and here we are! | they/them | writer, artist, game designer, composer | I love my friends, my cat, tea, and roguelikes | free books at https://jontheredrc.itch.io/ | character bios at https://toyhou.se/JonTheRed
10 games to get to know me
🪞 Kirby Triple Deluxe
🤖 Mega Man X
🛼 Jet Set Radio
🧙 Tales of Maj'Eyal
👊 Street Fighter Alpha 3
🐤 Final Fantasy V
💎 Dungeon of the Endless
🪱 Worms Armageddon
🚀 R-Type Delta
⚔️ Guardian Heroes
10 Games to get to know me!
🎣 Sonic Adventure
🗡Final Fantasy (primarily 8 & 10)
❤️Undertale
🚩Banner Saga
💎Pokémon Crystal
🥊The Bouncer
🗝Kingdom Hearts
🎀Grandia
🏁Sonic R
🦠Parasite Eve
I love you! you're a great author and a dear friend, and I'm always happy to hear from you! you'll always have my support! ❤️
Jon "Who Needs a Meat Tenderizing Hammer When You Can Just Punch the Shit Out of Your Steak" the Red
it's strange, I volunteered for an eight-hour shift today and I feel so much better than I do in five-hour shifts...I think it's because I get three breaks over that time, instead of just one (state law swoops in to save me when my shift goes past six hours)
this is typical for me though...I'll work like crazy on the book itself, mock up some temporary cover, and then never actually come back to make another cover (too busy moving on to the next book)
honestly, if I'm aiming for an end-of-month release date for the Lyla & You demo...idk if I'll have a very good cover ready by then, I'll be focused on the text itself, and I'll probably have to take a photo of present-day Maine and pretend it's actually the ruins of California
honestly, if I'm aiming for an end-of-month release date for the Lyla & You demo...idk if I'll have a very good cover ready by then, I'll be focused on the text itself, and I'll probably have to take a photo of present-day Maine and pretend it's actually the ruins of California
well...they offered again today, and I went for it, so now I guess I'll be home at night...I wanted to have time to stroll in the relatively nice day, but I also do quite need the hours 😔
work has been offering me extra hours lately, which I've been needing, except...I saw my schedule this week and already planned to do a writing sprint with that time (and I was feeling sick earlier in the week)
work has been offering me extra hours lately, which I've been needing, except...I saw my schedule this week and already planned to do a writing sprint with that time (and I was feeling sick earlier in the week)
there is, however, one important feature of the Arcade Stadium, and that's online leaderboards for me to wiggle my way into the top 20 (and #1 is sitting at 9,999,999 points, so they might have cheated)
the only downside to the version of Street Fighter Alpha 3 in Capcom's "Arcade Stadium" is that it's the arcade version and thus doesn't come with features from the home versions like training mode, or exclusive characters like Dee Jay
oh well, that's what my PS2 copy of SF Alpha Collection is for
Alycecore
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actually, I can do you one better: this is my PS1 copy of Street Fighter Alpha 3! one of the very first online purchases I ever made, it came in a bubble envelope with no case, scratched all to hell on the data side...and it still works to this day!
triumph or die baybeeeee~
Capcom: hey, we repackaged some games from the 90s that you already bought back then, can we have another $40?
me, after having already bought them the second time in the 00s: lol no
the only downside to the version of Street Fighter Alpha 3 in Capcom's "Arcade Stadium" is that it's the arcade version and thus doesn't come with features from the home versions like training mode, or exclusive characters like Dee Jay
oh well, that's what my PS2 copy of SF Alpha Collection is for
Grizzcore
Alien Soldier - Runner AD2025 OST 🎵Released - 1995Composer - Norio Hanzawa#sega #segamegadrive #ost #music https://segaretro.org/Alien_Soldier @SEGA @SEGA...
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the hair selection is awful, but the control over body shape/muscle tone/etc is fantastic! there's no face scar option--you have to move a body scar up to the head
speaking of scars, maybe Grizz's gut scar from the end of The Fox and the Thief isn't nasty enough for how he got it, I might change it
thanks! I saw the animalfolk option and I had to give it a try! (I wish I could get the ears bigger than that, though...)
when you support ratcheting the measurement of time back and forth for no good reason, this is who you're being mean to, btw
daylight savings time is just mean...imagine a future historian trying to nail down some dates and times, only some of those times are wrong on purpose...why would anyone lie to Lyla Brangwyn like this? 😥
it's so dreary and empty out this morning, what with the rain and the time change...I'm hoping I have some energy after work and it stays this way, so I can go get some mood photos for my post-post-apocalyptic novel
ugh, but I gotta stop and get a few groceries too...
