maybe dramatically and you just do not think about it.), as Kiran. I'm actually really conflicted! Especially since the blog was made as a study guide, for me.

LIKE... there's still really important material to document and reference, here. Important analysis, too. But now there's a caveat. And I wonder if there's a way I can work around it... like, second purpose of the blog is a bit. So no context, makes the bit funnier. But I have been marking certain dialogue with emojis. I've been really strict with myself about it, as to not overcomplicate it. ⭐s indicate notable characterization, or favorite lines. 📝 Indicate important lore/storybeats, beyond individual characterization (esp lore that's easy to forget! Like Veronica's family situation, beyond Bruno). Maybe, what I'd end up doing is using a different specific emoji to indicate these are actually Kiran lines! Distinct from the notes (📝) one, as to not completely jumble it all together lmfao (would bother me, specifically.)

That's the best solution I have so far, because again, I do think there's some REALLY important characterization here that needs to be distinguished and considered carefully. Pre-twist, it's not just a study in Alfonse -- it's a study in Kiran, how they conceptualize Alfonse, how much they must know about him, to successfully act as him. Either subconsciously, almost reflexively (my interpretation first run, as a defense mechanism), or intentionally with full knowledge that they aren't who they claim to be (REALLY FASCINATING ANGLE. MUCH TO CONSIDER).

Also!!! Not rude at all LMFAOOO, I'm just excited I've got other people invested in this bit that I thought would only be funny to me 😊👍 (and... I do gotta add more.....)

[volfoss]

need u guys to take a look at these designs from an obscure game (volfoss), they are VERY similar to the persona monster designs except MORE wild

[sex2patchnotes]

Alpha test v0.4

• Updated the engine to allow for better customization and enhanced character models

-Genitals no longer manifest at birth, instead leaving users blank until puberty, at which point a gender (or multiple) may be chosen.

-Added twelve new penis styles

• Problematic users may now be banned from sex

[limelocked]

The problem with trying to pace isekai erased is that I’m writing it like an anime but there’s precious few fucking mystery animes to compare and study the pacing of because most of them are like anthologies with one large mystery in the background or they’re old as shit (I know this because after watching erased I tried so fucking hard to find something similar)

[risingsunresistance]

hytale staff please move to tumblr it would be so funny

[veemakesgames]

Cat Outta Hell - Patch 1.1

update summary:

-fixed final boss softlock that many users had been reporting

-various balance changes to skills, items and enemies