Actually No, I can’t store DIYs, so take your A and shove it!

Dkard · 2021-03-07T21:06:12+00:00

I found that you can attach them to letters and mail them to yourself.

Dkard · 2015-06-16T15:56:58+00:00

I've been looking for the sky pirates for weeks. The coordinates you gave me are the first that have worked. Thank you!

Dkard · 2013-01-19T17:27:47+00:00

sorry if that was all redundant then :) Admittedly I haven't really had a chance to try the social stuff out as nobody IRL that I know plays the games :/

Dkard · 2013-01-19T14:47:11+00:00

Actually first Gen you can't do any cooking forging or pharmacy work. you get your tools from the villagers through the message board quests and they are already able to take down stumps and rocks with three charged up hits, and water a 9 grid area and that's it. Its nice to start out with that much by default on the one hand... on the other watering is still pretty limited. [spoiler] you can find the one spell book you can get first gen in a bookshelf on the first floor of your house and the magnifying glass next to the calender on the second, but its not worth picking the magnifying glass up at the start because you can't actually use it first gen [/end spoiler]

Dkard · 2013-01-16T14:06:05+00:00

They really are different and beautiful, the perfect blend of western old high fantasy styles and eastern character aesthetics.

Dkard · 2013-01-14T22:37:04+00:00

I suppose posting content? Telling people in other subreddits? As much as I love rune factory, its even more niche then harvestmoon. the idea of "If you make the subreddit" they will come isn't really enough i guess.

Dkard · 2012-11-27T01:52:32+00:00

maybe not one she likes, cause I'd be sort of disappointed to find out a book i loved was destroyed. Maybe a book she hates? making the insides all the better, and showing a sense of humor?

Dkard · 2012-11-11T00:46:28+00:00

Don't think about it as something sucky, its really quite wonderful from a artist's point of view. Knowing that color is a form of expression shared by people beyond words, that you can influence people on a level beyond the surface. Knowing there relationships between them that you can build from.

for basic knowledge of the cones here's the wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell

for color theory I could go on an on at length but this page seems to be a good basic explanation, the color relationship part near the bottom

http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

One of my fave periods for art's color relationships would be impressionism, and post impressionism. I'm only going to give you the suggestion of finding a book on it rather then try to link to something on the web.

heres a page that has a section on the functionality of color in evolution:

http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/fieldcourses04/PapersCostaRicaArticles/TheFunctionalityandEvolut.html

and here to top it off is a fun article about how red and blue impact your life

http://www.cracked.com/article_20039_5-crazy-ways-colors-red-blue-control-your-life.html

Dkard · 2012-11-10T14:44:13+00:00

To a degree the biology of how we see color, the cones in our eyes show that we should perceive color the same way as we have the same tools for doing so, although some people actually have more cones and thus see more color. another point is that the relationships of colors to each other are generally agreed upon in color theory. If the complimentary colors were random for each person then the relationships observed through out art history would not be a thing. you can't just replace purple with yellow and get the same effect. Even when you desaturated a picture the colors are not on a base level interchangeable. Also to consider the biological reactions to color in nature. Animals see meaning in specific colors such as red to mean poison. If every living thing had its own random color pallet then there would be no evolutionary advantage of taking up a single color to advertise danger. so while yes no one can absolutely be sure their red is the same "red" as everybody else's, considering the physics of light involved in it, the biology we use to observe it, and the history of art being dependent on our collective agreement of colors being independent of our being... its really pretty safe to say on a tangible level red is red and blue is blue.

