NIGHTBLOOM yes i'd be interested! i just finished skyward sword and loved it (it's such an emotional, romantic game, no one warned me!!). curious how you combine those worlds in your AU!

irene i'd also love a witch hat atelier RP! the anime is coming out soon, i wonder if that would drum up more interest? apart from the gorgeous art and world building, there are a few angles to RP from, so i wonder what a site would choose to focus on:

- the slice-of-life RP of learning to draw glyphs for low-grade magic and traveling with your mentor to help people, interacting with other classes from the central school (the underwater tower, i'm forgetting the name lol)
- the dramatic, large-scale secret that magic is usable by all but hoarded by the few/privileged (i think you'd need a decent amount of players playing commoners to drive home this tension)
- the political intrigue between the 'rebel' and 'orderly' witch factions. i like how the rebel faction in WHA isn't a simple evil, for example they want to use healing magic again but it's forbidden, creating a fun moral quandary to RP with.

not that it'd need it, but i wonder how a WHA RP would incorporate the glyph-based magic system in combat. it'd be pretty funny if you actually had players draw and post their glyphs in combat threads. like actually come up with their own designs to invent spells like Coco and her friends do in the story. i doubt it would be easy to manage but i'd unironically love that

currently playing fire emblem 3 houses. i didn't know anything about fire emblem apart from playing roy in SSBM (my brother likes playing marth and we would have little swish swish fights on the racecar map before getting run over by cars)

i am enjoying the bejesus out of this. playing a professor and raising students?? top-down style tactical gameplay where you lead a mini army?? the tension between the church and 3 kingdoms?? honestly i was p narrow minded before and didn't try turn-based games for a long time bc i thought i wouldn't have the patience. but the slowed-down gameplay really allows for so much more depth to the story and characters. it's really fun ahh

i always wanted to do a Majora's Mask style RP where you play out a fictional town as the moon comes closer and closer to crashing into it. that game is just so heavy with the existential dread and i love it. like imagine the whole community deciding how/where their characters die when it happens? plus exploring leading up to an apocalypse vs. post-apocalypse feels kinda refreshing lol

but yes i am surprised there aren't more zelda RPs. each game has such fun and simple world building.

i'm still so noob with animations and how/when they use GPU and what it means for performance. even recently, learning how to use the performance tab of chrome dev tools was a wild ride for me. i found this article pretty helpful as an intro for some of the tips you've mentioned (though it's from 2016, not sure if a lot has changed since then). sharing in case it helps anyone else! www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/gpu-animation-doing-it-right/

this is meeeee

i still haven't finished witcher 3 DLCs because i got distracted by other games. same with breath of the wild (and now totk is out wowo)... with open world games, i find it hard to finish them completely because they're so expansive. i'm finding it much easier to finish linear games that don't let me run around and get side-tracked lol

the struggle to resist telling people about something i'm working on so i don't get that premature gratification and leave it unfinished lol

this sounds syuuuuper cool!!

watching Cross Game again <3 it makes my heart hurt good

i need a new fzero game please

i *think* i talked to you about css grid before somewhere (why is this the #1 conversation i have with ppl btw... i guess bc 9/10 dentists recommend css grid) and for what it's worth i 100% did not feel like you were unfriendly at all.

coding is just a hard thing to talk about in hobby circles. people have different motivations for coding and they don't always love it, they just want to get it working in any way possible and don't care too much about improvement beyond that (which, unless what they're doing is literally breaking their site, is honestly fine). i think i've mostly resorted to passively sharing articles and seeing which type of people engage, and then talking through that. idk if that works for you, but i hope you continue to share your passion in this thread at least

oml i am SO naive