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satyrwoud

3 years ago

I have decided not to badger my artist friend until my character is more fleshed-out, and as such, will instead be doing my fursona page in the style of a choose-your-own-adventure(™) interactive-fiction thing. Have I ever programmed anything of the sort before in my life? No. Am I too stubborn to learn how to use a third-party thing like Twine? Yes. Will this stop me? No. >:)

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raelhbishop 3 years ago

Protip: You can take three routes with this. Twine works best for you probably because it has built in HTML support. Inklewriter would probably be a good place to get it organized & compiled in a draft, though it has excruciatingly limited options for decor. RenPy gives you the most freedoms but also requires you get familiar with some Python and throws you in the crowd of 'dating sim writers'.

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raelhbishop 3 years ago

If you do take the RenPy route, though, there is a channel with easy to digest tutorials I found a bit ago that might be of help. I know all this because I myself have been trying to write a work of 'interactive fiction' (with very little success, as I tend to stay in development hell).

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satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

Turns out I actually got one more entry in my inbox than I thought I did — my apologies to our forthcoming concerned conservationist for missing them out in the first count!

satyrwoud 3 years ago

This has the side effect of bumping our final submission up to the winter solstice, which is nice

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

It occurs to me now that i’ve accidentally reinvented the Advent calendar.

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

Speaking of calendars, i’ve upgraded the table of correspondence for 2022

satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

IO SATURNALIA! I only received four submission, but I'm quite happy with that — that's four more than I was expecting! They’ll be drip-fed through over the next couple of days

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

Oh also I added some American sports team loyalties to my about page or whatever

satyrwoud

3 years ago

Tomorrow.

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brennholz 3 years ago

ominous...

satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

satyrwoud

3 years ago

I’ve been meaning to give the site a “proper” name other than just “Marijn’s site” — catch is, of course, my site is bilingual, and a name which sounds perfectly mellifluous in one language might sound clunky and forced in the other

satyrwoud 3 years ago

I would have gone with just “The Forest”, by analogy with “The Garden”, but that was taken about a thousand times over already

satyrwoud 3 years ago

I’d post all this meta natter on The Garden but i don’t want to fall into the trap of “blogging without blogging”, as it were (http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/12/on-not-writing/)

saint-images 3 years ago

"Marijn's site" is perfect, for you are Marijn and this site is indeed nobodys but yours.

satyrwoud 3 years ago

I’m just future-proofing here — i’ve already changed my name once before; who says i won’t do it again in the future? :-)

brennholz 3 years ago

This bilingual issue could be solved by not thinking of your site as a location like a "forest" or whatever. Instead, think of it as a living being, since those have names that don't have to be translated, like Gregory. Like instead of "Marijn's site", it'd be "Gregory", the site of Marijn. (This is a terrible idea)

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

If Tim Berners-Lee didn't want us to think of websites as places in cyberspace, he shouldn't have called them *sites*!

raelhbishop 3 years ago

Well, sites in real life change too, not unlike living beings. Times Square in New York City looks nothing like it did a hundred years ago, or a thousand or a million for that matter. Byzantium became Constantinople became Istanbul. That being said, I feel 'marijn's site' works best as its name - it's short, it's simple, it's all-encompassing.

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bdkcorrigan 3 years ago

Most of the books I've read in translation have a different title on the translated edition! You could have a different mellifluous title for each language!

satyrwoud

3 years ago

if you know what an nft is you need to go outside

satyrwoud 3 years ago

Further more, if you know what the fuck "Web3" means, please go take a month long sabbatical in the Lake District

satyrwoud 3 years ago

They've got a pencil museum, I'm sure it'll be more fun than arguing about bitcoin on the internet

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

Or, hey, you could move there, start a pub or something. Probably a more reliable source of income than pictures of monkeys

arandomsite 3 years ago

all i know is that it means non fungible token

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proletarian-library 3 years ago

let them learn

saint-images 3 years ago

@arandomsite I don't like the "non fungi" part, I love mushrooms, why are they trying to take it away from us???

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sulfuracid 3 years ago

LMAOOO ISTG I GOOGLED WHAT IT IS AND NOBODY ANSWERED

satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

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cepheus 3 years ago

It’s CHARLI baby

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arkmsworld 3 years ago

Cool!

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satyrwoud

3 years ago

Six days left until your Saturnalia submissions start going up! :-) Hope everyone enjoys them

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satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

satyrwoud

3 years ago

I almost posted a grovelling "I'm so sorry I haven't updated in three seconds" post here before I remembered... oh, right, it's my own website and there's no algorithm coming to eat me if i don't regularly provide Content

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

The wonders of the free internet!

satyrwoud

3 years ago

finally, lieutenant salt's friendly lungs club band

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satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

This was meant to be just a quick minimal thing, but i couldn’t help myself — I’ve implemented a fancy theme selector.

satyrwoud 3 years ago

(“On the Gods and the World” is technically available, but still needs a bit of sprucing up to meet the house style / be readable (did they not have paragraphs in 1793?) — you have been warned!)

satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

Only one new word (mun), but, hey, i am nowt if not a diligent updater

satyrwoud

3 years ago

My apologies for the relative pause in updates; it's been a long week, and the part of my brain that has room for frivolous hobbies has unfortunately drained out of a small hole in the back

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pencilvoid satyrwoud

3 years ago

i love how polished this site looks!

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satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

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noa-s satyrwoud

3 years ago

i'm looking for a neocities site of some person's bible notes. i'm pretty sure i saw it in your linkroll once but i can't find it now, but if not maybe you know what i mean anyway?

upallnight 3 years ago

Is it this one? https://websitering.neocities.org/

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

I think it might be this? https://jyab.neocities.org/ I had it on my 'Nicæa' page, which I scrapped once I moved off of Neocities as a host.

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noa-s 3 years ago

that is the one, thank you!

satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

It's not much, but it'll grow

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arandomsite 3 years ago

can't wait!

satyrwoud 3 years ago

Also — finally took the time to add a random button to the linkroll

satyrwoud 3 years ago

*Also* also, I've added to the front page a list of potential upcoming pages, just to keep you all on the edge of your seats. ;)

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satyrwoud updated The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇

3 years ago

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satyrwoud 3 years ago

Sidenotes on the blog are still a little borked — sorry about that!

satyrwoud 3 years ago

Also, if you're on Firefox, you might have to muck around in about:config and set "layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled" to true to get the CSS filters working right — if you’re on anything else, it’ll work by default, thankfully

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