#credit where it's due

[sparrow-in-the-field]

I decided to venture on Pinterest in my search for boys in the boat content and while there is not much, this was one of the top results and IT'S LIKE A RENAISSANCE PAINTING??

The closest thing to credit I can give is that it looks like it was from a local Seattle news site but now the article itself seems to be gone (this is why Pinterest is an evil place, I want to give credit!).

Anyway. I feel very normal and am definitely not going to immediately change my profile pic to this. Great frame from the film, good job random Seattle news outlet.

#the boys in the boat #joe rantz #bobby moch #don hume #arms #i can't believe i found the singular best frame from this movie on the hell site of Pinterest of all places #credit where it's due #I'm sorry i couldn't do better than that #I'm just starved for boys in the boat content #I'm supposed to be working

[starchaserdreams]

Potential Unpopular Opinion Alert:

I like All The Young Dudes: Sirius' Perspective by Rollercoaster words better than the original

#what mskingbean89 created is incredible #credit where it's due #but i am so obsessed with Sirius' complete and utter obsession with remus and the fact that remus isn't picking up on it #he's fascinated from the first second #but I've spent half the book so far wishing that i could get a copy of Sirius's perspective to *show to remus* #he needs to read it because he doesn't think he's important to Sirius #but he is THE MOST IMPORTANT #marauders #marauders era #dead gay wizards #all the young dudes #atyd #wolfstar #sirius black #remus lupin #remus lupin x sirius black

[siyratiin]

yeah that's really interesting but did you know that the long grass shimmers in the sunlight, as the wind combs through the fields like gentle waves in a great calm sea of green. But, all of my memories are about the people, George, Donte, and of course my new family. Flowers die, the trees fall. The house can change brick by brick till nothing of the original remains. Everything changes. So, home is not the walls or the gardens, Home is the souls within those walls. Home is the memories made on this spot. "Home" is not a place, "Home" is a feeling.

#so I watched bbc ghosts s5 ep2 for the 3rd time #god I love that poem so much #poem by lady button #credit where it's due #bbc ghosts #lady button #rex rambles #dont know if this counts as spoilers but ill tag it anyways #bbc ghosts spoilers #bbc ghosts season 5 spoilers #bbc ghosts s5 spoilers #bbc ghosts s5

[bookishtheaterlover7]

I listened to the audio of the video, it's satisfying hearing the paparazzi calling for Chris and no one else. 🤭

Because she's a nobody.

And the fact that somebody credited her shower porn as her work makes it even better 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

#An🫶n asks #booky reacts #booky answers #chris evans #chris evans fandom #Team Chris #CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

[hollowboobtheory]

haven't seen the pjo series and i probably won't but i do really appreciate that grover is the lovable nonthreatening best friend character who slowly gets more badass over the course of the series and neither adaptation defaulted to casting a white actor. i just think that's nice.

#i mean the 2010 movie fucked him up in some other ways but #credit where it's due #beck rambles

[mcat720]

The Batman deserves so much more love this awards season than it’s been given. This was the best comic book adaptation/ action/ crime/fantasy movie of not only the 2022 year, but the last 10 years. Don’t get it twisted 🖤🦇

#robert pattinson #the batman #zoe kravitz #apprication post #hot damn #my batman #sexy af #my favorites #colin farrell #best of 2022 #all the awards #matt reeves #im ded bye #actors #bestofthebest #give them all the awards #credit where it's due

[pearl484-blog]

On Buddy Simulator 1984's Text Adventure Game

Buddy Simulator 1984 is a video game where you play a series of increasingly complex games with your "Buddy", a "learning" AI, who drops increasingly worrisome red flags that he's not the most stable, and has issues. It is about 90% a top-down rpg horror game, with a few bits of non-rpg elements. It's fun, quirky, but also unsettling at times with a lot of dark comedy.

I'd easily recommend it, especially if you are someone who has gone through at least the basics of programming and video game design. This thing is a labor of love, but you'll recognize the programming exercises at the beginning and the game's satire on poor video game design during the rpg segments.

