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LevProtter39~3Y
I really like where the design for the mausoleum went.
About the dog-piling discord concern thing:
I have had a rather good experience with discords, especially small ones. I don't know of many people actively seeking conflicts in those settings.
Sure, there are trolls under every bridge, but generally, people tend to be pretty cool in that context.
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Tobias 1099~3Y
I was more concerned about just posting anywhere (like on this blog) than Discord; the mental issues relate to any putting-myself-out-there in general rather than a fear of Discord specifically. I'm also more concerned about political disagreements - expressing ideas that clash with groupthink - than I am about sadistic trolls (times have changed).
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mount201046~3Y
We wouldn't come to this blog if we wanted to laugh at you... I don't know how to reassure you better but the reason why I check this semi-infrequently is because I support your work as an artist. I hope you don't feel like people are hating on you - maybe it's one of those depression "OMG WHAT IF EVERYBODY SECRETLY THINKS IM WEIRD" things...

Feel free to rant about whatever you need to - after all you've been doing it for years and people *haven't* cancelled you (yet)... though I do understand where you're coming from. I don't really know what to say other than it's a unfortunate trait of the Internet...
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Tobias 1099~3Y
Thanks for commenting about this; it definitely is largely due to my various mental illnesses, though I have in the past been criticised by many online strangers - some shockingly persistent - so the mental trauma from that intermingles with the other mental issues and leads to the assumptions that target me these days. Though there's also the fact that I know I hold some views I strongly suspect would be received badly for political reasons if I were to talk about them, so there's that too...
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LevProtter39~3Y
I hope you don't take any of the color (long winded)things I pointed out on twitter personally. I just saw color grading, and I know what a pain it can be.
Good luck...
I'd love to rant on voice call, but not sure if you can take that.

The best route on discord is to bad politics outright. But then again, you might want to say some things about them.
I had a rather bad experience on one voice chat, where some dudes were ranting about the current groupthink being bad, but doing it in a different groupthink manner.
Most people can move on about that stuff, and maybe if you find a mod, you can delegate that stuff, and not let it bother you.

All that aside, I really respect the fact you can get any of this done, and the game looks great.
I'll try and pay for it when it comes out.
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Tobias 1099~3Y
I read your Twitter reply, though I'm not sure what you said is relevant to what I'm doing. Unity has Gamma and Linear colour modes, and switching to Linear makes a huge difference; I've been doing this for a couple of years, meaning I am working with Linear colour. The colour grading is a post-processing effect where you tweak a bunch of paramaters like hue, saturation, rgb colour balance, etc.

There's still a lot I need to familiarise myself with regarding the arty side of things like colour harmony, but it sounded like what you were saying was more technical, like the kind of thing an audiophile would critique about music which most non-audiophile listeners wouldn't even notice? Maybe I'm misunderstanding though.

I've been planning to... discourage politics on discord when I finally get around to setting it up, but the main reason it's been in limbo for months is because I wasn't able to choose a mod from the small number of people I had who was both interested and who'd keep politics out of decisions, but would anyone these days keep their politics out of decisions? And would it even matter for an obscure indie game dev's discord? Probably not to both of those.
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