Giraki's Gazette

Giraki #6653 from Aywas I created this Tumblr years ago for no reason. Aywas Downtime 2013 gave me a reason to use it. Don't expect much here other than Aywas, quotes, and random pics from my life.

[captainsamerica]

Bonus:

[novilar-blog]

[novilar-blog]

Social Media Contest

Get excited! A week from today (on September 16th), Novilar will be in Open Beta. To celebrate these last few days of the Closed Beta bug-smashing frenzy, we’re holding a contest on social media.

How to Enter: 

Simply reblog this or one of the other Open Beta posts, which can be found here or here. Each reblog counts as one entry. (Likes do not apply.) You can also enter by sharing the post on Facebook here!

Prizes:

Two randomly selected winners (one from Tumblr and Facebook each) will be able to choose their own user ID number (available low ID numbers are 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 14-25). You will also be able to get into Novilar on Monday, one week before everyone else!

Contest ends Monday, September 12th, and winners will be drawn using a random number generator. 

[rileyspeaks-blog]

Posting one last time to say my entire lair is up for free breeding (Any coin, any items, anything goes) You can either send a request or message me if you have any questions~ Uze(#64449) (I can also breed any of my pets together and have the egg(s) transferred to you) If you need any PSD’s of my pets please let me know!

http://www.aywas.com/lair/group/64449/unsorted/

[giraki]

Bummed to see I missed this, but hopefully I’ll catch the next time if you do it again!

[aywasconfessions]

Let me ask your opinion. 

If you had made very public mistake in something would you rather have someone

a.) ignore it (though it is likely that they would cringe every time they see it/ more people would continue to notice)

b.) have someone quietly tell you

c.) have someone tell you anonymously (because the internet makes all things possible, right?)

d.) other

I recently realized that I was being hypocritical about this question, you see. I would rather have someone quietly tell me, but I always ignore it (because I’m trying to be polite) and repeatedly cringe when I see other peoples errors.

If you want an example, think of it like a gross spelling mistake on something that will be read again and again or having spinach in your teeth. 

[giraki]

You know, I guess it always depends on the situation. I don’t mind someone politely pointing something out publicly most of the time, but feel like it’s never wrong to tell someone quietly. I too usually just cringe and proceed to not say anything, and, in fact, found myself doing so last night while reading through the daily news. If it was my friend, I would tell them, but have a harder time telling people that I don’t know corrections at the risk of coming across as judgemental. In the end, it’s easier for me to let things go because I realize some people genuinely won’t care about correcting an error, and I don’t know everyone well enough to decipher who’s who!

[kilianexperience]

satisfaction.jpg chiru melo will be 100% free to breed but restricted to breedings that dont need psds since he doesnt have one and i dont want to be killed by breeding artists :p

[giraki]

Just so you know, my Reve on those lines was Gold.

[zephouria]

Just a Heads Up

There’s been another death in my family, from cancer this time, and the aftermath is causing a lot of stress - people never seem to do the decent thing when there’s a funeral to plan and there are kids caught in the middle and accusations being flung, and just - a lot of stress. I don’t know how much it will affect *me* compared to others in the family, but I mean to try to still crank out as much of my IOU’s as I can. That said - I might have to go AWOL for a couple days here or there for funeral travelling or helping family/the kids.

Please, guys, I could do with encouragement - I’ve been to far too many funerals lately :( 

Finished a GCC just as I got the news, so here, have a royal Cavishi?

Crowns are a Pain in the Ass to draw, just sayin’. XD

[giraki]

I’m sorry for your loss! Take care over the next few weeks <3

[chaosazeroth]

Random talking ((which may or may not come off harsher that intended))

Okay so under the line ((apparently where is my cut)) I tackle some Aywas related things that have been bothering me and seem to be bothering some other users too. Purely conversational and my feelings about some of it. Also some joking/exaggeration. Hopefully people can tell where I’m ribbing things If not I’m really sorry, I’m not trying to be an asshole I’m trying to make light of some things that are bothering me and look to only be getting worse if anything.

Okay now that we’re here…

Real people make your babies. Real people. That means don’t be a douche about it. Also means they aren’t perfect, they can make mistakes. Still don’t be a douche about it. HOWEVER I fail to see how talking about offspring constructively is bad either. IDK, I guess I’m naive. No idea.

IDK what’s going on but breedings are getting slower and slower. I know real people do them and upload them, but it seems like breeding times are getting longer and longer. Nothing can be done I guess.