That being said, I REALLY want to praise the text adventure game. It lasts for about 2% of the game. You'd easily forget it, if it wasn't right at the intro and so different than the later parts.

For those who do not know, a text adventure game a very underrated type of video game genre where you interact with a game by directly typing your responses to various situations directly into the interface. The video game itself is a series of messages sent to you by the computer games as a response as to what you put in. There are no graphics. Just text.

It is cheap, good to learn beginner-level programming in, and allows a lot of creativity since, like novels and other purely written media, it relies solely on the user's imagination and the text.

HOWEVER, it has a lot of cons.

1. a lot of video game users are put off by the lack of graphics. Video games are very different immersion wise from books, and this step between can be very discomforting to modern players.

2. Text adventures are one of the easiest ways to teach new programmers (especially those who want to go into video game design) why limiting what your players can do is a good thing.

This leads into two cons. There is a relatively small hurdle to go over to program one of these things so it's a good intro to programming, but that means that a lot of programmers will be publishing their first work here.

As any artist in ANY medium can tell you, your first work, heck your first few works are going to suck. It's a fact of life. Wanna draw? You'll have to get past your stick people and wobbly circle phase. Wanna sing? You'll be squeaky and pitchy at first. Play an instrument? Those wrong notes are going to be common. And programming is HARD.

So, you'll have problem 3a: it's a lot programmers' first few pieces so issues with writing, creativity, themes, and code will be common. You'll have to wade through a lot of muck to find the gems.

Then, problem 3b: An inexperienced programmer almost never realizes just how many different ideas a player is going to have. In order to play the game, you have to have a response to each one. But if you're inexperienced, you may not realize that an interaction that seems obvious to you may not work for a player. Or a player might use synonyms to the action you want or misspell or just not know their options. Depending on the system they're using, they might even use different capitalizations and cause errors that way.

Watching a new programmer watch a player playtest his game is like watching someone slowly implode as they realize how differently this player will think and how many different ways this user will screw over hours and hours of work. Most video game genres avoid this by limiting what a player can do, but a text adventure can't, and if there's no help screen for a list of commands and interactable objects, your player will be furious, your programmer (if they see the player/playtest/get feedback) will be frustrated, and the game is going to be hard, just because of the interface.

It's a lesson any programmer worth their salt needs to learn, but it's a hard one. It'll break some programmers if they have no guidance or reassurance that this is normal. This is expected.

And all of this leads up to my argument that the text adventure in Buddy simulator is AWESOME.

A lot of people think the first 4 games (5 if you count Buddy's "game" of looking at a piece of text he found in his files) suck and are boring. And yes, the first 3 games are simplistic child's games, but clearly have much more effort than they needed to in them.

For example, rock, paper, scissors is an easy game that is commonly used to teach young progammers how to use a very basic random number generator and evaluate values. Typically, the programmer would just write rock/paper/scissors for each person (or have the user use a 1: rock/2: paper/3:scissors menu to prevent the risk of misspellings) and write you win/lose/tie to show the results. The creator went the extra mile and used ASCII art (where you make images out of the characters on the keyboard) to animate the hand gestures you'd use in a real life game.

The text adventure though was made by someone who was EXPERIENCED and a pro. It has a fully functioning help menu which lists all available commands. All interactable items are in all-caps so they are easily visible. The hint system isn't so obvious it's condescending, and because it's "your buddy" it had a personality I genuinely enjoyed and added a new layer to your game. All of the solutions made sense in a video game way, and I really only had trouble with one puzzle (interface wise) which I could easily brute force since the interface was so user-friendly. It was creative, quirky, and very playable.

It avoided all the common pitfalls of a text adventure game, and I would EASILY recommend Buddy Simulator 1984 to any beginner programmer learning text adventure programming (a vital step in many video game programmers' education) just for that text adventure alone. The programmer of that section knew their text adventures and ACED it. The fact that it's dismissed for being "boring" and not "video-game"-y enough saddens me, and so I'm giving it kudos here.

