orphiebaby 12 months ago • 100%
Banner, again:
I made this banner; but I can't use it until the image upload restrictions are lifted.
orphiebaby 12 months ago • 100%
UPDATE: I just created !freecompliments@lemm.ee! I couldn't create it on lemmy.world, sorry. Lemmy World can be weird like that. But at least lemm.ee is stable!
Edit: I would also like to say that after looking at r/freecompliments, their rules are over-explained TL;DR stuff and I get the vibe that they are overly controlling, enforcing a toxic level of positivity at all costs, and all that.
Edit 2: What sucks is I made this new banner for it, but lemm.ee has never let me upload images, even profile pics or banners.
orphiebaby 12 months ago • 87%
I tried posting this to trueoffmychest to dredge some sympathy for him, since that seemed appropriate and he was good with it, but they don’t allow ‘anger’ or ‘impersonal’ posts and that got quietly removed immediately
Okay, yeah, and this is why I'm happy I created this community. "Toxic positivity", "extreme safe spaces", and tangential mentalities are extremely harmful and suffocating and can die in a fire.
- People get angry, and that's fine
- Nobody's perfect, and that's fine
- Bonus: Nobody should be able to ban you based on what other subreddits/communities you're a part of. I guess unless they're politically-insidious, hate groups, or otherwise promoting harm? But yeah
Edit: I would also like to say that after looking at r/freecompliments, their rules are over-explained TL;DR stuff and I get the vibe that they are overly controlling, enforcing a toxic level of positivity at all costs, and all that.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Okay, so all your stupid points are not worth addressing, but you should definitely know that Luke's goal was to join his friends Biggs and Wedge in the resistance, and he finally did. And everyone on Earth who paid attention enough to know he was trying to join the military knows whose side he was trying to join. Not to mention his goals in the first movie constantly align with rescuing the rebel princess and spiting the Empire. You seem to like to make shit up.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
What the hell have you been drinking?
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
These aren't adults who need food and housing. These are a bunch of teenagers including rebellious sorts against a single asshole with very little actual power besides a title. Also they have (probably angry) parents?
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 66%
"Wrong" isn't even a fraction of it. She kicked everyone off the grounds, changed all the rules, tortured students (and others knew it) and literally started hanging up Nazi rule plaques. It was a hostile takeover where she silenced, banned, and abused everyone. And you're going to tell me nobody— no students, no professors— are going to stand against her? Being appointed won't mean shit when you are literally torturing, backing into a corner, and banning an opposition with this much power and unhappiness. In any reasonable situation, they would fight back. She was just one stupid, powerless woman with no soldiers at her command against hundreds of powerful wizards and witches, many of them adults.
And stop comparing it to "2020". I don't even know what the eff that means.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Position, yes. Actual power to stop a bunch of angry, tortured teenage wizards— especially ones that have been learning to use defense magic in direct defiance of her— no. Also she pissed off all the professors, and they didn't stand up to her either, which is stupid.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
This one bothered me pretty early. But I don't feel like the context given in the Harry Potter series would allow for anything like the corruption we see in real-life politics. For one, a couple people are professors of Hogwarts for power, but most are in it because they care about their jobs. There's no reason nobody stood up to Dolores— all students and professors hated her (except her new toady Filch, and maybe only a few Slytherin after she offered them power?) and Dolores was exerting power over the school that she simply didn't have. Any one of them could have just effed her up anytime for her literal, no joke Nazi rules and her torture. Let alone a full disgruntled school.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 71%
Nobody ever explained anything more than the likes of "Voldemort's back! You have to believe me!" If anyone actually gave account or explained anything at all, the good guys would have a lot more allies than they do. Hell, actually talking is how they convinced a bunch of people to let Harry teach them dark arts defense in Order of the Phoenix. It seems that actually talking is how every good event happens, and that not talking is how every bad event happens.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
- You don't have any imagination
- Why the hell are you attributing your claim to heroes specifically? What does that have to do with anything?
