#I would have started in 2008

[gay-for-zoya]

"I don't want to be brave I just want to be myself. I don't want to be alone anymore" the fact Morgana didn't want to be alone and yet by season 5 has pushed away all the people who cared about her and genuinely loved her causing her to be completely isolated and alone in the world I'm not ok

#ik its her fault they turned on her #but if she had just been able to be open about her magic from the start and feel safe no of it would have happened #i hate uther 😭 #morgana pendragon #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin 2008

[tokruta]

someone who is good at psychology help me understand why i adore jegulus with all my heart but don't like drarry outside of very specific aus

please my family is dying (my ability to read jegulus lives aus is heavily compromised)

#jegulus #drarry #harry potter #my greatest shame is that i can't completely drop hp fan content #i'll never touch official hp stuff (and haven't since like 2018) #but the fan content slaps so hard #especially the marauders stuff. been a james girlie since 2008 #my leading theory is that i just don't like draco and the few aus im talking about have to do with getting me to like him first #i think the only time i actually shipped drarry is in the dark prince trilogy bc they were bffs and super supportive to each other in a way #i found very compelling. the trilogy is hinny but if it was drarry i would have been 100% okay with it #so since each fic needs to win me over on draco instead of starting at me already liking him it's too much effort to read drarry so i don't #(i like regulus. everyone is allowed 1 death eater to like (obv you can like more i just mean ppl who despise them) and mine is him. #what can i say? the black brothers the stolen horcrux and the love for kreacher compel me. loved reggie long before i shipped jegulus) #does anyone have any jegulus lives aus with hinny? that'd be great! #hasan't

[melto]

i love you late night midwest walks in the snow

#also listened to live in chicago 2008. those who know will get it. #i am fixed for a bit. felt so great would have kept walking #but someone started snowblowing #news with isaac

[slasheru]

game dev/design tips you didn't ask for, at random:

don't start by designing your game around the engine; come up with/refine/design/test your core mechanics INDEPENDENT of an engine and then FIND AN ENGINE that suits your game's purpose! (aka the Reverse Dragon Age Inquisition)

Fun Fact: The devs of Mass Effect said that, roughly, even though there's an equal amount of Paragon/Renegade (aka "good"/"evil") content in ME, 90% of players just chose all the Paragon options every time. Take this shit to heart!! Design choices that go beyond "good" or "bad". Design choices that are interesting and would make an "all good" or "all bad" etc player actually HAVE to choose between more than one option that's VIABLE for the character they're roleplaying! Like, in BG3 terms, no "tiefling village vs goblin camp" choices. I wanna make you choose between keeping Lae'zel and Shadowheart in your party permanently. Don't be afraid to cut off content that players can't all access in one playthrough, but DO hint that the other content is ABLE TO BE ACCESSED if you make different choices!

Don't forget about sound design, especially UI/UX feedback. That shit makes or breaks an environment. Never QA test with your sound off, I can feel my old boss breathing down my neck RIGHT NOW

Organize your production pipeline, no matter how small of a project! I use Trello for producer shit and Jira for my bug list. Familiarizing yourself with how to properly log your own bugs by component and priority is key, especially with more than one team member! (I might actually make a QA megapost sometime ahdjks)

When you do something in the game that you wanna reward your player for (e.g.: selecting a dialogue choice that an NPC approves of! succeeding a skill check! new DM from your crush! you just looted 1 goblin bong! etc), remember to include JUICY FEEDBACK! This is a very unfortunate industry term wherein the JUICY refers to the actual crunchiness of the feedback: A textural response from the player that Feels Good. Like, Candy Crush has the juiciest feedback. Remember: Feedback should include UI/UX/a visual element, sound, be a clear result of a player action, and give a sense of WHAT you just accomplished at the correct SCALE (bigger bang feedback for, like, killing a world boss vs opening a lockpick chest). (You can Pavlov's Dog players into getting hype at repeated sounds by ensuring your feedback retains notes of the same sound or foley, or even just using the same sound fx across different progression points. Like layering in the same chimes with a level-up noise AND when you do something that gets you closer to leveling up, like earning XP)

When designing elements, remember: What does like LOOK like? What does this SOUND like? What does this DO to the world state of the game? What else does this AFFECT? Be cognizant of how stuff can chain affect the tone of the rest of your game!! QA often!!

Achieving a balance between HIDING all the numbers/systems/guts of your game vs having the player be aware of the systems and how they work can be a tightrope to walk! I personally err on the side of Hiding Too Much, but checking in with your testers or players to see if they can "feel" how the game works, or if it makes them get too minmaxy, can be super helpful! Remember to keep your design choices in line with your "x statement" (aka one-sentence directive about what you want YOUR game to be/feel like).