Congrats Buddy Simulator 1984, for giving a fine example of a text adventure, and your later rpg elements ain't half bad either. I'll give you the best of kudos. This game was a product of love and passion, and you deserve love for your underrated text game.

#buddy simulator 1984 #sci fi game #text adventures #programming #would reccomend #Recommendation #credit where it's due

[nautilusopus]

watching people realise how awful the dialogue and story in crisis core is in real time now that rick gomez is no longer around to sell some of the more egregious moments and STILL not realising this is not a problem unique to ccr

#i mean fuck #credit where it's due #it says a lot to how good his performance was that it took this fucking long for people to realise how shit the game was #squid alienates vii fans

[babysgarage]

lord knows i'm not jumping at chances to give bbc sherlock any praise for anything but damn that soundtrack really is recognizable

#i don't have spotify premium which means i don't get to decide what i listen to on spotify and thats what it played me #credit where it's due

[angryhideouthideout]

Cheers!

gif credit to @bunhead4life, @younger-tvland, and @tvlandgirl

#liza x josh #josh x liza #liza miller #youngertv #there was a desperate need for more liza and josh content #but I don't make gifs #credit where it's due #sutton foster #nico tortorella #1x01 #1x03 #2x08 #3x04 #they were endgame <3 #otp: it's always been you

[flightofthefaeriedragon]

Thank you, Tumblr, for putting my followed tags back in the search page. <3

#Tumblr #credit where it's due #please don't break it again

[louhinks]

i've taken to drawing AW2 culinary crimes whilst i am beaten unconscious by art block. bon appetit

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #aw2 spoilers #tim breaker #remedy games #shitpost #my art #fanart #alan wake fanart #due credit to the sicko on reddit that actually did the 3rd picture #i also realise now nobody outside of the uk eats pickled mussels lol #i see all these recipes with spices n shit WRONG 2 ingredients mussels + malt vinegar #drink the vinegar #contemplate where you went wrong in your life #where was i going with this

[bookshelfdreams]

ppl acting like izzy didn't get to experience true happiness when he got to look the british empire in the face and call it a rancid, syphilitic cunt, what more could you possibly want

#one of the top moments of the whole season you go you horrible rat bastard (affectionate) #this is an izzy hands appreciation post. credit where credit is due. #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #count your blessings people

[mipexch]

comic about v2 and the goal they'll never fully reach alongside a dissatisfying conclusion. intimate rivalry and all (alternative ending comic. V1 dies instead of V2 during 4-4. V2 is narrating. V1 is dead.)

#high of victory drops to an overwhelming crushing feeling of what comes next now that youre done #if it wasnt clear v2 is trying very hard to put v1 back together after it kills them. very very poorly. weight of your actions hits #v2 #v1 #ultrakill #v4v #heavy implied at the very least. see as you will #i realize now that the writing is very disconnected and so are the drawings but bear with me here. do you see my vision #theres something going on between these two that is beautiful but also extremely codependent #at least on v2s end #tried to do those two descriptive pages in a way where it went like. 2 - 3 small details about v1. and then something very specific. some- #-thing theyd only know if they paid close attention to how the other acted or looked #took me a few days to put together and im pretty happy with it i think #feel free to dub or do whatever as long as you gimme credit where credits due #there are many ways to interpret v2 and this is one of them #gen art

[marypsue]

The thing is, it’s impossible to not have themes in your writing. The damn things pop up like mushrooms anywhere they detect the slightest hint of Story, even if you actively try to avoid them. And if you don’t thoughtfully choose which ones to cultivate and which ones to prune, that’s when the dry rot sets in and your whole house collapses. 

#something stephen king failed to understand at least early in his career #credit where it's due the duffers are quite good at putting together a plot at least sometimes #they're just absolute ass at handling themes #and yeah it's harder to engage with your themes when you don't have a set endpoint in mind from the beginning #but! importantly! not impossible!

[kamenwriter]

#toqger #wagon #ressha sentai toqger #sorry for the bird site but I wanted to give credit where it was due