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
OS customisation ramble
Because of my high DPI screen, all icon customisation iPacks I've had experience with fail to give proper symbolic icons to my explorer sidebar - because the symbolic icons are 16px, while my screen renders the 32px versions.
I tried setting each folder manually, but for some reason some folders wouldn't change, while others would. I have no idea why it was behaving like this, given they're all system folders.
In the end I just did extra patching by hand, but now my sidebar actually looks nice. Gave custom folder icons to some of my own folders too.
You know, it's been so long since I watched the dub that I can only imagine the Japanese VA saying bread. And I'm not sure "bread" ever is said, even in the context of "Guilmon bread".
I don't know if it's just nostalgia goggles but Windows 95-type explorer just had the right idea. You could customise the toolbars, and choose which ones you want.
Now you have massive-ass ribbons, you have to have them all visible, and I can never tell where anything is.
... and the best I can do with customisation on W10 is to just hide everything, showing a menu when I press Alt...
Minor PQ2 spoilers (dialogue)
<P4 chars> uh, it's 2011, right?
<P5 chars> what are you talking about, it's... uh... what year IS it?
Come now guys, you can just say you come from 2016, everyone knows.
(Note: P5 calls the year 20XX.)
And FeMC chimes in with "oh yeah, it's 2009!" and makes things even more a mess, bwahaha.
I'm sorry I'm filling up this place with various 3DS screenshots. I build up screenshots I take because it's a hassle to get them *off*, since it means getting to the SD card underneath the back panel...
Minor PQ2 spoilers (FeMC intro)
It's her...
Man, am I going to have to name every protagonist? What am I going to name P3 and P4 Hero...
7th Dragon III lets you date your party members, and because the genders are entirely cosmetic (ala Etrian Odyssey) you can just, be gay.
http://taylor.revasser.net/ExecutionersHood
The Executioner's New Clothes.
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...
Aether (moved)
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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...
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
