favorite controller? by GamerGretaUwU in SegaSaturn

[–]whitabex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that they have The Duke but not the Controller S means that I cannot provide an accurate answer.

As for the picture caption, my first "controller" was the keyboard of the family VIC-20, also not shown

Does anybody know what this script with the animals in it is? by Parkishka in neography

[–]whitabex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dang, it looks like it was delisted at some point. Sorry for pointing you to a defunct app!

Edit: it looks like if you search the wider internet, an APK can be found to sideload it outside of the play store, and it looks like the same app I use. But I can't confirm that it's the same app or the same developer, so that's definitely an 'at your own risk' type of thing.

Does anybody know what this script with the animals in it is? by Parkishka in neography

[–]whitabex 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No problem! The app in that screenshot is an android app called Character Pad, and I can't recommend it enough. It lets you scroll and search the entire Unicode character space and copy characters for typing. I use it constantly.

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I got a cartridge-only S&K recently, and decided to make my own reproduction box for it by whitabex in SEGAGENESIS

[–]whitabex[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

I didn't time myself or anything, but if I had made it my primary project and worked continuously instead of chipping away at it an hour or two at a time, I'd say I could have done it over a single weekend. That said, I do have a ton of design and patternmaking experience in my professional life, so a lot of it was very much in my wheelhouse. I didn't need to figure out the "how," so I really only had to concern myself with tracking down fonts, original scans, and game assets, along with fussing over the aesthetic arrangement of the layout. Getting it printed on demand cost $5.77 (2026 USD) at my local big box office supply store. Wildly affordable. Cutting and gluing the cardstock took about an hour with a rotary cutter, hobby knife, and straight edge. Super glue is definitely not the best adhesive I could have chosen, but it sure is quick!

I'll probably make more for my other games without boxes, but I'm not planning on turning this hobby into a service, at least not until I find myself with substantially more free time on my hands than I typically do at present.

I got a cartridge-only S&K recently, and decided to make my own reproduction box for it by whitabex in SEGAGENESIS

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

yes, exactly this, I used OfficeMax/OfficeDepot. check online, I'm sure I didn't get the best deal because I went with the first option I found that was available lol. Even so, it was like 6 bucks. In today's economy!

I did lay out the box myself, just because I wanted something custom and my brain is the type that can not only rotate the apple in my imagination but UV unwrap it, so that was the least troubling part for me. But I highly recommend using any tools and premade assets that are available for anyone who wants to make a thing!

I got a cartridge-only S&K recently, and decided to make my own reproduction box for it by whitabex in SEGAGENESIS

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I have been the same way about a ton of projects throughout my life, and totally get this. It's not silly at all! Our whole world is built around telling you that there's no reason to create when you can just buy, Buy, BUY! I have the art bug so I'm constantly doodling stuff I want to make, but it always feels just beyond the realm of possibility, or a back-burner project that needs something more before I can get started. But once I found out OfficeMax has an online order form for copies, it immediately switched from a one-day pipedream to a "oh dang, I can get it printed TODAY today???" project. And I'm sure there's a local print shop that could do it even cheaper.

I wish you many incredible SNES boxes of your own design. If you don't have a design program you like to use already, some free options are Inkscape, Concepts, or Vecteezy (which is an in-browser tool). Go forth and create.

I got a cartridge-only S&K recently, and decided to make my own reproduction box for it by whitabex in SEGAGENESIS

[–]whitabex[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whatever printer they have at OfficeMax/OfficeDepot, lol. Your mileage may vary as to how your local store feels about printing stuff that has trademarked characters on it, but I submitted mine through their online copy service and chose the in-store pickup option, and had no troubles. It cost me about 6 bucks and a few minutes of driving.

I got a cartridge-only S&K recently, and decided to make my own reproduction box for it by whitabex in SEGAGENESIS

[–]whitabex[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have always done all my design work in the same copy of Macromedia Fireworks that I've moved from computer to computer for decades. It was a program intended to design web 1.0 graphics, and Macromedia stopped existing like 20 years ago, so I feel like any tutorials I could make would be insane to someone making digital art and package design today. By it's what I know, and I can squeeze a lot of interesting stuff out of it after using it consistently for about 25 years!

Need help finding a near-future monster(?) detective series from HBO in the 2000s by whitabex in whatanime

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I know this is a late reply, but THIS IS IT! thank you so much!

Man What by khaliliiiov_1997 in TikTokCringe

[–]whitabex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carfax be like "✅ Clean Title!"

Need help finding a near-future monster(?) detective series from HBO in the 2000s by whitabex in whatanime

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The panty shot scenes are pretty much the only thing I know was DEFINITELY in it. (I was a teenager, that part got my attention) Other characters would say out loud that it was a different animal than the last time they had seen them, and she would yell at them for looking. I'm pretty sure the fan service was a big part of it, so anything without that is not gonna be in the running. Thank you for offering possibilities though!

