A gamedev who should be making games

I go by Nyli :3. 29/Bi/Any pronouns are okay really ^_^ Hey! I love video and board games in every shape and form, and I make games as one of my hobbies. I reblog a looot of stuff that ranges from gamedev to games to bugs to horror cute stuff to fandoms to social justice stuff. Twitter is @NyliTheFiremoth

[calista-222]

My blog keeps getting invaded by bots and checking if every blank blog is a human is waaay too time consuming, there are just too many so reminder that if you follow me and your blog looks like this:

I may block you!!! Bots can reblog and like posts, so please put a profile picture or a header, or add a description so that I know you're not a bot! I've seen people just write "I'm not a bot! Don't block me!" and just that was confirmation enough!

[runesea]

Found a video on reddit that you folks need to see

[chongoblog]

It’s fun to use contractions inappropriately, but it’s hard to explain why that’s

[lunarthesugarglider]

thats a common interest we've

[chongoblog]

Yeah, but people get annoyed by it, like when you throw soda cans in the trash can’t the recycle bin

[bethanythebogwitch]

Wet Beast Wednesday: mata mata

Buckle up, buccaneers, because it's turtle time. We travel to the swamps and streams of the Amazon in search of this raggedy reptile. The mata mata is truly the world's skrunkliest turt and it has carved out an interesting niche in the world.

(Image: a mata mata out of water. It is a turtle with a light brown shell that has spiked ridges running down it. The feet have webbed toes and claws. The neck and head are disproportionately large and have a ragged appearance. The head is flat and triangular, with small eyes and nostrils on a tubular nose. End ID)

Mata mata refers to two closely related species of freshwater turtle: the Amazonian mata mata (Chelus fimbriata) and Orinoco mata mata (Chelus orinocensis).Prior to 2020,these were classified as the same species and both have a very similar anatomy and lifestyle. Mata matas are large turtles, with a carapace length up to 45 cm (18 in) and weight of 17.2 kg (38 lbs). Their shells have many spines and ridges while the body, especially the large neck and head, has many skin flaps, tubercles, and ridges. The body and shell are primarily brown to black. This has the effect of making the turtle look like decaying bark and leaves, an effective form of camouflage. The nose is very long, with nostrils at the tip, which, when combined with the long neck, allows the turtle to reach the water's surface to breathe while staying on the bottom. The chin has some short sensory barbels growing from it.

(Image: a mata mata in an aquarium. It is sitting on some rocks with its neck outstretched to reach the surface. End ID)

Mata matas are native to the Amazonian and Orinoco river basins, where they prefer slow-moving waters with low visibility, such as streams, backwaters, and swamps. They are primarily carnivorous, but have been known to eat plants, possibly to supplement their diets or by accident. They are sit and wait predators whose hunting strategy is to sit very still among vegetation. Their camouflage allows them to remain unnoticed by prey. When prey draws close, the turtle opens its mouth. This creates a vacuum, drawing water and prey into the mouth. The turtle then closes its mouth, forcing the water out, and swallows the prey whole. Unlike snapping turtles, who have a similar sit and wait hunting style, the mata mata has weak jaws with fleshy lips rather than beaks and thus cannot bite prey into chunks. It therefore has to feed on animals small enough to swallow whole. Their diet consists of small fish, frogs, and invertebrates. Because they inhabit waters with very low visibility, mata matas have very poor eyesight and rely on other senses to tell when prey is near. Mata matas have also been known to herd groups of fish into shallow water before eating. Unlike many other aquatic turtles, mata matas rarely come ashore to bask in the sunlight. They are also very poor swimmers and mostly crawl along the bottom of their habitats.

