I was thinking about answering questions again, but doing so through things like tumblr and formspring has proven problematic with so many people involved.
I had the idea to use a system like reddit, where submissions can be up-voted and down-voted. That way, I can get a better sense of the questions most people want answered, rather than grabbing them randomly from an endless list.
It turns out that reddit is a system like reddit, so one or two people were nice enough to set up such a page for me.
If you want to ask a question, or vote on existing ones, you’ll have to make a reddit account and go to this page. Submit the question as a comment. It’s already been gathering questions for a few days as I post this.
I’ll wait a few more days to see what DEMOCRACY has to say, then I’ll round up whatever has risen to the top and post the answers on tumblr.
edit:
re: “but reddit sucks!!! boooo”
Let’s not get carried away and look at this as some kind of “endorsement for reddit” whatever the hell that even means.
I’m not even creating an account myself. Literally the only thing I care about here is its up/down-voting feature, to harvest the questions people are most curious about. Feel free to either not create an account, or create an account for only this specific purpose, and continue going about treating reddit with whatever amount of disdain you think is appropriate.
What Pumpkin Studios: Hey we’re on tumblr now! This is the official What Pumpkin tumblr... -
Hey we’re on tumblr now! This is the official What Pumpkin tumblr account, where we’ll be posting about site updates and sharing news. Maybe even doing a little reblogging, since it seems that’s basically what tumblr is for. We’ll see!
So let’s dive right in and announce that we just restocked…
Had a great time at TCAF hanging out with the ol’ Gangbunch! Tauhid, you at least made some digital appearances (Nic propped up a portrait of you on her ipad during one of our meals).
We ate an adorable rabbit. It died probably from being killed. And then we put it into our mouths.
Look at all these friends.
One of the friends is me.
ipgd:
a little sad but unsurprised that it wasn’t slicks gross pornography
but its okay because of this
is this
did he really get a customer embosser of his face made is that how this picture came to be
I’m not chewing out the fandom or any stray jackass who counterfeits a reblog. Random people out there are always gonna troll us and go to great lengths 4 the lulz. There’s nothing you can do about that. I really don’t care about the people who do it. It’s stupid, but whatever.
I’m much more irritated by the system that allows it.
Seriously, if I designed this site and didn’t take this issue into consideration after all this time, I would feel like such a fucking moron. There are certain standards for internet community software, many of which were established 15 fucking years ago. Like on a forum, if you edit a post, it says “this post was edited by…”
And yeah, you can say “well people should take responsibility and check their sources before believing stuff.” Ok, yes, you and I will do our due diligence on stuff, but the rest of humanity will not. Not understanding this is just not understanding people. You have to take this into account when designing your social media software that revolves almost exclusively around the act of reblogging other people’s shit.
So yeah, if I leave tumblr, it’s because of tumblr, not people.
So I was wondering why this really minor boring post was getting so many reblogs:
And apparently it’s because after a while some jokers started reblogging it while changing the original message? So the appearance to the casual tumblr user scrolling through their feed is that I made a dumb post about dicks or memes or whatever.
And of course because they see it on their dash people BELIEVE I made that inane original post without question and think, omg look at this weird outrageous thing Hussie said, and then THEY reblog it, and so on.
You can verify whether the original author actually said what was reblogged by clicking on their name, but really, who on tumblr is ACTUALLY going to do that? This is not the most deeply inquiring, skeptical crowd we’re talking about. Tumblr users are essentially scrolling junkies. Next post next post next post ha ha “like” next next “ooh gonna reblog that” nextnextnextnext.
I can’t change people’s behavior and I’m not telling people to stop this. Talk about a losing battle. I guess this is mostly addressed to the people who run tumblr, assuming they actually give a shit. Why even allow this nonsense through the design of your system? How hard would it be to code a stipulation that if the original content was changed by a reblogger, huge red text appeared over their post saying something like “THE CONTENT OF THE ORIGINAL POST HAS BEEN EDITED. YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK THE AUTHOR’S SITE TO VERIFY.” Hey I know the answer: not hard at all.
Or maybe they don’t care about whether their social media site has the potential to be taken seriously as a means of distributing information by people or groups who give half a fuck about the authenticity of their widely proliferated messages. Maybe they’re fine with the whole thing deteriorating into incoherent memetic entropy that people can only tolerate if they’re really jonesing to banter about Doctor Who. Or is that what tumblr already is? Hey, maybe this is one reason why!!!
Seriously tempted to stop using tumblr because of this. If counterfeit reblogging is going to turn into a “thing” why should I bother blogging anything at all?
Song is “Rain” by Clark from the album Medium, released exactly one year ago today. Much like the song from “Prince of Heart: Rise up.” was released one year prior to that. I prefer that none of these old albums become lame ducks. I’d rather that there always exist the possibility that any song could be used almost any time.
The game itself was sort of an homage to the Myst games, and other similar point and click puzzle games. This one was another solo effort. (haven’t done any collab work since Cascade actually.) This was a little extra, since I had to do a lot of programming too. Kind of underestimated that, thinking “hell, it’s just a bunch of buttons and conditionals, how bad could it be?” Uhhh, no. Even a few puzzles here and there requires a much bigger footprint of internal logic and variables than you expect going into it. Mix in a bunch of different KINDS of work like all the art, writing, conceptualizing, and all the standard endless flash tweening bullshit, and that’s a pretty serious gauntlet to fit in a week. I actually had just a little more planned for it beyond the final door, but had to cut it off there for now. (For one thing the file was getting too big.)
There were a few bugs which I just fixed too. Like text clipping issues and stuff. Maybe try replaying if it was buggy for you.
Or if you prefer to severely relax your brain cells rather than give them another workout, feel free to read this. Drawing it served the same approximate purpose for me.
There are way way way too many people trying to load the site all at once. Refreshing a million times per minute will not help, because that is what everyone else is doing.
If you want to see it, I recommend leaving the computer for an hour or two, coming back, and trying again.
I have no idea why the Homestuck day ribbons are supposed to be orange, but whatever. When has the fandom ever been wrong??
coloUrs and mayhem - Universe B released! -
THE SEQUEL IS HERE…
