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ladywaterfall · 3 months

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I, for one, will never forget that time i wrote a mlp g2 fanfic in which moon shadow stole an ancient powerful necklace which granted the wearer the ability to see into the future from queen silver rain because moon was an orphan with no friends except dainty dove, who was a pegasus/earth pony hybrid and couldn't fly even after her moult (in this fanfic pegasi have fluffy wings until age 12, then they grow into their flight feathers), but then the leader of the orphanage twinkle star (who was also a pegasus/flutter pony hybrid) got hired by queen silver rain to murder dove, but dove escaped and is now hiding in the woods near the pegasus kingdom, but moon doesn't know that and is planning her revenge on the monarchy.

meanwhile, sundance hates her responsibilities as the princess of the earth ponies, along with her brother firefly and her sister crystal, who has always been overlooked by her parents sunsparkle and night star (who dies while trying to stop moon shadow from escaping with the necklace), until light heart commits arson in the castle during the midsummer day tryouts for a new jester (her popular sister trixiebelle was chosen instead of her) and she ans sundance escape through a secret passage which sunsparkle ordered secret tale and merry moments to build before they ran away to the lost library in the middle of the rainbow forest.

Afterwards sundance meets sweet berry (who is melanistic and has really strong magic) in a cottage in the woods and together they go back to the castle, assuming light heart was captured. they sneak into the castle and watch crystal deliver a prophecy about incoming doom, then sunsparkle tells sundance that sweet berry killed her sibling ivy with her magic. they look for light heart in the dungeons, but instead find moon shadow, who drugged all the guards and she knocks sundance unconscious right before light heart showed up. turns out she had been in hiding in a nearby town. they run away from the scene of the crime and decide to go to the lost library, but not before scaring all the royal guards with sweet berry's magic.

they meet merry moments and secret tale at the lost library, who casually tell light heart that she is a hybrid and that trixiebelle is not her real sister. sundance captures moon shadow and makes her give up the necklace that she took from crystal, and she joins their friend group. merry moments suggests that they should go to the flutter kingdom, because she doesn't recognise the necklace and the flutter kingdom is the most mysterious of all the kingdoms. moon shadow leaves to contact her ex girlfriend dainty dove.

sundance, light heart and sweet berry go to the flutter kingdom, where they meet an exiled border guard named morning glory. she says that the flutter kingdom is an opressive dystopia ever since the old rulers mysteriously disappeared and were replaced by the new queen. morning glory disguses light heart and sweet berry as sundance's government officials and they visit the palace while sweet berry has an existencial crisis about killing ivy by accident five years ago. morning glory breaks into the royal library and finds out that she is actually the lost princess of the flutter ponies, but she rejects this responsibility in favour of escaping with light heart to the unicorn kingdom.

light heart meets her sister dainty dove, moon shadow, crystal (who ran away after sunsparkle tried to use her prophecy powers to declare war on the other kingdoms, and copper glow, who is an outcast from society due to not having magic. together they spy on queen silver swirl, and discover that she is stealing the unicorns' magic in order to conquer the world (why is every ruler in this fanfic trying to conquer the world smh) and that crystal is secretly half unicorn, and that the necklace was worthless all along. all the kingdoms go over and have an epic fight, which the main characters stop of course. crystal also turns her mom into a ghost because yes.

i spent half an hour typing this out.

DROP THE LINK-

but fr there's SO MUCH going on here. I love that you did that.

The corruption of ponies in power. arson. mysterious conspiracies. lost princesses. accidental murder?? turning your mom into a ghost. TRULY iconic. absolutely love it.

#also g2 representation!#truly the first time I have seen night star in anything #the high stakes and drama wow #this reads like the plot of a YA novel OR how we actually played with our toys in childhood #my little pony #my little pony g2 #my little pony fic #g2 mlp

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httpwintersoldier · 2 months

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This might get the pitchforks on me but

I wish people stopped sucking G3's dick just because they have different bodies. Like people love to pretend that G1 wasn't inclusive because they all had the same body as if being different and being inclusive is just about weight. It's annoying.

Yall literally dragged G2 for having basic, lazy, garbage style which is what a lot of G3 has rn. The only reason you're brown-nosing this gen is for different bodies but you can just say "I love the new body representation but the outfits are not it" which is fine and CORRECT! They have so little detail and thought behind them.

