Purveyor of Entertainment

Hello everyone! Deltarune just came out, and I’ve been scouring it for secrets and easter eggs.  Since the 24 hour embargo is up, I figure it’s probably OK to share a few that I’ve found.  If you haven’t played Deltarune yet, go do that first!  Suffice it to say that Toby has created a followup that’s worthy of Undertale.  It’s available for free at https://www.deltarune.com/  

OK, this first secret is a bit obscure.  I was trying to figure out if the original Starwalker would say anything different if you talked to him a few times, and while doing that I discovered that if you start at the right side, when you ring the bell you are only frozen while the bird’s head is on screen.  If you start running right just when it goes offscreen it’s possible to catch up with it, though it’s hard!  If you almost catch him you get 40g, but if you catch him head on it’s different. The first time I did it I got this odd message:

I was using my controller at the time, so I decided to unplug it and try again.  When I caught it again, this time I got an item:

It’s an OK piece of equipment (just raises your magic), so I figured nothing was special about it until I went back into the elevator in the castle and saw this guy.

Apparently he’s a doormouse.  He takes the mouse token and lets you through the door.  

Inside is a short path that leads to this small clearing.  Not much here.  The holes in the wall just squeak at you, but you can talk to the mouse wizard.

He says the wall is the Maucity, but since he’s a field mouse he has to stay out in the field.  If you go into the hut he has a shop.

He has lots of great looking items for sale.

I bought a gigasalad, but it actually only restores 4hp.  And if you try to buy any of the others you get this message:

I suspect there’s a way to get him to sell the other items, but I haven’t been able to figure it out.

“Discord Cycle” is a term I coined out of necessity. It’s a shortening of “The abbreviated cycle of drama that is enabled by Discord.”

Please note - this isn’t directed at anyone in particular. This is a recount of many people’s experiences over several years, and is not aimed at any person or group. Honest.

The reason this is the “Discord Cycle” and not the “Internet Drama Cycle” is due to the nature of Discord. Discord offers (and encourages the use of) tools that enable exclusion, power disparity through hierarchy, and rapid community turnover. These inherent features of Discord facilitate drama, and cause it to happen at a hyper-accelerated rate compared to similar platforms. If you use Discord often, it is not a question of whether you will see this happen in your community, is is when.

I have outlined the stages of a typical “Discord Cycle” and their variations. They are as follows:

Discord server is formed

Server grows. A community is formed.

A “sub-community” within that community is formed. A few examples of how that could happen: 3a) A role is created that allows access to an exclusive channel. Those with access form a stronger bond due to having a tighter-knit community. 3b) A moderator role is instituted to help run the server. A channel to coordinate moderation is also created, however this becomes a place for casual discussion to occur. People are now given moderation powers in order to access this room. 3c) A second server is formed, referred to from here on as a “private server.” In a private server, hand-selected people from the original community are invited.

Word gets out about the sub-community. Those not involved feel excluded.

Inside sub-community, resentment towards the original community grows. Most no longer participate in the original community.

If this sounds familiar to you, then you have experienced the Discord Cycle. Personally, I’ve seen this happen 10+ times. Though the severity varies, the exact same drama has torn apart so many communities I once was a part of.

If you run a server:

Do not have private rooms. They exclude people and create ill-feelings and tensions towards those with access to them.

Keep your server’s power dynamic as flat as possible. Few people should have more power than others. When they do, it should be for very good reason.

Be open. Interact. Tell people that there is nothing hidden.

If you interact in a server:

Identify signs of drama before they happen. Make them known and do not participate.

Avoid private servers, servers with skewed power dynamics, and servers with unnecessary private rooms.

If you see this happening:

The Life Of A Project from Steal Like An Artist

Sticking this here because I don’t think I have it anywhere else on my site (even though it’s all over the internet).

ok can i add some commentary here

this is v2, meaning there is a v1, right here(https://soundcloud.com/user-621444340/sungetter-megalo-strike-back-remix), its fucking shit oh my god

but it got like thousands of that SoundCloud Views Cash Money Baby $$$$$, so i always wanted to re-do it, maybe add more shit

and since it is...... vaguely Homestuck because of the Sunsetter, i put it on this stupid cool and new web comic volume 2 album, and at the time i thought it was “the best thing ive made so far”, oh god how dumb i was, this isnt even close to good

http://friendlycoy.bandcamp.com/album/bit-dump

True Bowlievers, an announcement: I’m asking for any and all of you who like what I do to put some of your talent at work and make me some fan art.

I’m assembling a music video for Suicide Hotline, and I need you to know that I would be deeply, movingly stoked to use any and all fan art you either have made or will make of me right now. Anything you want, as long as it’s great or hilarious. Deliver these works unto me:

[email protected]

Some things I’ve noticed:

Any step can be the first step.

People love a good story. Usually it makes writing the words way easier.

The more easily you can explain what you’re doing to someone else, the better you probably know what you’re doing to begin with.

We’re probably the most original when we’re dreaming, lying, or trying to remember something we didn’t totally catch the first time.

Don’t fall in love with an idea that isn’t working. Generating new ideas is a skill too. Get used to saving some stuff for later, or just never.

There’s more rhymes than just sad, mad, glad, bad, would, should, could, good - find some weird ones and you might find a different idea for a song altogether.

If you forget an idea, you might not really need to remember it anyway.

You never know what you sound like until you hear yourself, so remember that recording is a writing tool and that it’s okay to make revisions.

i kind of learned this the hard way, stretching every song into at least one minute which just makes it more boring than it should be, looping parts endlessly, etc; if you just have a good part of a song, you might not even need to add more parts that might ruin the good parts, just call it its then and there