malymin

screenshot from sky children of the light - kossai player character sit on bottom platform of carousel, on which white and yellow bird creatures spin. kossai also hold plushie of one of these creatures.

this new seasonal area , wandering carnival , is honestly favourite recent area . and oh yes ... kossai will have this plushie . right now only one is accessible through puzzle director's little area , and can not take back into nest - will need to actually buy from carnival guide for that , and that need to be available first . as is right now , some people will chase around until drop and then steal away ...

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: fairy lullaby ~ dreamatic ensemble

kossai

jam station . just think this thing is so fun to play with , and would love to have one in nest .

plushies for nest . sadly some plushies IAP - was player during little prince but never buy fox plushie , for example , and others come and go while kossai was inactive altogether . other plushies come from star features , which as far as understand is temporary spell anyway , so can not put in nest . that just leave plushies from seasonal guides and travellers .

current plushie goals : manta and crab from remembrance guide , which cost 17 and 19 hearts . currently at 16 , but unfortunately have no one to heart trade with right now and exhaust all current quest tree hearts , so pretty much stuck there . as well , currently save up candles for carnival bird plushie - this is at top of guide tree , so will not be available until late into quest line . but if anything like little prince and aurora special outfits , will be 200 . better save up for safety net !

on bright side , usually do not have much interest in cosmetic trees from days events , so can safely farm up those candles - all event candles will convert into regular candles when event is over , which is perfect . can also buy days candles with ascended candles , so basically - with short wait time - can turn ascended candles into regular ones :P

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: funny bunnies ~ old school runescape ost

kossai

first off - did finally figure out how to make tumblr embed posts cooperate with setup . still not quite ideal personally , but for hack together , think work alright . only 2 songs in there anyway , so can be done pretty quick :P

but secondly , more proudly , learn how to cachebust ! originally have entire lists of songs and player scripts within page source code just as is , as know separate scripts would get stuck in cache . people would see entirely different versions of page that might break as those scripts change , and have no way to give everyone at once correct instructions , so feel better to just sidestep and have everything baked in .

but with sheer size of these lists , neocities editor start to lag slightly , and imagine would just get worse . so decide to hunker down and learn simple cachebust :) honestly that code is very much spaghetti still , but this at least completely get rid of editor lag ! this should also make easier to maintain other radio pages , as now only need to edit 1 master copy of player scripts .

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: tidal pool ~ book of hours ost

lb_lee

Rogan: normally I don’t dream journal here, but recently there have been a couple I want to remember.

This morning, I woke up from a dream that I remember nothing of, only that it had a singularly beautiful (and reproducible) rendition of Amazing Grace, Mac’s favorite hymn. It was instrumental, performed on fiddle and... either another violin or a viola, playing accompaniment. Unlike the classic gospel style I’m familiar with (and which Mac mostly sticks to), this was played with a swing beat, folk or bluegrass style. I’m still humming it, trying to fix it in my head like the other dream songs.

(I swear the first version of Daniel Johnston’s “Devil Town” I ever heard was placed simply on the piano with vocals. I’ve never found it, and it was the best version. Drives me crazy.)

The other dream was a few days ago. It was one of those dreams where the vessel’s lineage alters all share a body like in waking life, but the others have their own corporeal bodies. Us alters were with our dad, Sneak doing gymnastic tricks, while Dad took photos of us. Even though nothing bad was happening, I kept feeling like something was wrong, I’d stopped talking to Dad for some reason, something it was very important to remember...

And then I remembered Mac, and immediately I knew I was supposed to be with him instead. I tore myself from the Dad photography scene and instantly found myself instead in the middle of me and Mac’s wedding. It wasn’t like the real one we’d had in 2009; we wore fancy suits in blue and gray, rather than our black rented tuxes, and we were outdoors, surrounded by ladies in saris doing a riotous, silly dance of joy. But the joy in my heart and Mac’s face (fifteen years ago! His hair was so short and his face was so young!) were the same as they were then, and that was all that mattered.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/30921.html

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kossai

might as well crosspost this , if for posterity more than anything else . originally for

eggbug_club .

would love to know if any participants of compost music event have bandcamp , youtube , or soundcloud profiles , especially if upload compost music on there . as of recently kossai work on fun little radio page for website to showcase pieces of music from collection , and did indeed collect some pieces from compost . unfortunately , can not find non-archive links for these pieces or even know of non-cohost profiles in most cases , and have to wonder if look in right places . some participants in personal collection include natescape , atomd , and muteki - can compile full list later .

in theory could probably fudge web archive links into showcase setup , but would prefer not to if this is at all avoidable for various reasons - this strip away all original upload context , may be more prone to outage or error , and end user have no real way to support creator .