Now don’t get me wrong, I have mad respect for the artist((s)) but I don’t think there are enough sometimes IMHO. That leads me to…

HBC though, omfg this is the most personal thing right here to me. I was under the impression the times would be less after they cut the baby # not more. They don’t even sell them anymore after coming out with the shiny USD shop item to add an extra baby.I’m not sure why the site is so convinced it’s not a long wait time on them, but it is. My HBC breed is almost to the actual gestation time of a real live baby. x3 Honestly only miffed about 2 things, the impression being given nerfing would help the queues and the fact the site doesn’t see anything wrong with the HBC times. It’s 1 baby unless the user shells out $20 for the add on, the site doesn’t even do married pair babies. It’s not like they’re much cheaper than a BC too and you have a base 50/50 shot of 2 babies. And Greater Fert Potions aren’t even that bad, not a lot of BP really and much cheaper for sure than the holiday version.

Actually I wonder how much that contributed to the current BC wait tbh. Unless you are going for GEP, which is less than a month wait or so for those to come back.

Also glad we’re working on adventure and slashbot stuff but to the point I’m a bit skeptical after all the times it started and was dropped so yeah…Believe when I see.

Also Iced Teo and Enchanted Nets anyone? I wish they’d at least tell us what the net was supposed to do so I’d know if I’ve held onto it for any real reason. x3

[giraki]

So, I got a Holiday Breeding Pendant out of an Elaborate Stocking in 2011. It’s been a running joke among me and my friends since then that I could get pregnant the day I submit my HBP and have a 3-6 month old HUMAN BABY before my pixels manage the same thing. I’m not trying to belittle your rant.. just saying this isn’t something new. Some of us have dealt with these wait times for a very long time. My longest waiting Holiday Breeding is from December 20th; not too long of a wait so far.

[aywasconfessions]

Making custom pets/Breeding

Can someone please explain these two features of the site to me? I’ve never tried uploading a custom pet before and have only a few simple breedings with site pets. It’s all just so confusing @-@ 

Whenever I try to upload a custom pet, I got messages like “xxx is not a valid file”. Or the page just freezes for some reason while the rest of the site loads just fine. All I did was download the PSD onto my laptop and upload it with the correct custom maker…?

How does the pet designs forum work? What are colorists anyway? How does silver species work? Where do I find someone to do edits? 

Do all breedings need the parents’ PSD attached? Or is it just certain breeding coins? I’ve only bred site pets before. Does that mean I can’t breed the pets I don’t have their PSD? 

I’ve read through all those KB articles and guides on the site, but I still don’t get how it works. Sorry if I’m being ignorant and asking so many questions, and I don’t really want to ask openly because I would seem like such a noob. XD

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

[giraki]

If you want to contact me at 6653 I can help walk you through any questions you might have.

[star-stella]

PWYW Colouring

Good morning, aytag!

I want to practice my colouring and procrastinate on studying so I’m offering a couple of PWYW (1gp min please :>) colouring slots!

Please reblog this post with a picture of the base, a prompt, and colour suggestions, and I’ll pick 2 or 3 to work on this weekend :D

I’ll edit this post once I’ve picked which ones I’m doing!

[giraki]

Why was I too busy this weekend to see this?! I have a ton of bases linked to on my profile- http://www.aywas.com/up/view/6653/

If you’re interested in coloring, feel free to PM me and we can work something out ^.^

[themermaidslagoon]

hey aytag, I have an odd question.

Is it possible to change/add things about a SBC baby if you’re gonna upload it with silver crumbs? And not the sketch pen. Was a bit curious and don’t know if anyone can answer this. xD I kind of assume so but I dunno…

(also gonna post this on the forums ‘coz I’m curious)

?

[giraki]

I'm pretty sure you can change anything you want about it if you're uploading with silver crumbs as you're really just overlaying a crumb design over the sketch instead of founding the species.

It might be better to run it by staff first as I don’t think they would want you to try and circumvent the current founding rules by utilizing the sketch for crumbs and then trying to found a species that has many changes based on the crumbs you submitted.

Hope this makes sense!

[dappled-dunhoof]

So I’m thinking about implementing dominant and recessive alleles into Microcosm as the main system for determining what traits a baby gets from their parents. This would apply to whether or not markings or line edits are visible (or are carried) and maybe to color values for markings and base colors but I don’t know about that yet, I’m still deciding how I want to handle colors. Plus if I base some stuff on genetics that leaves the door open for me to mess around with all sorts of mechanics like codominance and double recessive genes and stuff.

So, if you were playing a virtual pet sim, would you be down for having a dominant and recessive allele system or would you rather it have a more traditional marking inheritance system where there’s a set percentage of how likely it is for the marking to pass?

Also on a kind of related note, would you be interested in having a color wheel system or having several base colors with dilution genes that make them lighter or darker or something?

