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You see not a bird but an American lady who likes other ladies. Oscillates between shy as a mouse and babbling violently, seemingly at random.
I like badasses. I like babes. I like badass babes the best. Okay...actually I like doggoes the very best, but I aspire to make games about badass babes is my point.
I use music from bands and artists in the free games I make: the frustrated filmmaker in me is very enamored of scoring scenes with rock'n'roll soundtracks Scorcese or Tarantino style. In addition to being a time honored tradition in cinema, this has a history in AAA videoogames as well (for a really great use of it, see Bioshock: Infinite). If I was a millionaire, I'd totally license these songs so I could actually use them legally.
You see not a bird but an American lady who likes other ladies. Oscillates between shy as a mouse and babbling violently, seemingly at random.
I like badasses. I like babes. I like badass babes the best. Okay...actually I like doggoes the very best, but I aspire to make games about badass babes is my point.
I use music from bands and artists in the free games I make: the frustrated filmmaker in me is very enamored of scoring scenes with rock'n'roll soundtracks Scorcese or Tarantino style. In addition to being a time honored tradition in cinema, this has a history in AAA videoogames as well (for a really great use of it, see Bioshock: Infinite). If I was a millionaire, I'd totally license these songs so I could actually use them legally.
Live Free Or Die
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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Very impressive resume, ernzo. I checked your thread out more because I'm taking my first baby steps towards playing guitar (and bass), still been playing less than a year now, than because I need/can afford to commission music from you, but anything could happen.
You're very good btw but coming from a conservatory trained something, that's really no surprise if you spent four years in a music conservatory. Nice bass and menacing vibes on that MTG track. Your battle music (Airship track) is a fair bit downtempo for my tastes, but that's a personal preference thing.
You're very good btw but coming from a conservatory trained something, that's really no surprise if you spent four years in a music conservatory. Nice bass and menacing vibes on that MTG track. Your battle music (Airship track) is a fair bit downtempo for my tastes, but that's a personal preference thing.
Rave Heart
This looks really cool (and clearly very well received).
I do have to say, though, the choice of "Aryan" as a faction is pretty ill advised. Even moved to a science fantasy context, that word has some very heavy real world connotations. I don't know, maybe that's exactly what you were going for and your game deals seriously with related issues, in which case ignore me!
I do have to say, though, the choice of "Aryan" as a faction is pretty ill advised. Even moved to a science fantasy context, that word has some very heavy real world connotations. I don't know, maybe that's exactly what you were going for and your game deals seriously with related issues, in which case ignore me!
Chapelwaite
The Falling Leaves Review
This review is largely built upon some notes and rough drafts I wrote around the time I finished my Let's Play for this game back in July of 2015. Sadly, those rough drafts only cover the Introduction and Story sections of the game. So, I'm going to have to build the remaining sections out of what I remember about the game.
Are you sure you feel comfortable giving a game a one star review based on partial notes and your memories from over three years ago? Just asking. I certainly wouldn't be.
Don't get me wrong, this game could be genuinely terrible. I don't know, I haven't played it. And I'm not really inclined to, after reading your review, which is sort of the point.
Unrelated notes:
And while this opening feels rather stock. That isn't what really gets my goat about this game.
These two phrases should be joined with a comma, not a period. The first is not a complete sentence on its own.
As such, I really don't recommend that anyone play this game unlesstheirlooking for a good example for what not to do when writing a story.
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Censorship and Security Paradoxes
author=Solitayre
author=StormCrow
That said, I find the still-relatively-recent arrest and conviction by a Scottish court of a comedian for telling a distasteful joke far more worrisome than Alex Jones being denied a platform
author=Solitayre
author=StormCrow
I think there's a misunderstanding here. I believe that the principle of Free Speech as one of the pillars of Western Liberal Democracy is what we're discussing here: not the literal legal definition of free speech in any specific country.
We live in an era where ... private companies... --international media mega-conglomerates with billions of dollars--have just as much power to censor and suppress as any government. I think that's an undeniable fact. Once a platform for speech becomes as huge and universally used as YouTube, it is potentially as much (if not more of) a threat to the ideal of Free Speech as any government.
Basically, the xkcd comic is right about the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution and literally nothing else.
Censorship and Security Paradoxes
For context:
I am a classical liberal democrat living in the United States. I have a policy of not discussing politics in open/online forums during these extremely divisive times. But this hit on something I feel strongly about: censorship. I care about this issue not just on principle, but because I have had my words and more importantly my work suppressed in the past because my beliefs differed from the opinions of those in positions of power. It is a terrible feeling.
