Elf HRT! Month -2: October
I decided to do my own little spin on @ayviedoesthings' Dragon HRT. This oughta be fun.
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Elf HRT! Month -2: October
I decided to do my own little spin on @ayviedoesthings' Dragon HRT. This oughta be fun.
First (You're here!)/Next
Also, check out other people's takes too!
Was making a Mech version of this reaction image and got severely sidetracked into making that gif.
On the bright side, this is the first time I've animated Mech's LED neon ring things doing the thing they do
Coyote HRT: Filler 2 The horrors may persist, but so shall I. And so shall these carts, ziptied to this asshats truck. Major thanks to AyvieArt and Lakehounds for the inspiration
I follow this lady on instagram who rescues cats, and i have been thinking about this video for literal months. behold the transformation of this wretched little beast
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I want to play a game with you all.
You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.
Dirt
Dart
Dark
bark
Lark
Lure
Sure
Surf
Serf
Self
Seld
Meld
Mold
Mole
Hole
Bole
Bolt
Boat
Boar
Soar
Soap
Soup
Soul
Sour
Soul
Foul
Fowl
Bowl
Bawl
Jail
Hail
Hair
Heir
Hear
Heat
Head
Lead
Mead
Dear
Fear
Gear
Tear
Teal
Tell
Sell
Bell
Belt
Telt
Tilt
Wilt
Will
Bill
8 444 555 555
mill
Mall
ball
y’all
yale
hale
Male.
Tale
talk
task
dusk
dust
musk
mask
Mass.
Lass
Loss
:.|:;
most
Mast
fast
case
Base
Vase
Vast
Fast
Fact
Pact
Tact
patiently waiting
I'm being dragged in the group chat bc I accidentally wore two different pairs of shoes to the theater. I wasn't even in a hurry, I have no fucking excuse for not noticing this
I totally forgot about this oh my god
Other than this announcement, the collab posts will go up 2 weeks after they go up on Webtoons Also uh, if you haven't, please read The Prettiest Platypus on Webtoons! I'll even give you a link >>CLICK HERE TO READ AN AMAZING COMIC THAT TOTALLY WON'T MAKE YOU CRY<<
THERE I AM, GARY
WOAG, it IS you! that's so cool Thank you for helpin so I could draw a cute mini youuu <3
Other than this announcement, the collab posts will go up 2 weeks after they go up on Webtoons Also uh, if you haven't, please read The Prettiest Platypus on Webtoons! I'll even give you a link >>CLICK HERE TO READ AN AMAZING COMIC THAT TOTALLY WON'T MAKE YOU CRY<<
THERE I AM, GARY
“I went to school for game design! I am highly qualified to talk about any game out there!”
I bet you don’t even know how big an 8 year old’s hands are.
You cannot meaningfully understand a great deal of Nintendo’s game development decisions without understanding how a child holds and uses a modern game controller. People love to critique game companies like Nintendo, especially core gamers and educated developers, as if they are some authority on game design but in twenty years I have never seen this type of individual talk about how Nintendo’s game design is constrained by the size of a child’s hands.
So…how big are they?
Big enough to use a dpad on the playstation controller but not large enough to use the analog stick comfortably. The opposite is true on the xbox controller. The shape of the joycon is designed for easy access for small hands for both.
Still, the kid’s thumb will have difficulty reaching both so rapid switches are not possible. On the left hand of the switch the stick is above and the dpad below, and the opposite is true on the right. This is a direct consequence of how a kid might use the controller. In most games the left hand controls movement - meaning an analog stick - and the right hand controls discreet inputs - meaning the dpad/button diamond.
Children’s also struggle to reach shoulder buttons and have lower grip width, so the natural gamer grip in which two fingers are resting on the shoulder buttons does not work at all for children. They usually have to use all four fingers to hold up a heavy device. The shoulder buttons go from being the most easily accessed buttons on the controller to the most difficult.
A child’s grip strength is lower, and thus so is their ability to hold a heavy controller comfortably, especially one not designed for their hand size. A single joycon in sideways mode, often used in child’s party games on the switch, is a far better controller size for a child while it is uncomfortably cramped for an adult.
It is not a coincidence that the Switch, which is marketed as a family console, comes prepacked with the controllers that are kid friendly and adult friendly controllers are a secondary purchase.
There are more things you can point out, but in a practical sense you can see these design principles applied by comparing something like Kirby vs Metroid Dread.
Kirby is almost entirely controlled through the face buttons, with only the rarely used defense button mapped to the shoulder buttons, and you can really get by with never using it. The triggers are not used at all. You rarely have to combination press anything. If my memory is correct, the shoulder buttons are never used for any temporary transformation abilities. The difficulty of using new abilities should not be compounded by hard to reach buttons.
