Coral Island gameplay and Sims are taking the backseat for me for a while- after being busy with school i got dengue and now I can't stay still long enough to play or work on anything. My game is also currently broken so I can't do anything 🥹
I got a new hyperfixation tho- Love and Deepspace 🥹 while I was hospitalised my friend was sending me screenshots for fanfic inspos (I guess my brain just wants to work on something new) it kept me sane throughout too tbh so I was really grateful
She based her character off one of my sims- Asami and now we have this whole new AU for sami and the boys 🩷😂
I don't know if or when I'll post them, but I just wanted to post this as some sort of intro- since I'll be reblogging some LnD content from time to come. I'll finally put that Ao3 account to use 😂 if it's still there that is 🤞🏻
As for Coral Island, also have some one shots in my draft 🩷 so you'll be seeing wakuu x minji here first before you will in my sims story on simsta 😂
I got a new pc so there's a high chance that I'll restart Minji's gameplay again skdbfjenkjxjds but we'll see 🥹 hopefully I'll successfully transfer my save over 🤞🏻 (i know there's the cloud but looking at how my year's been anything can happen)
Okay that's all xx
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I've been working on my game #NotSSGame about 3.5 years now, and I just got a world map draft done that I'm happy with, so I'm gathering ref images to make hundreds of props now in Blender. I'm studying Bethesda's Creation Kit as reference for how to name and organize all the 3d models (props PRP, entities ENT, setpieces STP, structures STR, landscapes LND, vehicles VEH, etc. is my own naming scheme I'm using), and I'm prepping to make hundreds of character models using AI generated portraits I created on Artbreeder. I've done tests, and I can drop them into Character Creator 3 with the Headshot plugin (CC3+HS totals about $600), and it uses AI to automatically generate rigged game ready character models with like 56 blend shape facial expressions, at a really high AAA fidelity - these character models even have a tearline in the eyes, which gives a lot of believability. To pay a professional to do 1 character at this quality would take like 3 weeks and hundreds of dollars, if not thousands, I've read. It's a new age now for low-budget storytellers.
So here's a screenshot from Blender of my world map and a picture of a character face I generated in CC3 (the entire body is generated, with good topology, too, and rigged, not just the face). Before snapping this image I easily posed her face in a way to give the impression of a subtle emotion, and it works really well. Character Creator 3 is expensive but very worth it as a game dev tool. I won't be using this AAA quality of characters probably since my style will be a bit more low poly and painterly, but being able to auto generate entire character bodies and faces in a few clicks, is an awesome start that I can use as a base or that I can use as reference for creating my own models from scratch later on. Also here's an image of the portraits folder of my characters. That "yearbook" image is a sample of the 2000 or so character faces I've generated and tweaked using Artbreeder. And also here are pictures of setpieces I made for my game (tv on stand, and porch swing).
In a few weeks the AI Dungeon people say they are adding a pixel art generator into their app/site, so if you generate a text adventure, AI generated, it will also generate pixel art images of what's happening, so that's freakin exciting. AI is getting NUTS. I've asked the devs on twitter if the images will be commercially useable, because it would be cool to have story books in my games with that cool pixel art images.
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4 Bitcoin ‘Loss’ On Lightning Network is FUD, Says Community
A reported loss of 4 bitcoin on Lightning Network has been blamed on either user-negligence or FUD-spreading. Community members variously described the user as ‘an idiot’ and ‘in over his head’, if the loss really occurred at all.
“Wow… looks like I lost 4 BTC”
It all started with a question posted on Reddit along with some screenshots: “am I able to loose [sic] money after force-closing channels?”
When told that this was possible if channels were force closed using an older invalid state, the OP claimed to have lost 4BTC.
Apparently, a power outage had caused the OP to force close from a few-day-old backup, causing a breach. Despite claiming to be a system administrator with ‘some server knowledge’, he did not know that force-closing from an older state was a ‘no-no’.
However it was pointed out that this “isn’t the first time I’ve seen you with the same issue of carelessly locking so much money on useless nodes and then decid[ing] to just mass close them all.”
The OP’s apparent calmness at the loss of his 4BTC was also called into question.
Dissecting The Loss
A Twitter thread looking into the circumstances behind the loss and how it could be prevented in future, suggested that LN had been working as intended. The victim would have been fine if he had waited, but impatience caused him to “crash through multiple safety barriers,” as he was deemed “in over his head.”
As LN is still classed as an experiment, it requires a level of technical hands-on knowledge to set-up and operate. It is also recommended that users should not send large transactions over the network.
Zap wallet developer, Jack Mallers, however, found no evidence of any breaches. Fellow LN developer TheRustyTwit confirmed this and concluded that:
either lnd saved confused-dude’s ass here despite his best efforts, or he’s just making it all up.
Mallers then responded that he hoped it was just user confusion, and that this wasn’t the result of a social attack on the network. One user suggested that it might be Bitcoin Cash propaganda, but there is no evidence of this.
Bitcoin Cash has enough issues of its own at the moment, as hash rate performance has raised questions over the network’s security.
Do you think the whole thing was made up to spread FUD? Add your thoughts below!
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Bitcoin’s ‘Lightning Torch’ Has Blazed Through 37 Countries So Far
The bitcoin community is currently immersed in an experiment called the “lightning torch.”
The effort is intended to show the value of bitcoin’s lightning network – an up-and-coming technology that is experimental and hard to use so far, but it does offer improvements over today’s most common payment systems by allowing users to pass money around the world quickly and without a third party, unlike Mastercard and Paypal.
And participants are out to show this facet of the technology in a kind of global relay race using an ever-increasing amount of BTC.
By way of the social media platform Twitter, people pass the “torch payment” from one person to another, adding 10,000 satoshis (worth about $0.34 at press time) to the payment before sending it further along. Imagine a kind of lightning network-style snowball effect and you get the basic gist of what’s happening around the world.
