#yay fun evening i guess

[localbabygirl]

... stupid vent post

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy

[lenievi]

First TOS thingie written this year \o/ It was written as mckirk.

prompt: signal

Could be longer, but I really wanted to make it only one hundred words.

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The signal isn’t coming.

Jim grips the fabric of his pants. “Come on, Bones.”

The planet visible on the viewscreen is blue like home. Even now, Jim feels the wave of longing, but it’s quickly drowned by dread and worry.

“Two minutes to the eruption,” Spock says, and Jim holds himself back from snapping.

McCoy’s still on the surface! Doesn’t Spock care?

Uhura’s urgent calls for “Doctor McCoy” are the only sound on the bridge.

“One minute.”

Jim stands, fists clenched, seeing nothing but blue.

A noise in the intercom. “Enterprise?” McCoy. “Three to beam up.”

Jim exhales in relief.

[yours-the-author]

Hey, so...

Does anyone remember this post I made recently?

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I made some art for it...

If you wanna see it...

Here it is:

I'M SO MAD AT MYSELF IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SURVIVING THE MANSION BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL AFTER I FINISHED IT AAAGGH

...Aside from that little oopsie, though, I'm actually really proud of how the logo came out? I based the font off a style called "Micro 5 Charted". Thank goodness I was using graph paper!

I'm not sure if that Kanji is correct; Google Translate doesn't seem to like the word "oni" or "stick", especially together, so I spelled out the Romanji in the English box and then tried to copy the characters Google offered me as closely as possible. I think I'd be more surprised if I got the Kanji correct, honestly.

Henry Stickmin title screens usually have two different fonts for the verb and the noun, and I thought about trying to make "Mansion" look like an actual house, but that made my brain hurt to much to conceptualize, so I stuck with different colored fonts. Hmm, that clock sure is there. I wonder what it means gets hit by a bus

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Anyway, here's some theoretical scenarios of what the main gameplay would look like! This one stars General Hubert Galeforce and some other guy:

Option 1: Shoot

Result: The monster hears you move as soon as you pull your gun from its holster. No time to defend yourself.

FAILURE (DiE!)

Option 2: Backup

Result: Your radio refuses to work, even though it was just fine before you entered the mansion. The monster waits until you've realized this, then goes for your throat.

FAILURE (No one will hear your screams...)

Option 3: Time Out

Result: The monster does not hear you and goes into a separate room, out of sight and out of mind. Galeforce survives... for now. But what was that thing...?

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I don't know how feasible it would be, but I imagine this would be a cross between typical RPG Maker-styled games (pixels, speech boxes with pictures of the characters, moving around a set floor plan, puzzle solving, etc) and typical Henry Stickmin-styled game play (cutscenes, choices, possible interactivity [grabbing items/bios], the occasional quick time event, etc) (voice acting would be a stretch). Most of the gameplay, like exploring the mansion, puzzle solving, and running/fighting the monster, would be RPG style, and then occasionally switch into a cutscene that requires you to make a choice; usually with just one correct answer but possibly others that could result in diverging dialogue/interaction/paths/endings? Something to think about.

Anyway, Galeforce! Poor man has no idea what he almost walked into, haha. I experimented with perspective and limb placement here, which was exhausting but also a lot of fun! Dynamics are hard with stick figures, but considering that they're they only character medium I've ever been decent at, I made it work.

And the Oni... I tried to give it some sort of anatomy, but quickly realized that I do not have the skills to pay those bills. I opted for a more of a shadowy figure looking thing with a big smile instead (you can see some of the lines where I tried to make it have arms, I think). I opted for Ao Oni's purple-y blue color scheme verses HetaOni's gray alien look. Back in the day of fan made Ao Oni games, people would usually try to put their own unique spin on the Oni sprite, with HetaOni's being the most unique I ever saw (keep in mind, it was one of the few designs I ever saw, so there might be cooler ones out there, who knows). In theory, a game called Sutikku Oni would use a stick figure shaped monster, but with my current art skills, that would just look like a normal stick person with a big head (look! Geoffrey Plumb's cousin!). I think the less we see, the better; all good horror games know when to leave things to the imagination!

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I also made a second one, featuring my boy Dave Panpa!

...Dave, I'm so sorry... *MAKES HIM PEEP THE HORROR*

Option 1: Call for Help

Result: You call for help...

FAILURE (...but nobody came.)

Option 2: Run

Result: You tense your muscles in preparation to run. The monster is faster.

