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here is our local sturgeon sculpture. he is shaped like a friend and i love him :)
Our local salmon statue!
Our Blue Whale! It has its own festival!
we have this crab at the airport
Our local pizzeria has these paper mache sea animals. Not shown is the squid made with power cord cables and a really fugged up anglerfish.
Well hell. As if Monster Hunter Now wasn't terribly overmonetized already, if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber you can have the HONOR of one "free" paintball a month.
When compared to some of the Prime perks provided by other games, this is beyond egregiously bad.
Suffering is needing sooooo many Great Girros Fang+
Woohoo! @frujahorda we lookin good!
Hot new amiibo in your area!
I don't really bother collecting much anymore, especially not amiibo. But when I saw a shot to get these two at non-scalp price I had to take it.
Really feeling the itch to role play some Dragon Riders of Pern, but without all the gender locked BS.
Unfortunately I have no idea where this fandom is currently active. Really hoping somebody on Tumblr sees this and reaches out with some links or directions.
If anything I create ever gets popular enough I'm going to introduce a character named Spoiler.
As a treat for my imaginary fandom.
Let's Player/Streamer: If you do this you can avoid like 80% of the RPG's enemies. I'm a genius.
That Same Player: OMG these bosses are so hard. All the enemies are ridiculously overpowered compared to your party. This game's combat system is stupid! It forces you to GRIND to have ANY chance. 0/10.
Actually, this Unity mess makes sense when you learn that they've got the guy behind such brilliant ideas as "we should charge players per bullet in fps games" and "all together the Sims 4 expansion packs cost over $800" running the goddamn company.
Bro is playing 5D microtransaction chess. He's already hollowed out the wallets of every player within reach, but nah that's boring, next we gotta hit the real untapped market: the people making the games themselves! Completely destroying EA's reputation wasn't enough, you see. No, he needs more. He wont rest until he's got people venmo-ing him $3 every time they turn their fucking computers on. Real groundbreaking stuff. I bet they'll crown him the god emporer of capitalism before every AAA studio in existence wombo-combos his ass off the face of the earth for fucking with their profit margins.
I mean dude we can't even get AAA studios to pay their fucking employees enough to afford food and rent bcs they can't stand losing even a little bit of money, you think they're gonna shut up and deal with a goddamn instalation tax going to some fucker who doesn't even work for them?? Hah. You're funny. This dude is getting eviscerated the minute this hits corporate offices tomorrow, if not from lawsuits then from everyone dropping unity like a hot potato bcs he's made it clear he'll try to fuck devs and studios over the second he gets the chance.
Like this jackass is really gonna have his company roll up to Square Enix and be like "you owe us 5 billion dollars from all the people who played Kingdom Hearts this year! don't worry, we promise that number is real and not biased!! you can trust us!! also you can't ask questions, now give us the money right now" like??? Bro they are going to take one look at you, laugh, and then send you to the fucking shadow realm. You'd be more likely to get mercy from a enraged medieval monarch. There is no world in which this ends well. He's done.
I have been made aware that these days the Sims 4 expansion packs cost over $1200 all together, and while I hate to take the side of any big corporation at all, I am legitimately looking forward to Disney, The Pokemon Company, and Square Enix reducing this man to dust.
Oh my fucking god they aren't even hiding it!! They're really gonna roll up to fucking Microsoft and Sony and demand a cut of their sales!! Sony which has outright stated that they will NEVER port Bloodborne to PC or any other console bcs they don't want to lose money?? Microsoft which is so desperate for more money that they're filling ever spare inch of Windows 11 with ads?? Square Enix which apparently made the Deus Ex 2 team beg just to include a blink and you'll miss it Final Fantasy reference in the game?? Disney which basically single handedly destroyed copyright law in America so they would never lose the rights to any of their properties?? Nintendo who nukes YouTube videos containing anything to do with their games for fun??? The Pokemon Company which owns the most profitable IP in history, who's games never go on sale EVER??? You're gonna go to THOSE people and demand 14% of their revenue????? BRO???
And like, I am not making that 14% number up.
Forget lawsuits, this guy is gonna get taken out by goddamn mercenaries.
I don't know a lot about game dev. Is Unity really used by all major studios? (I ask cuz I'm mostly seeing stuff about how this will affect indies.) Like, what percentage of games are made in Unity? Is this a "every browser except one is just chromium" level of market penetration?
To answer Bear's question: A LOT of games.
Majority of Mobile Games are made in Unity. The whole per install with a large Free to Play user base will work out great for them I'm sure.
But to give a SMALL sampling of games affected: All Hoyoverse games (Genshin Impact, Honkai, etc.), Among Us, Hollow Night (sequel Silksong still isn't out but bet you dollars to donuts it was also being built in Unity), Ori and the Blind Forest (and it's sequel), Pillars of Eternity, Gamfreak games (Yes Pokemon, I know Brilliant Diamon/Shining Pearl were made in Unity for certain), Pokemon Go and all other Niantic games and their clones, Cult of the Lamb, Outer Wilds, Subnautica, Untitled Goose Game, lots of card games like Magic the Gathering, Hearthstone, etc.
And that's the video games with name recognition I can think of off the top of my head. Unity is also used to program other software as well (to a far smaller scale).
So yeah, this is going to affect ALL the major developers, publishers, and console makers (because they are going to charge Microsoft and Sony directly for Gamepass and PlayStation Plus 'free' games), and a huge swath of indy developers.
They'll probably go after Google and Apple too. If Sony and Microsoft are on the hook for the games they offer in their subscription plans, then those companies will be too for the games they offer in theirs (Google's Play Pass and Apple's equivalent who's name currently eludes me).
I'll just sit back here and watch all these giants nuke Unity from orbit for the temerity.
this comment on that vulture article about the "fanfic-to-romance novel pipeline" is very interesting and not something i've seen articulated...much to think about...
What do you mean fanfic jumps from big moment to big moment with nothing in between. This isn't an 8 episode Netflix show with no filler episodes that will be cancelled before season 2. I'll be 100k words deep into a fic and they still haven't kissed yet
Lies and misinformation. That or the writer has shit poor tastes in fanfics/fandoms. Here's the stats for the current fic I'm reading.
This is in a relatively small fandom. Only 1,165 fics here in total.
The main pairing of this fic didn't even have a confession scene until chapter 40. Jumping from event to event my ass. There's sooooo much build up and details and, yeah can't relate to that article author at all.
hot take but none of you are allowed to use deer/antler imagery when working with cannibalistic themes anymore. you need to be honest with yallselves on WHY you're associating deer/antler imagery with cannibalism. just because you aren't naming the name doesn't mean that the original anti-indigenous racism isn't still inherent to what you're doing.
For those who need more explanation, a well known (but often misunderstood) figure in Algonquin and Aanishinabe culture is the wend*go.
No, I'm not fully typing out the name cause we don't say that name and don't want to attract its attention. Yes, all of this is taken very seriously by us Natives.
The problem is that this very serious figure isn't taken seriously at all by non-Natives and, instead of respecting our culture and the fact we don't even say its name, its perceived as this cool monster to add to movies, video games and cool edgy OCs.
And, as with all thing Native being used and abused, misunderstood, and transformed by non-Natives, we are tired of that. It's not okay, it's not respectful.
You want a people eating monster in a story? Use anything else.
As someone who's absolutely guilty of this shite on this account...yeah you have the right to spitroast me for that. Fair is fair.
I do hope we can use creepy deer aesthetics on and about other mythological/fiction monster villains tho. As someone who had a deer almost kill their dog, I just find deer creepy and unsettling regardless.
first off: You are the single person who has responded to this post admitting some variant of having done this that actually listened to what was being said, acknowledged that you did such things while you didn't know any better, expressed an intent to never do it again, and asked for clarification on whether or not "creepy deer aesthetic" is completely off-limits with that in mind. So with that said, I want you to know that you're one of the very few folks in this post I respect sincerely.
To that end: While obviously I can't speak for Native America as a monolith, it would be my opinion that no, creepy deer aesthetics as a concept are fine. Deer can be fucked up and weird. There is a fundamental lure to the idea of a large prey animal behaving as a predator or in ways anathema to our understanding of prey. That juxtaposition and irony has a lot of narrative potential and for good reason--it fucks severely! I don't want to see it go away! It fucks hard, for Christ's sake!
But it is my opinion that the use of deer aesthetics within the specific context of cannibal themes isn't able to be used anymore. The well has been poisoned too deeply. I never said once the specific being I was referring to in nearly any of my responses, but everyone knew exactly what I meant. Even trying to purposefully distance the racism from the imagery would be useless, since the racism is baked in to the assumptions by now. Reclamation may be able to happen in the future, but first we need to accept that setting it down completely is the right play for a while. You can distance racism from creepy deer stuff by purposefully and actively distancing it from Native America and cannibalism--if it becomes a recurring imagery on its own throughout multiple types of horror, rather than being innately tied by implication to the winter hunger, that's when we could maybe begin talking about whether or not to start re-examining our relationship with it.