Also I'm so tired of new adaptations of old shit that completely change something that already existed, the whole reason MH blew up when it came out was for being so different, but now it's so deyassified and just looks like every cartoon on TV, let these fucking kids watch Bluey and Miraculous!! Stop making our stuff look like shit!!

It's always been a show that focuses heavily on fashion, the song literally says "freaky just got fabulous" and "freaky, chic and fly" and they put a LOT of emphasis on outfits and style and LOOK WHAT THEYVE DONE OMG 😭😭😭 ripped skinny jeans and a beanie 😞😞 iris reincarnated as a 2013 5sos fan

And I don't wanna hear none of this "oh did you wear mini skirts and platforms in high-school" bullshit because I also did not have pink skin, a tail or limbs that detach and reattach so like idk what that argument is

Plus the way the show looks just furthers the argument that no one knows how to style bigger bodies and that when you're curvier what you do is hide the curves and wear long shit thanks byee

#mh #monster high

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fanstuffrantings · 1 year

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I've never mentioned it before but I'm a fan of monster high. I customized dolls and even own some of the og movies on DVD. I very much loved g1 monster high and even liked the updated bodies for g2. I was incredibly wary of g3 monster high going into it and am not a fan of the movie.

That being said, the constant negativity from fans of g1 in every post about g3 is tiring. G3 is cute, it's also way more diverse than g1 or 2 ever was. You're allowed to mourn the loss of the really goth looks of g1, you're allowed to be upset that they're moving away from Cleo and Deuce, you're allowed to mourn Iris' old design.

But stop doing it in spaces designed for positivity. It's common courtesy in fandom spaces to not just constantly try to drag something down because you personally don't like it. Monster high g3 is cute and clearly they care about giving the kids things they enjoy. G1 was out there when it came out, it was subversive which is what it was supposed to be. And g3 is carrying that legacy amazingly well.

Canon disabled representation, Twyla saying she's autistic out right, nonbinary frankie clearly showing their crush on Cleo and cleo very likely reciprocating, body diversity, fem presenting characters being allowed to dress in a nontraditionally feminine way (I love iris' new look honestly she looks so cool to me), as well as giving more gimmicky characters from the og series rounded personalities.

The comments about "g1 one Character wouldn't do this" need to stop. Because obviously they wouldn't but this is g3 and that's a different character. It's also gotten to the point that people will ignore context and not think critically about gifs/characters in g3 just so they can insult anything about it. If you don't like g3, block it. Move on, stop bringing your negativity where it isn't wanted. That's what I do when I don't like something.

#monster high #monster high g3 #molten rambles #text post

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life-in-the-monster-haus · 10 months

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I have some issues with you calling freshwater monster society "cruel and male-dominated". Since we know almost nothing about freshwater monster culture and traditions so we have very little to go on. Also, you are casting judgement on Gil's entire culture. Just because his parents are prejudiced asses doesn't mean that casting judgement on an entire society isn't harmful. And seeing as many interpret Gil as Asian-coded, calling his culture "cruel and sexist" carries additional implications.

This is a fair & lucid critique. I will address it as such.

I based my assumption on Fresh water culture being cruel & male dominated based on what Gil’s parents teach Lagoona in 13 Wishes & what Gil himself has said about them, I have A LOT to go on since I’m not pulling them out if the air. If you read my media analysis on Gil well enough to have an issue with it, you’d know that.

However my assumption MIGHT not be fair, you ARE correct. We ONLY see Gil’s family as our freshwater representation so I don’t exactly have a huge data pool to pull from. Lorna is freshwater but we only get a peak into her home life but her and her (ex?) boyfriend Fin - NOT Finnegan Wake, this guy ⬇️

are ALSO having the same saltwater vs freshwater prejudice problems that Lagoona & Gil had. This is why Lorna asks for Gil’s advice since he’s been there in the Episode “Looks Gil-Ty”Lorna is Gil’s friend. (just, his friend) it’s his job as a good friend to help her.

Most of our other sea monsters in Monster High are family to Lagoona (Kelpie), from the same sea as Lagoona (everybody in Great Scarrier Reef) OR non-descriptive of WHAT water they come from, I COULD be wrong but I don’t think it’s ever stated what body of water Sirena is from. Honey is from freshwater but we get even LESS of a peak into her home life than we do Lorna’s, her parents could be racist too, we don’t know. But I’m not disparaging Freshwater monsters as a whole Gil’s parents are the only bad ones we’ve met so far.