- Man have you not seen a lot of fiction. People react realistically in a ton of them all the time, including kids shows like Avatar: TLA and Steven Universe
- My novel has people reacting realistically the entire way through, and it's a science fantasy
- Luke Skywalker acted realistically. He wanted to leave and join the fucking resistance like his friends. Just like a lot of real-life people would, especially the oppressed. Hell, how many people did 9/11 cause to join the military? Hell, how many people join the military without having suffered tragedy?
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
It's FOSS. I'd imagine people would fork it, because fuck it
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 76%
Linux doesn't work for most people, and Windows and Mac are corporate. I hope ReactOS succeeds.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Cops who don't do bad things allow other cops to do bad things.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 75%
I cannot overstate how much not only does Harry do it every movie, but all the other characters as well.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 50%
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 73%
Hey look, there it is again in the one I’m at now. Hermoine to Potter: “What’s wrong with your hand?” Potter: “Nothing.” (This was the Dolores torture). Hermoine actually finds out, which is refreshing. "You've got to tell Dumbledore." Harry: "No. Dumbledore's got enough on his mind right now." Freaking stupid, Harry.
This “is anything happening?” “No, nothing.” exchange with Potter is constant in this series.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 61%
I'm autistic. Big hard drive, small RAM. And that RAM is being used right now to absorb this next Harry Potter movie while I also try to manage funds with my housemates in a crisis and prevent homelessness
I'd basically have to go and rewind right now, or go back to the movies I watched in the last week, and... blegh, I don't want to stop in the middle of the first third of Order of the Phoenix. It's already way better than Goblet of Fire (movies, not books. People say the GoF book is great, and I tend to believe them)
Edit: Hey look, there it is again in the one I’m at now. Hermoine to Potter: “What’s wrong with your hand?” Potter: “Nothing.” (This was the Dolores torture). Hermoine actually finds out, which is refreshing. "You've got to tell Dumbledore." Harry: "No. Dumbledore's got enough on his mind right now." Freaking stupid, Harry.
This “is anything happening?” “No, nothing.” exchange with Potter is constant in this series.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Well-said, and I make this argument all the time.
Steven Universe is a show for kids (and everyone). Nobody in that entire show's running time fails to talk like a normal person would or "holds the idiot ball". Everyone is smart and communicative, and the show respects its audience a ton. Avatar: TLA is in the same boat, and that's for kids too (and also everyone).
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 60%
Yeah, there are a lot of movies and shows where people talk like human beings. Hell, as a writer, nobody in my novels holds the idiot ball nor fails to talk like a normal person, just because that would be convenient for the plot to move along.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 50%
Fair point. But I can't remember it all at once. I didn't exactly stop and take notes every few seconds throughout the movies like a proper reviewer xD
And it really irks me a lot. Update: Man, I have gotten tons of great responses here and a lot of activity. The comments section turned out way better than Reddit. Thank you all! <3
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Fuck you, Unity.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 94%
Japan would rather die. Microsoft, I don't know what their shit deal is.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
I hope so, but frankly we'll just have to see. The people with the money and power usually win.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Just one. So far. It's pretty funny.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Fun statement and all, but he clearly understood what humans wanted and needed. He just didn't factor in that imperfect humans wouldn't accept a society and life that were somehow perfect in spite of said humans. They en masse knew something felt off.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Thanks, bot!
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
I think you a word there.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
You keep saying SPD and I keep wondering how Space Patrol Delta sunk so low. It's no wonder the top of the force turned evil and the B-team Power Rangers became the heroes we needed to stop them.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
No, not my minis!
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 93%
There's nothing socialist about China.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
But it wasn't.
And this time make A Link to the Past "cool", not "cute" like LA Remake and A Link Between Worlds were. ALBW's style and atmosphere bugged me-- it didn't feel like A Link to the Past at all.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
But that's what fans are for
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
What?
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 69%
I don't remember why, but I'm pretty sure I needed to to use some kind of service.
