Celia

We are living through one of the biggest crackdowns on free speech in academia in history. Liberals are complicit as they castigated anti-genocide protestors and their publications fearmongered about things like wokeness and trigger warnings while the right planed McCarthyism 2.0.

That's a great point that I've seen missed in recent discourse. This is inflicting incredible material harm, not just to the environment, but to necessary infrastructure!

I have a high quality SSD from before this whole fiasco that I still haven't installed.

posting some of the fanart brainworms i've been having here as well!
#deadlock #Moonshine

I finished teaching the class that I was asking this about last month. Maybe next time!

Two panel comic. Top panel is Scott Language staring off into the distance exasperated. Under him is text that says "What will it take for people to finally give fighting games a fair shot?" Bottom panel is the Markest Ruffaloest ass Hulk gibing him a small upturned smile while handing him a taco that says "EGO DEATH" on it.

Anyways I made this but got busy at work.

Oracle of Seasons is my favorite Zelda game! I'm rooting for you, and it looks like the game is doing some really cool stuff!

I love the missions in both AC+R and Xrd. I feel like the AC+R missions give you interesting restrictions that push fundies (like no jumping, only combos damage, etc), and the Xrd missions help you drill common scenarios.

I'd like enemies more tailored to teach basics (fireball/AA, etc)

Wave Motion Beat by Celia Wagar A trainer for learning fighting game motion inputs and (eventually) a rhythm game.

Work in progress! I have the code that can read motion inputs and even tell you if you did it wrong and how, but I don't have notes yet. Sf6 had a version of this with Hadou Pizza, but they weirdly require you to progress a fair ways before unlocking it.
celialicious.itch.io/wave-motion-...

How Fighting Games can Retain Players Fighting Games don’t attract a lot of new blood. The majority of people who buy fighting games will never attend a single tournament for that game, never post about it online, and never inter…

You need a certain amount of cultural momentum I think, or you need an on-ramp.

I wrote about this here, and my current project is a rhythm game that teaches FG motions.
critpoints.net/2021/05/07/h...

I think games get more leniency when they rely on common skills (eg. mouselook shooting, or 2d platforming) and fighting games are just so different from everything else that it's hard to convince people to learn a Quarter Circle.

But Mexico has/had a culture where everyone grew up with KOF.

But unless work is done to address the specific stumbling blocks of newer players, single player content can only do so much.

Of course meanwhile Deadlock can be hideously complicated (item shop + movement) and does just fine because fuck you.

I think the issue is that FGs don't invest in making themselves understandable, which means better feedback about what's going on. Frame advantage happens faster than you can see.

Single player content lets people mash buttons for 200+ hours and slowly figure out what they're doing, which helps.

Map from https://bluesky-map.theo.io/ centered on celialicious.bsky.social She is located between "Queer leftist artists and shitposters", "TTRPG Creators and Community", and "Video Game Industry Professionals", but closest to the first group.

Yeah, that checks out.

I'm keeping this one in my back pocket

Also, every celebrity man accused of sexual violence has a little pseudo-journalist constructing DARVO narratives for them on social media now.

At the same time the Epstein Files are reinforcing how protected sexual abusers really are, Neil Gaiman is using the nightmarish sexual violence allegations against him to market his next book. His DARVO defense is the first selling point. Rape culture is everywhere and unavoidable.

i found a stupid image i made and posted on twitter like five years ago so you can have it again

I ported Super Monkey Ball to a website.
You can access it in the replies.
(or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)

I'm shooting for Combo Breaker, sorry!

Wish I could be there!

It was considered

Damn am I glad they didn't go with the original title, "Dark Race"

Because immigration shouldn't be regulated. Regulations are violent coercion. In this case: homicide.

If it didn't have leveling up, it wouldn't be an RPG anymore, it would just be turn based tactics.

Doing your eyebrows is the antidote to dysphoria

I got nothing. Maybe bullet bloom/randomized spread?

Oh absolutely. The tuning can be completely wrong. I hate the common version of the parry mechanic, but the video I'm writing on it discusses a bunch of ways that it can be fixed.

I originally wrote this post in response to someone saying Victory Points in board games are a bad mechanic. There are TONS of mechanics that people complain about arbitrarily.

There's definitely a perverse incentive when it comes to monetization.