You’re right we don’t know what freshwater culture is like. There is a HUGE lack of information, I agree. But I can’t really DO anything about that, G1 is over, G2 didn’t matter & G3 is probably going to do with a new canon entirely.

So I have to go on what I saw & what I saw was Gil’s family teaching him AND Lagoona when she was freshwater some ancient stuff that does not favor women.

I’m aware Gil is Asian coded I said so in my media analysis several times. It’s also pretty obvious if you look at Gil closely (which no one seems to have done) but his varsity jacket, gym bag and most of his accessories have ”Great Wave” imagery on them also: his father was in the “Koi scouts” so they are heavily implying he’s Japanese. But if you don’t like my theory I got it from another Monster High fan who IS Asian & can correctly identify themes in Gil that I sometimes miss as well as relate to his struggles culturally in ways I just can’t because I don’t have the proper context. My dear friend @peppapigvevo has mentioned they see themes in Gil.

But just for the record… Gil’s parents being racist seems to be a Gil-only problem. Other Asian characters such as Jinafire Long & Kiyomi haunterly don’t have racist parents (as far as I know?) but Lagoona herself specifically stated in 13 Wishes that Freshwater Monsters look down upon Saltwater Monsters.

I don’t create the canon I just analyze it.

#monster high #mattel #mh #lagoona blue #gil webber

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dkpageant12 · 1 day

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silvainjurylawincmerced · 1 year

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autisticmuse · 3 years

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As promised, I have spoken with my psychologist about the point and purpose/use cases of my little health assessment tool I developed. Initially she was concerned that this was a way for me to minimize/distance myself from emotional experiences but after explaining further to her how I use it she endorsed it fully. I cannot stress enough that allowing yourself to healthily experience and work through emotions is critical to developing a healthy sense of self and identity. Understanding when you are healthy enough to handle emotional experiences or being aware that your emotions are going to be disproportionate due to a lower mental health state to help manage experiences can help you to work through and make positive memories out of situations which might otherwise overwhelm and shut you down.

At any rate, this tool is meant as a stepping stone to help train yourself to connecting with your full health and better self care. The more you use it the less you’ll need to ask the questions and be able to answer straight up, “today is a good day,” or “today my mental health isn’t so good, that is why i’m more emotional and i might not be eating well today.” I’ve been doing it for a month and am really seeing a lot of positive impacts in this regard.

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The RGB Self Care Assessment

Disclaimer; The purpose of this assessment is only to assist in better self awareness of the state you are in. Being aware of how you are physically, mentally, and emotionally doing on a day to day basis can help you treat yourself better and establish healthy boundaries. This can also be useful for tracking trends in your health and seeing how deficits or excesses in one or more categories can impact others. This is in no way a diagnostic tool and the RGB color spectrum side of things is entirely optional, but useful for creating an easy visual chart to see trends and patterns. The 9 questions are also not set in stone, feel free to develop your own questions to customize the system for your concerns regarding your health.

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To help practice awareness of my personal health and how I am feeling on a daily basis I developed a simple system of 9 data points, rated 1 through 10, to assess how I am currently doing in three categories. 1 being I am doing poorly at the point in question, 10 being I am doing excellent. After rating the three points of a color category you average them for a result. This, converted to a percentage (i.e. a 6 would be 60%) is then multiplied by 255 (the maximum value of the color in the RGB scale) to give you the final color value for that category (60% of 255 is 153, so Red 153 would be the final value). You can also just estimate where you think the final value is once familiar with the questions and bypass the math.

Each of the three points is accompanied by example questions to help understand the point and better rate it. The purpose is awareness of my own health so as long as I am thinking about the point that is the most important part. The final score/color value is a helpful visual representation.

Red - Physical Health - The purpose of the Physical Health category is to connect with your body and understand the condition you are in.

1. Current Physical Condition - are you healthy, injured, in pain, or uncomfortable? 2. Hygiene - have you been taking care of cleanliness and keeping well groomed? 3. Diet/Hydration - Have you been eating healthy and regularly; are you drinking enough water?

Green - Mental Health - The purpose of the Mental Health category is to connect with your mind and understand if you are experiencing difficulty and shutting down. If you have consumed any drugs or stimulants (coffee, cigarettes, recreational or otherwise) try to answer these 2-3 hours after finishing so that an honest, unaffected answer is achieved

1. Executive Function - How well are you handling day to day tasks and basic life skills? Are you struggling to carry through with simple actions? 2. Motivation/Creativity - Are you having difficulty finding interest in things? Are you shutting down when thinking through problems or simple actions? 3. Focus/initiative - Do you struggle to maintain a thought or interest? Are you having trouble despite motivation to begin a task?

