Wear Hats and Make Games

[dragongirlsweetie]

ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)

how long

< 3:00

3:00–3:59

4:00–4:59

5:00–5:59

6:00–6:59

7:00–7:59

8:00–11:59

12:00–15:59

16:00–20:59

21:00–24:59

25:00–30:00

≥ 30:00

Voting ended onJun 1

[slygirlboy]

finally starting to write my book again,,,

[slygirlboy]

the worst part of burnout is that, at least for me, you dont really recover from it, you just get sick of not creating anything so you throw yourself back into it

[mechtroid]

[shmitz]

It really is just that creating things, for me, became so heavily associated in my brain with the job search that when the job search broke me, it broke my ability to sit down and create. And yet. creating things is ALSO so central to my self-perception, my identity, that NOT creating things makes me feel like a shell of a person.

[viralfrog]

[azdesertwillow]

@scarlettrust

[shmitz]

This is how sharks train for sharknadoes.

[lakemojave]

I've always been really confused about the world culture of Fallout, especially before the collapse.

Like it's my understanding that the timeline diverges from our own after WW2, with the United States entering a golden atomic age driven by relentless xenophobic and expansionist conquest, plunging the world into a fascistic death spiral that lead to the resource wars and nuclear armageddon. And to deliver that bleak premise with a satirical edge, it's canonical that American culture is, at least by the 2070s when the world ends, stuck in a sort of neo 50s obsession where the only music and art that's popular enough to survive the nukes is all stuff that originated more than a century beforehand.

Like I get that the criticism being made is that a culture obsessed with its own past is indicative of a bleak present crushed by imperialism and nationalism, but can you really expect me to believe that Fallout's American empire was so bad that culture and art and aesthetics were just. Frozen in time for more than 100 years? Addicted to their own past? That the American people were so embroiled in reactionary ideologies that they were incapable of moving forward and creating anything new?

Anyway did you hear they're rebooting Malcolm in the Middle this year? And the Mummy. And the Devil Wears Prada. And Masters of the Universe. And Meet the Parents. And a 5th toy story movie. And a moana remake.

Could mean nothing.

[thesevenofhearts]

i have no idea where we collectively stand on this so!

is pluto a planet?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 26

[shmitz]

Judging by the tones of the various comments on this, I think this poll shows there are slightly more tumblr users with love in their hearts than users with sticks up their butts.

[psuedofolio]

"Something's weird with my copy of Smash Bros..."

[shmitz]

I don't know if the players in my campaign are ever going to know this NPC's full name, but it is Georg Eric Nivor.

[shmitz]

Since this is the site for silly stories, here's a silly story about one of my favorite PvP moments in a non-PvP game*.

I was trying to grind some levels in Everquest with a pick-up group (back then, they were pretty much all PUGs). The guy who was going out to find a monster to pull to the group was really bad at it and kept making trains.

The first thing you should know about EQ is that it was before monsters in MMOs had leashes. They would just follow you forever unless you left the zone completely. So a "train" is what happened when someone ended up getting aggro from one too many mobs and, as they ran to zone, kept picking up more and more. If you saw someone shout "train!" in the zone chat you knew you needed to book it or find a really good place to hide until the monsters eventually wandered back to where they came from.

The other people in the zone were, rightly, pretty mad at the guy in my party, but he was being a jerk about it, laughing, not caring about the other players who were getting hit with XP penalties for dying. He tossed insults back at anyone that suggested maybe he should be more careful, even those of us in the same party.

Our party was, thankfully, camped up against the far wall so any time this guy screwed up and ran to zone, he was pulling everything in the opposite direction from us. We were basically safe from his shenanigans other than having to sit around and wait for things to reset every time. That meant I eventually realized I had plenty of opportunity to do something about this guy.

I told the group that I'd run out of potions so I was going to go grab some more from my bank. I played a druid, so I bound myself to the party location, cast a speed buff on myself, and ran back to the nearest town. I should note this is a little bit backwards. Normally people would bind themselves in town, teleport themselves there when needed, and then run back to the hunting area, because it's a lot safer that way. But I needed to be able to teleport instantly back because I knew what I was actually picking up was going to be heavy.

See, the second thing you should know about EQ is that money had weight. You had to actually manage your currency in copper, silver, gold, and platinum coins. I did go to my bank but not for potions. Instead I grabbed a thousand copper coins, which immediately encumbered me, slowing me down even with the speed buff on me. And then, because I was bound at the party spot, I just teleported back and waited for the next pull.

And this brings us to the third thing to know about EQ: the split command. EQ didn't have any kind of sophisticated way to automatically distribute loot. You were basically just expected to be honest when you looted a monster. And if you found money, the way to distribute it equally was to type something like "/split silver 30", which would then take 30 silver from your inventory and evenly divided between the rest of the party members. Or, and this is the most important part, you could instead type something like "/split copper 0/1000/0/0" and it would distribute the money exactly as specified to each party member.

