#but sso itself?

[highhorsegirl]

who tf is calling sso a horror game and how weak are they

no patrick, star stable online was never a horror game

some sso players have to accept that sso's target demographic has always been children, a lot of things will click for them once they do

[mllenugget]

You can tell him yourself

If it wasn't for Avalon's roomba ""walkcycle"" and Fripp's galaxycore sparkle fursona design, I would have found that one scene were the druids express their disappointment towards the Soulriders' actions ominous

Also :

[highhorsegirl]

i can't deny the butterfly/moth motif. it's one of my favorite things. give me more actually.

[jorvikwildhorse]

My Horse’s Dragon: a Star Stable Online fan comic – Chapter 3: Vetting

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Sorry this took so long, I had a lot of set-backs and self-doubt while working on this chapter. I apologize that it's another "talky" chapter as well, but hopefully the next one will have a little bit more action. Thank you for reading!

[knoockies]

oh funny thing guys my na acc is stuck in the horse trailer and there is no way out unless i purchase star rider, because anytime i try to jump out the buy star rider window pops up😶 like legit hard locked

[dorianwolfforest]

dude you know me. i helped you set up your tent. i rescued your jester. im pretty sure ive told you my name. fuck you mean who am i

[starbornsoulrider]

WHO FUCKING YASSIFIED THEM

[caracello]

dies a million times in mourning there's an ad for german shepherd/siberian husky mix puppies for sale in this coffee shop and i csn't even adopt all of them.

[itworksitworks]

[ishizzle]

I took some days off and bitch I'm broke but I am free

[itsgirlcraft]

@dracl-dragon

The uncanny alien au, as per request, ehehe!

It's based on this writing prompt:

(Damn it's crazy to think it's been 3 years since I wrote this-)

Anyyyywho- For most Steves, they're in the adorable category for humans (exceptions being certain villains, ie Faceless). This is a vague TSS/SSO au, where Sabre gets left behind on a new planet by his fellow space-researchers. Mogi and Spency took the emergency pod back to the ship after a few encounters with the Steves, leaving Sabre to fend for himself.

The story is written from Rainbow's perspective, who is currently defending the first village that took him in. He's not struggling nearly as much as he was in SSO, but isn't as powerful as he was in TSS. He was on a scouting mission when he found Sabre.

The Steves follow Minecraft logic, while Sabre follows real-life logic (mostly), which is where the uncanny valley comes into play. Like in early TSS, Steves speak backwards English, but since this is Rainbow's POV, Sabre's words are reversed instead.

The creature beyond the trees looked like me. It had a similar build.

Yet the skin..the face...its details were all wrong.

The way its body contorted itself in ways nothing like me should. Its limbs could twist backwards and sideways.

I took off into the forest when I saw its mouth twist into what I now understand is known as a smile. Its teeth were many, skin pale as birch wood..

It had strange stick-like protrusions at the tips of its hands. They each moved not unlike a tentacle.

All I could think about the creature was that it was like me.

But it so very clearly wasn't. The way its slender, oddly shaped limbs moved across the terrain sent shivers down my back. Never again would I dare come face-to-face with it.

I have been hidden in the trees for days now. The stranger hasn't left the open terrain of the plains.

I see how it hunts. What powers it lacks in, it more than makes up for in survivalist skills.

It ran its makeshift tools into the nearest peaceful fauna, an unelegant and gory mess in mere minutes. Yet without any powers, it was left with ten times the meat.

It made tools and weapons and shelter in a short period of time, and without any of my kind's abilities. One shouldn't be able to form a whole array of tools from nothing. Even the strongest of my kind had a very small range of objects or materials we could summon.

I have stayed here to observe this creature, I dare not imagine what it could do if I leave it alone.

But I dare not meet face-to-face. It may run from the fire and tides, but I have seen it has power over these very elements.

It scratched a piece of metal with a sharp black object, sparks lighting pieces of wood organized in a cone shape.

Did it just create fire?

