Vi / violetofthevoid

Vi / violetofthevoid

@vinylwreckers.com

⭐Creator of Mindshift⭐ ⭐25⭐ ⭐homebrew game dev for the gameboy color⭐ ⭐conlang maker and linguistics enthusiast⭐ ⭐bisexual and bigender trans woman⭐ ⭐she/her⭐

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making the very hard decision to not release mindshift until I am situated in my schooling at the very least. as a result mindshift's steam page will remain dormant for a while. sorry.

it was nothing too threatening it was just reminding me about the early application scholarship and the problem there is that I am not close to being done. the drawings are still a jumbled mess, the conlang video is not done being edited, and the required drawing from life still has yet to be done

progress: the [store] in The Big City has reached out to me about transferring. this may be a real thing!!!!!! I may be able to be a functioning adult in The Big City. I am screaming with joy. :)

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Replying to @katrafiy.bsky.social

I dont want to hear shit about how trans people need to accept "reasonable compromises" puberty blockers instead of hrt for minors *was* the compromise 2 years hrt and hormone testing requirements for trans women athletes *was* the compromise taking more of our rights away is not "reasonable"

I don't find myself getting offended by a lot of stuff that isn't outright hateful but I will say: the argument that disabled people need AI to make art is (as a disabled person) very fucking offensive to me.

There are days where holding a pencil and drawing or writing is legit a challenge. I still draw. I still write. I don't need AI to do it for me bc that is a fucking insult to the craft and frankly myself.

and I've thought about what would happen should I go blind (a legit concern as my vision is steadily declining and I am not even 30 yet) and I think I'd probably still find ways to create. disability is not an excuse to use the plagiarism machine.

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the demo for this is now available on my Patreon! if you wanna give it a try ASAP, see its work-in-progress landing page on itch, all that jazz..? go support me over there! dooo iiit~~ www.patreon.com/astoryinpieces

astoryinpieces@astoryinpieces.bsky.social

as promised, here's the #screenshotsaturday peek at my next full #GameBoy game made in #GBStudio! no title as-yet, but it's been a lot of fun to design for (and a real bear to work on!)~ dice combat? tower.. crawling..?? mysterious entities from realms beyond?!? all that will be here and more~ 🎲✨

I am against pre-funding entirely from the perspective of someone making the thing. I am not against artists getting paid, I am against this sense of entitlement a lot of people have towards something the moment money is involved.

the best decision I ever made was to not take any money to create mindshift bc even if whoever gave said money was fine with any delays, there's a subset of the internet that feels like they are allowed to get angry on the behalf of other people in that regard.

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Repost if $30k would change your life right now

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

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a cool thing about indie animation is that it's expected to save the entire industry, every show has to look better than the things the fans grew up on or it's a waste of time, there's no union to be found anywhere, no budget for any of it, and asking the audience to pay anything to watch is illegal

really stretching the definition of what I consider "art" like I am planning on making a little conlang showcase that is entirely for the viewing of the art school.

making the very hard decision to not release mindshift until I am situated in my schooling at the very least. as a result mindshift's steam page will remain dormant for a while. sorry.

okay. I am getting mixed messages from the art school. first they listed upload limits on the main page of their website with very, VERY small size limits now they are saying they support media files as big as 5GB??????? what's happening?

I searched up WinCo locations before posting this here bc oh boy am I paranoid about internet people knowing where I live.

Vi / violetofthevoid@vinylwreckers.com

scratch that: Winco is the oddball here in that they actually don't like you bringing in your own bag and the bags they give you at checkout are so durable they may as well be reusable. also some specialty art gallery shops do give you a little paper gift bag to put your stuff in.

Recycling and industrial composting is not really a thing in my part of the country and it was a shock to live somewhere where suddenly you had to separate your recyclables from general waste and that you had to own at least one reusable bag bc nowhere in the city really gives you a free grocery bag

scratch that: Winco is the oddball here in that they actually don't like you bringing in your own bag and the bags they give you at checkout are so durable they may as well be reusable. also some specialty art gallery shops do give you a little paper gift bag to put your stuff in.

I'm happy. if I can keep up the savings rate I have been doing (a hard task, but not impossible) I should be on track to have a sizeable chunk of money I can use to start my life in The Big City.

why hard code that? because gbstudio doesn't let you use variables in text boxes beyond the first 100 or so.

Vi / violetofthevoid@vinylwreckers.com

for example: I (in an act of arrogance) thought hard coding all the item amounts the sprite for the text would help me but now that means I have to account for 288 sprite checks because I apparently fucking hate myself.

like, here's the thing with Revision B: each time I find something new I have to do it never is just one thing but rather 9 million little things in a trench coat.

for example: I (in an act of arrogance) thought hard coding all the item amounts the sprite for the text would help me but now that means I have to account for 288 sprite checks because I apparently fucking hate myself.

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YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

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You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

IGN@ign.com

GTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.

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hiya, i'll be showing up in this tomorrow =w= not for all of it/immediately but happy to support a good cause

Sarah 💜@vyletbunni.com

The No Frogs Spite-Stream is tomorrow at 2PM CT!!! Me and a few friends are gonna be playing some fun games (sort of freely floating through them, it's a surprise!), and we have a few incentives in place for certain milestones. Our goal is to raise $3,000 for RAINN! Hope to see you there!