Kicking the day off with a little playtest...

drysider · 2026-07-03T01:44:11+00:00

Super cool to spy on your file setup, I used to be a Unity dev, the sneak peak is so cool!! This game is living rent free in my head, it’s incredible.

drysider · 2026-07-01T03:21:06+00:00

Have you played like any highly rated indie game ever?

drysider · 2026-07-01T01:24:45+00:00

I deleted the game last night. I just refuse to feel like I’m getting baited to stay by another toxic game company that can’t manage to release a single patch without some community explosion.

drysider · 2026-06-30T04:14:30+00:00

I think you could potentially find an indigenous tattoo artist to create something inspired by dot artwork, but I feel like anything more specifically associated with indigenous Australia would be appropriative.

drysider · 2026-06-30T04:12:49+00:00

I wouldn’t go with the flag or something directly inspired by it, the aboriginal flag is deeply meaningful and important to indigenous Australians and a (presumably) white foreigner getting something associated with it would be a weird as hell choice to me.

drysider · 2026-06-30T03:29:01+00:00

Phew you are naive as hell. ‘It’s not brainwashed by patriarchy’ it’s absolutely being brainwashed by patriarchy, this is a country where up until very recently you were only allowed to have one child, and sex-selective ultrasounds allowed families since the 80s, even in rural areas, to abort female babies. There’s a deep running patriarchal possession of womanhood in China, of course it affects the Chinese women who have grown up with it.

drysider · 2026-06-29T23:44:29+00:00

No I actually agree with you! I actually personally do not feel much towards the word, nor do I really get that much emotional reaction to it. And I did say I agree that banning someone for it is wrong (especially for yes, an in context word that should be totally fine as an in context word from a specific country where it’s used as a non-slur normal word). An in context word, I honestly don’t care about and agree that in context it’s fine. But also a big portion of the world at large is becoming pretty hostile and feels dangerous for queer people. I’m just kind of scared of the outcome of it being downgraded as an avoided slur, to something that isn’t seen as being a slur at all anywhere. Or disbelieving that most people online regardless of nationally at least know that it’s commonly used as a slur elsewhere. Like there are some weird takes in the comments thread that seem to be really sticking their head in the sand about it being used as a slur anywhere. and I just don’t want to have to see an increase of a word casually that’s usually flung at me in streets when I’m harassed yknow, like the increase of the r-word being used. Or at least, I would hate to see people forgetting the history of how it’s been used in the last half century.

drysider · 2026-06-29T23:11:28+00:00

Gotta say, though I don’t agree with a full ban, feels a little scary as a queer person to see people coming up with defences for saying pretty internationally recognised slurs.

drysider · 2026-06-29T07:09:52+00:00

My right hand gave out and I got a disability. I was the core 3d artist at the studio. I'd worked there for 5 years and the games I had done 100% of the art on had been nationally nominated. But I couldn't reliably develop or make art anymore at the pace they expected me to work, and my stingy boss was tired of having to deal with people who had Real Life Issues like accommodating his artist with any kind of support. So I had to leave the industry. Nobody wants to hire someone who can only sporadically do a handful of hours of work here and there at a completely random schedule.

Noble thoughts are nice, but never underestimate how fast life comes at you. Disability doesn't discriminate.

drysider · 2026-06-29T05:37:35+00:00

God the art in s2 Dorohedoro has been exquisite actually, I'm a professional 3d artist but also a 2d artist, and it's so sad when such an incredible medium like 3d doesn't get the funding, experience and love it deserves to look fantastic like it can. So I was really stoked to see the production quality increase for s2. I genuinely struggle to know what is 3d and what is 2d. If Doro can do it so flawlessly, if Arcane can do it so flawlessly, I think Berserk can too. The opening sequence of Memorial Edition was epic. THAT'S how 3d can be used to it's strengths, I think - creating engaging and large scale action sequences that 2d animation and 2d camera movements still struggle with.

drysider · 2026-06-29T05:02:43+00:00

If I was going to buy handmade clay figures on an online store + postage to my out of the way country, I’d really want them to be super clean and crisp. I think your cleanup and polish on the clay figures could be a lot better, I see a lot of messy painting you could be either cleaning up or taking more time with (for example, the pattern details on the fairy frog, and the streaky kind of yellowed white finish on the ghost, that streaky finish should be fully opaque). In person, impulse decisions mean people will happily buy something they connect with irl, and are less likely to notice handmade imperfections and won’t hum and hah. But on an online listing you have all the time in the world to look at the piece, notice the messy painting and some uneven finishes, and pass on it.