I knew I should've returned to the elders at that moment. But what if it set the forest ablaze? I needed to be here. It was too unpredictable to leave alone.

I saw its talent in controlling the elements despite a lack of powers over the days following.

One evening there was a storm, and I decided to fly within its winds in hopes of frightening the stranger to leave this land.

I saw it building a tall tower near its shelter. What was it doing now?

I flew back down into the treeline, watching. It erected a strange metal structure at the top, red lines of...something connecting it to the bottom.

As I grew nervous, thunder boomed above. With that, the stranger jumped off, using a leash-like material to safely return to the ground.

That was possible?

My kind never needed climbing gear. We all could fly.

But that..that could make supplies easier to transfer to mountainous regions.

I was forced out of my thoughts when lightning striked. I immediately flew up as it flashed, blinding me. But what I saw was the red lines of the structure lighting up.

Did this creature just build a machine? What was it for?

The rest of the night was uneventful. The stranger stayed huddled up in its shelter. I almost considered checking out what it had made, but fear grew and I didn't want to get vaporized by whatever lightning-absorber machine this was.

The night after, I got up the courage to get close.

I refused to go anywhere near the shelter, but wanted desperately to figure out what it was that the stranger built.

"Curiosity killed the kaet," I had thought to myself as I slunk across treetops.

But that didn't stop me.

Until I heard a noise.

Not from in front of me.

Behind.

I turned, and there it stood. Barely two trees away.

Had it been following me?! Watching?? What did it want??

As thoughts raced, I took off into the sky.

It didn't follow.

Thank whatever up there who didn't let the stranger figure out flight yet.

My heart raced as I hovered in the air, turning back towards them.

Both of us stared at one another.

At least I think, its eyes were covered with fabric. How it could see, or if it could, still plagues me.

It held a long metal object defensively in its odd hands. A sword.

Great. This thing's a swordsman. And may or may not be blind.

Not a word was said.

But as I stayed floating there in the cool night air, it felt like the first time we saw each other.

I could see its torn clothing and tired stance. It didn't seem quite as horrid.

It still terrified me, don't think for a moment it didn't.

But maybe, just maybe it wasn't the destructive beast I thought it was.

We continued to just stay there, in the cool night air. Staring.

The longer I looked the more I wanted to look away. Its smaller size didn't make it cuter. It felt like it could climb into my body and kill me from the inside. Its long hands held the metal sword like a squeed latching onto a meal. Fear started creeping up my back.

I wanted to run.

The wind started picking up, the thing suddenly jumping out of the treetop.

I took that as my chance to fly out of there.

I looked up at the moon and stars, trying to calm myself. That thing saw me. It knows.

What do I do? It didn't attack. But maybe if I got closer it'd slice me to bits like an animal and devour me.

I shuddered at the mere thought.

It knew I knew it was there. Maybe it saw me before this. Maybe it didn't.

I couldn't return home until I was certain of its intentions. I needed to wait. Watch. Who knows what that machine does.

I missed home. I missed Belu. I missed a comfortable bed and house.

But it was my duty. I had to protect my kind from this..thing. If I left it unsupervised for even the rest of the night, it could do horrible things.

I wasn't just protecting my people, but the land too. This thing showed me that it can kill. It could burn the whole forest if it wanted, I bet.

I wasn't willing to take the chance.

I flew back down, checking the forest just in case it decided to ambush. Nothing.

I returned to the makeshift bed I made a ways away from the stranger. I packed it up every morning, so it was unlikely it'd see it.

Despite the discomfort that came with sleeping directly on a tree branch, I fell asleep instantly. I have no idea how the Gren do it. Then again, they're most connected with nature.

Perhaps one day I'd be able to tap into that side of me more. It'd be nice to just sleep wherever, whenever. Like a kaet.

I woke to the morning sun once again. I gathered my wool "bed" before looking for more food.

I knew the forest like the back of my hand so it was easy. A wolvvf pup ran past me, chasing another. The tiny pups were growing fast. They were so cute!

