#dedicated forum

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Dedication Inscription to the Emperor Hadrian from Wroxeter Roman City Forum Entrance, Shrewsbury Museum, England

[finedinereception]

the ethical implications of netnavis never fail to flatten me. like hi yes heres my new ai. its capable of thinking and feelings and forming emotional connections and falling in love and basically is just a digital human. you own them. also you can make them beat each other up for fun. they feel pain btw.

[onemillionfurries]

Hey Lion king fans and/or old web enjoyers!

I really recommend checking out fanart.lionking.org! It's a website from the 90's that is STILL UP AND ACTIVE and contains an archive of submitted fanart, both new and old.

I've only recently joined, but I'm having a great time! It's not nearly as active as it once was in the pre-social media age, but multiple pieces are still submitted each day and there is a small but dedicated community. A bunch of art from the early 2000's is still up too, so if you want to dig through all that you can.

I always love finding active communities for properties that are decades-old. I find that The Lion King community is a bit hard to find because on social media, everyone uses the same hashtag. It's hard to separate those who are just casually talking about The Lion King, and those who are capital F Fans of it. But this site is nothing but capital F Fans ^^

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

The angel on my shoulder: Shipping real people is bad. They could find it and become very uncomfortable. It it highly disrespectful to them and their significant others.

The devil on my shoulder: John Lennon coming back from the dead to fuck Paul McCartney in the ass is the greatest contribution to humanity ever known

[smoothriverrocksrock]

So I finished the Jurassic Park novel (might make a book review?) and realized how devastating this book would be to him

[lemonsweet]

I hope christopher hart explodes and no more kids ever get his shitty how to draw books again

[ponytailzuko]

THANK YOU man this one zukka fic that i read in like 2013 (think it was called Transference?) lives in my head rent free idk why but i think about it every time ppl act like zukka was nonexistent before 2020 like okay maybe zukka was invented in 2020 for YOU. not me tho. smh.

i swear i know what you're talking about but its been forever i dont remember anything that happens in that fic 😭 people were writing whole fics and making fanart a whole decade before 2020 i know this. i read some fanfics from like 2005/2006 like season 1-2 era zukka before they even knew zuko redemption arc was a thing. i dont know if theyre still up... fanfiction.net and live journal i salute you etc. like i do know for a lot of people they watched atla as a kid and just never rewatched it until 2020 but ive never left these trenches 😭🙏

[tgrailwar-zero]

this whole game is so wonderful interactive RPG! Thank you so much for doing this

I'm glad you're having a good time because I am fighting for my life against how anything on this website works.

[jaythelay]

Fact: Unless you force yourself, ya ain't reaching the half-way point of SR3.

Deadass half the game is turret sections and incredibly railroaded missions. There's just nothing replayable about that game in any regard for most players. Anyone saying otherwise is actually lying through failed or anecdotal co-op memories.

Unless you're into the story they treated as skippable more than viewable, the gameplay is as thin as it gets, and should be an example for everyone on what standards your games should actually have in place of attempted but utterly failed "coolness."

Seriously I know I went off about them not continuing the gangster stuff, but that's genuinely not even a minor concern to me. As I said, I'd prefer them to do their own thing, and guess what SR3 fans did not show up to support at allllllll? Exactly that game, what was that title again....guardian...drivers...? Idunno, It wasn't for SR2 fans so I didn't see anything on it. It failed!

Because their audience, dedicated fanbase, was not the continual stream of 15yos from the mid 2010s. But SR2 fans.

All they're into is the conceptual ideas of SR3/4, the wackyness, but genuinely not much else. Once the jiggling keys effect wears off, and your friend gets equally as bored, ya close, uninstall, and move on.

Seriously try it without the objective to prove me wrong. Some of you will enjoy it and that's valid and fine, but most of you genuinely will not last past the 8th turret section after yet another turret section after another turret section after a railroaded section, after a turrent section.

Watch how often you do not touch wasd or your left joystick, it's actually embarrassing "creative" work that we moved on from in the PS2 era. Sure, SR2 had moments like this, just not Back to Back to Back to Back to Back to Back.

Anyways, just saying SR2 fans were their actual customer base that entire time and instead? They went out of business because, oh, oh wow the proto-fortnite crowd has a low attention span and care for the series? Who'da guessed dwindling all support from your dedicated fanbase for the ficklest of fickle crowds would end up becoming your downfall?

They weren't struggling when it was SR1/2, but they've been on the ropes since SR4 and continually going back to the same, very dry well, eventually killed them. Had the reboot been made seriously, competantly, and creatively, they'd still be around today. Instead, cheaply it was made and pricey was it's tag.

They made it cheaper and cheaper feeling until the gameplay felt like an alpha title and made the characters frustratingly what old people think young people are like, wrote a story nobody would bother writing without a gun to their head, and then did nothing to address anything as the jiggling keys fanbase went back to fortnite and SR2 fans were completely pissed off.

Imagine rebooting your series to be entirely for the crowd that moves on near instantly. That pushed SR2 fans away and absolutely losing their dedicated fans is what ended up costing them existence in the public eye.

