#trade development

[hellspawnmotel]

terranigma, a cool game

#terranigma #terranigma ark #terranigma elle #terranigma meilin #art tag #im going to write a little review in the tags bear with me #first the negative: #the magic system is weird to use and basically useless apart from one boss thats almost impossible without magic #it has some weird racism like most old games where you travel around the world. a little more egregious since its supposed to be real earth #i found the main character to be slightly insufferable for about 3/4ths of the game. i came around on him by the end tho. he grows up a lot #and i found whats by far the largest section of the game (chapter 3) to be the least interesting #im not really into helping cities develop and trade quests tho so it might just be me #oh also it is STUPID easy to permanently lock yourself out of like 15 sidequests #and theres a lot of mandatory things that are really hard to figure out. you need to use a walkthrough for this #anyway thats what i didnt like #what i DID like tho. i dont want to get into too much detail but #its a genuinely beautiful game for so much of it #there were so many moments that left me speechless #its high-concept and thoughtful and fun to play #you dont really need to do much grinding either #at its worst its obtuse and cliche but at its best its breathtaking #and i really recommend more people check it out #special shoutout to my friend seona who modded my 3DS and downloaded a bunch of roms including this one #so in conclusion. terranigma is an underrated gem. play it if youre a 90s jrpg junkie like me #just have a walkthrough open also lol

[hungwy]

I gotta get back into coding (so I can eventually land a decent job) and I want to start intensively learning Japanese again (so I can land an even better job? but also for fun) and I want to learn classical guitar and read more in general and do well in my philosophy class and start streaming and play video games for 10 hours a day. And I have to do laundry and clean up my apartment and start going out more and maybe even exercise a little or at least go for a walk once a week and pay my bills on time and make phone calls and wake up earlier than I want to. Can one little executive disfunctioning blogger do it all? Yes. But badly

#badly as in never develop any of these things ever. and die a jack of all trades master of none sort of deal

[baylee-doodle]

She's more embarrassed about the 'I love' part than the 'weird ass' part

#Digimon Survive #Kaito Shinonome #Miu Shinonome #Minoru Hinata #Digimon #Dracmon #Syakomon #Falcomon #Fan Art #I was debating with myself if Kaito would react negatively to someone else saying that Miu was weird #but then I thought #after some development where he chills out a bit more #I think that he could lean more comfortably into the role of ‘big brother who teases his sister sometimes’ #rather than being too overprotective #I really think this would be the case because of Dracmon specifically being his partner #and their little ‘I like a good prank here and there’ interaction I recall them having #Now Miu has the trade off from an overly protective brother who embarrasses her #to an older brother who just likes to embarrass her on PURPOSE this time

[inqilabi]

One time on a first date with a guy, he had asked me why I was so specific about where and how I wanted to meet. I told him, I can always tell whether a man is interested in me from the very first look they give when they walk towards you. And it's important for me that I arrive early so that I can see the man walk towards me. Because they have 1 of 3 looks. 1) is they're just ambivalent and typically they're not attracted 2) the have this awestruck look of interest 3) they are leering almost up and down and it's too sexualized. And they lose interest quickly (and doesn't matter because I'm not interested in this type obviously).

And he asked me which type I found him to fall under. And I told him that he's ambivalent and not attracted. And he was like, nooo that's not the case. But I was like this has never failed me lol. Even though this whole time prior to meeting me, he had built up how attractive he thought I was. Really liked all my pics. And before meeting me and during the date itself, he said Pakistani women are beautiful (he was Bengali). End of the date, he walked me to my car and said let's do it again sometime.

And sure enough, he reached out but kinda mildly, boring - how was your weekend. To which I replied and equally boring response, and it died lol.

I have literally saved so much energy by making sure that I arrive first on a date. This puts me in a more comfortable spot and the guy in a more nervous spot. With you technically "receiving" him. As opposed to the traditional, him receiving you. And in that moment, with him walking towards you there is no pretense. And you can really see their very initial feelings towards you imho.