1. Your account is defined by your email address 2. Your email address is unchangeable 3. You can create a new account with a new email address, but you can't re-register the same printer, because it was already registered to your old email address This means you can be locked out of registering your printer. Why are all printer companies the stupidest companies ever? ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/39bc82f4-9c39-4ea0-8463-d86afef0ade6.png) ----- ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3b46b266-ce78-44ad-b748-c2bd225b446e.png)
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
People talked about it a ton when it was new.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 96%
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
I think you missed the point of why I said that.
orphiebaby 1 year ago • 100%
Yee. As an aside, by "education", I mean any kind of knowledge. Many successful people have at least a small degree of intuitive knowledge— stuff they understand but weren't explicitly taught. They may not even realize that they understand it and others don't, because it came naturally.
There's not even a single guide anywhere on GameFAQs. Yes, I know the world is procedurally-generated (and I think the game changes slightly if you have DLC, like four heart pieces move to the dark world, I think?), but there is a lot of static information such as general strategy, enemy info, static items, achievement tips, challenge types, other stuff. Hell, there were times I was so stuck and nobody online seemed to have any info. Nobody told me straight that Petal Trimmer wasn't available in story. It was really hard to figure out how Temple of Brainstorms circuits worked, or how to use the blue boxes in that temple, or where my last missing heart piece was, or really anything. Cadence of Hyrule is a great game— if *absolutely* obtuse at times. It deserves and needs a good guide.
Made me a thing today. Fun fact: almost all fortune cookies are made in one factory in New York. No, that doesn't mean I think they are "American", not really.
Apollo is limited to five events, which I've exhausted for FFXIV community events. Now I just want a reminder to bump my Disboard and FFXIV Community Finder, since I always forget. I've tried a bunch of bots to no avail, and I keep coming back every once in a while to try to find a solution again. I don't need a million billion paid subscriptions in my life, especially for Discord bots for one server. Wish I could just stick with Dyno and Ser Aymeric for everything, yeah? I'll pay premium for Aymeric for birthdays and for monthly recurring events/reminders features, because Aymeric and its devs deserve it. Edit: Also I refuse to rely on Google Calendar, so that's a good chunk of bots I refuse to use.
>cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3308843 ----- "What’s your process like?" ----- Me: So everyone's different, and I am autistic. I have an extensive memory for details, quick and sometimes instinctive understanding of many fiction principles, and a lot of visual thinking. (I have my shortcomings too, especially over-thinking and over-explaining instead of showing.) But I think at least some of what I do can work for you. 1. Discipline is better than motivation. Motivation ends, discipline stays. Eventually, hopefully like me, you'll get to a point where you *feel wrong* if you didn't write every day (or 5 days a week in my case). This hugely helps keep you motivated 2. I am a one-trick pony with it; but I always started with a theme, a feeling, something important I want to share and say. For me it was a terrible childhood, my desire for healing and family, my idealism towards wanting a greater world, and how we all need to become better and happier people to achieve it. I wanted to capture that idea and feeling since I was like six. While for my novel the lesson may be larger than life, every fiction should have a point to make, even if that point is "things in this book are awesome; here, have a good time because you deserve it". Your point should be memorable even if small. 3. Once you have a theme, start coming up with characters and scenes that support that theme. Write down the things that look or feel awesome in your head, the things that you always wanted to share and show, and come up with your best scenes first. Try to build a story around them. If you have important messages to say, build your plot around them. Have the characters' stakes revolve around those scenes. Once again this is just my method; but I don't think you can go wrong writing *heart first*. 4. For me, I found it easiest to quickly just outline scenes and jot down what you want to happen, what you want said. Finish all the basic sentences, events, and ideas for that scene, move to the next scene. Once you have all the chapters, this will be your first "outline"— even if you end up doing a little (or more) prose in that outline, like I did. Once you have that full story (which probably won't be good yet!) you can start figuring out where it needs fixing. This is my first novel, and I'm technically still doing the second draft. But I learn very fast and retain a ton of helpful information; so I mostly know what my next phases and fixes are, all the way through my first and later drafts. I made a little changelog of each thing I want to focus on in future versions, all numbered in preparation, as if this was a piece of software. 5. Once I'm done with the versions that I call "outlines", I will finally start drafting in full prose, allowing me to focus on the flow and beauty and clarity of my words, since the story itself will already be figured out and awesome. ----- One way I think of the whole process of noveling is this, modified from game development advice: 1. Make it function 2. Optimize 3. Make it pretty (write your prose draft) 4. Optimize again ----- There's a lot of other advice I can give, but I wouldn't exactly know where to begin! The most important thing, I think, is to figure out what time of day your brain writes best, and create a routine around it. No novel was ever finished without persistence! <3 Also, I recommend reading [https://mythcreants.com/](https://mythcreants.com/) and getting lost in [https://tvtropes.org/](https://tvtropes.org/). They can really help! Try watching Lindsay Ellis on Nebula, or [http://atopthefourthwall.com/](http://atopthefourthwall.com/). Some of these may not be about novel-writing, but you can learn a lot about good stories through any of these platforms, and all of that helps!
