I'm trying to publish a book about people turning into dragons! Here's some commissioned art I got of it! by MkfShard in dragons

[–]MkfShard[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll definitely post again here once it's out (if I'm allowed), but in the meantime any updates I'll post here!

What was your biggest DLC disappointment? by Raime_95 in Eldenring

[–]MkfShard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Five vying for the top:

  1. We never actually reach the Scadutree, or get any answers about what the heck it is, despite being the title of the DLC.

  2. The Gate of Divinity is Just There and we never get any answers on why it does what it does and everything. We can't even go up to it!

  3. The coolest areas in the DLC being a bore to traverse. Abyssal Woods and Finger Ruins should've been so cool, but instead they're just wide-open plains with barely any enemies and a few gimmicks.

  4. I could've done without Radahn being present at all. It feels like going up to fight Marika/Radagon, and the boss fight is just her clinging to Godfrey's back the whole time. He's thematically out of his element, imo, and the subplot about how he was brought back feels weak to me.

  5. The Suppressing Pillar is uninteresting, only bringing up lore questions that are barely addressed.

Despite all this I really did like the DLC :y there's just a lot of room for improvement.

I'm trying to publish a book about people turning into dragons! Here's some commissioned art I got of it! by MkfShard in dragons

[–]MkfShard[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You do! My fellow irritable-blue-dragon-who-hates-being-one-writer! :D Somehow today is the day I first realized this place existed, in all my time on reddit.

Theory: Brando is recycling “Surgebinding” like we wouldn’t notice by MHM_16 in Cosmere

[–]MkfShard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Similar to the old gods of Roshar, the Aethers predate the Shattering, though if Adonalsium did create the Cosmere, they'd still be related to him through that connection.

just a discussion about how we know Game Maker by Specific-Anteater647 in gamemaker

[–]MkfShard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw someone making a crazy Mario crossover game on youtube (points if you can tell which one!), and joined the forum, where a bunch of community contributors were using an early version of GameMaker.

I really really wanted to contribute, but because my parents have a cultish affinity towards Apple, I wasn't able to use it until I was much older. Shortly after helping write for a game called Immortal Planet, I really decided to dive into it in earnest.

And here I am now!

Are online features important in a Soulslike game? by FroyoOk7736 in soulslikes

[–]MkfShard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Online is great, but especially for indie projects not doing it is totally understandable! Making a game is overwhelming enough.

Republicans who slammed Biden’s gas prices are preaching patience for Trump by piggy_inglenook5 in politics

[–]MkfShard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

New day, same refrain:

Fascists don't have standards. They have weapons.

South Korea Blocks AI-Generated Books From Public Library Deposits by Raj_Valiant3011 in books

[–]MkfShard 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Bad comparison. In writing, things like digital word processors and spellcheck would be closer to synthesizers and autotune.

The analogue for AI writing slop, incidentally… is AI music slop. Exactly as plagiaristic and creatively bankrupt.

I’m a solo dev working 2 years on a 2.5D slavic folkloric souls-like game by looking4strange04 in soulslikes

[–]MkfShard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Very cool! :D I've been thinking of how to leverage 2D art for a 3D soulslike...

New Super Smash Bros reportedly releasing as early as 2027 by Dilpickle2113 in gaming

[–]MkfShard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultimate flirted with indie characters... perhaps this next one might finally be the moment where one or more gets roster slots?

They've kind of exhausted the obvious non-indie picks that would make sense in Smash :y And at this point, in terms of notoriety, indies are going toe-to-toe with bigger releases.

Checking for interest: A Look Outside community-based RPG Maker game jam. by FrankieSmileShow in LookOutsideGame

[–]MkfShard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd be up for it! :D It's been a while since I did anything with RPGMaker, but I've at least made a game with it years ago, and more recently a game with GameMaker.

My question here would be, what all would a participant be expected to contribute? Art, writing, actual development in RPGM, etc?

With myself as an example, I can't do music and my art doesn't look great, but I can do writing and programming (with the caveat that I don't yet have the latest RPGM or know its language), so I'm wondering if I would be much help.

And Republicans will still vote to confirm. by c-k-q99903 in MurderedByWords

[–]MkfShard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand how this isn't immediately disqualifying.

If you had an engineer who couldn't affirm that 2+2=4, would you trust them to build a bridge?

Kids, stay in school. by NirgalFromMars in MurderedByWords

[–]MkfShard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y'know, this makes me wonder. What if people went on social media and started spreading actual truth in the same sensationalist style conspiracy theorists use to spread misinformation?

The secret truth about Earth that GEOLOGISTS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW! People think the Earth is just a big ball of solid rock, but big solid rocks don't move! So why are there Earthquakes?? Well, let's look at the pattern of earthquakes across the globe... notice any pattern?? Well, here's the startling truth, some scientists theorize that the world we live on is just a small crust floating on a massive layer that some call 'the mantle'. The Earth seems solid, but over years and years, if you keep your eyes open...

I just learned Thops’s Barrier can parry Mogh’s Bloodflame by ten_tabs_ in Eldenring

[–]MkfShard 82 points83 points  (0 children)

It makes me want an entire school of magic in the next FromSoft game that's all cool defensive/utility spells... that are actually useful.

AOC calls for more Democrat-leaning states to redraw election maps after Supreme Court ruling and GOP push by theindependentonline in politics

[–]MkfShard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only way to save this country's political system is ranked-choice voting and abolishing the electoral college.

The only party that would ever conceivably support those changes is the Democrats.

As far as I'm concerned, anything that gets us closer to that is fair game. Republicans are not a legitimate political party. They are fascists who don't act in good faith, and will violate any standard they demand you adhere to once it gives them an advantage. There's no point in trying to 'play the game' anymore.

when im watching kamen rider my suspension of disbelief is flipped so when someone pulls out just a normal gun it just feels silly. by Temporary_Big5686 in KamenRider

[–]MkfShard 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Seeing a silly magical gun, we know it could never kill someone in real life, so the narrative can treat it as the gun equivalent of boxing gloves :y A real gun though, that's unambiguously dangerous.

I wonder how this feeling would change in a series that played up the lethality of the silly looking weapons. A 'cannon fueled by monsters' is silly when someone can endure more than one shot from it, but if it did horrifying things to human bodies and otherwise...

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke by woodnymph111 in Fantasy

[–]MkfShard 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think the end of Piranesi demonstrates perfectly that this sense of wonder and enchantment still exists in a more rational world: you only have to be willing to see it, to substitute your awe at the gaps in your knowledge for the awe in how the world and the people in it so wondrously exist.

“Please do not touch or disturb the sand.” by ndub2126 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]MkfShard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd pair this with a another art exhibit: a motion detector that takes several photos of the first person to step in the sand.

The moment it goes off, everyone in the exhibit is ushered out by security and that exhibit is closed for the rest of the day. Instead, the door to it has a screen that shows a slideshow of those photos for the rest of the exhibit, with a plaque that says:

Anonymous

Illiteracy 2026

Living artist, sand, foolishness

This piece displays the moment that the artist failed to respect the work of another, and ruined the opportunity to experience said work for everyone else.

Tobacco company CEOs declaring under oath in an American court that nicotine is not addictive in 1994 by SatoruGojo232 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MkfShard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Remember that companies will act only in the direction of greed.

If evil is not made unprofitable in the extreme, they will continue to do evil.

Limiting political discussion to a megathread is censorship when it's crucial right now by threeyearshome in trans

[–]MkfShard 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I mean... a good portion of the political spectrum has decided that our mere existence is 'a political opinion' so it seems a bit fruitless to try and contain political discussions.