Feels Like a Warframe Kind of Day

Guards:

NPCs:

(It may have gone unnoticed by some at first, but it’s definitely in there. It’s apparently morse code of … - - - … that translates to an SOS signal. This is the isolated audio of it, but the placement and style of each signal in the tracks themselves are quite telling of the characters.)

Vah Ruta: SOS comes in immediately and is quite loud. Mipha is the most pacifistic of the Champions and would have been the first one to call for help. She’s also more a healer than a fighter and probably stood the least chance of defeating her Blight. She was likely the most terrified in their situation.

Vah Rudania: SOS also comes in immediately but is fainter than in Vah Ruta. Alongside being the least technology-inclined champion, Daruk has a strong sense of family and protection. He likely projected his fainter than the rest as he didn’t want to worry the others.

Vah Naboris: The theme starts out with a jolt of piano keys, followed by the faintest SOS of the four. Urbosa is very proud and, like most Gerudo, was very battle-inclined. Combining that with her Fury means she likely would have lasted longer in her fight and not sent out the SOS immediately. My idea is that Thunderblight was too fast for her and overwhelmed her. She would have been strong enough to defeat it otherwise, and the faint SOS was her attempt to send it as she bled out.

Vah Medoh: Although coming later into the theme than the others, this SOS is most prominent and the fastest. Revali likely lasted the longest in his fight and his prideful nature meant he thought calling for help was underneath him. But he even he was overwhelmed and eventually swallowed his pride to send the message. A comment I read explained it the best. “Revali’s call was rushed. It was frantic and panicked. It was a call only someone who knew they were going to die would make”

In the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the continent of Hyrule is one of the biggest open-world maps ever created, even beating games like Skyrim and the Witcher. But, HOW BIG?

Obvs it’s very hard to get a precise size because the in-game map does not have a scale bar (terrible map skills from that cartographer). HOWEVER, if you climb the Ridgeland Tower there’s a guy up there who is a weeaboo for the Rito, who begs you to glide for him in the name of “research” (what a fucking dweeb am I right?) If you do so, he tells you how many metres you’ve flown before landing. This includes if you simply step off the tower and plummet to the ground in a straight line, and happily for my in-game ankles, the tower is surrounded by water to cushion the many landings I made to bring you this information.

Ten drops gave me a mean average height for the tower at 63.83, median 64.2, so I’m taking it as 64 for ease of Maffs.

For a flight from the tower, I picked a strip of land on the same contour line as the tower base and then flew along that. There was a slightly higher standard deviation in twelve flights because sometimes Link would step nicely over the edge and start gliding and other times he would yeet himself bodily into the sky and then start, and one time gave me an outlier because I got zapped by an electric Wizzrobe that saw me. But over all, flying the same line and hitting pretty much the same landing spot, I got an average of 250.1 metres. I took this as 250, again for ease of Maffs.

Pythagoras’ theorem hit then, so I worked out that the distance from the base of the tower to the landing spot was 242 m. Putting that into Adobe Dreamworks, I could then translate that per pixel of the map I was working with (2.42 metres per pixel.) From there, that allowed me to calculate the area of Hyrule’s land mass, roughly, in pixels and then convert it back, so having done that GUESS WHAT FOLKS

Hyrule is 25,454 km2, or 15,816 sq mi.

Wales, by contrast, is 20,735 km2, or 12,884 sq mil.

So the continent of Hyrule is, it seems, bigger than my entire country to the tune of about one and a quarter times the size.

My latest research is focusing on mapping Hyrule’s weather systems, though, which has yielded some PRETTY INTERESTING RESULTS already, and that certainly falls into areas - the largest of which covers central Hyrule (i.e. Hyrule Field and Ridgeland, the Great Plateau, Lake Hylia and the Faron Grasslands). I attach the following figure for your consideration.

However, the devs of Among Us have asked people to not make merch at the current moment, because it's actually hurting their own store. They are a small group of 3 people who make a game that is free to play. Additional add ons are optional.

People, especially small businesses, should not be stealing from other small businesses. There are so many creators right now who are just blocking people who are letting them know, and it's super frustrating, because that puts all of us in a bad spot and normalizes art theft. So if you see anyone selling Among Us merch.. call them out & don't buy from them.

I even said for the current moment. They have spoken on their individual twitter accounts as well that while they care less about small businesses creating stuff on a small scale, but that it really does need to go on a case-by-case basis. There are a lot of people who are adding flat out copied designs onto print by demand sites such as redbubble, that are not even fan art. They're literally just a crewmates. Or Etsy sellers who are literally just tracing the crewmates & selling them or putting it on t-shirts. This directly competes with their own store.

Day 8 - Fear

So much for not being spotted 😅

Lynels might be the toughest bosses in Breath of the Wild, but there's something about those creepy piano notes and constant beeping that sounds like terror in it's purest form

i’m also a teacher, and a lot of my students are getting into among us because their favorite youtubers are starting to play it. 3 of my 9 year old students were raving to me about it yesterday and bragging about how good they are at being impostor.

This wasn’t a mistake, it was made with children playing it in mind and y’all need to recognize that.

A game that was made with children playing it in mind shouldn’t have people spouting slurs in chat, or people having sexual or political usernames.

I’ve played in public games where some of the ppl admitted to be as young as 10 in chat and not even two minutes later, someone says the n word. It’s not the child’s fault, it’s yours. I don’t care if it’s a public game, you need to behave yourself. Yes parents should look at what their children are playing but it’s literally out of the parents hands about what ppl say on there apart from enabling the censor chat function.