Garbage Dump

After 3 years of work, I have finally finished my Tamagotchi fan-game!

Before downloading:

Uninstall the previous version!

Then you must remember that when installing you cannot save it on the default location!

–IMPORTANT EDIT: I have found that in the latest version, installing in the dafault folder Does work. If it doesn’t work at first, try downloading in a different location. Opening as an administrator helps sometimes, too.

Also, bear in mind that this version uses different controls, using the mouse more, you can use the mouse wheel for scrolling between pages (you can hold shift while clicking if you have no mouse), and right-click to view the stats in numbers instead of bars!

Use F11 while on the main screen to make the screen bigger!

Download link!

If you want to join the Discord server, send me an ask (not anonymous, please) and I will send you the invite link!

I want the privilege of believing that the future can be glorious, regardless of whether I get to be around to see it.

I want hope, motherfucker.

Not simply for me. Not for the children or grandchild I will never get around to having. I want hope for everyone who comes after. For countless and innumerable future people. I want that more than anything. And I am aware of the many, many hurdles–new hurdles, emerging hurdles–we will have to overcome in the here and now to get to such a future. And if I don’t live to see the payoff–it will still be so fucking worth it, as long as someone, in some future, does.

in most languages the word for ‘mother’ usually starts with an M, because phonetically [m] is one of the easiest sounds for a newborn to make when they start babbling, and mothers tend to be the one most around the child. so in my mind that crosses M off the list, because it’s automatically associated with a feminine figure

similarly, ‘father’ tends to start with D, T, P, or B. (phonetically these sounds are very close together; [p, b] and [d, t] are all only different because of being voiced or unvoiced.) these are also phonetically easy letters and ones kids pick up on earlier.

now the hard sounds for kids are the following: [ɹ, d͡ʒ, tʃ, θ, ð] or in normal speak: the English R, the “j” or “dge” sound in “judge,” the “th” sound in “thigh” and the “th” sound in “the.” and we don’t want kids unable to say their parent’s name for years, so those are also off the list.

additionally, it’s easiest for young kids to just repeat the same sound twice rather than figuring out the tongue gymnastics of putting different sounds together, which is why kids will say Ma-Ma or Da-Da and not Ma-Mo or Da-Po. and we’ll want to stick with low back vowels like “ah” and avoid ones like the hard “i” or “ee.”

so what does that leave us? when we want a sound kids can learn easily and early but don’t want to just put a funky spin on “mama” or “dada”?

my suggestions: G, K, W, L. i personally lean towards W and L. they’re called liquids, since they’re the consonants that kind of aren’t consonants, and kids (and ESL learners) will tend to swap out the English R for a W or L until they can learn the R.

if i ever have a child, they’ll start calling me Wawa. then when they get older, they’ll call me Wala, or maybe even Wally.

and then, once they’re finally phonetically developed, they can call me by my true title as their nonbinary guardian for their 18+ years: