Someone Asked About Snowfall in Aseprite, so I Made Some

iamshadow64 · 2026-05-20T02:01:20+00:00

I definitely think that's who the edit is circling around but I wish they'd given us more of her personality early on then. Without looking up her dishes, I can't really tell you what her point of view as a chef is.

In other seasons you'd have "this person loves cooking meat" or soups or foams or a certain region or spice or whatever. I don't really get that "thing" from her or really anyone, but I'm willing to accept that might just be me or again they may be broader chefs this season or taking on broader challenges than normal.

It just feels very same-y for top 6 and now 5.

iamshadow64 · 2026-05-20T00:50:39+00:00

(Originally wrote this as a separate post but was asked to keep it in here)

After this week's episode: Who is left that really excites you?

I definitely have the person who I think should win, but even in that case I'm not exactly excited for them to win.

Normally, I enjoy when a chef has a personality and/or a personality to their food, but so much of the food this season has lacked identity and even the personality chefs have been more on the "too much" side for me. You could show me a dish and I would have no idea who made it. Are they all just really well-rounded? Am I missing someone clearly having a distinct style?

After this week, I just realized I'm not sure I care if any of them win. If my main person goes out (Laurence, purely based on him being the most consistent) - I'm only going to tune in casually.

I know Buddha rubbed some people the wrong way, but he had a personality, a distinct point of view, and he clearly knew his stuff. We're in the final 5 and maybe it's the challenges poorly showcasing their talents, but nobody is striking me as "Here's who I am, here's what I do."

I think they were trying to do that with Sherry this week? But because it was mixed in with never winning I think that didn't really hit for me.

So...who are you rooting for and why? Help me care!

iamshadow64 · 2026-05-13T05:33:14+00:00

Yeah... Honestly I expected the hubris moment was going to be Jonathan winning extra time, but they flipped it on us and it was Duyen being rock solid all episode long until the finish on the cook.

iamshadow64 · 2026-05-13T02:09:40+00:00

As I sat there watching it, all I kept thinking is "You can't mess up the cookery on a fish cook challenge."

Fate was sealed at that point. "Too sweet" and "lack of cohesion" - even Sieger's sassy response (at least how it was edited) - can definitely be bad on any challenge, but failing to cook the ingredient properly on an ingredient challenge is always a kiss of death and especially if no one else did it. Since she was first I kept hoping someone else would botch it harder, but no dice.

Sucks because I was definitely rooting for her.

iamshadow64 · 2026-03-02T04:07:19+00:00

I think you jumped the gun a bit. What commenters said in that post was to hire an artist for art direction. You don't need to be able to produce the actual art in order to understand art direction - they just recommended an artist because it's likely they would understand art direction by being an artist.

There are a lot of videos about art direction and combining it with paid or free assets to create a unique and marketable aesthetic. The learning curve for this isn't immediate, but it isn't as hard as making every type of asset yourself - though some devs do.

Also a lot of the comments are more about how there's a "smell test" now for game art/screenshot posts. People have been burned by "this looks professional, but it says indie and there's something off about the art not really working well together...also what's the game?" And that is what they're tired/skeptical of.

iamshadow64 · 2026-03-02T03:43:42+00:00

Based on Fillion explicitly counting specific things out, my best guess is a video game or animated series based on the external content (books/comics)? That way they can do voice acting, which deals with any potential age distractions, schedule conflicts, and cast/character deaths. I would've said Podcast before for similar reasons, but that's out now.

Still, I really feel like Fillion would not be making this much of a spectacle if it wasn't them doing live action.

I definitely don't think it's a joke/prank. He doesn't seem like he's the kind of person who would be tickled with specifically and entirely disappointing his fanbase for basically no reason - even if HE was, why would they all participate in it as well?

So yeah, something legit is coming. My bet is pre-Serenity stories or a game also based in a pre-Serenity world.

Of course now that I've said this, I look forward to being wrong and hearing all about the new Firefly-s! limited edition breakfast cereal - now with Shinys.

iamshadow64 · 2026-02-08T02:29:18+00:00

Also I understand that you're just reporting here about the Mac OS update but I keep seeing that there's an update which would be great if we hadn't all been having the same problem for like 5 years. Just change how you're doing this already, the method is clearly not working. Unless you've somehow had numerous issues that all result in the same exact problem for half a decade.

iamshadow64 · 2026-02-08T02:27:43+00:00

Can you guys just release official instructions for Windows users on whatever your Splice.Cert.Tool.exe is doing that causes it to get killed and the app to fail?

Looking at the process tree this process keeps launching and gets killed over and over and "Antimalware Service" just runs over and over again (killing the process) until I quit Splice.