Dread on the other hand uses combination presses a lot and ties three critical abilities (free aim, missile use, and sliding) to the shoulder buttons. The omega cannon, a rarely used but critical and time sensitive ability, is tied to the shoulder buttons for the easiest and most intuitive possible use. The stress of defeating an emmi should not be compounded by fumbling with controls.
Smash Bros in particular is pretty cool in how its control scheme is set up. The most basic functions that a child might use are very simply mapped to the single stick and face buttons. As you learn to play better and try more advanced techniques (like an adult might) like timed grabs, dodging, and shield use you move away from the face buttons, incorporating more and more use of the shoulder buttons. It splits the difference for the best of both worlds. You can trace the principles of this design all the way back to the N64 and I would not be surprised to learn that the in game mechanics were built specifically to compliment this novice to expert transitional design, which is what makes smash bros so friendly to novice and expert gamers alike.
HE'S DONE IT AGAIN ! HE MADE ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE FOOD IN THE WORLD INTO CHOCOLATE !!!
gamestore tgirl is so holy. gamestore tgirl is the proof that we can be happy just as we are. gamestore tgirl does not forgo her boyish interests for boring ones we are expected to enjoy to Affirm our Womanhood. gamestore tgirl does not cast her tyrannid army away for makeup tutorials watched in bed from a stickerless macbook. gamestore tgirl does not abandon her old friends, as long as they treat her right and bring extra dice. gamestore tgirl forgives their transgressions, the ways in which they are bad, the ways in which she is bad too. gamestore tgirl is a beacon of hope. gamestore tgirl blazes ways for more of us simply by existing in a space of enjoyment. gamestore tgirl i love you forever. gamestore tgirl i owe you my life.
this post is dedicated to the gamestore tgirl i saw at the mtg war of the spark pre release in 2019. i cant remember what you looked like but i know you were beautiful. gorgeous tranny voice that i heard across the room. when i saw you my vision went tunnelled and i had just such a beautiful moment of realization. this was in my "wearing my gfs panties every day but still cis tho" era and seeing you come in, be greeted by a crowd of friends who knew your name and were excited by your presence, gave me so much hope. hope that i too could be happy and trans. that i too could be someones gamestore tgirl. the next morning i bought my first girl clothes that were really mine. i wish i caught your name. i hope you're well forever.
Man, I love glitch Pokemon
Precious gibberish children
Another notable glitch Pokemon is named
She (?) looks like this
and, at 80 feet and 3 inches, is tied with another glitch Pokemon for tallest of all Pokemon.
When encountered, she begins to play an endless glitchy song, which continues until the player resets the game (you can hear it here, but don’t listen with headphones because it includes high-pitched noises)
I’m glad there is a lesbian pokemon glitch who only wants to sing to us forever
If you read this, please take a moment to appreciate the fact that breaking this game in a very specific manner causes you to encounter an 80-foot spire of crimson light that draws you into a pocket of frozen time and surrounds you with eerie music for eternity
Singing lesbian glitch
Next level missingno. I love this. She’s beautiful.
the last link is broken, here’s the song/messed up cry
Most recent upd8 theory:
too much crimbus too soon plz give like 2 weeks
Sometimes, a bitch needs some christmas cheer. especially on years like this one.
fair, mostly just tired of the music, work in a restaurant that's already playing crisma musid
that's so reasonable. you are god's strongest soldier o7. stay strong, hon
Possibly the most horrifying thing that has ever happened to me occurred today. So I’m in a creative writing class at university right now and we had to print out twenty-five copies of our first, one page assignment to distribute to the class. I had to print mine at the computer lab as I don’t have a printer, but here are the three crucial facts that made this the worst mistake of my life.
1. Sometimes, when you log into Google on Chrome, it activates all of your extensions, even ones you’ve deactivated.
2. In high school, my friends and I got really into Ponify (a words replacing chrome extension) and switched the preferences so we could read political articles and have congress get into a “rousing snow ball fight” and the like.
3. Ponify reverted to its original My Little Pony lingo when opened on a new computer’s chrome.
So when I distributed my twenty-five copies of this I noticed the word “everypony”, my heart seized up and dropped into my stomach, and with my imminent death approaching, I began furiously correcting all twenty-five of them. My teacher, confusedly, agreed to let me correct them as I was too infuriated and ashamed to say my mistake aloud.
I just realized, however, that the line “as she watched the binding fall away in her hand” was changed to “as she watched the binding fall away in her hoof”.
And I just had to send this email:
And basically I’m ready for death how was your day
Nobody asked me to bring this back. I’m bringing it back anyways.
Nobody asked me
to bring this back. I’m bringing
it back anyways.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.