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Really love the vibe of the first-person cutscenes/sections, feels like something straight out of an ENA animation.
What the fuck man?
#who writes instruction like that?!#(it wasn't actually hard to follow but i did have to write down the order)#enjoying the game so far :)#only played like 2 and a half hours but I may resume later just cause i'm invested now#its pretty inventory screen-heavy but i expected that#controls are pretty good for a horror game (clunky enough to add tension but not to the point of being obnoxious)#only real nitpick is that i wish you could peak through doors to know if an enemy is standing right next to it#i mean yeah i get it its a horror game it would probably break the tension#but having to run in and out of doors until an enemy is far enough away to shoot/evade can be mildly annoying at times#ramblings#signalis
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oh boy !! ! ! ! !!! ! thANK y0u all for the kind words on my last art posts. you all get it and i was/still am so happy about it
as promised, here's some close-ups of the comic for image quality's sake, and other screenshots i rescued from the community whiteboard (and something else)
first up another sketch of mystery gender-ambiguous being. (please send me more name ideas for them if you got one- i like to hear em! (reminder it's the side character that appeared for <10 seconds in AvM Ep. 30))
a few fav scenes
emotional support cwab
they weren't meant for this purpose exactly, but i do have countless "fluffy sticks" loose in my notes and homework sheets from the school years.
papery critter.
even when i wasn't confident in fur or feathers, they helped me practice posing and create some satisfying gradients/flowing poses. (im a sucker for good tail poses) (oh yay! i found a good pic...)
and finally, little sneak peak for you for reading so far ;3
i realized that whiteboardfox is pretty great for my working needs. simple and to the point and all. feels nice with the mouse and the tablet.
so i started hashing out a big project idea just to see if it holds up and
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it's a little bigger than i expected
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#--/ art#alan becker#animator vs animation#animation vs minecraft#Minecraft bed#ava the dark lord#ava the chosen one#me when the project that obviously wasn't going to be done in one night isn't done in one night: D: !?!?!?!?#kudos to whoever routed the Speedrun actual short because that one is so fun and clean and savvy#clever made up time-savers? includes orange's TNT shield-jump?? nonlethal dragon dispatch??? sweet#ithink you can see where i tried to head with this#turns out that turning up the complexity 98 notches higher makes things trickier to parse hmmmmmm?#in fact i might need some help with this one ;>v>' like a lot.#i had a bit of a story and route set up already i just... wanted to make sure everything was at least kinda there...................#we'll see#the pie joke. i was trying to categorize which foodstuffs chosen should be able to make on the fly. with their flame hands.#ex. cooking meats makes sense because flint and steel works for the same purpose (you can kill a burning animal to get cooked meats)#but baking bread or drying kelp seems way more involved or whatever -> needs a proper furnace environment#HOWEVER... i noticed that Steve can just summon pumpkin pies from his bare hands if he wants to without even a workbench. so. sure! lol.#this is scraping the surface of the minutiae i want to consider#(ALSO KUDOS to everyone who RUNS/works on all-advancements. of course. riding on your shoulders here)#final joke is that chosen didn't know how crazy this undertaking would be to learn#but dark is very literally programmable. so you could maybe just plug some TAS instructions into him and off he goes#or even more open-ended than that just give him the list of advancements + stipulations + the wiki and similar result#it'd get done but. i dont think he'd find that fun at all. prefers to write his own instructions if you see what i mean#i might be forgetting some context. it is rather late you see. please ask me questions about this! ;P#tco aa
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i'm getting towards the end of the skypeia arc, & i'd like to say just how much i adore the way the female strawhats have been treated.
just... every aspect of how the way their characters have been previously contextualized influences the story-line is treated with a masterful amount of consideration. we're given so many layers to both of them that enrich not only their characters specifically, but the arc, and the one piece world as a whole. without nami & robin having their specific skills, and their specific values, without those being built upon, the story would have come to a halt.
you could not have skypeia without nami & robin being who they are as individuals. not just because they never would've gotten there without nami, but also because the way these women think is itself foundational to the machinations of the arc as a whole.
to be totally upfront, if you think any other strawhats were more central to the skypeia arc than nami & robin were you are full-on fucking lying to yourself.
#obligatory disclaimer that i’m aware luffy is the protagonist & a lot of interesting stuff is explored w him. this isn’t abt him though.#part of me wonders if this is an aspect of why people will write off this arc sometimes tbh... like that & the political themes.#but yeah anyway i get why people say that for all there are 100% misogynistic tendencies in oda's writing & character design#it is very very hard to say that he as an individual is an ideological misogynist. like the level of care he puts into his female cast mem#-ers generally speaking & how he approaches what existing as a multi-dimensional individual would look like in their specific contexts is#like... in a lot of ways still something that is unprecedented across all forms of media.#but also not the point but anyone who says nami in particular doesnt get real fights/is unskilled um... no you're wrong read her fight in#alabasta & then all of skypeia.#like in alabasta she takes on arguably a stronger opponent than sanji when considering the structuring of BW. not only that but she does s#with a weapon she has never used before while actively reading the instruction manual. and she WINS. she wins based on sheer intellect &#the ability to utilize skills the audience already knows she has. the pre-existing basic fighting skills she's introduced with are elabora#-ed upon by incorporating her skill w navigation. same with the way her cunning is used in skypeia to cover her lack of sheer brute. &#the best part about it is she's fucking tough in a way that makes sense! she isn't strong/weak just for the sake of positioning her as such#it is thoughtful & it strengthens her as a character rather than just like giving the power-scaler types smth to mindlessly chew on.#like do i wish nami got to fight more & take a more active role in that regard even if i don't think she needs to be a fighter in the same#sense as the monster trio? yes absolutely. i'm guessing this is going to be smth that bothers me potentially even more with robin.#but that does not mean her fights are not masterfully written when she gets them or that she isn't tough as a bag of nails.#respect my darling woman or die.#skypeia#nico robin#nami#grey's one piece tag
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Man Fred is 100% a romantic. Him leaving a letter for qTubbo that ended abruptly with "why don't you ask me in person?" and then surprising him by being there when he turned around? Goddddddd. You cannot tell me Fred isn't the type of partner to leave a trail of rose petals to a romantic candlelit dinner setup...
Traditionally romantic Fred but it's because they are always insecure they aren't Feeling Right or Loving Right so they do lots of research on How To Be A Good Partner and end up doing these cheesy cliche gestures (it works perfectly, qTubbo lovessss it bc it makes him feel so special and Fred loves it bc it's a Guide on What To Do and he likes having that familiarity)
#the more i talk abt Fred the more i realize he's very autistic coded to me#but i dont have a ton of experience with writing autistic characters. so if i ever say smthing wrong or bad feel free to lmk !!!#idk to me Fred is just someone who likes having instructions to follow. hes got all this love inside him but he wants guidance on how to#show it and experience it#doodle.txt
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I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.
Because I bet it's a lot.
I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?
There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.
Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.
But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.
Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.
But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.
#and it's not like no people were doing translations so wonky translations were better than nothing#it's actual translators being fired for a subpar replacement#and anyone who keeps their job suddenly being responsible for cleaning up llm output rather than what they trained in#(which can take just as much time or longer than doing the translation by hand from scratch)#(if you want it done right anyway)#hell to this day i hear people complain about written translations of indigenous words and how they 'aren't english enough'#even though they're using the ipa and use a system white english people came up with in the first place#and you can easily look up the proper pronunciation and hear it spoken#but there's such a double-standard where it's expected that other languages cater to english/english speakers#but that grace and accommodation doesn't go the other way#and it's the failing of non-english speakers when an english translation is broken#you see it whenever monolingual english speakers travel to other countries and utterly refuse to learn the language#but if someone doesn't speak in unaccented (to them) english fluently in their home country the person 'isn't trying hard enough'#this is just the new version of that where non-english speakers are supposed to do more work and put up with subpar translations#even as a native english speaker/writer i get a (much) lesser version of this because i write with canadian spelling#and some people get pissed if their internet experience is disrupted by 'ou' instead of 'o' or '-re' instead of '-er'#because dialects and regional phrasing/spelling is a thing#human translators can (or should) be able to account for it but llms are not smart enough to do so#and that's not even getting into slang and how llms don't account for it#or how llms can put slurs into translations because it doesn't do nuance or context and doesn't know the language#if you ever complained about buying something from another country that came with machine-translated instructions#you should be pissed at companies cutting english-to-[language] staff in favour of glorified google translate#because the companies are effectively saying they're fine with non-native speakers getting a wonky/broken version
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hoho ok I finally refined the audio/timing on the rough draft. interest call… tomorrow maybe…
hey by sheer coincidence there are 13 open parts ain’t that. isn’t that
#I’ll dm everyone who said they’d be interested to see if they still are after seeing it!#kipspeak#project… とうほうPROJECT#not. entirely refined I still need to cut it up into pieces like a good old fashioned map audio call. and write instructions and things#there are only 13 so… if you don’t get in im sorry…!! Next time!!!!!!#im not going to choose by Artistic Ability it’s literally who expressed interest and semi-first come first serve#but I will be prioritizing people who have an animation program if it comes to that many applicants 😅
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All right, I’m going to try something new.