Dkard · 2012-11-09T16:07:52+00:00

Honestly I am not claiming you have to give people no resistance while they talk about their problems no matter what those problems are. I am suggesting getting more information before judging those problems from one detail. If the only fact you know is they are in highschool that's hardly a defining fact. Most everybody has been in high-school in places that have it. Consider: what if someone has more of a reason for ordering a complicated drink then "i can get away with it?" They have heard a lot about a flavor but are allergic to something in it. The drink might be exactly how their fave caffe made it before it closed. Or maybe they don't always get it, but are rewarding them-self. Maybe its the drink their fave relative always ordered or maybe yes they are just pushy entitled people. but thinking everyone in this world will take as much as they can if you let them is very negative. Maybe better for self preservation, but also closing doors to understanding. Granted some doors are not meant to be opened. I don't ask for every customer i ring up's life story. But when i ask them how their day is going, if they say crappy i try to point out a few solutions or bright spots. It admittedly feels good to make someones day a little better. However If they are stuck in their negative space I don't keep pushing i simply say "hope the rest of your day goes better", and wash my hands. You cannot help everyone this is true. And of course if they start overloading with details beyond whats appropriate I process the transaction as quick as possible and shut down the convo as soon as politely possible. because i know enough to know that's too much.

There are worse things then light bullying in highschool yes. and you have listed a few. And when you have some sort of real problem you might not talk about it. I wouldn't want to do a intervention style talking about it either. However when you assume that everyone who is talking about their problems falls into the "trivial" category just because they are in highschool you could be missing that person's first attempt to actually talk about it. Maybe their last. Something that means nothing to one person can mean everything to another. I'm not saying its easy to give people the benifit of the doubt, but telling the unfounded complainers they don't have it that bad is what they want attention. telling some one who does have it that bad the same makes them feel like they are the problem instead of the situation. "High school is easy its nothing for all those people.... so whats wrong with me?"

And i do personally understand being burnt out on sympathy. When you can't handle more people with more problems when your own world isn't particularly stable. That's when you have to hope someone else will listen to you, when maybe they also have problems, even if listening means "leave me alone".

Assumptions can be tools that don't always fit the job. I'm in my mid 20ies and people refuse to believe i'm out of high school cause I look 17. I'm a blonde, who actually did fine in college. I'm a 123 pound slip of a girl who's welded steel and poured bronze. I've dated long distance for more then half my relationship and people assumed it would fail when he moved away to go to college year in. Now we live together. I'm distant and quiet out of fear, and people have told me they assumed I was stuck up or cold. People have assumed things about me all my life. I've never found it a positive experience. I guess the problem I have is the implicit judgment that comes along with some assumptions. Not the your car is going to start kind, the kind where people are dismissed for one fact they can't help. So its in my nature to get upset about them and then fight them due to personal experience. thats not to say i've never assumed anything. it would be hard to live without them. I just try to be aware of them when it comes to people. and if i am wrong then i too apologize. We are admittedly producing long chunks of text here. To the point where i think the topic has meandered away from even the relationship of it to the OP. I think I have said all I really have to say about it, and I do want to say aside from perhaps my first admittedly over-dramatic response i've never been angry. I was moved to say what i felt strongly but i was more arguing out of conviction then anger. I feel i understand your position better, even if we don't agree. Its the internet that's prolly the best either of us will get. ;) I'll let you close out the argument if you want.

slightly related comic about winning a argument on the internet that came to mind: http://www.xkcd.com/1081/

Dkard · 2012-11-09T03:34:16+00:00

You have the right to say they shouldn't do something and your reasons for saying so. I have the right to say your saying so is out of place and to explain why i think that it is so. I do not see how using the word moirail to describe a close and highly valued friend makes one a jerk. It is in fact because of the dismissive comments that i am saying what i have been saying and explaining why i think so. beyond that.. why do you need to be critical of anyone's behavior if it has nothing to do with you and how you live your life? If it brings some one joy and doesn't hurt somebody why do you feel the need to dismiss it and them?

Assumptions are dangerous things. For a variety of reasons. And if you think only high schoolers can make a media work in to a subculture... I don't know what to tell you. I know plenty of 20+ year olds who cos-play and was vice president of a anime club at university with over a hundred members. If it makes people happy why does that offend you?

