#i do think it should be toggleable like on tumblr

[quaranmine]

i'm going to be honest, as someone who mainly uses tumblr and has had my likes visibility turned off since the beginning of time, i do not quite get why xitter is burning itself down over likes being private now. to me this is the ideal, if i want someone to see it then i share it, if i want it for myself i like it. i have never really been happy that my likes were public on twitter.

however regardless of my confusion i AM proud of them for continuing the trend of vocally complaining about random semi-pointless changes to websites because we need to stay constantly vigilant that ceos dont get too comfortable making social media even worse than it already is. i am pro complaining constantly about every minor webbed site change. also i hate anything elon musk does ever

[kindlespice]

late ass replies but this time i have so much stuff to reply to that i actually need to split things up into categories :))))

also i apologize if any of this is no longer relevant / i am of absolutely no help :)))

otherwise, if you’ve asked a reshade related question...uh... sometime between christmas and now LMAO then it’s probably here!

nonny :

Hello Mikayla, I hope you're having a lovely year so far. I just wanted to ask this about the dove preshade (1st question here) kindlespice/tumblr/com/post/632163463099269120/ft-reshade-questions-a-theme-question-nonny i'm having the same problem, i have a new computer and after installing the game and it's last 3 updates and then the reshade it's not looking the same and it sucks bc i know how it's supposed to look (1)

the shadows are not as noticeable, the transparency between the walls is not there and the blur is gone (i have miiko´s ghibli's cloud override but i had that on my old computer and the reshade still looked normal) idk if it's the game or the reshade but it sucks bc i love how the original looks like anyways it would be really helpfull if you could answer. Take care and stay safe :))!!! (2/2)

hi hi! thanks for the kind message and i hope your year is going well! if I had to take a guess, I would say that maybe some of your settings in-game have changed? I would double check and make sure you’ve got edge smoothing off, and you could try turning off post-processing as well (im not ACTUALLY sure if turning off post processing does anything but it’s worth a shot!) otherwise i would try removing the preset and redownloading it? maybe the settings of the preset got jacked up and you can fix it by re-installing. let me know if this helps! if not, then you can always dm me so i can see pics of your situation!

nonny:

Hi! Sorry if this is worded odd but I just downloaded your Leif reshade and have completed all the steps, however there is still this blur over the screen which isn't the best for game play. If you could help explain how to toggle it for gameplay/cas that would be great :)

hi hi! the blur is the DoF (depth-of-field). it’s used for taking screenshots and is supposed to make the background all blurry. to disable it, you can use the hotkey shift-2 or open the reshade menu and manually untick the DoF option!

nonny:

Hi, i just installed the latest version of the dove preset and my game is dark. It is the MXAO that is doing it but i don't have the preprocessor definitions box. How do i fix it?

hello! im assuming you have a 4.0 version of reshade if you can’t find the box. in this version, it’s a blue tab called “Edit Global Preprocessor Definitions” beneath all the toggleable effects. if you have an earlier version, it should be under the “settings” tab at the top though.

nonny:

Hello!! Thank you so much for your work! I have a really quick question - so I am trying to work with the reshade and got it all set but when I play around with it, my objects don’t look “rounded”. If that makes sense. Other people who use it, their objects look rounded and smooth and just different (I have an image for reference) but mine just looks like the normal objects just different colors. Is there something I’m missing or doing something wrong? I have all the settings correct. :)

hi hi! hmm, im not really sure what that could be... probably something to do with mxao bc it’s always something to do with mxao lol. I would double check to make sure you have this line in your preprocessor definitions: RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED = 0 this line should equal 0 for the mxao to work properly. that might give you the “rounded” look. if this doesn’t fix it for you then you should go ahead and dm me so i can see what the game looks like!

nonny:

Hey, I tried your Dove preset but my game just can't handle it, it's pretty old and I just have to uninstall the reshade (even though I really loved the effect) but I'm scared to do anything in the Game folder or delete anything. Could you please help me with what to remove? I'm scared to break my game if I delete something that souldn't be deleted :( I tried searching for this in your WCIF and reshade questions and couldn't find an answear. Please help

hello! sorry to hear that your game can’t handle the preset :( here’s to hoping you can get an upgrade in the future! anyhow, to uninstall; i believe you only need to remove 

ReShade - config settings (it’ll have a little paper w/ gear next to it)

d3d9.dll - application extension  (it’ll have a little paper w/ gears ON it)

d3d9 - text document (little paper w/ lines icon)

reshade-shaders - folder

your reshade presets - config settings (if you remove the files above first though, you won’t be able to use/see these in-game)

that should uninstall reshade from your game! and don’t worry, if you accidentally remove something you didn’t want to, you can “verify your game files” through origin and that should restore any missing files. unless you.. *ahem*... acquired your game through other means... in which case be careful XD

@maddybarbz

Omg I don't know if you are active or not but I'm having some problems. So I downloaded the 3.0.8 and it was going smoothly but I loaded the game it said that magic bloom had issues.

i don’t know if im active either. probably not tbh XD but im here now so here ya go! i would recommend deleting the shaders you’re having problems with and then putting back the 3.0.8 shaders you downloaded. it’s really easy for things to break / be incompatible during the install so your best bet is always to delete the ones giving you trouble and put the new ones in.