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: eggbug's going to a farm upstate ~ atomd - for cohost compost #6

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would love to know if any participants of compost music event have bandcamp , youtube , or soundcloud profiles , especially if upload compost music on there . as of recently kossai work on fun little radio page for website to showcase pieces of music from collection , and did indeed collect some pieces from compost . unfortunately , can not find non-archive links for these pieces or even know of non-cohost profiles in most cases , and have to wonder if look in right places . some participants in personal collection include natescape , atomd , and muteki - can compile full list later .

in theory could probably fudge web archive links into showcase setup , but would prefer not to if this is at all avoidable for various reasons - this strip away all original upload context , may be more prone to outage or error , and end user have no real way to support creator .

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: eggbug's going to a farm upstate ~ atomd - for cohost compost #6

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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

stepnix

Finally got my hands on Fellowship through a bundle after years of telling myself "i should read Fellowship." worth it!

Fellowship puts some work into codifying GM actions and pacing. This is a good thing. Right now I'm looking at how it asks the GM to have two multi-stage plans running at all times, either to seize a new source of power, or to destroy a specified community. Certain actions of the player party trigger the advancement or completion of these plots.

Fellowship doesn't demand a fully-defined world, it invites you to continue to add details during play, each player contributing information that their character is most likely to know in-character. So, when the Overlord starts every game with a plan to destroy a named community, the most likely option is that you're targeting either an important location from the players' backstories, or the literal first location they're visiting in-game.

Without directly saying so, it nudges you into putting the players' hometowns in the crosshairs. This rules.

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lb_lee

Rogan: two years ago, I got hit with a six-month period of memory work unprecedented in the ten years we’d been doing it. ( Because it involved someone good, and now he’s getting a project. )

Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/30414.html

lb_lee

(copy-pasted from

gingicat)

Covid: Speaking Out About Rubynye (1268 words) by werpiper
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work, Public Health - Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Me | Fanwork Creator(s)
Additional Tags: COVID-19, Death
Summary:

Dearly loved fandom artist and author Rubynye died of covid, at age fifty.

She was a precious friend to me, and I talked about this at a memorial held for her online six weeks after. These are my notes.

GNU Ny.

Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/29968.html

kossai

sky start to run beta tests for presence feature , which kossai have access to - yay ! usually , one instance can hold up to 8 players , and there is no way for people to interact between instances , or even know of existence .

first upgrade there was aurora concert technology in 2022 , which since then see use in other areas like last city from season of two embers , and season of duets concert hall . concert technology change that instance interaction in simplistic way - still split between 8 player instances , but able to see players of every other instance as simple birdie forms . if really want , could then use teleport button to switch into another instance , so long as space available . this was really fun for original concert run , and still think very sweet there , as well as these more recent uses .

presence beta is step up from even that , as other player characters now have slightly more defined forms , complete with height differences - plus , while these models have very limited animations , can still see players' interactions and expressions with each other based on popups above heads . this is all really , really cool !

... just hope that this is not something that will become forever default . want to be able to choose to opt in and out of presence , in any place at any time , because still really love that quiet , personal feeling of sky from 5 years ago . as cool as stuff like concert hall is , some of best memories come from players who just sit down and perform for audience of 1 or 2 others .

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: ingame music from wandering carnival

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Posted by Adam Rowe

https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/odds-and-ends-6/

Star Trek historian extraordinaire Jörg Hillebrand has written a fascinating thread on Blue Sky, about the "Denebian slime devil."

The alien beast was made up for a throw-away insult in the classic "Trouble With Tribbles" episode, before getting a few different representations in manuals and guidebooks over the decades and eventually working its way back to the canon of the show.

I think it's so fun how franchises can evolve like this over time, when people care enough to track and expand on tiny details.

Also, there's a sci-fi artist connection: None other than Don Ivan Punchatz himself did this beautiful 1989 illustration for The Worlds of the Federation, by Lora Johnson.

Speaking of science fiction art history tidbits, here's an interesting question posed on Tumblr by firagasoap, who writes "I can’t help but wonder, was the artist for Dodonpachi inspired by [this] image by the sci fi artist Tony Roberts."

Dodonpachi appears to be a 1997 video game, but I don't have any further info about this possible connection.