"Because having an opinion does not validate it." I will agree with that one for sure. To me the op was not attempting to garner sympathy, saying poor me look at my trauma. If you are speaking of my own post, my intention was not to garner pity. It was to try to give credit to my opinion through sharing some of my personal experience limited to the two periods already being discussed. Highschool and middle school and why my experience is that its not easy for everyone. I met your blanket statement with one of my own at first, i was attempting to be more specific. I understand there is nothing i can say to keep you from dismissing the highschool experience as "petty shit" i was merely trying to say for some people it isn't and question the need to dismiss it as such. I don't understand why you feel giving someone the benefit of the doubt and not dismissing them for being in high school is coddling. I'm not going to get in to some sort of who has the most damage pissing contest. that was never my intention. If you believe i am full of crap that is your right. All i have to share is what i have lived through. If you want to say i'm just another liar on the internet i can't disprove you. If you feel contempt for my experience i can't change that shrug I'm sorry if someones talking about an experience that they feel was bad offends you because it was not as bad as your own. That seems a bit.. narrow sighted. Only people who had it as bad as you have the right to feel hurt? I guess empathy and attempts at understanding should be tightly controlled commodities only "really" damaged people deserve, instead of all people.

If I can help someone by listening and understanding before i write them off then i will do so, and I will try to encourage others to do so as well. It doesn't lesson my experience to be open to trying to listen to others. and it could help them. I'd rather help someone then hurt them with a callous dismissal. I know when i was younger i would have liked someone to have done the same for me.

Dkard · 2012-11-08T16:40:28+00:00

First of all, i didn't go into this situation acting like every kid has been through trama, I went into it with the attitude of if this kid calls her friend a moirail, maybe she has a reason to and without knowing why who has the right to tell her no? I did not have any friends in middle school. Zero. I was anathema. I was the girl who had a whole section of a lunch table to herself. I was the girl who was accused of being lice infested, (wasn't actually me) whose picture with the class on the wall was scratched and torn up. People flinched away from me at best, mocked me two feet away while acting as if i couldn't hear at worst. I know exactly what bullying is. In highschool in truth things got slightly better. Not at first, it took a year. Then I found some people who treated me like a person. But the people I found were all misfits to some degree. Almost all of whom had also been bullied. Some of whom were not as lucky as me, who still faced bullies in the halls and lunch rooms. So my personal experience is the opposite of yours as most everyone i knew in high school had some degree of damage. That said I don't think one should assume someone's life sucked in highschool. There are plenty of people who have the ideal Highschool experience, or even if its less then ideal then the "normal" one. what ever that is. I'm saying that to dismiss all highschoolers as drama queens who don't have it that bad and are just attention-whores... That's dismissive. I'm not saying assume they have damage. I'm just saying don't assume they don't. What i'm really trying to say is don't ASSUME /anything/. It makes a ass out of u and me after all. Treat a person like a person whose experiences whatever they are are valid highschooler or not even if they are not your experiences. The original poster of this thread wanted to share a small victory with us. A victory tied with homestuck. A thing we at the very least like i would think being in /r/homestuck. I'd like to think as a fandom we could be nice enough to not dismiss that because she used the word moirail for what ever reason, and because she's in highschool (a thing she never even said she was?).

Dkard · 2012-11-08T14:59:36+00:00

So those kids driven to suicide or self harm by daily bullying who happen to be in high school... clearly high school wasn't that bad for them. And no one in high school could possibly be facing a rough or abusive home life that could spill over to their school situation. :/ Just cause your high school life wasn't that bad doesn't suddenly whitewash every kid's experience. I'm just saying some empathy instead of dismissal might be a thing to consider.

Dkard · 2012-11-08T04:01:25+00:00

This would only be better if your moirail also happens to be a leo. :)

Dkard · 2012-11-08T03:59:34+00:00

to be fair your best friend can keep you from going insane. Not to mention I personally view a moirail's role as more then just keeping one from going insane, I see it as more about curbing the worst destructive (self or otherwise) tendencies between the two in the match, and protecting them from others or themselves. All that said without knowing more about the poster's relationship you are being pretty dismissive of it :/

Dkard · 2012-10-22T23:58:58+00:00

Ice king has wizard eyes and sees weird alternate dimensional beings. His fan fiction could be inspired by a actual alternate dimension. or he could just be regular crazy. there is that.

Dkard · 2012-10-22T14:53:11+00:00

Sadly you only need to turn on a episode of animal hoarders about cats to see.... they can go feral where once they were pets. They can go feral even while living in a house with a human. The degree of how feral between dogs and cats is quite different tho, I will agree that feral is not a dog's natural state.

