/elder/ - Elder Wizards

I think its much simpler: none of us here actually -does- anything with our time. Instead, we spend our days playing video games or browsing the Internet inside our warm NEET dens and while that might be fun for us it makes for some terrible content.

Even on the /hob/ board most of the things discussed there are more self-indulgent activities rather than any concrete hobby. They had to create an entire board just to contain all the video game threads because that's all people on /hob/ were talking about … Really, it's no wonder we have nothing to discuss if that's where all our time is going.

You might think that this doesn't matter but it's probably the main reason why this website has been so boring in recent years. There's virtually no creativity left and it really gets old seeing people put no effort into their threads and them still receiving hundreds of replies. We will discuss the same things over and over again, even if we already know the answer "What factors contributed to your wizardry?" How many times has that one thread been posted over the years? I saw it posted again a week or so ago, why does it keep getting replies? And the classic: "I'm thinking of becoming a Benedict monk."

This website is stagnant because we're stagnant. None of us has any new ideas and we don't do anything with our lives. We're the kinds of people who like to talk about maybe doing something one day instead of actually doing it … And just before you call me a normie – note that this criticism has nothing to do with being a wizard, a neet, a normie, etc. I am simply noting that most of us here do nothing interesting with our time. Even as a NEET we could be creating things instead of consuming them and doing more with our days outside of mindless browsing, but instead we've embraced the same cornerstones as normies which is consumption.

>>357
Throwing fits in topics destroys the social fabric of the site. It's a wizard community but it's still a community and an absolute minimum of social competence is still needed to interact with people, even here. This is unfortunate but it's simply how communities work and this board is not an exception.

>>440
The one thing that I do that wouldn't be considered just a past-time would be learning japanese, and I do that because I want to better consume japanese media.

Most people on wizardchan are in their 20's, and we're not really like the proactive normals who will look for experiences and actively brag about them. Wizardchan's population isn't on the younger side simply because people tend to kill themselves or become normals (that's certainly part of it), but because not many older people will care about imageboards. Give it some 10 years and we'll have more life stories and particular hobbies and experiences to share, be it here or in whatever succeeds wizardchan.

>>49
My 2c
Wiz is questions. The poster asks a question, and the wizards answer it and discuss answers.
Dep is either a question with a darker tone to it, or simply a declaration of sadness, with 2 generals.
Hob is a generals board
Lounge is random with no shitposts
B is shitposts
Never go on JP, meta, or games.
Elder is just warming up, but I have an Idea for its success.
Elder should be a church.
A place for wizards to contemplate their existence and their lives without fear of ridicule. A place for worship of the self.

I think /elder/ should be a place where the general rules and global rules of Wizchan don't apply. A kind of /b/ that isn't a shitposting hellhole.

That way we can just unwind and relax without tr00 wizrar roleplaying and bickering all the time.

You know? Keep wizchan the way it is but have /elder/ as a place where we can actually have our own normie free board and not have to worry about raider trolls witch hunting and sewing discontent, and we don't have to lie and pretend we don't fap to 3D and stuff.

/elder/ would work very well as a kind of "members only" club, wizchan itself serves as great deterrent (but an invitation to trolls) with it's negative and uninviting atmosphere.

I honestly don't feel any sort of brotherhood with other wizards because we're so hostile on wizchan to each other.

If we could just use /elder/ as a place to just be ourselves and be losers together, I think that'd be great.

You know? This place has been around for a while, but it's still dead as shit.

I don't know, I was thinking a lot at work today trying to pass the time and it seemed like a good idea.

>>140
>>267
These are great, thanks

Daba Makourejah & Ganja Tree - Bamba 12"
Dub/Roots Reggae

Lyrics are available in the comments of the video, but they're basically just talking about Amadou Bamba, the founder of a mildly interesting Sufic order in Western Africa. This EP has one of the more tolerable dubs that I've heard. The second half of the EP (Ganja Tree) is a little "eh", but that's probably just because I've heard 10,000 other 'ganjaman anthems' just like it at this point, and they all got old yesterday.

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Moved to >>>/lounge/100510.

>I'm a very vanilla person, always have been, so I hate how the stuff I like has been phased out with more twink gay shit or dick succubi.

I try and stick to vanilla loli too. It feels wrong with anything too aggressive or "slut" lolicon. I dislike twink shit so much, it is taking the sweetness and purity symbolism of lolicon and turning it into a corruption sex symbol for degenerates. Also they spread their faggot cancer all over the place kind of how /mlp/ was banned because they had to "come out" everywhere they posted. Their "man" lingerie, fag orgies, boipussy degenerate crap can burn, worse part is they are proud of it.

Had to repost because of difficulty reading.

Loli is always nice to come back to. Maybe on elder we can avoid all the -fapping to 2d is not wizardly- fags.

>>666

I'm the opposite. Fapping to innocent loli just makes me feel like a pervert. Slutty loli and lolidom is what I'm after. Nishi Iori's stuff always gets me going, although he does tend to draw his lolis a little young. Part of what I like about it is how unrealistic it is.

