Gyokuyoutama

Ohhhh man this guy hasn't posted art in over 6 months. Where is he? Ohhh he's so washed.
 
No! I've actually been working on a secret project since about March, so most of my creative energies have been going into that. I'm hoping it will be done by the end of the year. Maybe I will post about it, I haven't decided yet (I am shy about it). But I do have some other art to share that I've made over the past months.

More Lashley worldbuilding:


Lashley in a crypt:


Late night vibe art:


Mischief Makers paint study:

 
Yeahhhh, it's not a lot for 6+ months. But I promise I have been making lots of art in silence for this project. Soooo, soooo much...I just can't show it yet.

>Bought a copy of Kamen Rider Black from Amazon
>Got a box of Tarot Cards (although rather high quality and apparently 4x the cost of the manga)
 
Just amazing. How did this even happen? I hope that whoever got my manga enjoys it, lmao.

[disappointed trailing off bau bau]

This song has a little something for everyone:
 
 

If we're calling out Muv Luv plagiarism, I'm partial to "Not Night of Fire" myself.
 

Rest in peace, sweet Bobby Prince
 
 

I suppose to balance that out I should give an example of what I actually like about Japanese.
 
One nice thing is that by having so many character sets and so many different readings, you can make very subtle changes to give the feel of something without explicitly saying it.  For example, once I started picking up the Senko-san manga I found out that Senko never uses katakana for them.  But she still does use wasei-eigo terms.  So for example when cosplay (a word that we even restole from Japan) appears in her dialogue it is always こすぷれ whereas everyone else (even Shiro) says コスプレ.  Similarly for most people a microwave is a 電子レンジ but for her it's a 電子れんじ、and so on. Now the reason for this is not explained at all in the manga, and I may be misinterpreting it not even being close to fluent.  But the feel I get from this is that Senko says these words slightly incorrectly, as if they were native Japanese words that she is unfamiliar with and not foreign loan words.  So that, together with generally antiquated speaking style, gives the impression that she is much older than she appears and out of touch with the modern world, all without saying anything.  Though note that she does use katakana for other purposes.  Most frequently if she is shocked she might say something in all katakana (even when it would normally be written in hiragana) which is a device I've seen used elsewhere to show a stilted or unnatural way of speaking.  Again, this is done more subtly than could be done in English, and is very cool.
 
And of course you can be an asshole about it, like the biker gangs of the 80s who would overuse kanji for everything to look cool.  For example the infamous 夜露死苦 for よりしく/yorishiku, which is a friendly and formal greeting but suddenly becomes badass when you write it as NIGHT EXPOSED DEATH SUFFERING. (This is very similar to the antiquated style of writing Japanese in kanji used by old timey things like Rakugo, a connection which is explicitly joked about in Joshiraku.)  When people say that an effect is "untranslatable" this is what they should mean (not just "they said 'I've never done that' but the grammatical structure is different than English so I'm going to just make up whatever the hell I want here.)  Very cool and Japanese is full of this stuff.

I have never seen that and now I'm scared I will start seeing it.
 
There's a character in Love Live who is half-foreigner and has an absurdly long name as a result. So long, in fact, that they have to shorten it pretty often to fit on merch correctly. e.g.

The only saving grace is that her Y. name is Yanagida which actually does have kanji, and I assume was intentionally styled that way so it wouldn't be too long in both romaji and japanese text.
 
One of the first shows I watched (I won't say it for risk of repeating myself) without english subs showed me this quirk, because I downloaded the Japanese subtitles and quickly noticed that several characters used kana differently - one of them was from Shanghai and almost all of her particles were written with katakana. I remember being confused enough to ask a friend about it at the time. I was surprised that the TV subtitles were that intricate, but maybe it depends on the station or something.
 
Every single time an underpaid translator (AI nowadays probably) has to try and translate a conversation about personal pronouns in Japanese you can hear the frustration through the text. This happened just recently with Bang Dream! Yumemita where Arale slips back into using boku during a moment of stress and a childhood friend of hers comments on it.

The Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail series fell off after the 69th game.

the AI yearns for 4/20/24
 
image time

from: https://x.com/notwilliam_/status/1812238807401431135/photo/1

Look, all I'm saying is that having an angry face at the same time as a wagging tail adds a lot to the tsundere experience.

Look, all I'm saying is that having an angry face at the same time as a wagging tail adds a lot to the tsundere experience.

I had originally phrased that as something like "I wonder what would happen if there was a disappearance of Haruhi from media sites" and then thought "no, that's too on the nose."

That issue of what is put up on streaming services is actually what made me handwave stuff like Crunchyroll really quick back when it was new. I can't remember what it was exactly but I remembered being tilted that some show I wanted to watch only had the second season or maybe just the OVA and not the entire series so I was just stuck there without anything to watch since it'd be pointless to just start in the middle of it all. It was the exact problem I had as a young kid with watching crappy pirate uploads of Yu-Gi-Oh on vimeo (random gaps in what you could watch), but at least those weren't giving off any expectation of being a real service.
 
Probably not since streaming fans will just stick to their platform since they have so much available that they wouldn't bother looking past what's in front of them. After a really long time I guess there'd also just be the force of entropy on pirate sources, though Haruhi in particular is going to be very well archived (same can't be said for everything, obviously)
 
However, you've fell into a trap with your wording because The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzimiya is widely considered the best part of the entire series, so true fans already know what it's like when Haruhi vanishes from the public view.

Saw an add for Canva targeted towards teachers.  The tagline was something like "it will work so well, it's like a hack for your class."
 
I don't know if this is a horrible or brilliant slogan at this time.

Out of 96 entries (it was 98 or so before a few got disqualified), my dumb OC game got around 35th place on Joel's gamejam.
 
What the shit? I honestly didn't expect it to go above 60th.
Seriously, its just a walking sim with a bunch of my OCs and a lousy plot tying it together.
 

What still amuses me is how some AI image generators are still plagued by the yellow tint due the sheer amount of Ghibli prompts causing the results to infect the sample pool.

So, about that Joel Frenjam 2 game.
I guess I did it.
 
It really sucks. Its my first time overall using GODOT.
And there is no pause button, so alt-f4, lmao.
 
Now I have a feeling of regret.
Why the fuck did I do this?
 
...
I had some fun though.

Oh my god finally, I can stack dogs on PC

Cave Story+ on Steam is being updated with the console version features.
 

I'm thinking of making a dumb game for that Joel's Gamejam.
Anyone wants a cameo? Send me a design with some dialogue and I'll try to make an npc or something.

Welcome back to 2009.
 
 

Welcome back to 2009.