The Core

A versatile Discord bot, containing advanced leveling, various games, moderation tools and other features.

• Version: 2.2.2-1
• Last Updated: 27th of December, 2024

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The Core v2.3

I want to make another major update for this bot to try and make The Bane of Adolebia even more fun. However because no one even plays this game, there is no good reason to do this other than 'I want to'.

• Work Stage: Null
• Status: Progress Halted - Discord decided to introduce breaking changes and my Discord library does not appear to support new changes to the Voice API. I don't know if the library will even support voice chats at this point or what kind of changes I will have to make to get it all working again. I cannot work on the project until I get an update from upstream. 2025-02-16 Update: Despite the deprecation, the Voice features of The Core still work. I may return and ignore the issue with the API to finish this version, but no progress has been done for over a month.
• Minimum Work Time: 2-3 months
• Started On: 2024-10-11

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Detailed Progress

I intend to release this update in small stages to have a more smooth development. The planned minor updates aren't finalized and may change.

v2.2.2

Adolebia - Bots, 16 player support, preparation for future work and some bug fixes

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v2.2.3

Adolebia - Simple mafia mode, Town tasks, new roles: Crook and Citizen

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v2.2.4

Adolebia - (Basic) Custom and role lists

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v2.2.5

Adolebia - Advanced Custom, TT and more customization

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v2.3

Adolebia - New Roles: Guardian Angel, Jackal, Auditor (and maybe Cursed Soul?)

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Personal Project [CH]

A large, vague and open-ended project full of various mini-apps which do various personal functions.

• Type: Application
• Status: On Hold

Operation: Sworn Duty

Important project. Designed to be seen by everyone, but only after a certain event.

• Type: Collection of Apps and Documentation
• Status: On Hold

Chokehold: Quite High

New Main Channel Video [4]

A new YouTube video about mobile games. Massive video project, my biggest one so far...

• Work Stage: Audio Editing [4 / 9]
• Expected Video Runtime: ~82 min
• Video Category: Video Games
• Status: Burnt out. Still unwilling to return to the project. No progress was made since August.
• Minimum Work Time: 8 weeks
• Started On: 2024-03-31

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Detailed Progress

Research

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Script Writing

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Audio Recording

98%

Audio Editing

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Visuals

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Video Editing

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Final Review

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Rendering

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Uploading & Metadata

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Town of Salem 2 Mod [1]

I've been thinking of getting into modding this game and this is a fairly new mod idea, but it might require UI work, as well as databases and shit.

• Work Stage: Idea
• Status: Just an idea. Might get killed because I almost never play Town of Salem.
• Minimum Work Time: 1 month
• Started On: Not Started

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New Main Channel Video [5]

A new YouTube video! What is it about? Maybe you'll find out once it releases.

• Work Stage: Researching [1 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: 60 - 90 min
• Video Category: Game Review
• Status: On Hold, Idea has 30% chance of getting scrapped
• Minimum Work Time: 7 weeks
• Started On: Unknown

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New Main Channel Video [7]

A new YouTube video! What is it about? Maybe you'll find out once it releases.

• Work Stage: Researching [1 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: ~20 min
• Video Category: Video Games
• Status: On Hold - I've played the video game subject, but not nearly enough. The story is also slowly developing over time, meaning I have to keep waiting.
• Minimum Work Time: 5 weeks
• Started On: Not Started

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New Main Channel Video [10]

A new YouTube video! What is it about? Maybe you'll find out once it releases.

• Work Stage: Script Writing [2 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: ~30 min
• Video Category: Video Games
• Status: On Hold, likely needs another project [Minecraft mod] in a functional state before this video is created first.
• Minimum Work Time: 4 weeks
• Started On: Unknown

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New Minecraft Mod

A massive Minecraft mod that would completely change and overhaul the game.

• Work Stage: Attempting to figure out Minecraft biome generation (Terrain Noise)
• Status: Can't Proceed, but I might return to this to try again to solve the hard problems some time soon
• Minimum Work Time: 12 months
• Minimum Work Time until Public: 6 months
• Started On: 2023 December

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New Main Channel Video [11]

A new YouTube video! What is it about? Maybe you'll find out once it releases.

