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they added shoes to fortnite and i've been losing my mind over it as i try out the air jordans on all my compatible skins. it looks photoshopped. i love this stupid game

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do the people of reverie actually speak the reverian language thats shown in like menus and statues and stuff or is it more of an ancient long-lost thing

The runes are part of an ancient writing system that was in use a thousand years ago, but they're no longer in regular use today. In the modern day they literally just speak and write in English. I could do the Tolkien thing and go "oh we're just seeing a translation for our sake, they really have their own fictional language," but it's funnier if this fantasy world with no England inexplicably developed a language identical to English

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I hadn't tried any sort of PlayStation emulation in probably over a decade because when I tried it back then it was kind of a mess, but god. It's so good now. DuckStation is so good for PS1, and PCSX2's giant 2.0 overhaul that makes it almost identical to DuckStation is fantastic for PS2 games. It just works now. No fiddling with the settings. I just load the game I want to play and it works and it's great. And it feels so good to be able to play these games with a real DualShock 4 instead of an Xbox controller, or a shitty Logitech controller with a DualShock-style layout like what I had years ago

Been jumping around and trying out various games and having a grand old time. Played some Ape Escape 2. Played some Crazy Taxi. Played some Simpsons Hit & Run. Played some OutRun 2006, which I'd never played before despite loving the original OutRun. The main thing that spurred me to do this was wanting to play Castlevania: Lament of Innocence for the first time, so I'm looking forward to that. Got a bunch of other great games downloaded that I've never played before but always meant to—God Hand, DMC 1 and 3, Rez, Max Payne since I became such a fan of Remedy's later stuff this year, etc. Also some trash that's fun to check out when I'm not paying for it, like that Sopranos PS2 game that exists because they were just adapting every beloved crime drama into a shitty PS2 game in the wake of GTA

God, I love emulation. I'm gonna go ham with this

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On the wiki gg slarpg wiki, there's a family portrait-esq piece of artwork on zinnia's page of her, verena and the boys. it doesn't have a source and i can not find it for the life of me. so i was curious if that was posted publicly or not.

I can't remember if I've ever posted it publicly, but that's really just because it spoils the game's ending. It's been shared in my Patreon Discord, and I think I gave my blessing to post it to the wiki? I've known it's there and I'm cool with it being there, so, y'know, either way it's fine.

I'll put the image in question and an explanation of its origins below the cut.

(Again, spoilers for the ending of SLARPG, like for real big ones.)

So at one point in 2021 I needed a chunk of change, and Anthony gave it to me in exchange for some artwork. One of the things he requested was Verena and the boys, because the boys were his personal pet characters for the game and I hadn't even drawn their battle artwork yet at that point, so he really wanted to see me draw them. He suggested I draw something set after the game's ending, "post-Javis," with the comment that Verena would basically end up as their mom. I added Zinnia because, well, duh. And then I did it in the style of like a shitty Walmart photo studio family portrait. Because I think that's funny.

And so this image was born

In hindsight I wish I'd given Verena and Zinnia rings in this, but I don't think I'd quite decided that they were married at that point. I was still working on the ending.

Fun fact: Killer Ray's in-game portrait is a crop of this drawing! Because his head and hard to draw and I didn't feel like drawing it again for the portrait lmao

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is Allison's last name pronounced "go-LEE-ta" or "go-LET-a"

in my head i've been saying the former but i realized that it could be either of them

So Allison gets her last name from an arbitrary town in Southern California. I've never been there myself—it's just a random name I picked off the map because I was like "in real life Allison would be from SoCal"—but from what I've gathered the locals seem to pronounce it "Go-LEE-ta."

HOWEVER...

"Goleta" is literally just the Spanish word for schooner, as the town is named after a shipwreck that used to be visible off the coast a long time ago. "Go-LEE-ta" seems to just be a mispronunciation that's stuck and refused to go away among English speakers. The proper way to pronounce the Spanish word would be closer to "Go-LEH-ta," so that's how I pronounce Allison's last name.

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As promised, here's the full collection of every character portrait in SLARPG in their full resolutions. (Spoilers within! Literally every character in the game is here, including spoiler characters and something from the game's climax.)

These vary in size because the resolutions I drew them at varied, with ones I drew earlier in development usually being smaller. Some of them, particularly ones for more minor NPCs, are kinda messy because I drew them fast and they were only meant to be seen in-game at a scale of less than 100px. And expression variants are missing here because I actually drew most of those directly onto the low res in-game portraits to save time and to maintain scaling consistency. On the other hand, several characters (mainly the party members) do have some alternate outfit portraits, because I drew those at full size.

Enjoy! I thought about posting this as a Patreon thing, but I figure it's better to have them out in the wild for reference and for the wiki to use and whatnot.

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will we ever get to see the full resolution versions of some of the later character portraits?

I've actually had the full res versions of every character portrait in SLARPG ready to share for a while, I just haven't gotten around to doing so because i keep forgetting. I'll do that soon

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Dawn Refresh!

Been meaning to update Dawn's design for a bit, so I decided to do so!

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it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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some of you sick fucks were probably glad when austin lost his mojo

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Day 2958 Crosstober 19: Claire Higsby as Higsby

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chat dont ever fuck a goth tgirl i just woke up and my dick was locked in a tiny bloodborne mensis cage

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what is the FUCKING POINT then???

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3D Pokemon Gold Espeon Sprite

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Watching Star Wars was a mistake. For years I’ve derived so much pleasure from seeing discourse on my timeline that’s like “it’s actually a pretty good writing choice that Glimbo Knutts manipulated the imbledimbians in the force to make Darth Freeble his personal jedi froogler. It gives the original trilogy more depth” and not knowing what the fuck anybody is talking about. But now I do and it’s ruined. I understand what you freak ass dorks are saying and it isn’t fun anymore. Glimbo Knutts making Darth Freeble his jedi froogler DOES give the original trilogy more depth. This sucks man