#ken's labyrinth

[hydralisk98]

Uta6 Raycaster game (12 shareware 'demo', 36+ CYP content pack...)

Just stating that I will eventually try my hand at customizing the fuller stack (programming my very own utilities and all that jazz) later with deeper programming, but until then enjoy my first raycaster engine-y devlog!

Braindump to insert specific levels and content ideas here (~64x64 tiles, connected pathways like HL1 / Ion Fury?)

a (Helluva Boss Night Park-themed)

b (Axis Victory Occupied German city-themed)

c (Concise Forested Hometown Suburbia-themed)

d (Seventies Aperture Offices-themed)

e (Celestial Jail-themed)

f (Retro Shopping Mall-themed)

u (Abandoned Volkshalle / Prora ministry apparatus greypark-themed)

v (Iron Stars / Heat Death-themed)

w (Bronze Age Collapse-themed)

x (Toymaker Military Fort-themed)

y (Cyberpunk Mainframe Dreamscape-themed)

z (Syndicalist Parliament-themed)

CYP content pack (strongly depends, we will see in due time?)

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My own mechanical twists from "Wolfenstein 3D", "Ken's Labyrinth" & "Rise of the Triad"...

Try replacing fighting/shooting mechanics with social dynamics / mechanics like diverse linguistics & skill checks & faction politics (or at least make most agents less antagonistic by default)

Multi-user 'domain' gamemode (focusing towards cooperative play & social modes, perhaps also a MazeWars-like?)

Collect-a-ton or Tinker-a-thon infrastructure repair?

Agent Appearance customization?

Skill Tree?

[scrivenger-grimgar]

tensura text posts 7

first edition! --- second edition! --- third edition! --- fourth edition! --- fifth edition! --- sixth edition!

[misquitz]

It was brought to my attention that the scene where Rimuru sticks out his tongue is very similar to the scene when Kouha sticks out his tongue

So of course I had to redraw it with Rimuru !! 💕

[dark-elf-writes]

mukuro the goblin king being so entranced by this mortal he sends his beloved sister chrome to be the mist guardian for his future bride (also gets her away from any other nosy ass fae looking for a political marriage)

Tsuna, blinking at Chrome: You look familiar

Chrome, out of practice when it comes to dealing with humans: I’m your future sister-in-law

Tsuna: ….

Tsuna: honestly not the worst introduction I’ve had nice to meet you

Mukuro watching them in owl form: It’s working!

[immoren]

violenceviolencemurderkilling

[misunderstandings-georg]

Getting war flashbacks to a 90s pc game that used to scare the everloving shit out of me for no reason other than the fact I was a really stupid kid

[aipurjopa]

live reaction to watching the proton escape for the first time LMAO

[parasitoidism]

Ken and Koromaru are both just too cute to put on my team without feeling bad

[vodkaandsnakes]

On this day, May 21, in Type O Negative history:

Type O Negative play the San Diego Sports Arena with Queensryche in San Diego, CA (1995)

The video game Blood is released, featuring a video for Type O Negative's song "Love You To Death" from October Rust (1997)

Type O Negative play the House of Blues with 3 Inches of Blood in Lake Buena Vista, FL (2008)

[ariasyren]

Rimuru and Aladdin clothes swap! Drew this awhile ago but I still think it’s cute! I think I’ll redraw this at some point now that my art has improved. (At least I think it has Lmao)

[rabbitcruiser]

National Day of Mourning

The National Day of Mourning takes place on the fourth Thursday of November, this year it’s on November 23. If this date sounds familiar to you, it’s because the fourth Thursday of November also coincides with Thanksgiving in the U.S. Every year on the National Day of Mourning, Native American people in New England gather together to protest. To them, Thanksgiving serves as a reminder of the unjust treatment that Native Americans have received since the 1620 Plymouth landing.

History of National Day of Mourning

The National Day of Mourning reminds us all that Thanksgiving is only part of the story. Native Americans, since 1970, have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving Day. 

Pilgrims landed in Plymouth and established the first colony in 1620. As such, it’s the oldest municipality in New England. Many Native Americans, however, don’t celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. Thanksgiving, to them, is a brutal reminder of “the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture.” 

They participate as a way to honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. “It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience.”

The United American Indians of New England (UAINE) sponsors this event. They maintain that the Pilgrims arrived in North America and claimed tribal land for their own, as opposed to establishing a mutually beneficial relationship with the local inhabitants. UAINE members believe that these settlers “introduced sexism, racism, anti-homosexual bigotry, jails, and the class system.”

The National Day of Mourning generally begins at noon and includes a march through the historic district of Plymouth. While the UAINE encourages people of all backgrounds to attend the protests, only Native speakers are invited to give these speeches about the past, as well as current obstacles their people have overcome. Guests are asked to bring non-alcoholic beverages, desserts, fresh fruits and vegetables, or pre-cooked items. The protest is open to anyone, and has attracted other minority activists.

National Day of Mourning timeline

​1998

No permit needed​

UAINE receives permission from local authorities to march in protest without having to obtain a permit. ​

​1997

Protests got violent​

State troopers use force against protesters who gathered together to observe the 28th annual National Day of Mourning. ​

​1970

National Day of Mourning began

The first annual protest for the National Day of Mourning takes place.​

​1620

Pilgrims arrived​

English separatist Puritans, who had broken away from the Church of England, land at Plymouth Rock. Today we refer to them as Pilgrims.

National Day of Mourning FAQs

What really happened in 1621?

The Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest by firing guns and cannons in Plymouth. The noise alarmed ancestors of the Wampanoag Nation who went to investigate. That is how native people came to be present at the first Thanksgiving

Are federal offices closed on a national day of mourning?

U.S. government offices are closed on the National Day of Mourning due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

What happens on the National Day of Mourning?

Native Americans and supporters gather in Plymouth to “mourn our ancestors and the genocide of our peoples and the theft of our lands.”

How to Observe National Day of Mourning

Brush up on your history: Do you know much about the first Thanksgiving? Do some research online, stop by your local library, or watch a documentary that will help give you a better understanding of what Native Americans actually went through.

Learn more about the United American Indians of New England (UAINE): UAINE is responsible for helping the National Day of Mourning protest take shape. To observe this important day, take some time to learn about about the UAINE. It's a fascinating organization that has done a great deal to promote better treatment for the Native American people.

Attend a protest: Protesters gather on Cole's Hill, a location overlooking Plymouth Rock, in Massachusetts. Everyone is welcome to observe these gatherings, and recently, other minority groups have started to become involved in the events of this day.

​4 Reasons To Thank Native Americans

​They've been here a while: Native Americans have existed in what is now known as the United States since 12,000 BC. ​

​Thank you for your service: Although they were not considered American citizens, over 8,000 Native Americans served in the military in World War I. ​

Your great-grandma is who?​: Many of the first families who settled in Virginia trace their roots directly back to Pocahontas.

An important vocabulary lesson: A bunch of Native American words have made their way into the English language; for example, coyote, tomato, poncho, potato, and chia.​

Why National Day of Mourning is Important

It serves as an important history lesson: Textbooks often glaze over the unjust treatment of Native Americans. The National Day of Mourning, however, is a reminder that the people native to the Americas have been the recipients of a great deal of unfair treatment. It's important to discuss.

It's a time to come together: For protesters, the National Day of Mourning serves as a time to rally together to advocate for what they believe in. UAINE has worked to improve relations between the government and native people.

It shifts our attention away from turkey: Yes, Thanksgiving can be a great day filled with tons of good food and time spent with loving family and friends. However, the mission behind the National Day of Mourning is to highlight that the Thanksgiving holiday is actually quite painful for some people. For quite a few Native Americans in New England, Thanksgiving marks a time when their ancestors were treated poorly.

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[lazysublimeengineer]

"...I love you and I’ll never get tired of repeating it until your heart is satisfied…”

-excerpt from labyrinth

[ecto42]

I saw an Outside Xbox video about casting Tingle in the Legend of Zelda movie and one actor I would actually love to see who has done similar things before would be David Dastmalchian. Like he did such a fun Polka Dot Man, and he was also in an intentionally weirdly tight suit. I think if they don’t cast him then I think Ken Jeong would be great, also bc in some art Tingle is clearly Asian, and Ken Jeong has done such a good weird character in Hangover and Community. I also think Ken Jeong deserves a kind of redemption for being made to do Drow blackface in community and just playing a weird Hylian with pointy ears.

I do think Tingle in some aspects tho is definitely problematic and will be more problematic to American audiences as an Asian man because he is a very like “I want to be feminine.” Like queer coded character and in the west it’s been all too normalized to feminize Asian men. I think if he was to play it very earnestly it could be different. He’s very much a like minstrel show coded character and that in of itself could also be problematic in a modern movie.

Ken Jeong but he plays Tingle like David Bowie played Jarreth in Labyrinth. Just “This character is so weird for a kids movie(?) and I’m obsessed.” OMG IF THEY DID HENSON PUPPETS TOO LIKE GET ILM ON THE PHONE

[babisawyer]

um, I wish I could take five year old me to see the barbie movie.

[coldalbion]

Dis/nomers: On misnomers, magic-metaphors, and life in general

So, here's the thing: a lot of societal and cultural metaphors around magic and occultism are in the so-called West, frankly, bad and a product of the imprecision in the English language about "power", which themselves are inherently modelled on industrial-capitalist frameworks thanks to the Industrial Revolution, and steam power. Think about what you mean when you use the word "power" or "intent" and ask yourself whether you are once again running on 19th Century (colonialist ideas: for example see non-Indigenous misconceptions of mana) that boil down to thinking you're a steam engine or some sort of closed system - because that's what the whole popular idea of energy comes from. Why? Because willpower doesn't really exist. Now something seems to be going on, when we do certain things. But are we hoodwinking ourselves - barking up the wrong tree, being led down the garden path -by the porting in pop-metaphor? Sure, it's easier, but is the apparent ease and clarity obscuring insights? Is it preventing us from taking our place as part of a living world; not clockwork and piston but inter-and-intra-relating, inter-and-intra-being in an 'animist' cosmovision? Consider the metaphors you use, and wonder how they're using you. Because they are - we are thinking-with-and-being-with the ongoing worlding of a daimonic (agential) kosmos. And that All is doing the same-with-us. Remember, changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think, and how we are in the world. This is why I mutter about kenning, as found in Old Norse poetry, but also as a method of indirectly approaching experience by folding in the world. Kenning is, in one sense creating a poetic metaphor, a circomlocution that describes a thing without direct nominalisation. A wheelchair user can be a throne-walker; the sea is not just the sea, it is the whale-road and also Aegir's-cauldron, Poseidon's-stable, etc etc.

