I had an interesting world building discussion today on making a science fiction setting using fantasy tropes.
It was kind of interesting trying to create the feeling of a fantasy adventure setting using scifi.
I know stuff like Phantasy Star exists which also does it, fairly well too.

Oh and I don’t mean like Warhammer, sure that pigeon holes fantasy tropes into a scifi shaped package but it’s more like science fantasy than scifi using fantasy tropes…
If that even makes sense.

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So apparently earlier this week there was a grand global purge of pretty much every majorly significant anime piracy site, which you know, fair enough…
But the anime archivists are now in tears trying to work out which shows have been lost into the chasm between “too old” and “formerly legal” to obtain.

And you don’t even have to go far back for this problem to start occurring either…
GATE, one of my favourite anime, has been removed from Crunchyroll for a long time since their license expired, and the dvds/bluray were a limited run and went out of sale years before that.
In other words, the only way to watch this anime at all right now is to pirate it, and it’s not even ten years old!
This is what happens when one company has the entire licensing market…

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I got a spontaneous craving to go watch Astra Lost in Space.
Well, I kind of know why.
In my X4 playthrough I managed to get an ancient several centuries old exploration cruiser to retrofit as a destroyer, and given it was an old style ship designed for exploration while thinking of what to name it I ended up on “Astra”.
For the record, I built a copy of it afterwards and named that one Edelweiss, it has a pure white paintjob, it currently serves as my personal flagship.

I like it because it has a spinning artificial gravity section, but it also has double the radar range of any other ship in the game owing to its exploration background, which is amazing with the percentage boost upgrades to radar range you can also apply to make that go even further pushing it towards triple the range of other ships.

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I have been progressing through the latest event story for Neural Cloud.
The scale is… extreme…
It’s going full scifi space opera with its content and it feels out of place when placed next to the other chapters of the game.

I could understand the earlier ones, like the one that was simulating the construction of a futuristic power generator that defied physics, or the one that was simulating an entire aquatic ecosystem for analysis and so forth, but the one that’s simulating an entire solar system? Sure it sounds fine on paper… until it goes as far as simulating things like space battleships and a ringworld with orbital elevators and everything else.
It’s just a completely different sense of scale, it means that if you applied the technology and resources in this one simulation alone to the other chapters in the game you could steamroll them!

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I saw a Christmas advert today.
CHRISTMAS!
WHY?!

Sound the alert! The Halloween Defence Line has fallen!
Christmas has started to encroach upon summer itself now!
There’s no stopping it!

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Did this novel always have menu status descriptions for items?
I can’t remember.
My migraine might be half of that, but honestly menu status appraisal is so generically common now it’s hard to remember it distinctively.

Speaking of which, I’ve been reading that Academy Survival some more lately, but not much more, and not now… because aforementioned migraine…

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The is progress on my new original characters art design redesign design thingy…
Uh…
Her science fiction themed phantasy star inspired type mecha outfit thingy…
Really hard to explain it actually, probably because we still have some thematic details we’re weighing between.

Currently the bodysuit/plugsuit part is going through an overhaul because the final version came over too simple so we’re adding detail.
More armour-like pieces to be installed!

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The interludes are over! The main story resumes!
I actually enjoy pov swaps in stories in general, I like seeing moments from other perspectives.
I also like reading other characters reactions to things we’ve seen from one perspective already.

I know some people complain because it’s covering content twice in a way…
But I just like seeing the cool moments again and getting another view of it.
Especially if it’s a character that doesn’t understand the full picture.

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