Save a fucking backup zip file of your dev environment RIGHT NOW and put in a separate place from your main PC. Like right the fuck now

#source: i have been doing this since 2008. someone put me in a Hole. #game dev #indie games #oh man this was fun. i am. supposed to be on vacation. take that vacation #I COULD TALK ABOUT THIS ALL DAY. hm. maybe i'll start a game dev blog?? #would it annoy you if I talked about this stuff on here?? #slasher u

[dappledpaintbrush]

How did you first discover super paper Mario?

My mom got it for me as a random present when I was about four to six years old :3 I knew how to read so I did play it, but some simple game instructions confused me because I was yk A BABY so I didn’t get past the blue button at Yold Desert. Stupid dumb idiot baby put that damn controller down

#I say 4-6 based off context clues #I got my Wii in 2008 when I was four (I have no idea WHY I had a Wii that young) and my mom confirmed I actually did use it #so that’s the earliest possible age #I feel like I was seven when I actually started playing it #and I know there was a period when I literally couldn’t do it #so that’s why I ended it at six #I could still be wrong but I literally do not remember and I doubt anyone else does either lol #there IS a picture of me going as Lady Timpani for Halloween when I was little #if I could find that image and see if there’s a date on it that would help me

[the-faultofdaedalus]

i am. way too fucking pedantic about the im1-im2-a1 timeline every time a fic does anything that does not fit (what i believe to be) the Correct Timeline i need to tab out for a second and argue at myself

#and i never ever comment or say anything about it on those fics bc that would be fucking rude #i have opinions! i will keep them to myself! #but Whoo Boy Do I Have Them #i feel like mr incredible mATH IS MATH meme every time #IM1 STARTS IN 2007. 3 MONTHS. MAYBE ANOTHER. ITS STILL 2007. IM2 IS 6 MONTHS LATER IN 2008. TAKES SOME TIME IN THERE. #A1 IS 4 YEARS LATER IN 2012 #listen. yes i know this doesn't match the film releases except for a1 BUT! it is correct in my heart #also 4 years is like. that is enough time to build a Fucking Skyscraper #i like the palladium poisoning being /incredibly/ quick-acting #also it gives me 4 years where nat and tony know eachother and can interact but pre-a1 #which i enjoy playing with

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Not so long ago, Tennessee was not merely a more bipartisan state but a model of bipartisanship, an example to others. Keel Hunt, a columnist for the Tennessean newspaper (and a Democrat who once worked for a Republican governor, Lamar Alexander), wrote a book about the 1980s and ’90s, an era when moderate Democrats and liberal Republicans ruled the state; when Tennessee sent Alexander, Howard Baker, Al Gore, and Jim Sasser to the U.S. Senate; and when many of the decisions that paved the way for Tennessee’s current investment boom were made. The book is called Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America. So much has changed since then, Hunt told me, that the book “might now qualify as an obituary.”

I think that most of the center-left's horror at what is happening to the right of the aisle is well founded, insofar as right wing people, en masse, have clearly gone insane.

However, and I say things to this effect regularly to the many leftists I know in my embodied life, their bewilderment astonishes me. They genuinely have no idea, or at least very consistently and adamantly profess to have no idea, what has gotten into the Right to make them act this way. They really seem to think on a fundamental level this is coming out of nowhere. They don't display the slightest impulse to reflect on why it might be that the Right seems so angry and so hard to work with. Usually when pressed they can offer explanations that I think are accurate, but this knowledge clearly makes no actual impression on the pillars of their mental universe. They continue to behave instinctively as though this has all essentially come from nowhere.

I would respect them more if they could be honest--for example, they could say transgenderism and its associated gender ideology, to pick one issue, is here to stay, and anyone who thinks otherwise is no longer in the boundaries of civil society, and we have no interest in compromising with them on this issue. But even this would have to admit that the terms for admittance to civil society shifted. They demonstrate no capacity for this level of reflection, it seems beyond them even to notice that things have shifted dramatically in the last ten to twenty years.

#IT'S THE FUCKING RECESSION NOTHING EVER GOT FIXED RIGHT AFTER 2008 AND IT NEVER WILL #AAAAAH #'ivan you sound like a marxist' #part of the reason that the Youth are so bent on destroying the old civilizational ideal is that they no longer see that ideal as attainabl #if you know in your heart that you will never have a spouse house and children #why would you not start looking for a compelling alternative? #not listing that as THE cause but it is definitely one of the reasons #the trends are multivalent but I don't think you can understand it without recourse to the economic collapse and the failure to rebuild wel

[yakny]

ARE YOU READY TO LET YOUR HEART REST AMONGST THE EVERLASTING, MY LITTLE CHAMPIÑON FRIEND?

