Mynja's models and stuff

3D models and gamedev stuff. Making Amphibia Racing, and an Asterix game when I need a break. I'm also on Bluesky: mynjal.bsky.social

[mynjal]

ThatAubaru88 found this on Prime, and posted it on Reddit.

Instead of using any of the already existing high quality images or posters of "Asterix and the Vikings" from 2006, Prime Video made an AI header that makes Brazilian rip-off animations look good.

I'm gonna put on my tinfoil hat here and say they did it to make people unfamiliar with the series think the creators did it, so they'll stay away from anti-imperialist series.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I love when people whose first languages have grammatical gender use the wrong pronoun in English. "this river is so green because he is fed by glaciers" aw the river is Just A Little Guy. your version of my language is better

[mynjal]

Norwegians referring to all cats as "he": Me : Is the cat pregnant? My aunt: Yes, he is!

[mynjal]

Tomodachi Life being very aware of the times.

[mynjal]

"I want you to make groups of four, and start working on the task!" "Erlend, do you wanna join our group?"

This was on a milk carton a little while ago. The series is Storefri (the longest break during a day at school) by Marius Henriksen. I find all of those strips either funny or really sweet.

[mynjal]

I'm occasionally working very hard on the boss stage, but I rediscovered playing games last year, so things have been slow again. The scripts for the boss stage is almost completed though. Then I "just" need to make it pretty.

[mynjal]

Was just reminded of Norway's possibly most famous April fools joke from 1995: A speed control in Trondheim ended rather dramatic as their new laser pistol turned out to be slightly too powerful. The joke was made for the newspaper Adresseavisen (whose boss gave free cognac to the one who wrote the best joke). They actually cut an old car creck in two, hired a woman to act as the driver, and got the police and car rescuers to join for the photos as well!

[mynjal]

The Norwegian satirical news show Nytt på Nytt has had jokes handed over to them by Americans for years. I've translated a few of them the last few years, but I think I've only posted two so far.

You can watch the episode for free here, but only with Norwegian subs.

I'm not good at translating, and I didn't bother translating all the countries cause the editing software I use is remarkably piss poor shit. Stay away from Wondershare Filmora. Anything you could effordlessly do in Windows Movie Maker 2 in five minutes, requires at least two hours of suffering in WsF. "Hey, I see you cut the first ten frames from the recording. I assume part of that was an accident, so I added five of them back in when you saved the video. Oh, I see you saved the video again, but with 15 frames removed this time. I suppose you mean it this time, but are you sure you wanted the texts to last as long as they do? I'll just go ahead and remove three frames from each of them."

[mynjal]

When I entered the room, people immediately started howling with laughter, and many shouted "Hide your dogs!".

I was supposed to make a gun and a dead dog as well, but I finally got my hands on Baldur's Gate 3, and my supposed-to-be forever bachelor Durge is very busy being reeled in by Gale.

[mynjal]

Hey, I made a really bad drawing.

Anyway, forever crossing my fingers for a The Amazing Digital Circus episode where two or three of the characters channel their inner Josh in a Satisfactory-like adventure.

Perfect Let's Game It Out video for the uninitiated.

[pubby-pupperoni]

Not only did Itch.io delete all the nsfw games on their platform it is now denying payouts for these games under the guise of “violation of tos”

(Via daff.space on bsky)

One user has suggested to set revenue sharing to 0% to prevent Itch.io from gaining any revenue from these games or other games in the future as a form of protest.

While this may not prevent itch.io from the money they’ve already gained it will prevent them from further gaining revenue on future games purchased from them.

At this point in time it does not matter if Itch.io was pressured into this decision or not. What does matter is they blindly pulled the rug from under many indie game devs, cutting them off from a source of income and continuing to hoard the income that is due to them.

No official statement or any semblance of guilt or sorrow, just a salute emoji and a back turned onto the community that built the website.

[mynjal]

I recently started listening to the Expeditionary Force audio books. I'm only a few books in, but I'm freaking crying over the names one of the most advanced spieces give their spacecrafts.

Other races be like Vortan, Telaxion, Sword of Anacleon, and Dol Tershanna.

Then a few from the race I mentioned: Come Over Here and Say That Again How'd That Work Out For You? You Should See The Last Guy Who Tried That Shit It Was Like That When We Got Here Parole Violation

[anxietyproblem]

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[mynjal]

I prepeared this gif on the 1st of January for the Trump/Musk breakup.

[luulapants]

One of the best stories I ever read as a child was a fantasy novel by some local dude selling books out of a suitcase on the sidewalk downtown, and I don't remember what it was called or who the author was, and it's so obscure that no matter how many elements I remember, I've never been able to find it through web searches. I only vaguely remember the story - it was a love story, something about a tower on an island and two characters on a quest to discover their forgotten past. They fall in love and at the end the only way to stay together is to allow themselves to forget again, and you realize that they're right where they started, in the exact same tower, and they're doomed to go on this same quest over and over again, never completed, but that also means they'll fall in love over and over again forever. And I remember how that ending blew up my little child brain into a million pieces.

I don't know what happened to the book, and I'll probably never read it again, but if you're somewhere out there and you were once selling fantasy novels from a suitcase on the sidewalk in the suburbs of Chicago, and if you ever felt like your writing never meant anything or went anywhere except a hundred copies you had printed yourself and sold for almost nothing, please know that your story buried itself in my young brain and has probably shaped my worldview in ways even I don't understand.

[luulapants]

There are a lot of sweet, well-meaning folks in the notes advising me on how to search for this book, and I want you to know that I will never find this book. And that's okay.

This author self-published, which at that time meant he paid out of his own pocket to print 100 copies and sold some but not all them for cash on the sidewalk in one small town. E-books weren't a thing. There is no digital record to find. Even if I remembered any of the names or details, it wouldn't be searchable. No librarian has it in a catalogue.

The vast majority of books written before the modern day are lost media. Countless artists poured their hearts into stories that were read by few and lasted only as long as the paper they were printed on. Most of the art ever made has been destroyed or thrown away. Most of the music ever written will never be heard again. The expectation of permanence in art is very new, and even now, there are millions of works of art that will never be recorded or posted or shared. Millions more that will never even be completed.

Creation, with few exceptions, is a mandala. A vulnerable song performed for dear friends by a campfire, but the singer soon forgets how it went. A poem shared in a coffee house that rattles the audiences' bones but will never be heard again. A sketch of a lover on hotel stationary that the maid will throw away tomorrow. Our current reality exists by the influence of art that no one remembers.

Permanence is not purpose.

[heraldic-thunderbolt]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[mynjal]

Added a horse.

I really like the horse designs in Asterix, but I failed with the head. I'll figure it out one day. I only now realized that the animation looks horrid when the speed is between a walk and a trot.

[mynjal]

Reworking and testing the first temple is taking a very long time. I'm trying my best to not make the four normal tracks too similar - otherwise I would have left this one out because of how much work it is. I hope it'll be a fun track.

When I'm done with this one, I can finally finish the boss. Then I'll start working on the battle stage.

I've decided to upload it with only one world (four normal tracks, one boss, and one battle stage) since designing more stages and modelling them will delay the game for far more years.