And the ultimate bloging begins

I am using this as an opportunity to really dust off the blog and rewrite some beloved old posts, which means I'm going through each one manually. This does, however, mean things has been slow work. Especially since I am doing this totally from scratch. So I am compromising and publishing updates in chunks instead of leaving the blog offline for months to come.

I could use all the support I can get here, folks, cos in the end on top of trying to move away from Patreon I'm basically shooting myself in the feet and making new better feet just because I hate Tumblr THAT much. I hope this is worth it. Please god

Nintendo hates citrus fruit (goodbye Yuzu and Citra)

Nintendo wins $2.4M in Switch emulator lawsuit, Yuzu to shut down

Quote:Makers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu owe Nintendo $2.4 million after reaching a settlement with the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom developer, following a lawsuit over the open-source emulator just last week. Both Nintendo and Tropic Haze, the company behind Yuzu, filed for a final judgment and permanent injunction on Monday, according to court documents, after Nintendo accused the Yuzu makers of copyright infringement, circumvention of Nintendo’s Switch protections, and selling those circumvention technologies as Yuzu, among other things.

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra taken offline as collateral damage in Yuzu lawsuit settlement

Quote:The developers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu entered a surprise settlement with Nintendo on Monday, agreeing to pay the game company $2.4 million in damages and cease development and distribution of the emulator. Now, as a result of that settlement, Citra—a 3DS emulator that shared developers with Yuzu—has also been taken offline.

Gotta be real with you, this sucks major ass. I don't have much to say here because I don't wanna get too doomer on it and this is a bit depressing for li'l ol' me.

I need to make more posts about new things being put into the world...

Welcome to Rainbow Corner!

Rainbow Corner is the free premade player housing area, for players who aren't so up to making their own houses or just want to have a base close to spawn.

• First come, first serve. Just be nice about it. If someone says they want a house first then don't take it right away.
  
• If you want a house in a specific color or style you can special request it.
  
• You're free to customize the house as much as you want, but please don't claim a spot just to demolish it. I'll be opening blank lots soon in the same area!
  
• New to Eggcraft 4.0: you now have an allotted 4 chunks (2x2), designated by the spruce fence, instead of just having to sort of guess where your boundaries are. You can press F3+G to view chunk boundaries. In general I doubt this will be a huge problem anyway, but if you're looking to make a basement, here's how you can keep track of where "your base" is.
  

House Styles

So far I have Big House, Medium House Big Yard, and Two-Story. I am planning on making a Small House and some throwback builds. If you have a specific vision you can't build on your own, feel free to share!

hello eggware forumgoers. i want to make some little guys in petz today for other people but don't know what to do. present us with a word and an animal and we will make you a little thang of your very own 

(you do not Have to own/play petz to redeem one of these but it would make us very happy to give people a thing they can play with )

hi. i recently started a new modded playthrough of stardew valley because youtube keeps recommending me videos of people doing wild challenges and i keep goddamn thinking about it. i thought it would be fun to try liveblogging it casually

there's a couple QoL mods thrown in (non-destructive npcs, automation) but the big mod to mention is stardew valley expanded, which adds a ton of new stuff that i'm not yet familiar with but is pretty solid so far. the other mods most worth making note of are

uhm. well im not going to lie to you theyre furry mods. theyre mods to make everyone anthros. admittedly i do have a couple stylistic gripes with the "anthro characters continued" mod but i just felt kinda weird being a damn animal while everyone else was normal

anyway. it is currently the last day of spring. will do a quick rundown and then post at certain milestones or when i feel like it

ive been gradually chipping away at the community center bundles (and checking with the traveling cart to snag some seasonal stuff a little earlier than usual) but i dont have any of the big stuff unlocked yet. i am very close to getting minecarts though which will be a huge help for getting around quicker

ive also been chipping away at the museum. i've been following this layout to ultimately get something that looks nice if im able to find all of it. unfortunately i am struggling to find a source for it because it came up as a damn pinterest upload will update if i am able to find the original

(02-28-2024, 05:56 AM)cheet Wrote: i am very close to getting minecarts though which will be a huge help for getting around quicker

ok well i didn't realize i had a single gold bar laying around. convenient though i can get around town like a damn champ now

webweaving is a format of internet collage that involves juxtaposing various images and quotes together you see it on Carhammer's all the time. this is not about that

webweaving is also a term i've seen used in some indieweb-adjacent spaces i'm in to describe web development and web coding as an amateur hobby rather than an industry professional skill. this includes making personal websites, assets for personal websites, HTML/CSS code for things that aren't necessarily websites (like toyhou.se profiles), et cetera. this is the web development thread

my personal website is over at portfiend.quest, it's a blog/resource/about page sort of thing. i'm more than happy to add people to my friends section of the button sidebar if anyone would like. likewise you don't have to ask me permission to add my button to your site. i also have a character directory website over at spawo.neocities.org

i've also made two templates for the static site generator 11ty, an oc directory template (for making character profiles) and the preference list template (in case you for some reason need to make webpages that contain a list of definitions and your personal opinion on each definition)

I will be doing all of these in time! Just trying to narrow down what order I want to do them in

hiii okay so

we had the idea to start a Group Playthrough thread on our own forums, and while we will not be moving the Prize System here, we want to extend the invitation to do this challenge to this community as well!

let me copy and paste what's relevant....

