Charcherry Weekly - Issue 222
Nov 2, 2024 1:37:41 GMT -8
Post by SJmun on Nov 2, 2024 1:37:41 GMT -8
lavenderSiren posted at [ 2:37am ] on [ 11/2/24 ], from [ Unity Village, Starter Planet ]
TOPIC: Charcherry Weekly - Issue 222
The Charcherry Weekly
Heya, Mage of Light Nick Card here. Its so dark and rainy lately aaaaaaa... At least its warm inside.
I'm gonna take you by the hand and make you understand Amanda~
Early this week, thirdinaltuppian fairy Amanda Marshmallow was found sleeping in a crate being shipped from a voidco freight train with stacks and stacks of occupied captchalogue cards. She was escorted to Charcherry by a DTA Safety Inspector and reunited with her dear friend Heir of Void Gym leader Mimi So&so. For assisting in the operation, I was given a pokemon egg. Mimi says it was produced by one of the fairy types in their party, but exactly which one is unknown and they already have a lot of pokemon to care for as a gym leader. So I've been taking the eggs for walks and keeping sunburst around to keep it nice and warm.
Regardless of what pokemon winds up hatching, I'm glad that Mimi and Amanda are reunited after all these years and I wish them the best.
Hello Gordon!
On monday, Desertia Cinema had its initial exclusive screening of the first two acts of Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware. Your dear newsletter writer showed up to watch this.
As a note to those reading this in the year 2024 or later, it appears the title used the term AI in a more classical "the thing that makes computer controlled npc's do stuff" manner rather than the more contemporary "garbled mess on the fly that's used as a marketing ploy" assumed definition. As for how this is approached in the movie, its more of a thinly veiled premise for a comedic voicechat-based machianima longplay of the VR version of Half-Life, abridged for archival viewing, since it was originally done in a much more drawn out live streamed gameplay format.
That being said, all of this technical stuff doesn't matter, because this movie is a freaking masterpiece.
The team that did the improv and editing for this was masterful in the execution, offering up iconic lines such as "nasty little sewage boy" or "Wikipedia, The free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit." (as well as the whole entire article on chairs). As someone who has not yet actually played Half-life before (but did claim in on steam when they were offering it for free), its an interesting angle to view from, trying to guess how the standard gameplay was meant to go before it became a chaotic multiplayer romp through black mesa.
It is unknown when the rest of HLVRAI will be shown here, but I'm looking forward to watching more of it for sure!
Trial Prep Progress
There has been a significant amount of progress made on preparations for the upcoming Neo Alternia v. Fuckof Notelu trial. The venue has been chosen, and a judge has been successfully appointed. Reportedly a korosian legal council was assembled to make sure the judge would have the guidance needed to operate in a Korosian lawscape, apparently being from elsewhere.
A number of depositions still need to take place before the trial is set to begin, and when it does begin, media reporting will have to be limited to manual methods, with no cameras allowed in the courtroom during trial. Fortunately your dear newsletter writer is likely to end up being an illustrator for this trial, so I'll have a reason to be in the courtroom to watch the proceedings. A date has yet to be chosen.
Halloweeeen
Yesterday was halloween and it was relatively mild, as far as halloweens go around here. A number of friends decided to try and spook me in particular. Unfortunately I wasn't in the best state for that due to an overload of factors. I eventually finished my steve minecraft costume but ultimately stayed home for door duty. I feel like I probably let everyone down by not actually planning anything though. Regardless, Rogue of Heart Charles and V-mon seemed to have fun trick-or-treating.
Shard Emit celebrated their 12th birthday that day as well. This year the celebration was reportedly a lot more limited and tight-knit to avoid extraneous incident, especially since Heir of Time Korosian President Thoren Emit has been rather stressed due to trial prep reasons, having had to call in practically every temporic remaining that still practices law (there's not that many in this post-reckoning era). Regardless, it was reportedly an enjoyable occasion.
At Gene's Garden, The Fallen had arrived, though there was no enchanted food set out for them, due to their sister Brae Emit being unavailable. Her whereabouts have been unknown for at least a week now, and I'm kinda worried to be honest. Nobody knows where she went off to, and its not like her to abandon family and friends like this. I just hope she returns home safe and sound eventually.
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This week’s known market stands in Desertia Town:
-DTA train ticket stand
-Katie’s potion stand (Not available to plitlanders due to regulations, available to all others however)
-shinyjiggly pokesnacks stand (also has a Unity Village location!)
Hunting Shop
- Longbow (50 gp)
- Trap, bear (2 gp)
- Fishhook (1 sp)
Bardic College shop
- Potter's Tools (10 gp)
- Weaver's Tools (1 gp)
- Bagpipes (30 gp)
- Roar Cord (15 gp)
- Musical instrument, masterwork (100 gp)
- Shawn (2 gp)
- Lyre (30 gp)
- Musical instrument, common (5 gp)
- Three-Dragon Ante Set (1 gp)
- Dulcimer (25 gp)
That should do it for this week. I did some debug on the current playable section and got a scene assembled most of the way. Hopefully I can get more slapped together and draw the currently needed assets. Its a drag how slow my progress has been though. There's so much I need to cover and things keep happening. I can't give up though, people are counting on me here. Seeya later!
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TOPIC: Charcherry Weekly - Issue 222
The Charcherry Weekly
Heya, Mage of Light Nick Card here. Its so dark and rainy lately aaaaaaa... At least its warm inside.
