Sugary Salt

Thread getting buried.
Here's a commission I just finished.

In the same way that it's hypocrisy to have a membership for one gym that's clean lovely and staffed by friendly coaches but not for another gym that stinks of sweat and staffed by rude jacked-up gymbros who make fun of you if your body fat is above 1%

Welcome to the "new design sucks all kinds of nuts" club

Doodle and a flat Lucoa

Ooh, speaking of Oreos

I prefer the cookies over the cream

Please just forget about the redesign entirely.

I use Twitter myself, mainly for art things; I don't feel the want to stop using it, but I do get how terrible it is.

Specifically, the "For You" tab; my theory is that debates and controversies with threads upon threads of arguments are simply more active and thus spread-worthy to the algorithm than something like, say, a cute picture of a bird with people commenting "OMG SO CUUUUTE". As an example, there's something I noticed recently: I've been liking fanarts of this one Blazblue character, so I guess the algorithm picked up that I must like Blazblue; but either the system doesn't have the ability to recognise that one character nor that I only liked fanart, or it simply doesn't care, because my For You tab was then filled with people arguing over the idea of female Blazblue characters being too sexualised; and I don't care about that.

In times like this, I go back to my Following tab and everything becomes much more palatable. Cute fan art of/and big tiddy anime girls all around.

Nobody's attacking you; why are you trying to defend yourself?

I've never played Hollow Knight, but all this hype around SIlksong got me curious: was Hollow Knight really that good that the lack of updates have reduced the fans to ravenous beasts clamouring for even the slightest droplet of news, or is this just a case of overblown hype brought about by said lack of updates?

Does the "OLD DESIGN" button seriously just take you to that meme page? Is this some belated April Fools' joke?

If it's not the final design, can we get the old design rolled back until you have something actually decent to show?

I threw up

Mangadex is doing their usual fake ad shenanigans, albeit tamer than previous years' if I remember correctly. It's game devs and the like that are churning out the tomfoolery, with fake games, game modes, etc.

One prank I find noteworthy is this trailer

Because it really doesn't seem like a prank; it's an original IP, it has an art style that is very in line for Inti Creates, and it has what appears to be actual gameplay footage.

The video description itself explicitly mentions April Fools', so it's definitely not going to be a full-fledged game
BUT someone has pointed out that the characters are actually from Inti Creates' upcoming game, Card-en-Ciel, which is advertised as having (over?) 50 game worlds in its universe, so Divine Dynamo Flamefrit is probably one of those worlds. Was this all just one big promotional ploy for Card-en-Ciel?

Doodles of a few Unicorn Overlord characters.

I drew a Slime for a Twitter community tribute to Toriyama

-Shin Megami Tensei V is getting an "Apocalypse" styled follow-up game titled "SMTV: Vengeance," coming June 21.

Actually, Apocalypse was a full-on sequel that branched off of the neutral route of IV. This is closer in style to Strange Journey Redux, Nocturne Maniax, Persona 4 Golden, etc. i.e. a rerelease that adds a new route on top of the same story.

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V BABYYYYYYYYYY

That Gunvolt 2 100% has been indefinitely postponed on account of me getting Gunvolt 3 during the winter sale and classic Gunvolt subsequently becoming my least favourite playstyle in the Gunvolt franchise.