Oh man, I love me some dithering! I make pixel art, and when you make stuff like that, you often wanna keep the palette low so it looks more authentic. In order to add more detail, you gotta dither, and I had a lot of fun using it to create dirt textures the other day!
I was playing this game, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, and I was originally interested because it was an open-world game inspired by Greek mythology. Then I started playing, and the story was kinda annoying, with the narrators just telling jokes and undercutting whatever cool things the narrative was doing. The gameplay was kinda dull and repetitive. The world didn't look that great- passable, but not inspired. I didn't play for very long because it just wasn't a great introduction, and this game's expecting me to play for looooong periods of time? Nah, I'm good.
I actually loved Breath of the Wild! Up there with Wind Waker and Majora's Mask as my favorites, for the sense of exploration it provided. Even with reused assets, you could tell the dev team did everything in their power to minimize reuse while providing a fully featured game in a tight deadline.
I understand why the more linear approach started to gain favor, but one of the biggest draws to Zelda has always been its exploration. Even when the 3D games railroaded you through the plot, they gave the impression of exploration through presentation and ample side-quests. BotW's open-world is specifically tied to making player exploration feel real. Given Nintendo's approach to making game concepts, it was most likely designed that way for the gameplay experience it could provide, with little to do with how innately interesting the Zelda world is.
I would give a serious word of caution to people who use JavaScript. I know from personal experience that it can be a very powerful- and dangerous- tool. Learned and tried it first hand in my software security class to hack into fake websites for demonstration purposes; if you're not careful, and don't take proper precautions to make your site secure, you could be open to some gnarly vulnerabilities.
I've used some JS on a site I built during an internship I took, but besides that, nah, I haven't used it. What I tried was painful, though. A friend of mine that I did senior capstone with swears by JS, but acknowledged that vanilla JS is tough to work with.
Especially for browsing Neocities, but also just in general.
Hypnospace Outlaw's OST just really compliments that vibe of browsing the web, as do songs that some consider "webcore". Sometimes, I like vibing out to music as I browse.
I'm gonna have the poll close at the end of the month, and then we can see what everyone's voted. I'm curious to see people's thoughts, here!
I used Bluefish, for a time. I like dedicated IDEs. Though... I always hated that it made backup files in the same directory as the file I was editing, but never deleted them. When I get back to editing my site, I'll probably change over to something else.
Oooh, I'm gonna blatantly shill the ReOmniverse forums because I'm a sell-out for my friends! (and its the only other one I'm currently active in...)
ReOmniverse is a roleplaying forum where you can choose a character- OC or from some media from books to games- and have them go on adventures in a world with eight different biomes to explore. It's a play-by-post format, so you write forum posts just like on here with a bunch of things your character does. Anything from silly antics to serious or even edgy storylines are accepted and welcome. It's a lot of fun!
It's not too active, but I wouldn't call it dead by any means. The people there have been in the community for a while, with a couple people who're fairly new. They're trying what they can to find new members, so give it a look if you get the chance!
(If you do check it out, look for me there; I play Paige Turner!)
Right now, I'm working on defining what I want in an RPG that I'm looking to make! It's a pretty straight-forward, turn-based type. I'll see about sharing info about it when I get something meaningful done with it!
I'm also about to discuss with a group of friends to start working on another project- a 2D orthographic platformer kinda like the Mario & Luigi RPG games! We made a prototype this past Autumn, and it turned out really well, so we're gonna regroup and figure out where to go from here. ^o^
One thing I would say is that politeness is not inherently kindness. In fact, manners are often a way people can be blatantly mean. People with important topics to talk about may be discouraged from doing so because it's impolite. Attempts to be polite can backfire and just waste people's time. Frankly, some people respond poorly to manners, and it's wasted on them.
With that said, it's not great to engage in rude behavior, either. But it's important to understand kindness separate from manners. In any meaningful case of politeness, you can replace manners with a more substantial justification.
Why should we hold the door for people? Because it should make their lives easier.
Why should we compliment people? Because it makes them happy and boosts their self-confidence.
Why should we say "please" and "thank you"? Because we feel gratitude toward people.
Why should we soften our harsh statements? Because we feel our companion is most able to hear what we're trying to say without unnecessary stress or anger by doing so.
I absolutely relate to this. I really got into the internet during the late 2000s to early 2010s, so I was more into online games and forums and the like rather than creating my own website. But in hindsight, I have a definite interest in older aesthetics, and wished I could've been around for the likes of Windows 98 and earlier. It's a big part of why I love Hypnospace Outlaw so much- not just because it was accurate to the times, but because it was very convincing and had me forget I was playing a game while surfing the fictional web.
I also agree that what you said it's a crappy way to be, however I would argue that I think sometimes it is the healthier option just to "get off the internet" then to waste your time arguing with random ignorant strangers online. Maybe it's just me being pessimistic but I feel many people are losing their grip on the reality that some people are just crappy and don't change, which just leads to more pointless drama.
I completely understand this feeling. YouTube comments typically get me bummed out, especially on more controversial videos. Even if it's not someone being blatantly malicious, it's often just someone writing on a template like "Can we just stop and appreciate how [blank]". They mean well, but it gets so dry after a while... I've started limiting how much I read the comment section, and if I leave a comment, I try to only reply to the video's creator in a vacuum.
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