#ofc some men will develop feelings for you over time and those are the best ones #but not a lot of men are that self-aware enough on the online dating world to realize that to be the way the world works #and just as much as women men also look for the spark which for them is based on physical attraction #thoughts on dating #I mean I usually don't tell the men all this but i could tell this one wasnt gonna workout so i decided to tell my trade secrets #because I wanted to field test... see how they react to info about themselves lolol #dating stories

[sailoms]

when the remake is better than the original ft. p'arm as wall click for hd

#asiandramanet #the eclipse #akkayan #firstkhao #arm weerayut #usernuria #userbillkin #tonanons #userconcrete #pi-erd.gif #idk i just #i think i develop a mild obsession with how first looks- idk #idk man #he just looks... soft #like the way his eyes lingered on khaotung's (ayan's???) audacious movement #damn i would trade my soul with idk whatever just to be tung in that moment #thats the type of victory that would make me go berserk as well

[xaveria]

it really is funny how many american ‘white’ women believe the universe is providing for them because of them manifesting their ideas into reality or whatever the fuckin theory of attraction shit is when its like. no youre just privileged

i have no fuckin idea what my life would have looked like if i wasnt a reasonably conventionally attractive white woman in america?? not only do i have the privilege of being a white woman in america but my hometown is mostly Black and i am genuinely a minority here. my mom literally got hired at a Black law firm as their diversity hire in the 90s 😂 yes white people ESPECIALLY WHITE WOMEN have a ton of privilege even when we are not the majority

denying your privilege is so fucking cringe i like literally talk about this irl with coworkers and ppl in my community all the time. i so desperately want to use this privilege to improve my community for all.

its been crushing dealing with disabilities that limit my physical activities and just trying to keep myself financially stable while so much evil is going on in the world rn. i am ridiculously passionately anti war but i have been preparing for genocide since i was a kid. i grew up in a Black and Jewish community so i wasnt shielded from this shit. white americans get your fucking shit together NOW. liberalism will not protect our families. (our families are not just blood btw.)

anyways all this is to say im glad i might be getting a dykey construction/contractor job and learning real skills and meeting people throughout my town. its been horrible dealing with a spine injury on top of everything. but my injections worked and THE TIGER IS OUT god damn i need to join a union

#entering my trade labour era? im sorry to say this is a very sexy development. #btw im gonna do it femme because its more fun

[bloodsbane]

fuck it. making a poll for my homies who also commit biting/picking crimes

#banebabbles #bane poll #orally fixated fidgeters unite #cw picking #i have no idea what else to tag this as. forgive me #in spirit there's an option that is just specifically the little callous you develop on your finger where your drawing utensils rest #but yeah. man. god. you know nothing is safe from me #my heels are a disaster pls dont look at them #been trying v hard the last couple years to reduce how much ive picked at them but it's difficult lol #im not a nail-biter anymore so that's good but the trade off is that i never have nails still #bc i just clip them if they start getting long enough haha #still it works best! #my lips and fingertips remain unsafe tho #used to chew on my cheek meat a lot more when i was younger but ive mostly stopped that #scabs... aw man.... depends. but usually um. not safe from me alas #SORRY TO EVERYONE. I KNOW THIS IS KINDA GROSS #but lol this is how it be sometimes

[pilferingapples]

glad to see everyone in the tags on that post agreeing that Enjolras is absolutely a sentimental sap who keeps every scrap and doodle his friends ever gave him

solid hc, absolutely correct, go team <3

#at some point he looks at it all and goes Ah. #Yes. #I See I May Have Developed Attachments #and then goes back to whatever he was doing like #'well it's not like I'd trade vital information for them. or anything. #I'm still VERY PRACTICAL' #(he is and also he's gone on them all)

[nuggsmum]

I am distraught.

#henry cavill #I fell in love with the character because of him #the story because of him #I’ll try to give Liam a shot #he’s done nothing wrong obviously #but I don’t know if I’ll still love it as much #was this what we got in trade for Superman? #I’d rather have kept Gerry tbh #I hope he’s happy with those developments and this was something he wanted #because that would make it so much worse

[geekysteven]

[Image description Comic book panel of Sonic the Hedgehog lying back and saying"I WANT every single union in the entertainment industry to go on strike within the next month. i want the creation of media to come to a halt. no TV show, movie or piece of media is worth the exploitation of the creative working class. the industry has moved too fast to house those that fuel it. a total strike. AND I'M NOT KIDDING"]

#Sga #Wga #strike #on strike #video game developers should unionize #trade unions

[eightyuh]

art trade! they wanted me to develop some character designs ✨

#art trade #doodles #YA !!! #they're still in development haha #btw u can commission me for more abstract stuff like this <33333 plz and thank u byeeeeeeee #they literally just sent me some ms paint chibis and i went for it

[clownjacket]

MARK BITION RESOLUTION!!!!!

