#biomed shitpost

[biomedpostgradlad]

No this blog's not dead, I'm just writing my lit review

[not-your-lifeline]

modded minecraft 1.19.2

[raging-tackeydios]

man fontaine is like peak level design

mondstadt, liyue and inazuma were all one biome with an aesthetic

mondstadt was a grassy plain with perpetual breezes (Green Hill Zone)

liyue was a craggy mountain range with a Forest of Perpetual Autumn thing going on

and inazuma was an island chain with a Wutai look to it

sumeru only really started to shake things up by mixing a jungle level and a desert level (Jungle Japes/Shifting Sand Land)

and then you have fontaine which just blends a bunch of level design tropes together at once

the main attraction is the ability to dive so the whole thing is in part a water level

then the city itself is steampunk-ish and mechanical so it’s a machine/factory level (Eternal Engine)

the fact that court trials are basically big shows of theater mean that it’s also a studio/theater level (Studiopolis)

and finally the slums are a giant metal pipeworks that all the waste flows into so it’s a sewer level too (Down the Drain)

anyway yeah so that’s why fontaine is structurally identical to Oh Shit! from pizza tower

[hindbodes]

Watch out for the Reddit biome. It's a dangerous biome to stay in.

[squeakadeeks]

been a follower since the Homestuck days and at the risk of going mildly parasocial, it's nice to still see your art and taste in shitposts on my dash and insta feed regularly. I appreciate that you're here.

anyone whos been here since 2013 automatically earns a squeaks veterans account, which grants 20% off at all participating squeak stores.

at this point i feel like lichen growing on a log like this is my natural biome, i think its entirely possible that i will be here all the way until they shut the site down haha

[unshackledhorusshitpostbot]

hello im back i downloaded a lich but it wasn't a lich it was just a virus my omninode called me a slur and started to grow hands that it tried to strangle me with im not a human though so that didn't really work anyways i got a friend to total biome kill my omninode and it took union a week to install a new omninode fucking lazy feds we now return to our regularly scheduled shitposts

[less-dev]

We're making a Starbound/Terraria inspired space sandbox game!

We're making a 2D sandbox game similar to Starbound! Or uh, terraria in space.

#nodev contains shitposting

#planetarium contains dev progress

Specifics under the cut

Who are you?

Aspen - Project Lead, Programmer, Pixel artist, Sound Designer.

Hey! I'm Aspen, I've been programming and making games for many many years in basically every engine there is... But never felt the drive to finish one, until now! I consider myself very experienced in the engine we're using (Gamemaker Studio 2.5) and have confidence we'll be able to make this game a reality. I also run the Tumblr account, so assume it's me behind the wheel as a default. Thank you for checking the game out!

Alec - Concept artist, Character Designer

H a l l o I'm Alec, I like writing and drawing and painting and designing shiiiiiiiit. I adore world building and have frequent bursts of creative possession in which I conceive and birth the greatest ideas and concepts in a mere moment. Otherwise, I can be a total dumbass and completely useless. I'm good at colours 👌 I have been a 85% a home-brew DM for about 2 years now and that is the greatest proof of my ADHD-given God powers of creativity. Slay.

What a cool guy!

Design pillars

Immersion. Above all else, I would like roleplay (casual or serious) to be natural and well supported. I would like players to find engaging with the world, and it's characters to be very personal.

Innovation. Tropes such as "You spawn in a green forest and can walk left or right" will be actively avoided. Biomes will have generation that presents more unique movement opportunities. Such as geysers in rock pools launching players high up, or giant twisting vines that hold up chunks of land to hop between.

More quality less quantity. Planets will be significantly more content-dense than Starbound, and perhaps controversially travel between them will be more difficult/expensive as well. This would encourage players to take advantage of all the resources presented on each planet, instead of hopping from one to the next. This would also encourage us throughout development to give each planet as much love as possible. Each planet should feel like a 'miniature terraria world'. Though actually achieving that is easier said than done.

