Following up: I changed my phone's DPI! Holy shit there's so much on the screen now, help. I think it's kind of overkill on a 5" screen, but if I get a 5.5"+ phone with a 1080p screen, it seems like it could really shine.

<a href="http://tilde.town/~um/">um</a> and <a href="http://tilde.town/~vilmibm/">vilmibm</a> had a discussion about what exactly tilde.town is. One thing that came up intrigued me:

<hr>&lt;um&gt; Then again, I again want to be reserved about that, because what if it just ends up as an ascii second life :)<hr>

I actually mucked about with SL for a while. (in fact, it's where the name variscite originates from -- I found something called the "VR Painted Sergal" and pretty much immediately latched onto it, because it was the most well-done thing I'd ever seen in that environment. My interest in the species kinda grew from there.) The concept of a huge 3D sandbox is fascinating, and people have done some truly creative things, ranging from just creating their own character, scripting a few little features, or even building entire nightclubs and <i>entire cities</i>! Sadly, not everyone's got the required skills to mess around in a 3D realm like that, and I ended up just kinda hanging out with people for about eight months of 2014. I ended up dropping off massively because it just felt like there wasn't quite as much fascinating stuff to explore as there once was, and for what was essentially a visual MUD/IRC client, it was far too taxing for my liking. (And I was especially annoyed with how poorly it runs on AMD card
s compared to Nvidia cards.)

Worldbuilding is fun, though. Despite not having the skills to do very impressive things there (or really the money, honestly), there's other outlets. Writing, and in my case, Zelda Classic and ROM hacking filled that niche.

It makes me wonder what kind of thing we'd have here. I'm just kind of imagining people's directory listings being objects to look at, descriptions of things. Maybe I should throw a description of Variscite up here sometime... both as a way to actually have content aside from my TTBP and to flex the creativity muscles, actually flesh him out beyond being a green fluffy thing.

Aside from this, though, things are still up in the air. Things are looking like they might be okay.

I should talk to people about random ideas I get more.

this TTBP clearly best viewed in a web browser, I guess! I hope it's not too unreadable in the interface.

<hr>Afterword: I had a broken link that needed fixing, so I touched the timestamp to keep this on the 29th. I hope this didn't break anything!