"It is no coincidence that a kenning is a poetic term of art, a doubling and metaphoric circumlocution of a singular noun or thing – the sea becoming the “whale-road”, a sword seen as the “icicle of red shields”. A singular referent now exceeds itself, drawing the relationality with the whole world of those present. This indirectness, far from detracting from the referent, deepens the knowing. Each portion of the kenning exceeds itself also, thusly thickening the field of the sword or sea, and, in enhancing its relationality, enlivens each further. Further, this means that the poet acknowledges the excess of the referents, comprehending that kenning may build on kenning, and the full, totalistic mapping of a referent is doomed to fail in terms of completion. This goes even beyond the usual aphorism from astronomer Carl Sagan: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” For each element of the apple pie is capable of being defined by the relationality of all presences, in all forms, positions, and configurations in all possible and impossible universes – and each of these in turn relate to each other as they will. This then, is the joy and horror, the wonder and terror of an animate, fluxing kosmos – there is always more." - Goêtic Atavisms, Frater Acher & Craig 'VI' Slee (See link above: also available on Amazon as well as from the publisher if you need that)

Do we want to live in a world circumscribed by misnomers, grandfathered in with extractive and clunky ways of perceiving the world? Or do we want to embrace the dis/abling wyrd strangenesses of the numinous? The liberatory power of the dis/nomer - the radical proposition that there is always more than can be named, can be contained? That we might ken more if we embraced blurry, uncertain periphalisms which spiral endlessly inward and down into pandaemonic, living, breathing labyrinths? If we immersed ourselves in relational eddies, tides and gyres eternally returning-and-coming-forth-again - dis/membered and re-membered anew? To dive into currents and flows - the multiplicitous assemblage of influences which are the very bodyof the oceanic river which Herakleitos warned us that we could never enter in the same place twice? What might we notice is already happening, already ongoing, that we are amidst, then? Might we spot the plurality of Minotaurs engaging in their diasporic fugitivity, nomads in their myriad labyrinths, far older, wiser, and weirder than we thought we knew? Spaces of monstrously numinous sanctuary, far beyond the ken of the Theseus (their supposed slayer) and his identitarian regime of denial, his heroic ever-intact status quo. Pity the ship-builders in their labour; they work do so under the threat of sword - or is it gun and bomb, these days? But while Theseus abandons Ariadne, Dionysos does not! And while Theseus eschews the sea route to perform his labours in order to gain heroic glory and satisfy ambition, his oceanic ancestry has the last laugh - both mortal father Aegeus (thrown into the sea that bears his name) and he (thrown off an island cliff - presumably into the ocean) were reclaimed; seized by the sea and its thundering white horses. What might it be, to be oceanically possesed as that hero's mother was? To have one's soul-sea stirred by the Earthshaker? We can but dream on the matter - while also slyly noting that Athenians kept the Ship of Theseus preserved, as mark of divine heritage in their feted city ruled by the demos. What matters now, in these days when even politicians talk of the so-called "will of the people", is matters of ancestry and history dismissed; lineages of language and its many influences ignored - no entanglements here, vine or otherwise, we assure you! But thankfully, the ship-builders know the way of wood and net and weave. They know how many planks pass through their hands, how many nails struck, how much pitch is brewed. They know there's more. They're craftsfolk after all - assemblages are their business, whatever the material - they know what mattering is. And isn't it interesting that the Temple of Hephaistos in Athens was once mistakenly called the Thesseion - The Temple of Theseus, before the moderns realised their mistake? Watch the words we use, and how they use us. Be seeing you.

[leafatlaw]

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okay so kenadian themed answer, but I often find myself trying to compare Ken and ivory. Their both escape mcyt with an overarching story elements. But the thing that makes this really difficult, is Ken seems less afraid of being trapped ? It seems like he’s more afraid of losing than being stuck for all eternity or whatever. It’s not loneliness that motivates him but his ego, his determination, maybe his need to be right, to figure it out. Maybe it’s because he’s so rarely in real danger of being trapped, he mainly reviews “bad” escape room. Or maybe it’s the difference of puzzles he escapes from compared to ivory. He participates in rooms meant to be escaped, a labyrinth of sorts, a trap but one where’s there’s an obvious exit. While ivory escapes from prisons, meant to contain forever, with no built in ways out. By nature of their methods of containment, Ken is ingrained to not lose hope because he’s used to there being a way out he just has to figure it out. But ivory is used to having to make her own way through with unintended solutions, more often than not alone.