#back to work with coding though

[mizukidevlog]

October Demo Update!

Happy Halloween!

I've released another update for the Mizuki and the Crimson Moon demo! This update isn't anything huge and just include enemy AI updates and bug fixes with some other small changes sprinkled in. The change that I'm the happiest with is the changes to the yurei (featured below). Now she has a proper ranged attack and death animation!

For anyone who reads this, I hope you give the demo a shot! It can be found on Steam and ItchIO. I am now working on the final update to the demo, and it's going to be a large one (the first boss is in development!). If you have any feedback or suggestions at all, please email me, contact me on social media, or message me on the Mizuki and the Crimson Moon discord channel!

Hope you have a great weekend! See you tomorrow with a devlog!

<3

[averlym]

litany of the martyrs (click for better resolution!)

[skeletoninthemelonland]

😭😭

[dsntwrk]

help me i've gotten so deep into the steddie rabbit hole i haven't gotten this stuck on something since destiel

this really isn't good for my health

THESE ARE THE FICS THAT I SUBSCRIBED TO / LIKED READING (I'VE BASICALLY READ 1/5 WORTH OF STEDDIE FICS COMPARED TO DESTIEL FICS - I GOT INTO DESTIEL 4 YRS AGO, I ONLY STARTED READING STEDDIE FICS SOME TIME LAST MONTH WTF)

tbf, i have taken breaks from destiel to read other fandoms/fics so, ig the timing works out? if you think about it?

[fiveredlights]

omg I was JUST thinking of your fic last night and was gonna dig through my bookmarks to find it😭😭 so glad you popped up. just when I thought your fic couldn’t get sweeter I see the sneak peek! tattoos that lineup 😭

tattoos! that! line! up! sorry i’m going to use this ask just to ramble about this tattoo because you’ll never get the backstory in the normal fic:

max gets the tattoo in 2022, just before he wins the 2nd championship. daniel obviously notices the bandages and max just tells him one of the cats scratched him so doesn’t grow suspicious.

daniel finds out after COTA, in the hotel room after the race. he’s feeling quite shit actually, max has just won his second championship and he doesn’t even get to watch it, stuck in a garage a hundred metres down where he knows some people have been counting down the days till he’s gone.

he’s being awful to himself—he knows this, max knows this—but they both know that he can’t help it. anyways, they both argue a bit and daniel doesn’t have the heart to have this conversation again. they’ve had it three times in the last four months, he’ll say he’s not good enough and max will find a way to make it sound like he’s not struggling to score points in every race.

“would you still love me even if i retired?” he asks. it’s a cruel thing to ask max, and he knows the answer, but he still needs to ask.

(max says the right things, but he always says the right things.)

daniel notices the tattoo when he slides his right hand under max’s back to hold his waist, something he’s done a thousand times over. when he was younger, he hated the night, the restlessness between falling asleep and waking up, wasting precious hours to do whatever idea he thought was cool at the time. now, he loves the night. loves the routine they do, loves how still the world goes when the moon shines down from the sky. loves how he gets to hold max like they’ve got all the time in the world.

the bandage is gone and max notices daniel picking up on, so he pulls the cover down to reveal the small 3 tattoo he’s got, tilted on its side, matching the 3 daniel has.

and it’s maybe one of few times daniel’s been rendered speechless, because what do you even say to that? i love you isn’t enough, because it’s more than that. for as long as he’s known max, tattoos has never been an option for him. he keeps staring at it until he realises that max looks nervous, like daniel will tell him he’s gone too far so snaps out of this max induced love haze to kiss him.

max has just won his second championship, daniel watched it a hundred metres down in a garage filled with people that don’t want him, but none of that matters now. he’s holding max and max loves him and whilst it doesn’t solve all his problems, it’s enough for right now. and that’s all that matters.

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truly i need people to ask me the most obscure or random questions they have about glitter on the floor because my brain is a 2gb usb stick and they’ve taken up 1.95gb. thank you anon and i hope you like the fic x

[o-i-w-u]

i feel like we've lost the whole eclipse coming back different and wrong thing here. like yeah hes the same guy but also.... not really? his memories aren't his, he is not that eclipse anymore, and he never was really

iirc a lot of eclipse's redemption arc was about the fact that he wasn't really the eclipse that did all of those awful things, he was just based off of him. like yeah hes still an awful person and he sucks but they're not really the same awful person that did all those horrible things to you.

he acts like he lived through those things and its his fault, but he... didn't and its not??? i dunno man it feels like we're back tracking here and not in a good way

(more ramble silly stuff in tags wowie)

[svtskneecaps]

feel like the global tasks sweep strat should probably be nerfed somehow. my thought would be, give each team an individual ten minute overall cooldown on global task claims. that is to say, a certain team can only claim one global task per ten minutes. say, deliver gas masks, and then in ten minutes you're allowed to deliver tea, and then after another ten minutes you can claim hot chocolate.

another teams would be able to claim a global task for bananas during this time, and their own ten minute cooldown would start.

