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Parallax

Parallax originated as a 3D action platformer where you played as a special operations cat doing battle with the evil dogs. It shifted to anthropomorphic animals and then to kemonomimis where they are at now. The gameplay also changed from a Sonic Adventure-like game with jets to a First Person Shooter, more akin to Halo.

The first written content for Parallax is from back in 2005, a stats page with weapons and vehicles names, damage and capacity, after was a walkthrough style campaign synopsis, complete with terrible spelling. Many of the items have been renamed and almost everything, if not everything, has been rebalanced. Balance then heavily favored the Cats (Cazanans). Now I feel the weapons are fairly well balanced against each other, a few exceptions being weapons I have not worked with much, semi-redundant weapons and when vehicles are involved.

In 2008 I started making a web comic, because web comics were cool, so as to help make some brackground for the Parallax universe. It is called Parallax Beginnings, in reference to how it was to take place before the main game storyline. Updates have been extremely slow and infrequent. It stopped several times for several reasons. This last stall was so as to design the characters and equipment more completely before getting too far along and having mighty morphin power armor, as seen by Church's black and red armor. It also gives me time to rewrite much of the comic's story without the need of retconning anything.

I got into those awful forum RPGs around that time as well, resulting in a Parallax RPG on the comic's forum. Be Advised the quality of posts in that time is horrendous. The RPG was run with little to no planning and acts as a semi-canon instance of the universe where I would play around with ideas and keep things I liked. Much of the resulting content is not canon, making the Parallax RP a bad reference for Parallax canon. Things that are maintained in canon from the RPG are Hellen's Point, Steve and Steve's Stuff, Sergio (The Invincible) and Quaran. It has been one of the largest contributors to the setting's background.

More recently I got the idea of "What if my characters were in a Dota?". The result was a rather large influx of new characters. Before that, the "Newest Character" was Erika Keenly, who quickly stole Main Character position in the comic and general character development from Ryan (O')Connar. Erika has not and will not have an appearance in the comic for quite some time and she is already the most developed character. The New Newest Character is actually the result of a school project. The unnamed Not-Mokou in need of a redesign. Her story is untied to the Cazanan-Dronok war, but I intend to have it tie together in the FPS, along with making her a boss.

I would quite like to make a Wiki, however I'm not sure what all I could put on it at the moment without it being mostly plot spoilers.

E-4 ate half my buckets by the time I found a way to reliably kill the boss. Final kill went incredibly smoothly as I had planned on using a different fleet through the night battle nodes. Lv1 Kirishima did really well and the 3 battleships protected Nagato long enough for her to dump Type 3 shells at night for 300+ damage.

I made this while waiting between classes last week. Forgot to get it off my flash drive.

Kinda shows me that my monitor isn't that great because the grays on the clouds seem a lot fainter than when I was making it. Or the lens flare screwed with them

Got Kinugasa the last night before work which lets me do like 4 quests I was stuck on. Tonight I saw someone get Zuikaku by doing 666/666/666/666 so I thought I'd try it for shits and giggles before going to bed. It worked.

Scammer Targeting Tumblr Artists

The title says it all really. So if nothing else, please share and reblog this post to raise awareness for those that might be caught out - both artists and followers. For a TL:DR, please look at the bottom of the post

What is happening?

Right now, there is at least one person actively impersonating multiple artists across tumblr in an effort to scam their followers into paying for fake ‘cheap commissions’. The scammer will clone a tumblr, usually using a slight change to the url/account name to look like the real deal. They will then message people directly through Tumblr with messages along the lines of “Hey, i’m doing cheap commissions right now. DM me to get one”. Naturally, this is ends up just being a way to take their money without giving anything back in return.

Who does this affect?

Everyone. Simple as that. As long as the scammer in question works unopposed, they are free to spread their influence and continue to scam more people. Even if you haven’t been targeted yet, it does not mean you are safe or immune. Several artists have already fallen victim to this scammer, and I encourage any artists that have to reblog this post with the details of their affected account(s) and the ones the scammer has set up.

How can we stop this?

Tumblr, like many other social media platforms, seems to care very little about ‘minor’ occurences like this one, and despite reaching out directly to them over a week ago through multiple avenues of contact - they have refused to comment on the situation, provide a recommended response for users, or take action on behalf of those already affected. Despite this, there are still tools at our disposal that we can use to make this scam more difficult, and to increase its visibility to those within Tumblr staff that are required by policy to take action. Tumblr has the following to say on the topic of impersonation: Confusion or Impersonation. Don’t do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don’t impersonate anyone. While you’re free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can’t pretend to actually be Benedict Cumberbatch. They then provide a link to this online form that you can fill out if you suspect someone’s identity is being confused. Unfortunately, this can only be filled out if you are the victim of impersonation. In other words, only the artists can fill this out legitimately. So, what about the followers and users of tumblr whom aren’t being impersonated? Our most valuable tool in this online platform is the platform itself. It enables us to spread our word near-virally across all the many sub-communities on Tumblr with remarkable efficiency for a user-driven system. We can take advantage of that effect to increase awareness of the situation. Even if you - the one reading this right now - aren’t an artist or don’t know an artist, the act of reblogging this post or sharing it directly with friends improves it’s ‘ranking’ in popularity increasing its chances to be seen by more people. We don’t need everyone on Tumblr to see the post for it to be effective, just like we don’t need the entirety of the human population of the world to be immune to a disease for that disease to be rendered ineffective or eradicated. If enough people are aware, the likelihood of pulling off a successful scam increases dramatically reducing efficiency to a point that it no longer becomes profitable to continue.

Why should I care?

It disheartens me to say this, but of the many artists I contacted directly over the past week to warn about this issue many of them refused to listen or dodged the responsibility with lines like;

“I’m not being impersonated, so it doesn’t affect me”

“I’m just one person. I can’t make an impact”

“I need to take care of my community. Other people can look after theirs”

This is honestly disappointing that so many artists or art-rebloggers care so little as to intentionally wave the responsibility of keeping their followers and fellow artists safe from this, that they cannot spare 10 seconds of their time to share an informative post. I’m not here to bash artists, but it is time that everyone takes responsibility for their own communities, and of those around them. Artists: You have a responsibility to ensure that your followers and fans aren’t being abused by someone who may impersonate you. If they succeed, your reputation will be damaged, and your followers will resent you. Your followers are also almost guaranteed to be following other artists meaning your efforts can spread beyond your own circle of influence, so don’t be naive when you think you have little effect. Followers: You have just as much responsibility to be aware of those that might try to scam you or your fellow followers. Don’t just sit in silence when you see something wrong: Ignoring the issue only makes it more resilient to our efforts to stop it. You are the vocal majority if you just use your voices to be heard!

TL:DR

A scammer is impersonating artists and scamming money from their followers under the guise of ‘cheap commissions’. If we ignore the issue, it will get worse. Every single person that reads this can afford to spend just 10 seconds to reblog and share this post. Those 10 seconds can save others from being scammed for hundreds of dollars. Reblog & Share

Tried another LSC for the hell of it

Originally 6/7/7/2/20 that I switched to 4/7/7/2/20

Asks

I really should make a big basic info post first, but I haven't yet and will soon eventually, but I'm open to asks about my characters and setting or anything really. It might help with worldbuilding.