#mrinsanity25

[tricksterlatte]

Haven't talked to you in a long time. Hope things pick up for you. What'd you think of Berseria?

Thanks! As for Berseria, it wasn’t my cup of tea per se but I can definitely see and appreciate why people loved it if that makes sense? And I loved Magilou, Rokurou, and Teresa.

[misty-reeyus]

I was reading that writing tips post you reblogged about dialogue. I've been going over my own fic, and I was glad to see I covered most bases, but there's one thing I was still stuck on and I was hoping you could help me as you're pretty experienced at writing, if you don't mind. Someone offered to look over my fic once and one thing they noted was that I would have one character's action in the paragraph of someone else's dialogue. Is this bad?

upfront, one thing you gotta learn about writing advice is thatnot all of it is good/suits your writing style/applies to a certainspecific example. when i rb those writing advice posts tbh there’susually at least little parts that i dont entirely agree with. but digressing.

what i believe you’re describing can definitely cause confusion,though, it really depends on the context and how you’re writing howthese actions happen, and since i don’t have an example of yourwriting in front of me, i can’t exactly make a firm judgment.

the potential problem here is that if you’re making character Ado something in a dialogue tag while character B is talking, andleave no indication that character B is the one talking, a readermight easily make the mistake that it’s A who’s actually talking.if it’s just that you’re mentioning that another character isdoing something while character B is talking, but it’s CLEAR to thereader that character B is talking, then i don’t think there’s aproblem. but like it said, it depends on context and i don’t havean example of yours in front of me that i can really judge.

[misty-reeyus]

Hello, sorry to bother you but I feel like if anyone would know, you might. Also, I'm assuming you beat ToB, so spoilers if you didn't. Do you know if Eleanor could still fight daemons after the end of Berseria? From what I could tell, she could still see daemons and malakhim afterward, but I don't know if she could fight daemons since she would need a pact with a malak and I assume her pact with Laphicet broke after he became Maotelus. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

honestly someone please correct me if im wrong because as much as i love berseria its lore is still tied to zestiria’s and zestiria’s lore is inherently a mess

also berseria spoilers warning

i absolutely believe that eleanor would continue to fight after the game. she has the resonance that so few people have anymore now that the four elementals are awake, and she would want to make use of it to help people in every way she could. actually, my own personal headcanon is that eventually, she becomes known as the second shepherd after artorius. (note how eleanor’s glove is its own unique style, which is THE EXACT SAME STYLE OF SOREY’S SHEPHERD GLOVE 1000 YEARS LATER. she totally passes her gloves down and they become symbolic of the title in the future dont @ me.)

point taken about how laphicet becoming maotelus probably means eleanor’s an empty vessel immediately postgame, but honestly, she could probably just find new malakhim. im sure there are some who would be willing to help her, especially since she knows better than to treat them as objects now, and she very clearly has a goal and the determination to see it through. having once been vessel to the new fifth empyrean probably helps her rap sheet too.

hell, if nothing else, bienfu and magilou could introduce her to a normin pal or two.

[misty-reeyus]

Hello, you seem to have a lot of Berseria gifs. I remember when I was playing it at the beginning, I joked to my friends about needing a gif of Velvet trying to figure out how to read a compass because it was the funniest thing ever to me. Have you run into a gif of that at all? I know you probably didn't, but I figured I'd ask.

dude i dont “run into” gifs i make them myself

tune in shortly

[dimensionslip]

Thank you very much for the informative answer. It's always wonderful to learn more about this stuff. If I may ask one more question regarding .jars. Since they need the JRE to run, do you just package the JRE with your program or is it up to the clients to install it themselves?

It depends on the app. On our end, I don't think "bundling" is the word for it, since we deal with web-based applications and we use web browsers to interface with the programs we create. I don't deal with the clients personally and I'm not part of the deployment team, but based on what I understand, our other teammates help with the installation of the server on the client's server PCs, which is where the web app is hosted.

I've observed that a lot of "standalone" apps floating around the internet don't have the JRE bundled, though. Java's installed in pretty much all PCs, after all.