I had a quick breakfast of mishrumms and roots with some berraies for sweetness.

Back to watching. I needed to make sure the stranger didn't do anything major while I was resting.

I flew a bit closer, but stuck to the treetops as I got near. I spotted a..sign? There was definitely a wooden sign down there. I looked around, questioning if it was a trap.

I climbed out of the tree, making sure to check every nook and cranny before I even got near the sign.

Again, nothing.

Besides, it can't hide that well. It's literally wearing all white. Honestly, it looked almost like a chikeen in those weird clothes.

I crouched behind a tree, carefully peeking out. No sign of the creature. I crept out, getting closer to the wood sign before me.

I was surprised to find it was in my language. How would it know my language?!

I was terrified of what it could mean. But I read the sign.

It read:

"I mean no harm. Not evil. Can not find home. Just surviving."

Was that a...flower it drew below the message? Yes, that was definitely a flower.

Why was it in my language? How did it know it? Why did it leave a sign for me?

Was it wanting peace? Or to trick me?

I had so many questions yet none would be answered if I didn't respond somehow.

I noticed an empty sign leaning against a tree, grabbing it. I wrote, "What do you want? Peace? Supplies?"

It was as I finished writing that I heard a noise. Oh no, it was back! I dropped the sign and flew into the trees.

It didn't go after me. It went to the sign first. It moved towards my previous location with its skinny, oddly shaped legs. It held a pickaxe in its hands and was covered in dust.

It put the pickaxe onto a belt of some sort, grabbing the sign with its tentacle-tipped hands.

It stood there for a bit. It suddenly looked up, almost right at me.

It put the sign down and picked up the one it wrote on, clearing the ink away and writing something else.

I waited tensely, wondering if I should run or try to hide more or directly engage with it..

I just stayed right there. Frozen. My heart raced.

It stopped writing. It looked up again.

Did it see me?! I tried to hide myself more, using the green colors in my form to try to hide the rest of me.

It walked to the base of a tree. Directly below me. I shut my eyes, hoping it wasn't about to climb up and get me or burn the tree or worse.

I heard dirt being dug into, followed by footsteps getting quieter and quieter.

I opened my eyes. The stranger has returned to its shelter. I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding in.

I glanced to the shelter. Wondering if I should just go. I know its intentions now.

But what if it had written something important? What if it says it wants...I don't know, meat or blood?! What could happen if I left it alone then?!

Fighting nerves, I slid down the tree trunk. I crouched to read the sign.

"Yes. Peace. I can not leave until I have supplies to return home."

I stared at the sign. I still couldn't tell if it was trying to trick me or not.

I realized I couldn't keep this up. I was sleepy still and this thing hasn't actually hurt anyone besides a couple animals, and that was for food. Doesn't mean it wasn't savage and bloody and mildly traumatizing.

It didn't seem evil, that's it. I had dealt with actual evils, though they were like me. So that doesn't quite work.

But I was tired and over watching this thing.

I turned, realizing it spotted me.

I froze again.

It stared.

At least I think. That cloth around its face made it hard to tell.

It suddenly had a...flower? A flower in its hand. It slowly moved out of its shelter. Those gangly limbs still freaked me out.

It was closer than last time now.

Seeing it closer made me panic. I wanted to run but I was frozen. Everything told me to not trust it.

Then it laid the flower down before me and backed away.

My limbs unfroze. I almost considered running. But instead I picked up the flower and put it in my hair.

The two of us shared a moment of understanding. Both wary of the other yet no longer afraid.

It really wasn't evil. Just absolutely terrifying.

I finally spoke.

"What is your name?" I spoke slowly, trying to hide the fear creeping in just by looking at them.

They cocked their head to the side. Could they not understand me?

I cocked my head to the side too.

They suddenly pulled out a device. Some sort of translator perhaps?

I spoke again.

"What is your name?"

I heard the click of a button before and after.

They hit another button and the same thing I just said suddenly repeated again! It was confusing at first, heh. Then they clicked another button and it was being said in..reverse??