FAILURE (YoU... wOn'T... eScApE...!)

Option 3: Pretend to be a Piano

Result: Frozen with fear in front of the piano, it's all you can do to hope the monster thinks you're also a piano (a sopping wet piano, but still). It's deadly quiet. You can hardly breathe, and you're afraid to. The monster stares at you for an uncomfortably long time, before walking away, out of sight and out of mind. You stay still a little longer before collapsing to the ground. Dave Panpa survives... for now. How on Earth did that work? Or... did that thing let you live out of pity...?

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UGH the piano! Pianos are so hard to draw! Luckily, I had an almost head on reference that I was able to use for the first picture. For the above view shot, I had to do some wild guessing. The red stuff near Dave's head in the second picture is the red stuff he was referring to. Is it blood? Paint? Something else? Who knows! But as we all know, any self respecting Ao Oni fan game needs a piano puzzle!

I imagine Dave was dragged along for the ride when the Toppats decided to find the treasure of the mansion (or something to that degree), fully intending to leave him there to die if there was, in fact, a monster inside. Poor Dave... Maybe there could be an ending where amends are made? Or maybe not...

I mostly put the smile on the monster's shadow as a means of showing that, indeed, it is the monster, but now I'm wondering if the monster's mouth glows or something? Hot fires of Hell, delivered right to you! Can you beat the heat?

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Thank you all for coming to my fixation ramble that absolutely no one else except me finds interesting! Any thoughts before you go?

(A cricket chirps, then leaves because it's in the wrong conference room)

...Yeah, I figured.

[nenoname]

personally i can't believe that people saw the 'i'm attracted to logic and preparation' and can still think of ford as anything but aroace.

i really gotta make that aroace ford compilation post one day...

[cerbreus]

Another day I should have just outright avoided the news....

[dzozef]

ive decided that my newest hobby is mixology this is who i am now

[jackass-jones]

RE danganronpa not having the best writing I was talking to a friend the other day about v3 about how it sucks that they set up Kaede to be the protagonist but then killed her off because while yes, Shuichi is a very good protagonist and he’s the only one that really gets interesting character development, Kaede could have so easily been an insanely interesting protagonist if she got to live because she has plenty of room to grow since she’s very clearly scared shitless and is deeply insecure about her ability to motivate and lead the group, but she smiles through it and lies about her feelings so much that the player doesn’t even know about her creating an elaborate murder scheme. And I realized that the way to keep her as a protagonist is for there to be a way that the first trial ends and someone else is found to be the killer (for example it could be Tsumugi if she weren’t the mastermind, or maybe someone else was in the library and killed Rantaro) and they get executed and thats that. Then at the end of the chapter we get a scene where Kaede is alone in her room and sighs in relief as it’s revealed that she hatched an elaborate plan to kill the mastermind but she wasn’t found guilty, either because she wasn’t the actual killer or because she was being protected by the mastermind. And so we the player have to proceed with the new knowledge that Kaede not only wanted to kill someone, she actually went through with a whole plan to kill someone and we didn’t even know about it and neither did any of the characters. And Kaede is on edge because on one hand she has to live with the fact that she was perfectly okay becoming a killer and that she failed to kill the mastermind so the game is going to continue and someone else was unlucky and got executed instead of her,but on the other hand she’s relieved that she wasn’t the one who died and that she was given another chance to find the true mastermind and no one has to know what she did. And as the game progresses it gets more and more stressful for her because she tries to keep up the positive energy but she’s living with this massive secret and she can’t let anyone find out about what she did and she finds herself still wanting to kill the mastermind so we the player don’t know how much we can trust Kaede anymore since she’s lying to everyone including us and she can very well kill again if she wants to

[risingsunresistance]

logged back in to check on the tree rework and ngl i actually really like the final product. only thing i hate is that mining speed boost is locked behind precision mining and that ability is so fucking annoying JFHJKG im basically wasting a token to get to it bc i dont like having particles pop up in my face so i just disable it... could go around and get it from the top but that wastes even more tokens bc my tree isnt going that way at all

the change to gemstone and mithril powder costs means that i dont have enough gemstone powder to complete my tree anymore ;-; back to the grind i guess

somewhere along the way i gained a spare 5m mithril powder

[dandyshucks]

my brethren i am going to be home alone for four days. heaven on earth. they say life is cruel, so how come i am winning so joyously ??

it is time to CLEAN and MAKE ART ‼️‼️‼️

[randompajamaalt]

here’s my little guide to predicting the weather without having to use proper gear or look on the news/app/online/etc!