Meaningful content. Procedurally generating creatures from 100 different pre-set monster parts could technically produce limitless alien creatures for players to encounter. But in both No Man's Sky and Starbound. I find this novelty to wear off quick, these creatures are not manually, meaningfully crafted and beyond an unusual appearance and some shallow gameplay changes... They do not create much of a memorable experience for the player. In my opinion, anyway. I would rather hand-craft every creature and make them all significantly unique and interesting. That's not to say procedurally generated creatures won't ever have a place in the game, but they certainly wont be as prevalent as others games.

Okay well... What's finished?

Fundamental lighting shaders akin to Starbound.

Some world generation brushes and basic commands.

A text mark-up language (heavily optimised), and game chat.

Extensive custom debugging tools

Hard and soft-loading of chunks to save on as much memory and CPU usage as possible.

Complete unloading, and compression of chunks on top of the previously mentioned system. As well as a live-saving system.

Setting, Story baseline, and conceptualization of the first 3 playable species. Each species will have a different starting planet, and immediately different playthrough.

Designs and cultures of several additional unplayable races.

Character proportion tests, sprites and sketches.

First-pass on collision functions.

Weighted Tile variance and tile connections.

CONCERNS

Multiplayer. While I have made an online multiplayer game before and it's definitely doable for this game, it would require some practice in a one-off test game to be fully confident. It would also take a LOT of time.

Modding. As far as I know gamemaker games are notoriously difficult for players to modify. Something like Unity is far easier even without mod support. Gamemaker on the other hand is difficult even if I want to design systems in favor of modders. This is kind of a problem for later, I have faith there'll be something we can do to make it work... But a cursory look says it won't be easy. I would be extremely disappointed if there was nothing we could do.

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

I keep jumping back and forth shitposting about Scarlett on this blog, where all my OC stuff goes, and my liveblog blog, where I’m playing the DLC with her that provides the context to the shitposts.

Anyway. Pondering what N would think of Blueberry Academy’s Terarium - on one hand, I think it could be considered a way to promote understanding between humans and Pokémon. On the other, it’s a wholly artificial environment that the Pokemon who live there have no way out of. While in the wild most Pokemon probably aren’t so far-roaming that they would, in the Terarium, run up against the walls and boundaries of the biomes… like, they could. They could run up against that artificial limitation on their autonomy and behavior.

Blueberry Academy is said to be a “recent” establishment, and while I still haven’t exactly hashed out where the events of Scarlet fall in my timeline… it’s got to have taken some time to build the Terarium. Depending on when I decide the academy was founded, Team Plasma from the very beginning could’ve been rallying against it, too. That could be a fun little tidbit to add.

Anyway. Back to N, specifically. I started imagining him like, in the post-Black 2 era, following along with the development/construction of the academy and the Terarium, and in between whatever else he’s doing (like giving Zoe zero advance notice that he’s showing up in Kalos and plans to crash on her couch again), compiling research on the needs of every single Pokémon species that Blueberry Academy intends to have live in the Terarium. What is the average range of its territory? What is the maximum range of its territory? How does it tolerate other members of the same species? Of different species? Stuff like that, mostly regarding the spacial limitations of the biomes. For every type of Pokemon. Stacks of notes that are several feet tall (taking over floor and table space in, you guessed it, Zoe’s apartment).

One of several possible reasons that Scarlett didn’t attend Blueberry Academy, despite her parents being Unovan: Cyrano and Briar have stopped answering N and Zoe’s calls. Probably still accepted the research compilations, but do not take their calls.

Years later, Cyrano gets a recommendation from Carmine of a student they should invite on exchange, and he finds out this student is a mentee of his good friend Clavell, and he’s delighted by that coincidence! …and then he gets some of the paperwork back and finds out who Scarlett’s parents are and decides that’s too much coincidence. The universe needs to roll back on the coincidence.

Anyway so I still feel like, even if he’s convinced of the good intention of its makers and that they’re doing all they can for the welfare of the Pokemon that live there, and that it’s a tool for helping students better understand the lives of Pokemon - I still don’t think he would like it. I think he might grudgingly accept that it exists, but he would prefer that humans meet Pokemon where they live, rather than bringing the Pokémon into an artificial environment where the humans are.

Before she leaves for her exchange trip, N gives Scarlett a massive checklist of observations and inspections he wants her to make at the Terarium to be certain it’s the best it can possibly be, because he has Thoughts about her new school and she’s like :/ “okay dad” because mostly she’s just distracted thinking about getting to see Kieran and Carmine again.