Blue - Emotional Health - The purpose of the Emotional Health category is to connect with your emotions and understand if you are at risk of emotional damage or capable of handling emotionally charged experiences

1. Anxiety/stress - Are you experiencing looping/restrictive thoughts? Are you feeling optimistic or pessimistic? 2. Emotional sensitivity/vulnerability - Are you feeling strong/secure in your emotions? Do you feel that your emotional responses are volatile or uncontrolled? Are you reacting stronger to stimuli than you feel is normal? Do you feel vulnerable? 3. Empathy - Have you emotionally retreated? Do you feel overwhelmed by emotional media or displays (crying at music, etc)? Do you feel open or closed to experiencing emotional things?

An example completion of the RGB assessment: R1 - 5 R2 - 8 R3 - 9 R Average - 7.3 / 10 = 73% * 255 = 187 R Final Value - 187 G1 - 8 G2 - 8 G3 - 7 G Average - 7.6 / 10 = 76% * 255 = 195.5 G Final Value - 195 B1 - 6 B2 - 5 B3 - 4 B Average - 5 / 10 = 50% * 255 = 127.5 B Final Value - 127

(a good website for inputting RGB values and getting a hex or color name is https://www.color-blindness.com/color-name-hue/)

Final RGB value = 187, 195, 127

Misty Moss

A reminder - The color result is of no actual immediate purpose but in general the way the assessment works a well rounded healthy condition should be trending to white while darker colors indicates a trending toward poor health. Brighter saturation of any of the three colors can help indicate defecits and over time trends of how different parts of your health impact others should be easier to notice.

If you made it this far and have any feedback, questions, or comments on the system I’d be happy to discuss them either openly in the comments or privately if you want to DM me. I’d love more feedback on how you would approach this and whether or not you feel it is useful or helping.

#autism #actually autistic #autistic #self assessment #self help #rgb system

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thatnoulguyorsomething · 6 years

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Under the cut, some experiments I did with dithering and different image formats. Dithering used were custom-made ordered dithering and Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithms, formats were converted with ImageMagick.

@dontcode

Images used: a b c (and g, for testing whether the setup works)

Algorithms:

<none> - raw

1. - Ordered dithering

2. - FSDithering

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180218 a .jpg 1125785 a1.jpg 559014 a1.png 2322985 a2.jpg 1107831 a2.png

296933 b .jpg 468685 b1.jpg 263361 b1.png 1068114 b2.jpg 353398 b2.png

297961 c .jpg 542985 c1.jpg 292458 c1.png 1169743 c2.jpg 567005 c2.png

26399 g.png 10335 g1.png 25172 g2.png

in general, jpegging a dithered image greatly increases its size, with barely any difference in quality (with my fetish for dithering, it's a downgrade) it also seems that ordered dithering takes about half the size of floyd-steinberg dithering, and can be similar in size to the original however, in the first case it has a marginally large increase in size for reasons I can't deduce ?!? also, the squares are still off, which causes it to look ugly, make sure they work well!

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updated results: 180218 a .jpg 1184525 a1.jpg 715241 a1.png 2322985 a2.jpg 1107831 a2.png

296933 b .jpg 486222 b1.jpg 286810 b1.png 1068114 b2.jpg 353398 b2.png

297961 c .jpg 579619 c1.jpg 403950 c1.png 1169743 c2.jpg 567005 c2.png

26399 g .png 12556 g1.png 25172 g2.png

there is no distinguishable visual difference between file formats anymore, even with my keen eye and various zoom levels (I mean ok file I can tell which is which, but let's not boast too much) HOWEVER the memory ratio between the formats remains, so that settles it In the case of b, the original image contains no shading and almost no coloring, thus we perceive a reduction in colors leading to an actual REDUCTION in memory used idfk about the others tho Imho ordered dithering doesn't only use less memory than floyd-steinberg dithering, but its visual representations are also much more pleasing I am still intrigued about the source of the original/dithered ratios Also, compare to raw image in png file format (even though I already know it will probably be more)

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1305600 a.png 180218 a.jpg 867569 b.png 296933 b.jpg 1091211 c.png 297961 c.jpg

I am not surprised in the least.

