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@MoeBritannica SHE'S TAN

@xianc78 I also think it would be kind of lame to be like "only people who can draw well can beta test" especially since it's actually a beta, not an early access sort of thing. The whole point is to figure out balancing and patch bugs so the experience might be a bit rough and I want people who are actually going to test and provide feedback.

@Kyonko802 @Nanakoko @Suzu i can tell the difference between a 320kbps file and high bitrate FLAC but the difference is extremely subtle and not really worth the extra storage space. it's really only useful if you're going to be chilling in your room alone listening to a whole uncompressed album.

bluetooth earbuds have gotten way better these days, they can still have latency issues but that's not a problem for just listening to music. anything in-ear isn't going to sound as good as on-ear but there are a lot of audio engineering tricks that are used to make it sound pretty good. most of the time i'm listening to music it's actually through shokz, which are those bone conductor thingies. audio quality is not good whatsoever and if i turn them up past halfway the left one starts to distort on high notes but they leave my ears open and are still certainly listenable. i fuckin hate having anything inside of my ears and headphones are a little too bulky to carry around so the shokz are perfect.

@Kyonko802 @Nanakoko @Suzu the only time i really cringe when people are using bluetooth buds or something is when it is beats or raycons. they are very overpriced and the lows are ball busting to the point of fucking with the rest of the music. going in between those and even airpods is night and day difference.

@xianc78 interesting idea. my current plan is to do some testing only with some people who worked on the game and close friends. then i'm going to post an application for the wider test. most people who submit will probably get a key unless like a TON of people do.

Turns out that I'm the dummy and the build that Steam reviews is just meant for the release version lol. I can actually send out beta codes right now.

@Kyonko802 @Nanakoko @Suzu best two headphones you can get unless you want open backs. i personally like the m40x better just because i like the sound signature, but if you're going for accuracy then the m50x are about as good as you're going to get.

once it gets to open backs though you'll have a better sound stage, however there's zero isolation so you've gotta' have a quiet place to listen to them and you most definitely can't record with them. they're usually more expensive for the same level of quality. monitors are great for that sort of thing too.

@MoeBritannica i do feel bad for localizers who are actually trying to make good localizations, but i suppose that most people who do that at this point are doing it because they want to and not because they are getting paid for it

@xianc78 for me, it was just that i always had new ideas that i wanted to work on so i'd just jump ship when a new idea struck my fancy. it's a problem a lot of creatives have and i've had that issue multiple times working on God's Disdain too, but i've just had to more or less push through and keep working on it because i knew if i stopped i'd feel super bad. but i'm glad i went through it because man, i'm proud of the end result.

@xianc78 speaking of rpg maker music though lol, do you remember when i was saying that i made a whole soundtrack for another game i was working on for a bit after high school but i had lost the soundtrack for it? well, i just found the files! not the full versions unfortunately, but they were more or less just the loops repeated anyway. might upload them to opengameart since i definitely won't be using them.

@xianc78 it's funny you mention this though, because before making God's Disdain, back in high school, i was working on a game called Space Heroes. it was about a group of brilliant teenagers who were recruited to work at the United Alliance Space Colony to defeat an alien menace that destroyed a UA ship. it didn't get too far, like most of older projects, but i still have all of the files haha.

in particular, there was a guy who made the music for the game who went HARD and he did it all for free. kind of sad i let him down. no idea where he's at now, can't find anything about him online and the place we talked is gone now.

that's one of the biggest reasons i've been wanting to get God's Disdain done. so many people worked on it man, gave their time to it on my behalf. don't wanna' let them down and let their work go to waste like i did with a bunch of other people in high school when i had no idea what i was doing.

@xianc78 yeah, the dungeons. that makes sense though lol. i can't think of any immediately off the top of my head. i'd check rpgmaker.net but they're down at the moment, experiencing some difficulties after their server host finally shut down after being on life support for years.

@xianc78 you can make those kinds of dungeon crawlers in RPG Maker. usually it's reserved for more weird/surreal games though instead of "real" RPGs.

@xianc78 i mean i think i already knew that lmao

@xianc78 @Alex good thing I'm not a roach or chicken lice I guess

Bro steam is kind of stupidly particular with shit. My game has a notice that the version is an insider beta, so they denied the build on that grounds since the game page doesn't mention it is a beta. Why the fuck do you think I have my release date set for 2025 dawg? So what, I have to remove the text saying it's a beta in-game and it'll suddenly be okay? Meanwhile actual shovelware shit with copyright infringement gets pushed onto the platform no problem. So now I have to resubmit my build with the version number removed and wait another 5 days for it to be approved. So stupid.

@Mr_NutterButter yeah it you call killing people and getting your hip shattered so you're a cripple for life "accomplishing something"

the US military seems like a place people go when they don't know what else to do with their life and that's always made me sad

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