(the global tasks can either keep their individual ten minute cooldown [i.e. after tea is claimed no one else can claim tea for ten minutes] or a slightly shorter cooldown, say 5-7 minutes)

when a global task is claimed, everyone is notified, right? if not, in my hypothetical, they will be.

then, a team trying to sweep six tasks at once would actually take sixty minutes to do, allowing another team to swoop in and have a chance to stop it in cinematic, entertaining fashion rather than tubbo having to grind resources and then log out in front of the merchant to counter this, which is boring for everyone (including the person delivering). plus, if a team cuts it down to the last second and ends up getting delayed, they physically wouldn't have time to make a delivery, meaning even being a BIT of a nuisance could be a viable strategy, even if you can't manage to kill; if you can STALL you could still wreck their plans.

that's my dream anyway idk i'm not a game designer. just think it would be interesting for most players

(i elaborate under)

red team would have to shake up their strategies, which is fun since they're a team that kinda has to rely more on strategy than outright brawn (overall the team's pvp can't be relied on unless they have carre or phil, as seen today when pierre, bad, and etoiles attacked phil cellbit foolish and baghera, and cellbit and foolish both died to etoiles in the attack, despite it being a 4 on 1 at the time. baghera was killed by bad soon after. phil was the one to get the kills. the first day, when blue attacked [niki, tubbo, and bad as i recall] carre got both kills)

the other teams would then still have a way to stop a global sweep since a sweep would have to start earlier, allowing not only more time to arrive at global to pvp about it, but ALSO allowing another team to swoop in and steal the goal out from under the team again

i'm gonna use it in a scenario bc i'm badboyhalo and i can't stop myself from making examples:

so, tonight, if the proposed cooldown was in place, bad and tubbo would both still had roughly 17 minutes when red team would have HAD to start the sweep process if they wanted all six global tasks: 1 hour until the server closed at absolute MINIMUM. more for safety's sake.

therefore, in this scenario, there's a lot to happen

blue team could wait at globals, knowing red will probably try this strategy, and attempt or perhaps SUCCEED in killing red. if they kill red entirely, the operation is a wash; red doesn't have to gear to come back from scratch and take out blue team, and even if they could, the travel time to return to globals alone would mean they wouldn't get all the global tasks, potentially meaning they don't take the lead. if blue team is unable to kill red and dies themselves or has to retreat, but succeeds in delaying red, red would face the same problem.

if red sends in all of the task items on one person, and that person dies, even if the rest survived, blue could loot the items from that person and would be able to either use the items themselves, if green is currently the owner, or could run away with the items, effectively wasting red's time and again, meaning they wouldn't get all tasks claimed even if they were able to overtake the runner and reclaim their items.

i'm unclear what would happen if red divided the task items between them since it seems like the person claiming the task doesn't have to have all (or any? again, unclear) the items in THEIR inventory in order to claim so long as a teammate is nearby with the items in their inv (evidence: pac's vod "voltei... o que tá acontecendo no QSMP?!" at roughly 3:00:00; tubbo claims tea and tea is taken out of pac's inventory. i don't know the limits of this strategy)

blue team also has time to swoop in and steal a global task out from under red during this time. say, if red team had claimed the task for 10 tea leaves, upping the price to 15 tea leaves, and then blue team snuck in and claimed the task and set the price up to 20 tea leaves, (since the proposed 10 minute cooldown on claims would be TEAM LIMITED; red's cooldown applying to red only and so on). if red waited until the last second, they wouldn't have the time to reclaim this task even if they did have the resources, possibly forcing them to start their sweep earlier to counter this possibility, at which point team members who had logged on earlier and are out of time by the end of the night, OR members who live in time zones that don't allow them to stay up until server close, may have an easier shot at participating in defending against a global sweep.