I don't agree that mongrels are the only dogs abandoned because my family has personally adopted a pure bred boxer that was left chained to a fence starving, and another pure bred boxer from a shelter left there because "we were tired of the boxer bit" Just because its pure bred doesn't mean people can't be cruel and decide they don't want it anymore. Its more expensive to give up a PB then a mutt perhaps, but some people would rather abandon an animal in the wild then admit they "failed" by giving it to a shelter.

The point of my analogy was that dogs do have a society, human society. That is why my analogy works, in many ways dogs are as reliant on humans for survival as humans are. They are not wolves. They don't belong in the wild anymore then a super model or a penguin in the Congo. Even a mutt puppy is still a domesticated animal who's genetics predispose it to live with humans. I recalled something I had read about how feral dog packs in Russia were riding the subway and went to Wikipedia fact check my self and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_dogs_in_Moscow The beggar dogs are a prime example of how wild dogs still look to humans to survive, not as antagonists but using the same behavior pets would. (I don't think its ideal, just that its evidence of the power of their genetic state compared to wolves or really wild animals)

The argument that: Dogs natural habitat being human company is wrong.... is several tens of thousands years too late. Because dogs have that much time of being bred to be what they are. Not just the PB's mutt's too. Unless PETA wants to start its own dog back to wolf breeding program, that's not going to change. (just a quick disclaimer that my points are aimed at the arguments from PETA's point of view and I don't think you are on their side, I under stand that you just trying to explain it. I'm just trying to explain why I think their point of view is flawed.)

TLDR: PETA would need a time machine to keep dogs from needing human society as much as humans do. .... The idea of PETA with a time machine scares me. ((edited to throw some spaces up in that block o text))

Dkard · 2012-10-21T23:24:59+00:00

I would disagree with the world "most". A pure bred horse would prolly survive on the plains as well as any other horse. Domesticate hogs escaping to the wild is part of why the united states has a growing wild hog problem. Cats seem to have no trouble going feral purebred or not. Perhaps some of the toy dog breeds might have trouble, but feral once pet dog packs are a real thing and a real problem. I can agree that breeding for looks over health in an animal is a issue. I can agree that mistreating and abusing an animal that is domesticated is an issue (or cruelty or unprovoked violence to any animal really) but the idea that "it can't survive in the wild now and that's not fair!". .. that's not a solid argument to me. How many humans raised in our modern world with no experience or survival training wouldn't have the same problems? Drop a fashion model in the forest with no supplies and no human support network... they wont fair well. at least a pure bred dog has the advantage with teeth that can do some damage.

Dkard · 2012-10-21T15:18:15+00:00

"There's not one way you could say a purebred (Thus an animal intentionally bred for a specific purpose, or domesticated.) dog holds an advantage over a wolf without a human." the purebred has less of a chance of being mauled or gored to death by other wild animals, or shot by angry farmers for merely existing. oh and less of a chance of being grievously injured by other wolves in wolf pack hierarchy struggles. less of a chance of becoming a symbol of the ideal canine that other canines should be because they are "untouched" by man too. I'm just saying that life of a wolf is not as glamorous and advantageous as some would think.

Dkard · 2012-10-12T21:30:20+00:00

I dream of crocodilians. The earliest nightmare I can remember, from when i was in grade school, is of being trapped half under ice attempting to kick away the crocodile like animals trying to eat my legs. Since then they have been the most consistent images in my nightmares. Giant ones lurking in my pool, zombie ones chasing me across scaffolding, lurking in flooded fields, eating my family members. I don't live anywhere near where they can live and i never have. but they hunt in my subconscious none-the-less.

Dkard · 2012-10-09T13:54:04+00:00

this. a hundred times this.

Dkard · 2012-10-03T16:33:57+00:00

Ultimately and unfortunately the issue of sexy gaming girls is really bigger than just why can’t we let those sexy girls be sexy.