"What’s your process like?" ----- Me: So everyone's different, and I am autistic. I have an extensive memory for details, quick and sometimes instinctive understanding of many fiction principles, and a lot of visual thinking. (I have my shortcomings too, especially over-thinking and over-explaining instead of showing.) But I think at least some of what I do can work for you. 1. Discipline is better than motivation. Motivation ends, discipline stays. Eventually, hopefully like me, you'll get to a point where you *feel wrong* if you didn't write every day (or 5 days a week in my case). This hugely helps keep you motivated 2. I am a one-trick pony with it; but I always started with a theme, a feeling, something important I want to share and say. For me it was a terrible childhood, my desire for healing and family, my idealism towards wanting a greater world, and how we all need to become better and happier people to achieve it. I wanted to capture that idea and feeling since I was like six. While for my novel the lesson may be larger than life, every fiction should have a point to make, even if that point is "things in this book are awesome; here, have a good time because you deserve it". Your point should be memorable even if small. 3. Once you have a theme, start coming up with characters and scenes that support that theme. Write down the things that look or feel awesome in your head, the things that you always wanted to share and show, and come up with your best scenes first. Try to build a story around them. If you have important messages to say, build your plot around them. Have the characters' stakes revolve around those scenes. Once again this is just my method; but I don't think you can go wrong writing *heart first*. 4. For me, I found it easiest to quickly just outline scenes and jot down what you want to happen, what you want said. Finish all the basic sentences, events, and ideas for that scene, move to the next scene. Once you have all the chapters, this will be your first "outline"— even if you end up doing a little (or more) prose in that outline, like I did. Once you have that full story (which probably won't be good yet!) you can start figuring out where it needs fixing. This is my first novel, and I'm technically still doing the second draft. But I learn very fast and retain a ton of helpful information; so I mostly know what my next phases and fixes are, all the way through my first and later drafts. I made a little changelog of each thing I want to focus on in future versions, all numbered in preparation, as if this was a piece of software. 5. Once I'm done with the versions that I call "outlines", I will finally start drafting in full prose, allowing me to focus on the flow and beauty and clarity of my words, since the story itself will already be figured out and awesome. ----- One way I think of the whole process of noveling is this, modified from game development advice: 1. Make it function 2. Optimize 3. Make it pretty (write your prose draft) 4. Optimize again ----- There's a lot of other advice I can give, but I wouldn't exactly know where to begin! The most important thing, I think, is to figure out what time of day your brain writes best, and create a routine around it. No novel was ever finished without persistence! <3 Also, I recommend reading [https://mythcreants.com/](https://mythcreants.com/) and getting lost in [https://tvtropes.org/](https://tvtropes.org/). They can really help! Try watching Lindsay Ellis on Nebula, or [http://atopthefourthwall.com/](http://atopthefourthwall.com/). Some of these may not be about novel-writing, but you can learn a lot about good stories through any of these platforms, and all of that helps!
So my novel takes place in an afterlife and focuses on one major character, as they try to heal from childhood trauma, learn helpful mental health tools, and newly take in this beautiful universe. The other major characters are also developing ethically and emotionally, and we need to see inside their minds and watch them learn. Meanwhile the past was literally a different life, and there's not a lot of past talked about in the narration— more thought about or talked about by the characters. So with that, I've decided that the best way to write my novel is first-person present tense with the main character; and then with the occasional times where I need to focus on other characters when the main isn't around, third-person present tense. This is not a common choice, but I think it is the best choice for my particular novel. I think it's the best choice for my novel's sense of immediacy, for getting inside characters' heads, and for experiencing many new things from the main character's viewpoint. Also also, I intend to make my main character Chris/Solemn completely-ambiguous when it comes to gender; so that really works with the first-person perspective. Tell me your opinions or tangents!
