Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

So I've been working on a model of myself for VRChat, and I've reached the point of testing it and, aaaaa?

This feeling of seeing something that feels close to seeing myself is intensely powerful. Looking down and seeing paws was wonderful enough, but these are my paws.

Watching today's Jimquisition talking about ~the $70 price tag~ .

I once again will always be snarky about this because game prices have always been varied and changing.

What games are 60USD? Where?

I paid 120NZD for FF13 when it came out. Atlus games are often around 90NZD. Both of these are, supposedly, 60USD new, in the US, right?

There's no consistency here because of a combination of publisher choices and exchange rates.

Add to that special editions muddying up the prices I frankly never see a digital storefront where any two games are the same price. (Though, admittedly, Switch games are pretty consistent... consistently 100NZD.)

So now we're going to get games 15-25NZD more for the new generation, all because of whatever the US is doing.

World-shaping toy...

Imagining getting space-pattern leggings or dresses but then using the silken material for a fursuit.

I have five different songs I've imagined as Twelve Thousand's OP over the years, and while some reuse visuals, there's a lot of changes I've imagined over time and show the evolution of the story's feeling and my brain wants there to be animations of all of them...

I wish it was easier to do music, 3D, and animation. Also that I could focus on art more instead of putting it off due to anxiety but that's a different subject.

I'm mostly annoyed that my brain does a good job at imagining anime OPs to my ideas but I can't even get myself to storyboard them, never mind what animating them would be like~.

Raaaar.

"Galaxy brain" except for me it's literal.

This is an interesting article on issues around creating media that's... english enough to be understood by Americans, but not American enough to be completely understood by Americans, resulting in some cultural tension and miscommunication.

This part in particular stands out to me:

America’s cultural and linguistic hegemony is stifling and all-consuming. [Media is] either Familiar — made for you, an English-speaking American — or it’s steadfastly Foreign, made for people very much unlike you.

That's such a big frustration for me, personally.

I want to insert some cultural dissonance into Twelve Thousand, my visual novel (half) set in New Zealand. I want it to have elements that are distinctly New Zealand-y. The problem is that when your friends are online and in the US, but also introverted weirdos, it can be hard to tell what international culture you're assimilating.

I don't get out and about so I can't be sure what about me or how I write would come off as New Zealand flavoured either, as opposed to plausibly "neutral", or rather, American.

Also, you know, I fucking hate how we have Black Friday and other junk down here. It's not just that we're getting American culturalisms (e.g. "Santa" over "Father Christmas"), but we're getting American capitalism. I would go so far as to argue capitalism is the main driving force behind homogenising western culture, because it smooths out the bumps in marketing demographics.

It's especially egregious in dubs in the 90s. Take this example from Pokemon 2000:

"I didn't know vikings still existed."
"They mostly live in Minnesota."

Completely incomprehensible joke to anyone outside of America, and even to Americans it might not make any sense. I think it's a reference to a sports team? It doesn't even make sense in-universe, but that's just 4Kids for you.

Point is, I would be pretty happy if America stopped sticking its nose into EU and Oceanic culture. Let us have our quirks and differences. Let us express our cringey, dark, ironic humour that we use for confronting difficult issues. Let us do things in different ways that might make you uncomfortable, and don't make it out like we're wrong for it.

oh god I think I spent 10 hours in blender today

*fires up a name generator*

Ziset, Destroyer of Men

... excellent.

... not me, just saying it's excellent.

... part of me still wants a more dragon-sounding name...

But of course, "what even qualifies as dragon-sounding" is the natural counter-argument to that~.

I wonder what it would take for another calendar numbering shift to occur. Like, some bozos introduced "BC" and "AD" and numbered the years around that.

I guess it was mostly for a more accurate calendar, but the BC/AD thing was We Sure Apotheosise This One Guy.

There probably won't be a new calendar system unless we realise the current one has been off this whole time or blow something up and throw off the orbit.

Which in turn means there may be no excuse for new year numbering. Especially when we've built computers around this one.

Broke: given infinite time and possibilities, there ought to be thousands of people travelling back in time as tourists or interventionists to various eras.
Since there is not, it means time travel is impossible.

Woke: given infinite time and possibilities, there would be equally infinite timelines no one ends up travelling to specific eras for, and we just happen to be in that one.

Feral paw!
Feral paw!!

https://twitter.com/pine_petrichor/status/1325900082965843974

Awoo has no cosmic heart emote... I thought for sure I've seen one before...

I guess this one will have to do~. ​

And then I did it again... while the first one was the general concept I originally had, I think this one better captures the power and oomph I wanted to express...

http://t.mwx.ca/art/2011/roarsomemore1.png

... I felt a spontaneous need to roar earlier, for some reason. I think it's a dragon thing.
But since it's the dead of the night and this vessel doesn't suit that sort of thing, I drew it instead.

http://t.mwx.ca/art/2011/roar.png

Why do I keep getting alerts for favs/etc for posts I made days ago, that I'm sure those users have already interacted with? Is there a problem with data syncing between instances or what?