Blog Update, 8/16/23:
The main focus of this blog is to interact with the Writeblr community while I post about my current project on my sideblog, @americana-antihero. I will still reblog funny memes and fandom posts, but I hope to put more of an emphasis on my writing and fiction in general <3
SOMEONE HAS BEATEN MINECRAFT IN UNDER A MINUTE
I REPEAT. SOMEONE HAS BEATEN MINECRAFT IN UNDER A MINUTE
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this is actually set seed glitchless, you’re thinking of random seed glitchless (which the wr for is actually 7 min 45 sec)! this basically means that they know everything about the seed going in and are picking the most perfect seed. (the previous set seed record was 1 min 47 sec)
also this record uses a really cool strat where it uses the dragons velocity against itself and if you line things up perfectly you’re able to kill the dragon with a single shot of an arrow!
here is the video!
if you've ever been launched into the void off the top of a pillar by the ender dragon before, you know that the dragon tends to fling things around like crazy. this is because it's center hitbox wants to push objects away really fast, proportional to how close it is to the center.
if you fire an arrow at the exact perfect spot (I'm talking insanely perfect - pixel and frame dependent, as well as needing the correct rng for the dragon's flight path) then you can exploit this to have the arrow be launched at incredible speeds directly into the dragon's hurtbox.
arrows in minecraft calculate their damage based on velocity. that's why barely charging a bow does very weak damage, while fully charging a bow does much more. however, there isn't a cap on this damage. you can theoretically one shot anything in the game no matter how strong, as long as you can get the arrow to travel fast enough. and that's exactly what happens here.
the final minute barrier being broken for ssg just shows how much dedication and commitment and knowledge and willpower the entire minecraft speedrunning community has.
I'm reading [Popular Fantasy Novel here] and I think they should make it a law that if you invent more than 5 new races/titles/etc. You have to include an illustrated glossary so I know what the fuck you're talking about. I'm tired of reading shit like "The Kespax are joining with the Bilthrigs" Okay Whomst Are Those
I'm happy for people with vivid imaginations and rich internal lives who can create these things in their minds' eyes but unfortunately I'm boring and unless you give me some kind of description I am imagining various colored blobs in my head but I, too, deserve rights
Here’s the legendary Notagami movie (Soul Hunter) for those who have just heard about it and want to see it or for those who want to see it again but can’t find it
Reblogging for my Noragami mutuals so that we can go back to……….simpler times
i saw a quote that said “i feel like i’m constantly worrying about the next part of my life without realizing that i’m right in the middle of what i used to look forward to.” and i felt that.
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POV: you’re the secondary character (probably comic relief) annoyingly walking in on the protagonist and the love interest just as they were about to kiss. You notice they are holding hands, but pretend you saw nothing.
I love when my cat meows at me and I can see her little teeths cause she looks like this
My cat is being oh so meanies to me but I can't take her seriously because everytime she opens her mouth to yell at me she becomes a stapler remover
I’ve been saying this for years. YEARS.
you heard of "hating female characters for traits people would find interesting and morally grey in male characters", now get ready for "calling female characters annoying for traits they would consider interesting or quirky in a male character" and its twin sibling "accusing a female character of 'holding grudges' and 'being selfish/unforgiving' over something that people would consider 'traumatised' and 'still feeling hurt' in a male character"
A lot of them quite good. The suggestion I'd like to pass you is the same one I throw to anyone wanting to make a Nintendo fan game, or anyone who has an epic fanfic that's drifted far afield from the canon.
Get one of these.
... thought for a solid minute there that the picture was a reference to filing one's way out of prison, and was sitting there thinking "surely IP laws aren't that draconian quite yet"
Oop, did not realize that the suggestion would be unclear for some because the slang might be jargon.
To Clarify: It's for the serial numbers.
Serial numbers like names, character designs, and other specific identifiers.
Examples you might be familiar with:
From the tags:
"Someone Copies Johnny Quest?" Y tho"
This brings up an interesting point. Serial number filing isn't about copying, not exactly. It's about storytelling, inspiration, and transformative work.
The series in question is the Venture Bros., which is more of a golf-bag pastiche than a direct serial-filing, but these things are always in gradients. The Venture Bros jumps off from Johnny Quest's general concept as a starting point, as a way of commenting about Johnny Quest and the Hanna-Barbera Adventure age, and the people who grew up with it. The general premise is "What if Johnny grew up and was a burned out former-child star-type", with now Dr. Rusty Venture filling the grown-up Johnny Quest role.
But for another take on the Johnny Quest formula, you have the Secret Saturdays, which was more the approach of "I loved Johnny Quest as a kid, what if I replicated those tropes, tones, and archetypes for a new generation?" I'm very familiar with this impulse, as its the driving force behind my whole "deal.""
Neither approach is theft in any meaningful sense. The goal of the first is to extrapolate and expand on a concept in ways the original text did not. The second is the process of creating genre from foundational work.
You could accomplish either with official spinoffs or reboots, but most of the time you can't get those rights (Star Wars happened because Lucas couldn't get the rights to do Flash Gordon), or if you could, the realities of the market mean that you idea won't be viable (Sorry Alan, but we just bought the Charlton guys and by the end of your story they're all dead or psychologically broken). Or maybe the original thing actually wasn't that good, but you could make it so much better (Arguably the Dial-H-for-Ben-10 situation).
All of which is how people have created and told stories, and by people, I mean multiple clades of humans. This is pre-homo sapiens stuff.
One of the inspirations for this post is the elderly Scooby Gang post wandering around the Tumblrs. Just... change their clothes and names. They can still have been mystery teens as kids (HB made about a dozen shows int he genre on their own), people will get enough of a nod to know who is supposed to represent who. Make it into a webcomic or visual novel or whatever, and let your story breathe.
If you're gonna make a Pokemon Argon/Neon or whatever, just paste over the canon pokemon you were going to keep with more interesting fakemon, change the names and visual iconography, call it "BioCritter Adventure" or somesuch. Let your ideas diffuse into the gaps left by removed canon. I guarantee you there's more flagrant knockoffs by major corporations.
what would you do if that was you?
this is one of the few instances where watching the entire video was worth the punchline at the very end