I couldn't tell what they just did. But it seemed that they held a tiny machine that helped them understand me.

They nodded and clicked a button and spoke.

"Uoy? erbaS si eman ym," they said.

They clicked another button. This time their voice spoke but I understood!

"My name is Sabre. You?"

"I am Raynboew."

They repeated my voice again, but changed so they understood.

They "smiled," but without showing their many teeth and bowed.

I bowed too.

Finally, I could return home!

[jorvikzelda]

So. Star Stable's Spotify header.

I saw this on a little trip to SSO's Spotify page to see if they'd released any music without announcing it again and went hm. This looks kind of weird. I sure hope they haven't stooped so low as to use AI for their promo material. And then I looked closer.

First thing I noticed was the stirrups. Or, should I say... "stirrups".

Did they like... employ someone who doesn't know how tack works? What IS that? Also I'm only noticing this as I'm writing the post but why on earth does the boot not have proper laces or eyelets

And what the fuck are these weird straps on the saddle? And the guitar straps aren't attached to the guitar?? Actually... it can't be... but let me look at the hands. Just real quick

Uh. hm. that's not very hand. Are they fucking using AI

OH BOY.

The bit and the reins are... not properly attached to one another, just welded together. The noseband just disappears. The buckles at the top of the bridle don't really exist and the chin strap doesn't fit properly at all. The reins are double on one side, but not the other, and one or both of the reins on the far side almost look attached to the breast collar - or they're just being held a lot looser than the near side rein. Also, you need a very specific type of bit to use double reins, which is not the type of bit that's on this bridle. Or maybe the two weird straps are supposed to be a fucked up martingale, and that's why they're attached to the breast collar? But then why does the horse only have one rein? Also the martingale is attached wrong if that's what it's meant to be, see below (it's never attached directly to the bit). The breast collar is also attached to the underside of the saddle, rather than the saddle itself like it should be. The horse's front shoulder looks like it's drawn by someone who doesn't know very much about horse anatomy, or... y'know... AI.

The cart isn't fucking attached to the fucking horse. Poor guy is dragging that thing along with one singular back leg.

The keyboards all have the wrong number of black keys in the wrong places. And also those knobs do not look right. Oh, and something is DEFINITELY wrong with that drum kit.

And also just look at this fucking horse. Yeah, it's passable as a horse, but have you seen the quality of SSO's horses and horse art??? This isn't even anywhere CLOSE to that

So yeah uh, SSE used fucking AI art for their spotify banner. I feel like this is the greatest punch in the gut they could've possibly sent their laid-off artists' way. You cannot defend this.

[dorianwolfforest]

what do sses shitty lay off policies have to do with feminism ?? men work there too 😭 and the ceo is also a man, so i really have no idea why you’re throwing women under the bus for that

I'm,,, throwing women under the bus? Dorian will never outrun the misogyny allegations.

SSE is a pro women in gaming company, which is a GOOD thing. It's great that they're taking a long needed stance in the gaming world. Feminism is fantastic, I will always be and have always been a feminist on account of having a womb and half a brain.

SSO feminism is right ass for several reasons, mainly because they're not actually trying to make any real feminist moves. Their feminism is a buzzword and a decoration, but that's a whole other topic that I am already writing a video essay on.

Onto the actual question. SSE employs primarily female or afab contractors and artists for their game, which is why I mentioned it in the layoff posts. The contractors who were the first to be dismissed (and weren't even told about it themselves, they simply had to figure out why they weren't getting contacted by the company anymore), were almost only women or afab people as far as I'm aware (I do not have the full scope of all the contractors). They need companies and private people employing them, because they are independent. (Helena is fairly well established, but Elli, the miscreants [if they didn't leave on their own volition], their loading screen artist, all other contractors need support during a lay-off that they were never provided)

For a game that prides itself on promoting women and especially women in gaming, they therefor did the contractors incredibly dirty. The real feminist move would have been to establish that these women/afab people did real work for their company, that SSE can no longer employ them, but other people should. Instead, the moment SSE didn't have use of these women/afab people anymore, they hoped they would simply fade into obscurity and no one would question it. I can only hope that the rest of the employees who weren't contractors that were laid off received substantial support from SSE during that period, which, legally, I think they needed to provide.

