Bevendre
Month
When a cartoon’s plot and/or art style makes you feel physically ill, there’s a whole myriad of problems that should be addressed. I’m looking at you, Teen Titans GO!
Heads up! If you have ORAS in the US, then you can get the Eon Ticket, allowing you to get Latias on Omega Ruby, and Latios on Alpha Sapphire by entering the code 2015LATIOSLATIAS into the code option of mystery gift.
Only available until March 2nd!
I feel so unmotivated to be productive that it hurts. YAY!
Sorry to keep people waiting on updates. I’ll still get the Papi update out around Tuesday/Wednesday, but I can only promise to try to get other blogs updated in that time.
Any questions whatsoever, over anything, are always welcome here.
alskylark replied to your post: are there any features of any types of bovines you…
and steaks are fucking amazing
That too
I don’t really like or dislike any parts of bovines in particular. I see them as a whole and like the concepts behind them more than the pieces. I like cows because of the concepts of power and gentleness that are often mixed in cultural representations of cattle, as well as the symbols of virility, fertility and nurturing that are associated with them.
Also spots and other patterning.
Not usually. I’ll usually only do one panel at a time and work it to completion before moving on to the next. Same goes for updates, which is why most of my blogs are pretty inconsistent.
Feeling sick and unmotivated to be productive….Please ask ANYTHING while I try to fix my body with rest and relaxation.
If something has flaws, it has flaws. It doesn’t matter when it came out. The only difference between looking at something during release and finding flaws, and looking at something years later and finding flaws is that you have a wider variety of things to compare it to.
This is true for art, books, movies and video games. Just because you love something doesn’t mean it’s free of flaws, and just because someone’s pointing them out doesn’t mean that they’re only comparing what you love to something that came out later.
A flaw is a flaw, even if you don’t notice it at first.
There are times with game reviews and reviewers that I wonder how they would review games now considered infallible classics if they had no nostalgia for said games, or prior experience with them whatsoever.
Current case-in-point, I’ve started playing through Halo CE in the Master Chief Collection. Not only is the game rage-inducing, but there are a LOT of poor choices and issues with the base game that are often overlooked and/or ignored by those nostalgic for the game.
Pssst, I may have opened up a skype chat/RP group for Fleur de Lait’s ice cream parlor. All manner of changes are possible, applications for work are available, and if you want to join up just ask me.
I feel so unmotivated to be productive that it hurts. YAY!
I’ve reached that point in the day where I want to do things, but I don’t want to do things, but I want to do things, but I don’t know what I want to do……
Fantastic! So long as I’m making my points known and at least making an attempt to rationalize them well then I’m doing my job. If everyone agreed with everything that I said then life would be boring.
A few of you may have noticed that we no longer promote as often as we should. There really is a very good reason for this.
We’re out of promotions and we have been out of promotions for several months now. We’ve been running on fumes since long before christmas.
While we can manage this for a while ( you may have noticed that quite a few promotions are submitted by ‘Mod’, which is us ) we are actually running out of viable candidates ourselves. Which gives us a problem.
We can, and we have, read new blogs start to finish to find something new to promote, but it is rather detrimental to enjoyment when you are reading a blog not to enjoy it, but because you have to - not to mention that it takes quite a while sometimes. We have a list of blogs we can read, but it is starting to be a horrible chore.
While yes, our Self Promotion Weeks have been a relief to this ( in fact we have a few promotions which we will be publishing next week ) they are also running out.
Simply put, Promote a Pony is more or less entirely out of promotions. We don’t really have anything to promote. The few promotions that come in are usually published the same day.
To try and keep up regularity rather than the choppy updates we’ve had for a while, we will be drawing down the pace of promotions to once a day for now.
What can you do to help this? If you have someone you can promote, promote them! (guidelines for promoting) If you don’t, and not everyone does, boosting this message is another good way to reach a new audience with promotions they want done.
Thank you for your time and thank you for your continued support.
