Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Watching @Veladynee play through Halo Infinite with subtitles on and being very amused at the extremely descriptive text for every sound sample in the game. From such wonders as "Inquisitive Beeping" and "Alert Confident Chirp" to "Angry Electrocuted Scream" and "Excited Confident Roar".

And realizing I have a mighty need. I want this in most games, both for accessibility and because it's amazing. Like, put this on Rathalos in one of the Monster Hunter games, please.

@Felthry This may be recency bias, but Zelda 2: Great Palace.

Z2 is not my favorite game in the series, and other dungeons have my favorite mechanics and gimmicks in the series (TP Arbiter's Grounds is also high on my list, as is LA Eagle's Tower), but providing a sprawling, non-linear dungeon at the end of that adventure with one of the most iconic non-Ganon fights in the series had a significant impact on me (both when I first played it and more recently).

It also remixes very well in rando.

@gardevoir My memory of Ages is a bit spotty, but I think striking most of Ralph's dialogs with Link would result in a mostly coherent narrative. Having Impa address Ralph instead of Link would also be kind of awesome.

As for fun stuff, having some small callbacks to Kafei (Majora's Mask) might be conceptually interesting for Ralph, since they have similar designs and served as a deuteragonist in their own game.

@JulieSqveakaroo Congrats!!

@Felthry @noiob Microsoft probably could have succeeded in this market even then (Windows wasn't the first or originally most popular computer OS, after all), but at the time they were making technically good products that completely failed to anticipate their target audience.

This was also the era of the Microsoft Kin and Windows Phone, which were both ahead of their time (vs netbooks and several core features in smartphones). But both went splat as well.

The solitary Anna's hummingbird that ineffectually sentries our feeders is there today, despite it icing over and snowing. The moment I brought out a warm feeder, they hopped on it and chugged as fast as their tiny beak could, before zooming off and returning 5 minutes later.

Found a cool thing on our hummingbird feeders today while rotating them due to the cold weather:

@VK3VKK @frameacloud Unreal sees some usage as an engine, but for whatever reason, Epic Games hasn't been as supporting of VR workflows as Unity has been.

So many of the existing import pipelines and assets skew towards Unity currently.

@frameacloud Also, if you do find your way into experimenting with VRChat or one of its competitors (note: most have desktop support, no headset required), lmk and we can give you the general tour.

@frameacloud ThrillSeeker's video series (https://m.youtube.com/c/ThrillSeekerVR/videos) is fairly comprehensive, particularly the most recent three (at this writing).

It doesn't cover how to create things in it, but that answer is "learn Unity" for the vast majority of VR applications currently released (including social games like VRChat).

@qdot I can't substantiate my instincts on this since I haven't been following Patreon's descent, but this kind of grift and desperation feels like it leads to a dot com-style bust.

@kat Grats!

@kat But yeah, a lot of that lesson aged poorly, when the arrangement he offers now looks like a great deal compared to cartoonish evil and unattainable housing.

@kat That said, he serves a purpose to the setting, which this does a good job of explaining: https://fuckyeah-animalcrossing.tumblr.com/post/668048555795234817

He's aware of his role as token financial obstacle that serves a point, and in earlier games, even cracks a joke about your town not having social security after you pay off your entire loan. Which is why they set him up both as a sympathetic character (he's a foil used to deliver a message) and not (he canonically gets rich off your efforts over the series).

@kat His character development arc also sees him graduate from shopkeep and store manager (Forest, Crossing, Wild World, City Folk) to real estate agent and boss (New Leaf, Happy Home Designer) to retired private island developer (New Horizons).

He and his two kids are also the only canonical tanuki of the setting, so you're literally paying the local trickster spirits for a roof over your head.

So it's a thing.