TLDR: I'm passionate about workers rights and women, fight me.

[starstableopinions]

Every once in awhile I see people saying they want trading or a player economy and as someone who's played other games with player economies I'm sorry but I REALLY don't think that's a good idea. Neopets, for example, literally had an issue where an irl black market developed for rare pets that often involved hacking and stealing these pets from innocent players or manipulated the game code itself to generate rare pets and items. I don't think it'd get to that level but I could imagine something similar happening with rare horses like Spirit, the barkharts and some of the other discontinued horses. I'm pretty sure SSO can't even afford chat moderators, you really think they'd be able to handle a multi-level hacking situation???

Even if it's just items instead of trading horses, I've played too many games where in-game economies become toxic with hoarding, overpricing items, and some made up hierarchy of items which you need to own if you wanna be seen as a cool kid which always starts so much drama.

Speaking of kids I think it's also important to remember that SSO is a kid's game and often kids don't know better yet. Look at all the kids on SSO who willingly give out their login information to other players for star coins/ claiming to trade accounts for a day. Like I just know if horse gifting/trading became a thing there'd be a situation where some kid named Sally Tulipchair trades horses with her BFF Daisy Ballhair because they're BFFL but then three days later Daisy ditches her for some kid named Jean Applebottom so Sally demands the horse back but Daisy says no. So now Sally gets SSO Support involved because what else can she do? Support barely functions as it is let's not add another pile of issues for them to deal with PLEASE

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[whitestoneestates]

NEW SSO CONVERTED MANES CC FIND!!

✨✨✨✨✨Created by SchrodCat CC on Patreon! ✨✨✨✨

Creators discription :

Some of these aren't braided but they came attached to braided things so I converted them, too.

PLEASE RECOLOR THESE. Seriously. I only did the base EA colors and even those I'm not happy with. The good thing is that all of these have a fairly logical map so making painted or ombre versions shouldn't be too difficult as far as placing it. I had to do 37 texture files 21 times and I cannot do any more of that or I will quit.

Yes, I will do more SSO hair conversions. However, because of the 700 texture files I did for these, I will be doing something else before getting to another set.

In this post:

Scalloped braid set (3): mane, forelock, tail

Chunky braid set (2): mane, forelock

Thin braid set (3): mane, forelock, tail

Running braid set v1 [Andalusian] (3): mane, forelock, tail

Running braid set v2 [Friesian] (3): mane, forelock, tail

Button braid (2): mane [standard builds], mane [heavy builds], forelock

Relaxed braid set (2): mane, forelock

Lattice braid set (2): mane, forelock

Shorter tail [non-braided]

Download files at bottom of this post!

Note 1: I'm using PureWinter's Better Horse Body which gives taller withers. Manes may not fit the exact same as seen in my images if using a different or no body mod. They should still follow general body morphs regardless of mod use (unless the body mod itself breaks morphs).

Note 2: The button braids have two versions because I prefer them to fit tight against the neck and Sims 4 hates that I like that, apparently. The standard version will completely disappear into the neck of a heavy built body so I made another version that will fit these heavy builds.

Because these use assets converted from other games it is very much not okay to lock any edits to them behind paywall or early access. This is not only against my TOU, but the TOUs that these came from. Conversions from other games have always been a gray area in modding and should myself or MM receive any request to remove them, we will comply. MM posted about this topic on her Tumblr/Tumblr and I align with her views. Additionally, a special thanks to MinervaMagicka for exporting the files.

link to page! ~ 🐎

[winterlleaves]

i did the second part. (???) its more interesting but i dont think it feels done yet?

did the linda halloween quests (i got them theyre at the bottom of my quest log for some reason.) theyre kind of middling to me lol