Send me one of these emojis and I’ll send you a random ask about your WIP!
✏️ -Pencil
📚-Books
💌 -Letter
✂️ -Scissors
📓-Notebook
🖊️ -Pen
The only thing I ask in return is for you to reblog the next writing excerpt you see on your dashboard.
It takes the same amount of time as pressing the like button and you don’t even need to use tags!
Let’s breathe some life back into the Writeblr community!
#you can also drop an emoji in the replies I don’t like writing long instructions lol#I will reblog every wip intro from each person who sends one#writeblr community#writeblr asks
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footnotes arent enough I need you to talk to me like im fucking Amelia Bedelia
#this isn’t about anything in particular btw. I just have to add a lot of memos when I’m doing things because some things are done a certain#way and it isn’t explained well in the instructions. like my mom has instructions on her baking recipes right#but when it says stuff like add dry ingredients to wet ingredients it also means you don’t dump it in one go you add it slowly by portion#this is probably why I find videos and demonstrations the most helpful when I learn something. like I almost always ask someone to show me#how they do it because there could be something they do that’s already second nature and wouldn’t really be considered in an explanation yk#I don’t think I’m an exception either. when the rice is done cooking I divide it into 4 quarters to bless it#but there are a million ways to divide rice and it makes me think that one persons way of doing it or not doing it all is just as valid#theres also technically no wrong way to divide rice afaik. this means either all ways of dividing rice is safe or valid until we find some#universally terrible way of dividing rice. until that happens nobody really thinks about specifying HOW you divide the rice#source: I have anxiety starting and doing things for the first time because I got way too many people yell at me NONONO WHAT ARE YOU DOING#THATS WRONG while I’m in the middle of doing the thing. I would rather have people think I’m either very stupid or overly specific#than go thru the panic inducing fear of ‘YOURE DOING THIS WRONG OMG WHY DIDNT YOU ASK AHEAD OF TIME THIS WILL BE FUCKED UP FOREVER’ 🧍#nothing wrong if you don’t give something a second thought because you’re so used to it. but I can and will ask about it and I don’t think I#really should feel bad about it if I don’t know enough to dispute it. idk#the other way around I try to be as specific as possible and word things in a way that people who might not get where I’m coming from will#understand. but the problem with that is my explanations tend to be lengthy and I lose them either way 🗿#Im. trying to work on that using examples and stuff because they seem to work the best#but if I could write everything down on a word doc and beam it into your melon that would save both of us time and embarassment#im rambling the short version is I have adhd#yapping
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I HATE THIS CROCHET PATTERN
#LIKE HOW ARE YOU [AUTHOR] THE FUCKING EDITOR OF THE BOOKAZINE AND STILL END UP WRITING THE MOST CONFUSING PATTERN EVER#just racked my fucking brain for 40 minutes trying to do the math over 3 rows#it just fucking hit me they mean 2 different amnt of sts at the end of the instructions instead of the total.#who fucking does that.#🍇
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uuuuuhhh no reason just wanna see the robot get preggers because nobody is really taking advantage of the narrative consequences of the robots of ULTRAKILL having fleshy bits inside them (in my humble opinion hahahaha...hahaha....hah....). Anywhosen also a sucker for general Bad End especially when it involves a psycho-sexual (breeding) binding to a greater entity but also I wanna see the murder-robot get knocked up. And the galaxy brain bit of this is instead of calming down they just get Worse.