I've been through snowstorms where schools cancel and trees fall on power lines *in April*, and Maine's getting a storm tonight (and possibly a severe one), so...when *is* spring, huh?
does last week when it hit 60 by day count as spring weather? or did going below 0 by night cancel that out?
a customer from Indiana: so you're from Maine, right?
me: yup, born and raised!
customer: great, so let me ask you...when does spring start around here?
me: [short, loud burst of laughter]
the squad might be joining up for gaming tonight and I think I can make it...it mostly depends on how well I can navigate these daylight savings crimes (I had a nap earlier and there will probably be time for another nap after games...but I'm not even out of tonight's shift and I'm getting sleepy)
man, I really got the short end of daylight savings this year...I have a closing shift tonight, we spring forward an hour tonight, and then I have a morning shift tomorrow 💀
did a good job writing yesterday, so I rewarded myself with the sport of kings, by which I mean I saw Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for $1.25 on Steam and snapped that up immediately
man, I really got the short end of daylight savings this year...I have a closing shift tonight, we spring forward an hour tonight, and then I have a morning shift tomorrow 💀
Lylacore
Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 1from Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis/Mega Drive version)sequenced by King MeteorI was dissatisfied with my old MIDI of this song, so I decided ...
www.youtube.comwhat I *can* find quite easily are photographs of the view along Santa Monica Boulevard, and I'm going to need those for this book too, so that's what I'm focused on today
honestly, I don't know what sorts of correspondence the Library of Congress would've actually sent out to movie studios whose works were among the National Film Registry's first inductees in 1989, but my post-post-apocalyptic interactive webnovel depends on that info, so I might have to make smth up
Lyla "Let's See, Scrafty Knows the Cabbage Patch and the Running Man and, Oh, Those Aren't the Moves You're Asking About, Are They" Brangwyn
been thinking about this again
the full post (that I can't find now 😔) was about how Lyla's dad Grizz gets caught stealing and becomes a Gym Leader as his community service...word soon gets out, if you go to the Gym when he's away, his kid will step up and battle you instead, and she's way better
I've had enough Final Fantasy VII spinoffs--give me the FFVIII side-game about the Galbadian government agents who capture monsters alive, train them to impersonate VIPs, and use them to foil kidnappings and assassinations
this sounds like a joke but it's not...I want more of this bonkers universe
one of my favorite things about Final Fantasy VIII is Gerogero
it's a zombie monster that one of the largest nations has trained to act as a body double of the president, but it's also a known enough quantity in the world to be featured on playing cards
Lylacore
⭐️ Konami Kukeiha Club コナミ矩形波倶楽部 Playlist ⭐️-- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA831hCvpKMHGCZywkcIP_ucZaCih-QFM&si=PLOoDwq4aPWKuUSrLife Force Thunderbolt...
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a customer at work today was staring at the screen at self-checkout for a solid minute, so I stepped over to check on them and they got angry about it ("if I need your help, I'll ask for it!")
this happened once at my last job too...I wonder if it's the same person
one nice thing about adding multiple choice options to drive reader interactivity in Lyla & You is that, like, I can make most of these choices make a difference, but sometimes they don't (but good luck telling which choices those are)
oo, hey, go on easy, dat dere fear's one'a dem little-deaths, don'cha know
because after associating him with Deep Purple the other day, this is the obvious next step
Grizzcore
The soundtrack to Yoshi's Island for the SNES.All rights to Nintendo.
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apparently the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has a copyright on the big HOLLYWOOD sign
I was going to mention it once in passing in my novel, but...I may have to have the sign scrapped for steel in the book's canon, and add narration about how it could withstand the apocalypse but not human greed
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my goal is to finish the demo of Lyla & You by the end of the month! follow Lyla Brangwyn and Rocket Grimsley on an interactive adventure into the irradiated ruins of Hollywood to gather intel on a pre-apocalyptic cinema vault, and picnic at what's left of the Griffith Observatory!
🚗🐶🚀🪞
fuck it
I feel like if I put a big old "LYLA & YOU FREE DEMO 🔜" in my profile somewhere, it'll jinx me, but...dude, I think I'm gonna have a free demo ready soon
I have a couple more setpieces to write, and then some editing and programming, and then it'll be ready...!
Kyrinna; this card in the middle is The Fool...and that's you
Lyla: [nods]
Ky: this next card is...The Idiot...that's also you
Lyla:
Ky: this one's The Moron--again, you
Lyla: Kyrinna, I don't think some of these are actual tarot c--
Ky: ugh! do you want a reading or *not*?
Lyla: oh--sorry!
now just watch, somehow my book is going to find its way to someone who *is* a chemical weapons expert, and then I'll have my very own "GameFAQs dirt expert" moment
okay, I said I was trying to avoid making assumptions about the reader in the span of writing this second-person novel, but...I think this one's a pretty safe bet
okay, I said I was trying to avoid making assumptions about the reader in the span of writing this second-person novel, but...I think this one's a pretty safe bet
I was workshopping a joke involving Kyrinna saying "I wanted to say I love you...*wanted*, but then I realized it's not true"
then I remembered, the only time Kyrinna doesn't lie with impunity is when she's being *just* truthful enough to be all "hey, I'm not lying, see" when pressed, so never mind
is YouTube afraid I'm trying to incite political violence? because I'm trying to discuss the movie! a movie where the assassin does "one more job" for the CIA and finds out they're setting up to frame him--again! if that's how the agency treats its own agents, then why *should* he try to help them?