Time's Eclipse

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Did some Americans or right-wingers dowe here get pissy or something? What a bunch of babies. TV One should be ashamed of capitulating to accusations of misrepresenting a fascist.

Just thinking about how they got rid of Campbell Live years ago during the last National government.

Who needs accountability, right?! Fuck oversight and standards!! WOOOOOO

fuck this fucking government

A complaint sent by the BSA to The Platform was published on the online Platform's website, outlining concerns raised about allegedly "unacceptable racist comments". The letter from the BSA stated it "has found it has jurisdiction" to consider a complaint about The Platform's live talkback programme on the basis the transmission of the programme met the definition of 'broadcasting' in the act. NZ First leader Winston Peters said at the time it was "blatant overreach" by the BSA and "highly concerning". The BSA had since concluded it did have jurisdiction over the online media service The Platform, and published a decision saying it could consider a complaint about the show because the programme "meets the act's definition of 'broadcasting'".

Like gee how interesting that they call calling out racism "blatant overreach".

This only benefits the racists and the libertarians.

What's a side quest that was better than the main story?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

The only shiny object here is me.

Call Your Witnesses

WEBSITE | FURAFFINITY

Houuuugh. Oh god at last. All of the "main party" in Witness to Unity have portraits now.

I'm going hough because I really feel this shoudn't have taken this long!! I completed Ivan/Arin/Metia's portraits in January of 2022. I did the flat colours of the Link characters (everyone else) somewhere around November. It has taken until 2026 to shade them.

Hell is too gentle for my executive dysfunction.

In the very least, allow me this opportunity to give a short overview of everyone here~.

At long last, I have conquered the Crop and Flatten. This marks the release of version 2.4 of my Portrait System. There are several drastic changes that have been made, though the ultimate functionality remains the same.

Complete refactoring of the Portrait class thanks to help from my friend Kistaro.

The Portrait is now correctly Flattened by... being a separate method wrapping the Displayable. It's honestly ridiculous how simple this is.

Text blip system redone to play a repeated sound rather than a loop, so it'll slow down if the text itself is slower, and does not play when the menu is open.

Speaker definition now a single tuple argument to create less cruft.

I know I get bothered by this sort of thing a lot, like how on Twitter it was purely up to other people retweeting my stuff if they saw it at 4am my time, but Tumblr is just. I dunno.

i suppose my question is, do you know how to or would you consider adding a feature that allows for hairstyles or a top layer to be swapped out? im hoping to make a game with a metric butt ton of alternate outfits and i figured alt hair that can go over the eyes and mouth (like for masks and such) would save on disk space while giving a lot of flexibility for character sprites. as someone who actually knows what the flip they're doing whats ur take? again, not urgent, so you dont need to grace this with an answer if ur not feelin like it 👍 (ps i really like ur art style! ur color palettes are GORGEOUS)

awawawa, it always surprises me to hear people using the Portrait System script. (My own Ren'py endeavours are so neglected.)

So while I don't intend to implement alternate outfits/hair/etc into the script itself, it shouldn't be too hard to do using Ren'py's existing functions - by using Composite.

image tamati neutral grey = Flatten(Composite((744, 1787), (0, 0), Portrait("tamati", "neutral", (298, 209), (339, 277)), (0, 0), "char/tamati/neutral_greyhair.png"))

In this example, besides Flatten, Composite takes arguments for image dimensions, and then pairs of co-ordinates and image objects. So it's using neutral Tamati's dimensions, 0, 0, neutral Tamati's portrait, 0, 0, and then a haphazard edit to bleach his hair.

Composite is what I messed with originally for eyes/mouth stuff, but I felt it would be unnecessarily wordy for how many possible expressions a given game might have.

However I will admit that this actually runs into the same problem, but instead with other parts of a portrait. You'd need to make alternate image arguments for every alternate outfit that exists per portrait. Per combination too.

You might be able to set the secondary layers to a variable, but off the top of my head I'm not sure how you'd do that, and it might require delving into dynamic displayables.

Sorry, I guess this is a long-winded way to say "you can do this with existing Ren'py stuff but I'm not sure I plan to implement this feature into the script itself". (Unless whenever I get to Twelve Thousand I realise this will be really helpful personally.)

Do not fucking believe anything National or ACT tries to pull.

Tell everyone - especially ridiculous swing voters worried about the "cost of living" - not to believe anything National or ACT tries to pull.

Tell everyone about every way they have hurt us, remind them of everything they've done. The school lunches, the anti-treaty bill, the anti-queer sentiment, the suppression of historical accuracy in schools, the worsening health system, the bias towards landlords, the FBI office, the fact they are importing populist US-style rhetoric into this country...

There are so many things people need to remember, and to hold them accountable for. They must not be allowed to win.