It’s been called the “LN Trust Chain” since whoever has the torch is supposed to send it on to someone they trust will send the payment on, rather than keep the payment to themselves.
Indeed, developers might still call lightning “reckless,” since it’s experimental software and users can lose money if they (or the software) makes a wrong move. There’s even a Twitter hashtag dedicated to this fact.
But so far, the experiment seems to be having its intended effect, The “torch” has attracted the participation of 139 people in at least 37 countries, according to the pseudonymous torch ringleader, who goes by the name Hodlonaut.
Screenshot from https://www.takethetorch.online/Torch
The list of participants includes some notable names in the bitcoin community, such as advocate and Mastering Bitcoin author Andreas Antonopoulos.
“Heretical thought of the day: Playing #LNtrustchain is better than watching the Superbowl,” he tweeted after sending the torch to the next participant, adding:
“Ok, I lied. Anything is better than watching the Superbowl for this geek.”
Thus far, other participants include Morgan Creek Digital founder Anthony Pompliano and Lightning Labs engineer Joost Jager.
Humble beginnings
The torch started on a whim.
On January 19th, Hodlonaut said he would pass on 100,000 satoshis to the first person he trusts. “How many satoshis until it breaks?” he tweeted.
“The reason I started this was just to have some fun with the lightning network and maybe spread more awareness. I thought it would maybe do five or six hops and then die, without many people noticing,” Hodlonaut told CoinDesk.
But now, of course, it’s grown into a worldwide phenomenon as illustrated in the map above, equipped with its own website and an accompanying hashtag.
Not to mention, it’s come to mean a lot to its participants.
“The #LNTrustChain showed the world: 1. Lightning works and it’s amazing. All of us who’ve used it in a solo context (buying stickers, playing games, etc) already knew it, but this experiment was the first widespread public demonstration of its power,” said one user.
Antonopoulos told CoinDesk that the torch represents a way to test and uncover problems with the technology. And it’s not quite as easy to participate as it sounds: setting up a lightning node is a hard enough task, but there are other tricky factors as well.
“To be able to ‘play’, your [lightning network] node must be well connected, with enough capacity and well balanced (local vs remote balance),” he explained. “Since a lot of that is not fully automated yet, it poses a challenge for node operators and an opportunity to test their setup. As the amount gets bigger, it is harder and harder to find routes and keep it going.”
In this way, the lightning torch can help to unearth bugs, Antonopoulos added.
It’s even been used to experiment with new tech. The first so-called “hodlinvoice” – a new type of tech by LND – was used in the wild for the first time.
As Hodlonaut explained:
“The way this has played out has completely blown my mind, and made me realize how awesome the bitcoin community is.”
To that end, he’s been making sure people know who has the torch and cat-herding the community on Twitter.
Escape from extinguishing
As might be expected from any kind of globe-trotting experiment, the torch itself almost died a few times, most notable on Jan. 31 when a Twitter user by the name of edward_btc stole it.
“I’ll seize it because I can, and no one can stop me. This is bitcoin,” edward_btc wrote, his point being that bitcoin is supposed to be “trustless” money.
The community responded with irritation, not wanting the torch to die out.
“Are you really going to be *that* guy? Seriously?” responded Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs and one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential awardees for 2018.
On a darker level, though, edward_btc went as far as to claim that he received death threats for keeping the torch.
And later on, he claimed that he was actually planning to send the torch on. But before he was given a chance, user Klaus Lovegreen swooped in and started a new torch.
“Is there anyone with some dignity around that that can be trusted with the Lightning Torch?” he said. Since then, the torch has jumped another 30 hops.
But when will it end? As it stands, there’s a hard-coded limit to how large the torch can get: 4,390,000 satoshis, which worth about $150.
Once the torch reaches this threshold, the community plans to donate the proceeds to a charitable cause: likely Bitcoin Venezuela, a non-profit dedicated to raising awareness of cryptocurrency in the troubled South American country.
Torch image via Shutterstock
This news post is collected from CoinDesk
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My thoughts on Zayne's card: Medical Rescue.
I know there's just a couple of days left of the banner, but for Zayne's girlies, you need this card. Trust me.
I'm so happy he came home when I was about to reach pity. I'd get any of his card if I can. But this one card, this one, it's become one of my most favorite after the first five minutes. (Then again, I love all of his moments nsjdhajsdgha)
Please refrain from proceeding further if you do not want spoilers.
Before getting the card, I had no idea what the story with this one would be like. From the name of the banner, I thought it was MC who rescued Zayne while he's trapped and hurt from a snow storm or something.
Turned out, it was a nice surprise. He went out to save someone, and was the first doctor to ever succeed saving a person from the snow storm (+wanderers!!!). Meanwhile, MC was busy fighting her own battle and doing her own job.
But they still kept contact. He constantly checked on her and hoped to see her back at the base. He called her while he was tending to his own wound without her noticing! He was so pale and wounded I thought he would collapse right away. Yet, he asked her to guide him through the storm while he was trying to save the patient he'd rescued. He could only rest knowing the person were in good hands and he'd survive this.
As for MC, she did all she could and waited so anxiously for his return. She tended to his wound, and while he kept saying he owed her this time, all I could see was how relieved he was to see her back at the base. Even proud of her and wishing to spend more time with her.
That's one healthy and mature relationship right there.
They both trust and respect each other's own work. They might not fight side by side in the front line, but they always have each other's back no matter what. They have people to take care of, duty to fulfill. But they do that together and help each other through everything. I love that kind of relationship so much. It's so healing and supportive and solid.
To those who are still wondering whether you should all in this banner or not, do it. Do it without hesitation. Because, Zayne is worth every diamond.
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