Jess 🌺ΘΔ&

🐭healing in FFXIV is funny because at a certain point it's like "ok if I just start blasting attacks the enemies will die before they destroy the party" and it makes some party members anxious but hey, did you die? no? ok then

🐭sometimes healing really is just "don't have to recover HP if there's no enemies" 🧠

🐭I love how you never know itch is having a sale until you get an email like we just did "hey we're having a sale, it started 2 days ago, you can put your game on sale if you want" we already had a halloween sale going on itch so I just extended it to end when theirs ends lol

🐭looking through our test nonograms and we always forget we have one that's literally just the 16th puzzle from squeakross, so I guess we're nonogram thieves too :y

🦨I think my problem with the AI-assisted picross game going around isn't even the AI, it's that it's separation of art from artist in the literal sense. this is not Picross S as presented by Jupiter, this is "puzzles stolen from Picross and repackaged" and it reduces the puzzles to "assets" (cont)

🦨and I guess I'm just disappointed in how many people were like "oh, you used AI to perform massive theft, completely separated the art from the artist, and made it super easy for me to play pirated puzzles? sure I'll like and retweet that." we gotta have a little higher standards than that

🦨I think my problem with the AI-assisted picross game going around isn't even the AI, it's that it's separation of art from artist in the literal sense. this is not Picross S as presented by Jupiter, this is "puzzles stolen from Picross and repackaged" and it reduces the puzzles to "assets" (cont)

🦨this was done "for the love of Picross" but simply extracting and repackaging puzzles from games that, need I remind you, are available for sale right now? that's just kinda disrespectful. I think the AI use and the lack of disclosure until it blew up is important too, but this is the bigger thing

🦨I think my problem with the AI-assisted picross game going around isn't even the AI, it's that it's separation of art from artist in the literal sense. this is not Picross S as presented by Jupiter, this is "puzzles stolen from Picross and repackaged" and it reduces the puzzles to "assets" (cont)

🪐new rule: everyone who tells us "why don't you just use Godot?" has to give us money. give us $5000 US and we'll make blobun in godot

🪐(not like a full remake of regular blobun, I mean something like blobun mini or something but with more graphics)

🐿️I don't know, I just think there's a value and appreciation that goes into something someone sits down and works on for many moons just to make it just right, you know? a labor of love is worth way more than a product someone prompted in 2 minutes

🐿️it's just a capitalist consumerism thing to be like "here is the product, consume it" your slop gives me the same emotion as a microwave pizza. yea it does the job but it's nothing compared to one from a real pizzeria

🐿️I just remembered the dream I had, in which we got a warning we may be banned on bluesky for posting fanart of renamon (the pokemon) but that we were temporarily suspended because the admin needed to check our other uploads but was "feeling too lazy at the time" so they were gonna come back later

🐿️I have recreated the email I got in my dream

🐿️current mood

🐿️found a bug with the gamemaker runtime but I'm not gonna report it since they never fix em (and this is the legacy runtime anyways.) since they're going source available soon the expected solution will probably just be "fix it yourself." at that point we might as well just be using godot lmao

🦊after several months of development and wishing we had the feature, one of us (me) finally remembered to implement an "I win" function that just solves the nonogram instantly and we don't have to sit there and just do it ourselves lmao

🦌I've been trying to post a video about the new UI for gameplay and fox support in fox stamps but I guess bluesky staff cuck-coded uploading videos out, so you'll have to go on mastodon to check it out (or just wait for v0.4.0 to release) chitter.xyz/@roxy/117493...

🦌it's so sad all the soul has been sucked out of the retro scene by cuck-coded recomps and romhacks when it already had all the soul sucked out by retroarch. guys out here making it as miserable as possible to play super mario bros 3