So my novel takes place in an afterlife and focuses on one major character, as they try to heal from childhood trauma, learn helpful mental health tools, and newly take in this beautiful universe. The other major characters are also developing ethically and emotionally, and we need to see inside their minds and watch them learn. Meanwhile the past was literally a different life, and there's not a lot of past talked about in the narration— more thought about or talked about by the characters. So with that, I've decided that the best way to write my novel is first-person present tense with the main character; and then with the occasional times where I need to focus on other characters when the main isn't around, third-person present tense. This is not a common choice, but I think it is the best choice for my particular novel. I think it's the best choice for my novel's sense of immediacy, for getting inside characters' heads, and for experiencing many new things from the main character's viewpoint. Also also, I intend to make my main character Chris/Solemn completely-ambiguous when it comes to gender; so that really works with the first-person perspective. Tell me your opinions or tangents!
So I'm on v2 of my novel. I could call it "second draft", but it's more of the second semi-prose outline. I have a fight scene in Chapter 13. The fight scene involves an inexperienced demigod villain, an inexperienced demigod hero, the hero's kung fu master mom who is *not* a demigod, and their support android. It's all at the mom's house in front of the ocean. The demigods have flight, telekinesis, increased strength, and semi-invulnerability when they maintain their personal body forcefields. Either way, here's a few things I learned while writing this fight scene, off the top of my head: 1. Fight scenes really aren't natural to me. I always wanted to write this science fantasy action piece, and I'm learning that I'm much better at philosophy, and at painting a picture of wonder, than I am at action. I already instinctively understood how to pace a fight scene quickly with terse sentences and good flow, and to not focus on choreography. But planning out the actions is still tough. 2. I kinda knew this, but: never focus on choreography. The individual movements of characters, while necessary, are— in isolation— the least-important part of a fight. What's important is keeping tension; turning the fight into a mini-plot with stakes, problems to solve, solutions, and probably character and plot development/reveals; and having some kind of novelty in the fight if you can, in order to keep things interesting. The actions that characters do should display their personalities and mostly lead up to a development of some kind, instead of just looking cool. 3. My present challenge in writing a fight scene is finding the balance between interesting fight environments and actions, making sure characters behave and fight in-character, and directing the fight to develop and end a certain way. This takes a lot of brain power for me. 4. I found myself taking longer to write these chapters with fight scenes in them than many of my other chapters; because using this much brain power means I must end my daily writing early to regain my mental energy for the next. There's been a lot of times where I revised a chapter of my novel in one day; and so my first impression was that I would be revising most of my chapters in only one or two days. But revisions like these are taking me a week, and I'm learning to let myself be okay with that— that I'm not slacking, I'm just burning the creative energy candle faster. Anyway, that's all I got for the moment. Happy writing! <3
So I'm on v2 of my novel. I could call it "second draft", but it's more of the second semi-prose outline. I have a fight scene in Chapter 13. The fight scene involves an inexperienced demigod villain, an inexperienced demigod hero, the hero's kung fu master mom who is *not* a demigod, and their support android. It's all at the mom's house in front of the ocean. The demigods have flight, telekinesis, increased strength, and semi-invulnerability when they maintain their personal body forcefields. Either way, here's a few things I learned while writing this fight scene, off the top of my head: 1. Fight scenes really aren't natural to me. I always wanted to write this science fantasy action piece, and I'm learning that I'm much better at philosophy, and at painting a picture of wonder, than I am at action. I already instinctively understood how to pace a fight scene quickly with terse sentences and good flow, and to not focus on choreography. But planning out the actions is still tough. 