Castle of Microwave Bullshit

afniel

megaman-r

The intro sequence exists! Still a few timing things I could polish, but it's enough to show off.

Next I should probably work on making something happen after the title screen? Like a game or something, maybe...?

afniel

I've been busy. ✌️

longshotlink

Damn, by the end of that I was ready to pick up a controller. This looks incredible! Also I welcome our new robot overlords.

afniel

Well...give it some time, the only gameplay currently is that you can scroll through the menu, which does nothing. But eventually, it'll do something!

rilgon

…okay but where’s the version for those of us who’re like “actually this set of robot masters has a point” :V

afniel

brattylikestoeat

creative-anchorage

I was going to transcribe this, but looked it up instead after seeing the username. Brown Butter Brownies from Broma Bakery!

belovedmuerto

The single serve double chocolate chip cookies that I pretty religiously make like four times a week are from Broma Bakery and they are so decadent and rich and amazing, I def recommend their recipes.

Source: tiktok.com well I sure bookmarked *that* real fast both recipes actually time to add cocoa powder to our next grocery order

foxachu

theraconteurasaur

Perennial October mood.

drst

There she is!

NOW it’s really Halloween

typewriterchan

foone

I'd be a lot more willing to believe the whole "what if reality is a simulation?" hypothesis if I didn't know speedrunners.

foone

The world can't be a speedrun, because no autistic trans girl has figured out how to jump backwards so fast that she breaks the speed of physics and becomes the queen of america

rilgon

what if she did and she’s just in a parallel universe, tho

typewriterchan

bundibird

Alright, here's one for the queers

So supposedly, every family has "a gay cousin." I'm curious as to whether that's accurate or not. So!

To the best of your knowledge, how many queer people (any variant thereof, whether it be not-cis or not-het) does your family have?

none, me and my family members are all cishet (fyi, I don't believe you)

just one, and its me. I am the gay cousin

one, but it's not me

2-4

5-8

9 or more

other/it's complicated (elaborate in tags?)

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typewriterchan

I mean, actually related to me? Myself (though I'm not super out), my gay cousin...other than that, if relatives are queer they're not out to me.

Folks Frito and I have more or less adopted as family? LOADS.

rilgon

if we’re talking about actually blood related? I… actually am not aware of any, but I am also not really in much communication with my extended for a host of reasons (most of them negative) so they could be and I’d never fucking know

now if we’re talking found family? lmao I’m like the only straight* person in my found family

(*I have some various degree of Gender Thoughts™ but they lean in the direction of “I identify as a guy because it’s easy, not because I have any affection towards it” vaguely-adjacent to agender if you squint sort of gender thoughts)

typewriterchan

captain-price-unofficially

captain-price-unofficially

NEW LEAK JUST DROPPED

captain-price-unofficially

typewriterchan

Man, how many intelligence agencies do you have at least one person, if not a team, assigned to read the War Thunder forums in real time?

rilgon

And this is how you know that the government does not have access to alien tech - it’s never been leaked on the War Thunder forums to win an argument.

typewriterchan

liminal-craft

I AM RETURNED

I have Ea-nasir's Quality Copper, in quality acrylic, back in stock! You can get them at the link in my pinned post!

copperbadge

For those of you who were admiring them when I had one with me on the Europe trip! (Wish I'd seen this sooner, that's on me, but I checked and there are still tags available at the shop!)

[ID: A key tag made to resemble an old hotel key fob, diamond-shaped; it is made of mottled copper-colored acrylic, with decorative designs including cuneiform writing, and in English reads "Ea-Nasir's Quality Copper".]

typewriterchan

This is going to go fantastically with my Ea-Nasir reusable water cup.

rilgon

Well that was the fastest I’ve ever spent $15

afniel

direhuman

me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources

nonanalogue

(via @itsbenedict)

itsbenedict

eternalfarnham replied to your post

you’re in the pocket of Big Ball, I see

there’s no pocket for me to BE in, there’s no LOBBYING involved, there’s no SUPPRESSION campaign because you don’t need one! traditional methods suppress themselves when you make modern pokéballs available. you might as well start accusing AT&T of deliberately suppressing the noble traditional art form of the goddamn semaphore.

