I figured I'd share this here, for the people who supported me ages ago and made Guild Wars 2 a delight for me.

How would people like an RP Profile addon built as an addon for Blish HUD? I've been slowly working on one and I might have the first version of this done soon.

I'm calling it SPARK - Simple Profile and Roleplay Kit.

The name also is derived from the first legendary I crafted, Incinerator. It's precursor is Spark. I thought it was a good fit.

Here's some sneak peek images so far:

There's support for you to add multiple profiles to a single character. You then choose which one to actively broadcast when using the module for others to see.

All profiles are tied to your Account and Character Name. This wouldn't be something you manually type in and is retrieved from GW2 via Blish to prevent impersonation.

The tabs on the left allow you to edit your profile details, set your RP preferences/style, and add in a 'Currently' and 'OOC Info' sections if you want.

Here's the WIP of the profile editing section. Unfortunately, no word-wrap support on the box (Blish HUD has a pull request to add this though, so hopefully soon!), but it works decently. The 'At a Glance' allows you to set icons plus a title and description. I don't have a built-in icon picker though, so you need to find the strings yourself for now until I figure that out.

An example of the profile when viewed by someone else.

I do have privacy settings for your status and location, and I will implement a block list so if you don't want someone to see you through this addon, it wouldn't broadcast that info to them ever.

Profile viewer is currently working decently. I've built a presence module that captures some info from your profile + other things as you've configured it to broadcast and update periodically.

Since this isn't hooked up to be online yet, I'm just duplicating my profile 200 times in the UI while I build it out.

For those who don't know, I actively work on my own game these days (after 10+ years in game dev and growing tired of corporate), but I figured this was a fun little side project to build in the meantime.

We are currently at 63% of our monthly fundraising goal for November with 5 days left in the month! If you're able, please consider donating or upgrading to Pillowfort Premium to help keep Pillowfort running, and many thanks to those who have helped out so far.

New Parts & Images for Large Figures

https://armaturenine.com/collections/large-pieces Hey everyone, happy to share that I’ve just finished a new set of improvements to the website. As of now you can see new images in the build-it page for the Ranger figures. These now represent the current state of the designs. I’ve have also added several new pieces including keeping some of the former designs in case anybody prefers getting the older feet with springs or the older knees with screws. To a degree these former pieces are better but I’ve departed form them to save on cost (hence recent $20 drop in prices). But I’ve kept the products listed in case anybody would like to upgrade their figure.

here is a master list of great art tools that can make your workflow easier! 👇 (consistently updating)

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

I know I don't talk much here, honestly I prefer to communicate more through Bluesky or Instagram haha But here's how things have been! This year I decided to go back to Freelancing and doing what I love (as you can probably guess since I've been focusing more on commission work!) and, I'm not gonna lie, things are difficult and different from 2 years ago, before my hiatus.

Been trying to think of ways to help me having a more stable income since I also haven't been lucky and keep getting a lot of rejections.

So here's something I need your opinions and help with! I've been thinking of opening up a Patreon! 🤔 I'd share sketches, WIPs, timelapses/private streams, High Res files (wallpapers and such) but... I don't know really!

What suggestions do you guys have? What would you like to see coming from me? I'd love to know your opinions and ideas!

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

The bot works by deleting any message sent by one of Discord's bot users, namely Domo, InsightFaceSwap, Viggle, and Glifbot. If any other AIs are added, please feel free to let me know so I can add them to the list.

Archebot is free to use, and I encourage other developers to iterate and improve on my code. It's a really simple program, so I will not ask for credit if anyone uses my code or ideas from this project. I'm still looking into long-term hosting solutions, but my current setup should suffice for now.

If you want to use Archebot, ensure that it has the proper roles to view any channels that you would like it to delete AI from. In addition, you must keep the Use External Apps setting enabled. I know the above post says to turn it off, but that makes any message sent by those AI users ephemeral. An ephemeral message is a message only the recipient can see. For example, if you get DC'd from an inactive VC, Discord will send you an ephemeral message saying that "bandwidth doesn't grow on trees". If the message is ephemeral, it cannot be seen by people other than the command user, so it cannot be deleted.

Here is the Github.

SUMMER COMMISSIONS OPEN🫐🌿

Portraits are back!

>I'm forming a queue for June while on vacation till the end of May. 1 open slot for each type!

>Contact me via [email protected]

Commission - Templar Knight Aspen and Gracile the Mage