• Work Stage: Researching [1 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: ~20 min
• Video Category: Technology and Ethics
• Status: Planned
• Minimum Work Time: 4 weeks
• Started On: Unknown

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New Main Channel Video [12]

A new YouTube video! What is it about? Maybe you'll find out once it releases.

• Work Stage: Researching [1 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: ~30 min
• Video Category: Video Games
• Status: Planned
• Minimum Work Time: 5 weeks
• Started On: Unknown

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New Main Channel Video [13]

A new YouTube video! What is it about? Maybe you'll find out once it releases.

• Work Stage: Researching [1 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: 3 - 10 min
• Video Category: Reminiscence
• Status: Planned
• Minimum Work Time: 4 weeks
• Started On: Unknown

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New Main Channel Video [14]

A new YouTube video! What is it about? Maybe you'll find out once it releases.

• Work Stage: Researching [1 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: ~30 min
• Video Category: Video Games
• Status: Planned
• Minimum Work Time: 4 weeks
• Started On: Unknown

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New Second Channel Video [15]

A new YouTube video. Intended for the second channel.

• Work Stage: Researching [1 / 8]
• Expected Video Runtime: 10 - 20 min
• Video Category: Video Games
• Status: Planned
• Minimum Work Time: 4-8 weeks
• Started On: Unknown

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Personal Project [MG]

A project I am working on to make things easier for myself. It's unlikely to be public... but it depends on if this project will even succeed.

• Type: Video Game
• Work Stage: Null
• Status: On Hold - don't feel like working on this right now. I might... but not now.
• Minimum Work Time: 6 months
• Started On: 2024-04-04

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I 'kill' projects for various reasons and at different stages. These killed projects are classified into a few categories:

• Killed: This project was either a mere idea or in a super early stage, which means the reason for it being killed is that there was something wrong with the idea.
• Abandoned: While not totally dead, work on these projects stopped and I quit working on them either due to loss of motivation or issues with making progress.
• Development Failed: While Abandoned means the project failed due to my own fault, project development failure means it failed (during production) due to factors outside my control, such as the idea being impossible, an unexpected hurdle or something else. Killed projects may include cancelled ideas due to factors outside my control - Development Failure is reserved for projects that had significant progress done.

List of dead projects:

• New Main Channel Video [3]
  • Killed
  • Real Project name: Copyright vs Fangames: How the copyright law erodes video game freedom
  • Project Stage when killed: Idea
  • Reason: This was going to be a video about how, in my opinion, copyright law fucks over the video games market - especially fan creations, such as mods, fangames, fanart, etc. I was going to argue why I believe modding and fangames getting shut down is harmful to the market as a whole and why I believe companies like Nintendo and Activision are immoral for that. My video was going to try and act as a rebuttal to many various takes that A Dose of Buckley made about the issue of Nintendo copyright vs fangames, where he called gamers entitled for being mad about the issue. However while trying to think through it all, I was unable to come up with good MORAL arguments on this issue. I believe that smaller companies are harmed much more than the big guys like Nintendo from tiny mods. I have no sympathy if AAA devs get fucked because their competiting fan creations are better, because in most cases these AAA devs have the resources to do better and don't. However this is a subjective and biased take. It doesn't act as good basis for a video argument and I was unable to come up with anything else, which caused this idea to be killed.

• New Main Channel Video [6]
  • Killed
  • Real Project name: Freedom of Speech: 2 sides of the coin (Individualism vs Collectivism)
  • Real Project name 2: YouTube Drama and Freedom of Speech
  • Project Stage when killed: Idea
  • Reason: I believed that the general audience had a large misunderstanding about what many commentary and drama YouTubers actually stood for, because those channels don't often explain why they have the takes about Speech that they do. I was going to explain this in a video, while also looking for counter-arguments to their stances. However as time passed, I noticed specific cases where I thought this had occurred. Most specifically, the time Nicholas DeOrio entered a fight with a Reddit mod called BrainyBiscuit - the reddit mod failed to understand why Nick acted the way he did and I believed it was a good way to explain the issue. Still, YouTube Drama content is slop even without my arguments. It feels preachy to me to make an entire video trying to glaze and make look drama content good. I like it, but I'd be a moron not to recognize that most people find the concept pretty degenerate. I felt like most peoples' opinions would not change even with such a video, so this idea was killed.