I’ve always wanted to have easy little ways to tell the weather, so I spent the past few hours doing some research and came up with a fun little guide to predict the weather. Most of this doesn’t bring a guarantee, but it’s fun to try if you’re able to get out for a bit. Have fun!

Crickets- count how many times a cricket chirps in 14 seconds, add 40, and that’s the temperature in Fahrenheit. do this multiple times to get an average

Red sky- in the morning means bad weather is on the way. in the evening means it’s passed.

Ring around the moon- yes: rain/heat. no: frost/cold.

Pine cones- open: good weather. closed: bad weather.

Dandelions- they close their petals at night. if their petals don’t open back up in the morning, it’ll probably rain.

Smells- things smell stronger when there’s high humidity. Compost smells are also important, it means a plant is emitting waste. Storm is coming.

Cloud height- low clouds mean weather is closer. High clouds mean it’s farther away.

Clouds- big towering fluffy looking clouds can collect up and bring storms.

Ants- if ant mounds are suddenly higher, it means a storm could be coming.

Birds- birds flying low or birds getting quiet can indicate storms. 

Birds 2- if birds eat during a storm that means it’ll be a long one. If they wait until it’s done that means it was a quick storm.

Bugs- bees and butterflies head home before a storm. If there’s less of them, a storm could be coming.

Cows- if cows are huddled together and lying down that means a rainstorm could be coming.

Hair- frizzy hair can indicate high humidity and then tain.

Times of day- afternoons are usually when the weather gets the most crazy.

Days- Whatever happened the day before is likely to happen again today, but not guaranteed. Look for similar patterns, sudden changes, or lack of changes to predict.

Wind- if the wind suddenly is moving in a different direction than usual, or the clouds are, then change is here and the weather might be wonky. Observe the average wind direction of your area and take account of when it shifts or changes. You can drop sand/dirt or leaves to see what direction the wind is blowing. Or you can just see where your hair/scarf is pointing. 

Leaves- oak and maple leaves curl with high humidity, so watch for that.

Dew- dew on grass in the morning means the weather will be good, but if there’s no dew, bad weather can be expected

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Full Tech Day One pic today from kiko laureano (denizen of skid row / ensemble) & video (that's four seconds of "ya never know" playing over the static image) from & ft. marcia milgrom dodge (director / choreographer) double captioning "there might be puppets in this musical ;)" & "Well Shake my hand! Come see LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS @guthrietheater featuring @actually_will_roland's hand!"

[the-glorious-evolution-fanart]

Hi! How are you doing? Quick question, what kind of music Viktor would listen to?

Hello!

An example of what Viktor would listen to: Delta Heavy - Ghost ( https://youtu.be/b4taIpALfAo ) - The way I write the entire Zaun area and his story is referencing the technology of the 90s. That's why you'll see CRT monitors, cruder robots, phone booths and so on in Becoming the Herald comic, instead of sleek futuristic Apple-like tech or pure steampunk stuff.

Bring Me The Horizon - Avalanche ( https://youtu.be/UNaYpBpRJOY) - Basically almost everything from BMTH. You'll know when you hear a song he wouldn't listen to. Viktor would be off-emo, not openly participating in the subculture but being one truly at heart, and wearing only some stuff out of that fashion.

Dubsidia - Kill humans ( https://youtu.be/sQ-Eu_ZZ1UQ ) - The name is not to be taken seriously - it's an edgy name and not how I write Viktor viewing others or humanity. This is 2012. era dubstep, things you'd associate with Zaunite music scene, just like it could be said that Zaunites listen to Metal (remember Pentakill was popular in Zaun in original lore).

For additional music, check out Celldweller, Pendulum, Space Laces, Axel Boy, even Dizzee Rascal; genres of DnB, dubstep, techno, electro, stuff like hardstyle shuffle, cybergoth-associated music.

Music like this can be asynchronous with the 90s tech but it doesn't matter, since this is a created fictional universe. Energetic music with a lot of artificial sound is what Viktor would be about, partly influenced by wider Zaunite popculture, and partly by the emo subculture. A bit of traditional Zaunite music would slip through as well, but that's for another time.

[bbq-potato-chip]

team the art is not arting today peace out

[strangecowplant]

ppl rly out here putting nintendo conversions under paywall