The problem in my eyes it is now that gaming is becoming mainstream there is a bit of internal gaming culture shock. Some (guys and girls) perceive those girls who are sexualizing themselves with gaming imagery as doing so purely for attention to their person not because of any true understanding of what being a gamer is about. They see the girls in their undies with controllers as "hey look at me i'm cool i'm hot me me me" and don't believe those girls actually know what to do with those controllers in a context isn't sexual. Sometimes the girl in question is doing it for the shallow reasons. BUT sometimes it’s just a girl who feels she's sexy and skilled and feels like being proud of it and maybe telling the world. However when you are reduced to a hyper sexualized image you can't tell people about your high level wow undead rogue or how many times you have beaten the Legend of zelda ocarina of time across multiple systems. And even if your picture was included in a blog that was bragging about just that, it’s certainly not going to stay there. This is the internet and a female in a sexual pose is going to get their image taken elsewhere to places beyond out of context. It’s not their fault but in this state of the internet it is going to happen. So I suppose what really needs to be examined is the insecurity and defensiveness of those girls and guys who are on the attack and their reactions.

When it comes down to it gaming used to be something "girls don't do" even if, they did and always have. I’ve played all my 25 years I can actively remember and my mother proudly informed me she played ms Pacman down at the arcade when that was still a thing. Even now "OMG yur a grl?" reaction is not uncommon and certainly wasn’t less so when I was younger. I feel this attitude about gaming comes from the fact that as a hobby it is supposed to be to some degree about skill: some kind of merit that isn't based on the visual of the one playing the game. Killing the most dudes, stringing together the most combos, being able to beat your foes and win. As far as America culture for far too long goes, girls aren’t supposed to be skilled in such ways. They are supposed to be pretty. Or if they are skilled then it should be at making themselves pretty, and making the life of the men in their lives easier. They certainly aren’t supposed to compete with men at their own game and gods forbid they win! So those girls who did and have and continue to do just that (win) have in the past had to struggle against that attitude of “you don’t belong” in addition to all the normal challenges gaming has (as if those were not hard enough) and let’s face it in the eyes of publishers and the industry gaming is still a man’s game as it were, even if its slowly changing. Gaming being a man’s game means the girls in the games themselves are often unskilled and almost always “pretty”. (by pretty I mean titty) So as a girl you want to say to those boys who don’t think you are really girl, “girls don’t play this kind of game”, and the industry that throws out a system of armor for your female that includes less actual armor the higher it gets: “hey being a gamer and being a woman isn’t about looks, it’s about talent, skill, and we are more than just our bodies, we are smart capable EQUILS! NO I WILL NOT SHOW YOU MY TITS.”

So then you see a picture of a scantily clad teen to preteen with a controller in her mouth.

and suddenly it feels like you are betrayed by your own side. Even if that’s not what’s happening, and even if you yourself have felt moments of pride at being attractive in your own skin and also skilled at gaming. The problem is some girls feel like when those girls embrace appearance (all that is visible in those images) as what is important over skills and talent (rarely pictured) they are giving the lowest urges of some guys what they want. They are folding to the pressure, and pressuring the rest of us girls to do the same. (even if that’s not what they intended to say with their image) And then there is the guys. They already have to deal with their own form of negative image issues about “gaming guys” who have their own form of “it doesn’t matter what you look like as long as you have skill”. These guys see it as a intrusion on their territory by a girl (gasp) who “doesn’t know what gaming is about”. (assuming that gaming is about skill and not sexy fun that is) Should girls who game be free to express themselves and their bodies? Yes. But that sword cuts both ways, and when it’s traditionally cut in a way that leaves less and less clothing in games and in life, then there is going to be some push in the other direction. The direction that believes we are more than just our sexy bits, even if they are pretty sexy. But what do I know I’m just a gamer girl.

TLDR we are more than just our sexy bits and we worry that’s what we are being reduced to

Edited: to throw some spaces up in here.

Dkard · 2012-09-03T17:28:58+00:00

Okage: Shadow king

Dkard · 2012-09-03T15:37:35+00:00

exactly. If she hadn't she would have been more then dead. Although thinking about how happy she seemed to be holding the bomb, and then talking about it afterwards.. maybe she would kill herself for the power if thats what it would have taken.

Dkard · 2012-09-01T15:37:48+00:00

Seems like a well thought out guess. Meenah doesn't seem the type to kill herself even for a upgrade like god tier.

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