all of this DIRECT CONFLICT would make for good audience entertainment and heighten the stakes of an attempted global sweep, since it would practically have to be one team defending globals for an hour while they pipe all their resources into it, knowing that if they die another team could easily swipe their task resources and use it themselves (along with the rest of their gear). it makes it more interesting, while still mostly viable.

plus it would force more strategizing for red team which is maybe just a personal plus, i just really like seeing people planning both in advance and in spur of the moment. it's really satisfying to see how a plan comes together and succeeds or fails; plus, since red team is the main team using this strategy at the moment and their main draw and strength as a team is cohesion and communication this would be completely fucking riveting for me as a viewer so maybe this is just a personal thing. but i really really think it would be fun

but again, i'm not a game designer, or a qsmp player, or a qsmp admin, or honestly even really a gamer? so maybe i'm off my rocker and out of my gourd and this isn't viable or balanced in any way shape or form but YKNOW what is this blog except putting stupid thoughts into the void and seeing if this time the void spits back hate mail so. i'm folding this into a paper airplane and throwing it into the abyss. hopefully it made sense.

k love you appreciate you getting this far, have a good week!!

(i hope your team gets a win in dramatic fashion and celebrates together!!! i hope they come together and unleash a plan so spectacular it takes the server by storm!!! i hope it's so good it becomes a vod you go back to even years in the future!!!! i hope you have a good week!!!!!)

[seveneyesoup]

every day i complain about the hair t hasn’t given me i think i need to be grateful for the hair it has

[mamadarama]

Changed my ios to japan and filled in some random address (well not entirely random but.) to play enstars and i feel like i committed some huge crime. Its like when ur 5 and steal ur friends doll and u convince urself the fbi itself is after u

lmao i did that too, but ill jump through just about any hoop to avoid a paywall or in this case a location lock , so i didnt think much of it. then i realized like a day later that not being able to read anything pissed me off so i stopped playing it and started learning japanese . and then engstars came out !!! yay!!! (i still continued learning japanese tho, but ive been slacking lately...)

[necrotic-nephilim]

Fandom: Grayson (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dick Grayson/Tiger Characters: Dick Grayson, Tiger (DCU) Additional Tags: Omega Dick Week (DCU), Omega Dick Grayson, Alpha Tiger (DCU), Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Forced Bonding, Mating Bites, Mate or Die, Porn With Plot, Oral Sex, Spyral (DCU), Ambiguous/Open Ending, Unrequited Love, Bittersweet, Intense Sex, Hurt Dick Grayson, Whump Summary:

Tiger does what he has to, to save Dick's life. Unfortunately, that just happens to be forcing a mating bite onto Dick. Together, they figure out the aftermath and find a mutually satisfying way to deal with Tiger's subsequent rut.

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Omega Dick Week 2024 - Day 3: Forced Bond

[jorvikzelda]

had a dream I called the Danish emergency services (I was in Denmark) and they hung up on me :(

[viatrixtravels-a]

// Still waiting for someone to make a parody video for Xiao x traveler with the 'ain't no mountain high enough' song. xDD I mean, it's right there in the lyrics.

Listen baby, ain't no mountain high Ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough, baby If you need me call me, no matter where you are No matter how far, don't worry, baby [Just call my name], I'll be there in a hurry You don't have to worry

[msfcatlover]

Randomly missing Avalon Code. Fuck I loved that game as a kid. Still bummed we never got to see the other countries, like??? It feels so obvious to me they ran out of time/money for proper post-game content, so it’s just a couple romances/friendships that can’t be finished without the extra time plus the one whole new character to get to know who… isn’t going home, for some reason, despite being vitally important to his country, he’s just hanging out on the border for you to chat with. Which I’m glad for! I like his character! But damn, I wish we got to actually cross that border, y’know?

[bliamapriori]

A smart person would not be backwards engineering their way to a *proto form of language root by way of sound changes for a fanlang they intend to use for the specific purpose I am making it for, but I am neither smart nor someone with the best impulse control so the prospect of elvish > old elvish > classical elvish > ancestral elfish > elfish fey is just something I do so I have something to do with my hands, blissfully ignoring the mountain of designated compound words in the actual version of the lang I mean to use. And yet. Here I am. Daydreaming about the concept of a greater fey language family again.

[emily-mooon]

God I’m so pissed off at this hellsite for making a deal with ai companies >:[

[hattoriscap]

yall. wanna tell me about your abandoned projects? please 🥺👉🏼👈🏼 not necessarily fandom related stuff