Quote:we've been wanting to do a group gaming event for a while, and with the help of some friend brainstorming, this came to mind...a pokemon mystery dungeon themed event where the focus is simple: do a run of a mystery dungeon game- any PMD game, any mods/romhacks/randomizers you want, even picking an unfinished run back up- as long as you are posting about it here on our forums!

rules are simple, right? even though we can't reward people for it in the same way we can on our own forums (eggs are out of our hands....), it is still greatly encouraged to do similar things to over there: make bios for your pokemon, or even any areas they inhabit! share them here! make your own challenge rules! make little fanworks for people's stuff! have fun!

and now, our next post will be our starting entry for our own run...

we're going to be playing PMD Explorers of Sky, specifically randomized with SkyTemple. the gist of our randomization is as follows:

• random mons, but we did get the option to pick starter if we didnt like the quiz result so that it'd be petz friendly (more on that later)
• random items (possibly a mistake)
• random tilesets/floor plans/names/OST for dungeons (very fun so far)
• did not randomize moves, stats, abilities, etc. we are not the best with PMD gameplay so we figured this would minimize suffering.

and our personal challenge for the run...

new team members must be petz-compatible to some degree, and we have to hex them. this means that most of our team is going to either be quadrupeds, floating scrimblos like magnemite or the porygon lines, or bipeds we slap back onto the ground. our petz skills are pretty advanced at this point so this still gives us a pretty wide pool to work with, as well as having bases for a lot of mons from our other various runs ready to go. certain mons will absolutely get priority because of that- if we already have a base for something, we'd be fools Not to use it and get that extra party member. hopefully we can get some decent team comps off of this...

on top of that, we're going to be using our pokemon OC generator (soon to be hosted on the HD site once we get a generators page up proper) to randomize some little appearance variations and personality ideas for these guys as characters. actual relationships between characters will be handled via petz interactions, so that we can get cute screencaps of them interacting.

also, blanket perm: you can make whatever fanworks of our guys. if you end up making petz versions, we can even have them hang out in-game- though we are down to do any kind of lore building or even RP (though we would probably need a different thread for that...) with any characters people make. our locations are also free to use for your own purposes!

so...we started the game.

our first randomization didn't go so well because we forgot to make starters pickable and got slapped with snover and that simply will not do. re-randomized and got raikou first try, which was exciting as hell because we've wanted to make a raikou character for years and never really gave ourselves the opportunity to do so. it's a quadruped, it's a tiger, and it's super cute- especially with the prompt we generated for him. a round build...jesus christ it's raitora at home. while we didnt end up making him THAT round, we definitely made him soft and cute for the petz hex, which...
 

meet cloudburst, the leader of Team Storm Drain. he's a rough and tumble raikou with a paranoia problem, exacerbated heavily by people treating him like shit for being the runt of his raikou litter. he's a goddamn legendary and he's as big as a vulpix. just a little guy. as demonstrated by the fact that i immediately wiped to the first pokemon in the first dungeon (a fucking smeargle that failed sketch and then struggled me to death) he is Not good at fighting and has a major inferiority complex over it. his greatest wish in life is to become a prolific artist, taken seriously for his work, but he has yet to get any credit in his community, likely because...

he is also....a bandit! Team Storm Drain is a bandit team, not sanctioned by any guild of high standing...and we will be framing our exploits in our run as that of an evil (if bumbling, team rocket style) team! it felt like a fun twist, and we really like these two...which, let's get on to the partner mon.

[image description: a petz collage of a gastrodon hex, featuring a green and lavender body with yellow accents, spikier features overall, eerie eyes with coencentric rings, and earrings piercing one of his...frills? he is simply sliding around.]

it was a tossup between gastrodon and latias for options (there were more but both of those ones are HUGELY gay-associated mons for us, it was not really a question of anyone else getting in), but we already had a gastrodon hex ready to go and the storm theming with a raikou and a gastrodon was too good to pass up. we actually used a gastrodon in competitive for years with storm drain, so it just felt like the right move.

