Omens

[finitumgame]

No corporation that holds influence in the 5 Systems got that way through benevolence. Some, however, are far worse than others. Omega Cygen’s tyrannical rule of the cybernetics market and criminal dealings aren’t unknown, but their ties extend far beyond the norm and render them seemingly untouchable. They reign beside Adelphia Lmt., LyR Tech, Celestia Geonomics, and a small number of others as the elite of the corporations lovingly referred to as The Corps. ...and if you have a grudge (as anyone with sense does) against these Corps that hold sway over most of the settled systems, then you know the broadcast that taunts them - airing their laundry to anyone who tunes in.

Delphi, Illis, Sage. Whatever name assigned to her, in whatever system, she's known best as The Oracle. Over time, the simple broadcast grew into cells of resistance scattered across System 4 until the Corps began paying attention and The Oracle became the center of their ire.

However, their hunt has yet to be successful. The owner of the voice that helped spark a rebellion has managed to evade them all for nearly 30 years.

And is still poking bears with sticks. Though recently, she’s decided a sword might be better for Omega Cygen. Perhaps one with barbs...and poison...

You knew all of this already, of course... but when you’re contacted by someone with the offer of a job ... well, things get complicated. Especially since that someone is claiming to be The Oracle’s Daughter.

Finitum is an interactive visual novel that combines elements of text-heavy interactive fiction, comics, and sprites set in a scifi-fantasy world.

Take control of one of 8 Preset Characters as you navigate the cities on Marth (and possibly beyond), befriend and/or romance team members while trying to stay one step ahead of bounty hunters, and bring down one of the most powerful corporations in the 5 Systems.

Demo Release : TBA

Character creation and customization are not a feature in Finitum due current limits of my abilities. However, the preset characters can be guided through multiple paths and personalities depending on your choices. Each Preset has a different set of skills, two in each 'class' type, that will impact sections of the story and provide unique scenes as well.

There are currently 5 team members that will be recruited, along with you, by The Oracle’s Daughter and 3 that might join you along the way. All of the team members are romanceable if you so choose. Flirt options will eventually (sometimes sooner rather than later) unlock the option to pursue a romantic relationship. Future plans are to branch out and have the romance be selectable. However to make things easier to complete, each will be assigned to a specific preset for the time being. Platonic routes will be available for each, as well, with some providing unique scenes.

Stay tuned for progress updates, world lore, and more information on each character.

[ The Presets ] [ The Team ]

[omensandrust]

Hi! I'm glad to hear that you will be taking time for yourself to work on self improvement and your recovery! I just wanted to ask if you have any other social media we can follow you on, or if you planned to update the blogs with future projects at a later date? I really like your work and would hate to miss out on anything in the future. However, if you wouldn't be comfortable with sharing that, I understand. Thank you and best wishes on your journey!

My art blog does not contain much, at present, and would not be of much use at this stage. However, if there are any projects in the future, I will be sure to update this blog with a post announcing them or linking to them! Thank you so much.

[omensandrust]

It has taken me a few weeks to write this post. I’ve been going over it time and time again, trying to figure out the best way to go about it and I have the feeling if I do not do it now, I’ll continue putting it off.

This post is my official announcement of shutting down my interactive fiction games. I do not intend to work on any games in the future using CS format or any other that comes to mind. I still intend to continue working on art and writing, but it will be for my own benefit and for my close friends.

Omens and Entities have remained live until now, but as I have no intention or ability to continue working on them as Choice Script games, I will be removing them in the coming days.

I have a terrible attention span which causes me to swing wildly between projects. It is the reason I liked to keep more than one in rotation - A sort of vain hope that at least one would always be updating. It is not fair to readers who are waiting for content to update and it is unfair to myself as I try producing the content. Due to backups being lost, I no longer have the game files or work files for any of the Choice Script stories I have worked on in the past. I did my best to look at the silver lining in this particular situation and use it as a clean slate to rework Omens using only the original story’s backup I had managed to salvage. Obviously, that has not quite gone to plan, either. This is not the only reason I’m writing this, but it is the primary reason. There are aspects of personal life I don’t wish to talk about publicly that have nudged the decision forward and the past two years have been a slow downward slope where mental health and recovery are concerned. It does not put me in the best place to be part of a wider community or to be creating content for a larger audience in this type of format. It took me longer than it should have to realize this. 