2. I kinda knew this, but: never focus on choreography. The individual movements of characters, while necessary, are— in isolation— the least-important part of a fight. What's important is keeping tension; turning the fight into a mini-plot with stakes, problems to solve, solutions, and probably character and plot development/reveals; and having some kind of novelty in the fight if you can, in order to keep things interesting. The actions that characters do should display their personalities and mostly lead up to a development of some kind, instead of just looking cool. 3. My present challenge in writing a fight scene is finding the balance between interesting fight environments and actions, making sure characters behave and fight in-character, and directing the fight to develop and end a certain way. This takes a lot of brain power for me. 4. I found myself taking longer to write these chapters with fight scenes in them than many of my other chapters; because using this much brain power means I must end my daily writing early to regain my mental energy for the next. There's been a lot of times where I revised a chapter of my novel in one day; and so my first impression was that I would be revising most of my chapters in only one or two days. But revisions like these are taking me a week, and I'm learning to let myself be okay with that— that I'm not slacking, I'm just burning the creative energy candle faster. Anyway, that's all I got for the moment. Happy writing! <3
I guess the way that my brain works is that I try to plan out the best ideas, the best scenes, the best actions first. I focus on what excites me and what will function the best. This uses a lot of brain power, and I can only do it for a bit before I get exhausted and end that day's writing. After that when I edit, all I have to do is cut and rearrange things, make the dialogue better, stuff like that. (I'm not doing the full prose yet.) At times where I will have to punch up or completely rewrite scenes, that will be tough again. . . . I'm writing my first novel, and it's a blockbuster of a literary mental health work set in a space-age afterlife universe. I have full faith in it, but I'm always learning during the process. I pantsed for part of my first draft/pre-draft, but man does pantsing give me bad results. Now I just semi-prose outline the full novel, until the whole story works. So among the other things I've discovered about writing and about my own processes, my philosophy is this— an edited version of something I read about game design: 1. Make it function 2. Optimize 3. Make it pretty 4. Optimize again That "make it pretty" part is where I do the full, proper prose. That won't be for a few drafts down the line. I've almost gotten my full story finished now though! (Which is v2. "v1" had a lot of story gaps.)
I guess the way that my brain works is that I try to plan out the best ideas, the best scenes, the best actions first. I focus on what excites me and what will function the best. This uses a lot of brain power, and I can only do it for a bit before I get exhausted and end that day's writing. After that when I edit, all I have to do is cut and rearrange things, make the dialogue better, stuff like that. (I'm not doing the full prose yet.) At times where I will have to punch up or completely rewrite scenes, that will be tough again. . . . I'm writing my first novel, and it's a blockbuster of a literary mental health work set in a space-age afterlife universe. I have full faith in it, but I'm always learning during the process. I pantsed for part of my first draft/pre-draft, but man does pantsing give me bad results. Now I just semi-prose outline the full novel, until the whole story works. So among the other things I've discovered about writing and about my own processes, my philosophy is this— an edited version of something I read about game design: 1. Make it function 2. Optimize 3. Make it pretty 4. Optimize again That "make it pretty" part is where I do the full, proper prose. That won't be for a few drafts down the line. I've almost gotten my full story finished now though! (Which is v2. "v1" had a lot of story gaps.)
It's also not even the cheapest. A lot of food at ALDI is both cheaper *and* of a better quality. Edit: I like the alternate opinions, like where people say what things in Great Value they still like. We do still buy a few Great Value things, too!
And it's driving me crazy.
Is this one of those communities that assumed people knew what it was because there was a subreddit of it before? O:
Didn't this stupid website used to help you, you know, hack life or something?
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/70f5a74e-b42f-47fa-bb5e-2936c6a409cb.jpeg) I know I'll get downvoted to hell for this even though I'm literally posting the kind of stuff Unpopular Opinion is here for, but so be it. I can't even make out the faces most of the time in BotW. Just look at the screenshots for yourself. And it always bugged me just how featureless and uninteresting Link's face looked, especially his eyes. Compare it to literally any other Link's face (in-game for 3D, artwork for 2D). In contrast, Pokémon XY had really good cel-shading for the Pokémon during battles. I was honestly impressed that a 3DS could have such a high polygon count and such clean, clear cel-shading lines and colors during its battles. For some odd reason, I have not seen such clean cel-shading before or since. I would also like to say that Skyward Sword on the Wii had a much cleaner, more detailed, more beautiful look than Breath of the Wild did, and I will die with those words. It just goes to show you that there is simply no replacement for good art direction— raw power and long draw distance aren't enough.