#LN #debbie #asdhfgkkh i quite literally started this a year ago for her birthday and then i remember losing my drawing pen and feeling #gloomy at not finishing it. and suddenly today‚ i remembered her birthday fell around august and checked her wiki so: #🎉happy birthday🎂🥳 to my daughter‚ who in another world is my little mushroom dawn front general💕👏😭!!! #few notes: 1) sometimes‚ all you have to do is open an old wip and realize that adjustments that would've taken you hours to do a year ago #would now take less time‚ but only if you've never stopped trying to improve yourself. it made me a little teary‚ not gonna lie :'D #2) her color palette was inspired by a tokoyami's art piece i made ages ago. i absolutely love that piece. will reblog it soon here :D #3) parts of her suit are inspired by akishi ueda's piece named ''Children of the Beginning''. It's such a whimsical piece as is most of his #work. the other inspiration i took for her suit was this specific 17t century doublet coat? all i know is the coat i'm talking about #to the blog i saw it from‚ is that it comes from the book ''17th century Cologne Costume'' published by Abegg-Stiftung in 2008. so yeah :) #4) —and this is so stupid but‚ champiñones is a spanish name for edible mushrooms which almost sounds like champion so yeah. yeah. asdjsfk

[essektheylyss]

I love and loathe writing magic research because genuinely, what is the current state of scientific understanding of the universe in Exandria. In the Dynasty. Is biomedical research still in medieval stages but the Marble Tomes teaches a theory of everything as part of eighth grade physics class.

I just. I need to know. I am writing wizards and need to come up with fantasy research projects and I don't even know what the existing literature entails. RULE ONE OF RESEARCH IS KNOW WHAT THE EXISTING LITERATURE ENTAILS

#essek can do calculations related to quantum gravity in his head but has never heard of a hormone #no but seriously do you understand how maddening it is to write #there is simply no way to guess what level of knowledge they have and it drives me NUTS #anyway yes i have been overthinking fantasy worldbuilding since c. 2008 when i started writing. do not @ me. #I'm well aware i am an overthinker and a nerd. you will never guess what prescription medication i take I'm sure. #but seriously you know what haunts me? #the fact that when caleb is pointing out celestial bodies nott goes 'that's not a planet. WE'RE on the planet' #is she fucking with him. did exandria somehow put together that theyre on a planet due to advanced magical flight capacities #before they figured out that there are other planets and as such the existence of other planets is a higher level concept? #these are the things that haunt me. #don't even get me STARTED on how magic would negate the need for certain theory and how it would completely fuck up others. #im thinking about it. it's a Problem that i am thinking about it because that rabbit hole does not end folks.

[stsapphos]

i just keep watching live action adaptations of novels and stuff and thinking This would be so much better if it was animated

#i think heartstopper would have been cooler as an animated series with more or less the comic artstyle #i also had this feeling while watching two episodes of the pjo series #but disclaimer ive never read a single pjo book in my life i started watching that show out of pure curiosity #but!! you know! the whole concept of it! feels like it would be more interestingly explored in an animated show #a less serious example is fallen by lauren kate i don't think it should be a live action movie at all #its potential would be more well explored in an edgy and very dated anime. 2008 aesthetic angels and everything #anyway

[spaced-out-muses]

((Cannot BELIEVE this one Kimba ask finally got me to do math and figure out Kuroo's proper age. Anyway considering my verse is set in early 2000s, same as the 2004 anime series, Kuroo is gen x and would have finished his medschool schooling + 2 years internship in 1999.))

#Lost In Space; [OOC] #Space Station Logs; [HEADCANON] #((For context. I went ahead and made his birthday the start of the Manga's original run‚ which was November 19‚ 1973.)) #((Since I'm basing the timeline off of and pulling elements from the 2004 anime‚ would put him at 31 years old at the beginning of it)) #((In turn that puts him at 35-36 years old now‚ since in my head it's 2008-2009‚ 3 years after the 2004 series + BJ 21 ended)) #((I am NOT doing math to figure out how old Pinoko would be rn tho i have to go through the manga for that))

[endofbeginings]

a second plane has hit the 'lost the championship by one point' towers

#not gonna lie its got a little kick #probably the only motorsport memory that i had before i started watching f1 that doesnt involve niki lauda was felipes podium in 2008 #bc my uncle would constantly talk about it #traumatized tifosi lore babeyyy #losing the championship in your home... by one point #winning yet losing #having the hope for one second then it getting ripped away from you #yeah id bald too #f1 #felipe massa #own post

[diathadevil]

My post canon HC for Princess Tutu is that after Gold Crown is restored the main cast just ends up reforming themselves through a bunch of modern music. Fakir goes from listening to MCR to switching it over to The Killers. Maybe even Paramore (something him and Rue would eventually bond over).