I am a believer in (near) absolute freedom of speech with one or two very specific exceptions (i.e. unironic Holocaust denial: fuck that shit). And I am vehemently opposed to censorship: not just government censorship, but censorship by media gatekeepers in positions of power: YouTube, Amazon, etcetera. Fuck censors and fuck censorship.
However, to paraphrase Voltaire: I wholly disapprove of Alex Jones' insane ravings, but I will defend to the death his right to rave insanely. Well, maybe not TO THE DEATH in the case of Alex Jones but...you get my basic point.
That said, I find the still-relatively-recent arrest and conviction by a Scottish court of a comedian for telling a distasteful joke far more worrisome than Alex Jones being denied a platform...okay, being denied like ALL the platforms.
Frankly, I think this is a completely valid concern even if phrased inelegantly. There is a definite devaluation of free speech that is an ongoing trend in the Western world and we should ALL be concerned. Even if the speech is speech we disagree with, disturbing precedents are being set.
Just to be clear: there is such a thing as facts. There is such a thing as truth. The erosion of facts and the degradation of truth are emblematic of the Orwellian horror of the times we live in. But TRUTH must exist. FACTS must be treated differently from opinions. And if someone ever used this kind of argument to defend a statement like "how can we be sure the Holocaust REALLY happened" I would punch them in their fucking face.
The problem is that in defending ALEX JONES this metric is a very hard sell because very strong arguments can (and have, in this thread, so I won't repeat them) be made that the answer to 1 and to a lesser extent 3 is YES. (Also the answer to #2 is OBVIOUSLY YES Alex Jones benefits financially from his whack job bullshit and lies but frankly I have no idea why #2 is even on the list.)
Okay, please do not excuse me of being on bulma's "side"--I hope there don't have to be sides in this at all and we can all just be people with different opinions, having a conversation. That said...
I think there's a misunderstanding here. I believe that the principle of Free Speech as one of the pillars of Western Liberal Democracy is what we're discussing here: not the literal legal definition of free speech in any specific country.
We live in an era where the private companies you mention--international media mega-conglomerates with billions of dollars--have just as much power to censor and suppress as any government. I think that's an undeniable fact. Once a platform for speech becomes as huge and universally used as YouTube, it is potentially as much (if not more of) a threat to the ideal of Free Speech as any government.
I am a classical liberal democrat living in the United States. I have a policy of not discussing politics in open/online forums during these extremely divisive times. But this hit on something I feel strongly about: censorship. I care about this issue not just on principle, but because I have had my words and more importantly my work suppressed in the past because my beliefs differed from the opinions of those in positions of power. It is a terrible feeling.
I am a believer in (near) absolute freedom of speech with one or two very specific exceptions (i.e. unironic Holocaust denial: fuck that shit). And I am vehemently opposed to censorship: not just government censorship, but censorship by media gatekeepers in positions of power: YouTube, Amazon, etcetera. Fuck censors and fuck censorship.
author=bulmabriefs144Facetiously, you say "because reasons". Earnestly, I ask you: what are those reasons? Is one of them that Alex Jones is batshit bugnut fucking crazy?
So, maybe you don't do conservative news or maybe you don't care cuz you're liberal and stuff. That's fine, people should be entitled to their political opinions. Anyway, around August 6 or so, Facebook, Youtube, Spotify, and others outright banned certain conservative news (InfoWars) personalities because reasons.
However, to paraphrase Voltaire: I wholly disapprove of Alex Jones' insane ravings, but I will defend to the death his right to rave insanely. Well, maybe not TO THE DEATH in the case of Alex Jones but...you get my basic point.
That said, I find the still-relatively-recent arrest and conviction by a Scottish court of a comedian for telling a distasteful joke far more worrisome than Alex Jones being denied a platform...okay, being denied like ALL the platforms.
author=bulmabriefs144
But... if this goofball gets banned, how long before other people get banned for having opinions?
Frankly, I think this is a completely valid concern even if phrased inelegantly. There is a definite devaluation of free speech that is an ongoing trend in the Western world and we should ALL be concerned. Even if the speech is speech we disagree with, disturbing precedents are being set.
author=bulma's briefs
There is no such thing as real news. Not Infowars, not CNN, not WSJ, not that history book, not nothing. Historiography is the study of how history is written. We studied two perspectives of the same event. We studied History of the Peloponnesian War, which went fine until they consulted the oracle (and after that he omits the eventual downfall of his area).