The Algonquin are Anishinaabe. I'm guessing you meant to say Algonquian, which for some reason no one on tumblr can spell right.
The Algonquin are a specific Indigenous people, and part of the greater Anishinaabeg.
Algonquian (with an extra A) is a language family which includes the languages spoken by the Anishinaabeg, as well as Cree, Blackfoot, Mi'kmawi'simk, and others. The cannibalistic spirit you are speaking of is part of the stories of quite a few different tribes and nations, including my people, the nehiyaw.
TLDR Algonquin =/= AlgonquiAn
The cannibal creature is not JUST Anishinaabe
It's important that if we're teaching about Native stories that we get them right, and spell the names of the nations involved correctly
Personally I use Creepy Deer Aesthetic based on Leshy from Slavic folklore. Leshy was a that protected forests, and didn't care much for humans - often taking form of a deer, or deer-like. He's not known for cannibalism, but is known for abducting children, and sometimes leading people to get lost in the forest or die.
Witcher games gave him the deer skull look (interestingly Witcher books usually depict leshy as big cats), but there is no exact description of a leshy remaining in slavic culture as he was a shapeshifter. He is often associated with deer or deer-like forms, or with horns or antlers. It doesn't help that most surviving information on Leshy is tainted by Christian propaganda that turned him into a demon instead of a deity.
At the same time, they have nothing to do with cannibalism. I cannot find any reference in existence to the idea that Leshy would eat humans. Generally violence of Leshy against humans or children is framed as due to human lack of respect towards the wilderness, with Leshy serving as a sort of a cruel avatar or elemental of the forest. Ancient Slavs lived in and near forests, so this obviously exists out of need to respect wilderness - or die.
As a Pole, if you really need a creepy deer being to insert in your story, I'm pretty sure most Polish heathens will be perfectly happy if you use Leshy instead of Wend*go. They can be anything from actual gods to species of monsters if you take inspiration from Witcher.
See also all of old European and Slavic mythology around the concept of the 'horned god.' There's plenty to reference and dive into without stepping over closed Faiths and Native practices.
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Forbidden Cross Stitch Pattern.
Going to start casting runes to find out what the fuck the plot of my book is supposed to be.
I was asked by someone new to the hobby for some recommendations on dnd adjacent media IE not just stuff that features d&d in it (stranger things) or is derived from a campaign (legend of Vox machina etc) but something that explicitly has the SPIRIT and/or VIBE of a really fun d&d game.
Figured I'd open it up to you folks to help add to my list!
The Mummy released in 1999. That entire movie has the vibe of a TTRPG campaign.
The born in Eastern Europe curse of knowing you were doomed from the start
Someone in my life is a backstabbing cunt and I don't know who.
I like keeping a little journal/scrapbook/whatever thing and I recently finished filling out one book and was super excited to start a new one. So I grab a cute book from my pile of empties given as gifts, because people been knowing this about me...
Crack it open to start... and it's full of Bible verses and quotes on each damn page.
If you know me well enough to know about the Journaling you also damn well know I'm atheist and fucking SICK of being proselytized to after having had to live through Catholic school and Protestant south USA.
But someone still bought me this. I can't remember who but the level of disrespect.
Religious cunts fuck off with unwanted pushing of your faith challenge.
Which is the worse unending horror
Dishes
Laundry
The results of this are surprising to me.
Dishes can clean themselves in the dishwasher. Laundry still needs to be sorted, put through two different machines, folded, and put away.
🚨 Dishwasher privilege alert! 🚨 Dishwasher privilege alert! 🚨
Dishes are every day. Laundry is not every day unless you’ve made some very specific life choices.
Dishes are relatively simple. I can knock all of them out in a few minutes. It's Sisyphean torture but I can manage. If I'm really low energy I can use disposable stuff.
Laundry needs sorting and washing and drying and folding and more sorting and even though only a fraction of that time is active it still takes hours from start to finish. If I'm low energy I cannot use disposable single use clothes.
Dishes hurt my back.
I can do laundry no problem. I have to move and change position, and sorting things makes the happy chemicals.in the brain.
For dishes I have to stand in one spot, slightly leaned forward the whole time, and work with upper body/arms stretched away from my trunk. My back starts hurting after just a little of that angle.
As one leads to day long pain and the other doesn't, dishes are objectively worse.
