the meat and greet (Patreon)

ok hi whatsup its apriru first but i dont actually have any plans for you all here... then again i probably said that last year when i posted the graphic of taka being stabbed... and you all know how that turned out.
anyway. point is. i'll be talking about the pranks today but i'm not actually doing one here soooo chill. i've played my hand on the main site already

so firstly, the prime cut rib: pokemon meat 3 is a thing. if you're a fan of a lot of fangames GO PLAY IT. but truthfully otherwise it's a little meta in and of itself, there are some references even i didn't get. but it was fun to play and reba is best girl forever <333
no seriously they put us on blast
but they put everyone on blast
and i think we came out pretty well comparatively
and reba is cute so it's worth

i know i say in that topic that i was helping with the development of that game but of course, that's not true, otherwise i wouldn't say 'they' and be surprised by things like her being cute. the first pokemon meat was something everyone was able to pitch into a bit, and wet moat to a lesser extent but for the most part the same core two or three people took care of the meat games the past couple years and just tossed it out to us to chip our names in and advertise for them
which is fine with me, it's been funny.
but it does mean i don't know what's going on any more than the rest of y'all

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and then there's the egg thing. that was just an idea marcello and i hatched on a short notice since i wanted to do something for the site since i hadn't reallllly been involved in it. came together on short notice and was better-received than i expected. i've just been continually overwriting the wondertrade database with more and more of them throughout the day... and in order to keep it a god chance of getting the egg event, i've upped the number of wondertrade slots from 30~ish to... idk, almost 200 now. 

i say 30-ish because of how the slots work.... i don't think i've talked about it before but our original implementation of wondertrade had a set 30 slots and we were going to leave it at that so that it wasn't too much, but people also had a good chance to get some other stuff. maybe we'd increase it later on.

and so we left it for a couple days after the test release of online play and went back to check out how it was.....
and there were 31 slots.
and we were deeply, deeply confused. 

basically: we discovered that if you disconnect/close the game at the exaaaact right moment during a wonder trade, it adds your pokemon to the database without deleting the pokemon you got. and that itself adds another slot to the table too.
so that's. nice.
i'm not even sure how we would go about fixing that-- because we decided not to try. it's just a way to let the system expand over time on its own... i mean it totally relies on a bug to do so but... idk. notice us bethesda-senpai

so anyway congrats you can grow our database by disconnecting at the right time in wondertrade. what time? idk. we don't exactly have a good way to check that and it could be a window of just a few frames. but whatever it is, it works.

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finished the last bits of the puzzle like i mentioned a couple days ago. and that's basically?m ost? of the eventing for the second area? but it's all tied in very heavily to the story stuff so now i'll be finishing that too for a bit and then i can move on to the next piece~ i've been looking forward to the upcoming scene for a while
by the way huge shout out to annella for her cover of umbrella because listening to this more than 100+ times on loop was the only thing that gave me the energy to get through making that puzzle
ella ella ella
like no joke youtube says right now that song only has 2.3k views (how????)  and i am definitely a large chunk of them
ey ey ey

ay girl are you a rubber plant cuz wow im tired cya