YEAH NO ONE REALLY TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THAT. and well i mostly assumed a very small percentage of people actually want to breed the robots like that which is why.
also i don't think this as a bad end, but a bad path that can lead to some other.. inch resting things (my stupid ass is trying to craft a plot with horror and drama from this path and how it'd change the story slightly despite knowing I will never get around to writing it in fic form except tiny excerpt ideas and art)
also i have so much to say abt the 'it doesn't calm down it just gets worse' bc its So true
#kicking my legs. it sooo genuinely gets worse i think it believes its actually in “love” with hell. and maybe it is.#gets worse and loses itself more and more. abandon any last trace of identity that had never been regarded anyway by anyone#its easy to let something guide you and instruct you in nearly everything if it feels too painfully good? and why spend more power thinking#altho for the. plot i was conducting in my head it was msotly involving gabriel and the primes bc of an idea my friend gave me which was#that if this occurred before v1 reached the prime sanctums it could have been guided or instructed to go to the sanctums but at the time#it does its currently carrying a child and because of that both the primes and v1 itself are spared because. i dont know if i think#the kings would fight a pregnant person . i at least think sisyphus Wouldnt because wheres the fun in an opponent who appears to already#be disadvantaged. (even if it can fare just fine.)#if any friendships were able to be made (cough . i like sisyphus qnd v1 platonic and romantic) itd be kind of. sad from an outside perspect#ve to watch it deteriorate into being less of its own entity and becoming slowly just another extension of hell. even in fighting it shows.#i wish i could explain it all better#and sorry if this ask is late to be answered i was writing my rwsponse at a con LMAOOO#.txt#ask#i want to write i have no timeee no energyyy but hear me out there is potential for crazy wackjob shit#ive decided also not to kill gabriel i think i should do somethign fucked up with him and his inexperience in relationshios#i forgot who suggested he should get so desperate that he begs for hell to take him as well. (which i cant decide if it would or wouldnt bc#its kind of really funny and mean if it#says no)
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#random personal stuff#personal whining ahead feel free to ignore#I have come to a conclusion#the next time I get another printed email with written instructions shoved at me#I am going to tell this man point-blank to forward me the original email with any additional information#and politely insist that these communications happen through email not paper#I don't think that's unreasonable#it is better for record-keeping that all of these communications take place through email#it's less wasteful of paper#I am not asking for complex monumental effort or even any extra effort at all#it is 2024 we have been using email at work for decades and surely emailing someone is not an impossible task#actually probably less time-consuming than printing emails and writing on them#if he can communicate through email with the professors making the requests and with our boss who is out this week he can email me too#and if he gets huffy about it and acts like I'm being unreasonable like he did last time I asked for a change#(i.e. please turn down your volume)#then that's on him#maybe I'm allowed to have reasonable expectations in this office too#(as I was typing this he shoved into my mailbox a printout of a record of a book he wants me to delete or something *sigh*)#(I'll build up to that but for now I'm starting with standing my ground on emails about book orders)
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sometimes, as part of my tutoring work, i read papers written by graduating seniors at top universities, and i feel a sense of despair
#the writing instruction students receive seems to be so insufficient!!#the students who are already good at writing or have already had good instruction in writing get better in college#but i am not convinced that the average student who enters college a bit underprepared or uncomfortable with writing#shows the kinds of gains you would expect/hope for#it's not just the prose either! like i do think it's actually fine in most fields to write prose that is just serviceable#what worries me is like#the inability to organize + synthesize information into a reasonably coherent argument someone reading your prose can follow
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Actually people can enjoy whatever ship they like and want. Antis just need to deal with this fact. And ask nicely for things to be tagged if they are not.
