Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos

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Join me, party & class mechanics sickos. My exploration/adventure JRPG will rule the night. 🌙 Night owls rise up 🌙 ~✨She/her ・ LGBTQ+✨~ Corpo dev by day ・ Gamedev by night Tired mom, but I persist. 🚫 AI bad. Human good. Professional teardown of LLMs.

A screenshot of a post I made yesterday that reads: "I dressed myself without screaming this morning. Praise yourself on the same scale as your children today."
A crop of the last panel of the quoted XKCD comic. The strip's stick figure speaker is shaking his fist and his original message has the first word scrubbed off, so it stands alone as "We will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested." Full original quote was "Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested," in response critique of an intentionally bad plan about how to change daylight savings time. Original comic: https://xkcd.com/3272/
A screenshot of code from a VSCode markdown file. It reads: ### Loss | - |i LLMs are lossy - Discarded most of the data they trained on. - || Using an LLM for a task is double lossy. - User translates task to human language - |- Mid-session compaction makes it triple lossy. - LLMs discard context mid-session.
Capsule art for the game "Bastion" by Super Giant Games. Center of Image: The game's title text logo is the most prominent part of the image, with yellow lettering and floral elements growing out of several letters. The 'i', for example, has a budding leaf growing out of its top. Rest of Image: The main character, named only "The Kid" faces down a giant "Scumbag" type enemy. The scumbag is a large blue bag of sentient gas, with depressed looking eyes that glow blue. The Kid squares him down in fighting posture, holding his first weapon: a large 2-handed yellow hammer. In addition to the giant windbag, several smaller "Squirt" type enemies surround the Kid. Each squirt is shaped like floating 3D comma, with the curved tail and the round serif-style head. The squirts have eyes in various expressions: 2 are prominent and angry, one in the back looks kinda cute, and another looks depressed. In the bottom right corner of the image, a dense pack of more squirts with many expressions seems to be waiting to pile into the scene. The whole image is bright and colorful, with vibrant green grass, a vivid yellow sky, and abundant flora. The ground of the image is broken up like mini floating islands, one of which is decorated with several mushrooms.
Capsule art for Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter. Top of image: The game's title text logo. "Breath of Fire" is small and "Dragon Quarter" is big and red/orange with lens flare shinies dotted above, middle, and below. Maybe the ratio of "Breath of Fire" to "Dragon Quarter" was a hint that this game was a big swing away from the franchise's previous entries. Center of image: A top down, striking image of main character Ryu, right hand stretched toward the camera like he's reaching for the sky. His left hand grips a sword that frames his party member Nina, a girl with upside-down red wings growing out of her shoulder blades. Nina holds her right hand to Ryu's chest as she looks up at the camera, a long, slender glowing staff in her left hand. Rest of image: A relatively chaotic assortment of characters and monsters from the game. Bottom right looks like a long dragon neck, wrapped around red flames or magma. The magma appears to be beneath Ryu and Nina's feet, like they're standing over a precipice and Nina's about to fall in. Stuck up rich "love to hate him" jerk Bosche has a smug look in the top left corner. Lin, an awesome woman, is unfortunately positioned behind the game's text logo, so we can't see her face but we can see her breasts. She appears to be straddling some sort of mount but we can't really make it out.
Capsule art of Xenogears. Top left: Text logo of the title "Xenogears" underlaid with a red spray-paint stylized "X". Dominant right-side full height image: Character art for Elhaym "Elly" van Houten, A red haired woman in a tunic-length white sci-fi uniform dress.
A gif of a pixel art Wolf cycling through various animations, in order: Idle, leap forward, leap backward, bite, howl, hurt, death.
A gin cocktail served in a glass bear honey jar, with a straw through a sliced lemon positioned as a "lid."
A photo of 2 adult lady ducks swimming with 3 baby ducklings.
A screenshot of a "Discover your Soul Type" Final Fantasy fan quiz result (https://ff-resonance.vercel.app/) My quiz result matched me as Balthier from final fantasy xii. The full character description reads: "You are someone whose lightness is a practiced art over something much heavier. You choose the sky over the lab coat. You choose motion over inheritance. The wit is real—you are divinely, delightfully clever—but it also keeps people at the right distance. But you went back to the Bahamut. You went back knowing what it meant, and you did not flinch. The leading man always survives— Not because he's invincible, but because he has decided the story isn't over yet."
The original artwork for Cidolfus (Thunder God) Orlandeau, from Final Fantasy Tactics. The original game named his unique class "Holy Swordsman," but later re-translations call it "Sword Saint." Art by Akihiko Yoshida.
A picture of Ikumi Nakamura, head of studio UNSEEN and director of upcoming game Kemuri. Picture is from an old e3 stage presentation. She has a delightful smile and is making an animated stage gesture.
A campfire scene from my work-in-progress exploration-adventure JRPG. Two pixel art sprites sit peacefully by a campfire.
A screen shot of the social restrictions settings tab in Project: Gorgon, an indie mmorpg. Two options are currently toggled on, which read: Be Milked: Can other player ask to milk you (when you're in an applicable animal form)? Hear Oration: If other player recite poetry near you, do you hear it?