Here's a roundup of articles and projects that all center around Lego control panel bricks.

A while back I posted a small, blurry version of the stunning 1978 Don Davis cover for Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence on Tumblr, and asked if anyone had a better scan. (I said the same in this post for my blog here.)

Five months later, art blogger le-tas-d-art sent me one! Another piece of art history preserved: This is easily the best scan of this image available online.

Well, technically, this is the largest version. It's 8000 pixels wide, so I'm just linking to the Google Drive copy here, if anyone's looking for a new desktop background.

Check out these three artworks on the same theme, by Hiroo Isono. I've posted the third one several times already on this blog, but this is the first time I've seen the other two. They're all in wildly different sizes, since Isono's work can be hard to find.

Thanks to the jca-archive tumblr for the third scan - the others are from this insta and this company.

The only downside to making my huge blog post of Robert Tinney's lesser-known art? I'm bound to keep discovering more and more of his artwork long after hitting publish. Here's one I stumbled across on Tumblr.

I found two more pieces posted or referenced in the comments section of this obituary.

One commenter was a technical editor at Wayne Green Books and Kilobaud magazine in the '80s, and comissioned Tinney for this cover. (Also if you're reading this, I'd love a full scan of the image!)

Next, Tinney's cover painting for Circuit Cellar, Issue 29, on “Measurement and Control.”

He has more covers for that publication – read this dishy article about the magazine's orgins for more on how it borrowed far more talent from Byte than just Tinney.

I'll have to look up his other Circuit Cellar cover at some point. I also need to decide if I want to update my Tinney post or just start planning a sequel...

Does anyone know how to get in touch with NASA artist Pamela Lee?? She did this interview a few years back, and I've exchanged a few emails in the past with the documentarian behind it, but I can't seem to get through to him now.

If you know anyone who knows anyone who might know her, get in touch! Also, check out the interview.

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Since I'm sharing YouTube links, here's a cool video essay exploring all the different iterations of classic sci-fi story The Thing, including a 2002 video game I didn't know existed.

Watch on YouTube

Retro book blogger Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, & Creased has this gallery of Virgil Finlay's color covers, including this September 1952 Weird Tales cover and “The Spot of Life,” his February 1941 cover to Famous Fantastic Mysteries.

Cool Links:

The Blade (1995): The Edges of Wuxia

New video essay from Every Frame a Painting, the world's best video essayists.

You've Never Seen the Best Adaptation of Dune - Pop Cultural Precursors

A summary of cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's never-completed 1970s Dune adaptation, featuring art from a lot of the iconic 70s sci-fi artists who worked on it.

Music rec: The "evil gay scientist" playlist

Next Time: Masks

https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/odds-and-ends-6/

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lb_lee

Rogan: we rewatched Glass Onion with our roomies, because I felt a need to read about an idiot tech billionaire getting his royal comeuppance, for SOME REASON.

( a post about a specific kind of stupid, full of spoilers because we assume you’ve seen it already )

Current Mood: thoughtful
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/29699.html

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Kana Manga is here this time, bringing a manga mini collection!

This bundle includes:

Eden of Witches, volumes 1 thru 6

Leviathan, volumes 1 thru 3

Manhole, volumes 1 thru 3

You can get the entire bundle of manga in PDF form for only $18 USD. Unlike most other Humble Manga Bundles, this one is only available as the full set, so you cannot, for example, buy the first volume of each series for $1 USD.

This bundle supports Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which has helped bookstore and comic book store employees and owners who encounter unexpected financial crises. The Binc Foundation works to keep book people in their homes, in their jobs, and with their families – stabilizing the brick and mortar bookstore community. With some bundles, you can pick which charity you want your donation to go to, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this one. If you scroll down on the right hand side of the Humble Bundle page, you can also find an area where you can adjust how much of your purchase goes to which organization (the charity, the publisher, and Humble Bundle, respectively), with a minimum mandatory amount to Humble Bundle as the host.

This bundle is available for the next 16 days.

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We have seen grebes many times but very often they are solo or there may be two. It was unusual to see a group swimming together, which this one did for some time.

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I'd heard that Studio Pierrot was doing a new magical idol anime for the first time in almost twenty years, and then forgot to follow up on it, and then saw that it's on youtube in English now. get hype. It's making some very clear callbacks to Creamy Mami, but the music design honestly reminds me of more modern American cartoons. bee and puppycat. idk. Real interested to see where this goes.

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