Thank you so much to everyone who has stuck by these games. The interest, excitement, and support have been shining bright spots during some very bleak times and fueled the desire to keep going - Not only with the games, but to continue pushing forward to become a better writer and person. I’m still working on both of those things and I hope to see you all again when some of that work comes to fruition.

[movecl-deactivated20201016]

i'm literally begging you to help us defend our freedom of speech. we have eight days.

please reblog this post, especially if you live outside of the philippines. please help us.

i didn't make the carrd, but it's one of the most useful links right now. #JunkTerrorBillNow needs the most urgency, but there are other issues present too.

i'm begging you all to reblog.

[asterythm]

IF YOU’RE SHORT ON CASH, HERE’S ANOTHER WAY TO DONATE TO BLM WHILE BROWSING THE INTERNET:

There’s an extension called Tab for a Cause that donates money to charity every time you open a new tab (on Chrome or Firefox).

Basically, it puts two or three small ads on your new tab page and then donates the ad revenue to charity.

You’ll get Hearts every time you open up a page, which act as “votes” that you can donate to various charities to tell Tab for a Cause where you want your money to go.

There are a few charities that are always available for donations, but Tab for a Cause also “spotlights” a new charity every month – and starting today (June 2), in support of the BLM movement, the spotlighted charity is the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Also, did I mention it’s incredibly gorgeous and functional, too? You can customize your new tab background, take notes, create to-do lists and more (I’ve been using this extension for several years and I still have yet to get sick of it)!!

For those concerned about possible scams, this extension is super transparent. All of its code is open-source (x) (x) (x), and you can see all its quarterly financial reports right here.

Seriously, this is so so so easy – I usually hate posts that are all “there’s no reason not to do this!” but right now, I genuinely cannot think of even a single reason not to do this. 

That said, if there is somehow something standing in your way, you can still help by boosting this post like crazy – I’m not a big blog, so every share counts. Otherwise, please take 30 seconds and install Tab for a Cause by clicking this link or typing tab.gladly.io into your search bar.

(By the way, that if you use the specific link in this post, it’ll register as a referral for me, which will give me 250 bonus hearts to donate to NAACP… just saying.)

[prettierodds]

via @timothygoodman on instagram

[reverseracism]

Activists say the way to stop police brutality and killings is to cut law enforcement budgets and reinvest in services. Some lawmakers now a

[anarchopuppy]

An important detail to remember is that, while this level of support may be unprecedented, the idea isn’t. Defunding has been done before, and it works

For instance, the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, OR is a community-run non-violent crisis intervention and dispute resolution program that handles 17% of 911 calls using only 2% of the police budget. Or look at the Carbondale Spring initiative, which aims to cut the police budget in half to fund not only care workers, but also food autonomy, worker’s cooperatives, and renewable energy programs

It’s cheaper, it’s safer, and it’s proven. It’s common sense

[oberynmartell]

List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:

one of the most comprehensive, well-rounded, and well researchd compilations of blm related resources (includes petitions, donation links, venmo accounts, names of people in need, etc) thats out there. please share this link everywhere and anywhere. 

a black lives matter carrd that includes petitions, donation links, blm movement information, links on how to donate to BLM without spending money, black owned businesses, etc. 

Justice for George Floyd

Justice for George Floyd 2

Justice for George Floyd 3

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Stand with Breonna

Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder

Justice For Tamir Rice

Justice For Joāo Pedro

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez

Justice for Belly Mujinga.