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Thus the clear winner is ordered dithering in .png format!

g.png

g1.png

g2.png

(please keep in mind that tumblr will probably convert the last three to .jpg. so I can’t guarantee you’ll get the same sizes that I had.)

(also, I know it;’s not fair but that is the only image I own the rights to so it’s the only one I post :D I might do some bulk testing when I’m back home, so that’ll be more general.)

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slapegg · 6 years

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Quick Critique: Guacamelee 2

I highly recommend playing Guacamelee 1 first, which is a-okay because it's one of my favorite PS3 games. The intro to G2 is a bit on the slow side but by the time you hit the first dungeon, things are popping off and the challenge rooms are right up there with the ones from the end of Guac 1. When Guacamlee decides to get difficult, it has an amazing ability to be teeth-grindingly frustrating while making you laugh and have fun at the same time. G1 had hard bonus rooms, but it was a fair hard because you can see what they're going for and what they want you to do, you just need to up your skills and be able to do it. For a game about tight platforming and really impactful upgrade abilities, the first new ability in G2 is pretty bad. It's not fun, it's finicky, and you don't have complete control over it at all times. The best sequences the game has are you expertly stringing together your moves to weave through intricate hazards but the new power is a fling move that's based on your angle away from the grapple point so it feels... physics-y when all your other moves are super tight. How far away you can be from a grapple point to activate the move feels random or unresponsive at the worst of times and it leaves you repeating puzzles because it wouldn't activate at the proper angle and you dropped to your doom or flung yourself too high and into spikes. G2's hardest challenge is a heavily timed segment using the fling move over and over but I died over and over because the character would grapple the air instead of grabbing the grapple point or the grapple point behind me would activate instead of the one I wanted to grab. The entire segment lacked the tension of the original Tule Tree because I felt like I was fighting the game and controls rather than the objective. You can't customize your controls and the default isn't great. Part of the problem is that there are just too many controls and combinations of buttons. You have multiple special moves mapped to the same button, which is fine and works well, but then you have a different state to morph into and that has its own set of special moves, and then there's a second special move button related to wall moves, and changing dimensions on top of that. The controls are a mess. If all they did was cut out the chicken state, I think I'd be cool with it. It was a funny joke in the first game but now that they've tried to turn it into a major gameplay element, it's just more clutter than fun.

The art is a mixed blessing. Drinkbox is up to some sorcery with how amazing they are at applying lighting effects to 2D objects. The game just looks fantastic and awash in colors and sparkles everywhere you look. But that also means a lot of scenes are overloaded with lights and objects fighting for your focus. You'll frequently run into hazards that are hard to pick out or get hit by a projectile that passed behind some effect or decoration and you couldn't see it until it was too late. there will be fights where multiple enemies with different kinds of shields, fire, and explosions or other VFX will all overlap and you lose track of it all and can't see your character. You just kind of button mash and hope you make your way out for a breather.

The new story and characters are good, but they don't have the impact of the original villains. Every member of Calaca's crew was memorable and Calaca himself was a fun really evil villain. In G2, only one member of the bad guy's crew is any fun and Salvador himself barely feels like an entity. You never see him do anything other than posture. For the vast vast majority of the game, your task is to hunt down a dying man. Yeah, he's evil and all but if you just stalled, he'd probably drop dead on his own. Not much a menacing figure. The overall story leans heavy on multiverse shenanigans but they don't have much fun with it. It just leads to lots of Family Guy quality references and doubles down on the goat guy, who continues to be just the worst. They do let you switch costumes practically from the start and you get to play as X'tabay! But her hair is tied up in a bun! BOOO! She has amazing video game hair, let it flow like the majestic waterfall that it is.

As mentioned, Guacamelee 2 is still loaded down with references again, but they're more heavily video gamey than just memes this time so that's... better. In the first ten minutes, they hit you with Limbo to Bad Dudes to Double Dragon to River City Ransom to Bad Dudes AGAIN. It's a really bad first impression ,but it thankfully cools down a little bit after that but there's still a steady stream of it everywhere you go. When you're free of the references, the game is actually very funny so I don't know why they're leaning on these lazy references. Guacamelee has one of the most likable representations of Satan and there are characters whose whole bit is that they tell terrible skeleton-based puns but those bad puns are funnier than any of the TV and game references crammed in. There's a whole area devoted to mocking the players that complained about the use of memes in the first game but... most of the complaints are legitimate. There were too many memes, they weren't funny, they were outdated by the time most people played the game, and the rest of the writing was better than relying on a Robot Chicken level reference to an Internet picture. None of those complaints are invalid but the game expects you to take the developer's side and think the people telling the company to not use memes are the ones that are wrong and jerks.

