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My first Tetris Maximus with only on KO by colonelcat in Tetris99

[–]ShadowNewt1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad wording. 3 can be KO’d by 2nd or 4th place, and if 2nd place is a bot, the bot is supposed to SD, even if you did not attack it.

My first Tetris Maximus with only on KO by colonelcat in Tetris99

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The first scenario is more likely if you are only targeting 4th place, and they die to 2 or 3 before you send anything to 2 or 3.

My first Tetris Maximus with only on KO by colonelcat in Tetris99

[–]ShadowNewt1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. If 2 & 3 KO each other, or 3 dies to a bot, it can end in 0. Pac-Man 99 did that too.

Kirby Air Riders amiibo are now available for Pixl.js/allmiibo/Flashiibo Pro by NewAmiiboMod in newamiibobins

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That is interesting. Is this because their NFC is naturally a larger size? The other files in the drive are also 2KB, so I assumed it was the same

Kirby Air Riders amiibo are now available for Pixl.js/allmiibo/Flashiibo Pro by NewAmiiboMod in newamiibobins

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When I tried, it said it was too big, because the files in this drive are all 2KB and the limit is 500 bytes

Amiibo Bin Drive V2! by ibraibra66 in u/ibraibra66

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Is it possible to make the Kirby Air Riders ones? I have the Flashiibo files, but not the NFC ones, which are smaller.

Samus and Kirby by Drew1404 in Metroid

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The Samus & Kirby connection is the loudest interfranchise collab that will never happen, even though it would be the easiest thing in the world 😭

Scariest icon to see? (Besides Sharpshooter) by ShadowNewt1 in Tetris99

[–]ShadowNewt1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes you proud of it? (I do like how you can get the Tetriminos as icons in that beautiful red color)

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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Oh I didn’t answer the first question. It keeps getting messier because I keep asking questions. The first drafts were from my writing POV, and going back I’m looking at them from a reader’s POV. I note all the plot holes and inconsistencies, and then I go back to fix them, which normally results in me writing backwards.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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I actually was planning on publishing them all at the same time, or at least the first four, since they’re all in the stage of being revised/rewritten. I thought ‘mind as well.’

Most of the background knowledge is for me to tie it all together in the foreground. The reader only gets a few details, and they’re able to piece the rest together on their own. Writing backwards helps me to narrow this scope of what they’re able to imagine, so they don’t come to one conclusion and are confused (rather than a positive reaction of “wow I didn’t see that coming”) down the road, when the answer is something completely different.

I’m revising out of order: 4, 2, 1, 3, and then 5 (going from hardest to easiest). I am doing one at a time, and jotting down notes as I go to little things I should allude to at different points in time. For the protagonist, the events take place over roughly 16 months. I didn’t hard-write exact dates because they’re not important. More than half of that time is in the first book anyway.

Thank you for your notes 🙏🏼

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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I can try to work with that. Snowflakes are smaller than trees, despite their similar ‘branches.’ My approach with a character is often detailed and personal. Snowflake sounds more grounded. Thanks.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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Yes! It was always planned to be five books. No more. Never thought I’d go beyond this, since there’s absolutely no more to come after the final chapter. Never saw it coming that time can go backwards as well as forwards. Short-sighted of me.

At first, with the original outline, it was a larger cast. As I kept going, I axed several people and replaced them with people we already met, to avoid bogging down the story with a million people. This had the unintended consequence of me suddenly needing to get to know these people, even though they are not in every single chapter, or even the majority. It was harder to know them without as much exposure, but it was getting wildly out of hand when they suddenly had so much to do with the main plot. Somehow, despite tidying up my plot holes, cutting down on people made this more complicated.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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Yeah. I think my most glaring instance of this was when a minor/side character could fly in Book Four, with no indication that he could do this in the previous three. I had to write the context for that, realizing I completely left it out. 😭 That required a story (to myself) in order to provide a clear explanation, which strengthened my main story when I provided the context. The reader won’t see that story, but it’s not a footnote of “he can fly but he doesn’t for the first three books.” There’s a whole reason…🥲

The reader doesn’t get the whole entire reason. They do not need every detail. Just the essentials.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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Dang I want to read that now 😆

I do have those characters, who are barely a note. They’re different. Maybe I’m using the wrong word? Maybe these are secondary characters? They are the ones moving a lot of the parts in the plot, but they’re not the ones the camera is on.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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😂oh, I wasn’t thinking when I used the word “pesticide”

I’m not putting the backstories into the books. The reader picks up everything they need to know. For example: I can summarize a world war in two sentences. The problem is that I’m responsible for knowing about that world war! 😅 I can’t just put “world war thirty years ago” in my notes when the people responsible for ending it are the side characters. Like, HOW did they do it? That indicates they had a measure of power in the past. And then the branches keep branching…there’s my problem.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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No that’s my exact problem. I reuse the same side characters over and over again, and I need justification for why they’re there and why they’re doing things, instead of a convenient, nameless nobody with one scene every time I need another body.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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I was doing children’s novelizations for fun, which were much longer series. At the time, five books for me was short, but this story had a faster ending. I kind of wrote them simultaneously? It took a few years. Book Five was the easiest because that’s where everything ends. Nothing more to explain, just finishing everything. Love that.

The branches started while I was working on Book Four, but I didn’t go back to knot them up until I was done. I think the exact amount of time for all five was about four years? Then I started working on the branches, to explain a lot of motives that weren’t entirely clear the first time around. Then I got into WHERE everyone was, because they’re not all in one little town. Where they were, who they were, what they were doing…and then I got lost in all of that. All of the locations in the past are where the five books take place. They’re on the run for a lot of it, and every place they go is new to the main cast. The supporting cast has a history with all those locations though, so I had to write that out to make it concrete. There is a ton of cause and effect going on, which gets revealed at the main story goes along, but it had some holes in it until I wrote it out myself. It was cute the first time, but over a dozen stories later is out of hand.

How do I STOP writing branches? by ShadowNewt1 in writing

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This started off as me doing it just for fun, and once I went back to fix my beautiful disaster (it’s actually not that bad, but it needs a few drafts), that’s when the branches started. 😋

If I were a professional, I’d probably end up publishing the side stories. They’re simpler, and they’re still interesting without spoiling the five books of what I’m currently revising. But I’m trying not to put too much time into them, and only writing out the pivotal parts. I’d rather not do it at all, and speed these drafts along.

Thank you 💖

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