• New Main Channel Video [8]
  • Killed
  • Real Project name: I started using Linux a year ago. Here's how it's going
  • Project Stage when killed: Idea and a little bit of lost scripting
  • Reason: If you know a thing or two about Linux you probably know this idea has been overdone to death on YouTube. The only unique things I can say about this subject are the weird bugs I've experienced and seen no one else report. Those would probably be more useful as actual bug reports in correct places - everything else would be useless YouTube slop.

• New Main Channel Video [9]
  • Killed
  • Real Project name: Tipster
  • Project Stage when killed: Idea
  • Reason: I've followed and watched Tipster's story for years and as such I've seen the guy go through a lot of things. This is why this idea seems like it'd be really fun to me. However this topic has been done to death. It's also quite pathetic too. There was a period where if you looked up Tipster, you would not even be able to find his channel. It'd be filled with videos making fun of him. You can find him now by looking up the channel, but you'll still find tons of content just ripping him apart. I also stick by the principle of not making videos about topics, where I can't provide any unique input (this explains why I made the RYD and Dream videos, as I said stuff I saw no one else in commentary say, but no other drama content). The issue is that almost fully I agree with people like Nicholas DeOrio on things. My largest 'unique' input, aside from style and jokes (if once in a blue moon I were to make an original joke), would be my take on lolicon that is likely to anger everyone (both sides of the argument), which I believe is a stupid thing to make an entire video over, especially considering how extremely militant and terrible pro-lolicon people are.

• Unannounced Video Game [FD]
  • Abandoned
  • Real Project name: Fractal Dust [I wanted to change this name]
  • Project Stage when killed: Null-Alpha
  • Reason: This was meant to be a turn-based strategy card game that heavily leaned on sports for rewards. The intent was to make a fun game that would motivate others (and myself) to spend more time outside. I played games with such a purpose like Pikmin Bloom and Pokemon GO, but both of them had serious gameplay issues that prevented me from sticking with them long term (Pikmin Bloom's only good objective is decor collection, which is an amazing idea, but is annoying due to being too RNG based. Leveling in Pikmin Bloom isn't bad, but becomes very taxing for barely any reward. Pokemon GO requires IRL friends to get legendaries, is extremely grindy (terrible leveling) and requires you to have your phone turned on all the time). I still believe in this idea, but the truth is that this project is absolutely huge and also hard. No shot someone like me could do all this alone. I've spent months working with GPS and maps-related concepts, which gave me serious trouble because I am not super educated in math and I needed to do a lot of that here. My solutions were very slow and the problems eventually got so hard I had no motivation left to proceed. I quit the project while trying to work on my first ever 3D scene with animations and combine that with battle logic.

• Solution Rush
  • Abandoned
  • Project Stage when killed: Null-Alpha
  • Reason: Solution Rush is an idea I've had to try and make math more fun. It started off as a Scratch project, which itself was inspired by occasional 'olympics' I have seen at school, where students are sat down and have to play some Lithuanian browser game. That game seemed very primitive to me and kinda ugly. I thought I could make something better. While I was happy with the Scratch game, it was way too simple. In 2019 I attempted to make it into a full mobile game, with its main draw being an ever-increasing skill group that influenced the difficulty of math challenges you'd get. It would introduce more and more complex algebra challenges during the game and unlock higher difficulties. Solution Rush failed because I was stuck trying to introduce multi-operation challenges and failed. In 2024 I tried to restart the project again, this time building a challenge generation system from scratch that was capable of supplying multi-operation challenges. Unfortunately I very quickly ran into serious issues and because of my dated math knowledge was unable to solve my issues. Motivation fell apart and I quit soon after reaching the first, extremely simple gameplay test.