The writing feels less like a celebration of Mexican culture than the first game. G1 felt like it was honoring Mexican lore but having some loving fun with it but G2 falls back on stereotypes and tacos a bit too quickly.

I got every Trophy save for two. One requires you to juggle an enemy six times in a row with a specific move, but if you've maxed out all your skills all the enemies die before you get to six hits. The other trophy is for beating the game on hard, but... I don't know if I really want to play through it a second time. Maybe I'll get bored on the weekend and get the Platinum, but Guac 1 left me wanting more and Guac 2 wore out its welcome. I was able to beat it 100% in just under 9 and a half hours. That puts me at number 22 on the Speed Run leaderboards but the game wouldn't let me upload my time. Even though I'm connected to the Internet, it keeps telling me I'm not and prompting me to connect. If the game won't let me upload a score because I don't have PS Plus, that is some serious BS. Every dungeon seemed like you could cut out a third of it and it would be a lot better.

G2 is a good game, but it's not as good as the first one. That's still good praise. Guacamelee 1 is one of the best PS3 games, so for the sequel to be good but not one of the best, they still made a fine game that's worth your time. But where I'd recommend Guacamelee 1 to anybody to show why this is my favorite genre, I'd only recommend Guac 2 to somebody that's already a fan. They succumbed to the pressures of a sequel. Instead of just taking what was great about the first game and just making more of it (which is all I wanted), they added extra features that weren't as refined and the game feels a bit cluttered for it, but then the maps are so much bigger that I was discouraged from doing multiple mid-game clean-ups for chests and upgrades. You can't just make your map bigger without having more fast travel and a better way to track progress. The music is good, but all the best tracks are just remixes of the first game. I regularly listen to G1's soundtrack, but with G2 it's hard to pick out what's new and different. Guac 1 just needed to get rid of the memes, have the final boss fights not be total trash, and improve the late game combat so it wasn't just slapping shields on existing enemies and pumping up their health. For all the areas that G2 could have improved upon the original, they ignored those things and didn't fix the original's main problems.

#guacamelee #guacamelee 2 #drinkbox #drinkbox studios

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237331creativecultures-display · 4 years

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Week 6 PREAMBLE

PREAMBLE[1]

Proposals inform people about an exhibition you would like to develop. Putting a proposal together helps you flesh out your own ideas, and will help others clearly see what you intend to produce. This document also requires that you contextualise your thinking by drawing on content and ideas introduced in the 237.331 course, alongside material you locate on the concepts and concerns that are the focus of your topic.

This is a project for a hypothetical exhibition. You take on the role of curator. The aim is not about developing an exhibition of your own creative practice, but it is intended to extend your inquiry, knowledge and understanding of fields of interest in your degree.

This assignment is also designed to help you to develop skills for writing proposal(s) and application(s) in the industry sector, the art world, and the community.

§ Expected hours of project: Weeks 6 – 11 = 45 hours independent + 15 hours class contact

Contents

A. Exhibition overview

B. Curatorial processes

C. Ethics and/or kaupapa

D. Potential audiences and outreach

E. Budget (estimate, indicative)

F. Visual support

G. Bibliography

Name

Student ID

Exhibition Title

Location(s)

Date of event(s)

Section A: Exhibition Overview

A1. Exhibition Overview

A succinct statement of the exhibition idea/concept, its theme, the subject areas it covers, and why it is worthy of taking forward. [150-175 words]

A2. Objectives `

What are the key objectives of the exhibition? [50-100 words]

A3. Venue / site / location

The venue or site of your exhibition is a critical ingredient to its success. Explain why have you chosen the particular or specific venue or site? [75-150 words]

Section B: Curatorial Processes

B1. Curatorial Position In this section you will explain what types of decisions are guiding your curation processes. This includes explaining the relationships you seek to build in your selection of items within the exhibition. Use the following sub-titles to assist your explanations. [250-300 words in total]

What: Briefly introduce/overview the items of your exhibition in general terms. (The details of your exhibition items are placed in Part F Visual Support).

How: Explain why you have selected the particular items, then explain how the selection helps you to build an overall narrative / curatorial statement.

Narratives and Storytelling: What is the main narrative and its conceptual threads or issues? What relationships does your curating seek to achieve with and between exhibition items?

What: Explain what is represented in your exhibition/display? What is significant about these representations?

Who: Representation: Who is represented and why are they important?

Affect, atmosphere, emotional connections: What do you envisage are the intended qualities of the exhibition on the viewer/visitor/user? And how do intend to achieve this in the exhibition (eg spatially, lighting, sound, etc)? These details can be elaborated on in Section F (below).

B2. Context & other literature

This section contextualises your ideas in relation to the wider field of exhibition and curatorial practices by drawing on a relevant body of existing literature and knowledge. Here, you are asked to demonstrate wider knowledge that informs your curatorial project including the types of exhibitions or displays that exist and are similar to your own ideas, the work of curators or curatorial strategies that inform and help you shape your own project?

Use course resources as well as draw on wider research material. Write this as an integrated and synthesized discussion. [650-800 words]

Section C: Ethics and/or the Kaupapa guiding your project.

C. Demonstrate awareness for ethical concerns

Read through the various documents on Codes of Ethics and Kaupapa Māori Principles. See the folder called Kaupapa Māori –Principles – Ethics. This is on the Stream site for PDFs & URLs. Also, work through the modified Ethics Screening Questionnaire. If your answer to any question(s) is YES, write the question out below and write an understanding of the nature of potential risks involved that you can identify. [no word limit]

Section D: Potential audiences and outreach

D1. Audience/Market Analysis

Target audience

Outline who the exhibition seeks to attract. For example, the exhibition may target specific individuals, particular community groups, families, students, specialists in the field, etc. What projected weekly audience attendance figures do you anticipate? Identify and discuss audience demographic, be as specific as you can. [50-150 words]

D2. Exhibition Outreach Programmes

Discuss exhibition outreach and additional or supplementary programmes that may stem from this project. List any accompanying public programmes that will run in conjunction with the exhibition, such as: floor-talks, workshops, education programmes, family activities, tours, etc. [75-150 words]

D3. Documentation and publication record

How will you document the exhibition as a lasting record? Is this important? If not, why not? Do you intend to publish a catalogue, or documentary, or any other output? Who would be commissioned to write for this? [50 -125 words]

D3. Exhibition Outreach [75-150 words]

Indicate collaborations with other museums, individuals, commercial industries, organisations, or iwi: This could include loan of objects from other museums, individuals or organisations, any consultation undertaken in developing the concept, public programmes, exhibition development. Explain how the support might be acknowledged.

Other venues: Discuss/note the potential for other sites and venues your exhibition project might also travel to, be displayed and seen in.

Marketing and communications: Describe how you will promote the exhibition for example, online, story in local newspaper, radio, museum newsletter, posters, flyers.

Evaluation methods: Explain how you could assess visitor feedback on the exhibition: for example visitor numbers, anecdotal comments, visitor surveys, etc.

Section E: Budget

E1. List all exhibition requirements, prepare a budget of approximate costs.

Itemise expenditure under the fields provided, and add/delete rows as appropriate. Justify exhibition expenditure in broad terms below. Note that these are indicative fields only. Staff may advise on how this form can be adjusted depending on your projects. While there is not an explicit budget provided for you to work within, the objective is to demonstrate some degree of awareness of actual costings. [This section is not counted as part of your overall word count]

Item

Quantity

Cost $

Materials

Fabrication costs

Contractors, assistant(s), casual employment[2]

Participating artist's/designer’s fees

Loans fees

Freight Costs

Research and writer and editor costs (labels etc.)

Consumables 1. (electricity, rates, venue hire, transportation, etc.)

Consumables 2. (list any additional items that will attract a cost, e.g. costume hire, photocopying)

Catering

Miscellaneous

Total estimate costs excluding GST:

Income/revenue (what might your exhibition and related programme earn)

E2. Potential funding avenues

Please list at least 4 x potential sources you might apply to in order to fund this project.

Section F: Visual Support - the nature and scope of your exhibition

[This section is not counted as part of your overall word count]

F1. Floor plans and visual support

Work to a range of between 5-10 exhibition items. Any less defeats the need to demonstrate skills with the scope of the assignment, any more creates too large and demanding project for you to complete necessary details.

Include floor plans to show the layout of exhibition/display items, and/or include maps to indicate exterior site location(s). Create a system that can reference each exhibition item on the floor plan or map. This will allow for cross-referencing between the proposed layout/floor plan/map, with each ‘thing’ marked in its place and the content provided in the following section, below.