@kaiamikulka

hi! I’ve been jealously stalking your page for a while, because I’m in love with the dove preset, but I’m very confused about how to download it. My computer keeps marking it as a virus, so i was kinda scared to download it. and when i finally did, it didn’t show up in my game. could you walk me through how to download it?(i have a pc laptop)

Thank you so much,

Kaia☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️

hi hi! lol im flattered for the jealousy stalk! anyway im not sure why it wouldn’t be showing up in game? unless you were so excited that you forgot to install reshade with it? i have a video here explaining how to install a recent version of reshade and set up dove with it so you can check that out here !

@bojanastarcevic​

Hello, I've been trying to fix the dove reshade for a long time, but the new version just doesn't support it, and the old version spoils the game and sometimes it won't even start ... Would you consider trying to make the same preset version for the latest reshade version? I'll be very grateful because your preset is the most beautiful I have ever seen?! 😘😂Don't know if you still play of work on your game but like I said if you have time to try make new one couse everyone was looking for it!!! 😉😘😘😘

hi hi! i totally understand not using the earlier versions--these later ones are soo much more user friendly!--but i’ve been able to get the preset to work with later versions (4.7.0 is the latest i’ve tried though) and it looks, if not the same, then very close to the original. I have a video here explaining how i did it if you’re really eager to have it

in the future i guess i could try to re-release the preset? i can’t give you an eta bc im lazy and i fall off the face of the earth regularly, but i do think it would help to have updated instructions right on the face of the download. 

[rubberduckyrye]

Okay so I actually looked into something since I was thinking about it, and I realized something about PillowFort that makes it amazing

While PF has a reblog function, people can’t add commentary upon reblogging. The comments system and reblogging feature are two different features! That means every comment can be seen on every “version” of the post.

So you can reblog things to promote them like on tumblr, but you can comment on these posts like on Ao3. I really like this??? Because it means there will never be two “realities” of a post like in this thread here talking about the issue with Tumblr and it really makes me feel like PF is promising and will be able to better cater to creators.

Anyway I do love PF I think it shows so much real promise and you should definitely join.

Though, @pillowfort-social, have you considered making it toggleable? The “unable to reblog with commentary” thing. I wouldn’t know how that kind of system would work coding wise, but it’d be nice to have that option to have people able to reblog with commentary since one of the best things about tumblr posting is the reblog chains where people add on more and more witty things to posts.

I can see the creatives of PF wanting the post option for no reblog commentary, but for the non-creatives, they might want more interaction, if that makes sense?

Idk, I think it’d be cool to at least have the option.

[earthen-dragoness]

The Evillious Chronicles Discord is open to Tumblr!

​So what is this?

Awhile ago PixelizedChell on Tumblr (also known as the admin of the Evillious Shower Thoughts blog made a Discord chat for Evillious Chronicles. It was put on Tumblr, and under a timed invite link which garnered a little attention. But now we've done more things to it and expanded it, and we feel that it's ready to accomodate more people!

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Is there any reason why you should join?

Well, it's an Evillious Chronicles chatroom basically for one. If you wanna talk Evillious, there's gonna be lots of people here to do so. Among other things we have is:

Games to play with others, and places where you can listen to music, set up games, and share media with others. Movie nights, game nights, kaorake nights, and more!

A chat for otherkin who are interested in finding others from Evillious Chronicles, and getting to chat about kinstuff with only other otherkin!

Got fanart and fanwork? Go ahead and display them here.

There's multiple channels for Evillious Chronicles discussion: from the dirty, to the droll, to the deep discussion of what could come next in the series.

Need to talk about another series like Yuri on Ice, Hamilton, and more? We got channels to cover that as well! As well as a spoiler room so that you can avoid spoiler content while talking about it (Unless you want to spoil yourself, then dig in.)

Interested in roleplaying? There's a channel for that!

There's all sorts of fun roles to buy and pick up. Are you a Elphegort resident? Perhaps you are from Evil's Theater? Or... Are you trapped in the Black Box? The more you chat, the more of these cosmetic roles you can grab for yourself.

We have a few people in here that hang around often of note, such as quite obviously Chell from Evillious Shower Thoughts, Cardenist/Tobimisa the Youtube Song Subber, and admin Greek!

Also, you just get to meet other Evillious Chronicles fans and discuss the series, isn't it always fun to meet the other victims of Mothy?

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Is there anything else I should know before popping in?

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There's a chat for triggering content, when you join please go to the chat and look inside at the list pinned to the top to avoid discussing topics that might be triggering to some, if you do please talk about it in the trigger chat.

