Siri, where's my helmet?

Star Stable blog. Joined Jan 2013, currently on Night Sprinkles. Main blog: tumblr.com/palominodragon

[sirigreenhaven]

Hi, my general/fandom blog is over at tumblr.com/palominodragon

I just have to follow you from my horse game blog because it's all I did on tumblr for a while after the NSFW ban.

[a-m-w-worlds]

SSO has completely spoiled me on video game horses. The horses in every other game are either too cartoony and look silly or are too realistic and feel uncanny. SSO horses are the only ones to strike the perfect balance between realistic and stylized to actually look "right" to me.

[sirigreenhaven]

Or often even if I like the style, there are glaring flaws in the way they're modeled or animated, and the actual substance of the game isn't enough to make up for it. I used to be a lot more forgiving, but at this point, there are enough well-modeled and animated game horses to look at as examples that I feel like the ones that aren't don't have an excuse. If you're already putting in the work, do it right. So many horse games I consider and then go, "meh. I'll just log on sso."

[lydiaghostcat]

why did they get rid of all the fun parts of camp western???

[sirigreenhaven]

really don't like how they've done the gold - or the trend in general of an event board you have to do daily things to earn prizes from. My play style has always been to get a new thing done all at once and then have a break before the next thing comes.

I'm not opposed to daily quests in general, but I don't like them turning something into a daily quest-like activity when it wasn't before...

[charlierainfordsso]

:D

[sirigreenhaven]

You could say SSO really jumped the shark with this race.

[beffalumps]

What kind of kid were you? 🐴🦎🐺

Horse Kid

Dino Kid

Wolf Kid

Other! 👀

Voting ended onJul 20

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse figure of the day: Playmobil 30 65 2062 Donkey Foal (2007)

[sirigreenhaven]

Made the Style Riders finals again!

Last time, to my great confusion, my Finals outfit I'd worked so hard on finished last in a group who'd put zero creative work into theirs and just worn the most predictable pre-made outfits...

So I'm experimenting. I did some mix-matching with my horse's tack, but chose the character outfit that everyone else is definitely also going to wear. :/ We'll see what happens.

[sirigreenhaven]

Next two Summer Style Riders entries.

Yeah, I struggled with the Fish one. Where are you supposed to go with that? I didn't want to buy any of the ugly fisherman sets, so I went mermaid. Pretending the Marchenghast corruption stuff is coral. :p

[sirigreenhaven]

First two entries for the Summer Style Riders

Didn't expect it to come back so soon. Not mad, though.

[ritzy-draws]

Riffroc sketches

[halfmoonheart]

Got a few new books so I had to reorganize my shelves ☺️

They are pretty full though so idk what i'll do when i want to add more books 😭

[sirigreenhaven]

Ah yes, I too experience the struggle of "my bookshelves are also my Breyer shelves but I keep getting new books (and sometimes new Breyers...)"

It's beginning to feel like playing tetris

[halfmoonheart]

it's so tough!! its like...how much closer can i shove these guys to each other before i tip everyone over? how many stablemates can get tucked underneath the big ones? Will my cat steal my mini? Im so glad im not the only person experiencing this lol

BTW that Croi/connemara is absolutely beautiful 🤩

[sirigreenhaven]

That's Sparrow from the Birds of a Feather series. I can't resist a silver dapple/flaxen chestnut. I would have missed her, but that was the single year I did the Collector's Club so I was getting all the notifications for limited releases. Now she's around $500 on ebay. x_x

[halfmoonheart]

Got a few new books so I had to reorganize my shelves ☺️

They are pretty full though so idk what i'll do when i want to add more books 😭

[sirigreenhaven]

Ah yes, I too experience the struggle of "my bookshelves are also my Breyer shelves but I keep getting new books (and sometimes new Breyers...)"

It's beginning to feel like playing tetris

[sirigreenhaven]

I've gotten all the color/marking combos I wanted on the currently available mounts in Palia, so now I get to show them off!

I will say... as beautiful as everything else in the game is, there were a lot of really ugly mount options that I had to work around, or that I hoped would look good and was disappointed by. I do have some questions about the aesthetic choices made...

Such as why didn't you make the paint and polka dot (appaloosa) markings white on the brown Dawnspur coat so they would actually look like the natural horse patterns they're based on, Palia? Why didn't you adjust the polka dot pattern on the horses so the mirroring doesn't stretch dots across the back in weird ugly stripes? You clearly took that into account by darkening the backs on the polka dotted Riffrocs, so I know you noticed. And when you designed the face marking on the Akwinduu's dapple pattern to go with the gray coat by putting that rim of lighter gray around it, did you notice how bad it looks on every coat color that has actual color? Why did you decide to make the shiny sheen look... like that? Why did your research into the names of horse colors fail so hilariously?

(they call that buckskin Akwinduu a roan... I guess they got as far as learning that roan means white hairs mixed with a base coat color so they just uniformly lightened the coat, making it look like a cream gene instead. And then there's the chestnuts. I know people who don't know horses often get bay and chestnut mixed up, which explains why the chestnut Dawnspur looks bay, but why is the chestnut Akwinduu gray???)

Still, clearly, there are also a lot of really beautiful beasties to be had. I'm especially proud of the iridescent dapple gray Akwinduu. She's three generations of breeding. Also, the rainforest pattern on that dark gray Riffroc is badass.

[sirigreenhaven]

I love spotting glitches I haven't seen before.

[sirigreenhaven]

Dressed for the Pink Pony Club

[sirigreenhaven]

My horse is shark food while I'm chillaxing... sad.

[sirigreenhaven]

Yall I am losing the final to three people who barely made any changes to official clothing/tack sets. The finals is not where I expected this to happen, I'll be honest.

*diva voice* Does no one see my vision? Does no one appreciate the hard work of matching multi-colored items from different sets? I ask you