#mentopolis spoilers #mentopolis #mark bition #elias hodge #don avaricci #I know this probably isn’t canon but Mark running a secondary school that Avaricce is funding to help foster wayward interests into #real skills and passions that can be creatively persued or open job opportunities for us #while all the interests still have a stable supportive nurturing home life in The Fix and Pasha #is really cool #Also Elias retakes up bass and developed it from an interest into a skill!! #Ambition to keep practicing and find real world applications for your passions can turn an interest into a skill!!!! #Also he still stays in contact with The Fix #But this time they’re BOTH helping the kids grow up for adult life in the big city! #And of course Avaricce ‘s the Benifactor because he has to stick his duck in somewhere #Guilta/Madame Loathing and Mark Bition we’re supposed to trade places #I actually love this for him

[satancopilotsmytardis]

...just outlined a Kinktober fic that has a continuous plot for all 31 days, will I have time to finish this in October? No clue, but I do think it will be fun once I get started.

#tanco speaks #the outline is 890 words and i have resigned myself to doing a daddy kink ONCE (it's not in the whole fic just a chapter or two) #(I am disappointed to say that it is only here because it's plot/character development relevant) #we're also getting dabi losing his virginity so it's kind of like a devil's trade

[0ystercatcher]

degrowth feels almost like the guilty consciouness of americans and europeans who have truly had it too good too long and you know it ehe but im sorry dude you cannot be fr telling the rest of the world to cut emissions or industrial activity when it barely fucking exists here while you reap the benefits of it all. when development has been cut short and actively prevented in so many places like my home so you mfs can have it easy and not have to compete w us for our own resources. degrowth is suicide for us and mass murder for you. you want degrowth so bad? kill yourself! just kill yourself. do your part or whatever and hopefully well do our part here attempting to make this shithole country better even if it costs us carbon emissions or whatever. as if we werent held back from it at every turn and as if every time weve tried america or canada or europe hasnt swept in to take everything weve produced for themselves.

#m #this is in part kind of an emotional reaction i iwill admit but like #doesnt it seem deeply unfair to you that the us and europe can partake in cheap energy fuel food etc for like a good fat century #at our expense and the moment they see oh hey that actually might come bck to bite us they decide no one else gets to have it that good any #-anymore bc of mistakes they did and egregious extractivism and war so they can have everything they need for cheap #making it harder and harder for the countries they loot and pillage to ever get anywhere near that level of development. its incredible #it just goes on and on and on the wars and the embargos and trade bans and the pseudo green bullshit to excuse themselves

[front-facing-pokemon]

are ur notes like half furret? just wondering :3

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it's a solid chunk of them. in the last month, the furret post has gained 2,649 notes, whereas the blog as a whole has garnered 13,488 notes. simple math tells us it's about 19% of my notes. which is about what i estimated in my head—i guessed it was about 25% of my notes. although that post does have about 100x the notes that a typical post on this blog gets, so bravo you all for somehow achieving that

you're excused :)

#not pkmn #nose ratings #for those who are unaware: there is a somewhat dedicated group of mutuals who trades around the furret post all the time #accompanied by that kaomoji face the asker used. it's been going on for a bit now and they've developed a little Thing around it #and yes. i do notice it. i see it. it's hard to miss #it's pretty cool. i like it #(⁠＾◕⁠ ‿⁠‿⁠ ◕＾)

[askagamedev]

This is a few years old maybe, but what's with builder games (or level design tools)? I'm not a game designer and the community content shows that most of the audience isn't, either.

You are quite correct - there's usually maybe only ~20% of players who ever try making anything in a maker-type game at all, and less than 5% actually continue to engage with the tools and create content for others to play with. "Most of the audience" definitely qualifies as not really engaging with the tools.

However...

The number of creators who engage in content creation, however small relative to the total number of players they may be, is probably still going to dwarf the size of the game's entire development team several times over. If you consider a game like Mario Maker might sell 500,000 copies. If even 1% of that player base regularly creates content, that's 5,000 level designers with a broad variety of ideas and interests working on content for players to play. 5,000 people is going to be at least one, probably two orders of magnitude greater than the number of designers on the dev team for a maker game.

Further, these amateur designers also aren't constrained by the same set of rules we are - it's ok if their levels are unintuitive, super difficult to complete, don't have a solid throughline, are off-the-wall wacky, auto-play themselves, or are just strange. These kind of levels are something that the pros don't really get the opportunity to build at work, but we very much appreciate when the community builds them.

I've said before that games get more hours of play testing within the first day of launch than they do during their entire development periods. This applies to user generated content too. Unless the game flops horribly, the player base will always dwarf the size of the dev team many times over.

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