>>672
I don't really like seeing that stuff, suggestive material is one thing but full on slut material takes the innocence out of it. Part of it is also personality, mentally I resonate with 2d loli more then anything so I don't really feel bad, I have attraction but it stops before it gets to anything extreme.

>>676
It's probably because you actually dig loli on a genre level. I'm more of an /ss/ type, so loli for me is just a body shape and size to have fun with occasionally.

>tfw neckbeard browser with shitloads of privacy addons and cookie purgers
>tfw still accepted on /elder/ somehow
>tfw truwiz
feels gud man

test

>>199
If it was cookie they would just instate a login system or something, it must be IPs.

Guy in other thread mentioned that his IP reset and he could not longer access.

>>671
it's a cookie that must match the ip of our current situation witht he ip of your previous posts

Don't worry lad, this is just a screening phase. Once you're truly worthy, you'll get access to the real /elder/.

>>584
Not op, but that's what I thought. This board looks like a joke. Random threads with content from wiz and lounge.
And I did not post anything meaningfull on wizchan ever anyway so I doubt I'd be able to enter real /elder/.

>>613
This is the attitude I've complained about before. Quality content is to be delivered to you, I suppose?
An expectation that everyone else will just serve you good things.

>>620
We're all pretty much like him though.

It was a mistake to think that creating an elite board would unleash a torrent of hidden potential in the userbase. There are no hidden treasures of content that people have been withholding, and if there is, they're still not going to post it here.

Right now I think there is one good thread though (things you never share)

I am not sure how I got in here either. All I can figure is they track IPs and have some kind of counter and when you make so many posts, browse so many pages, lurk so many seconds, that you are automatically in.

That or the mods manually tag posts they like and give them points and once you get enough points from the mods you are in.

It does make me concerned about who has access to our tracked IPs though. Particularly if we are posting loli on JP or something.

Thats what happends when u abuse Steroids!,

Roids mashed down his heart g guaranteed

makes ur heart grow lad then when it gets bigger it cnt beat if ygm

How do we know you're the real Elder simpsons poster?

Which one of you turned in Simpsons poster to the FBI?

>>9

I'm ok with this. I like watching loonies.

>>663
They haven't got this Simpson poster

>>655
>very limited

Dunno about 2003 but I will tell you that I did not find VX or VX Ace limited at all. I have years of experience with the engine and using just autoscripts I've done things not seen in AAA games. You're welcome to go play it and see for yourself. If you wanted to see under the hood you can either a hack to break through Haven's encryption (just standard VX Ace encryption option, if I even encrypted it) or I can just upload an unencrypted version for you to see the logic under the hood. I can promise that a lot of it would astonish you.

I've broken VX Ace using just autoscripts; the testing functionality for battles doesn't execute the same code as fully hitting the test game button so functionality for a boss doesn't work unless I go fully into the game due to how the boss thinks. The boss needs to know who is who (using the party index) but test battle doesn't assign indexes to party members meaning the boss has no clue how to operate it's instructions and does things it isn't meant to do. I've also made VX Ace crash many, many times again just using autoscirpts.

>2 hours

For reference Haven has about 5 hours of gameplay (in it's current state at 90% of the content being there) and it took about 2 years to get to that point. The better you are at making games the longer it takes to make them. Granted you're not making custom assets but still don't underestimate the worth of even a single hour of gameplay. This is why normies don't appreciate the effort required for game creation. To them the intro to Skyrim took Bethesda 10 minutes.

>>657
I'm making some custom battlers using charas-project.net but in terms of limited I just wish I could make a boss battle where the boss cast a spell 2-3 times per round. Can you do that with VX?

How hard is it to get a side view battle system going? Can I just steal someone's script and copy/paste it? I just want to make my ingame charaset the battlers as well, sort of like how FF3/6. That's a problem I have with VX though…I REALLY prefer 2003's look because I wanted to go with an snes look but I'm not a sprite artist. Charas-project.net is almost perfect for my needs because I was able to really improvise for my cast of characters. I can barely get what I need for vx look wise.

>>658
You can probably do it in 2003. You can easily do it in VX (multiple ways too depending on what amount of control you wanted, you could for example have a spell cast once on seperate targets, seperate random targets, etc.) but you'd need to think outside the box depending on what exactly you wanted. It's not remotely difficult but your lack of experience might leave you guessing. Again though I've never used 2003. You can show me a screenshot of the autoscripts available and I can direct you from there. Assuming 2003 has common events.

>just copy and paste it

Few scripts function out of the box via plug and play (this is something MV apparently fixes p quite a bit likely due to the move to Java). I've had to modify scripts in Haven and even then some of them have features I can't turn off. Example is the result combat screen as Haven does not use any items or gold. The script has a seperate "loot" screen that isn't possible to turn off and has the characters make a statement about what they get. If you don't give each character something to say the game crashes so I just put "this is just to prevent a crash!" as each of their lines for that screen.

