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Digital painting of a cat looking at another cat. An abandoned urban area can be seen in the background.

Daily 1h art study: "Echoes in company"
#digitalart #painting #environment #cat

No Beat Saber stream tonight, got a bit wrapped up with work.

Still an iPhone with ifacialmocap. Nothing mainstream is better supported or offers as good of results, imo

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it

authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

I know the answer!

In many dramas and soap operas of the era, fitting all members of a conversation into the aspect ratio the show was shot in required some careful /creative positioning.

People would be in what would normally be uncomfortably close or odd angles IRL but look fine on tv

Again this is all just "grumpy man complains on the internet about microtransactions encouraging perverse design incentives on a platform where that previously wasn't a problem".

Avatar Marketplace is probably salvageable, though I doubt they'll do much with it anytime soon.

They've done very well with VRC+ IMO, it's a compelling offer now, but they straight up can't seem to figure out how to allow *users* to make money on-platform in a way that doesn't feel like it just makes things slightly worse than it was before.

The complaint about VRChat's monetization priorities was mostly tangential, as HOW creators monetize worlds is up to them.

It's just that when they announce a new feature like the Avatar Marketplace, it's a kind of crap MVP and filled with weird decisions that they can't figure out how to do PR for

A photo of a rooftop in VRchat with several people hanging out

ANYWAY no more ranting for now. Check out all these great friends who I love

Better a freak than a fascist 🔥

Yeah, I realize I'm being grouchy and there's plenty of people who just want to bring things into being, just that particular conversation hit a nerve with me.

It reminded me a little too much about some of the most unpleasant people I've worked with in gamedev. I don't like seeing it in VRC.

taking a bath at the hotel room

I'm fine with people selling things. Full experiences, add-ons and expansions, even skins and cosmetics. I'm actually usually fine with this.

An intermediary currency for consumable items? No. Way far beyond the line, and incentivizes design to be JUST frustrating enough to drive players to it.

Like it reminds me of an afterparty for event I worked where the big money guy paying for it talked about all the mobile games he loved and why he admires their financial success and everyone in the room would just shift uncomfortably because designing what he was describing was our collective hells

As somebody who is just now getting into the weeds of VRC development, I feel like my best option to maintain my sanity and happiness is to not engage with the wider community and just be a hermit, only occasionally returning to throw my work out into society.

Most of all I was angry about the person's EXCITEMENT over this. I would not be able to bring myself to build something like it, I just ethically can't accept it.

Maybe I'm just old and out of touch, but this seems like a bad thing to me. Like the psychic damage that did to me was immense.

I am endlessly frustrated with the monetization methods that VRChat has chosen to prioritize for their platform. Why does every Creator Economy feature that comes out feel like the worst possible version of the concept, missing the mark or enabling perverse design incentives like these

I do not mean to subpost but I gotta get off my chest how soul-crushing it was to see a VRC world creator excitedly announce that they added the ability to buy their in-world currency with VRC Credits (real world money) that users can spend on limited use items.

It's hard to hold my tongue

Been busy making a PAX Kiosk version of New Match City. Removing everything we don't need so people can walk up, push one button and start a game. I did decide to keep the deck editor. I think adjusting your deck before a game will be fun.
#indiedev | #gamedev | #indiegame | @newmatchcity.com

It's done.

Episode 9's premise had me worried but they pulled through the same way Lower Decks always does, with a genuine, optimistic take on the subgenre, a lot of heart and copious fanservice

I'm going to miss following along with this crew.

Goddamnit I'm doing the same thing I did with Lower Decks that I did with TNG where I never watched the last episode for years because I didn't want it to be over. I always wanted for there to be at least one more episode to watch.

I'm biting the bullet. I gotta finish it.

sound too

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

YouTube video by TWRP - Topic Critters

:)

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screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I love my friends so much

You're all great, don't ever think otherwise

Thank you for making my life brighter than the sun which I will once day eat

It's pretty fun to play with, trying to stop the water from escaping

Seeitng an alarm to order McDonalds breakfast because you know you need hangover food in the morning

I love @purpzie.com so goddamn much she's thew best and she's HOT

I've been working on a small VRC project I now tentatively call 'To Dust'
I don't have a habit of documenting my projects, but people seem really excited about this one. so have some WIPs x>