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My statements are based on a recent study from Germany. I don't have a personal opinion about the efficiency of masks that goes beyond the current scientific consensus, that would be ridiculous.

Khris, my comments were not aimed specifically at anyone. My point was just that the thread was originally intended to just kind of check in on members of the AGS community that could post here and talk about how they were doing and what was happening in their part of the world. Then it turned into a back-and-forth about personal opinions about masks that is most likely going to go in circles, quite likely circles spiraling downwards. I see this all the time on Facebook (for example).

My point was that I didn't want to see a topic that was started with a caring sentiment turn into that kind of bickering. Maybe my worries were unfounded but I just wanted to speak up and remind people that we are AGS, one of the few friendly places left on this shitty internet.

That is so true, and I'm quite frustrated at seeing several people I used to respect at various sites devolve into near panicked rants dead set in painting Corona as literally as bad as the black plague, ignoring the facts and risk assessments by real scientists.

Here in Sweden, the latest number on how many have died from the virus is about 4 800 dead, out of a 10 million population. Here is my source: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/3Jgxj9/senaste-nytt-om-coronaviruset

The problem with masks though, is that while they can prevent infected from spreading the disease by coughing, there have been lots of problems with people having to adjust their masks,
making them touch their faces more than they would otherwise, which in turn increases the risk of the virus getting on their hands and contaminating even more surfaces. It's a double edged sword.

I feel bad about mentioning the Bates Motel TV series in the first place, now. I agree that the rape scene could/should have been done in another way. We all have our off-triggers; mine is cruelty towards children. Ever since becoming a parent, that changed how I'd watch something that earlier only entertained me, f.ex. some kidnapping plot in a crime show. And I've not even experienced anything of the sort.

I'm glad you understand. And it's very common for parents to say that they can't watch depictions of children being hurt after having children of their own, but it still frustrating to me that most directors at least try to acknowledge this and even a filmmaker as awful as Uwe Boll had the decency to make the death scene of a kid character in Dungeon Siege take place entirely off-screen as to not upset any parents watching, whereas if you're triggered by graphic depictions of sexual violence against women, they're so common nowadays you have to keep constant vigilance to avoid stumbling onto it by accident. If only filmmakers would extend the same courtesy to women's fears as they do to parents..

I wish I had the luxury of avoiding spoilers, but it's immensely hard doing that whilst simultaneously avoiding being surprised by scenes that could make me feel awful for several days on end, which is why I think comprehensive trigger warnings over sensitive subjects in a given piece of media should be mandatory, as they are the only fair compromise to minimize spoilers whilst sparing the mental health of those who need it.

Cute! It's interesting that from going to 2d from 3d it still has that "Blondbraid" art style.

Thanks, that's so nice to hear! 

How Canadians vs how Finnish handle bears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTKJgsxwpE

I've been doing 3D printing for some time now, and I just wanted to say that I've taken 3D printed dolls to the next level, and even started selling them on Etsy! 
What do you all think? Any tips on where to find buyers? https://www.etsy.com/se-en/shop/GalateaDolls

I came across this while doing research on Dimetrodons, and now I can't get it out of my head:

[Perceptions]

Perceptions

Most people believe they live in a world they've perceived to be reality.

Their perceptions dictate the reality they experience. The real reality is trapped within, never able to venture outside their reality and into the real realty.

We are eternal free spirits, free to roam space and time. To perceive the real reality of the outside you must change your perceptions of reality, for you are God.

A simple test of your perceptions may take you to the next level of the real reality of human consciousness.

So basically, the Matrix?

Things are going crazy near where I live in the UK... Thieves are out on the pinch even more... even stealing someone's hot tub and 3 piece suite... and someone even took an outdoor fish pond 

It was reported that drones were flying over the borough...

They even took the kitchen sink. Absolute bedlam.

What have I missed? 

That's the thing - you go one day without reading the news and come back to some completely new chapter of our global clownshow.

Exactly!!!

Is that the one with the new wife gradually resembling the previous, dead wife, all the more?
Another "double" story.

Yep, precisely.

Things are going crazy near where I live in the UK... Thieves are out on the pinch even more... even stealing someone's hot tub and 3 piece suite... and someone even took an outdoor fish pond 

It was reported that drones were flying over the borough...

They even took the kitchen sink. Absolute bedlam.

What have I missed? 

