I have jumbled thoughts on WISH looking to fall short of industry projections, its low CinemaScore grade, its low chances at scoring a great multiplier that helps it climb, and Disney's overall bad film year - on their centennial no less.
The success of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3, the excellent legs ELEMENTAL scored after such a poor opening weekend, and how well THE LITTLE MERMAID did domestically tells me everything I need to know, I feel.
GUARDIANS VOL. 3 had a solid opening for an MCU sequel, down a bit from what VOL. 2 pulled in back in 2017, but still good. Legs carried it past $350m+ domestically, and it made over $845m worldwide. It's probably my favorite MCU movie in a while, and it resonated for a lot of other people, too. Can't say the same about MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS, LOVE AND THUNDER, QUANTUMANIA, and THE MARVELS. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now a mess of rushed movies that are either homework or you have to do homework in order to keep up with them, GUARDIANS VOL. 3 not so much. I extend this to last autumn's BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER as well.
ELEMENTAL, like most of the recent films overseen by current Pixar leader Pete Docter, told a personal story in a fun, appealing, and visually stunning way. Despite existing next to other family films in a crowded June/July, ELEMENTAL grew some serious legs and did really good overseas. I'm confident LUCA and TURNING RED, had they been released theatrically in a world where COVID-19 never happened, would've done pretty darn well. LIGHTYEAR is the anomaly here, the rare Pixar film that audiences just didn't take a liking to. But I can't hold it against Pixar, Docter lets these filmmakers make the movie they see fit, and sometimes in the world of the arts... It's not going to sit well with everybody. Luckily, ELEMENTAL had a real rebound and nearly made 2 1/2x its posted budget.
THE LITTLE MERMAID got by on being almost beat for beat a redo of a beloved animated feature in Disney's library, and it also helps that some of the actors did a pretty solid job. (I haven't seen the film, only bits and pieces at my movie theater job. I'm not into these remakes.) While this movie couldn't cover its costs worldwide, as it had a hard time in certain large markets, it still did pretty great here.
But I think Marvel, Disney Studios (as in the end that does all the live-action and CG tech demo movies), and Walt Disney Animation Studios are in need of some course correction. I get the sense that the latter two arms of Disney's massive film machine aren't really letting filmmakers make the movies they want to make... But rather making the films for them, and someone steps in to do the job. That's also pretty much the case with Marvel, but sometimes they let a director do what they want. Sometimes. James Gunn got more freedom on VOL. 3, and Ryan Coogler got a lot of say on WAKANDA FOREVER.
Pixar feels the most free of the divisions to me, outside of 20th Century Studios and Searchlight. I feel their recent animated offerings have more of a voice and a personality, they feel like their filmmakers' own creations. Everything from LUCA to ELEMENTAL, all these post-Lasseter movies. I'm not really getting this kind of thing from the Disney Animation films made under Jennifer Lee's leadership, and given how audiences reacted to STRANGE WORLD and WISH (as in, those who actually saw them), I suspect audiences aren't, either. Are their movies being noted to death by upper management? That FROZEN II documentary did reveal that these films are test screened for toddlers, and then stuff is cut out to make things less intense. As if they are sanding off the edges of a perfectly fine piece of furniture.
Maybe it's not villains and such that people missed in Disney animated films of late. Maybe they weren't upset at twists or whatever...
... but rather, they were not too fond of writing that feels like it got doctored relentlessly into being FROZEN 6.0, and also the lack of bite and that classic sense of danger that complimented the magic and "warm fuzzies" quite nicely in the more beloved Disney animated movies. You think Walt Disney gave two craps about the angry letters he got from parents over the frightening moments in SNOW WHITE and PINOCCHIO? If a Disney film has to be a little scary and intense, it should be. I don't understand this new thing where they hold back. Look at how warmly received DreamWorks' PUSS IN BOOTS sequel was last year; a good helping of some scary stuff for the kids in the audience should only help it do better, so long as everything else adds up.
(Note: "Warm fuzzies" was something a friend of mine, a fellow Disney enthusiast named Jim Miles came up with, and I use that phrasing quite a lot!)
The horizon for both studios is curious. Pixar's next is a guaranteed hit with INSIDE OUT 2, it's ELIO that's the more curious one. It'll be Pixar's 2nd-ever post-outbreak theatrical release of an original animated movie. WDAS' next is unknown, and they have ZOOTOPIA 2 and FROZEN III on the horizon, both of which sure to cover any recent losses. Maybe WDAS-2024 shows a change in direction, maybe it's another round of what STRANGE WORLD and WISH had to offer. Maybe it'll be taken back and retooled if WISH comes up short? There will likely be a much needed strike for animation when the Animation Guild can make that happen in mid-2024, so maybe we won't be seeing that very film next year. Stuff will likely be pushed back again, for a strike that NEEDED to happen. Maybe some self-reflection and strikes will do this studio good, they seem to be in a funk.
And in live-action land, you would think a new HAUNTED MANSION movie with that kind of cast (well, except for Jared Leto, yuck) and a rare-for-Disney PG-13 rating would be an all-timer, right? Big flop. Massive budget, probably noted to death, too. If not, then... Decisions were made, and audiences just didn't care for them unfortunately. The remakes, even the ones that make good money at the box office, are largely agreed to be stinkers. Audiences may have flocked to most of them, but if they weren't based on beloved movies... How would they have done? And what's next? A LION KING prequel that I'm certain won't make much of a stir, a delayed and iffy-looking SNOW WHITE remake that I feel will also have trouble at the box office... And more animated movie-based pictures, and some theme park ones maybe. They've run out of classics to remake, so now they're trying theme parks again. They keep trying to get this TRON-in-name-only movie off the ground that's not a sequel to TRON: LEGACY and doesn't involve anyone from the previous two films. And they're doing sequels/prequels to the remakes. But as we saw with ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS and MALEFICENT 2, that's not a guarantee. People came to see the car they loved with a new coat of paint, not a similar car made afterwards.