[giraki]

I like the idea of a dominant and recessive allele system more than a traditional marking inheritance system.

I like the idea of several base colors with genes that impact hue/saturation/value (whatever you decide). I haven’t seen this concept yet, but I can see it working really well especially depending on what you have control over in pet creation.

[giraki]

Giraki's Giveaways

Hosting a giveaway. Today only. Enter if you like free stuff :)

[quarter-ghost-deactivated201706]

:(

[giraki]

Hahaha, if this is from what I think it is... I even go in every so often and change prompts/species in case it makes it more attractive to pick up. Now that there are more expensive design tickets, I am not sure if some of the artists I was hoping for will ever pick one up.

[aywasconfessions]

I’m minorly (okay fine, majorly) confused about the whole GCC Deal + Faux thing??

Like…the GCC deal is for one (1) edited design, sure yes, got it, and you even get the rights, but does that mean that people who get edited fauxes out of the GCC deal can color up four more and turn them in to the Faux Box to get a Fox in the Box?

I’m just curious, since there’s no way to get an OOAK faux except via breeding ^^“

[giraki]

Although the GCC thing has been addressed, not sure if this has: You also have a chance at getting a OOAK Faux out of a Mystery Egg as far as I know, and users with the Future Custom Feature also had slots for OOAKs.

[houndpets]

ok. i’m gonna make an honest post and i’m gonna do it from my own tumblr instead of ac and we’ll see if anyone cares about it. because this is stuff that’s really sitting heavy on me and i don’t think i can just keep playing this game with all this shit.

it feels like there’s so much crap staff just ignores, and then litwick comes along and acts like a toddler and then they pay attention??? and it makes me wonder if i should just act that way and maybe they’d care suddenly about all the things they’ve been ignoring?? maybe that’s the only way to get their attention?? 

like, how is it ok to ignore slashbots for years???? should i start a tantrum about that if i want anyone to care? i’m honestly not gonna even bring up all the other things on my mind because i just want THAT ONE THING ADDRESSED, FINALLY, if we could get a fucking answer on that one thing. i’d maybe be happy. 

but the point is i feel like now the only way for staff to care is if you throw a shitstorm and insult them. because otherwise they’re happy to just let the site fall apart and let people suffer and not let anyone know wtf is going on unless you’re buddy-buddies with a staff member and maybe can glean some information.

[teilchen]

Thumbs up for this. If it takes someone to throw a hissyfit to get some answers, maybe they (staff) don’t deserve any better…

I miss slashbot events. Right now we only have Valentine, Easter, Halloween and Christmas, no other events. We haven’t had a new raw pet in ages. We had no Scavenger Hunt, for me the biggest and best event there is on Aywas and my personal reason to keep playing.

I’m sure I forgot lots of other things that don’t work right now. It really upsets me that we get a bunch of new edited pets every month for the USD Jeweled Crystals but don’t get a raw pet every 2 months… Feels to me like they only care about USD anymore. :(

[rareaxolotl]

“Fun” fact: Fauna Day still isn’t finished. People who contributed have not been paid. Items weren’t added to the Trash Shop, Advent, main shops, Fauna Fetch Sticks Palooza whatever its called. A new shop wasn’t opened. Dozens of fauna haven’t been released. I am purposely not remembering the year it technically started just so I feel a tiny bit better about it dragging on for so damn long.

As bad as it would be to have nothing done its frustrating beyond words to half it half done. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do exactly. None of the Slashbot account titles fit even remotely, only Eri has access to the PM with all the proof, and I am not screenshotting what, 1-2 years worth of PMs. And of course Slashbot related PMs are being ignored! I do not fault Eri for that given how many PMs she must receive a day, but this isn’t a slot normal case :/ My event was never finished!

I’m nearing the Handheld World from referrals and I want so badly to do a fundraising event for the flying foxes in Australia. Its all I can do to help them. But I don’t know why I let myself plan things and get excited. Its never going to happen. That referral prize is worthless.

I don’t blame Eri at all because its not her fault she got buried under an avalanche of things with no help but this is ridiculous. Events were booked solid for years. What happened?! The longer it takes the worse the backlog becomes and the more years it will take to catch up.

[giraki]

Another “fun” fact, we’re still waiting on item changes to add Drinking Game points to the Blossoming Friendship event alcohols.

[skinstealer]

welp, my eggnogs have been under review for a couple weeks now so im just gonna post what i submitted, if they end up needing changes then so be it! this was my first breeding list, let alone eggnog list, and i hope the results are satisfactory for the future owners. heres the nogs 

( @holykris2, yours is the 5th )

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[giraki]

I absolutely adore that Achae!