Haven uses a sideview battle system but you'll need good knowledge of sprite sheets to utilize such things as they're built inherently to support animation (battlers not always the case). I don't believe I saw a side view battle system script that didn't inherently have animation.

MV has a built in system where you just check a box and it goes from first-person to side-view ready to go.

>>658

What you're looking for is a template. You can just copy/paste whatever resources you want onto your own custom template, and then build the whole game out of that, instead of using the RTP or whatever else. This approach is actually a lot better for filesize as well, because when it comes time to compile, your list of used resources will be really fucking tiny, and named specifically for your needs.

So, for example, if you name all of your resources "00resourcename", you can compile with RTP, extract to a folder, delete every RTP resource (make sure you've blanked out all the premade stuff in the database!), and you'll be left only with your custom resources, but the folder will still have the RTP flag on it, so people can download and use it without having the RTP on their computer, or downloading a 200MB game, that only uses 30MB of resources.

Also, when you're doing up your script, make sure you know the character limits (usually around 40 or 50 characters per line) and stick to them religiously. Externalize your script to something like notepad++ or kate.

Often, the charasets are kind of formulaic, so you can cut one persons head off, and stick it onto another person's body, to give them multiple outfits. If you don't want to do this while you're making the game, just use standin charas, of a monster, or another person, it literally makes NO difference what you use, since you'll be copy/pasting the real deal right on top, later.

Most of all, remember that resources are in flux, always. You are never bound to any specific resource. If you've made a character white, and you want them black, go into the charaset, and do a colorize/colorswap on their face and hands. If you want to have a bong on a table, but you can't find a bong sprite, use the sprite of a goat, and just swap it out later, or better yet, use an orange block with the words 'bong' on it. But never feel like you're a slave to art resources. I'm using neoclassical portraits as all of my faces, and I'm loving every second. The game is yours, and you can make it look however you want.

here some more pictures. i would like to continue taking pohotos, but i have no interest in where i live… when in japan i understand 0% of what everyone is saying there is no distraction it is easy to ignore everyone because it just sounds like an anime, but in american their english it all everything sounds like a boring news channel and the signs and advertisements they assault my brain and my senses and it's too hard to even go outside here

>>182
>what you want to ban is news and flamers

I don't want politics banned. I was just pointing out that when someone refers to banning politics they just want news and flamers gone.

>>183
Good, i want them gone as well. I hope the mods will make a good distinction when enforcing these future rules.

>>179
>>180
that's pretty spot on about how i feel. i don't care enough about the whole subject to even know how to properly begin describing it any other way than you said

testing

>>70
>Also no sexually arousing content, whether 2d or 3d
Looks like this has already been forgotten.

I enjoy horror, gore, surrealist, and psychological thriller films. I mostly watch low-budget movies because that's what stays up on youtube for the longest, so I have a special affection for them.

Other mediums mirror above tastes. But it's a lot harder to find free books that aren't boring. I don't like adventure stuff.

Romantic comedies are at least easy to avoid. Sexploitation often ends up in my recommendation feed, and you can't always tell until your a few minutes into the film whether the movie will kill her or spend an hour worshipping her, it's like if the romantic comedy protagonist becomes a movie and throws away the idea that she's anything more than boobs on legs.

I've always loved medieval fantasy.

I grew up reading the Redwall series and playing Runescape. I can't really remember all the series I've read, but my favorites are Tolkien's works, the Wheel of Time series, and the Sword of Truth series. I don't watch much western TV, but I really enjoyed the "Merlin" series about Arthurian legend. Same with anime and manga: if it has that medieval fantasy feel to it, I'll probably enjoy it. I have several related manga on my reading list right now, but my two favorites are Mushoku Tensei and Tate no Yuusha.

The latter ties into another type of story I like, where the main character is the underdog, an outcast, and/or forced to develop his strength mentally and physically to overcome adversity. I think this is more trope than genre, though. My favorite in this category is Holyland (martial arts manga).

I'm probably forgetting a lot of games/anime I've played/watched in these genres, but Legend of Grimrock comes to mind as one such game I've played recently.

I really want to get back into reading medieval fantasy novels, but it's been so long since I've sat down and actually read a book that it's hard to get back into it. As I'm writing this I just remembered Elder Scrolls, but I've only played Skyrim. Going back and playing a couple of the older ones is another thing I'd like to do.

I like the sad movies mostly. I can't help it.

I still barely watch any movies at all. No shows, barely any books, etc. I just stay here all day.

Here's a movie I've been wanting to watch, but I can only listen to the opening song. It's probably been half a year by now. who knows when I'll get to it.


Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki OST - Okaasan no Uta

Also known as Wolf Children if I recall correctly.

>>636
おおかみこどもの雨と雪

>>498
>I grew up reading the Redwall series and playing Runescape.
nice, i also can't help loving medieval fantasy. to some extent even medieval nonfiction and history and things i enjoy too.