So, I think Marvel, Disney Studios, and WDAS are at a similar point to where the Disney enterprise was in the early-to-mid 1970s. Maybe even into the early 1980s...
Above: This logo, for the enterprise's 50th anniversary in 1973, would show up before the films released that year... Presumably, the Buena Vista distribution title card would follow. It does not appear on home video editions of the Disney films released that year. i.e. ROBIN HOOD, CHARLEY AND THE ANGEL, etc.
I think this is all telling me that some audiences aren't necessarily upset at what kinds of stories Disney is choosing to tell, but are instead a bit unsatisfied with the way they are telling those stories. That merely the reliance on brand names and what worked a decade ago is not enough anymore:
I think about where Disney was by around 1975-76, inching up on a decade without Walt Disney, and a few years after Roy O. Disney's passing... And it looks as if Walt Disney Productions at the time were delivering what was guaranteed to be successful... In 1965...
You had cheaply-made kid-friendly comedies starring TV mainstays and often times they co-starred an animal (THE BAREFOOT EXECUTIVE, MILLION DOLLAR DUCK, GUS, take your pick), you had standard adventure movies (such as TREASURE OF MATECUMBE and THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD), you had the occasional long live-action musical with animated scenes in them (BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, PETE'S DRAGON), and the occasional animated feature film that was always directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and had that same lazy vibe that he'd been employing since THE SWORD IN THE STONE a decade ago...
You look at what Disney had to offer on the movie front from around 1969-1976, and it's like backwash from the early 1960s, and what worked back then... Interestingly, it was the animated movies that continued to do well during that period, contrary to popular belief. But nothing was a massive blockbuster domestically, on the level of 101 DALMATIANS or THE JUNGLE BOOK...
So, again, I think of Disney's output roughly 1967-1979... And I see what's coming out now as backwash from 2013-16. Guaranteed smash hit movies - Marvel superhero spectacles, remakes of animated classics, FROZEN-esque family movies... no longer foolproof. Pixar looks to be weathering this just fine, even if this timeline did not see LUCA and TURNING RED hit theaters nationwide. I still reckon those would've been big, big hits in a not-COVID world. How ELEMENTAL did tells me everything.
There was one lucky arm of Disney that somewhat avoided all of this... STAR WARS...
STAR WARS is largely just streaming shows now. There hasn't been a feature film since THE RISE OF SKYWALKER back in 2019. SOLO was the first movie in the whole franchise to actually lose money at the box office, the lowest-grossing film remains that very cheap CLONE WARS theatrical pilot movie. I feel SOLO lost money simply because the director change and subsequent refilming of almost the whole damn thing ballooned the budget, and there's only so many people you can drag to a Han Solo origin movie when a Wikipedia article is right there. Releasing it so soon after THE LAST JEDI didn't help, either. STAR WARS movies aren't MCU movies, I think you kinda need to let those sit for a little while. SOLO, I think, would've probably done better if it had been a Christmas 2018 release. Not the May right after LAST JEDI's December 2017 bow. Disney plans to release two new STAR WARS features in 2026, and well... Good luck with that. The new STAR WARS movies will be a test, to see if audiences will keep showing up for these movies. They aren't even entries in a new trilogy, so there's that.
Lucasfilm did do a new INDIANA JONES movie that did disastrously. Maybe audiences just weren't down for another adventure with Indy, maybe the market was a little too crowded, maybe those who saw it just didn't take to a Spielberg-less Indy movie. (Not a dig on James Mangold, but maybe audiences felt his absence?) Maybe it just cost too fucking much... Lucasfilm seems to just be "Star Wars Studios" now. They lost the rights to the book CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE, which they were supposed to adapt. They've barely made any live-action movies that *aren't* STAR WARS or INDIANA JONES on a consistent basis since RADIOLAND MURDERS all the way back in 1994. Like, what did they make between '94 and now that wasn't part of those huge franchises? RED TAILS, and an animated movie called STRANGE MAGIC. Both of which bombed... But I will be fair to Lucasfilm, a good chunk of the not-SW/Indy movies of the late '80s/early '90s also flopped.
Speaking of that... I also feel that Disney should probably invest in lower budget movies again? Not necessarily "cheap" stuff, but lower budget stuff that's more experimental and more creative? Not the kinds of movies that they can send straight to streaming, but small little movies that do okay in theaters and sorta help build a back catalogue for them. Why wasn't something like CRATER a theatrical release?
One of Disney's biggest live-action successes, a looooong time ago, was HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS. Produced for $18m, grossed over $200m worldwide and spawned some sequels. Did you know that movie actually outgrossed THE LITTLE MERMAID that same year? That's right, in 1989, HONEY made more money than MERMAID... Which film do you think is better remembered?
Anyways, what ended up happening after Disney's weird era after Walt's passing? In the late '70s and early '80s, they genuinely tried to experiment and redefine what a "Disney movie" could be, but a lot of it went south. TRON was probably the most successful of these experiments, but even that didn't measure up to expectations. Touchstone was set up, and they hit the ground running with SPLASH in 1984, and had quite a few successes into the late '80s... Films like THREE MEN AND A BABY and GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM. But that was Touchstone... Mainline Disney was where things needed to be happenin'...