Fanart of the gameover screen from the Kingdom Hearts videogame series. Credit to artist: Drakira: https://drakira.artstation.com/projects/Jlx3Lm?album_id=2132872
A screenshot of a glassdoor salary lookup for Nvidia. It reports several different engineer salary ranges: Software Engineer 17,591 Salaries submitted $231K - $347K /yr Electronics Hardware Engineer 11,227 Salaries submitted $200K - $291K /yr Electronics Architect 2,082 Salaries submitted $235K - $350K /yr Verification Engineer 1,541 Salaries submitted $222K - $318K /yr Research Scientist 1,309 Salaries submitted $278K - $413K /yr ASIC Engineer 1,222 Salaries submitted $202K - $275K /yr Computer Architect 1,104 Salaries submitted $257K - $386K /yr Physical Design Engineer 1,009 Salaries submitted $214K - $309K /yr
Cover art for a novel from "The Animorphs" series: "The Solution." A young woman is pictured progressively transforming into a mouse.
A "dictionary definition" style image for the word "artist", reading: artist noun A person experiencing chronic decision fatigue.
A short clip of a development bug for my game. The battle screen shows 2 party members and an enemy dragon. The active party member has their active turn interface visible, with a set of 16 hotbar actions in a "Cross Hotbar." The cross hotbar behaves normally until the unit moves to the back row, then the hotbar starts to "wiggle" left and right indefinitely.
A character portrait from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Major story spoilers for the game: . . . The player character, Soma Cruz, has an alternate portrait in endings where he inherits the power of Dracula, but cannot control it.
A picture of 4 women from Final Fantasy X. Top-left to bottom-right: Yuna, Lulu, Rikku, Anima It is not obvious that Anima is a woman. She is a relatively grotesque monster, and her true identity is a spoiler.
A recorded video intro to my game's battle system. Two small player sprites jump into the battle field, then a dragon slowly descends to the ground from the air. The camera focuses the front player unit as they get the first turn of the battle and the full battle UI appears. Three action options fan out in front of the user as separated menus: - Act (Right Trigger/R2 icon) - Stock (Y button icon) - Rest (X button icon) Above the unit, a set of 16 hotbar slots are visible. 3 of the hotbars have action icons. The rest are slightly transparent. At the bottom of the screen there are two more menus: Unit Initiative Menu (left side): Snapshots of each units head appear in a horizontal bar below the battle's ground level. The right-most snapshot indicates the currently active unit. Player status menu (Right-side): The 2 units of the player's battle party have health readouts.
A screenshot of in-progress Battle UI. Two small player sprites face down a dragon enemy. The front player unit is focused as the active unit. Three action options fan out in front of the user as separated menus: - Act (Right Trigger/R2 icon) - Stock (Y button icon) - Rest (X button icon) Above the unit, a set of 16 hotbar slots are visible. 3 of the hotbars have action icons. The rest are slightly transparent. At the bottom of the screen there are two more menus: Unit Initiative Menu (left side): Snapshots of each units head appear in a horizontal bar below the battle's ground level. The right-most snapshot indicates the currently active unit. Moving left from there, it shows all units in their forecasted turn order. Player status menu (Right-side): The 2 units of the player's battle party (named "Riskbreaker" and "Astrologian") have health readouts. Above a red "hp bar", text display: Current HP / Max HP. One of the player characters as less than 66% health, so the red hp bar is not filled completly, and the text readout of their HP is colored yellow.
An edit of the "Cast it into the Fire" meme. Panel 1: (The One Ring) - "Camera Zoom in a Pixel Art Game" Panel 2: (Elrond) - "All Conventional Wisdom": "Cast it into the first! Destroy It!" Panel 3: (Isildur) - "Me" "No"
The Sega logo, staged in front of a moon, hovering over a neon purple digital grid.
A screen shot of a reddit post from r/SteamDeck linking to a Bloomberg article. Headline: "Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC - Bloomberg" OP post body: "This sucks, really enjoyed playing Ghosts of Tsushima" Top comment: "Not that surprising given they've also pulled back from PlayStation games on PlayStation"
A screenshot of an Aftermath.site front page headline. The hero image is a picture of Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil 9. The headline reads: "Resident Evil Requiem Actor's Social Media Is Also Filled With Hot Leon Kennedy Memes" The sub-header reads: "'Things could be worse,' Nick Apostolides says"
Reddit stats for a comment I made on reddit. It had 14 upvotes and a 100% upvote ratio.
A pixel art screenshot of a work-in-progress battle scene. The top of the image has an FFX-style "turn order" indicator that includes a screenshot of each unit's face.
A short video of a transition from exploration map to battle screen. Two pixel art party units jump into the battle field, then a large red dragon slowly descends to the ground.
An official front-profile character sketch of John Hardin, a supporting character in Squaresoft's "Vagrant Story."
An official front-profile character sketch of Sydney Losstarot, primary antagonist of Squaresoft's "Vagrant Story." He is shirtless, his pants have a plunging waistline, and his shoulder armor ties around his neck with straps.
A behind profile of the official plastic figure for Ashley Riot, protagonist of Squaresoft's "Vagrant Story." The figure sports leather shorts with no seat, revealing defined buttocks with what appears to be tight underwear.
