#Project Paradise

[crownedinmarigolds]

I love all these gorgeous characters...! This is Clayton McCoy - @faithstark11's character for a friend's custom TTRPG! He's a copycat cowboy... and I'm obsessed with cowboys so I'm so glad they reached out to me to draw him. <3 He's about to go to a gala, I think frankly he will be the star.

[faithstark11]

This is my cowboy character, Clayton McCoy, from my friend's custom TTRPG, Project Paradise. This looked so fun, so I had to do a take on my Clay boy.. He's a heartbreaker! Mostly because he's emotionally constipated. Currently in the process of trying to woo a cute femboy but struggling (the left most image under his headshot is literally the perfect silhouette for them).

[garudabluffs]

Concern over AI motivates Copenhagen punk band, Fabled Mind

Dec. 5, 2023 The latest album by Danish rockers Fabled Mind imagines a dialogue between the singer and artificial intelligence and whether human experience is still possible. In the punk vernacular, as host Marco Werman shows us, the musicians on their album "Project Paradise" are not happy about the future.

LISTEN / 02:10 https://theworld.org/media/2023-12-05/concern-over-ai-motivates-copenhagen-punk-band-fabled-mind

Project Paradise' is the debut single and title track of Fabled Mind's upcoming concept album. The album is set to release on limited vinyl on August 29, 2023. 'Project Paradise' is written by Dion Lambrecht Finne

The song delves into a sinister mechanism within Project Paradise. It erases human dreams, substituting them with captivating hyper-positive illusions to ensnare and manipulate individuals within the AI’s simulation system.

Lyrics: : "Break the boundaries Of this cognitive disease You don’t have to limit yourself now Fly to the sky It’s an endless paradise Leaving planet Earth wearing the crown Creating miracles When life is unbearable Do the impossible And defy the natural Yeah you want it And you need it You can feel it You will feed it A reflection Of perfection Expanding your perception Conquer the mighty cloud Emancipation lies Beyond discouraged doubts No physical disguise An architect awaits Designing your own fate (your fate) It’s time to seize the day Log in upload Make worlds implode No sins in here You are free from fear This is Paradise"

"... and venturing into the darkest corners of the album, you'll discover allusions to the controversial LSD experiments conducted during the MK Ultra project in the 1960s. Intriguingly, the echoes of the experiments have even reached Denmark, hitting close to home for lead singer Dion. One of Dion's family members was intimately involved in an unexplained LSD experiment, which was carried out as treatment. Tragically, this experience left a lasting mark, and her life was never the same again.

READ MORE https://www.punkrocktheory.com/releases/fabled-mind-project-paradise-0

https://newnoisemagazine.com › interviews › interview-fabled-mind-talks-concept-album-project-paradise

Interview: Fabled Mind Talk Concept Album 'Project Paradise'

Sep 7, 2023For a few months, I had been talking with Dion Lambrecht Finne, vocalist in Fabled Mind. When Fabled Mind announced their new concept album, Project Paradise, I asked for an interview and picked his brain behind the idea and how it started. Let's start by introducing you.

Project Paradise track list:

Perfect World

Project Paradise

Algorithm

Awakening

The Program

Vultures

Pursuit of Happiness

Heirs of the Stars

Architects of Deception

The Great Hack

Altered Reality

Interlude

Time Machine

https://www.punk-rocker.com › punk › fabled-mind-reveals-title-track-off-upcoming-lp-project-paradise

Fabled Mind Reveals Title Track Off Upcoming LP "Project Paradise ...

Aug 21, 2023Copenhagen's Fabled Mind returns with 'Project Paradise,' an electrifying full-length dystopian concept album, emerging from the shadows as an experimental hybrid-genre phenomenon, deeply rooted in a love for the exhilarating punk rock of the 90s. The band has teamed up with Thousand Islands Records (CANADA) Lockjaw Records (UK) and Nasty Cut Records (EU) for the release

[hualianschild]

saw this on my tl and oh op is so right

credits to @/melondenden on X

[fantoomette]

Emojis available on LINE and designed by Yazawa Ai (2023)

[trekscribbles]

This idea has been floating around my head for 3 years, and now I finally have time to attempt it: the Stone Triplets, aka the Terrible Triplets, aka the Devlin-Kane Trio. I finished the lines today and will hopefully be able to start shading tonight.

[demon-plum]

BABIES!!!

Commission for @demon-plum

art tag // commission info

[lemon-dokuro]

Full body Jacketko for fun and practice

[bloodiegawz]

alphabet soup

doodles and memes and shit under cut

[sleepyminty]

One of the most underated m/f friendship dynamic i like is ‘i love my wife’ with rapies man and girl trauma ™ the lesbian who has tried to killed each other before

[lunatic-lunarian]

"It's strange that there's a Western-style mansion in the middle of a roadless forest to begin with."

^^

[tripsoftritium]

Hourai Ningyou

[lazycranberrydoodles]

ughhhhh so probably the tgcf scene i think the most about is in the final battle when hua cheng is holding xie lian and backwards gripping eming with his other hand i . god. this is referenced off of The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel (i’m pretty sure everyone has seen it by this point) which is surprisingly pretty topical for tgcf.

[jade-gemstone]

Danganronpa Ultimate Categorization

Welcome back to another episode of: Jade is a nerd about something absolutely useless! Today's topic: Talent classification in Danganronpa/Fangans.

In the process of making my own fangan/s, I've created a classification system for the types of talents you can give characters. These classifications are...

Arts: Talents that are involved in the visual arts, performing arts, or fashion. Encompasses performers of all types, any type of visual artist, or anyone involved in fashion. (Ex. Actor, Abstract Artist, Model)

Practical: Talents that focus on a specialized skill or work with your hands. Also includes any talents that are religious or spiritual in nature. (Ex. Mechanical Engineer, Detective, Shrine Maiden)

Academic: Talents that are recognized by how much knowledge or experience a character has in an academic field. Covers most science, literature, math, and research based talents. (Ex. Chemist, Theologian, Archaeologist)

Sports: Talents relating to athletic skill. (Ex. Footballer, Kickboxer, Bowler)

Novelty: Talents given to a person who is special simply by existing. Can also be given to characters who win a contest for their talent. Includes Lucky/Unlucky Students, royalty, and non-human characters. (Ex. Lucky Student, Student, Princess)

This system of classification was based on my experience in the community over about three or four years, seeing many other people's original characters as well as creating my own. I found many fell into these categories. My "perfect" ratio, which my friends and I used as a guideline for making our fangan casts, is 4 arts : 4 practical : 4 academic : 2 sports: 2 novelty. I felt this ratio kept things even and grounded.

A few months ago, I began to wonder if my "perfect" ratio was more of my own creation than an actual pattern I saw. I thought, in the event it was, that I would come up with a mathematically accurate ratio that better represented the talent distribution of Danganronpa and its fan projects. This was my attempt at doing just that.

Data Collection

For this, I tried to collect as varied of a sample as possible. I included the three mainline Danganronpa games and sixteen fangans, ranging from very popular ones to very obscure ones. The fangans sampled for this analysis were...

Danganronpa Another

Super Danganronpa Another 2

Danganronpa Despair Time

Brave Danganronpa Coward's Paradise

Project Eden's Garden

Danganronpa He(art)less Deceit

Danganronpa Hushed Whispers

Danganronpa Muave

Danganronpa Despair's Revival

Danganronpa Re:Birth

Danganronpa Twisted Truths

Danganronpa Survivor's Guilt

Danganronpa Despair's Flame (my fangan! also the one where the talent ratio originated)

Danganronpa Cyberspace

Danganronpa Akeda Amusements

Danganronpa Lost Paradise (my other fangan that isn't released anywhere but I'm counting anyway)

I figured out the talent ratio for each individual game by looking through their casts and sorting them with my classification system. Ultimate ???'s were thrown out if possible (such as in the case of Akeda Amusements, where Hanari was thrown out due to the fangan having seventeen participants) and if not, they were counted as novelty.