not to mention OP demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the market realities of the pokéball industry- Silph and Devon are not monopolies, if they weren’t in constant competition their magic monster domination spheres wouldn’t cost two bucks a pop. the ball spec is a public standard, and Bill Masaki’s storage system based on that standard is an open-source project. they’re only the two largest players because they’re able to leverage economies of scale. you still get smaller operations like the Laverre City Poké Ball Factory, with better regional supply chains and local brand recognition, making room for themselves in the market.

sm FUCKING h at y’all granola-crunching conspiracy theorists. you probably also believe Super Potions cause autism.

justisdevan

Ok, but it is a shame that artisanal balls are basically off the market now. Like, you have to ride the monorail and hike through a half dozen routes just to find someone willing to sell you a Fast Ball. Believe me, when your boss at the power plant needs five Electrodes by Tuesday you are not going to want to make the trip to Alola; you’re going to head on down to the Mart and get some Ultra Balls, which will do the trick but aren’t well tailored to the job.

I’m with you that modern catching techniques are better, not to mention more humane, but there genuinely is a loss from more niche balls becoming harder to find. Maybe someday the long slowpoketail of consumer demand will be met, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that Shellder.

cetaceanhandiwork

look y’all are missing the point. mass production of silph balls crowding out traditional apricorn craftsmanship is, if anything, more a side effect of the real problem: that capture artifacts are too easy to get your hands on these days. $2 basic balls are a problem. before modern ball tech you had to go to an artisan, yes, but part of their job was to care about who had the power to recruit pokémon from the wild, as a backstop against another Knight of Veilstone coming along. there was a time when you’d never lay a hand on a ball yourself until it was clear you respected pokémon, whether tame or in the wild. but now, a “pokémon journey” is open to practically every teenager, even if they’ve got not interest in treating their team with trust and love.

the worldwide rise in the last century of organized crime and apocalyptic cults who use pokémon as their muscle is a direct result of capture artifacts becoming a mass produced market commodity rather than a mechanism for preserving the sacred trust between humans and the wilderness. it’s a miracle that the powder keg hasn’t already gone off by now.

eternalfarnham

Oh that is rank historical revisionism - what, do you think artisans’ definitions of “respect” were constructed in a vacuum? We already had rhetoric as far back as the warring states period in Ransei about how only the soldierly classes, overwhelmingly descendants of nobility and taught from birth, had the intangible qualities necessary to “bond” with Pokémon. And when we start seeing apricorn balls develop in Johto, which borders Kanto - Kanto, where we know there’s been extensive cultural cross-contamination with Auroran and Dragnoran expeditions - surprise, suddenly only a small population has the intangible qualities necessary to use them, too.

That notion was, and remains, a tool to limit general access to Pokémon in the interest of maintaining class disparities. I mean, have we already forgotten the Aether Foundation’s pseudo-conservationist nonsense? Their attempt to manipulate natural resources and establish a power base in Alola, while they were modernizing and taking their place on the world stage, was founded on this exact rhetoric of “rescuing” Pokémon from local disenfranchised populations, as if taking Pokémon away from places like Po Town would improve things instead of increasing competition between trainers and decreasing safety.

Do you want more disillusioned kids joining gangs? Because that’s how you get Teams!

sindri42

Artisanal balls and anyone who supports them are tools of the aristocracy to suppress the common folk. In the days when a ball could only be made by hand by an expert, only the wealthiest could afford pokemon, and as a result anyone not born into the “elites” was forced to be subservient to their “betters” for protection.

The release of the $2 pokeball meant that the balance of power shifted to the common citizens. If any child can wield the power of a god, the military and the government and the wealthiest businessmen have no power over them.

More than that, instead of power being determined by the wealth to acquire pokemon, power comes exclusively from the dedication, effort, and empathy required to train them to high levels and to maintain their loyalty. If a person simply buys their pokemon, then those pokemon will either stay at low levels forever, or refuse to obey the human because there is no respect between them; the most powerful people in the world are those who caught a critter at level 2-5 and then devoted their life to raising it into a world power.

And as a beautiful side benefit of this, standard of living has increased across the board. Since every household has at least one minor pokemon in the family and there are increasing numbers of professional, working pokemon joining cities and other civilized areas and working to improve them, every aspect of economy and industry has been enhanced by their supernatural capabilities. Electricity is generated cleanly and in abundance for everybody. Pollution is cleaned up almost completely and instantly. The production of farms, mines, and workshops is multiplied, even as safety standards improve. Yes, every few years another potential apocalypse comes about and needs to be prevented by a couple of brave teenagers, but outside of those incidents the world is damn close to utopia.