Genuinely, you can't debate that the SR3 formula straight out of a budget PS2 title, that they kept since the 2010s, and pissing off their actual audience with the reboot, was what put them out of business. It's undebatable they chose the most frivilous of audiences over their actual audience.

Good riddance to the dumbest business known to man. RIP Saint's Row as it truly was, thank fuck Saint's Row is dead in it's current form. Next time, do the obviously smart thing, and make a product people actually want to play for more than an hour.

[didoofcarthage]

View of the Roman Forum with the Column of Phocas and the Temple of Saturn and The Tiber at the Outskirts of Rome by Victor-Jean Nicolle

French, late 18th or early 19th century

pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over red chalk

Metropolitan Museum of Art x x 

[girlbob-boypants]

And like sure I *could* have been more well written on my very quick offhanded post, but it was a quick reaction to someone unironically using the tags "femce|" and "fema|e manipu|ator" on all of her posts multiple times per day and getting NO interactions while rb'ing almost exclusively aesthetic posts.

It genuinely does boil down to girl your basic human rights and sense of community!!

[hawnks]

me: wow I’m being so productive today I’ve gotten so much done I wish everyday was like this I wonder what happened to me it must be an exuberant fluke

(👆 took the correct dosage of her meds today)

[crimsonfacets]

@grandvizier asked: 🐶

munday no-no and yes-yes list

Let me think..

Send  🐶 for a role play related pet peeve.

Folk who come around just for romantic shipping purposes. It's happened to me a few times and it feels just awful to deal with. I love shipping, I do, but the chemistry needs to be right, or my friendship with that person needs to be pretty old for comfort's sake. Respect & understanding of our characters relationship needs to be a two-way street between us writers when we're that far down the road.

I don't apply this rule to muses who are flirty and/or sleazy by default, casanovas and the like - that sort of behavior is expected and I am totally fine with it. Goodness knows I have a few myself! And naturally, this doesn't apply to characters who are married/together by default in canon (Trisha & Hohenheim for example). But, I can usually tell who comes around just for ship plugging. Can't do it!

[sovpologist]

something that’s been on my mind with all the recent twitter stuff is how it sucks that twitter is so important to bungie news/dev interaction. i don’t want to use twitter, i think the twitter d2 fanbase is a toxic cesspool, but i basically have to use it or i’m missing out on dev updates, twabs, or fun community events like the recent telesto thing. in addition, twitter is so unstable as a platform rn that it makes you wonder if they even have any alternate plans in place for pr and community interaction if the site goes down.

personally, i think they really need to invest in the already existing forums. they push people that way for bug reports and game feedback, but otherwise there is no incentive to use the forums bc bungie themselves dont utilize them and i think that’s a major missed opportunity. benefits of forum communication over twitter:

no character limit and less immediacy leads to more nuanced and complex conversations; people can actually explain their viewpoints and ideas in a way they can’t via 280 characters

can hire moderators (or get volunteers although personally i think that can get exploitative) to keep things civil as opposed to just hiding offensive replies (which kinda just makes it easier to find them). mods can also clean up spam or help people with minor issues so that cms aren’t getting slammed with 100 dms a day from people who can’t figure out how to reset their password on bungie.net or something

gives devs a way to connect with the community in a moderated, professional setting as opposed to them having to cede personal space (like a personal twitter where they talk to their friends and family). this added layer of safety could help them do things like q&a’s or ama’s on the forums instead of having to use personal reddit or twitter accounts and open themselves to direct harassment if they say something some players don’t like

i genuinely just think it would be better and healthier in the long run (both for the game and it’s employees) if it wasn’t so dependent on twitter for community and social aspects. i would love to see more of a push for forum engagement that isn’t just “post your bugs here.”

[mem-fr]

Was just wondering how long you have been doing pixel art for? Oh and what art program do you use for your pinfeather pixels? ^-^

i'm not really sure ! i've never really focused on pixel art , i've just kind of meandered in it now and then since like 15 years ago when i would spend my computer class drawing in MS paint with a mouse haha .

i've also never gone out of my way to make 'real' pixel art . i know that there are standards in regards to the amount of colors , using layers / layer effects , etc. that some pixel artists and communities considered defining elements to whether something is actually pixel art . the limitations are considered part of the craft which is very cool ! but i don't have any of that stuff in mind , or refrain from using anything that gets the look i want or makes my work easier , so i don't try to call myself a pixel artist or the pinfeather pixels 'real' pixel art , i just sort of go for the aesthetic i suppose lol .

so , i use SAI 2 and photoshop ( CC 2018 ) for the pinfeather pixels , same as most of my art ! SAI's binary brush has a very smooth tapering effect with pen pressure that makes creating Good Shapes™ easier . i do a lot of the actual drawing in SAI .

photoshop has the custom brushes i use for broader dithering + layer management and adjustment tools that create a smooth workflow . these templates take a whole lot of work , time , and testing to create , with the trade off that i am making them as easy and efficient to use once i am actually taking orders .

[thecoolercoincat]

bro why are fire and earth runestones so expensive

Like all the others are like 7kt but these things are like 500kt+😭

Are they rarer or something?????