Justice for Rashad Cunningham

Justice For Tony McDade

Justice for Dion Johnson

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley

Justice for Young Uwa

Justice for Elijah Nichols

Justice for Tete Gulley

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Justice for Michael Dean

Justice For Amari Boone

Justice for Darrius Stewart

Justice for Shukri Abdi

Justice for Ashton Dickson

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Justice for David McAtee

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Crystal Mason

Justice For Zinedine

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet

Justice for Christopher Josey

Justice for Amiya Braxton

Justice For Emerald Black

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Tamla Horsford

Justice for Collins Khosa

Justice for Sean Monterrosa

Free Siyanda

Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case 

Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery

Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality

Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child 

Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles

Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People

Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training

Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test

stop immigrants being poisoned by ICEBan the use of inhumane rubber bullets

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA

Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control

Join Campaign Zero

Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!

Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case

Abolish Prison Labour in the USA

Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff’s Office

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

Sign the Police Accountability Act into Law

Justice for Elijah Nichols 

Exonerate Eric Riddick

Justice For Luz Gonzalez!

Support a new law to be made in Trayvon Martin’s name to stop from claiming self defense after aggravated murder

Justice for James Scurlock

Justice for Philando Castile

Issue a State executive order to hold police accountable for unlawful action

Don’t let Julius Jones be executed by the state of Oklahoma

Help pass the Hands Up Act, which prohibits police officers from shooting unarmed citizens and carries a mandatory 15-year prison sentence if there isn’t a weapon found after someone has been shot by a police officer

A twitter thread linking to many, many Brazilian Petition that still need signatures

Donation Links

A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM

Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s child)

Black Lives Matter

We Cant Breathe

43 Bail Funds to Support

Homeless Black Trans women fund

Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers

Minnesota Healing Justice Network

Women for Political Change

Spiral Collective

When We All Vote

National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses

Venmo names of black trans people that need help

Latino Community on Lake Street

Black Immigrant Collective

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha

Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief

Al Maa'uun

Remembering Shana Isuroon 

Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses

Joyce Preschool

Black Table Arts

Northside business support

Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund

Unicorn Riot

Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy

Pimento Relief Fund

Southside Harm Reduction

West Broadway Business and Area Coalition

Division of Indian Work

TC Care Collective

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Justice for Jamee

Justice for David McAtee

Donate to Brandon Saenz who was shot in the left eye by a rubber bullet, and lost the eye, several teeth, and had facial fractures that required several surgeries

HOW TO DONATE INTERNATIONALLY/SITES THAT ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY 

HOW DONATE WITH NO MONEY

HOW TO DONATE WITH NO MONEY BY STREAMING THIS

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM BY SHARING LINKS

A list of black owned businesses we should be supporting! + a list of black owned businesses we should be supporting that accept international currency!

DO NOT DONATE TO SHAUN KING

DO NOT DONATE TO CHANGE.ORG

* this list is constantly updated (new links added at the bottom) so please keep checking back for new information on petitions and ways to donate!!

[dorianpavus]

hello gamers, there is a huge bundle of games on itch.io (744 games!) going for a minimum of five dollar donations, with all proceeds split 50/50 between the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund, i highly suggest you check it out and donate if you can

[wywrds]

hey!! itch.io added more games to the bundle, for a minimum of $5 you get 1475 games!!

and to those who bought the bundle before they added more games: you should have access to those games as well!

[anonymouslyangsty]

Just a heads up

You know those “donate by watching” videos going around for BLM? I’ve made a list of all of em I could find. 8 of the 28 I found have been removed from youtube. This happened around the same time I believe, as they were all there mere hours ago. 

[autumngracy]

Basically YouTube is marking these videos as spam and removing them because people are looping them continuously and not playing any other videos in between them which gets the user’s account flagged for possible bot activity, and when it happens en masse YouTube’s algorithms determine the video in question muat be a marketing scam using bots to generate revenue off the ads …

You have to play 3-5 different videos between these fundraiser ones if you’re going to keep replaying them because otherwise they will keep getting flagged and removed!