And they weren't really... THE BLACK CAULDRON, THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN, ONE MAGIC CHRISTMAS, they were all coming up short. The little bit of respite came from efforts like FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR and THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE, smaller-budget productions that made their money back.
Eventually, the tides changed, and it was time to make movies that took the audience by surprise.
While it was released under the Touchstone banner in 1988, I'd say WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT was the movie that really got the ball rolling... And then that would be followed by OLIVER & COMPANY, HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS, THE LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, etc. All of which reversed course for the studio's film output. You couldn't convince anyone over the age of 12 to check out a "Disney" movie in theaters five years earlier in 1983, but by the beginning of the '90s, you had all the demographics showing up to some of their films...
Maybe that's what Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures will discover again in this weird post-outbreak, post-streaming world. They've hit this wall before, and they've gotten over it...
Maybe it's time for them to take a daring leap and make a proverbial new ROGER RABBIT-type movie that makes a Disney movie neat and worth checking out in the theaters again...
AND ALSO, TO TREAT THEIR FILMMAKERS AND STAFF BETTER, but that's another story.
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Devlog #3 - Revisions and Indecisions.
Sjdjfdhs hi. Apologies for letting the “see you in a month” turn into several months. Work got busy, then I caught Covid, after recovering I went on vacation, and then work got busy again… But I did work on this VN all throughout.
I didn’t make as much progress as I wanted, but some progress was made nevertheless.
So what exactly did I do? Let me count the ways.
Story Revisions
Changed the premise from magic academia to magic uhhh small business? Workshop? Something like that, I'm not sure what to call it.
My original story followed the player character and their love interest as they explored their university campus. This came to be because I was tinkering with the concepts of "group partners to lovers" & showing the player character as non-humanoid to allow for reader-insert and immersion, like the Obey Me games and the pink sheep MC. But the story stopped being appealing to me, plus the scope started to become bigger than I had anticipated. Multiple CGs in different locations across a giant campus? Yeah that's a nightmare to draw.
I'd still like to explore the idea of a non-humanoid MC though, so maybe that'll be a future game, or at least another brain dump post!
But anyway, I shrunk the premise. One store, one LI, and the customers that enter the little workshop. I'm still sticking to the idea of mundane modern fantasy though.
Because of the location change from university to workshop, I've had to revise the LI a lot. He's shaping up really well though! His name is Fen, I hope I can introduce him here sometime soon.
Building Frameworks
I'm not sure what to call it, so for now I'm calling it frameworks.
Basically, instead of tackling each aspect of the game separately from drafts to completion (ex: drawing all sprites right now and then moving on to writing the script), I want to create rough versions of everything.
I think this will help me because then I'll have an idea of how much work each aspect will entail, and I can hopefully spot and remedy any holes or glaring skill issues.
This is especially important for coding. I'll be using RenPy, the classic engine for visual novels, but I have very little coding experience. I'd like to gain some before I start creating the writing and assets meant to be incorporated into the platform.
By creating the framework (or I guess prototype is the better word in this case), I'll get some understanding of how RenPy works and once I have the assets complete I can insert those in.
For plot frameworks, I'm trying not to go into too much detail. Lots of bullet points cause I fuck with those.
For character frameworks, I must admit I'm putting a lot of thought and detail into Fen, but I think I should as he's the core of this game. I'm reminding myself though that much of him can still be altered if the story requires it.
There's definitely more frameworks I need to think about, like sprites, backgrounds, and music too.
But to sum it up, I'd like to create a rough draft of the entire game, and then only afterward do I start going in and changing details and adding colors to the big picture. I hope that makes sense.
Next Step: Character & Coding Frameworks
For the rest of April and probably the entirety of May as well, I'll focus on fleshing out Fen and putting together the coding framework.
I think figuring out Fen's character arc will help me get an idea of the overall story, which is incredibly daunting yet exciting lol
I'm not planning on making the coding look pretty, I just want to make something that functions. I have no clue how well that will go so please pray for me or something.
Personal Thoughts: I am Afraid
I think the reason why I didn't make a lot of progress is because lately, I've been afraid of doing so. I've never made a game before, or written an original story. I don't know what I'm doing, and instead of directly addressing things I've kept working around them. And because I haven't made much progress, it stresses me out. And then that stress makes me do less work.
Hellooo feedback loop.
I'm an indecisive person who likes to look for the right or most optimal answer. But in a creative project like this, it's hard to know what the "right" answer is cause it can be subjective.
I'm trying to remind myself to enjoy the process and to take small steps, and everything is still changeable as I'm still in the beginning stages. It's hard, but as I'm writing this update I think I'm feeling better.
I'm sure this gamedev journey will be me enjoying the ride and then immediately hating it, so for anyone reading: thank you for your patience. I appreciate you.
I'm going to try and post an update, no matter how small it is, once a month. So. Cheers to me being able to post this in April.
I'm still trying to figure out what to post and how to get my thoughts across. I've never done anything like this before, so please bear with me. If you have any feedback, please feel free to share!
And again, thank you to whoever's reading this. I hope you have a great timezone :)
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By Sonya Goins
Mayo Clinic
April 13, 2023
While COVID-19 rates in the U.S. are relatively low and are declining, the World Health Organization (WHO) is keeping an eye on a new COVID-19 variant. The omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, known as "Arcturus," has been listed by the WHO as a variant under monitoring since March 22. Experts say this variant has a higher transmissibility rate than previous strains but doesn't appear to be more dangerous.