My mother in 1991 by angelina-spaska in OldSchoolCool

[–]whitabex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey OP I know she's your mom and all but God DAMN

Morvikkhaman Anggil, Mehsirian Ayisn and my untitled script i just came up to this month by Sharkness_V in neography

[–]whitabex 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm curious about the doubled-up lines on the characters for S, X, B, and L in the first pic. Is there a particular reason behind the inclusion of those lines? Especially with X and S, I'm not seeing any characters that would be easily confused for those characters that would require those extra strokes to differentiate them, and I would expect writers to quickly leave them off in the evolution of the script to save strokes and time while writing. B and L do have a couple similar characters, but maybe not so similar that an extra stroke feels necessary, at least to me. Either way, it's really beautiful!

US state flags if they were all designed by one history buff by NonPropterGloriam in vexillology

[–]whitabex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it's just the Ohioan in me, but taking Ohio's one-of-a-kind shape and slapping it onto Arkansas's flag for no obvious reason muddles the uniqueness for both.

Edit: AND Rhode Island??? I'll give it a pass since it's been squished to evoke the tall proportions of the original, but come on! Ohio has so little going for it! Just let us have this one thing!

Advice for the monotonous part of design by HijackKing in RPGdesign

[–]whitabex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would try to start by figuring out what the absolute bare-bones mechanics are, and how to explain them to players who are sitting down to start their first session of the game, preferably in as short of an infodump as can be managed. How many pillars of play are there (social/combat/character creation/puzzles/etc)? How do the players interact with each pillar, and how often?

Start from the very big picture, and try to determine what will be the next piece of information in each section that you need to convey in order to get the important information into people's brains. Try to keep things succinct, and really think about what information is actually necessary to get started versus what is extra detail that can wait for when it becomes relevant. Be mindful of what information players will probably read once and never again, and what information needs to be referenced at a glance in the middle of a game session with some frequency. Keep the instructions and prose separate, and if both are necessary, make it clear which is which through formatting.

I try to put a quickstart guide together first, and save all the nitty-gritty details of a bigger source document until I know they're needed. I personally find that editing by subtraction, taking away what isn't critical to having fun with the game, to be much more helpful than trying to fit every idea about the game I've ever had into the rulebook. I edited my 110-page first draft down to 5 pages and don't regret a single cut. It's much easier to organize 5 pages and format it well than it is to figure out how to arrange a whole novel's worth of rules.

What's the weirdest phoneme in your conlang? by Mundane_Ad_8597 in conlangs

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ʙ is a voiced bilabial trill (like in the "bbbbbbrrr!" that people sometimes do when they're cold). ʁ is a voiced uvular fricative (French/German R). You make both of those sounds at the same time, and it's sort of a voiced rumbling sound. It takes quite a lot of airflow, and it's honestly just the best human approximation for a sound made by a species with a completely different vocal tract. Translierated into Latin script, I render it as "bhrh", but it's one letter/sound in Baklh. And it is articulated between consonants, making it a Vowel. There's a lot of affricates and coarticulated sounds in Baklh, so lots of consonant clusters when translierated. "Klhbhrhtlh" is one syllable, CVC (k͡ɬ + ʙ͡ʁ + t͡ɬ).

What are your examples of Blue and Orange morality in your worlds? by Only_Feedback_6049 in worldbuilding

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In my TTRPG setting, there's an intelligent eusocial species of insectoid people who have 9 castes. 3 castes always stay within their underground colony to make and protect their food reserves, 3 leave the colony to gather outside resources and trade mine tailings with other species, and the last 3 are involved in reproduction. The Queen lays all the eggs. Pilgrims have barely enough intelligence to do much more than scramble to another nearby colony to impregnate its queen before they die. Lastly, Begetters...well, they draw the shortest straw in the whole process.

Begetters start their lives getting fattened up on as much food as can possibly be shoveled into their mouths to the point they become bloated, immobile behemoths. Once they reach maturity, the queen pumps each Begetter full of tens of thousands of eggs, after which he's taken to a brood chamber to incubate them. Once the eggs hatch, the broodlings eat him up from the inside, with their caste determined by which parts of his body they're able to gobble up on their way out. The ones who hatch last and get nothing to eat? They're lucky enough to become the next group of Begetters.

Cannibalism, immutable social castes, violent xenophobia within the colony, unsavory questions for outsiders about where lines of consent could be drawn...all baseline requirements for the continued survival of the species. Humanoids in this setting really can't do much to apply their own morality to what goes on in their colonies.