15/07/2024 Talking about things I saw/ I did in the past few days

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is doing well. Honestly, I'm not sure if I got that much to talk about in this blog entry, but I'm sure that after writing a few things I'll just "get it" (think there is, like, a floating thinking lamp above my head and it will just go "tchiiin" and light it up!), but I think most of them are really interesting!!

A little promo to a friend of mine:

So, first things first, I wanted to just shout out my friend Ppurgatori ooooor just Tori. I want to do this because 1: she is an amazing artist and 2: she just started to accept commissions for the first time, and I wanted to help a little, especially in times like these, where artist's hardwork are being throw out of the window by some stupid people.
If you're interested, I recommend checking her comm sheet six times in a row to not get in any misunderstanding. Even if you're not interested, I do still recommend taking a look at her artworks!
I've know Tori for quite a few years, and anything she makes has this distinct look. I can't really tell why but when I see her stuff I really get this "yep, Ppurgatori did this. this is toricore. 100%" feeling. Also we just happened to have the same Homestuck obsession, so yeah like her art, hopefully you will like it too.
Also yeah, as far I can as I saw she just have a twitter account and a intagram one as well. Maybe she will make her own personal website in the future, but that's it for the moment.

Chi's Sweet Shrine:

I'm honestly liking how my Chi's shrine is coming together. It was kinda difficult to understand how "posission" works at first, and I'm not really a master at it, but I think I'm getting the hang of this!
I've been working hard (and sometimes overworking) to make it look how I want it to be. It isn't perfect, but I still love it a bunch.
The last thing I added, the stuff about Chi's Sweet Travel, was pretty fun to write about, even thought I had to rewrite I few things as I discovered more stuff. I love the CSH extra pages in general, but Sweet Travel might be the segment that had caught my eye. It could be because of the plushie or the pictures, but I love these segments, even if they probably don't appear much. In anyway, the fact that the brazilian edition still retains these segments is really cool in my opinion. The links show in there might not even exist, or the account show isn't active anymore, but it's nice seeing this is still here. It's nice that this is considered important enough to the Chi's franchise as a hole to not cut it out or anything. It's some sort of a portable time machine if you think a about it. It's like the late 2000s is still here, and in fact, yeah I think it is (^ ^).
As I said in my neocities account, I think I just need a few more things to add to make it complete. I think I'm gonna talk about the animes, the spin-off and the game, althought I don't think I could give it as much detail, since I didn't interact much with them at the moment, but I do plan looking into them eventually and maybe I could update a little if I feel it's necessary. I probably also will add a collumn about the creator and maybe even a little collection of things from Chi's websites.
That last part might take a while, but I think I can deal with it! Wish me good luck!

Weird thing I noticed about RPG Maker XP:

I said this before, but I managed to get RPG Maker XP for free when it happened the RPG Maker festival (or whatever it was called, I don't remember) on steam.
At the moment the moment of writing this I still didn't got to make a full game with it, even though that's more of a me problem than the program's, tbh. I need to get my act together and like, maybe make whatever my heart tells me, really.
Anyway, that isn't what I want to talk about. I want to talk about is the seemingly lack of games made in RPG Maker XP in comparison with the other versions of the program!
While trying to work in a project for the Dream Diary Jam 8 (the keyword is trying LoL), I tried seeing a few examples of other fangames to get the gist of things, but one weird thing I noticed while scrolling through a wiki, is that there doesn't exist much YN fangames made in RPG Maker XP. Since Yume Nikki was made in RPG Maker 2003, I guess it makes sense why there is so many fangames made in that version. But after looking at the other games that I know and love with all my heart, I noticed none of them were made in XP. Well, besides the OneShot remake actually, which I learned just now and wow, what a surprise! For some reason I never knew this, or at least I never payed attention when I was a kid and I somehow never didn't searched before either.
It's probably just a coincidence as to why the games I know dont use this exact version, but knowing that one of my favorite games used RMXP makes me feel better.
I can make things in this, I just need to start with something simple.

Madou Monogatari 4 is.... REAL????!!!!!!:

So, remember I talked about my hopes that any news of Madou Monogatari 4 would be announced? Well, It has been revealed in a weekly famitsu magazine that not only it's real, but that it will be released this year! 28th of November in fact! But.... It isn't Madou 4 anymore???
It seems that the new Madou Monogatari game, titled "Fia and the Mystery School", has a new cast of characters, along with already know ones from the series. This has made some people upset, because with the working title of "Madou Monogatari 4" you would expect that Arle and Co. would be present as the main characters. From what I understood (here is a good summary by PinkGeekNeni), the game passes decades after the other games in the series. It seems that Yonemi (director of Madou 1-2-3, OPP and Puyo Tsuu) and Kenji Oda (director of Saturn Madou, Puyo Wars and the True Madou Monogtari novels) are advisors on the game and they seem to be trying their best to make it worthy to be a new entry of the Madou Monogatari series. Even Sonaho Tobe, the character desinger and artist for Puyo Puyo~n, is doing the art for this one as well!! So, at least story wise, I think we are in good hands
In retrospect, it makes sense that Arle and Co. won't appear as the main cast, because you'd think they would announce this ages ago, right? But this doesn't mean they won't appear in the game at all... at least I hope so, because with Carbuncle following another girl out of nowhere doesn't make much sense, and since the title literally has "the Mysterious School", hitting that there's more than what it seems... right? At least I hope so, it would suck that they had this whole collaboration Sega to just not use the most famous characters. I also hope Sega didn't do anything weird like "sure, you CAN use the characters, but NOT the most important ones... oh, and what hell, Carby can go too", because that wouldn't make sense, but also seems like something a corporation would do for some reason. I guess that's how people felt when Fever 1 changed the cast? Who knows...
I'm just kinda sad that it isn't a first person dungeon crawler, just like some of the Madou games, or like, Classic Megaten, Entrian Odysey and the likes. I understand most of the titles of the sereis also doesn't fit this genre, like Saturn Madou, for example, but as a huge fan of this sub-genre of the RPGs, this sucks a little. I guess there must be a reason to why not go in that direction, but that won't destroy my hopes with the game. What it matters the most is that it's a fun game to play and I can only truly know that when I experience the game by myself. Hopefully it will release outside of Japan!
There is even a trailer that shows some gameplay! So check it out!!

