Calling it now:

Dess is the Knight, she is calling out to Kris for help to save herself and Noelle.

Ralsei is Kris’s toy horns, but Asriel did magic on them well before the game started.

Kris is a zombie. They died before the game started due to a “harmless” prank gone wrong.

Asriel and Dess worked together to use magic to bring them back “to life”. In the process, Dess was trapped in the darkness inside of Kris.

Our intrusion as a “soul” is also due to occult practices in-world.

Kris is their own person with their own interests and wishes, but they are seldom free to express it through any means other than being the narrator. Most of their energy is spent through the night with [The Knight’s] activity, and most of their energy during the evening is spent through [The Soul]’s activity.

Kris is tired of being in this in-between alive state. They want the freedom to make their own choices without being suppressed by others. And while their reaction to Spamton suggests their fear of the other option for freedom, they are probably not as negative on that potential outcome as we might assume.

https://poppingspree.dev/bmenace/gzdoom-bubblemenace.zip

( Alternatively, you can play it as a part of RAMP as MAP58: https://ramp2023.teamouse.net/download.php )

This is not exactly the same as the version I’ve submitted to RAMP 2023, but it is very close. This bundle includes a copy of Freedoom2, and the OTEX texture bundle WAD. You should be able to run the game by using bmenace.bat . If you know your way around DOOM modding you’re free to try to load bmenace.wad with a purchased copy of Doom2 instead, or even with Shareware Doom.

Jump and Crouch is required, you may want to bind those to convenient keys before even starting the map.

If you do try it, the main points of feedback I’m interested in are
1: Broad opinions / vibes.
2: Opinions about the timer.
3: Brightness levels. I’ve had people tell me the rooms are too dark so I brighted them up. Now I’m not sure if they’re too bright.
4: Weapons: Overtuned? Under tuned? Would work fine if this were not all being dumped in one map and instead spread across an episode? etc
5: Clear time?
6: At the very very end did you Shoot to end, or Interact to end?
[9:17 AM]
The map itself is fairly tame, but there’s a little bit of blood if you shoot the few non-balloon characters, and the ending of FreeDOOM2 has a little bit of gore in the end card which I did not make a replacement for.
[9:18 AM]
Was hoping I’d have more time to clean it up a bit but tbh I am so freaking tired of trying to fix this every day I want to go do something else for a while or just like. make a completely new map but keep the weapons and enemies. so most feedback I take I’d be using when making later maps. If I make them
[9:18 AM]
I just realized having only the download link is kinda sus so I’ll go record a quick video and toss that up too

I’m trying to reinstall the Unreal Development Kit UDK because I remember using that when I was trying to mod Dungeon Defenders and it had a really neat level design style that started with subtracting space from the existing assumed solid area. I’ve been trying to find other types of subtractive modeling software like that because Blender is not nearly as smooth for doing a similar workflow, but I haven’t found anything yet.

So I tried to reinstall UDK via Steam, and all I get is an empty folder with a readme file telling me to go to an external website. Feels very CreepyPasta

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81349525

lmao S03E03b of The Creature Cases be like “hey that one fan on Twitter that said our music is not great? Get REKT here’s an ENTIRE EPISODE about music tastes!”

anyway I’m very glad to have Creature Cases back, it’s a fun and cheery light hearted show. Enjoy the Season so far. As usual, I very strongly relate with Kit in most of these. She’s an energetic goofball just vibin and trying to have a good time while doing what she’s gotta do.

I swear if Google doesn’t fix the issue where turning “Autolaunch Media Controls” off doesn’t actually STOP MEDIA CONTROLS FROM AUTO LAUNCHING I am going to sell this thing and never bother with smartwatches again. The amount of times it’s made me lose place in a video or podcast or suddenly jack the volume to max when I bump against it by accident is more than just “every once in a while” and it is easily an un-sell for the device.

Leave the hellbird site. Given quiet rule changes like this, it’s very clear that even if the current owner gets pressured into adding the rule back, the current owner has no interest in enforcing those rules at all.

By a similar token, any potential buyers one may have been hoping to swoop in and rescue Twitter will now either be welcoming that change, or have to struggle to reinstate it. All in all, I don’t think Twitter is fated for a buyout or revival of any sort. It’s being turned into even more of a trash fire and if you don’t want to be branded with the reputation it’s curating for itself, don’t be in the stink when it finally blows out.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-quietly-reversed-its-policies-to-allow-for-intentional-deadnaming-and-misgendering-181754382.html

🎵LLaMA LLaMA, 🎵

🎵Red Pajama🎵

H&R Block makes soooooooo much money with the tax skimming scheme and their aggressive lobbying, but apparently their systems are a bit out of date. If you download your tax returns from them right now, you’ll see a huge “Created with a trial version of Syncfusion Essential PDF” slapped on the top of the document. Pretty sure they can afford the license. If I’m charitable, they simply didn’t know how to deal with the change yet, but given how much money I’ve spent going through H&R Block instead of filing for my self, I have no reason to assume the charitable take for their use-case.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-bug-makes-some-private-circle-tweets-public-195102011.html

Just in case any of y’all have been dragging your legs on leaving Twitter, they’ve been sharing your “private” posts to random strangers. So, uh. Maybe stop giving your “private” info to them.