Also, shout out to Yuki Maeda and Teruya Ōtori for managing to count for two different data sets despite my best efforts at finagling a way to keep them confined to one.

Observations

The first thing I noticed in looking at the ratios for canon Danganronpa was that Academic ultimates are underrepresented compared to what I initially remembered. It had been a while since I revisited the mainline games, and it was a shock to be reminded of that. I was also reminded, but not quite as shocked by the greater emphasis on practical ultimates.

In fangans, the focus on practical ultimates continues to be heavy, with none having less than two. There was also less focus on sports ultimates, with the majority having only one or two compared to the three that the mainline games had a majority of the time. They also tend to have more academic ultimates.

I think that this could be explained by looking at the types of people who make fangans. The majority of people I know who make fangans have very particular knowledge about certain fields due to experience or heavy research, and more often than not these fields do not include sports. They are more likely to make characters based on their experiences and knowledge that they can then insert into the story to make it seem more authentic.

I also, unsurprisingly, found that my "perfect" ratio was not reflected in many of the fangans I looked at. There was only one besides my own that followed that ratio.

Now, if my "perfect" ratio is not the mathematically perfect ratio, then what is?

According to the data collected for the canon games, this is.

This just so happens to also be the ratio for Trigger Happy Havoc.

According to the data collected from the fangans, this is the perfect ratio.

The only fangan that followed this ratio exactly was Akeda Amusements. V3 also had this distribution.

When considering both mainline and fan made games, the perfect ratio was this.

Ironically, not a single mainline game or fan game followed this ratio.

Out of curiosity, I also calculated the standard deviation for each data set.

Canon Danganronpa has little to no variation, conveying that talent ratios are quite consistent between games. The biggest variation would be in the novelty category, making sense as V3 scaled down the amount of novelty ultimates compared to the other two games.

The fangans are shown to have a much larger variation. Though I can't be surprised by this, as perhaps it is an unfair comparison. The mainline Danganronpa games were written by mostly the same team and had less to sample from, while the fangans have not only a larger sample size in which to deviate, but many different writers that think differently about talent distribution.

Final Thoughts

In putting this all together, I found that my classification system, while not perfect in any sense of the word, has some validity to it. If I wanted to, I could definitely make some improvements to it (especially in distinguishing between certain academic and practical fields from novelty), but as of now it works perfectly fine as an aide in cast creation for me.

My ratio is also not perfect, which was an expected outcome. Really none of the ratios I found are perfect, with none of them representing more than one or two of any mainline or fan made game. While ratios like the ones I found can be good for making sure you have a balanced distribution of talents, they aren't required to make a good cast. Personally, I'll continue using my personal "perfect" ratio as a baseline for any cast I make in the future.

I also had a lot of fun making this, and hope I can find a way to make more posts like this in the future. Thank you for reading this.

[spear-gsun]

Hello @acerenastuff! I was your @touhousecretsanta secret santa this year! I made an animatic based on the story of Dolls in Pseudo Paradise, and tried to include your idea of Jacketko and Labelko dancing I really, really liked the way you described the idea of Jacketko dancing with Labelko but like how a villain would drag the protagonist into a dance during their villain song, so i tried to do that here though it ended up being a very short part of the entire thing oops Overall this ended up being a lot more work than i had anticipated at first, and i ended up redoing stuff a ton because i wanted it to be perfect, and even though i still feel like there's a lot thats not great (the part showing some of the deaths especially, i am embarrased about how that part turned out lmao) but i hope you're still able to enjoy this. Dolls in Pseudo Paradise is very cool!

[best-fictional-band-poll]

The top FOUR bands from this poll will go through! Good luck!