-LysMod
PROMOTE THE BLOGS YOU LOVE!! Even if a blog only has a few posts, send in a promotion to encourage its growth. Even if a blog has been going forever and has slowed down, send in a promotion to show its creator how much you love their work. The greatest thing you can do for an artist is to show your support for what they do.
PROMOTE THE CRAP OUT OF THE BLOGS YOU LOVE!
I seem to have messed up my right wrist. That’s not good. Hopefully it heals quickly and it doesn’t hurt to move soon, or working on stuff the next couple days won’t be fun.
Also, ask me anything!
I’m off work for the next couple days, and you know what that means? Commission and update work, yay!
There are times with game reviews and reviewers that I wonder how they would review games now considered infallible classics if they had no nostalgia for said games, or prior experience with them whatsoever.
Chandelure: Believe in ghosts?
Kind of. When I was younger and spending the night at a friend’s house I woke up in the middle of the night to see a pale figure standing over me and looking down, which was very worrying as my friend and his family had immigrated from Nigeria. Looking back on it it may have been a trick of the late night and the moonlight coming through the window, but it freaked me out for a long time.
Elgyem: Believe in aliens?
I think it’s rather presumptuous to not believe in alien life. Even if no species has managed interstellar or intergalactic travel, the idea that of the trillions of planets orbiting billions of stars within only a few billion lightyears of Earth don’t have any life on them is really arrogant to me. The idea that only Earth contains life is an idea that I find frankly stupid, and somewhat terrifying.
After a decent drought the PS4 has a new exclusive, and it’s not been met particularly well. With ratings averaging around 6.5 throughout the web, how bad could it be? Is it a waste of an exclusive, or are reviewers being too rough on the game with complaints about its length and its gameplay?
After a decent drought the PS4 has a new exclusive, and it’s not been met particularly well. With ratings averaging around 6.5 throughout the web, how bad could it be? Is it a waste of an exclusive, or are reviewers being too rough on the game with complaints about its length and its gameplay?
Crap crap crap crap, I’m blanking on how to set the Papi update or even what to include in it!
I keep trying to figure out the framing for this update and nothing’s sounding or feeling right. Just a warning that the Papi update may not be up this weekend unless I get ideas running soon.
Crap crap crap crap, I’m blanking on how to set the Papi update or even what to include in it!
Alright, gonna try and get the Papi update done today (might post tomorrow morning). The Raricow post should come up around Tuesday, and a new Fleur update should also go up within the week.
Thanks for 100 followers on askfleurdelait!
“That’s a made up word, you can’t use it!”
“True, it is made up. Like every word ever used ever in all of recorded history. Language is a fluid social construct not a naturally regulated entity, you douchenugget.”
rules-broken-fate-rewritten replied to your post: The Order 1886 reviews are beginning to roll out…
the devs are going into damage control mode as well, lying about what the reviews said.
I have not heard of the devs going into damage control in regards to the reviews, especially since they can’t really change the reviews without doing some shady things to smaller reviewers like some smaller indie devs did last year. I do know that they reacted last week to the let’s play of the review copy that came up on youtube and finished the game in 5 hours, saying that that was on the low end of the spectrum and that the player was rushing through the game. That claim has been supported by most reviews that have come out, as every review I’ve seen placed the game around 8-10 hours for a typical playthrough.
When reviewing a created work, I think something that’s often forgotten across mediums is that pieces from different genres can’t really be held as comparable to one another at raw base value. The point of a review is to judge how successfully a piece accomplishes what it set out to do, not necessarily how revolutionary or unheard of its advances are, or how present aspects are that it made no claim of having.
One cannot judge a movie marketed as a budget romantic comedy for its use of visual aesthetic or cinematic setpieces because Avatar came out. One cannot judge a movie marketed as a popcorn fluff explosion fest for the way that it demonstrates the human condition and the faults of modern capitalism because Oscar-bait movies have come out doing just that. If a movie markets itself as one thing, especially if it does so heavily, then it should be held up to its marketing and the expectations therein, and compared with other films that have proved successful in that genre.