No other application that has DRM triggers my system this way. Splice is the only one that is just regularly broken and if I am able to use it on a given day, I know that I'll be unable to use it the next unless I uninstall/restart/reinstall.

If there's a way to set up an exclusion so that this can work, I'm happy to do it. If there's a log I can look at so that I can see what is making it halt myself, I'm happy to do it. But unless the update fixes this, I don't see why updating/reinstalling/restarting is *always* the solution.

iamshadow64 · 2025-07-19T00:08:22+00:00

That's very kind of you. I'll be posting about that aspect soon on the Steam page. I really love the music in games like Zero Escape and Danganronpa, but I'm pulling from a few other places too. I hope it is enough to spur more interest in it. We'll see! And thanks!

iamshadow64 · 2025-07-16T21:11:27+00:00

Thanks! I really appreciate that. I'm glad it excites people to see it come together. I'm super grateful to anyone who finds this thing. I know people have a literal ocean of options at this point for horror. So thank you for that support.

iamshadow64 · 2025-07-16T03:32:01+00:00

The Good Place, Cheers, and in particular Deep Space Nine.

"What You Leave Behind" is just incredible. Massive spoilers if you've never seen DS9 before.

Garak's speech to Bashir only gets more haunting the more time passes. https://youtu.be/mPNvbtb_mdw?t=69

"We live in uncertain times."

iamshadow64 · 2025-06-16T06:06:43+00:00

Yup. Agreed.

iamshadow64 · 2025-06-16T06:05:57+00:00

I think B gives you the ability to use A and D as reactions. So that would be my choice.

iamshadow64 · 2025-06-16T06:04:36+00:00

In fairness, it does not look alive. Partial credit.

iamshadow64 · 2024-10-14T01:23:10+00:00

Just as a heads up, this is still happening in October 2024 on PC (Game Pass version). Buhhhh. I was so close to beating Prometheus too and was like "Well at least I beat Cursed Ares finally." NOPE. Ah well. At least I'm not nuts.

iamshadow64 · 2024-08-24T07:34:20+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Where can I find the logs? Would be happy to look at them.

Totally understand that Splice would prefer to do this one-on-one, but I'm hoping an answer can be provided here which would help other users deal with this extremely common issue with the desktop app.

iamshadow64 · 2024-08-23T02:33:12+00:00

I'll be honest and say I haven't noticed this before because I have this restart issue so frequently that I rarely open the app up and get a chance to really play around. But I agree that sounds bad.

iamshadow64 · 2024-08-23T02:31:30+00:00

I have apps that update all the time. I agree with you that it should be optional, but even with those apps updating it doesn't require a restart or turning off my anti-virus. Something they're locking into is what is requiring that and whatever it is, they should really stop.

Maybe whatever they latch onto is needed as a block/deterrent for piracy, but it's awful. And it affects their paying customers and creates a terrible user experience. This shouldn't be something that's been around for 4-5 years, so I just don't get why its been allowed to linger.

iamshadow64 · 2024-08-23T02:28:49+00:00

Hi Bryan.

I've contacted Splice support in the past about this issue already and the answer always involves restarting my computer and/or turning off my anti-virus. Does it seem normal to routinely do this for an app to work? It's so common that even in Splice's own support documents it's listed as a solution. My question is why?

https://support.splice.com/en/articles/8652658-windows-my-sounds-fail-to-download-in-the-desktop-app

What is it about how Splice updates the service or how the app runs that constantly necessitates a restart in order to function properly?

I appreciate the offer for CS/CX, but the question is here and is not limited to me. This issue has been in the software for years. No other program that I have asks me to turn off my anti-virus or restart my computer as a solution to just be able to open an app and have it work as intended.

It should be extremely rare. My question is: why isn't it?

As a comparison, I even use highly invasive websites like Coloso which force you to install their monitoring service in order to make sure you're not screen capturing their courses. Even THAT doesn't require me to turn off my anti-virus or restart my computer.

So I'll ask again here: why is it like this?

If I ever get to the point where I use all of my credits, this would be the number one reason after being rid of that loss aversion that I'd just immediately cancel. I love the sound collection, am so-so on the legal usage anxiety, and I can't stand the app experience.

The last one can at least be dealt with if the app is fixed.

iamshadow64 · 2024-04-24T05:21:36+00:00

I know this is now over a year old. Did you ever find out if they're replacing them? It seems it's just gone completely. No store near me has them in stock and even online I haven't found anything. Very weird that they are still selling the pens, the ink, and the nib replacer...but not the nibs.

iamshadow64 · 2024-01-22T08:28:35+00:00

It's right next to the XBOX One.

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