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pluralstories, do research, or go through old plural website archives... a big part of our work. We use this site all the time (Sneak marked it as one of our most-needed a couple months back, we regularly tithe to them) and now greedy dirtbags are screwing us over.
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dw_maintenanceIt's only been... okay, I don't want to think how long.
We are preparing to take the beta update page and the beta inbox out of beta with the next code release. We don't have an exact date yet, but this is your last chance to tell us about problems!
To enable the beta versions: go to Beta Features and enable the "new Create Entries" beta test for the new update page and the "New Inbox Page" for the, well, new inbox page.
If this is your first time using the beta update page: nearly everything on it can be adjusted, moved, or removed to some degree. The upper right side of the update form has a " ⚙️ Rearrange Panels" link.
Not every panel is enabled by default! If you don't see something you're used to finding, look in the disabled panels. While in Rearrange mode, you can enable or disable panels, drag them to whatever position you want, and generally customize it to your heart's content.
Once we push the button and switch to the new update and inbox pages for everyone, we cannot keep the old ones available. We are so close to finishing the decade-long "get rid of the undocumented custom templating language from 1996 that no one else uses" modernization project that's been sapping our collective will to live that we can taste it, and we can't convert the old update page and the updated inbox page is the converted version. This is your last chance to alert us of problems. If you let us know after the switch goes live, we'll still fix it, but we can't guarantee how fast. Prevent future problems and test drive them now!
stepnixShin Godzilla and the (Japanese) Godzilla media immediately following it feel sci-fi in a way that other Godzillas don't. This is a silly distinction, Godzilla has been sci-fi the whole time, but I'm framing the difference that way anyway. Shin Godzilla spends a lot of the movie investigating the biology of Godzilla, eventually leading to the final plan to seal him away. The Monster Planet trilogy is set in the far future, with humanity returning from interstellar travels to recolonize a thoroughly Godzilla-ized planet. Singular Point is heavy on unraveling the mysteries of theoretical physics over the course of the series. Each of these is also eager to reimagine the kaiju: Godzilla is a metamorphosing heterotroph, or the ruler of a planetary ecosystem in his image, or the herald of a cognitive event horizon. Singular Point in particular plays around with reinterpretations (precognitive Anguirus my beloved), although the more classic designs show up in the credits every episode.
With the success of Minus One, and the upcoming Minus Zero, it looks like this phase of Godzilla history has come to a close. But I'm very fond of this unofficial trilogy, it demonstrates a lot of potential still untapped in the biggest kaiju franchise in the world
stepnixAfter seeing enough people in the Fabula Ultima discord servers talk about how they want to try out more games in the vein of FabU's original inspirations, I'm giving myself the task of finding freeware that can fit the bill. Fabula is very open about its Final Fantasy inspirations, but surely you don't need to be name-brand to fit the tone. Right?
A little trickier than expected!
Part of this, I suspect, is that amateur games that are very obviously copying off of popular ones aren't going to get a lot of attention and discussion, so I'm not going to find them on the community awards pages. The other part of it is that I'm judging against a pretty specific plot template* that's not even explicitly outlined in the fabula core book, so I'm making things significantly harder on myself lol.
On the bright side, Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruin (my beloved) fits nicely with some optional rules in an expansion book. So at last there's that.
*A "world tour" adventure fantasy where each party member represents an in-universe culture and the party literally or symbolically gathers support from each of those cultures in their stand against the villains.
mark posting in dw_maintenanceHi all,
I had to push some code live today to fix something, and that brought with it a couple of new things like if you have two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA) enabled, you got automatically logged out and it is now required to log in. If you don't, you can set it up if you want (you don't have to.)
This also means that if you have 2FA enabled, you will not be able to use 3P clients using your username and password anymore. You should be able to use API keys in most cases, but there's some nuance to that (and tbh, I just am not precisely sure what clients anybody even uses.)
Please do comment if you're seeing anything weird, as per usual, and we'll work on it. Thank you!
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