Just to be clear: there is such a thing as facts. There is such a thing as truth. The erosion of facts and the degradation of truth are emblematic of the Orwellian horror of the times we live in. But TRUTH must exist. FACTS must be treated differently from opinions. And if someone ever used this kind of argument to defend a statement like "how can we be sure the Holocaust REALLY happened" I would punch them in their fucking face.
author=bulma's briefs
(1) Does your statement harm anyone?
(2) Does anyone benefit financially?
(3) Does it incite violence or terror?
If the answer to all of these is NO, then trying to ban someone for believing something weird is censorship
The problem is that in defending ALEX JONES this metric is a very hard sell because very strong arguments can (and have, in this thread, so I won't repeat them) be made that the answer to 1 and to a lesser extent 3 is YES. (Also the answer to #2 is OBVIOUSLY YES Alex Jones benefits financially from his whack job bullshit and lies but frankly I have no idea why #2 is even on the list.)
author=Dyhalto
Because there is nothing else to discuss. This isn't a censorship issue. You keep raising the specter of government suppression, but this is not a matter of free speech. It is speech suppression strictly by private companies, which is well within their rights to specify that certain topics will not be tolerated. I think every single one of us holding a job can vouch that political and religious discussion is forbidden in our lunchrooms (even though we often talk about them anyway). The same is true for hate speech and discriminatory remarks.
Okay, please do not excuse me of being on bulma's "side"--I hope there don't have to be sides in this at all and we can all just be people with different opinions, having a conversation. That said...
I think there's a misunderstanding here. I believe that the principle of Free Speech as one of the pillars of Western Liberal Democracy is what we're discussing here: not the literal legal definition of free speech in any specific country.
We live in an era where the private companies you mention--international media mega-conglomerates with billions of dollars--have just as much power to censor and suppress as any government. I think that's an undeniable fact. Once a platform for speech becomes as huge and universally used as YouTube, it is potentially as much (if not more of) a threat to the ideal of Free Speech as any government.
What are your favorite and least favorite parts of gam mak?
I hate, hate, hate, hate mapping. It is the bane of my gammak existence. Well, maybe not the bane of my gammak existance, but, I don't always have a clear vision of what a place is supposed to look like 90% of the time. ;_;
lol man am I glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.
I hate scripting cutscenes. I tend to be happy with the results but getting there feels so arduous.
Just now I was doing an event and I decided to replace the event with the player. Which isn't really a big deal but my brain just shuts down and is like "I don't feel like doing this right now".
I am doing a scene with the player, an NPC, and a dragon and want to have all three moving. This is such a hassle in RPG Maker. You can make the player and one event move but when you introduce any other event you either need global switches, parallel processes, or some other form of gossip and trickery.
God, this got SO MUCH EASIER when I went from 2k3 to VX (had a brief flirtation with XP, decided I really didn't like it) and they introduced the "wait until finished" checkbox for the move event command. That little checkbox is a fucking godsend. Before that it was a nightmare of guess and check over and over again as you figure out what's the exact right number of frames for this guy to get there at this speed and those guys to get over there and how long is this gonna take and let me test it again and just fucking shoot me.
My least favorite parts are making character sets. Those have always been a weak area for me, especially if I need to make a bunch of NPCs.
I made my very first character set recently!! Not totally from scratch since I used the VX RTP template as a base, but I think it's basically fair to say that I made it more than Frankensprited it (as I've done in the past) even if there was an element of Frankenspriting to it.
Vis-Nov-Make
author=bulmabriefs144
Honestly, I think you're thinking about this wrong.
I burnt out a bit, but it is perfectly possible to make visual novels, even on Rpg Maker 2003. Basically, you're working with a single screen and multiple backgrounds and character pictures.
I KNOW I could make a visual novel in Ace easily, but that's not the point: I was curious about the inverse, making an RPG in VNM.
Every time you get a new engine, you're wasting time learning a new system. Just figure out how to better use what you have.
Frankly, I just like playing around with different engines. And even more frankly:
I spoilered this because it's not very modest and could easily be mistaken for outright arrogance (which is not what I'm aiming for).
I have already mastered my primary gamedev tool, VX Ace. I don't mean that I've literally completely mastered every aspect of the program, that would be a ridiculous claim for anyone to make. But I am quite proficient and comfortable with all of its functions from basic to advanced. I know how to make it do what I want nine times out of ten and that is enough for me.
I have already mastered my primary gamedev tool, VX Ace. I don't mean that I've literally completely mastered every aspect of the program, that would be a ridiculous claim for anyone to make. But I am quite proficient and comfortable with all of its functions from basic to advanced. I know how to make it do what I want nine times out of ten and that is enough for me.
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