It seems a lot of them have popped up in a short time.
Five days. 25 posts, 184 comments. ~1400 karma/upvotes. And I'm a total nobody. Not bad if I do say so myself. You monsters made me have to use a calculator >:U
(The image; a.k.a. the linked comic's last panel)
Lemmy still has a few incongruities to work out.
They make me feel more present and alive, too. I love to go out walking in the rain any chance I get, and reflect on life.
If you want to talk about religion, atheism, or agnosticism in a public, semi-anonymous internet community such as Reddit/Lemmy, you'll want to have thick skin. Sadly my skin is not as thick as I'd like. Oh, and as an ex-Christian, I still use Christianity as a frame of reference a lot— especially when criticizing American "Christians" for their lack of empathy when a good chunk of their own book states they should be otherwise. But then because I brought up Christianity but didn't explicitly say it was wrong and/or evil, I get shit on pretty quickly. Then people literally try to tell me I'm lying about being an ex-Christian, including on Lemmy. People are... sad.
And I want to buy and own individual songs. The latest one was all live footage and "influencery"; and each time you played a song, you had to pay. It was literally the cheapest, greediest, most pandering "Guitar Hero" one could have made.
It's battle passes all the way down.
Been worrying a lot about the world, my country, and my life lately. Feel like everything's going to hell fast.
The other "Off My Chest" communities are dead, so let's build this one! <3
I relate a lot to Angus, myself.
R.I.P. Chester Bennington. Also I love Fort Minor (a one-album, multi-artist project where Mike Shinoda was a lead rapper).
I really wish Nintendo stress-tested their gamepads more. Then again, the Switch was rushed to make up for the failing sales of the Wii U.
Nuclear winter would kill almost all of us out— there would be no escaping it.
And I feel they had enough support that they might have been able to kick off some kind of copyright reform movement, or at least some kind of law to deal with the bad-faith DMCA takedown crap.
My first family was abusive and extremely neglectful. The father was always at work. The mother neglected me, didn't touch or feed me, and left me in precarious situations in hopes that I would die. She made my older brother hit and bite me. She passed me and my siblings over the fence to my neighbor regularly so we would be out of her hair. Child services took me and my three siblings out when I was five. I lived in my second family until the day before my 8th birthday. My foster father there sexually abused me and my brother. By the time I was in my third family, I was very disturbed. I also am autistic with mild cerebral palsy. My 60-year-old adoptive mother there emotionally and physically abused me and my sister, didn't believe in mental health or cerebral palsy, and showed us zero affection. Eventually she abandoned me at a reform school when I was 15. That school didn't want to deal with immature, disturbed autistic kids, so they made up an excuse to kick me out when I was 16. I was immediately sent to a much worse reform school— an abusive one in Missouri which they're trying to get shut down. I was there so long that they said I couldn't be there any longer. My adoptive mom didn't take me back— she mailed me tickets to my birth dad saying "see if he wants you". We had no contact with him— we only knew about him because my sister found his number and ran away when I was gone. My birth dad still did not want his kids, so he abandoned me at a homeless shelter when I was 19. I spent time in a lot of inappropriate homes until adult foster care. Now I'm living in a market-rate apartment with housemates, but am about to be homeless (and with no money or family), because I complained a lot about their severe neglect and the upstairs neighbors terrorizing us for 9 months. Life, man. ----- And now I'm writing a literary action science fantasy novel about childhood attachment disorder, healing from trauma, societal ethics, and becoming kinder, happier, greater people. It's a blockbuster of a literary novel, and it's quite far along. I have a Google Doc of its WIP progress up. But I'm still about to be homeless.
To be honest, I am on disability ($1600 a month), my deaf housemate is on disability ($800 a month), and my other housemate works full-time at Walmart ($1800 a month). And yet we are so, so screwed.