For whatever reason, Sly, my latest blorbo, has now been contained within a room where you (or whoever you want to be) can enter freely but he cannot leave.

Sly is a monster from a land that exists under the bed. He's something between a lizard, an armadillo, a possum, and a stuffed animal.

You are likely too big for Sly to pose any sort of threat to you, and Sly is likely too big for you to pose any sort of threat to him.

Here he is

(I made this just for fun to try and get the hang of writing interactions with him as I struggle with dialogue lol. It's not super serious but also don't like, idk, kill him please.)

Pokemon Infinite Fusion is a game where you can fuse Pokemon together and make them even more fucked up than usual. The IHA Discord has been talking a lot about it so I thought it might make a nice thread too, especially now that it's updated recently and I'm finally able to play it.

Q&A

How to change the Pokemon icons in the party menu? (Kuray only) Pause -> Options -> Kuray's PIF Revamp Settings -> Graphics -> Big Pokemon Icons

Links

• Kuray Infinite Fusion (KIF): Shiny color randomizer mod that also has some quality-of-life changes.
  

Based on one of my favorite subreddits, before Reddit shit the bed: share your most entertaining or baffling ultra-short YouTube videos. Preferably under 15 seconds, but 30 seconds is the maximum.

I have plenty in my YouCube playlist that I'll share as the mood strikes me, but I just realized I don't actually have a haiku playlist. I should probably make that!

Now go ahead and Google it and tell me if your guess was right.

I am going to commit atrocities

Here is my book club there is only one rule:

• Read book
  

Anyway, some prompts for this thread, pick one and go:

• What have you been reading lately?
  
• Any interesting occurrences at your local library?
  
• Any book recs?
  
• Do you have an account on a Reading Site (e.g. Goodreads, Storygraph, Bookwyrm)?
  

• say trick or treat and I will give you something
  
• I am drinking Pumpkin Pie Spiced Hard Cider
  
• you can make your own thread like this if you want idgaf
  

i know there's artists here who make zines / are interested in them. welcome to the zine thread

the other day i wrote Some Artist You Are, a 1-page zine about how much making art sucks. i even gave it a special itch.io page and everything. it's free and you can download it in "digital reading" format or "print" format. this one i consider very inspired by the ethos of IHATEART though i think thats obvious

As I've talked about many times both on stream and on Discord, I am making the difficult decision to reboot the Eggcraft server again, this time into a modded server.

Q&A
Why?
Eggcraft 1 and 2 were thriving, if small, servers that ran from 1.13 to 1.16. It was only with Mojang's decision to split the Caves & Cliffs update into two parts, and their updates going forward, that Eggcraft has become a chore for me.

Regardless of how you feel about Mojang, none of my users have been thrilled - some players did not want Allays, others very much did, every update takes at least a week for me to implement on the server, and the Nether road to newly-generated world content grows comically long. All of this and I have no options to change anything about these features; I'm at the mercy of Mojang. Exhausting!

What mods?
Eggcraft 4 will run my own fork of Crucial 2, which will definitely also have Create, and I'm open to suggestions for any other must-have mods.

How can I run mods?
I'll be more ready to answer technical support questions once I'm closer to the update, but in short, I recommend PrismLauncher. Crucial 2 claims to be a lightweight mod pack so I'm hoping it won't fry your laptops too bad.

Will you upload the world file?
Probably not. It's a huge file and I don't know where to securely host something like that.

When?
All users have until January 1st to make backups of their builds. I recommend Litematica.

I can't believe people managed to hold off on posting spoilers! Just kidding, I just didn't use Tumblr until I could sit down to watch it.

Here's some of the highlights:

• F-Zero 99

• Mario and Donkey Kong for Switch
  
• Princess Peach: Showtime!
  
• Splatoon 3: Side Order
  
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Switch
  

Side Order looks very interesting. Makes me want to replay Beyond Good & Evil.

I appreciate the Paper Mario port. It looks fine. I still just want to replay it on Gamecube. I don't "get" all the ports, when Nintendo used to be amazing about backwards compatibility... oh well.

Devs React To Unity's Newly Announced Fee For Game Installs: ‘Not To Be Trusted’ 

Quote:Unity, the cross-platform game engine that powers games like Rust, Hollow Knight, and Pokémon Go, has introduced a new, controversial fee for developers, set to take effect next year.

The new Runtime Fee, announced in a September 12 Unity blog, is based on the number of installations a game built with the Unity engine receives, as well as the revenue it generates. Though it won’t start until January 1, 2024, the Runtime Fee will apply to any game that has reached both a previously established annual revenue threshold and a lifetime install count.

This is nightmarish.

If  you're a hobbyist, now's the time to get into Godot Engine, if you can, the most viable and well-supported FOSS alternative to Unity. But, obviously, it's not Unity, and this is going to be nightmarish for people in the industry.

https://twitter.com/cultofthelamb/status...1663425897

Quote:Buy Cult of the Lamb now, cause we're deleting it on Jan 1st. ?

https://twitter.com/InnerslothDevs/status/1701731398498013575

Quote:We use Unity to make [Among Us].

This would harm not only us, but fellow game studios of all budgets and sizes. If this goes through, we'd delay content and features our players actually want to port our game elsewhere (as others are also considering). But many developers won't have the time or means to do the same.

Stop it. Wtf?