Meanwhile Ahiru ends up learning about Carly Rae Jepsen’s discography.

#princess tutu #ptutu #dia talks #post canon au #Mytho I have a hard time grasping because on one hand I can see him be a bland listener of Justin Timberlake or any pop milktoast singer #but on the OTHER HAND I can see him play some death metal or weirdcore shit alone in the car or in the middle of the night at 2 AM #wheres that vine of that white girl singing nonchalantly to death metal bcuz that's him #for the side character I can see Lillie also being either a Slipknot enthusiast or a Melanie Martinez stan #Pike would be into either Spice Girls or some local German pop bands like Banaroo or Tic Tac Toe #Uzura if she ends up visiting the IRL world would be absolutely into bubblegum pop - just nothing but Ch!pz and Schnappi #I bet Uzura made the bunny Cuddle song from 2008 a hit in Germany - I can see her televoting and spamming the song into number 1 #(((which fun fact actually happened they called it Kuschel song and it became a 1 hit in germany for a month straight)) #and Autor being the music snob just has EVERYTHING in his playlist #Autor is into Lady Gaga not because he stans her but because he finds her musical performance an experience (and I get it man Sheise is pog) #hes the one that starts Mytho in the music rabbithole and links him the weirdest things #Autor ends up sharing Mongolian throat chanting and him and Mytho spend 3 hours deep diving the genre #Autor would definitely have a youtube channel analysis every possible music genre

[evilrry]

can i just say i Did have a full jonas brothers breakdown last night bc i realized how special it is and how lucky i am to be able to travel and see them in other cities with friends STILL like obv i’m doing this for current me but 12,13,14 year old me wouldn’t in a million years believe that what i’m doing now is possible and it’s just so insane to me

#and like. the community of people they’ve cultivated is so special like why are we all still in a facebook group together that we made in #2008 😭 obv there has been drama it’s unavoidable but i feel so safe and comfortable around all of them and jonie shows are just such a #special place to me #i cant stop thinking about me in 7th and 8th grade and how miserable i was because of everything at school and like. these communities were #all i had #fucking jonas brothers funny moments were all i had you know? i would fully come home and go on team jonas and finally felt like i belonged #don’t even get me started on how lucky i was to have been able to meet them in 2019 like ik it sounds silly but jesus it was such a full #circle moment for me and like. i did that for her you know #i’m the one going to shows now and doing all of this but so much of it is for her

[random2908]

We had a lunch party today. The company president and the CTO each gave speeches. To paraphrase the CTO's speech slightly:

I know a lot of you come from academia, where every publication in some sense represents a world first. But I want to you understand that when we say [the work we did on my project over the past three weeks] represents a world first, this is a very big deal.

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And then some of the engineers, who'd just gotten a new engraving toy, made commemorative badges for the key people on my project. Mainly just because they only just got their toy working yesterday and wanted any excuse to use it.

Unfortunately I can't show you my cool commemorative badge or tell you what the project is--not just because I'd be doxxing myself but because the information is still embargoed by the government. But over the next six months, as you read news about cool new quantum technologies, maybe one of them will be my project.

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On a personal level, the amazing thing about it all is that in the crunch over the past three weeks I've still only averaged about 45 hours a week. I did have a couple long days--I had two 10-hour days in a row last week, and another one this week. But still, it's really not been bad!

#this is my supervisor's victory more than anyone's #and also the bosses who used to work on this project years ago before they became bosses who still partly manage the project #I came to this company pretty late in the process--I started exactly 5 months ago #but I did enough work to get a shout-out that the project would never have been finished even close to on time if not for me #anyway I've been aware of people trying to accomplish this since... I guess since 2008 #when my lab partner and I used it as one of the real-world justifications for three of our published papers #but some of the bosses have been working on this in some form since the late 1990s! #and in the past three weeks it's finally working

[maritimecorpse]

dc is currently on my lap and in about twenty minutes i'll have to put her in the pet carrier because she has an appointment to get chipped

the absolute betrayal she's gonna feel

#life stuff #there's a law that all cats born after 2008 have to have a registered id starting next year #i would have chipped her sooner or later but the motivation is helpful