Collective Unconcious:

If you don't know what Collective Unconcious is, it's a Yume Nikki fangame made especially for Yume Nikki Online.
I've played for a while with my friends from the "Innocent Dream expedition", Zoru and Ice. We did a few expeditions here and there, and we even got some effects! It's honestly really cool! The pixel art is awesome and the music is pretty damn good. Sets the right mood for the ocasion. There is even some "emotes" that you can use too, which is fun to use. My favorite one is the laughting one because it's kinda cute and it sorta makes Minnatsuki look like a goblin LoL.
Here is a few pictures and we took while walking around (in no particular order):

Check the game out if you haven't yet! Grab your friends and try to go to anywere!

The old internet is pretty cool!:

While shearching for information for my Chi shrine, I've been going through a few old websites using the wayback machine, using a few keywords to help me out since it isn't like I know every url know to mankind.
This isn't the first time I've done this, of course. I've already seen a few Puyo Puyo related websites using WB, as well as some related to Nekojiru and I even tried finding a now delisted video once (I didn't succeed). But after Chi's, I thought to look onto other websites of things I like so I could put more badges on the main page! Dunno if people feel the same, but I think that part of Sillyfes as a hoodie full of pins and such, so no matter so extensive it gets, I'll make sure to decorate it even more!
I also noticed most of them have a thing or two that doesn't work that well. It makes sense, it is code done decades ago and even something so impressive (at least to me) such as the Wayback Machine can't do magic. The Chi's websites, for example, detail that the file supposed to show doesn't exist anymore, and frankly I have no idea how one could just avoid that from happening. But it's still cool to see a few things working and how everything looks overall.
My first contact with the internet was around the early 2010s and most of the things I saw were: youtube and websites with flashgames, so of course I dunno how the internet was throught the 2000s, but I can remember they looked more fun. That could be the nostalgia talking, but idk, after seeing other websites that I've never saw as a kid, I think this feeling has some ground of truth.
One thing I know for sure is that it makes me glad Neocities and the such exist! One thing that my teacher from the course I'm taking said was: "these sort of thing you're doing (the website) could be considered a form of art" or something among that lines, but after giving it some thought, I agree with him. From time to time I go to the "activity" tab to look for any website that I find interesting, and I could say that the difference each site has to one another is really amazing to see! In a way, this too is an art form that can show the webmaster's personality, and maybe it can even make you think, it can make you reflect. Like " I wonder why they did it this way", "How did they do that??" or even "hey, I reconize this!". Even lines these very lines of text are a form of art, because everything around it is posissioned in a way that it can show the visuals in this page, even the most simplest ones like this!
It's okay if you don't really agree with this line of thinking, since the way I worded it probably ounded pretty cheesy LoL, but I think it's just a fun way to see stuff. In my opinion art doesn't need to be exclusively just drawings and paitings.
Anyway, I think the internet can be pretty cool sometimes. Sure there are some bad apples here and there, but it can be a fun place sometimes depending on where you're looking!

Why do some people don't like localizations anymore????:

A weird thing I've seen for a while was some people's disdain for... localization????
This is something you'll probably only see in social media, but for some reason some super annoying people think that "translation" andf "localization" are different things, which isn't true. Localization is byproduct of translation. There is no way in hell, heaven or even the freaking limbo that a translation WON'T be localized in some way, but it seems those people don't really care?
I'm not an expert in the subject, but as a person that doesn't have English as his first language, I can say that 1:1 doesn't exist. These people seem offended when you say that 1:1 would be boring, but it's true. It doesn't matter if you find an amazing text in spanish, portuguese, chinese or whatever, you can't just throw it in a "google translate" kind of thing and expect it won't be awkward in any other language. No matter what you do, 1:1 translations will sound robotic and complety unnatural.
I undestand some games got completally butchered when localized to other regions but isn't the norm anymore (at least I hope so). I've seen people even mad when a meme or a funny line is used in translation, but I think being mad to the point of wanting every translator to lose their jobs way too dastric... and pretty dumb. Just because one anime got a translation that seems bad, it doesn't mean that AI is the solution, because instead of asking for a better product you're asking for a worse one.
I don't know, I just wish those people could understand the difference of a good localization from a bad one, but I guess not much can be done with someone so stubborn.

I guess that's all for this blogpost! Maybe you could visualized when the lamp went "tchiiin"? LoL!
Well, the last thing I wanna share is this video by Melody Nosurname about a monster tamer game series: Robopon! It's honestly pretty informative and I love how she explains everything with so much passion. You can tell Melody has been working on this project and even interacting with this series for months! It's pretty cool, so go watch it when possible! (Just a disclaimer that this video talks about a transphobic allegory present in the first game and also the heavy sexualization in the manga, so be careful if those sort of things makes you feel down. I still recommend watching her video about 31 Minutos though).

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well! I heard artfight has started in this month, so good luck to anyone who's participating!! See ya!