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Vlaze

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☂️ Commissions Currently Closed ☂️ Vlaze | She/They | Digital Artist and Occasional Writer | Strollin Stu Art tag is #vlazeart Profile Picture by @thomoclock.bsky.social

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Vlaze @vlazed.bsky.social · Oct 21

look at this strollin stu that i drew

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Moth 🌿 |Comms Open| @decayingmoth.bsky.social · 3d

Share your couples art! 🔮✨

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Vlaze @vlazed.bsky.social · 3d

Like, the game rules, it deserves more acknowledgment than just an item description that relates to a much more popular game c’mon

Vlaze @vlazed.bsky.social · 3d

If you ever bring up the poem Toby Fox wrote for the Halloween Pencil item in Get In The Car Loser while talking about Deltarune, you are legally obligated to play the former. I don’t make the rules.

An item description for an item called the Halloween Pencil. It reads “It’s short now. The edges are frayed with bite marks. You can hardly see the pumpkins. She’d borrow it at the start of class, gnaw on it, and give it back. It was strange, but that was the beginning of your friendship. It’s short now, but that just means it’s harder to break. If you close your eyes and hold it, it’s a sword that will protect you from anything.

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HamBerry🏳️‍⚧️ @hamberry.bsky.social · 4d

So you want some merch of your favorite niche character?
One of these is the only thing they're ever going to get. Fuck you.

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evan @evanonline.bsky.social · 5d

kids choice awards 2016 promo image of mario, luigi and paper mario's DMs.

Luigi: What do you guys think about getting slimed?

Mario: Mama mia! I've always wanted to get slimed!

Paper Mario: ✔️

Mario: Sometimes I wish there was slime in the question mark blocks.

Luigi: Really?

Paper Mario: 😃

Mario: How AWESOME would that be!

screencap of Sonic's instagram DMs with Luigi.

Luigi: Hey Sonic been a while. Need to warn you about my bro. He heard youre doing Olympics without us and hes even madder at you.

Sonic: man hes always like this. hes so cool but WE always need to go to HIS place. same reason i didnt invite him to go karting!!! he would have said no anyway

Luigi: I agree man, Im sorry. Hes really mad at Mega Man Pac-Man and Joker too not just you. The thing he's really mad about is that you guys got Slime in your item boxes though.

Sonic: what????

Luigi: Yeah we went to the Kids Choice Awards once a few years ago and he wouldnt stop talking about the Slime. Next time you see him dont mention Slime at all. Im serious

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foodsville hungry Kitten @ritasnep.bsky.social · 5d

the first episode of pokemon is so funny bc i never watched it before and now i have to sit with a straight face while this ten year old swears to capture or kill all the birds in the world with his arms spread like christ himself until his pet rat goes thermonuclear

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foodsville hungry Kitten @ritasnep.bsky.social · 5d

all i can think watching this is "kids who watched this felt like they could make fun of kingdom hearts"

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Jeremy Anninos @anninosart.bsky.social · 6d

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

Anything you can give makes a difference for my friend Sama'a and her family. They have small children to feed and clothe and every day brings new horrors to endure.

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Vlaze @vlazed.bsky.social · 7d

Hades II fucks SEVERELY, I’m so happy i held off on playing it until the full release. Will probably do some fanart sometime, the game has spectacular character designs

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max @gaydragon.bsky.social · 9d

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed

old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

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TieTuesday @tietuesday.bsky.social · 9d

retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Retroachievements using the "we're just neutral It's not political!" about allowing a romhack with pokemon named
"KuKlux" that's a ghost in a hood with the ability "Justified"

don't get me started on the "terrorist" pokemon

platforming hate isn't neutral

~Hack~ Pokemon Clover

Dear RetroAchievements community, We'd like to make a policy clarification regarding the User Code of Conduct's scope and our stance on content archival. Recent discussions in our community ha...

retroachievements.org

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Melia @meliaart.bsky.social · 10d

Melinoe #Hades2

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Emmy @tetrabunz.bsky.social · 11d

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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 11d

safer

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ryoichi Hasegawa on the localisation process for the Japanese version of Ecco the Dolphin (released in June 1993 in Japan):
xcancel.com/rio_hasegawa...

It was back in the early 90s, a time when there was no internet, no email, no Excel, no text files, no TrueType fonts—nothing of what we have today.

I had to come up with a solution to deliver all the text data to the developer in Hungary (Novotrade), where no one spoke Japanese.

First, I created bitmap images of all the hiragana and katakana characters, as well as commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, and two types of overstrikes (two dots/circles), something like this:

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I then printed all characters page by page and FAXED nearly 100 pages to the developer, and their artist converted them into nicely shaded Japanese fonts.

Each character was assigned a code based on rules such as:

H for hiragana, K for katakana
01, 02, 03, 04, 05 for vowel rows
A, K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W for consonant columns
d for overstriking dots, c for overstriking circles
sp for space
(Note: I might not remember all the rules perfectly now, lol.)

For example, the phrase "こんにちは" should be converted to something like:

H05K, H05W, H02N, H02T, H01H

The developer sent me all the in-game dialogues via fax. I translated them and assigned each string a number for easy reference, instead of saying something like "the third window of the second dolphin in stage 2."

Now here's the best part: once I finished translating all the dialogues, I typed them into a word processing program (like an early version of WordPad), then converted each letter to its corresponding code, character by character.

I printed all of this out and faxed dozens of pages to the developer, who then had to convert them back into dialogue data.

To my surprise, the system we created was quite robust. There were only a few text-related bugs, mostly caused by my typos.

I still work in game localization. It feels like we were in the stone age compared to today's methods, but I still cherish those moments.

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David Amador @djlink.bsky.social · 12d

love to read this stuff how Metal Slug achieved that amazing art by using 3 pillars, shapes, coloring and shading 6th-divisions-den.co...

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🌸🐦 DoodleDox 🐦🌸 (COMMS CLOSED) @doodledox.bsky.social · 12d

This is URGENT y'all, more resources through this post! Give em a hard time!!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12d

KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 19d

#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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gatos fazendo gatices @gatinarios.bsky.social · 13d

a única criatura que derrotou o goku

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Vlaze @vlazed.bsky.social · 12d

honestly im just focusing on the picture of the monkey peeling a banana in what seems to be a normal kitchen. what is bro doing there

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Smiggles @ home @smiggles.bsky.social · Jun 30

If you're not getting any bites in your commissions it's not because they're overpriced

It's likely actually due to you having not gained a grounded audience yet

Getting your name out there can be tough but art should not cost less than minimum wage an hour