Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
Our World Is Ended Review - Addendum
Okay, it turned out there was a bunch more content when you go for a character ending.
It's still very anime horny, and it's still weirdly paced. The fact it's drawn out so much by this fact has me... inclined to reconsider my overall rating. Maybe a 5.5/10 even.
It's really hard to rate a game that's very good in some places but not good to *legitimately problematic* in other areas.
Like the homophobic caricatures in Persona 5 - the rest of the game is amazing, there's just a couple of deep pits to trip over.
Our World Is Ended Review (no story spoilers)
I have completed Our World Is Ended. Or got the normal ending apparently, it's just that the game feels so resolved I get the feeling the other endings are bonus character things. Which is kinda weird because that's reverse to how VNs normally work.
In the end I liked it. The art is pretty, with a lot of colour and flair to textures and character shading. The indie dev characters themselves are deeper than their clichés, and have interesting perspectives on game development. As a creator and someone that tries to game dev, I could relate to some of their more creative struggles or absurdly casual (read: undisciplined) development standards.
The central mystery is a little predictable in some regards, but there were still some curve-balls, which was a nice touch.
My end/current rating for it would be about a 6-7/10. The story, mystery, characters, art-style, they make me want to give it more an 7-8/10, but I have some... significant issues.
As I mentioned previously on Twitter, the game is VERY ANIME HORNY. And by that I mean there is very regular ~funny anime pervert~ content. The game only tries to titillate the player about two-three times, but there is so, so much of it between certain characters within the text.
If you're the kind of person that's absolutely sick of that sort of humour, you probably won't be able to enjoy the VN's story, deeper character moments or mystery. It wasn't enough to "ruin" it for me, but god did I want that shit to be over each time it came up.
Related to wanting things over, is the pacing or framing of the story beats. By the end I understood how the VN was set up, but as I was playing it felt like segments were drawn out because I didn't have a clear picture of the how the story was divided up.
My last gripe is the localisation. The dialogue is perfectly understandable. But there is SO MANY grammatical issues. The text needs a massive editorial review, because I saw text issues at least once a scene.
Double spaces, missing or unneeded quote-marks, line breaks between quote-marks+text, breaks inside acronyms, breaks between accented letters, wrong pronouns, inconsistent translation between phone graphic text and message box text, broken UI english...
There's also the fact dates are MM/DD/YYYY despite this being an EU release, and other UI dates are the Japanese YYYY/MM/DD.
Part of me hopes the delay the Steam version/US release has will mean the script will be given an extra look over. (And then knowing my luck, the Switch version won't get updated.)
Anyway yeah. Our World Is Ended is somewhere between "good" and "great", but it has some pretty glaring issues. They're the kind of issues that depending on the person will either pollute the rest, or you'll just want to get past them to get back to the good stuff.
The world ends with you
and those that have decided that you're not a good person.
"Today, sharing art on social media is like running on a treadmill forever. At least, that’s how illustrator Lois van Baarle describes it. “You have to post constantly, otherwise, the algorithm decides you’re not interesting, and will not show your posts to your followers.”"
-- https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rise-fall-internet-art-communities/
hey this sucks
Aether (moved)
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"At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content?
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[Another] employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material."
On about Holidays and Western Culture
It occurs to me it's kind of silly that New Zealand has Easter, for the same reason we have Halloween. One is about spring and rebirth, one is about the opposite, or some such.
Obviously Halloween is a little sillier, as Easter has some excuses of Christian ritual.
It's kind of frustrating how dominated by the US/northern hemisphere "western culture" is.
Ultimately it's just capitalism and colonialism, though there is some more social elements that are bleeding over because of the internet's Americanocentricism.
Regardless though, just because we all got conquered by the English doesn't mean we have to be identical.
When I went on my OE in 02016, I was surprised to learn how deeply religious the EU seemed to be, because there were EU-wide Easter holidays (or rather, the week following) that included places we went to like Germany.
And that's something different! That wasn't adopted by NZ! So why couldn't we say, swap some holidays around? Have Easter in November, Christmas in May-June, divorce them from their Christian elements and tie them to polynesian and Maori culture...
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re: Telegram (-), data aggregation by corporate messenger apps
This continues a running theme of corporate platforms stapling my accounts together through their ads and data collection integrations instead of account setup. Google+ did the same thing to me by advertising my personal profile as "people you might know" to my family.
It would be really cool if the invasive push to advertise everywhere didn't also out people's private lives to family that may take hostile action against us, thanks.
I just finished Tales of the Abyss earlier, after abandoning my late-game save for ages. It's a good game, if maybe goes on for a bit longer than it needed to...?
Other backlog games to complete, off the top of my head:
Xenoblade
7th Dragon III
Etrian Odyssey V
Beyond the Labyrinth*
Bastion
Kentucky Route Zero
*Though this one was such a slog to play that I dunno...
HEY WHO WANTS TO PLAY A DEMO OF MY RPG!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQlTVKmrCtg
http://taylor.revasser.net/misc/jokething
NZ politics, internet bullshit, -/~
I am so tired of the fact internet leftists are so surrounded in injustices and toxicity that all they know is that toxicity.
Anyone seeking to spread love, to enjoy other things, or to state "this is not us" in the face of hate, it's met with armchair activists that behave like it's not good enough, or that it's not allowed because they're convinced everyone else is evil people. All that does is produce further othering and negativity.
In the case of NZ's tragedy, "This Is Not Us" is a message of unity, to show we will not let nazis and hate define our country and people. But internet leftists decide it's not good enough.
Here's the thing. Anything can be co-opted by nazis. That's their MO. They corrupt statements such that they can't be used by tolerant people, until they're only used by nazis.
The conclusion to take from that *isn't* to not use things that they might. It's to not let them use those statements in the first place. It's to see through statements that, when said by nazis, are just window-dressing for hate.
Game/software preservation is important.
Ownership by license, always-online DRM, and ownership tied to online libraries - they're all unreliable and publishers will take away your purchase and not give back if they so wish. Or even try to resell it later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZYaK343cY
This sort of thing is why I'll always prefer physical copies of games over digital. That, and I don't have the internet to be downloading anything over like, 3GB.
Why can't we just bring back Livejournal? Please?
frustrated about network effects
Twitter changing things that don't need changing, while leaving open problems like nazis and abuse.
And everyone I know continues to fucking use it because network effects.
Get offfff theeeeere. get off get off get off stop using it stop it
Some of them have started to use Tumblr less since the porn ban, but Twitter has been going downhill since the calloutfest of 2018.
Now I will give them as much - the new design has some good ideas, but I also feel like they could still be abused, and also it's just an ugly mess to look at.
Time travel fiction brainfart.
It sure is weird that time travel fiction in a thing in the first place - the idea that you could travel to the past and change history. That a point in time can have a "before" and "after" a change.
Like, why should time travel specifically be able to do that? What would make travel through time alter history, that travel through space does not? It makes more sense as a result for history to be immutable - a time traveller always exists in that point in time.
I feel like I had some kinda point but now I'm just confusing myself. You could probably argue that it's the unnatural act of travelling through time that creates an alternate history, though one that technically always existed too.
dream
Oh hey I had a dream I had a robotic tail prosthetic last night. I was getting it checked up so this doctor or whatever turned a switch off on my tailbase and I could feel my tail just, vanish from my sense of touch. It was wild.
It was big and dragony...
https://www.siliconera.com/2019/02/26/to-the-moon-set-to-dive-into-the-nintendo-switch-in-summer-2019/
huh.
... those are still totally RPG Maker sound effects and tiles though. (Though their composition is slightly different.)
Normalise null pooltoy sonas.
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