[Ligeia]

Something I haven't seen touched upon much in discussions on Vertigo is the parallells of the story and the Edgar Allan Poe story Ligeia, because they do have some strong similarities, and the wikipedia article even mentions it.

Blondbraid.... That was a cute little game...short, but cute..

Nice graphics and story..

I found inventory window/icons a bit small, but that's just me...and the font size small, but that's just me... played full screen..

Fine game and before time's up and that's a thumb's up from me

Thanks, I'm so glad that you liked it!
And yeah, sorry for the icons being a bit small, I didn't want to make an entire new GUI and all so I stuck with the defaults, which were obviously not ment for a project with this big resulution.

I love your graphical idea Blondbraid and I hope you pull though with a game

Aw, thanks a lot! 
I've just released my entry, Day of the Dimetrodon, a short little game about a day in the life of a Dimetrodon who's been out searching for food,
and while it's not anything ambitious, I hope somebody could learn at least something from it.

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2450-day-of-the-dimetrodon/

Let me know your thoughts!

Well, I found this nice video on Pythons for beginners;

Happy people like the graphics, thanks everyone! I was taking snapshots while drawing one of those backgrounds to see how much time it actually takes me, so here's a bit of making-of:

This is so beautiful, you can really see the effort that went into it!

I'm feeling like an outsider because I'm not sure I quite understand the humour.  It seems to cross an extremely simple joke (the type a four year old would tell) with violence and then distorts everything slightly. Is part of the humour in its shock value?

I don't really get it either. I've seen these type of comics before, but mostly with Donald and "Piderman", where the poor drawing and spelling is half the joke,
but I felt this one went just a bit too overboard with the text errors for my taste, plus the joke on Pluto and Goofy's similar faces doesn't work well when the artist gave them
entirely different face shapes from one another. 

@Blondbraid - if you need a couple of days extension that could be arranged. :-)

Thanks, though I'm worried extra time would just make me work slower.  I feel like my relation to working with deadlines is a lot like that animal in Harry Potter that magically changed size to fit any space, and putting it in a bigger room didn't give it more room to move because it just expanded until it had filled up the whole room anyway.

Anyways, I found a pretty fun image while doing some research for my entry!

How nice!
I gotta admit I've resorted to lots of Let's plays when I'm stuck at a puzzle.

[Stupot, Khris;]

Stupot, Khris; I'm sorry if my last comments came off harshly, I got stressed out at seeing what came across as people saying something that's hurt me was really great and more people should try it,
and I don't think any of you meant to belittle the harm these depictions can do, but I will say that one of the hardest parts of struggling with anxiety and depression is just how hard it is to feel like your
illness is taken seriously, and especially if you are a woman, being able to avoid stressful and triggering imagery due to how normalized it is in today's media. I've had so many well-meaning people unintentionally
trick me into seeing things that's caused me agony because these tropes are so common they don't even stand out to most casual viewers, and I ask that if you still want to ask people to watch shows with such
things, at least include a warning that "by the way, this series have graphic sexual assault, so only watch it if you feel you can stand it", because I promise it'll mean a lot to everyone who's ever had depression or ptsd.

Thank you for the link. I promise to read it today.

Thanks, and I hope you'll find the time to read the Seannan McGuire post I linked to before as well, they are both well worth reading. https://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/470626.html
I'm glad you're taking time to read this, it means a lot.

Mandle: It's a shame you got spoiled about the twist to Citizen Cane and Psycho, but I do hope you'll still watch them one day. While I was spoiled about the twist in Psycho as well as the meaning of Rosebud in Citizen Kane,
I still greatly enjoyed both films as they are incredibly well made films with great acting, direction and atmosphere. Personally, I sometimes feel like anti-spoiler culture has gone too far when people act like the entire movie
has been ruined and unwatchable just because you've already heard about the plot twist, when all of my favorite films are films I've watched several times despite knowing the outcome, because the path to said outcome is just that good,
whereas the only films where a spoiler has ruined the experience has been M Night Shaymalan's later films exactly because he wanted to redo the success of the twist in The sixth sense so badly he turned himself into a one trick pony and
made a bunch of movies that had nothing going for them except increasingly far-fetched plot twists.

I'd put it this way; If you accidentally found out somebody was throwing you a surprise party and you already knew who was going to be there and what food and presents they'd bring, would you choose to skip out on what could still be a potentially great party just because there wasn't any big surprises?