A behind-side profile character art of Ashley Riot, the protagonist of Vagrant Story.
A screenshot of the weapon equipment screen in "Vagrant Story," a classic PSX JRPG. The screenshot highlights a dagger named "Soul Kiss" and shows its damage affinities: Human: 0 Beast: 0 Undead: 26 Phantom: 14 Dragon: 0 Evil: 5
A short gif of a pixel art sprite removing their hood, revealing their face.
A screenshot of my steam homescreen, showing some of my classic JRPG games that I backed up to my library today: Vagrant Story, Shadow Hearts: Covenant, and Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
A post-comic quote from manga author Yoshiharu Kataoka ("Ping-Pong Peril). It reads: "Sometimes my elbow crackles and hurts. I'll then stretch it out, and it cracks and gets better. What the heck? Am I dying?"
A screenshot of a LinkedIn post from a tech company cofounder (Robin Huang - ComfyUI) The post reads: "The most hated Super Bowl ad this year was made with my startup, ComfyUI, and we couldn't be more proud. Here's why. Silverside, an AI creative studio, needed to bring back Svedka's Fembot, a brand mascot that had been retired for 12 years. They had no original files. No assets. Nothing to work from. So they used ComfyUI to rebuild her from scratch, trained her to learn a 23-year-old's TikTok dance routine, and put her in front of 130 million people on the biggest advertising stage in the world. The internet hated it. AdWeek, TechCrunch, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS News all covered it. Critics called it an "AI hellscape." It landed on every worst-of list written that night. But here's what nobody is actually talking about. A free, open source tool just showed up at the Super Bowl. No motion capture studio. No traditional animation pipeline. No $500k production budget. Just ComfyUI workflows and a few months of work."
The cover art for children's book "I Really Like Slop" by Mo Willems, from the "Elephant & Piggie" series. The titular Piggie licks her lips while holding a stinky bowl of pig slip. Flies buzz around the bowl. Elephant stands in the background with a confused/grossed out expression.
A screenshot from Final Fantasy X in the Kilika cloister of trials. Tidus holds a puzzle sphere in his hand while interacting with another sphere set into the wall. Text on screen says "You can only hold one sphere at a time."
A screenshot of a running bit from Aftermath.site, where a "related articles" section shows three articles with thumbnails using increasingly distorted edits of a picture of Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick as he progressively embraces the bullshit of GenAI.
An old shitter post that reads: "my whole life consists of people asking me if i’ve seen this movie and me telling them no i haven’t seen that movie and then them telling me i should see that movie and then me telling them i’ll add it to the list but there is no list and i won’t watch that movie"
An edit of the "this baby can fit so many" meme. It reads: *Slaps roof of car* This baby can fit so many `index.ts`
A proof of concept video for composable sprites. It shows a small pixel-art sprite using a shared attack animation with 3 different armors, 3 different weapons, 2 different hair styles, and a couple different accessories.
Comedian James Acaster opens for his 2019 stand-up comedy tour "Cold Lasagna Hate Myself 1999" with a segment including quoted text "It's an embarrassing career."
Two pixel art characters rest by a small fire in the woods.
A single still shot of the last frame in the previous post's attack animation. This frame has the most visible clothing of the 5 frames. The character has wide leg cherry brown pants/shorts, and a white sleeveless top with a single visible gray suspender. The character's arms are a curved scimitar-style blade and round shield.
A two strike sprite attack animation. A Shield & Sword wielding unit leads with a shield bash, then follows with a sword slash.
A screenshot of the infamous Final Fantasy X scene where Tidus forces himself to laugh because he's sad and Yuna told him it would help.
BEFORE - Two sprites resting by the fireside
A pixel art scene with two sprite characters resting by an animated fire. This version adds shadows that weren't in a previous post.
A pixel art scene of two sprites characters sitting by a campfire. One leans against a large rock, and the other reclines on the ground near a tent.
An improved version of a game interaction uploaded earlier in the day. A pixel art sprite sends a paper lantern into the air, and the camera follows it traveling over a dark top-down perspective forest region, giving visibility to far reaches of the map.
A pixel art character in a dark forest queues up a directional indicator, then spins it around and sends a floating paper lantern in the specified direction. The camera follows the paper lantern through the forest, revealing parts of the map previously not visible.
A pixel art "Ascetic" class' attack animation. The ninja vibe class turns their flaming muffler into a blade/whip and strikes twice.
A pixel art "Ascetic" class breathing slow and calm in their idle animation, sporting ninja vibes, white hair, and a flaming muffler.
An animated gif (bsky gif support permitting). A large "Stonewolf" commonly described by friends as "big wolf boi, but cubone mask." He has a rough work-in-progress idle animation with wagging tail and breathing.
Sample footage of a work-in-progress JRPG-lite with party based combat and player programmable AI. The sample clip shows pixel sprites jumping back and forth between two arena fields smacking each other. Earliest versions of user interface are you visible.
A pixel art video game battle screen. Two teams of 5 pixel arts sprite fight each other using automated AI. The video highlights user interface features listed in the main post.