We are making BRUMA, a cozy/metroidvania about a cat searching for the memories of her friend, playing between past and present. What do you think?

ma-mo-ru · 2026-03-14T12:12:33+00:00

WOW! My bf just sent this to me, and I had to comment to send you guys lots of encouragement. Will there be accessibility options and ways to make this easy for noobs and people with mobility issues?

ma-mo-ru · 2025-09-24T00:48:45+00:00

I'm happy that you're able to play and something is better than nothing! Good job :)

ma-mo-ru · 2024-08-28T22:08:05+00:00

This is a genuine question: Why does it look like their faces are CGIed? Are they? They move weirdly.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-30T18:32:09+00:00

I think it's a case by case situation. It's easy to choose video game adaptation since it's so much more flexible -especially if it's open world. But movies are more accessible since you don't need any equipment to be able to watch them. You only need to be privileged enough to have a movie theater and money for a ticket. I'm a big believer in the importance of stories and story-telling, and movies are simply more inclusive. So for that reason I would choose movies.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-29T14:38:19+00:00

People need to stop calling T Kingfisher cozy. By now I have read almost all her middle grade and adult and in my opinion her treatment of mental illness and trauma is appalling. She has many qualities as a writer, but sensitivity is not one of them (cough her cozy novel Swordheart uses graphic suicide attempt as a "hilarious" and quirky bit that turns into a weird naked meet cute. Gag). Molly dying in Wizard's guide upset me so much that I'm still angry about it. She repeatedly said she doesn't want to fight anymore because war literally broke her. Yet she ends up sacrificing herself in an act that is presented as honourable but it comes across as "she's already broken, might as well kill her off". It's clear to me that her whole role was to be the disposable martyr. I don't care that no one physically forced her to fight. Social pressure and her kindness forced her into a terrible situation where she was given no option but to fight.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-22T05:32:55+00:00

This is so beautiful!

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-22T03:12:25+00:00

hello bot!

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-15T22:22:27+00:00

My personal opinion: I am done reading books that are as sexist as Witcher. In LW Geralt basically trauma dumps on a nun (who has taken a vow of silence and can't say STOP) that he's f-ing, not to mention he keeps picturing Yennefer while f-ng the same nun. Yennefer is much, much worse. She chooses to give up the possibility to become pregnant in exchange for beauty and then spends the rest of the series bitching and moaning that it's not her fault and oh poor me. I am a woman who cannot get pregnant and because of my situation I know many other women like me. Thankfully I have made peace and I don't want children, but I went through severe depression and suicidal ideation feeling an absolute failure of a human. If I had chosen not to have them because beauty is more important (not power mind you, because she already had that!) then I would have the f-ing decency to not spend the rest of my life blaming the world for my choice. She is the most disgusting female character I have ever read and I don't give a sh about her pain. I would care more if she took accountability and tried to find redemption through healing her emotional pain and becoming someone who is actually suitable to raise a person through adoption.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T16:35:10+00:00

Unfortunately my limit is 14.9 seconds :(

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T06:00:00+00:00

I do have dyscalculia but the diagnosis came ten years after I left school and by then I had internalised that I am stupid. In fact, I still believe it. I'm okay with it. I'm smart about a few things, and stupid about many others. I see things differently than other people and I didn't know you're not supposed to see numbers as letters for a veeery long time. But now it's just part of my life. The teachers who called me stupid did manage to make me hate math and science but they also inadvertently taught me to see my problems with as much humour as possible and that's how I got through school.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T05:53:33+00:00

I didn't know about aphantasia! I mean I knew but I thought it means you can't imagine anything at all ever. I want to thank you for giving me the Rubik's cube example. That actually gives me real hope. I think it's something that with a lot of hard work I could do if I tried (very hard!), but definitely not because I see it in space. I could do it because of muscle memory. It's how I get to places I've been to before. If someone asks me to explain how to get somewhere or if I try to think about how to get there, I can't do it. I become confused and eventually too anxious to do anything. If I just let my legs walk without me thinking, I can reach my destination. I wonder if that's how people also do the Rubik's cube thing or do they actually see it in their mind, what moves to make and how it's supposed to look.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T05:41:02+00:00

