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holy crap this article is an excellent explanation of enshittification, how and why it happens, and why it's stalling out with Certain Social Media Platforms so hard. pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot

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🎉🔥 It's out! 🌟🎉

The latest version of my retro texture pack is now available. That's 300 high-quality, low-resolution textures, for just $5! They take heavy inspiration from #retrofps games like #doom and #quake #pixelart #gamedev

little-martian.itch.io/retro-t

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dragon language, otherkin-adjacent, frontmatter 

So I'm at the back half of a trip currently, in which translating Norwegian gave me tools to explain how tribal dragon languages work. Figured I'd write it down before I forgot, in a place easier to boost if it helps.

For reasons, I can't really credit myself with inventing this. It also won't be complete and key concepts will differ by dialect. I guess consider it a shared con- or pseudo-language if you prefer it that way.

Anyway, proceeding.

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Are you a werewolf? Then Lycan Subscribe for the latest awoos! :maffawoo:

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Quick Tip: Hiding Boosts 

Hi! I boost a lot, if you haven't noticed.

If it ever gets too much, you can always hide my boosts by selecting more options on my profile~

I don't mind, I promise!

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pride (+) 

Greetings from Oslo Pride, which we went to yesterday while traveling.

Not a cop, or corporation in sight (other than the local food shops). It was a riot. :purple_heart:

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artfight badge, ec 

Put together a quick badge for this year's #artfight!

I'll be out of town for the start of it, but should be around to participate in the back half of the event. 💜

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zelda totk modding, botw (spoilers?), oc in the video game 

So anyway, it turns out backporting from TotK to BotW is more straightforward than expected, so a lot of the stuff being developed for the new game will work in the older one too.

Here are some images from the other project I did this weekend, where I backported GhostCabbit's Freakhound base from TotK to BotW for fun:

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zelda totk modding, botw (spoilers?), oc in the video game 

Wait, that's not TotK. What--

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zelda totk modding, botw, oc in the video game 

Here's the prototype guide I've been working on for this: docs.google.com/document/d/1Op

Not convinced I know what I'm doing, but I put together enough to maybe help others figure this out too.

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meta (as in facebook) discourse 

There's such a huge difference in how this is being handled between well-meaning-but-ineffective admins that want to avoid confrontation vs admins who are survivors and Have Seen Some Shit. Especially folks who saw this before during the LJ days or have seen what happened to XMPP.

Listen to the survivors, folks. Facebook doesn't give a flying fuck about Fedi, they want to push everyone back to their platform and destroy competition. We've seen this before, we'll see this again, and the only way to fight it is to deny them a platform before they gain traction.

Many of us are here because big social media platforms failed us, actively abused our personal info, became increasingly hostile spaces to queer and LGBTQ+ folk, and killed services that allowed us to manage attention and administrate our own spaces -- in favor of ad revenue and maximizing ROI. Fuck that, and fuck the notion of them forcing Fedi to capitulate to their demands.

I have absolute respect for fediadmins that are working very hard against the troll push on this one. Keep fighting the good fight. 💜

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zelda totk modding, botw, oc in the video game 

Turns out, the armature for Link in Breath of the Wild is almost identical to TotK, so I ran some experiments over the weekend backporting to Breath of the Wild.

No video yet since it's the start of my work week, but this works in BotW too, and that's awesome.

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The people here before me were the people who'd been ostracised from Big Social Media; by its users and by its rules. The people that came here after me were the people who were still getting harassed off BSM and could find some degree of safety here, in communities created specifically to keep them safe.

When I took over on .art in 2021 I became the owner of a community of artists who were here because BSM had failed them, in one way or another. We have the 'you must write in the box why you -

zelda totk modding, oc in the video game 

Was going to boost this through fedi, but seems to be a weird interaction between Awoo and Meow, so here's a direct link:

meow.social/@Goldkin/110587117
medias.meow.social/media_attac

Turns out this wasn't too hard to set up now that other folks have explored how it works. Guide coming as soon as I have time to sit down and write it.

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What size would you like your #dragon today?

Artist is siggy: twitter.com/siggymcc
(Huge thank you to @yingxera for finding the source! :mouse_blob_heart: )

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