And that's what I did as soon as I knew that guy had a couple monsters on his tail. Everyone in the party got the notice when I used split, even if they didn't get anything from it. The guy getting people killed was gloriously flabbergasted as he found himself unable to escape, and the rest of the party laughed their heads off. I thanked everyone for their time, left the group, and sped off into the sunset.

*Everquest did have PvP servers but I didn't play on one.

[shmitz]

Anime studio exec: "Can you adapt to other art styles?"

Interviewee: "I have a hard time with that, actually."

Exec: "Can you do animation keyframes?"

Interviewee: "I don't have a lot of experience with that."

Exec: "Backgrounds then?"

Interviewee: "Oh no lots of straight lines take me forever."

Exec: *thinks for a minute, frowning* "Can you draw food?"

Interviewee: *pulls out a gorgeous illustration of a ramen bowl*

Exec: "You're hired!"

[shmitz]

Exec: "So you're good at drawing creatures?"

Interviewee: "Oh yes, I particularly love drawing horses, dragons, and skeletons."

Exec: "You mean illustrating them by hand?"

Intervieww: "Yes! Sometimes I just doodle them on whatever paper is nearby when I'm bored. I have drawn, by hand, so many horses, dragons, and skeletons. They're basically all I draw."

Exec: "I'm sorry, but we just don't have any positions available for someone with your talents."

[muppidupp]

NEVER GIVE UP

[shmitz]

Thinking a lot about some of the main themes of Celeste: understanding and accepting the Part of You instead of hating it and acting as if it's something you can deny and get rid of. It is a very difficult thing to do, but I think a lot of that difficulty is extrinsic, not intrinsic. Call it a dysfunction, divergence, disability, or maybe even a dysphoria, that Part of You makes it harder to be economically productive, and our capitalist society hates that. It teaches us to hate it. It makes you blame that Part of You instead of the society that balks so much at supporting you.

But you can't deny that Part of You or leave it behind. Madeline learns that she needs to listen to it, which is to say, understand what it needs, what limitations it creates, so that she can continue to function in a society that hates to make exceptions. Cooperation with that Part of You means when it needs time, you give it time. It means when it takes your energy, you work with what you have left and don't push yourself past your limits. It means you have to be the advocate for that Part of You when other people want to deny it and pretend it doesn't exist.

Realistically, things like depression and anxiety don't have benefits to offer us in return. We won't get a second dash when we learn to accept them, in other words. But if we have to feel anger or frustration with the way it affects our lives, that should be directed outward, not inward. Granted, shaking your fist at the world isn't exactly constructive, and I don't have answers for what else to do. But at worst, that is obstructive. Blaming and hating ourselves is destructive and only leads to bad things.

Celeste has been around a while now so I doubt I'm saying anything new, but it's on my mind. Worth saying again I hope.

[velvetvexations]

can I pay extra to not have a pizza commissar breathing down Sara's neck

[danshive]

No you don't understand that Sara is a loose cannon

[shmitz]

Sara: I am making the prettiest pizza! It has glitter... and feathers... and some ribbon around the outside...

Pizza Commissar: That's not what the customer ordered.

Sara: Nobody appreciates art!

Pizza Commissar: It's not even edible.

Sara: Haters gonna hate!

[shmitz]

Anime studio exec: "Can you adapt to other art styles?"

Interviewee: "I have a hard time with that, actually."

Exec: "Can you do animation keyframes?"

Interviewee: "I don't have a lot of experience with that."

Exec: "Backgrounds then?"

Interviewee: "Oh no lots of straight lines take me forever."

Exec: *thinks for a minute, frowning* "Can you draw food?"

Interviewee: *pulls out a gorgeous illustration of a ramen bowl*

Exec: "You're hired!"

[musashi]

attempting to exhibit self control

[shatterstag]

GOD there was a reddit thread talking about the extreme ways people were trying to save their true ending eternally so it could never be touched and reset and everybody would live on in their own digital universe

shit like copying the save to a flash drive and hiding it or locking it in an archive with an incomprehensible password

real talk its so interesting and cool that the undertale world and characters resonate so much to some that people go to such lengths to preserve their ‘existence.’ i just think thats so cool that the game does such an awesome job of making their existence seem real and important to you to the point where you refuse to replay the game

[painted-bees]

honestly, employing “refusal to play” as a satisfying game mechanic is–kind of magical. I mean, for real.

[shmitz]

I really loved the gameplay of Transistor but by the end of my second playthrough I was definitely like "Ah, the only way to win is to not play the game."

[speedlimit15]

[cozyjorts]

for full context

[omglee-i-cant-even]

[shmitz]

I also like that the guy who killed someone is the most valid counterpoint to the original troll. The laws of physics really don't care one way or the other about intent.

[danshive]

The Alien franchise, except the corporation trying to profit from the aliens are pushing them like AI is being pushed.

“Xenomorph included!”

“I don’t really want that.”

“Xenomorphs are on by default.”

“WHAT DOES THAT MEAN”

[shmitz]

"Why is there a button that just says 'Facehugger'?"

"This product features Generative Xenomorphs!"

[shmitz]

Live every day as if tomorrow you'll get stuck in a time loop.