Ew boooooo tomato tomato tomato
#started writing a serious answer then i realized oh wait#this is a proshitter who likes creepy ships who interacted when it says proshitters dni#ive been thinking of turning off anon asks for a while#and this is the nail in the coffin LMAO#its basic instruction#ofc my post condemning lack of media literacy would#piss off someone who couldnt read a basic dni
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my brain feels like mush
#i just wanted to spend the day writing before my shift but i'm second guessing everything and can't commit to a single fic#like i want to finish grieving but i'm in such a bad headspace about it#but i also feel bad working on anything else when that should be my priority since it's already published 4/5 chaps#and i don't want to keep the five people who actually care about it waiting#and then i have one chapter of a new fic ready to publish but i don't want to start that either#and then sugar daddy!ice is like 1/2 finished for ch 1 but . i can't find the energy to work on it#and to top it all off i'm running an orientation at work today#which i've never done and have gotten no instruction for#and i have a terrible feeling that the people who were supposed to do things to get it ready for me absolutely dropped the ball#AND it's presidents day so all of HR is ooo so . pretty positive i can't even do half of what i need to do with these newhires#so i woke up at 3am stressing about that#SEE!!! MUSH BRAIN!!#katie text
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barkbarkbark Riichi Book I's writing is like screeching chalkboard to my game designer's, translator's, and writer's ears all at once
it's got great concepts buried in there but it's in like the most anti-comprehension packaging conceivable
#what the hell is wrong with you#folks like you are the BANE of game designers everywhere#and game PLAYERS for that matter#THIS is the best strategy reference the English speaking world's got?#baddabingbaddaboom ladies and gentlemen#im about to make bank writing the West's first riichi primer that actually meets the standards of the modern analogue game industry#(which to be honest is abysmal right now the industry's in an insane 'text free' fad right now where every word is replaced with a symbol)#alright then im gonna set the new standard then#imma bout to do for Riichi Mahjong what i did for Ryuutama Traversées 🫸🤛#and for all the dudes at unpub who know how to design incredible games but dont know how to write instructions#alright sorry I'll calm down#but seriously i am gonna start throwing together an actually quality-controlled guide#cause every english resource ive found so far has been like this... inconsistent and full of holes and omissions in explanations#chiba talks about the game's strategic immaturity in the west... well it's got an even bigger gap of educational immaturity#anyways.... I'll toss a bit of effort that way#we'll see how far i take it#I'll either make a few loose articles or a fully fledged book. no in between#god i dont have the energy to make another book when i dont even know if Traversées is ever gonna see the light of day#100% complete full color layout and everything. publishing limbo is real and it's every bit as stupid and unnecessary as you think.#(my case is much simpler than most though cause im only working with two small publishers rather than a big corp)#but still. damn#anyways im so tempted to throw some of my rulebook magic at riichi while it's got my interest#not like i need to write a strategy tome the game just needs a professional quality introduction#don't make me do it i absolutely will do it#i did it for ryuutama when no one wanted to give a decent publication-quality localization for the supplements#and by garriot i will do it for riichi mahjong too if no one gives me a quality guide. i aint afraid of a global high strategy game#<- manic#(im not manic im just extremely restless having not been able to do any solid design work in a while and this book is getting me riled up)#cause it's like “i could write such a more coherent rulebook and HAVE written a more coherent rulebook. so why don't i do it again?”#the Disease is why. but maybe I'll give it a shot anyways if i get a second wind (i guess im otakaze right now harharharhar)
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i have been lurking around online help forums answering questions for probably at least 15 years and to this day it still drives me absolutely bananas when people essentially just post "HELP! I HAVE A PROBLEM" and then refuse to provide any information or context as if you are some sort of mind-reading savant capable of inducing all the information required on the broadest problem imaginable
#motivated by someone who posted about how they cant figure out X thing#where the thing in question is that they were trying to install code they found online#but they did not say what they were trying to add or what it was or where they got#or even whether it was something that was a part of something they were writing or just a couple lines#and of course after replies from op i see oh you're installing a third-party add-on#and that add-on literally has installation instructions#so i have absolutely no clue why they are posting to a DIFFERENT website. literally asking for quote 'explain step by step'#WHEN THEY DONT SAY WHAT THEY'RE DOING#AND WHAT THEYRE DOING#ALREADY HAS STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS#the issue that im taking isnt that this person struggled to understand how to do something. thats fine. thats why im here#it just frustrates me when people dont try to articulate what the issue is#you dont need to be RIGHT but i do need to know 1) what are you trying to do 2) what have you done to achieve (i.e. post your damn code/ref#3) what is going wrong and then just an optional 4 of context#but 1 2 3 are very important otherwise it's just playing 20 questions#and this is all assuming we've gotten past the stuff like 'is the program actually set up how you claim it is set up'#because a lot of times the problem is they misunderstood a setting which is making everything else wrong#but that's the kind of thing i can infer based having accurate information
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