I'm gonna take you by the hand and make you understand Amanda~
Early this week, thirdinaltuppian fairy Amanda Marshmallow was found sleeping in a crate being shipped from a voidco freight train with stacks and stacks of occupied captchalogue cards. She was escorted to Charcherry by a DTA Safety Inspector and reunited with her dear friend Heir of Void Gym leader Mimi So&so. For assisting in the operation, I was given a pokemon egg. Mimi says it was produced by one of the fairy types in their party, but exactly which one is unknown and they already have a lot of pokemon to care for as a gym leader. So I've been taking the eggs for walks and keeping sunburst around to keep it nice and warm.
Regardless of what pokemon winds up hatching, I'm glad that Mimi and Amanda are reunited after all these years and I wish them the best.
Hello Gordon!
On monday, Desertia Cinema had its initial exclusive screening of the first two acts of Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware. Your dear newsletter writer showed up to watch this.
As a note to those reading this in the year 2024 or later, it appears the title used the term AI in a more classical "the thing that makes computer controlled npc's do stuff" manner rather than the more contemporary "garbled mess on the fly that's used as a marketing ploy" assumed definition. As for how this is approached in the movie, its more of a thinly veiled premise for a comedic voicechat-based machianima longplay of the VR version of Half-Life, abridged for archival viewing, since it was originally done in a much more drawn out live streamed gameplay format.
That being said, all of this technical stuff doesn't matter, because this movie is a freaking masterpiece.
The team that did the improv and editing for this was masterful in the execution, offering up iconic lines such as "nasty little sewage boy" or "Wikipedia, The free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit." (as well as the whole entire article on chairs). As someone who has not yet actually played Half-life before (but did claim in on steam when they were offering it for free), its an interesting angle to view from, trying to guess how the standard gameplay was meant to go before it became a chaotic multiplayer romp through black mesa.
It is unknown when the rest of HLVRAI will be shown here, but I'm looking forward to watching more of it for sure!
Trial Prep Progress
There has been a significant amount of progress made on preparations for the upcoming Neo Alternia v. Fuckof Notelu trial. The venue has been chosen, and a judge has been successfully appointed. Reportedly a korosian legal council was assembled to make sure the judge would have the guidance needed to operate in a Korosian lawscape, apparently being from elsewhere.
A number of depositions still need to take place before the trial is set to begin, and when it does begin, media reporting will have to be limited to manual methods, with no cameras allowed in the courtroom during trial. Fortunately your dear newsletter writer is likely to end up being an illustrator for this trial, so I'll have a reason to be in the courtroom to watch the proceedings. A date has yet to be chosen.
Halloweeeen
Yesterday was halloween and it was relatively mild, as far as halloweens go around here. A number of friends decided to try and spook me in particular. Unfortunately I wasn't in the best state for that due to an overload of factors. I eventually finished my steve minecraft costume but ultimately stayed home for door duty. I feel like I probably let everyone down by not actually planning anything though. Regardless, Rogue of Heart Charles and V-mon seemed to have fun trick-or-treating.
Shard Emit celebrated their 12th birthday that day as well. This year the celebration was reportedly a lot more limited and tight-knit to avoid extraneous incident, especially since Heir of Time Korosian President Thoren Emit has been rather stressed due to trial prep reasons, having had to call in practically every temporic remaining that still practices law (there's not that many in this post-reckoning era). Regardless, it was reportedly an enjoyable occasion.
At Gene's Garden, The Fallen had arrived, though there was no enchanted food set out for them, due to their sister Brae Emit being unavailable. Her whereabouts have been unknown for at least a week now, and I'm kinda worried to be honest. Nobody knows where she went off to, and its not like her to abandon family and friends like this. I just hope she returns home safe and sound eventually.
Classified ads
Rail engineers wanted! Contact theUnderground for details.
Do you need therapy? Have you been impacted by the cosmic creation game in some manner? Do you have weird problems that likely have supernatural factors?
Contact Dr. Winters at 555-555-0125 to schedule an appointment.
Missing pet catdog! Name is pizza|bagel. Please contact @jenny-azoth on tumblr or bluesky if you have any information on any wherabouts.
Do you want an ad here? Contact lavenderSiren to get an ad for whatever. If you don’t write it yourself, you risk the newsletter writer writing it instead, do be warned.
This week’s known market stands in Desertia Town:
-DTA train ticket stand
-Katie’s potion stand (Not available to plitlanders due to regulations, available to all others however)
-shinyjiggly pokesnacks stand (also has a Unity Village location!)
Hunting Shop
- Longbow (50 gp)
- Trap, bear (2 gp)
- Fishhook (1 sp)
Bardic College shop
- Potter's Tools (10 gp)
- Weaver's Tools (1 gp)
- Bagpipes (30 gp)
- Roar Cord (15 gp)
- Musical instrument, masterwork (100 gp)
- Shawn (2 gp)
- Lyre (30 gp)
- Musical instrument, common (5 gp)
- Three-Dragon Ante Set (1 gp)
- Dulcimer (25 gp)
That should do it for this week. I did some debug on the current playable section and got a scene assembled most of the way. Hopefully I can get more slapped together and draw the currently needed assets. Its a drag how slow my progress has been though. There's so much I need to cover and things keep happening. I can't give up though, people are counting on me here. Seeya later!
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