Finally creating a pinned post of my games. I’ve included all titles I’ve been involved with in some capacity, not just ones where I’m the author; when I’m not the author, I’ll note my role in (parentheses).
This post will be updated over time to reflect changes in the status of these projects, so if you’re looking at a reblog, feel free to click through to the original and see if it differs.
Last updated: 2024-01-28
Basically, I don’t think there’s going to be an announcement that Tumblr is getting shut down. If the pattern we’re seeing holds, I don’t even think it’s going to happen intentionally. I think Tumblr is going to go out like an early 2000s forum: they’re just going to keep cutting the tech support budget until something goes wrong in a way that none of the remaining skeleton crew know how to repair, which could be tomorrow or three years from now. If it does happen, it’s probably going to happen completely at random, so there’s no point stressing out!
I think my favourite “am I the asshole” type discussions are the ones where, okay, yeah, what you claim you did sounds reasonable under the circumstances you’ve described, but those circumstances were so readily avoidable that I feel like we’re not getting the full picture without knowing how it came to that in the first place. Like, in that situation I probably would have done the same thing, but what in the goddamn
A first pass at the offsite archive for the Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2024 game jam. I'm not going to say how long it took to compile all this, save to observe that it would have occupied the better part of a week if I'd been doing it as my full time job – so you can see where doing it in my free time would take just a smidgen longer.
This still needs at least one more thorough going-over before I post and link it "officially", comparing each entry to its blog post counterpart to make sure I haven't fucked up the formatting in some subtle way, made a not-immediately-obvious copy-and-paste error, gotten the attributions wrong, or any of a dozen other potential issues. I'm kind of hoping that if I post this first-pass version early, some of this blog's sharp-eyed followers might help me out with that!
(The especially sharp-eyed may note that there is exactly one entry missing. This is intentional, as I have not received permission to archive it. If you want to change that, you know who you are!)
Speaking of porn logistics, another personal favourite bit of fuckery is when an artist draws a picture containing multiple dicks, then produces a separate alt for every possible ejaculatory configuration, like there are four dicks and sixteen alts such that there's a version where only dick A is jizzing, a version where only dick B is jizzing, a version where dicks A and B but not C are jizzing, and so forth. I'm imagining some high-class dick connoisseur with exquisitely rarefied tastes out there like "yes, I want to see this character getting jizzed on, but only by the dick on the far left – the other dicks can wait their turn".
Some day I'm going to write a spy thriller where it turns out that the conspirators are sending coded messages via those E-Hentai galleries full of endless microscopically differing jizz alts, where each image contains four dicks and each dick serves as a one-bit component of a hexadecimal encoding.
Brb gotta encode national secrets into my hentai art
Hey fun facts that are fun together :
* as a reverse engineer, I have worked on extracting these sorts of arts from hentai games.
* the game art does this sort of thing so that the story can toggle between different versions. Maybe you didn't get enough Friendship Points with Tgirl Jessica, so she's not ejaculating in this picture.
* the games are often smarter about this than the galleries: instead of storing every combination of ejaculating/not-ejaculating, they store 1 base image, then separate per-dick ejaculatory overlays. So if you've got 4 dicks, this means they have 5 images instead of all 16 possibilities. But this makes no sense in an image gallery, so you have to compose the images together. You'd think all-off and all-on are the only options you need, but some people are content maximalists. (it's possible site policies regarding quotas and stuff is encouraging this behavior).
* around the same time I was working on tools to extract images from hentai games, I also was working on tools to steganographically hide files inside images, in several ways. This was in part because I was working with 4chan at the time and helping them catch files hidden inside images, because channers were turning 4chan into an arbitrary file sharing site (is it a jpeg or a neutral milk hotel album? It's both!), using it to bypass filtering/moderation (you put an image inside an image and now you can't see the internal image unless you extract it. Maybe it breaks the rules. Breaking the rules on /b/ is very bad), or hiding viruses in there (viruses that then post themselves back to 4chan and the cycle continues!)
* This is also when I worked for the US government
So all those facts put together, I'll just say that IF it turns out secret government agents were hiding confidential information encoded into the images of hentai game ejaculations galleries, then... it was me, and I did it back in 2009.
Foone Turing, the trans Ian Fleming for the digital age.
A first pass at the offsite archive for the Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2024 game jam. I’m not going to say how long it took to compile all this, save to observe that it would have occupied the better part of a week if I’d been doing it as my full time job – so you can see where doing it in my free time would take just a smidgen longer.
This still needs at least one more thorough going-over before I post and link it “officially”, comparing each entry to its blog post counterpart to make sure I haven’t fucked up the formatting in some subtle way, made a not-immediately-obvious copy-and-paste error, gotten the attributions wrong, or any of a dozen other potential issues. I’m kind of hoping that if I post this first-pass version early, some of this blog’s sharp-eyed followers might help me out with that!
(The especially sharp-eyed may note that there is exactly one entry missing. This is intentional, as I have not received permission to archive it. If you want to change that, you know who you are!)
Artists whose sexual awakening was clearly sparked by a specific Disney movie are common enough, but I keep bumping into artists on Tumblr whose stuff looks for all the world like they're horny for Andy from Raggedy Anne (1977), which can't possibly be right because the movie isn't that well known, so what the fuck are they referencing?
Animal Crossing. No joke.
This is literally the only suggested answer in the notes that’s halfway plausible, so even if that’s not it, points for understanding the question.
The Dungeons & Dragons paladin is objectively the funniest class because at first glance it seems like an artefact of an earlier age of the fantasy genre for which contemporary inspirations are thin on the ground, but then you dig into its thematic core and realise there are contemporary popular media characters who almost perfectly fit the mould, but like 80% of them are deeply unwell teenage lesbians.
Like, oh, you’re running Oath of Devotion? So is this like an Adora Princessesofpower thing, or are you shooting more for Gideon Nav?
The Dungeons & Dragons paladin is objectively the funniest class because at first glance it seems like an artefact of an earlier age of the fantasy genre for which contemporary inspirations are thin on the ground, but then you dig into its thematic core and realise there are contemporary popular media characters who almost perfectly fit the mould, but like 80% of them are deeply unwell teenage lesbians.
Artists whose sexual awakening was clearly sparked by a specific Disney movie are common enough, but I keep bumping into artists on Tumblr whose stuff looks for all the world like they’re horny for Andy from Raggedy Anne (1977), which can’t possibly be right because the movie isn’t that well known, so what the fuck are they referencing?
I swear the Algorithm's decisions about what to try and sell me have become even less comprehensible ever since LLMs became the new hot thing. I just received two separate, apparently unconnected emails informing me there's been a price drop on helical cutter heads for DeWalt DW735 thickness planers.
Like, do I strike you as the sort of person who would just happen to own a thickness planer? Am I giving off some sort of "definitely owns a thickness planer" energy?
Instagram has been serving me nothing but industrial packaging stickers for months.
Not like "teehee my bumper sticker says forklift certified", like bulk order rolls of these bad boys
Tumblr decided I'd be the target demographic for dichloromethane???
basilisika
dull scythe, a panic engine magical girl rpg currently being chewed on between other ongoing projects by me and snow