"It is causing increasing case counts in certain parts of the world, including India. We're not seeing high rates of XBB.1.16 yet in the United States, but it may become more prominent in coming weeks," says Dr. Matthew Binnicker, director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic.
He says experts are seeing new symptoms with the new variant.
"One new feature of cases caused by this variant is that it seems to be causing conjunctivitis, or red and itchy eyes, in young patients. This is not something that we've seen with prior strains of the virus," Dr. Binnicker adds.
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Respiratory rates declining
Dr. Binnicker says respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 infections, influenza, and RSV have declined in the U.S. in recent weeks.
"The case counts of respiratory infections have begun to drop as we're entering into the spring months in the Northern Hemisphere with warmer temperatures and people getting outdoors," says Dr. Binnicker. "Respiratory viruses, like SARS-CoV-2, tend to decline in the spring and summer months, and that is what we're seeing in most parts of the U.S. right now."
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps emerging because the virus mutates and copies itself as it spreads from person to person, creating new variants.
"New variants come and go. We're seeing increased transmission rates, so higher levels of infectivity with recent COVID-19 variants, but in general, they tend to be causing less severe disease in individuals, which is good news," explains Dr. Binnicker. "This is likely due to a combination of factors, including higher vaccination rates, higher rates of immunity from prior infection, and lower pathogenicity of recent variants."
Although COVID-19 rates in the U.S. are relatively low, health experts recommend people remain vigilant in using these preventive measures:
Wash your hands frequently.
Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
Stay home if you feel sick or have any symptoms of COVID-19.
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I’m sorry you’re sick!! I had Covid a while back and I wish I had cg hugs too, have a hug from an anon friend!!! *hug*
Oh no, I hope you didn’t have too bad a time with it! Covid is so nasty 😞 Thank you so much for the hug, sweet nonny!! I’m lucky not to have a super bad case, but the hugs and kind words are so so nice to see in my inbox 😭 it really made me smile! I hope life is being kind to you and that you have a really good day or night—whatever time it is where you are!
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Wheel takes episode 8: what they lost due to covid. I vibe with Ali so hard on this which is why included her reactions and not just the facts.
Gus: Here are the things that we know they lost as a result or indirectly as a result due to covid happening before they filmed episode 8. We've spoken about this, after episode 6 they had to stop down production, picked it up like 7 months later, I believe?
Ali: It's a long time.
Gus: They had to rewrite the episode, having lost: Barney Harris as Mat Cauthon.
Ali: Oh my god.
Gus: A major character who presumably was supposed to have major script elements and a major plotline within that episode.
Ali: This is why I got so stressed watching that last episode, I was like 'oh my god oh my god it's so stressful'. Sorry, I'm just stressed for them all the time.
Gus: Every single practical trolloc stunt actor.
Ali: What?
Gus: Every single practical trolloc stunt actor -
Ali: I didn't even know that!
Gus: -could not come back.
Nathan: What a fucking nightmare.
Gus: That entire battle sequence, which presumably had a lot of practical arena-fight elements, would have been filmed with prosthetic trolloc actors, was instead CG:d.
Ali: *groan*
Gus: On about, I don't know, three months' notice? They had to completely redo all of that.
Ali: You're kidding me.
Gus: The location where they were going to film the blight.
Ali: *muffled into her hands* They lost a location?
Gus: Blight was going to be filmed in I believe the canary islands. It was an organic, actual place, with funky looking nature and trees -
Ali: *still muffled* I'm about to start crying.
Gus: They were going to fly to the canary islands, film the blight there because they thought it looked cool, covid happened, international travel shut down. Instead they built that - I think they built that in like two months. So. Those are the things that we know they lost.
Ali: Give Rafe Judkins a nobel peace price for not absolutely losing his shit. Oh my- are you se- So the location had been scouted?
Gus: The location had been scouted and confirmed.
Ali: That is a person they hired - they spent money on the location already. They spent money on that person to scout the location for them. All of that has to be scrapped but they still have to pay all that shit. And then they have to build a set from scratch in three months? And they have to get rid of all their practical effects, hire someone to do cgi, have that cgi made in three months -
Gus: Reroute budget to cg for the climactic battle.
Ali: Budget they didn't have because they've spent it on all this other shit!
Gus: On top of that they had to budget money for covid compliance and covid officers.
Ali: Oh my god and that's a fucking nightmare.
Gus: To my recollection that can be as much as 10% of your actual budget right now.
Ali: Yeah.
[asking Nathan about covid stuff at theatre right now]
Ali: Well and something that we're seeing in tv right now is having to cast three actors for a part in case two of them get covid.
Gus: Or one of them gets covid and one of them gets a better job.
Ali: Yeah, exactly. So we'll call these people and we'll go - so you're on hold. Basically. But we can't stop them for going to look for other jobs because we're not paying them to be on hold. So we're having to cast three actors for one role. It's a nightmare.
Gus: Here's a practical example for that - I don't have confirmation for this, to my understanding this is a rumor, but a fairly substantiated rumor. The character of lord Yakota was originally cast, to my understanding, as lord Ingtar. Which, book readers may recognize that name. They had to stop down for covid, somewhere in that interim the actor who played lord Yakota was offered a larger part on another television show and took it, and they renamed his character lord Yakota. Because Ingtar is a recurring character, or a character who will appear later in the series. Yakota is a character they created for the show. But I guess they had already filmed or he had already signed a contract?