F2. List of exhibition items/artefacts/works

Provide a visual list of items each item with a caption. Aim to keep list to 1-2 pages.

Also produce a MLA Works Cited list of all of the items. This includes providing details of each item and also identify if the artefacts/items are on loan from public or private collections, or the provenance of exhibition items. This list will cross-reference to your exhibition layout or map.

Section G: Bibliography

Draw from course set texts and other credible sources you have located to support your A2. Project Proposal. Use MLA bibliographic style for in-text citations (quotes and paraphrasing). Visual representations require MLA style captions.

[This section is not counted as part of your overall word count]

G1. Annotated Bibliography

In support of your investigation, ideas and research include an annotated bibliography of at least 3 texts [75-200 words each text].

G2. Extended Bibliography

Includes resource material cited in the body of proposal, and all other sources that have informed this project assignment.

[1] Acknowledgment: This document has been developed by 237.331 staff guided by project proposal briefs held in the public domain (Te Papa National Services Te Paerangi, and Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa).

[2] If you require casual assistant(s) for your project use a living wage hourly rate ($21.15/hour in 2019). If you require casual employment for specialised task (e.g. models) use a rate of $27.00/hour.

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MCO: Selected sectors allowed to resume business – workshops, service centres and automotive exports

The Malaysian government has agreed to reopen selected economic sectors for business, which will take place under strict guidelines for health and movement with the implementation of the latest phase of the movement control order until April 28, announced by prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in his special speech to the nation at 4pm today.

The prime minister said he understands that the country’s economy has been affected by restrictions applied to entrepreneurial and manufacturing activities during the enforcement of the MCO, and added that a special cabinet committee will be formed to study the list of economic sectors that will be selected to reopen for business in stages.

The reopening of selected economic sectors does not mean that the conditions of the MCO is being slackened, the prime minister stressed, reiterating that the order remains in force and all directives issued by the authorities must be obeyed, and breaches will result in the revocation of approvals.

Following the announcement of the MCO extension, the ministry of international trade and industry (MITI) has issued a statement, in which it lists industries and activities permitted for the latest phase. For the automotive industry, activities are limited to the export of CBU vehicles, tools and components as well as after-sales service, such as workshops and service centres.

Other industries listed include heavy machinery, aerospace, construction and construction-related industries, scientific, professional and technical services including research and development (limited to legal representation services, oil and gas services, Covid-19-related R&D activities and laboratories and test facilities (for permitted sectors only), social health services including registered traditional and complementary medicine practitioners.

Permission has been given for the additional sectors to operate based on their importance in the global value chain and the country’s exports, to ensure the stability of export activities; the activity of economic sectors with high value-added multipliers; their impact on the sustainability of SMEs in the economic sector, particularly in manufacturing and services; and the size of workforce involved.

For the end consumer, also on the ‘permitted’ list are hardware stores, electric and electronic good stores and optometrists, for wholesale and retail activities only. Laundry services are listed too (full service only; not self-service), and basic hairdressing services for cuts only – we will all need a haircut soon, don’t we?

This doesn’t mean that activation is automatic – companies in the sectors listed above will have to apply for clearance. They can submit their application for authorisation beginning Monday, April 13, 2020 from 9am. All applications must be made online through MITI’s website, and only applications which are complete and fulfil the conditions will be processed, the ministry said.

Sectors to be considered for approval to operate:

Automotive industry

Export of CBU vehicles

Components

Aftersales services e.g. maintenance

Heavy machinery

Aerospace

Construction projects

(i) Projects where main contractors are G1-G2 contractors

(ii) Projects at completion of 90% or higher

(iii) Tunneling works

(iv) Maintenance works

(v) Slope maintenance

(vi) Emergency works as stipulated in contractual agreements

(vii) Works to maintain, clean and removal of stagnant water, pesticide spraying at work sites to combat breeding of Aedes mosquitoes and other parasites

(viii) Other works which, if incomplete, will pose danger

(ix) Construction projects with IBS scores of 70 and above

(x) Construction projects with centralised workers’ quarters or workers’ camps

Scientific, professional and technical services, including research and development

Limited to legal representation services, oil and gas services, Covid-19-related R&D activities and test facilities for permitted sectors only

Social health services including registered traditional and complementary medicine practitioners

Hardware stores, electric and electronic good stores and optometrists, for wholesale and retail activities only

Basic hairdressing services (haircuts only)

Full-service laundry (self-service laundry not allowed)

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