ZaCloud (she/her)

@zacloud.bsky.social

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I draw & edit AMVs... when I (rarely) can. Feel free to @ me! 😄 Aro-ace. 🥄(ADHD, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, poor social skills, plz be patient w/me. 🥹) 1982. DNI if Pr0sh1p. #deltarune | #spamton | #undertale | #underfell https://linktr.ee/ZaCloud

Screenshot from Deltarune Chapter 5. Orange the mouse is sitting at the Café with Ralsei, who is raising his foot while angrily shouting, "Look! I'm cute! Look at my paw pads! It's! Cute!"

A Twitter post from Toby Fox, retweeting the official Toy Story 5 trailer. He says: Super excited this is finally announced. Can't wait for you guys to see what we have in store for you this time.

Linux-Compatible Alternatives to Adobe Animate:
(Feel free to discuss and share others in replies. You can copy the names from ALT Text.)

Synfig Studio: Best for vector-based 2D animation with bone rigging, tweening, and automatic in-betweening, making it very similar to Flash/Animate.

OpenToonz: A professional 2D animation package used in industry, excellent for traditional (hand-drawn) and digital animation with advanced effects.

Toon Boom Harmony: A professional-grade, paid alternative often used in the industry.

Krita: Primarily a painting app, but offers powerful frame-by-frame animation tools suitable for 2D animators.

Wick Editor: Free, browser-based (or desktop) tool ideal for beginners and web-based animations.

Pencil2D: A simple, intuitive, lightweight tool for traditional 2D animation.

Blender: While a 3D suite, it includes the "Grease Pencil" tool, which is highly powerful for 2D animation.

enve: An open-source 2D tool aimed at vector and raster animation.

Photo of a smiling white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing a gray and black striped cat-eared hat woven with yarn, with a pom-pom hanging off of it. Adorning the hat are official Fangamer pins of the Deltarune characters Berdly, Spamton, and Noelle. A fan-made Spamton cherub keychain is dangling from one cat-ear, like an earring.

Before and After screenshots of the Firefox FAQs, from when they removed the following question and answer:

Does Firefox sell your personal data?
Nope Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise.

Opportunity (why): Developers need to access and combine data from a variety of apps and contexts as they build AI driven experiences. Only big, vertically integrated players can do this. An opening to give independent developers access to data with a focus on privacy, user consent and responsible data handling.

Action (what): Start multiple experiments in 2025 with Flower and others. Should include underlying platform features (e.g. Mozilla Intelligence) and end user experiments to test the value proposition of data sharing.
‘Mozilla as Trusted Data Hub’ discussion paper and roadmap based on early learning.

Firefox feedback forum reply screenshot, showing only one example of their representative's disconnected, weird replies. There's a character limit, so I must summarize. A user named lackey expresses concern that Mozilla is wasting precious time and resources on a feature most users don't want, and hopes that whoever made that decision will see the community outcry. They emphasize how integrating AI (which at the time was NOT the idealized version but connected to all the big business AIs) breaks the Mozilla manifesto. And that Mozilla are at their best when they're creating trends, not chasing them.

The Mozilla representative Mardak replied, "There are many existing chatbot users, so could you agree that Firefox engaging with these people provides more opportunity to guide them to more open and better privacy models?"

Screenshot of Page 2 of the document. I'm not sure how well screen readers will handle the multiple columns if you try to go read it yourself, but I can't add all this text. But I highlighted parts of sentences emphasizing their AI focus:

Aspiration: Advancing the mission today means doing for AI what we did for the web.
Focus: Gain a decentralized open source AI ecosystem.
Hypothesis: A vibrant, successful and democratized open source AI ecosystem is essential if we want innovation to come from everywhere.
Core investment strategy involves Mozilla.ai, and making additional investments to increase the chance open source will win over Big AI.

What does success look like? When AI is built with human agency at its core. For Mozilla, that means all our orgs are using AI to advance the Manifesto.

Screenshot of the Firefox CEO's declaration. It reads:
As Mozilla moves forward, we will focus on becoming the trusted software company. This is not a slogan. It is a direction that guides how we build and how we grow. It means three things.

First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.
Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

End of text, but additional note, the words "a modern AI browser" are highlighted.