I'm gonna stop there but like Ali says a bit later: you have it all figured out, then a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic hits and you lose everything for your resolution episode? Yeah. The stress must be immense. I will miss what we could have had - all those three things we lost sound really cool - but I'm really impressed with them for still making an episode I really liked.
I'm gonna continue listening now.
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Corona पॉजिटिव होते ही डिप्रेशन में गया युवक, कोविड सेंटर में फांसी लगा दी जान
Corona पॉजिटिव होते ही डिप्रेशन में गया युवक, कोविड सेंटर में फांसी लगा दी जान
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Anon who sent screenshots of reviews about 807: who wrote the last screenshot saying Iris deserves better than this? Because that is the number 1 consensus right now. After Armageddon, the general public was excited and saying season 8 was looking to be better than last season and now, look, everyone is bored out of their minds and want to know where is Iris.
Unfortunately, I've seen obnoxious people take what CG says as Bible by spreading that CP wanted a break because she was homesick. She's never denied being homesick when she's in Van. That's natural for anyone. She never said though, "I am homesick, therefore let me miss some episodes." That's not how this business works. Eric and his team don't need anyone still defending their mess.
Last year when Candice was stuck in Canada and couldn’t leave, yeah, she was homesick. So was anyone else stuck somewhere they couldn’t leave because of COVID. But even with that she’s free to come and go as she pleases now so this idea that she needed weeks and weeks and weeks off because she’s homesick is bullshit. And even if that was the case it still wouldn’t explain why Eric writes (or allows Iris to be written) the way she is when Candice is around and available to work.
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Band Camp Boyfriend Progress Update! Jan 2022
Happy 2022, everyone!
Wow, typing that out slightly horrified me. It really does feel like “2020, too” at the moment as we are retreating back into quarantine to try and keep everyone safe since the number of Covid cases have skyrocketed here. We are bunkering down and working hard on Band Camp Boyfriend and making tremendous progress. I can actually sit down and play through the game now! This is HUGE! And it means I can share more screenshots with you!
But it’s still missing a lot of pieces, particularly the audio. The voice acting really brings the characters to life and you absolutely cannot have a game about marching band without an amazing, original soundtrack. Now let me finally shut up and jump into our--
PROGRESS UPDATE!
First off, you may notice an addition to my Programming Progress chart: Final. That’s right, a final route has been added! It was initially going to be DLC because we didn’t want it to delay the game’s release, but we decided the game did not feel complete without it.
But let me reassure you that it will not delay the game’s release at all! I may have just begun writing it, but I am a fast writer (the characters write themselves honestly) and we are taking steps to make the programming easier. Lastly, it’s also a bit shorter than the other routes. I’m confident I can get it done while my sister focus on the soundtrack, voice clips, and GUI. And my mom has once again offered to aid me with programming because she is the best.
Up next, did we achieve the goals we set for the end of 2021?
Just about! We don’t have all of the voice clips sent in yet, but we do have all of the backgrounds! WOOHOO! Alex completed programming the affinity while I programmed the new backgrounds and glossary cards into the game. These are really major mile marks! Seriously. We’re starting to feel like the end is in sight. 2023 release, anyone?
We’ve been sorting our goals into yearly quarters. So these are our goals for the next 3 months...
Taylor (Me!):
-Play through each route and test for crashes
-Write the final route
-Put out a casting call for the remaining characters (March!)
-Continue plaguing social media
Alex:
-Round up the last of the voice acting
-Cut voice clips
-Fix history menu + Map out extras menu
Both of us are researching ideas for the GUI Extras menu, which contains the CGs and soundtrack. We’ll be diving into all my favorite otome games today for inspiration and mapping out exactly what we want. That will be fun! It’ll be a walk down memory lane for me (I’m coming up on my tenth anniversary of playing otome).
As always, thanks for sticking with us! I hope 2022 treats you gently and that there are better times ahead. Look forward to the next progress update in a few months and keep an eye out for that casting call!
-Taylor
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Entropic Float Biweekly Update #12
Time for Update Twelve. The art this week was commissioned from Niina on skeb!
Not the most relevant image this time, since Peri doesn't actually appear in any of the Rashmi routes... But she's adorable, so don't hold it against me, okay?
You also shouldn't hold it against me because, for all but the first two days after my previous update, I've had covid. Omicron's infectivity really is off the charts, and I'm a fragile person, so of course I had loads of symptoms. Nothing serious in the end, thanks to my triple vaccine, and my brainfog's cleared up over the past few days, so I still have some progress to share!
Writing:
48/54 segments... That's right, despite spending most of my time sick, working from home during moments of clarity and playing video games during moments of utter fog... I actually wrote the entire Rashmi Noon Route. A big chunk of that was immediately following the last update, but I still doubled my goal of three segments... Somehow. Honestly, I think I'll need my beta testers to pay extra special attention to this route just in case I dropped a big ol plothole in there...
Talksprites:
No change since last time.
Voice Acting:
No change since last time
Background Music:
Nope on the goal of adding a new OST track. I added a royalty free track, though! For a different scene than the one I need to make an OST track for. Yeah, I know...
My goal progress from last time:
-Add one more music track I did not do this.
-Write 3/6 segments of the Rashmi Noon Route ahead of scheduleI did do this. I exceeded this!
-Begin the process of setting up my itch.io page and my steamworks page I did not do this either.
My goals for next time:
- Add one more music track. For real this time.
-Begin setting up steamworks and itch.io
-Write 2 Segments of the Rashmi Night Route
-Spruce up a few pieces of the GUI
-Draw that last hand-drawn CG that was on my list...
-And also draw the 3 new pieces of art I roped myself into making for a puzzle room.
