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20✨Bi ✨Ace✨she/they/bun✨Canadian✨ Mainly just reblogs

[t00thpasteface]

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

[t00thpasteface]

i especially chafe at the way "cozy games" just seems like a "woke" way to say "girl games" and conflate certain game mechanics or aesthetics with a non-cis/het/male identity (to equally useless effect from a buyer's pov). gender stereotyping by any other name is still gender stereotyping. i'm not cis het or male, but i've spent decades enjoying pvp shooters and feel bored to tears by cutesy cottagecore farming sims. and i find those pvp shooters very "cozy" to play, too! @_@;

[isda-bata]

She’d rather die than be separated from her friends. I trust you Susie deltarune. Hopecore

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[mieau]

Sylveon's Fairy Parfait 🍧🌸

[matchacakedragon]

once i master my adhd and stop believing that i’m waiting for my life to begin and accept what i cannot change and finish cleaning my room and stick to a productive schedule and drink enough water and meditate and organize all the important papers in the paper pile and start being consistent and say the nice things to myself and gain confidence its OVER for you bitches

[limbomitosis1]

(gif)

* Lets all smile again

….before the sun goes down completely

[micabell]

Kinda terrified of whatever cliffhanger Ch. 5 is gonna end on.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[princesidonfan]

I hate it when people do this. Folks, even if you're comfortable with minimal personal space, many other people are not. It can be very intimidating and disturbing to have a stranger enter your personal space unnecessarily. There is also the fact that if you are standing so close to someone that they cannot avoid making physical contact with you, such as elbowing you when they hand their money to the checkout operator, they will feel obligated to apologise when the fault is actually yours for standing too close. If you don't want to take an elbow to the face or have your foot stepped on, don't stand so close that people can accidentally do these things.

Think twice, especially, if you are a large man: having a man enter their personal space can be downright scary for anyone who is smaller than you, particularly children, women, and folks with disabilities. You never know what negative experiences other people have had. (You might be sure that you would never hurt anyone, but they don't know that.)

If a person asks you to give them more room, do it unless there is a very good reason why you cannot (in which case, gently apologise and explain the reason). If you remain — or worse, argue — you are showing that you are willing to violate their boundaries as well as their personal space. From that point on, if they react defensively, lash out, or start to panic, you are the one who has created that situation by not moving when you were asked to.

As the speaker in the video points out, there is really no reason to crowd someone if there is space around you both. You won't make anyone get through their business faster by crowding them: if anything, you may make them anxious or irritated so that they fumble and take longer. Just take a couple of steps back and be patient, and you will avoid putting unhelpful pressure on anyone.

[darrelodin]

So this morning I found out that the RPG Maker forums will be shutting down this year, and it’s really just another depressing thing to see.

If you read the link the company does of course say they’re replacing the existing forums with new ones, and I’m sure no one would say the old ones didn’t perhaps need a lil bit of a glow up, some tech debt fixing… but there’s a few key notes in there:

They are NOT carrying over any history, data messages etc. from the old forums

They are NOT archiving, retaining or in any way saving the existing forums in any way

They have NOT provided any reasoning past ‘as part of continued efforts to support developers’

As an offhand, moderate read, this sounds to me like a desire for some change in the forums but deciding nuking everything is less expensive than rebuilding and carrying over info.

If I’m cynical, and likely realistic? Probably to increase sales of their latest GameMaker software by making it inherently more difficult for someone getting the older software for cheap pushing it to its limits. The amount of institutional knowledge on those forums is absurd.

And even if it is a benign reason, it’s still terrible because what do you mean you’re doing this with no recourse or potential for change? You sell software that runs on community goodwill? In an era where people are pulling away to open source software?? Crazy.

There are yeeeaaars of answers, plugins, suggestion, community built up on those forums - I’ve used the em to learn and grow my own skillet!!! And soon it won’t exist.

At the very least, they gave a ‘heads up’ - the deletion occurs mid December, so archiving by the community is possible from now. It’s just absurd that it needs to happen in the first place.

It’s just reflective of how the industry is right now - and why it’s so important for communities to grow and build up knowledge together, knowledge that is NOT reliant on a company that can pull the plug at any time in the very name of the very customers, users and supporters they are screwing over.

[eigwayne]

The good news is that other people are already starting external archival. Here's a couple posted on the r/RPGMaker subreddit:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/

https://rpgmakerchat.com/

https://github.com/imraf/rpgmakerweb-archive/

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

[max-out-of-ten]

Bless the archivists of our time

[lemonemenom]

No one owes artists anything.

But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.

[ace-bug-trainer-cj]

Me screenshotting nice comments on my work for the bad depressive dips.

[the-haiku-bot]

Me screenshotting nice

comments on my work for the

bad depressive dips.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[crabussy]

I asked my five year old cousin what he would do if there was a scary skeleton and he said "I would pour water on it and then kick it" and I've been losing my shit laughing crying about a wet skeleton for about fifteen minutes straight

[crabussy]

he was so delighted by my fits of giggles that he drew eight wet skeletons for me

[cartoon-animal]

Did they ever like. Tell anyone that PV got teleported to space or something

[radinea]

Screenshot redraw

[mystycalypso]

Hey look guys! I made a cute wholesome meme for Let's Swap!

No, no wait- don't look under the fold- wait!

Oopsie Daisy

[radinea]

First post. Idk what I'm doing but I'm free.

here some voxman (been thinking about them everyday for months now im going crazy)

[mystycalypso]

My favorite Venomous headcanon is that his favorite colour is green, since in the show all his favorite things and people are green 💚

Rippy Roo back when he was in P.O.I.N.T

His bio-engineered creations

His closest loved ones

Even minor things like accessories in his clothing, obviously his technos that he (at least on a surface level) values so much, his office has a lot of green, and his car that he loves has green undertones to it as well

Also Venom/Poison in general is heavily associated with the colour green

He knows his favorite colour and surrounds himself with it, and honestly, that's so real.