[dimensionslip]

I've looked into some Python, it's pretty cool. I was happily surprised to see you say Java. I'm personally preferenced towards Java but half expected to hear C++, C#, or even Object C. Thanks for linking to the Waterfall Model, very interesting and useful. Since you mentioned Java, if I'm not digging to deep I'd like to ask how you make them into .exe's? To my understanding, a .jar can't run on windows without a JRE and few windows users have it by default.

Well, it actually depends which part of software development you want to get into, but for about 90% of the fields out there, you're solved if you know Java! C# is used in game programming, as far as I know. Java's more general and could be pretty much used for anything, ahaha.

I actually haven't explored how to make Java files into .exe files, but I think you might need an external library for doing that. And I think .jar files should be fine for the most part, especially since not everyone uses Windows! And the main beauty of Java is that it's compatible across various operating systems, so yes, it might be better to keep things as a .jar file.

[misty-reeyus]

Dude, where's the Rita backstory on her parents? I've always wonder about ToV party's families and there's almost nothing I ever found on any of them.

yeah okay most of the Vesperia backstories can only really be found through sidequests but here’s the stuff on Rita’s dad that I was talking about:

also we get this little nugget later:

so like I said, Rita’s dad abandoned her mom right after she gave birth to Rita, and personally, I feel like that would tie into her antisocial nature quite a bit (e.g. her saying “blastia will never betray me” when we first meet her)

and just on a semirelated note, incidentally, this is also the very sidequest where we learn that Hermes was Judith’s dad, and that Judith was going around destroying the Hermes blastia because she felt like she had to clean up her father’s mess. Also, other separate sidequests tell us that Yuri never knew either of his parents and that Estelle’s parents died when she was young. Just some extra tidbits for you in case you were curious.

[dimensionslip]

I've followed you for a while and just read your description, learning that you are a software developer. Are you a programmer, per chance? I wish to become a programmer (& make programs, eventually videogames) & would love an insight on software development. Please forgive me if I make wrong assumptions based on my interpretation of software and programs being similar if not one in the same? Also, if you are a programmer, what's your preferred language? Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Did someone say "software development"?

Anyway, yes, I've been working as a software developer for more than two years now (ahh, how time flies--), and programming is one of my skills. As for the difference between a programmer and a software developer, I say the latter encompasses more fields. A programmer tends to specialize in coding, whereas as a software developer, you need to be exposed to all aspects of the software development process (i.e. coding, testing, etc). Both will have to deal with team dynamics as well, though I'm under the impression that the latter's more involved with regard to it. On the subject of software and programs, I view a "program" as a subset of a particular "software", in which a particular "software" is composed of one or more programs, which may or may not have been coded by the same person. Like, if I were to deliver something to a client, it would be a "software" rather than a "program".

That's my take on the topic, though you might get a different answer from another person. On a general scale, I'm reasonably confident about my answer, but the terms may be interchangeable depending on who you ask. Or which company you're applying to (like some places use "software engineer", some use "software developer", and others use both and distinguish between the two).

As a software developer (or "developer" for short) in my current company, I am expected to help out in whatever phase of the software development process a particular project is in. We use a modified version of the waterfall model (the method we use is not in the list, as it was literally modified to suit our company's needs, but the link should provide you a gist of what it's about), and I help out by doing technical investigations, coding functions, testing and bug fixing, and proposing solutions to whatever design problems the module assigned to me encounters. In that regard, a project is almost always a team effort, and you'd rarely see a team that's just composed of less than ten people. I'm usually assigned to 2-3 projects at a time, with one as my "major" project and the other two being my "adhoc" projects. In that regard, the whole software development process (from system analysis and design to production), usually takes 1-3 years, not counting maintenance.

As for my preferred language, my favorite is Python (I like the rationale behind it, among other things), but on the job, I use Java more often than not. Python's more of a hobby for me, ahaha. Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript is also handy, since we deal with web development and those are the languages you need to properly display the user interfaces. And of course, behind the scenes, there's SQL. I'm most used to Oracle, so yeah, that's my preferred language for database systems.

What kind of insight do you wish on software development, though? There's a lot of things I could say on the matter, though I'm not quite sure where to start. If you need any clarification on the terms I used, feel free to ask!