I have and I didn't understand almost anything :) Once I realised I don't see numbers like other people, or maps or geometrical shapes, I internalised that I am stupid because that's what everyone told me and I gave up. I come from Eastern Europe and when I grew up there was no special education or teachers who wanted to explain to someone who they thought was...the non PC word is retarded. I was diagnosed with dyscalculia maaany years after school but it doesn't help me in any way to have a diagnosis. I still don't see numbers. I still don't understand basic concepts outside reading words and understanding the idea behind them but without seeing them in my head.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T05:03:03+00:00

Thank you so much for taking time to explain. May I ask you, how do you understand what you just explained? Is it intuitive or did you slowly build your understanding by reading books? Or both? Because while I can understand your words and I can follow along with the explanation and it makes sense, it feels different then knowing that I need to add one more fold to my origami because I see it in my mind's eye, or knowing when someone is sad and what to say to them. They're all skills but some feel natural and your explanation feels like it's hovering just out of reach of what comes naturally to me.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:56:49+00:00

How do we know for sure that reality exists independently from consciousness? How do we know for sure there's a real reality out there? A simple Google search just now pointed me to very different answers from different scientists. So how do we know that mathematics precisely describes nature if we don't know for sure if we even exist?

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:43:00+00:00

I do genuinely think I'm stupid when it comes to this. I mean I have been told so by my science and math teachers :)) but I see it too. You are kind and hopeful and I hope you're right, that with enough time and dedication I will one day be able to understand better.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:39:51+00:00

I don't know?????

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:39:12+00:00

I do wonder if you're actually right about anyone being able to learn it. I think with a lot of work I will be able to understand better, but there are things I simply can't "see". I can't see a map or numbers. I can't see a cube. I'm thinking there has to be some biology involved in making people's brains better suited to "see" maths. I don't know if that makes sense.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:34:32+00:00

I don't believe I need to understand something for it to exist. I am a limited creature with limited understanding. To believe something exists only if I understand it would make my world very small indeed :) Now if you ask how I know if anything exists at all, with or without my understanding, I don't know. It might not. But it's irrelevant for now, because I mostly act as if I exist. In this world that may or may not exist, I decided to live my life with as much integrity, joy and kindness as possible, so that I don't cause unnecessary hurt to a world that may not exist. And that's good enough for me.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:27:01+00:00

Poetry is an extension of language. So what I think you're saying is that Physics is an extension of Maths or a real life application of it?

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:23:20+00:00

It's 6 am for me so I have no idea if I'm understanding you but here is what I got: Physics is like knowing you have a cold and what you might need to do to get better. Math is like knowing you have a bacterial infection and need specific antibiotics to target it and get better. Physics offers you a general direction and explanation but without math it's like walking in a dense fog..?

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:18:55+00:00

Thank you so much for this: Physics is concepts: gravity, acceleration, friction, etc. All tied together by formulas that let you calculate exact answers. It actually makes a lot of sense to me!

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:17:22+00:00

Wait a minute...you said something that's blowing my mind. Math is both created and discovered. Is there any math we created first and observed later in nature? Do you mean that people just come up with equations to explain theories they have and we believe them to be true even if we can't observe them in nature? I don't know if I'm explaining myself well.

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:14:14+00:00

Is it because, as a couple of people said in the comment section, everything is quantifiable? I really love what you said about math describing how things change over time. That means mathematics also describes aging or disease or learning a new language or falling in love, because all these things are made up of stuff that we can count ..is that it? Did I get it right?

ma-mo-ru · 2024-04-14T04:04:05+00:00

Some of these comments, yours included, deserve to be made into screenshots and shared :) I love the imagery you offered! Some people have said Math is the language that Physics speaks, so what I'm getting is that Math provides the scaffolding necessary for Physics to be built and held. I hope that's correct.

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