(Image: a mata mata facing the camera with its mouth open. The mouth is very wide and takes up most of the head. End ID)

Mata matas display sexual dimorphism. Females are generally larger, though not by that much. Males have longer, thicker tails than females as well as a concave plastron (lover shell) as opposed to the female's flat plastron. Mating occurs late in the year, around October. Males will seek out females and engage in a courtship dance that involves playing out the limbs, wiggling the skin flaps, and extending the heat toward the female while opening and closing his mouth. During mating, the male mounts the female. His concave plastron helps him stay on her shell without falling off. The female will emerge from the water to lay her eggs. She will bury them either in sand or decaying vegetation to keep them warm. She then leaves and neither parent provides parental care. The gestation period varies depending on temperature, up to 200 days at low enough temperatures. In other turtle species, the temperature of the eggs determines the sex of the hatchling. I could not find any references describing how or if this is the same in mata matas. Hatchlings have to scramble their way into the water. Juvenile mata matas have pink plastrons that darken to brown as they age. The maximum age of mata matas in the wild is unknown. In captivity, they usually live for 15 years, but sometimes up to 30.

(Image: a juvenile mata mata held in hand. It is held so the underside is facing the camera, displaying the pink color of the plastron. It is smaller than a cell phone. End ID)

Both species of mata mata are classified at least concern by the IUCN, meaning they are not in danger of extinction. Their primarly threat comes from habitat loss as more and more parts of their rivers are taken over fro land development. Mata matas are also edible and sometimes caught for food. Their unusual appearances have made them somewhat popular in the pet trade and wild mata mata are often caught for this purpose.

(Image: an extreme close-up of a mata mata's face. The shape of its mouth makes it look like it has a smug smile. End ID)

[gh0ul-k1ss3r]

☆ COMMISSION INFO ☆

Hello!!! It's been absolutely forever since I made a commission sheet but it is finally time!!

I Will Draw:

canon x canon

selfship

oc x canon

oc reference sheets

nonhuman/anthro

gore

nsfw

sfw fetish content

I Will Not Draw:

detailed mech (depends)

nsfw/gore of minors

anything I don't feel comfortable with

☆ DM if interested!! ☆

☆ I take v-nmo and c-shapp for payment ☆

☆ examples of my work below!!* ☆

*(cw for blood + nudity)

[depsidase]

[whetstonefires]

easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.

[libraflyter]

Note: after the end of Roe v Wade in the US, the maternal mortality rate (and the infant mortality rate) are showing clear increases in the states with the strictest anti-abortion laws.

Forcing people to carry high risk or non viable pregnancies to term kills.

[cosmonautroger]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (sound on)

[redlipstickresurrected]

Colleen Barry (American, b. 1981, New York, NY, USA) - Win, Win (detail), 2022, Paintings: Oil, Pigment Sticks on Linen

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[mydignityisinflames]

People ‘panicking’ as Ghana passes sweeping law criminalising LGBTQ+ activity

Community groups say some fear they could lose homes, jobs and access to healthcare if the new law is ratified by President John Dramani Mah

Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill to be inspected before approval, president says

Passed by MPs, the bill proposes prison sentences for people identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community.

[hyperions-fate]

An overlooked point about British culture is that the 'popular' trash (tabloids, 'Lad Culture', reality TV, indie music, Christopher Nolan films, &) has historically been churned out by Oxbridge worthies whose property portfolios date to the Norman conquest and whose stumpish family trees are haunted by plantations, Drogheda, and the ghosts of a million child cotton spinners. As with the political order, what is assumed to be populist is often elitist and marked by the elite's confected stupidity.

[devinellekurtz]

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.

I love him.

[toasthaste-art]

me also. as well.

[devinellekurtz]

This is the COOLEST thing I’ve seen in AGES. You both completely made my entire week.

[tpwrtrmnky]

I don't know who needs to hear this but in case it crosses the right timeline here it is:

Gamergate was more than a decade ago.

You're supposed to change and grow as a person in that timeframe.

Are you planning to spend even more of your life acting like feminists are the biggest threat to gaming in the middle of a hardware price crisis?

Take the L and move on. There is a life waiting for you beyond this.