typhoon is the loyal henchman to cloudburst's evil team leader, and is devoted to a fault. cloudburst values his company deeply, but overlooks some of the gastrodon's feelings sometimes...if these two had a sort of pinky and the brain dynamic, typhoon would be pinky without question. silly, eccentric (though so is his "boss"...) and willing to do whatever he says- though he might not be effective at it. even so, typhoon is also the secret muscle behind the team, and oneshots shit frequently in our playthrough. it is actually fucking disgusting how good at fighting he is compared to the literal legendary on the team, most likely because he's fully evolved and has a way better movepool. a lot of the fights in-game end up with me (as cloudburst) ducking for cover behind this guy and letting him water pulse things to death, because otherwise i will die in two hits and cry.

typhoon is also very into being Evil™ and delights in petty heists with cloudburst. the two of them love to scheme. unfortunately, typhoon, while a lot of Slug Muscle, is also known to bungle operations pretty bad- based entirely off of the fact that i realized part of why i was doing such shit damage was because he kept using mud sport every time he saw an enemy across the map. he no longer can use mud sport. also, he generated Weird Eyes, angular shapes, and ear piercings, which i felt made for a suuuuper cool punk-y character. he's so cool.

which, of course, now we have to see the petz relationships side of things....within like 2 minutes they were cooing and fawning over each other, which is a pretty solid "it was love at first sight" conclusion. cloudburst must have set off for the big world and found himself head over heels for the punk slug...and the two became criminals together, albeit criminals literally no one takes seriously. they are gay against the whole world...

we'll write more about locations later, but i am Not up for image describing screencaps of dungeon tilesets right now. that will be another day!

hi, if you dont know me, i was in a really bad depressive slump for nearly a year. part of this was due to not getting my antidepressants refilled. well i sure got them refilled and i think ive had more drawing motivation the past week than i ever had in the past 3 years. here is my drawrings

02/17/2024 - 02/23/2024

Alloys painting

Character full-bodies

System member icons

Captain Pikeman and the First Mate

(design sketches for the above)

Captain Pikeman is shark-based. the First Mate is axolotl-based.

i have been posting these to my tumblr, sheezy.art, and itaku (the last two i haven't gotten the chance to try out), but since tumblr is currently in a really shitty spot, i am getting more inclined towards sheezy/itaku. over time i might cut it down to one site too between whichever captures my interest more. sheezy is looking pretty good on this front

(deep breath)

(screams into a pillow)

huckleton Wrote:basically a popular transfem tumblr blogger (predstrogen) has been complaining for months that tumblr support does nothing about the stalking and harassment she was receiving; she made a post on her blog wishing over-the-top cartoon violence on the CEO of tumblr (imagine "i hope the ceo gets exploded in a car covered with hammers" it was something completely ridiculous) and got her account completely nuked. this pissed a lot of people off and photomatt (the tumblr ceo) doubled down for some fucking reason and basically had a Public Social Media Meltdown, at some point he threatened to call the police and FBI on the girl who was banned, he started DMing individual people who were criticizing him for all this, he ended up accidentally revealing that the "there was actual TERFs on tumblr staff" theory was previously true, and people are calling for a lawsuit

brilokuloj Wrote:i think one of the main things is that her account got nuked for false accusations like sexual content that wasnt there or something
i dont follow her but i do look at her blog from time to time and its never gotten any more graphic than shit i've posted on this dumbass site for years
i think like "getting banned for wanting the CEO to explode" would be. not exactly Reasonable but certainly To Be Expected. but lying and sexualizing her over it is so classic terfy tumblr gaslighting

like i have seen this happen with her and others and the staff can never give a straight story on why they are doing what they are doing. and i usually try to be skeptical when people are alleging they are getting singled out (sounds mean but this IS the piss-on-the-poor site) but it is indeed consistent that on tumblr trans women get banned and staff manifests a completely bullshit reason that makes no sense

Photomatt in response to people telling him he is not being threatened Wrote:Ah sorry, | missed the first part of the post, where it says it hopes | die forever a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and the hammers go flying everywhere.

Photomatt on the future of the site Wrote:As far as I'm aware improving moderation tools both for staff and regular users wasn't on TumbIr's roadmap when I left, but I hope this raises awareness within the team. When I'm back to work in May this will definitely be on my mind. as well as if we should continue to invest TumbIr at all if it's going to harbor such toxicity and harassment. The mob misinformation and harassment makes people scared to work on Tumblr, and likely drives away scores of good creators, Blaze posters, advertisers, and subscribers—the folks who will make Tumblr a sustainable endeavor.

brilokuloj Wrote:theme song of photomatt going outside

The cherry on top came this morning when I learned Photomatt had leaked dozens of Avery's NSFW sideblogs, IN A REPLY TO ONE OF HER SELFIES ON TWITTER:

Photomatt Wrote:When will you be honest with your followers? That the repeated adult content violations were not pictures like this, but likely ones on your other accounts (actual names): [REDACTED, but some of the most amazing blog titles I have ever seen]