A bit more variety in what I want to get done over the next two weeks! It's a good thing that I'm way ahead on my development schedule right now. I'm ahead by an entire month, basically, which gives me some room to work on a few changes that I've been wanting to implement for some time now. Nothing huge, it'll just take some time to make the assets, but I think it'll improve the game's polish. We'll see which of these things I'm able to complete. Who knows, maybe I'll fail to diversify and just write Rashmi's Night Route all the way through instead. Either way, I'm making progress!
Also, this didn't fit anywhere else, but one more thing I did was fix an issue that the game's had for a while where the text couldn't be sped up. You might say, isn't that preference available in every ren'py game by default? Yes, but early on in development, I manually set the text speed for dialogue because I didn't like it appearing at max speed... So it could be slowed down, but not sped up...
Yeah, now the preference is just set to that speed by default, so you can speed it up manually if you like.
Until next time!
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VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas Review (Patreon Review for Emma Fici)
Ho ho ho all you happy people! I’m Jake I review stuff and my blog’s christmas slurry continues with some brocolli, celery, it’s gotta be VeggieTales, courtsey of my good friend Emma.
For those who don’t know what the heck this is, VeggieTales was a series of religious direct to video specials for kids done from the 90′s to the mid 2010′s starring antromoprhic vegtables, as the simple shapes needed for that were a god send to early 90′s cg. The franchise still persists today, having both had a mediocre and mildly terrifying netflix show and currently a show on an obscure christian streaming service. Despite wearing i’ts secular nature on it’s sleeves (several specails were outright remakes of bible stories and god is mentioned in every episode but never appears, like their version of Norm’s Wife from Cheers), the series blew up in popularity with kids of all kinds.
Like many kids I grew up with these, or at least the earlier ones, and loved them dearly, not even realizing they were relegious despite obvious evidence till I was an adult. The show just had pure charm, with great voice acting, fun characters, and a wonderfully silly sense of humor. These 50 specials are a classic for a reason and these characters have lasted this long for much the same reason.
SO naturally I was happy to cover this for Emma on comission. The result... was easily the thing that pushed my sanity closest to the brink in a year where i’ve had to deal with covid restrictions returning because people are stupid, a disaasterious trip to denver i’d rather not get into, final space and infinity train both getting canceled while owl house had its third season cut to ribbons because “it wasn’t disney content” aka “because it’s very gay and I know we can’t say that but we can certainly imply it”, and a general sense of doom and gloom that while not as bad as last year wasn’t great.. and this was the thing to nearly push me over the edge of insanity.
See you might think with that leadup this means the special is bad. It’s not. It’s not the shows best, but it’s not half bad. What it is however.. is crazy town banana pants. This may be one of the most batshit things i’ve reviewed on this blog. And in my two or so years doing this i’ve seen Santa untietoinally let his family die because he dosen’t know how doors work, a man who makes golems out of his skin flakes watch two women wrestle in oil, Pinoccio somehow be part of the Donald Duck universe because fuck off, Scrooge McDuck BUY AN ENTIRE ISLAND JUST TO TEACH HIS NEPHEW A LESSON, and whatever the fuck this is.
But this my friends takes the case for sheer batshit insanity. This my friends is the Christmas Star and trust me, your going to want to unwrap this one with me under the cut. This.. this is a trip.
So for starters we’re just plopped right into the story. No real intro, no Bob and Larry on a countertop telling us things like the earlier shorts, just suddenly we’re in turn of the century London with Bob and Larry who are wearing fancy mustaches. Not even a minute in i’m a bit thrown off but thankfully we get caught up to speed quick.
Bob and Larry are two playwrites who have done adverts and what not for toothpaste, but want to do stage shows. They also have diffrent names in this one, but i’m ignoring that because...
While Bob and Larry and the rest of the cast are TECHNCIALLY playing characters much like say, looney tunes, just because their in a diffrent setting dosen’t mean they act any diffrent. So i’m keeping the original names, if you have any issues with that please see my complaint department
So our heroes convinced Larry’s Uncle, Played by Nezzer, to let them use his theater for a show on christmas eve in a few days, with Bob’s big gimmick for it being electric lights on the set, provided by his friend Pa Grape, who went to engineering school in this timeline and thus is a kooky inventor, though still as always the voice of reason in this crazy mixed up world. He also brings along his chekovs gun of a car that runs on rockets for the climax later. What a considerate cgi blob he is.
Bob manages to wrangle a famous actress played by Madam Blueberry and a prince, played by of all the possible characters Mr. Lunt. Why?
Seriously I feel Archibald Asparagus would’ve made more sense. Maybe it was just because having such a side character, and a normally shady one, play a mostly offscreen difgnified prince who shows up for the finale was inherently funny, which if this was intentional.. well played. Honestly I could just as easily buy they needed all hands on deck for this one and thus went for one that was still a decently sized character, but not one they needed in a more fitting roll elsewhere.
Bob gets the prince, whose also a theater critic because plot convience, and the actress on board but encounters another problem: he finds out there’s another performance at a church that same night.
It’s the annual christmas play by Junior Asapragus, whose being a little merry monster to everyone as he overworks his actors and refuses to accept a pea’s wool allergies. He died the next week. Charges were never filed.
Junior’s dad is the local preist who is heading off to feed a poor family who needs it, something Junior questions.
That said the special DOES use this to teach a valuable lesson: The holiday should be about giving out of the goodness of your heart, about doing it for others. Not about the flash and trappings. It’s done slightly subtly, without beating you in the head with it but obvious enough younger kids will get it.
