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they/she/ze,zer,zers late 20s, game dev, audio editor, artist??, some times i stream games really it's all up in the air

[madlobotanist]

a pinned post

hi i'm ash/cassidy/bots! you can call me any of those!

i make a lot of things! but currently i have been making:

-tower of ba-bell - an rpgmaker2003 game that is both an excercise in being more self-indulgent and hopefully finishing projects! it's about taco bell! sort of!

-some place to be - an actual play podcast! you can find it @someplacetobe! it's about playing the same characters across different systems,, i edit the whole dang thing and make the website (someplacetobe.neocities.org)!

also i've done a bunch of other podcasts and make art and sometimes i stream! here's my website: madlobotanist.neocities.org

#botslife is for like, whatever life posting i do, #botsmakes will be for like, art and screenshots and stuff, #botsask is asks! feel free to send some!

[gondorrevealparty]

Polycules should be able to trade people like sports teams do

[gondorrevealparty]

Listen -- you're a good defender and your pussy is fantastic, but that's not what our team needs right now. We're trading you to Greater Boston in exchange for someone who has a car.

[mars-gallavanger]

I Grew Up Room Shaped!

[ri5k]

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

[socialmaya]

[konoko]

[uhuh100]

I know I said I'd watch kill la kill after murder drones but. counterpoint. I don't care

watching onimai now

[uhuh100]

holy shit, no one told me this show involved mad science

[uhuh100]

oh she's TRANS trans.

[uhuh100]

everywhere I've seen it mentioned onimai is treated like some scandalous pornographic forcefem adult show but I'm five out of twelve episodes in and so far it's a perfectly normal and even mostly clean show about a trans girl. this aired on live tv just fine and everything. it mentions horny topics, but like. the show itself isn't horny in its own right at all, let alone scandalously so like how everyone talks about it. and even when it does touch on something horny, it's pretty tame about it.

[uhuh100]

onimai is actually a remarkably unhorny show, especially considering some of its subject matter.

[uhuh100]

just finished episode 7 of 12. they put the mc in middle school. this is barely even a comedy show anymore, it's transitioned to just being slice of life

[uhuh100]

in theory I should be going to bed about now, but there are only two episodes left, sooooo

[uhuh100]

Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister! is a comedy slice-of-life anime about a shut-in named Mahiro who is used as an unwitting test subject for his little sister's sex-changing drug. After waking up to find himself in the body of a middle-school-age girl, Mahiro embarks upon a coming-of-age story and a journey of self-discovery, making close friends along the way. In the end, Mahiro decides her new life, and her new self, are worth keeping.

Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister! is most often talked about as if it were a porno or some form of fetish content. at worst, I can only see it as wish fulfillment. it's just queer. get comfortable with that.

[uhuh100]

reblog the full version, please

[uhuh100]

oh yeah no absolutely. kill la kill is a very horny show. not explicit, strictly, but definitely well into the territory of "check out these high school girls in skimpy outfits" type of horny show. absolutely one hundred percent a horny show on purpose where they all knew what they were doing.

but kill la kill doesn't get branded as fetishistic outside of being included in racist "all anime is pornographic" tyrades. onimai on the other hand, a show that basically only acknowledges horniness and related topics as Something That Happens Sometimes, is constantly branded and even billed to people as fetishistic and horny. people use that as a fucking selling point for onimai.

[uhuh100]

I'm not well-versed in this sort of thing, so I don't have very many detailed thoughts on this, but after sitting on it for a little bit my take is that onimai's branding as fetishistic is transmisogyny

[theehorsepusssy]

[remspeedwagon]

Hopefully, this will be the last time I have to post this. I have gotten a job offer, but it doesn't start until September. I just need to make it until then, and then I should be okay. Thank you everyone for your patience with me.

http://www.ko-fi.com/remspeedwagon

[univiresque]

i hate that post that’s like “wizard hat cowboy brim” because the full outfit that someone added onto it isn’t even remotely cowboyish. if ur gonna try to combine these aesthetics make a fucking effort. if zamigo did it you can too

[univiresque]

now THIS? THIS is wizard cowboy.

[hollowistheworld]

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

[lordnot]

You'll also notice that these are all problems that are framed as solvable through individual planning, willpower, and dedication

Which is a great way to distract people from examining the societal systems and structures that are responsible for the problem in the first place.

[hollowistheworld]

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

[lordnot]

You'll also notice that these are all problems that are framed as solvable through individual planning, willpower, and dedication

Which is a great way to distract people from examining the societal systems and structures that are responsible for the problem in the first place.

[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

[anthonycolonthree]

(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information

[tomhoppusdelonge]

sorry for the mixed signals I don’t know what I want or what I’m doing mostly

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Isn’t it kind of fun how when your life sucks you just can’t talk about it with anyone

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

I’m serious though. When your life reaches a degree of suckage, you find yourself having to look elsewhere for anything at all to talk about. The things going on in your life are trauma dumping. Your past is probably also trauma dumping. So you have to get really weird about specific things or hope that others want to talk to you, because very quickly people are going to develop an aversion to you and the way your life sucks. Unless you just don’t talk about it

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

It’s socially isolating, which is dangerous—when you’re in this sort of situation, community is the difference between life and death, housing and homelessness.

I think the collective prioritization of comfort first is hurting people in a real and material sense

[maidslime]

There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.