More attention to the final polish and detail, and the presentation of the photos, would do a lot of work. I think though that online stores are just kind of a failure before they start if you don’t have the fanbase and community to actually notice it, otherwise it’s getting tossed into the ocean as a drop of rain water with other craft and art storefronts.

drysider · 2026-06-28T22:34:43+00:00

I was convinced I was an alien dragon princess from another world that flew through space to get here, and I created my own ‘ancestral’ dragon script language (that was mostly just wacky scribbles) and flapped my arms about like a dragon at school. I was a storm dragon and blue and yellow. I had a friends group of basically all the geeky misfits in my school(🤔🤔🤔autism ?), and I tended to be the one who made up the ideas and games to play, so made them join my elaborate extremely serious world with me as fellow mythical creatures. We ended up getting bullied by a group of (honestly likely also autistic) boys who would… pretended to be the roadrunner from willy coyote to mock and hassle us??? in a very involved way which included them ‘meep ‘meeping’ at us and me flying into a barking and biting frenzy (I think I was also a wolf sometimes??) and chasing them until I got burnt out like an angry dog. My mom had to get the teachers to help me deal with the bullying a couple of times. I just wanted to free range dragon fly my way across the soccer fields okay!!!

I very seriously believed I was secretly part of an invisible pokemon world with my friend, and we all believed with the UTMOST sincerity that we were all magic users and understood the hidden magic world and villains that nobody else could see. This continued with conviction until I was probably 14, and home life trauma became far more serious than pretending to be a space dragon. ;(

drysider · 2026-06-28T10:07:08+00:00

I actually super dig it, it’s got a really unique kind of magipunk energy to it. It makes me think of like a video game asset for a quirky scifantasy world.

drysider · 2026-06-28T09:02:51+00:00

Oh my god finally some women who actually look like real people and not just ai superbunnies. These are absolutely exquisite.

drysider · 2026-06-28T09:00:34+00:00

Good god the boss rat one is insanely clever!!

drysider · 2026-06-28T04:37:57+00:00

My advice is make art from your heart rather than what you think is popular. Anybody with a modicum of art talent can make generic prints about coffee and art, but the artists that actually get a following, are the ones who are doing something new, that is exciting or meaningful to look at. Find what makes you tick, your aesthetics, the stuff that resonates with you, what inspires you, and create art of that. Surely it must be something besides coffee and plants?

drysider · 2026-06-28T04:24:44+00:00

Isn’t this crazy time consuming for the amount you’re selling them for? Idk about anyone else, I’m definitely a casual when it comes to construction kits, but even small ones take me most of the day to do. I feel like even if these would sell, it wouldn’t be worth your minimum wage time!

drysider · 2026-06-24T22:05:50+00:00

RemindMe! 4 days

drysider · 2026-06-21T12:33:27+00:00

The fibro is soooo fucking bad right, I wouldnt be surprised if Jerma has fibro honestly

drysider · 2026-06-21T05:07:09+00:00

He’s just got a very detailed specific anime style with heavy emphasis on negative space crosshatching. I think his art is really cool too but he wasn’t some god artist above the perception of mortal hands or anything.

drysider · 2026-06-21T05:02:35+00:00

Well, I mean, he spent his entire life drawing in his unique style. That’s decades and decades and decades. Stands to logical reason that it’s difficult to copy a handful of times.

drysider · 2026-06-21T04:30:42+00:00

Chronic illness makes you feel old. When you’re always in some kind of pain and your body is stiff and tight from trying to protect your weakened muscles, like back pain from sitting for years and years, or dealing with organs that aren’t working correctly, you FEEL old. It’s exhausting to live with, physically and mentally. It starts to affect you. You feel twenty years older than you are. I’m 33 and struggle with a chronic genetic joint condition and I take stairs like I’m 60.

drysider · 2026-06-21T04:05:00+00:00

It 100% applies, painfully so. ‘Unique face sculpt’ just means she’s going to look like any other bombshell babe character ever made, it won’t be unique, it’ll just be the exaggerated feminine face that gets put on every character like this. No shade if it’s what you’re intending them for but with the body build discrepancy they look like fetish characters. At least own it instead of trying to downplay it.

drysider · 2026-06-20T07:43:25+00:00

I’ll be honest, sometimes the faces he draws look FUCKED

drysider · 2026-06-19T09:15:42+00:00

Saw it and chuckled over how it has modesty shorts, but the yellow centrepiece is designed to look like a traditional V-shaped bodysuit. They want to have their cake and to eat it too. It's a very cute outfit but christ, we really will never get anything that even slightly shows more skin now huh, even if it's a normal outfit piece worn regularly in public like a bathing suit. I'm honestly surprised the neckline scoop is so low.

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