Shoptown Residents

Virtual Lady trapped in a virtual mall does things.

[hotcalc]

Do you have questions you'd like to ask me or Abby or maybe that other one I refuse to call by name? Now's the time! The Lore & More ask-around!

[obsessedbyneon]

Enlightened mushroom columns... star-filled sky... neon-outlined ornaments and filled with plants 🌿 This is the way to design hospitals for children. Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, circa 1995

[hotcalc]

Do you like to sing out loud when no one else is around?

A nibling on Alterspring asked. I love to sing! you may notice I sing to myself a lot in my videos...

This is a little quirk Cold shares with me as well. They do in fact sing quite a bit. They post a lotta song lyrics as well…

[uesp]

It'd be neat if we could speak to our conjured creatures. Beyond giving them simple instructions, it would be a good opportunity to allow some direct lore exploration from some characters we'd have few chances to speak to without very specific plots.

A few of them should especially have interesting interactions, like the Dunmer Ancestor Ghost summon, who is supposed to be one of your relatives.

[hotcalc]

⚠️‼️ATTENTION FREAKS‼️⚠️

⚠️THE DOG VERSION OF BETTY BOOP WILL BE PUBLIC DOMAIN NEXT YEAR⚠️

⚠️‼️ATTENTION FREAKS‼️⚠️

[opencharacters]

with the boop horror movie its come up again, but the public domain is not "oh now i can get served stuff from more companies" but rather "the people can now create using these ips"

"how come we dont get (insert idea)"

you have the power to make things yourself and thanks to the public domain you can sell it to people.

be the change you wanna see in the world!!

[trickydreamcast]

tricky and the dream caster out of context

[hotcalc]

Rewatching old YouTube videos can be... Eventful.

[fanonical]

post-apocalyptic gang like the kings, the gang that worship elvis from fallout new vegas, except they’re all skaters who worship tony hawk

[galahadwilder]

Addendum: none of them know what he looked like

[therealbeachfox]

What did The Hawk look like? He looked like you. You look like Him. We all look like Him. The Hawk was always told “You look like Tony Hawk”, but no one ever thought He was The Hawk. So we can only presume that everyone looks like The Hawk. He is the commonality of all humanity. 

The commonality of all humanity that does sick shreds.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Tony Hawk is a member.

[emery-matsushita-vt]

tony hawk is every member.

[opencharacters]

Public Domain Conlangs

The concept of copyright and conlangs can be tricky but many, especially more modern ones do fall into copyrighted territory. Like im sure you can get away with your characters speaking klingon idk as a joke or in a throwaway line but if its an integral part of your story "oh heres aliens who speak klingon" id imagine Paramount wouldnt be too happy.

Klingon and Dothraki are also trademarks so thats a no go.

So what can you use? if you were so inclined?

Well older conlangs like Esperanto or Ido were made in the 1800s and are therefore fair game in fact one of the reasons Esperanto is among the most successful conlangs is because it could be freely adapted and changed over time.

Balaibalan, one of the earliest conlangs ever recorded which was made sometime between the 14th and 16th century. It was meant to be the word of god. If you wanna know more I recommend this video.

Enochian, created by John Dee in 1583. This one was made to be like angelic speech. Here's another video if you wanna learn about that one.

While not a conlang, I'd be remiss if I didnt mention Hildegard of Bingen, the german nun who lived from 1098 to 1179. She made an alternative alphabet which is called Lingua ignota. She's kind of the patron saint of conlangers, I love her.

Those things could fit right in your works and def can be used freely.

Conlanging is a fairly new thing in the grand scheme of things, historically it was often in connection to religion as you can see by the examples but from the 1800s onwards things like Esperanto came onto the scene then the works of Tolkien which inspired more and more and of course like many things exploded with the internet.

Today conlangs are quite common especially in tv shows and movies, often studios hire linguists to make a language for them like the aforementioned Klingon or Dothraki.

[theactioneer]

Akalabeth: World of Doom (California Pacific, 1980)

[hotcalc]

The Apple II is capable of producing mind boggling effects!

[s-lycopersicum]

What a beautiful day to violate copyright and generally disregard any and all notions of intellectual property

[hotcalc]

Its Sunday Afternoon and you're at your aunt's place.

[hotcalc]

Many people have warned me a Bluesky post I made "broke containment" here but I've not seen it so I'm just imagining the interactions in my head. I hope they used that one water filter and at least 3 users are actively duking it out over what I said or something.

[tmbgareok]

[hotcalc]

This is our new fiddle player, he was a little racist about Dunmer music so we dress him up like a little colovian boy and make him do the Cyrodiil Shuffle.

[hotcalc]

If all three of you had a bomb strapped to your chest with a 3 minute timer and you were pushed off a plane as well so who surviving and who's dying

Hot Calc: Is that all three of us individually or as a group or...?

Abby: IF I HAD A BOMB STRAPPED ON TO ME I WOULD HEADBUTT THE GUY WHO STRAPPED THE BOMB ON ME AND THEN I'D RIP OFF THE DOOR OF THE PLANE AND BE ALL "TALK ABOUT LOW BUDGET FLIGHTS! NO FOOD OR MOVIES?!" AND THEN I'D JUMP OUT AND THEN POSE BEFORE I THREW THE BOMB AND IT WOULD BE SO COOL LIKE IN SONIC ADVENTURE 2!

Cold seemingly ignores your question and instead slowly starts listing off the amount of plane crash deaths per year starting with 1994.

Cold: ... To answer your question however, I would be unaffected and as such am the winner of this is silly little thought experiment. Unlike PR-3154 and the delusional homunculus I am incapable of being "killed" as I am in fact above the concept of death. I am destruction. I am rot. I am Cold Entropy. Thank you so very much for the question Nitrogen-Electromagnetic Radiation.