The same is true for books, and in today’s world, video games. One cannot judge a linear platformer or shooter that takes 5-6 hours to finish for a new player along the same grounds as they would judge an epic 80 hour RPG. The genres are so staunchly opposed in intent, motive and marketing that they are virtually incomparable. That, I feel, is where a lot of corporate/professional reviewers, and a large mount of upset gamers fall into a pitfall. Because the video game market has become so saturated with new releases people neglect to look at a game for what it is and what it directly portrays itself as. Many people hold everything in the medium on a flat scale with little to no variation for presentation type or genre, and personally I find that approach fundamentally flawed.
People are more than welcome to have their opinions and preferences on what they enjoy in a game, or any medium, but if a game, movie, what have you does not fall into those parameters, that does not mean that that piece is inherently bad. Just because a piece does fall within the realm of one’s preferences does not make it inherently good, especially if nostalgia is involved. A review, and criticism in general is meant to highlight the aspects of the piece that are generally well done, and the aspects that need polish, whether they are the aspects that one looks for in particular or not. How heavily the various aspects of creation should also not be held at a concrete flat line, but left adaptable based on how well the medium accomplishes its intent and fulfills its marketed promises.
The Order 1886 reviews are beginning to roll out with middling scores, with pros being absolutely stunning presentation, strong narrative and good characters, and cons being relatively average third person shooting mechanics and a heavy reliance upon QTEs and cutscenes. This isn’t surprising given the game’s marketing as a cinematic experience, and with an average run time of 9-11 hours, (there was a playthrough of 5, but all other sources and reviews are putting it around 10) it seems proper for a cinematic narrative heavy game.
It comes out tomorrow, and I still plan on getting it because not only is the subject matter something that I love, but the reviews and expectations are lining up with what I expected, unlike certain other games of late. Once I finish playing through the game I’ll write up a full review.
Carrots, mangos, cookie dough and pickles.
Aside from blog stuff and the occasional rant/breakdown of an issue no. I need to go back and get into writing again.
Not right now, no. I’ve never been to a convention before and I’m not aware of any nearby save for Midwest Bronyfest around May.
Sure thing! I’m of the mindset that the experience of the game or the story is more indicative of value than raw game time. A large part of that is from me being really critical of stories and form and not having nearly as much time to play a game as before. I’d rather have a great experience that might be short than have a long experience that bores me (Destiny)
Despite the complaints against the projected time (one streamer who got the game early finished it in 5 hours, but it’s being estimated at 10-12 hours for a full playthrough at a decent pace) I’m excited for The Order: 1886. I love werewolves, and Victorian London, so that’s a great mix.
I’m also looking forward to Witcher 3 because of the setting and lore in it, though I’ve not played Witcher 1 and haven’t finished Witcher 2.
Also Borderlands: The Handsome Collection because BORDERLANDS!!
I’m doing well. My new job’s working out so far and the pay is definitely an improvement. I’m unfortunately still living at home because I’m a lazy shit, but my parents have not been nearly as vocal against me.
I mostly slept/worked through Tuesday, so let’s do TMI Wednesday instead!
Ask me anything.
Heads up: The Raricow post that should come out on Saturday will likely either come out early, or be pushed back depending on my mood, and Papi will be posted on Saturday as I work all day Sunday.
Okay, Fleur de Lis is approaching 100 followers (and I need to update that blog at some point in the near future.) Fleur de Lait is only a few followers away from 100 and I know what the milestone celebration will be. Raricow is approaching 500 followers, and I have no idea what to do, and Papi has just passed 2300, and I have no idea what to do for 2500 should that day come.
Gonna need to think on that.
50 Shades of Grey has set a record for the biggest Valentine’s opening ever, and the biggest opening for an R rated movie in February. My faith in humanity continues to fade.
Just because the Bits for Bovines period has passed doesn’t mean I won’t take commission. I don’t have concrete prices, usually, but I’m always willing to discuss prices with commissioners within reason. If you want a commission of whatever sort message me on skype, or via fanmail here.