Visual Novels, Sprite Crops, And You

Throwback to the unfinished peace

WIP of my oc from @collegetennisoriginstory 🤧

A REALLY good if 🩷🩷

Once it's fully done I'll post it again, as well as a good little chunk of get to know her spam text hehehe

DEMO

Update Wordcount: 107,512 words Total Wordcount: 333,798 words

Hello, everyone! Chapter 3 part 1 is finally here c: Hoping to follow this one up with part 2 in the next few weeks. This was a long time coming and there's so much in here that I can't wait to share. Thank you everyone for your patience, and I hope you enjoy!

In this update you can:

Walk back into town!

Hang out at a gas station! Get to know the owner!

Find a new place to stay! (optional)

Meet Croft! (finally)

Learn about Easthaven from a new, totally unbiased source!

Look into local real estate!

HUGE thanks to my beta readers; they actually and for real saved my life. For this update I went in and made a character builder, so you can skip straight to the new content if you'd like c: Additionally, content warnings have been updated; those can be found here. And the code is now visible!

If you have any feedback, or notice any bugs, feel free to send it to my inbox or post on the game's forum thread.

Ars Technica

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

This is actually so usefull, I haven't posted any of my art yet but I do draw lol.

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

I accidentally deleted the first (and longer) cut of this post, so in a half assed rewrite... Here's the first part of my IF game recommendations!

Games I recommend:

Superstition by @/13leaguestories || 3 seasons out, on-going || supernatural modern "fantasy", first and fav IF i ever played.

The spirited: origins by @/yuveim || demo out || horror, amateur paranormal investigator

When twilight strikes by @/evertidings || 10 chapters out || bounty hunter mc, modern supernaturals

Speaker by @/speakergame || 4 chapters out || another kind of urban supernatural game! + you got a dog

Sea of stars by @/13leaguestories || demo out || scifi, aliens in space, OP mc

Attollo by @/attollogame || 4 chapters out || cyber-noir thriller, new to the city, missing siblings

Signal hill by crosshollow on itch.io || few chapters out || post apocalyptic scifi, rpg- there's dice rolls lol

Project Hadea by @/nyehilismwriting || 5 chapters out || urban fantasy, horror, bonus forced child adoption

chop shop by @/losergames || 3 episodes out || crime, cars, cash. Car theft. Etc.

Infamous by @/infamous-if || 3(?) Chapters out || battle of the bands, rockstars! Messy messy

Apartment 502 by @/apt502-if || prologue and 1st chapter out || inspired by friends, comedy slice of life romance, lame ex included.

Mind Blind by @/mindblindbard || 9 chapters out || weird take on superheroes. Ur in the negatives when it comes to superpowers. Ur that whack.

Wayfarer by @/idrellegames || 2 chapters out || dark fantasy, dice rolls

The northern passage by @/northernpassage || 2 chapters out || horror fantasy

Tale of crowns by @/ataleofcrowns || 11 chapters out || high fantasy, crowned mc! (Royal ya get?)

The nameless by Parker lyn on itch.io || few Chapters out || fantasy

Nine blood dances by CVLUTOSGAMES on itch.io || few chapters out || honestly a lil disturbing. Ur in hell. Very good writing.

I tried to loosely put them next to similiar genres in the lineup.

The Update is out!

Change of plans, instead of updating "soon", I've just updated it right now. The chapter was complete, I'd fixed all of my beta reader's reported errors... The only thing left to do was get it out to you guys. So here it is, you can play Track 3 of Press Play right here.

It's 81k words excluding code, bringing the entire game up to 200k words. I encourage you to try a lot of different things, because this chapter is the branchiest yet, and you may be surprised by what you find can happen. In this chapter, you will...

go to a party (or stay home)

record your first song... and then another!

get the chance to reach a truce with that one shadow from your past

have a cozy Christmas dinner with your friends and family

get your career boosted by a completely unexpected opportunity

...and lots more!

I'm very excited to share this with you. Also, I guess that this means my askbox needs opening again, which I am slightly reluctant to do after originally wanting a break from it but am going to anyhow. I'm really looking forward to what you have to say! If there's any glaring issues, don't hesitate to reach out. Also also, reblogs help me out a bunch so feel free!

Demo Update (April, 24, 2025): Episode 2

Added: +150k (including code + duplicate job scenes with text variations)

TOTAL: 303,452 WORDS

Here is episode 2. The demo is over 300,000 words and since the last update I've learned the trick of separating files so there will likely be errors and maybe some inconsistencies/continuity errors. Please give me a heads up if you do find any error or typo. I will be looking for beta testers in the future. This is my first IF so I'm still learning as I go.

After fixing everything, I remain uncertain about the stats. A large part of me doesn't want visible stats at all since there's so many I can use, limiting myself to a couple is making it difficult to balance them. If anyone has any suggestions from other IFs or from experience, I'm happy to hear them.

In this episode:

See the aftermath of episode 1's cliffhanger.

Get a taste of what work is going to look like now that you're starting...and learn news of a possible promotion opportunity. The seeds of a rivalry are planted.

Meet two new people that may or may not become regular faces in your life.

Meet G (editor route)

Go to a club with your roommates to cheer up.

Play Apt. 502 here.

I forgot how to color bruv 🙈

T'is my girl from the mega hit IF infamous by @infamous-if 🥵

I accidentally, somehow, perhaps made a devil walking. And the way she cares about nobody but herself and her so called fame I'm struggling to see how I'll manage to pull any bitches that will be willing to stay at the end.

Definition of don't meet your heroes I'm sorry Maya.

Venera - otherwise Yoshinaga Keiko, the lead vocalist of Double Gum Gun.

Our Life: Ages

Well, as far as I can tell, this is accurate. So, here y'all go I guess!

The colours coincide with the games btw, and their respective Steps from - 1 to 4. BlueGreen for OLBA, GoldOrange for OLNF.

It doesn't have all the ages, but it has most of the relevant ones presently. I'll probably make another one later with the NF parents and extras too, but I just wanted this one for easy reference atm.

Rule No.1 — always be the first one to like your post self love comes first