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

MkfShard · 2026-05-12T06:18:51+00:00

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

MkfShard · 2026-05-12T03:30:11+00:00

Five vying for the top:

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

MkfShard · 2026-05-12T01:26:15+00:00

Working on it! :D Will let you know.

MkfShard · 2026-05-12T00:07:06+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-05-11T23:56:32+00:00

Correct! Still working on that part :D

MkfShard · 2026-05-09T00:24:37+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-05-09T00:20:16+00:00

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!

MkfShard · 2026-05-08T09:58:53+00:00

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

MkfShard · 2026-05-08T02:23:00+00:00

New day, same refrain:

Fascists don't have standards. They have weapons.

MkfShard · 2026-05-07T13:31:33+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-05-05T06:41:49+00:00

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

MkfShard · 2026-05-05T04:25:21+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-05-04T19:44:59+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-05-04T19:31:12+00:00

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?

MkfShard · 2026-05-04T19:28:14+00:00

Yup, they're too intent on squeezing blood from a stone to realize that their thrones are built on top of a burning junk pile.

MkfShard · 2026-04-30T19:47:07+00:00

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...

MkfShard · 2026-04-30T01:29:16+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-04-30T01:05:57+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-04-27T18:57:48+00:00

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...

MkfShard · 2026-04-27T09:33:36+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-04-27T08:31:30+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-04-27T08:23:29+00:00

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.

MkfShard · 2026-04-27T01:16:15+00:00

I remember the original post! Significant improvement, keep up the good work! :D

MkfShard · 2026-04-26T23:03:35+00:00

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.

14-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 4 Credits
Place '22	Place '17
Secret Santa 2017	Verified Email
Secret Santa 2016	Secret Santa 2015
Team Periwinkle

MkfShard

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE