#thehlaalueffect

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

@@anhedonically replied to your post “Me and mom were watching the news this morning and they had a reporter...”

I keep thinking of you and worrying. I know you've said you and your mom are okay and stuff but it's all got to be so scary, especially with friends and neighbors and such in the area 😢💔 Sending so much love 💓💓

That’s so kind of you, dear, thank you. <3 It is really scary, I admit, especially as the areas immediately south and east of us have flooded badly, but we are completely dry, our power has never gone off, we have a lot of water, and we might get a little low on our favorite foods but we still have lots of stuff in the pantry and freezer. 

I don’t know about all my friends, but I do know that one good friend came just short of flooding. She posted on Facebook that they were retreating upstairs, but later she texted me that the rain stopped when the water had just barely gotten in the back door. 

I’m most worried about some friends who are farmers and ranchers, because I don’t know yet if their land and/or livestock have been destroyed. I haven’t heard from my massage therapist (who’s also a friend), I don’t know where he is. I don’t know how long it will be until I have access to my doctors or until I can resume the routines my autism likes. 

But all that said, we’re remarkably blessed, because our house and car are dry and we’re safe. After this week, I can’t ask for much more than that.

@@justoneoftheweasleys replied to your post “Me and mom were watching the news this morning and they had a reporter...”

What area are you in? Are you okay? My family lost our house and now we're trying to survive day by day. Is your family okay?

We’re on the west side, just off Highway 6 and West Little York. Amazingly, we’re totally okay. At first I was comforted that we live so near the Addicks reservoir because I thought it would keep the water away, but as it turns out we ended up just barely beyond how far Addicks has flooded. I haven’t left our subdivision to check how close the water is, but I know that neighborhoods 5 minutes away are underwater. 

I’m so, so sorry you lost your house. I wish I could help, but my heart goes out to you and your family. Me and my mom live together, and I have a cousin in the Heights who is doing okay. My grandparents used to live on Eldridge, but they moved to a retirement home in Dallas last year (where the rest of our family lives), which is good in that they didn’t have to go through this, but bad in that their house hasn’t sold yet and it’s almost certainly flooded. 

That will be a problem, but still, we hardly have anything to complain about, and we’ve felt almost a survivor’s guilt sort of emotion from watching the news all day and seeing how bad it is. I wish we had money to give and that we were healthy and able-bodied enough to volunteer. Again, I’m so sorry about your home, and I’ll pray that you find a place to go soon. <3

@@thehlaalueffect replied to your post “Me and mom were watching the news this morning and they had a reporter...”

I'm really glad you're out of harms way, I'd be really scared if I lived in that area

It’s definitely been really scary, but I’m far more scared for the city itself and everyone who has lost their homes. There are so, so many vulnerable people here, so many structures that are destroyed, and it’s going to take months for the water to go back down to normal, and years for people to recover, if they ever can. It’s almost more mind-boggling than frightening, because I can’t wrap my head around the scope of this.

But me and my mom and our cats are safe and dry, so nobody needs to worry about us. <3

And I just have to say that for how utterly devastating this has been, I’ve never seen such an incredible outpouring of human kindness and generosity. There have been hundreds of civilians bringing in their trucks, their boats, their jetskis, anything that can get through the water, and voluntarily working all day long to save people trapped in their homes. Donations are pouring in like a river, people are standing in long lines to volunteer, people are opening their homes to take in those who need shelter, people have formed human chains to rescue others from raging waters. I’m so proud of my city.

[calicoart]

Hey! I was looking at your blog trying to figure out why your art doesn't get more notes (you have some really amazing work on here!) and I wanted to ask if you've noticed that on mobile, most of your pictures are pixelated? Might be that tumblr's screwing around with the resolution of your files because of their size... keep up the work, you're doing great!

Hey, thanks for the message!

And I hadn’t noticed that, but you’re right, they do look very pixellated. I’m sure that’s my fault for drawing things too small — I post a lot of my stuff on forums, where the small size fits in posts and signatures, but I can see how it would be a problem here.

I’ll try to draw things larger in the future, or at least save the smaller ones with some empty space around them so tumblr doesn’t try to resize them. Thanks for letting me know! C:

And while I’m here, thank you for the compliments on my latest drawing! ♥ I don’t do portraits often, but I put a lot of time and effort into that one, so I really appreciate your kind words.

[ageofdragon]

@thehlaalueffect replied to your post “Not dragon age, but is bioware relevant: just is anyone else super...”

Brian Delaney said about his work on Fallout 4 that Bethesda chose him because his voice could 'fit many different faces' (among other reasons), for customization. So maybe Bioware is going with that? Idk, I personally liked Meer's job on mShep.

Okay, but Brian Delaney’s voice was even better than Ryder’s from what I’ve heard. I haven’t gotten to play Fallout 4 completely through yet, but the emoting in it seems pretty decent. And that’s fair, Mark Meer has a good voice and like I said I found it interesting aurally in his inflections. The lack of emotion in the dialogue is what turned me off for Shepard and that wasn’t really Meer’s fault, but Bioware’s direction.

That said see below.

rude-tomato replied to your post “Not dragon age, but is bioware relevant: just is anyone else super...”

I didn't really like mshep's voice it was.... boring? and I feel like this ryder voice is the same but like thehlaalueffect said it could just be that they want it to be pretty generic?

It is generic, which can be fine. But there is a fine line between good generic and BAD generic. Bad generic is when there is Absolutely no personality to the voice, when there is no emotion and no interest. It breaks immersion if you have this gorgeously rendered, handsomely created, deeply invested character and he speaks like a robot or educational video narrator.

Shepard? Shepard suffered from that a little, not enough to destroy the experience but enough to make me just Ugh. Ryder though? Ryder sounds so much more generic and monotone compared to Shepard and I Do Not Want. Besides, they do a pretty good job with generic actresses and their actresses are also so much better emoting and have better inflections in their voices. So “we wanted a generic voice” isn’t “well we wanted the most emotionless, boring performance from our male actor”, it is SUPPOSED to be “we wanted a voice that could fit any face and gave us the personality we were going for”. Bioware needs to learn the difference.

[ezi0]

thehlaalueffect replied to your post “some1 help me find a better icon ”

What kind of icon r u looking for?

ahh im not sure haha 

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Do you by any chance remember the title of the book with the aliens smiling by sticking out their tongue? I can't find it and god, I NEED to read this.

I REALLY WISH I DID the details I remember is that the girl gets stranded and she has to figure out how to communicate with the aliens (also kids) who aren’t sure if she’s being hostile because she keeps baring her teeth at them (aka smiling). Someone out there, help us find this book!

[wardencommando]

All the best for your birthgay (bad pun intended)!!

ʢ•ꇵ͡•ʡ✩⃛ queerly i should thank u for your kindness! thank u blessings upon ur house and homo

[ezi0]

thehlaalueffect replied to your post “im prety drunk right nwo so i dont know if im gonna go t classes...”

Lmao. Going to classes drunk is quite funny in my experience, going hungover tho... not so much.

I’ve never gone drunk but i’ve definitely been to class hungover and every time im like never again and YET HERE WE ARE 

[your-fave-is-bi]

thehlaalueffect replied to your post: thehlaalueffect replied to your post: ...

Agreed on all points… can’t even let the thing find you because you’re dead almost instantly. And what I find the worst is all the subtle horror stuff amnesia is the absolute master of. To what point have you played yet?

...............to the point where u get the hint that staying in the dark is bad for ur mental health...........................