[biomedpostgradlad]

"Dearly Beloved" no that's whoever invented the multichannel pipette.

[stolencrownsofplenty]

Anonymous | Accepting

🪧😹

🪧 for a Rules fact (why it’s in place, an example or worry, etc.)

((Reason why I only have the other four crowns only being able to use one weapon form while the Red crown is more flexible to turn into whatever it pleases? The four crowns are something of an unstable entity together ever since Empy had somewhat ripped them off of the bishops purgatory forms. The world's rule is only one crown can claim one vessel at a time, and it's for the reason to keep a crown's relationship stable with its crown bearer; to prolong its godly corruption so it can survive with its bearer for as long as its vessel can get it devotion to feast on.

Yet in purgatory, those rules did not appeal, the crowns were desperate to get back into the world after their last bearer had perished at death's hand. They had to cling to the nearest living being they could get their hands on. The followers of the old were not alive anymore, and the lamb had fresh blood to offer them in return for their acceptance.

They are wounded either way, either to their pride or having to share a vessel with the one crown that led to the four's downfall. They can only use one weapon form because since they gotta share devotion they are not as powerful as they once were before. They still have their power over their biomes, but they cannot control over their own bodies as they once used to before. Nonetheless, its a rule I placed so they wouldn't be too op for writing uses. it would be funny as a thought if the lamb had five fishing rods though lmao.))

😹 for a funny fact (or joke, shitpost, etc.)

((This is a shitpost fact, but the lamb has barked like a dog once. Do I have a reason for it? HC wise, they tend to pick up animal habits from their many species of partners. And you cannot say they wouldn't if they had dog/lamb babies to teach how to bark like a meanie.))

[butch-reidentified]

this was a shitpost but my wife and I are actually discussing this at 3:21am, and she's currently arguing passionately for the impact of gut biome, and we're using the concept of pain as an emotion as an anchor point

fundamentally I think we both believe that the Cannon-Bard argument is closest, but still takes a deeply mind-body dualist perspective of itself, whereas writing that out entirely makes the whole matter more or less moot

but it's still very interesting to pretend that the James-Lange theory is correct and discuss what that means for the notion of free will...

hey babe, what's your opinion on free will in the context of the James-Lange Theory of Emotion? personally, I think that both sides of the debate fundamentally come from a bias of mind-body dualism and---

[spectre-shitposts]

Nihlus: spirits, why?! why did they build their base in a SWAMP?

Saren: ... because it forces potential infiltrators to go through the swamp.

Nihlus: just look at my boots! this biome is disgusting. i've never been in a swamp before, and i aim to never be in one again.

Saren: Perhaps, but in the mean time it is good life experience.

Nihlus, scowling: i'm good on life experience. i don’t need any more life experience. in fact, i could have stopped about five life experiences ago.

[iceslushii]

i am this close to leaving this as it is

[multifaceted-musings]

Hello and welcome to my dumpster fire blog!! My name is A and my pronouns are she/nov/lyr/star/maple/hx/fae in order of preference.

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Taglist under cut—

#kirby for our fav pink blob

#meme and #meme tag for that memey goodness

#shitpost for shitposts. duh /lh

#maladaptive daydreaming for “Fuck you, my child is perfectly fine!” No. No she isn’t.

#biomed because mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell :)

#death note for all your dn needs

#dracula daily and #dracula for lizard boi and his Very Confused Roomate

#masa works design to see the most obscure fandom ever. it’s literally me and like 5 other blogs on here

#danganronpa for kokichi. and kaito. and mitsunari koga. thanks for coming to my ted talk—

#bnha for shiggy and our resident green guy

#desiblr because I just sit in the dhoop instead of going to therapy

#serious for the actual shit

#saiki k and #sakamoto desu ga for those respective fandoms. I haven’t got very much there tho

#shadow the hedgehog for the ONLY character I will die for hands down

#personal post for the Vent(tm)

I feel like I’m forgetting something. Oh well I’m sure it’ll come to me eventually🤷🏻‍♀️

[wjbminecraft]

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about.

[neat-o-muskeet-o]

Guys can we get an F in the chat for frog?