msokiovt

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[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It's now known as Stoat Chat, because the name was changed after a scandal erupted within the Stoat community. My producer is one of a handful of people who are persona-non-Grata in the main instance. In his case, it was for supposed antisemitism (when he's Jewish himself), truthing, and recommending scientifically-backed things in moderation.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sci-Fi isn't really my thing, as dark fantasy is probably more my jam... though I've also done some historical research. Pantsing everything, including characters, was just something I've always done. At least I've also gotten to show off my realistic dialog, of which was praised to me in a high school English class (I took AP Lit senior year).

 

As the title says, that's what I'm doing. However, I'm considering taking the short story, and using it for the FediWriMo this year, or if I should do a continuation of the series I started with what I wrote in the first FediWriMo. I'm 800 words into the short story at the moment, taking a break for the night to see what I want to do.

Considering that I may go ahead and do something that would be completely appropriate for YouTube (because Foxing Society isn't), I am getting this idea written down while I still have that idea. I think I was called for creative writing, though I could do something dark and disturbing (like what Foxing Society is), and something lighthearted and wholesome. The short story, which could turn to a full light novel I think (I might go that route, if there's a NaNoWriMo for lights), is the latter. That's my plan, at the very least.

I know my producer, Sendo, had done something lighthearted, initially, but by the second light of a series he was working on, it turned dark real quick. Apparently, we like a lot of dark writing techniques, considering that we had some dark and disturbing parts of our childhoods. That's just how we write, though.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 0 points 5 days ago

If you want to reaplce i3 with a Wayland alternative, you could still get the i3 experience with Sway, SwayFX, or MiracleWM. I'm sure that'd be quite fine.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social -1 points 5 days ago

i3 is a fantastic WM for beginners who don't want to do legit programming, like to those of Xmonad (Haskell), AWM (Lua), or BSPWM (usually BASH, but any language works). That's what Neigsendoig (my producer) and I started WM use with, and we stayed with it ever since.

Ghostty we heard was good, and we used it a bit. However, we stuck to Alacritty, since it used TOML instead of Lua.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 1 points 6 days ago

While I'm not for using Wayland (as I lean old school with XLibre), I heard Niri was nice for being a scroller. Unfortunately, there isn't such a WM for X11, but I'm fine with manual tilers like i3 and LeftWM.

 

This photo was taken by my producer, Neigsendoig (Sendo as I refer to him). The photo was taken at 1440p, but I downsized it to 720p for space reasons. I wanted it to be a good quality (enough to follow Rule 4).

Yes, I was requested to post this on his behalf, for those that were wondering.

Specs for those interested:

  • Distribution: CachyOS
  • WM: i3 (Cinnamon as a failsafe)
  • Bar: Polybar
  • Terminal: Alacritty
  • Shell: Bash with Starship

I did a stupid and forgot to add in the specs. Autism seriously goes brr for both myself and Sendo.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interesting game. My only gripe is that it's made in Unity, but then again, I've played a few games made using the engine.

Unity and Unreal of the modern day are just not the best in terms of optimization for low-spec (and that's coming from someone who posted his specs himself).

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 1 points 1 week ago

Good luck getting me to run what will be 1.22. Not happening right now.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There actually is a feature for that. It's to the right of the alternating arrow thing.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm surprised there are still 2 people participating, myself and Unattibuted. I guess this is new to some, so I get it. Plus, on top of that, we seem to have more time to do this than others, especially myself (because of aloneness).

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That explains it. Brain dumping seems to work well, I guess.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That's fair. Considering that we have different schedules, it makes sense. XD

Edit: I just checked the leaderboard. You beat me in pages for the day, and then some.

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

For those who aren't participating right now, that's alright. It's myself and Unattributed writing, and we certainly have some friendly competition in page count. However... I just wrote 8 pages worth, which is certainly something. That's because I did something I wrote in a Signal message in August of last year, which was relevant to what I wrote about. It was outside the prompt, but since I was writing something about my own enlightenment, this was something I was able to do just fine.

Unattributed has some catching up to do. :P

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