[catchaspark]

californians, consider calling your state assemblymembers in order to object to the current budget proposal stripping Medi-Cal (our Medicaid) from asylees and refugee applicants except in emergencies. also, they’re agreeing to reduce the asset limit for many Medi-Cal recipients back to $2000. That number means that the maximum amount a Medi-Cal recipient who is aged, blind, or disabled can have in the bank at any time is $2000. That figure is obscenely low, and it’s actually lower by about fifty bucks than the amount they’re allowed to get each month in income.* if enacted this policy change will vastly hurt thousands of seniors and disabled people and i’m not kidding. please speak up if you can.

[queen-of-chaos-offical]

Okie, second bird.

Now i know these bitches are basic as fuck, and off, I'm taking abt the "majestic" peacock.

This is another photo i took

But. BUTT.

Im not talking abt those basic bitches. I'm talking abt the more beautiful ones.

The WHITE peacocks.

Now listen, they're not a different breed, i know that.

And i know that's they're usually misfortunes and rarely get partners, but just look at this bitches.

Tell me they're not more majestic than the regular peacocks.

They should get more love.

[queen-of-chaos-offical]

Btw. Tell me the white peacocks dont resemble Andrealphus from Helluva Boss.

And yes i know he's based off of a peacock, but he's an ice peacock, and imo, he's based off of a white peacock.

I mean,

Srs:

Tell me im wrong

[king-of-oreo]

Ok but counter argument

The majestic lord shen is also a white peacock

[type-blaze0]

...

May I introduce you to the black shoulder?

I'm not sure if it's a breed or a pattern, but... wait hold on

@kedreeva, you have bug, right? Or am I thinking if someone else?

[kedreeva]

@queen-of-oreo Second image of a "white peacock" is an AI slop. White peacocks do not have colored eye markings.

White peafowl are not misfortunes. They are a leucistic mutation that plenty of people breed on purpose. When enclosed in a pen where the hens cannot see other, colored males, they will breed just fine.

IMO, as a peafowl breeder, the whites are... okay. The males are pretty enough in the late spring and summer, but they drop that train in the fall, and spend the fall and winter looking like dirty chickens. And I do mean that literally, the white gets muddy from fall, winter, and early spring muck when the weather gets gross/wet.

A pristine snowfall looks great, until it turns into this

To answer your question, @type-blaze0, there are no breeds of peafowl. There are a few species, and there are color/pattern mutations, and leucistic mutations (like white), but there are no breeds.

Blackshoulder is a pattern mutation.

As for Andrealphus, given the amount of peacock-blue in the design, I would suggest a silver pied peacock, over a white.

They tend to keep some of the blue neck (often concentrated in the front or back), while largely having white coloring over the rest of them, with minimal colored spotting.

But peafowl come in a variety of colors and patterns, not just blue or white. Purple, jade, midnight, black, cameo, opal, bronze... just to name a few.

Whites are... okay. But while at times (like the summer) some may consider a white peacock more majestic than the classic blues, whites are, I'm afraid, a basic bitch mutation, that pales in comparison to some of the others

[type-blaze0]

Glad I summoned the expert!

Sorry, i'm used to chickens, who... one crossbreed can have twelve names depending on how and who you got it from. (See: red cross, redx, red star, cinnamon queen, golden comet all being some variation of rhode island (white, red) + ( plymouth, barred) rock

I KNEW THERE WERE PURPLE ONES, I JUST COULDN'T FIND THEM.

The red taled i'm pretty sure are photoshopped though

[kedreeva]

Well. Yes and no.

This shit is 100% not real. The color has been altered completely. That vibrant red does not exist in peafowl.

buuuuuut.... this was Earl last night

and this guy's colors are real

THIS orange is fake...

But this orange is real (a fresh, red train that's gotten wet)

But none of those are color mutations. That's just plain old how iridescence works. The colors in the train come from refraction within the structure of the feather hurls, and viewing it from different angles changes the color you see- not because the pigments are changing, but because the length of the light wavelength changes slightly.

[ketrinadrawsalot]

The flamboyant cuttlefish often produces bright colors to stand out. It has a relatively small cuttlebone, so it's usually found strutting its stuff on the sea floor.

[aflo]

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

[aflo]