To discuss things such as politics, there is an optional controversial chat that you are free to give yourself.

When you first join not all chats will be open, many roles are self-toggleable, and you can simply add to yourself any role you want to unlock the associated chat. ​If you are uncomfortable giving yourself a role for any reason, feel free to message an admin with the role you want and we'll be happy to add it to you!​

This server will possibly have quite a few people, and the otherkin chat is self toggleable and open to all otherkin. For those who are sensitive of doubles please keep that in mind before giving yourself the otherkin role and proceeding into the chat. ​If you have a suggestion that could be used to ease this, feel free to suggest it to the admins! We'd love to have a great environment for everyone.

That goes as a rough standard, don't feel bothered about approaching the staff to suggest things!

We are considering making the chat hospitable in multiple languages, and at the moment are testing out Spanish translation and have a admin fluent in the language, so even if English isn't your strongest you are still free and welcome to visit!

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Please keep in mind that failure to abide by the rules, and causing trouble in chat, can lead to being kicked and banned depending on the offense. We are meant to be a warm and welcoming server, and we will deal with anyone breaking that.

Thank you for reading through this, and hopefully you'll decide to give us a try! We'd love to have you.

[mentalisill]

I had to go into my drafts to find smth a wrote lil while ago about KOSA

Breaking from containment to tell people who are worried about Kosa to stop spreading misinformation that causes people to panic

I have read over the bill and here what I can tell you that I haven't seen anyone say here:

The official bill is where you should be getting your information, not some tumblr/twitter post, or website that doesn't cite anything

Anything that gets passed is legal, even if it harms people in the long run it is legal even if there was an act passed before that prevents anything here, unless the previously mentioned bill is still active and running everything they are doing is legal (So, take that as you will)

Unless you educate yourself you are not allowed to be active in pushing against any cause. Educate yourselves instead of falling prey to and speaking misinformation)

it wont be the death of ao3

From this point forward, everything will be what I paraphrase from the official draft, a link to the bill will be provided at the end, along with my own opinion on KOSA. any notes I have will be in red

They want to hide away stuff that could provoke harmful ideas, such as pro-ED blogs, stuff that could cause children anxiety, drugs, violence (physical and sexual), financial decisions, and patterns the child may have that gets them too addicted to their devices

The bill will NOT affect your ability to post any of the aforementioned stuff, it will put in place a child filter that will be toggleable.

If a covered platform knows a person is a minor they will be required to include the following:

1. Limit the ability for others to communicate with the minor 2. Prevent other users from viewing the minor's personal data, restricting access to personal data 3. Limit features that would get the minor addicted to the covered platform/media 4. Controlling what the minor views in ether (a) Opting out of personalized recommendation systems that collect data on what you like (Think like Pinterest or tumble) or (b) limit the categories for these personalized recommendation systems 5. restrict the ability to track and locate the minor's location

The platform will provide an easily accessible way to delete accounts, personal data collected from and/or shared by the minor Or limit the time spent on the platform

They want parents to be involved, platforms should include parental controls that are at the ready and easy to use to best support their children and monitor what they see

Now, parental controls are nothing new, I have parental controls on my phone, and some of you guys have parental controls on your devices. KOSA will require platforms to have parental controls to help monitor children on their devices Which, can be used by parents to keep them viewing content to further any bigoted behavior. Obviously, that isn't helpful to anyone if they make it impossible for their children to be educated on basic human decency, especially in southern states where history classes are filled to the brim with racist and homophobic propaganda.

"(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The parental tools provided by a covered platform shall include—

(A) the ability to manage a minor’s privacy and account settings, including the safeguards and options established under subsection (a), in a manner that allows parents to—

(i) view the privacy and account settings; and

(ii) in the case of a user that the platform knows is a child, change and control the privacy and account settings;

(B) the ability to restrict purchases and financial transactions by the minor, where applicable; and

(C) the ability to view metrics of total time spent on the platform and restrict time spent on the covered platform by the minor."

the basic rundown is: Parents will be able to view and control privacy settings, restrict financial choices, and screentime Nowhere in here does it say parents can view messages, just that parents will be able to control whether the child's account is public or private. Obviously, this is just a draft, and things are bound to change again, but I doubt they'll be able to see messages

but also: stuff like this already exists, my sister had a parental control app on her phone where her texts would be sent to our mother, stuff like this is not new. it's been here, it's been easily accessible, it's been ready to use.

This isn't even half of the bill, and I encourage anyone who is worried to dig deeper and read the official document (You have to scroll pass all the crossed-out text to find the second draft)

Now, I don't like KOSA because it will make it a lot more difficult to find information for children under the care of conservative parents, especially for LGBTQ+ children, and y'know maybe we shouldn't?

All that I am asking here is that we don't spread misinformation about stuff cause this is like the third time I've repeated the same information to people

KOSA passing will literally be the death of AO3