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You know how I was talking about not doing fan games? I was able to completely remove my Chrono Break idea from Chrono as a series and I already have something that completely stands on its own, with a battle system that combines and enhances those from CT and CC, and a cast that really doesn't need any returning characters.
Sure, it meant cutting a lot of cool ideas about the way Chrono loose ends could be tied up, but the original ideas are enough on their own for a game.
https://github.com/devinacker/ymfmidi
i've been working on a MIDI player based on the new OPL3 emulation core from MAME! check it out if you like that sort of stuff
i need to put up some good audio examples later, but try it out with the included patch set (or supply your own) and see what you think
inheritance is fundamentally broken without encapsulation. if i inherit from a class, i can't define any new fields on my subclass without potentially overriding one of the fields of my superclass. like this is virtually unavoidable as long as superclasses can contain fields that are not part of their public API, and that i am allowed to accidentally override. this is just a fact
stream, self promo, Tales of Vesperia finale
Finishing this game up at last! live now on https://www.twitch.tv/TankControls
Rumination over Redemption Gatekeeping
This is how you do redemption. Give a timeline to suss out their intent, give conditions for redemption, and follow through once conditions are met.
But then again, I never liked punishment as justice, I just want people to better themselves and for victims to be made whole again.
Rumination over Redemption Gatekeeping
...and weeks passed. Then she approached me asking for forgiveness, she had pulled her head out her ass and left those toxic groups, but I can't quite trust her yet.
So, I told her that it will take a while before I could forgive her, that she needs to give me some space, and work on herself to detox from those spaces.
Amazingly, she did just that, and slowly I was able to forgive her, and also help her reintegrate into groups that had kicked her out.
Rumination over Redemption Gatekeeping
Just to hammer this home, I have experience with this as the forgiver.
A while back, I have a friend who I had been trying to convince to leave the Raiders. She initially wouldn't, so after many years, I cut off contact with her. Her response was to stalk me, and commiserate with Altfurs who were trying to get me killed by potentially snitching to the CCP that I am trans. (They're not a smart bunch.)
Anyways, after that I declared her a lost cause...
Rumination over Redemption Gatekeeping
Honesty gets thrown out the window when you put someone in a no win situation, and this kind of uncertainty is very similar to the kind of tactics a narcissistic parent would use on a child.
Rumination over Redemption Gatekeeping
I admit, it is hard to talk about this, because people too easily assume that because I refused to persecute someone for making an honest mistake, I was defending the erroneous action.
Quite the opposite, it is very important to outline the path to redemption, and its conditions. This is because keeping the guilty party perpetually so out of enforced uncertainty, will only teach them that doubling down and denial gives the best outcome.
high, politics n oppression
the problem with compromise for dignity is that it's not a compromise, it's a betrayal even to yourself.
You yourself may not be one of the weird ones that "make us look bad" or whatever. Maybe you're proud of that. But you must realize that subscribing to the idea that you ought to adhere to some degree of "normal" to be respectable means you're making the agreement that you yourself should not be allowed that right of outlandishness.
THEN you impose it on others
Rumination over Redemption Gatekeeping
"Once a shitty person, always a shitty person." Or "Lol you traded one extreme for another!" Are lines we often got hit with back then.
How ironic then that my persecutor got themself """cancelled""" for pluralmisia, and the rest of them were caught being a part of the Furry Raiders.
Rumination over Redemption Gatekeeping
Given how we were preyed on and persecuted by moral narcissists as we we were clawing our way out of Altfurry spaces 3 years ago, and how traumatic that experience was.
I get some vindictive satisfaction from seeing them crumple and back off as soon as the question of endgame is put on the table.
high, politics n oppression
this may seem almost insultingly reductive of a complicated issue, but really it's the definition, i would argue.
i think that's actually a really big deal, because it clearly marks a turning point. once history is forgotten or distorted to the point that your sense of consequence is skewed, it destroys any context you can have for empathy. hi terfs!
or really, if you see overpopulation as a threat, you're far removed from any real sense of threat in your life
high, politics n oppression
if your political ideology is something you don't feel you can bring yourself to say out loud in public, there are two possibilities here:
A: you're at risk on an existential level and need to be sure you can communicate without persecution
B: you're a fascist
oh wait, i nearly forgot
C: you're afraid of being persecuted but not in any tangible way that poses a lasting effect or consequence for you or your life. because this definitely isn't secretly option B
Violence
"Fuck you, got mine?" How about fuck YOU! I got your scalping operation right here, you parasitic lowlifes!
Artist and Composer. Trans plural voidpunk anarchist and antifa nonbinary gremlin. My voice is for the oppressed, and I shall fight for freedom with no quarter, so that those around me won't have to.
Plural members:
> Velvet Silmeria (Fae/They/She/Ey/He)
Räsvelg AY-N4 Tiyaga (Kit/Bit/She/They)
Lenneth Crimson (She/Xey/They/It)
Ashlynn Valefor (Xey/They/It/She)
Ricardo Sophia du Sol (Ey/He/They)
Saturnine Stargazer (She/They/It)
Innominat (They/Them)
Yuri Sunbreaker (It/She)