[glamour-divine]

Petitions that still need signatures:

Justice for George Floyd

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Justice For Joāo Pedro

Justice For Emerald Black

Justice For Tony McDade

Justice for Belly Mujinga

Exoneration of Albert Wilson

Justice for Amiya Braxton

Justice for Tete

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Justice for Crystal Mason

Justice for Sean Reed

Justice for Tamir Rice

Justice for Sean

Justice for Dion Johnson

Free Siyanda

Justice For Alejandro Vargas Martinez

Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery

Reopen Kendrick Johnson’s Case

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Young Uwa

Justice For Amari Boone

Justice for Rashad Cunningham

Julius Jones is innocent. Don’t let him be executed by the state of Oklahoma

Disbarment of George E. Barnhill

Free Jefferson Elie

Justice for Dafonte Miller

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Reopen Sandra Bland’s case

Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill

Justice For Regis Korchinski-Paquet

Justice for Angelesea Rock

Free Anthony Wint

Justice for James Scurlock

Reopen the case involving the death of Tamla Horsford

Fire Jared Campbell

Justice for Ashton Dickson

Justice for Collins Khosa

Justice For Mubarak Soulemane

Justice for Sherrie Walker

Justice for Jonas Joseph

Justice for Elijah McClain

Pardon Black Woman Imprisoned for Voting

Arrest Juan DelaCruz for the murder of Pamela Turner

National Action Against Police Brutality

Dismiss the charges on Marshae Jones and charge the one who shot her and her unborn baby

Ban the use of inhumane rubber bullets

[irregularcollapse]

Here’s a link to a Google Doc with a bunch of Indigenous organisations which you can donate to, including Black Rainbow (LGBTQIA+ Indigenous organisation) and groups that support incarcerated Aboriginal people and work towards ending Indigenous deaths in custody

[dovekiss]

The most comprehensive link to donations, petitions, resources and information. Silence is compliance in violence.

[luckcat-deactivated20240730]

A list of misinformation that’s being spread, please check that things are true before you repost/reblog them

[t5t]

international blm sites & resources, reposting from this tweet

general eng: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

🇨🇦: justice for regis korchinski-paquet (google doc)

🇰🇷: blmkorea.carrd.co

🇯🇵: blmjp.carrd.co

🇨🇳: chineseforblm.carrd.co

🇲🇫: blacklivesmatters-french.carrd.co

🇪🇸: lasvidasnegrasimportan.carrd.co

🇩🇪: blacklivesmatters-german.carrd.co

🇮🇹: levitenerecontano.carrd.co

🇭🇺: blmhungary.carrd.co

🇵🇹: asvidasnegrasimportam.carrd.co

🇧🇷: blmbr.carrd.co

🇫🇮: finnblm.carrd.co

🇵🇬: weneedtotalkaboutpapua.carrd.co

🇮🇩: indonesianblm.carrd.co

🇵🇱: blm-pl.carrd.co

🇹🇭: blmthai.carrd.co

🇦🇱: blmalbania.carrd.co

🇻🇳: vietsforblm.carrd.co

arabic: blm-arab.carrd.co

[irregularcollapse]

Here’s a link to a Google Doc with a bunch of Indigenous organisations which you can donate to, including Black Rainbow (LGBTQIA+ Indigenous organisation) and groups that support incarcerated Aboriginal people and work towards ending Indigenous deaths in custody

[mushroomofficial]

DON'T LET THEM REWRITE HISTORY

Trump campaign demands story retractions on tear gas use

Emails sent to news organisations admonish reporting that tear gas was fired at protesters to clear Trump's way.

[mushroomofficial]

reblogging because of tumblr's weird link thing so this shows up in the tags

[hyrude]

itch.io is offering a 743-game bundle including night in the woods, oxenfree, and overland, for as little as $5! just skimming the list, i also see tons of lgbt+ and poc-centric games available. 100% of contributions go to NAACP legal defense and educational fund and community bail fund. if there’s a game you were already thinking of buying, spend that money here instead and get an extra 742 as a gift!