It’s charity like this WHY I don’t dismiss religion out of hand: I won’t deny it’s been used for massive harm: churches are responsible for massive amounts of homophobia, transphobia and generally unhelpful moral outrage, not to mention fueling republican assholes by blindly telling people to support them despite clear corruptions and in some cases ARGUGING AGAINST vaccine mandates despite you know, those being in place to keep ups alive. My point is a LOT of people associated with the church or who go to it are dumb. But there are also plenty of christians, catholics and other jesus and god loving types who arne’t homophobic jackasses and just want to help out of the kindness of their heart.
My Aunt Paula for instance works at a chruch, but is a nice, kind woman who has been nothing but the nicest person i’ve ever known and may ever know.
She set off my lifelong love of comic strips and has been nothing but supportive of me my whole life. Religion isn’t inherently bad, it’s the morons who refuse to think for themselves with it and the assholes who use it to back up their own barely contained bigotry that’s the problem, but when done right.. it can lead to people geninely helping other people simply because they feel it’s the right thing to do and help nudge them to their best instincts. It’s why despite growing ot be cyncial about religion.. I still don’t hate these specials. They try to teach kids the best part sof the bible, helping others and knowing right from wrong and i’m never not going to be okay with that.
So the first ten minutes or so as you can tell really aren’t all that crazy though I did supsect this would be about Bob the Tomato getting overly competitive with a chruch production of the birth of christ. And good news Bob The Tomato, childhood icon to many DOSEN’T try to run a children’s production out of town.
He does something MUCH worse that we’ll get to soon.
So Bob decides NOT to steam his competition and have Larry devour the remains unkowingly, again confident he’ll have the better show and achive his goal of “teaching london to love”. Oh yeah I forgot to mention this takes place in england.
That confidence lasts until God decides Bob needs to be punished for his hubris and Archibald Asparagus just HAPPENS to show up and hear him takling about the star. And thus things take a hard left turn into
As it turns out the star Junior’s using.. IS A PRECIOUS HISTORICAL ARTIFACT. Yes the church has had it for centuries and this CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PAGENT is the first time it’s being displayed in all that time due to various kings trying to loot it including one who liked eating anything star shaped. That bit got a chuckle out of me but it dosen’t detract from the fact this play is centered around a centuries old artifact.. that’s being USED FOR A CHRISTMAS PAGENT. It’d be like if Charlie Brown just happened to find the arc of a coveneant in the basement of the .. wherever he was that was having a christmas play and used it as the manger.
So Archibald puts it in the paper, leading to the prince canceling on them. As such Bob’s solution is LIGHTS, LIGHTS ON EVERYTHING. A WHOLE ELECTRIC ORCHESTIRA OF
LIIIIIIGGGHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSS
Putting them on costumes now. Unsurprisingly this dosen’t work. And here’s where things turn into a tinsel decked fever dream folks. See my first instinct when hearing about the star is “oh okay so bob’s going to steal it” but I stuffed that away, especially when they pivoted to the lights thing. SURELY a christian childrens show for young children wouldn’t have one of it’s most iconic and beloved characters steal from a chruch. Surely. And they wouldn’t.... no instead...
For those of you who haven’t seen the special this is what ACTUALLY HAPPENS. I swear to god. And I don’t take swearing that lightly he’s pretty harsh on people who lie in his name.
I just.. their in the wrong and all but.. you’d think Big Idea would look at the script a bit more before realizing what they’d done. Bob and Larry, two of the most innocent characters I can think of steal from god’s summer home to save their flagging careers. DId Mel Brooks write this one? What is happening.
And somehow the special gets even more insane as the two stay in the chruch past closing, now guarded by the scottish carrot who rarely shows up , who in this one is Moyer the Destroyer, a former boxing champ, a nice subtle joke.
They grab the star while he’s napping but larry NATURALLY causes a ruckuss leading to a long protracted chase scene which consists of Bob and Larry trying to escape with their stolen goods from a chruch while an old scottish man mutters at them incomprehinesibly the entire time.
Our heroes narrowly escape with what they and moyer think is the star. Now your probably thinking SURELY it can’t get any more what the hell right? Right?
For starters we have play rehersal now with more lights and more stolen religious artifacts! So this seems normal.. till the costumes and bulbs all short out.. and cause an electrical fire....
Yes really everyone flees and Bob is upset no one is by his side now he’s comitted arson, minus the peas but they really just count as one person. Now you were probably wondering “Wait how was Bob going to get away with the star thing anyway, Moyer saw their faces, their publicly credited on a poster, and he’s pubicly promoting having it. What was his plan”. Well his plan was jack and squat as Moyer brings the police, played by the yellow guy and ...
So it’s time for VeggieJails as Bob beomoans his horrible actoins and is mocked by a cockney green onion in the corner over trying to make london love again by doing a stage show. I. I don’t know what you want from me at this point.
Our heroes however are saved.. by the very people they robbed. In a nice gesture Junior choose to forgo the play to let them out. The pastor and son aren’t pressing charges. It’ sgeninely sweet.. even if it underlines that Junior.. really isn’t a character here. He’s more of a plot device, his play setting up bob’s theft and his saving them setting up the last act. J-Dawg is set UP for a character arc of growth and what not.. but... it just dosne’t happen. he’s just nice because we need a climax.
Turns out though the pagent is in ten minutes, and our heroes feeling bad this kind act has cost the kid his play vow to get him there using Chekvo’s rocket carriage. So we get a decent race the clock scene in a rocket powered car, which normally would be the higlight of insanity for this show but .. well see above.