Screenshot of a YouTube comment by ZaCloud Animations, she/her, which reads: We don't hate Halo, we LOVE Halo more than the people currently creating it do. Once the old guard left, it's been ruined over and over, so there's nothing left of what made it great, cuz those now in charge of it don't even know what made it great (and in many cases, specifically HATED us fans and did things just to piss us off). We love Halo SO MUCH!
What we hate is how its rotting corpse is being puppeted around with glee as people line up to catch the maggots in their mouths.

The Roaring Knight from Deltarune Chapter 3 in a neutral position. Their black form is very angular, with white outlines, and their signature afterimage trailing behind behind them. The background is dark gray, criss-crossed with glowing red lines reminiscent of their attacks.

What I usually do is first type the sentence normally in all caps (with usually lots of punctuation):

"WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME IN THE GUTTER LIKE THAT??? WAS I NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?!"

Then, I look for words that might appear in ads, memes, or famous sayings (or replace words so such examples WOULD appear), & add those sayings around them with brackets (usually single, sometimes double), usually changing them to normal or title case unless the quote is a scream:

"WHY DID YOU [Make like a tree & leave] ME IN THE [[Gutter Cleaning Service]] LIKE THAT??? WAS I NOT [good enough] FOR YOU?!?!"

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But if it feels like it's getting too wordy, or you can't think of even one special phrase to add in the sentence, then just put brackets around a random word. You don't have to get super creative every time.

And finally, just occasionally (maybe every few sentences, don't overdo it) add in some misspellings, typos, l337 language, or what looks like mis-formatted code. (Though maybe its use can be increased at particular points to indicate him glitching out/getting more emotionally unstable):

"WHY DID U [Make like a tree & leave] ME IN THE [[Gutter Cleaning Service]] L1|<e THAT??? WAS I NOT [good enough] FOR YOU?!?!"

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Or, to add to dramatic effect, if his voice might get quieter from angst, just like in the game, sometimes he'll drop the all-caps & speech quirks all together.

"WHY DID U [Make like a tree & leave] ME IN THE [[Gutter Cleaning Service]] L1|<e THAT??? WAS I..." His glasses dimmed to black, he lowered his head, & his voice returned quietly, "...not good enough for you...?"

Endogeny, the dog amalgamate from Undertale.

Screenshot of the Steam Curator Reviews section for Deltarune and other games, including one from a group called Woke Content Detector. Their review snippet says: Not recommended. Contains overly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. The player character is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

Deltarune Tomorrow!

The Barbie mugshot meme featuring a disheveled Spamton with static in his glasses, looking upset while holding his plaque. And Jevil leaning to the side holding his, grinning mischievously, sticking out his tongue. He has ear and tongue piercings like the sharp teeth and bells on his Devil's Knife item.

Ominous email with no subject, from Toby Fox. The message it's in white text on a black background, reading "You answered 14 days." The footer is an altered version of the one on emails from the Undertale & Deltarune newsletter, with some words missing and blank spaces in their place. "You are getting this email because you ... for the ... Mailing List."

English text: Once you've finished watching the video, you might want to check out other parts of the site while you're reminiscing. Since the content of the main game is "official" in my opinion, there's nothing on the site that's "must-read!", but it's sure to be fun to look around!

A horse on a beach, gazing out over the water with profound thoughts or regrets, with the word "Man" at the top to emphasize how overwhelmed they feel; short for "Aw, man..."

Fresh Milk is an item appearing in Mother 3 that restores 80 HP. It must be used quickly however, since after about 5 minutes, it will expire into Rotten Milk, which restores only a mere 10 HP. If the player waits about 30 minutes, the Rotten Milk will curdle into Yogurt and restore 80 HP once more.

Edit of Toby's post where most letters are erased, except for ones that spell out: Winter feels like ice, snow.

A photo of a short-haired black cat standing over three tiny plush mice on the floor. She arranged them in a perfectly straight row.

A screenshot of the Undertale Settings menu, with options for language, and joystick configuration. Colorful autumn leaves are falling against the black background. In the lower right corner is the white Annoying Dog that represents Toby Fox. Above him is text that says: Sweep a leaf, sweep away a troubles.

A carpet with a woven image of a white two-story house on it.

Digital painting of Undertale characters Papyrus and Frisk sharing a nice hug together. Papyrus is kneeling so the child can hug around his neck. They are both smiling warmly with their eyes closed. Snow falls gently around them.

A mostly red and black digital drawing of the dark, edgy version of Papyrus from the Undertale Alternate Universe, Underfell. His scarf and armor are damaged and tattered, and he's covered with smears of dust and blood. Red magic glows from his eye sockets, mouth, and ribcage.