OUr heroes naturally make it in time using all the rockets including the forbidden last one, and while their without a star bob subtstitues using larry surronded by hallogens. We get a message about jesus being the real star, blah blah blah, and we segue into our happy ending: Nezzer suprisingly dosen’t send our heroes to Debtors jail, simply having them work off the debt in his factory, and the prince loved the play and wants to implicitly back our boys next project, and will likely pay off said debts for the theater. Why they didn’t just have him do that instead I don’t know.
We get one final bit of insanity. While it should be a sweet moment, earlier the green onion or whatever he is complained about never having had a truly selfless act of kindness done to him in his life, so bob brings him dinner. But it’s set to just the most morose JESUS JESUS JESUS christmas song you could imagine, taking the special and the last shreds of my sanity with it.
Final Thoughts:
Well.. that was insane. Seriously I don’t know why.. any of this. It was enjoyable to watch though and for kids it wouldn’t be bad as the impact of you know, one of their childhood icons going to jail likely woudln’t hit the way it did for me and i’ts got a good message, it just needed more time for some better pacing is all. And also the theme song which was sorely missed. So yes this speicial is kind of insane but also great for it. Check it out, it’s free on Tubi which is how I watched it and there’s hardly any ads so go do that. Then maybe check out supseria or something I dunno, I don’t know how you holiday. Maybe you’d prefer some duel masters. Whatever floats your jingle boat
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CG and friends variety tomorrow! Gang Beasts and Gartic Phone for sure! I'm hoping for other games as well but who knows.
Lobby is Sykkuno, Rae, Leslie, Ramee, Randy, Kevin, Taco, Vinny(Or Binny, as Ramee calls him when he's whining, lol), and Autumn(At least Autumn is joining for Gartic Phone!). 4pm PST which is pretty early for CG variety, but that's at the start of K's stream so that actually makes sense. Definitely cool that Taco is joining!
(Also if you guys saw/heard, tomorrow was meant to be CB variety. I am guessing that it got cancelled. Tony's having side effects due to his second COVID vaccine and Buddha's mom is having health problems and with Sykkuno having another possible lobby, they might have decided to call it off early??? Idk but that's my guess. I'd rather them call it off early in case Buddha or Tony has to take the evening off rather than them feeling bad about cancelling last second. Just typical CB bad scheduling with reality.
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CASE STUDY IN SYRIA
Syria is a country located in southwestern Asia near the east coast of southwestern Asia. The Syria area about Golan Heights was once the territory of Israel in 1967. Its capital, Damascus, is located in the oasis at Mount Qasiyun on the Barada River (Salibi et al. 2020). Syria is one of several countries that have internet restrictions. The Syria telecommunication market is a government monopoly. Even though it controls 55% of the country’s cellular phone market, many small private telecommunication organizations still rely on government support and rules. Syria gives internet access to 20% of its total population with 56kb connection speed through dial-up with less cable dial-up and fiber connection.
Most Syrians use social media to connect with other Syrians, such as spreading information or opinions. Also, to raise awareness about politics inside and outside the country. Moreover, they also use it to create a public sphere, activists, and youth leaders, but only a few Syrian people participate. Although they are given a little freedom to use social media, they must avoid content related to internet regime challenge or human rights because they will get penalties such as accounts getting blocked, people get arrested, and even killed. In addition, Syrian authorities believe that those contents can weaken the national morale.
Syria has blocked around 240 sites which are email services such as Hotmail and Yahoo, along with hosting user-created sites on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and others. So, by limiting internet usage to Syrians, authorities believe it will have a more significant efficient effect than the potential costs to arrest activists and block accounts and sites (Tkacheva et al. 2013, pp. 74-81). Nevertheless, Syrians have tried to use VPN to avoid getting penalties for breaking laws. However, it is not adequate for some social media platforms such as Netflix. Moreover, even if Syrians manage to get accessed, they still need an activation code from a text message, and the message cannot be sent to Syria number, which leads to blocking their users unless they have numbers from friends who liveaboard (‘Under international restrictions, Syrian cannot access online platform’ 2021).
I personally think that during the covid 19 Pandemic, the internet has become an essential tool to interact with other people in a long-distance communication so that people will not get contagion and also beneficial for the country not to have spent high treatment for the large number of citizens who get the virus. During this pandemic, Syria allows its citizens to have internet access to more than 3TB from TSF (an international non-government company that focuses on humanitarian crises) to strengthen their mind against COVID-19 because of psychological distress (‘Northeastern Syria: hospitals run out of funds and supplies as second COVID-19 wave hits region’ 2021).
References
‘Northeastern Syria: hospitals run out of funds and supplies as second COVID-19 wave hits region’ 2021, ReliefWeb, 5 May, viewed 18 May 2021, <https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/northeastern-syria-hospitals-run-out-funds-and-supplies-second-covid-19>.
‘Under international restrictions, Syrian cannot access online platform’ 2021, The Arab Weekly, 19 March, viewed 18 May 2021, <https://thearabweekly.com/under-international-restrictions-syrians-cannot-access-online-platforms>.
Salibi, KS , Irvine, VE , Smith, CG , Hamidé, A-R , Scullard, HH , Hourani, AH , Ochsenwald, WL , Commins, DD , Gadd, CJ & Polk, WR 2020, "Syria", Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 June, viewed 23 May 2021, <https://www.britannica.com/place/Syria>.
Tkacheva, O, Schwartz, LH, Libicki, MC, Taylor, JE, Martini, J & Baxter, C 2013, Internet freedom & political space, RAND Corporation, California.
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