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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · Oct 21

🔷The name's Ossilia Flawol!🔶
▫️Portal Lore Master & Modder
▫️Bisexual, Genderfluid! - He/Him, She/Her, They/Them!
▫️Real Dragon (real!)
▫️Artist! @ossiliaflawol.bsky.social

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🔷Reference sheets to Ossilia (me!) and Ossy (youtube creature) here!🔻

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 2d

its the nature of volunteer modding projects at the end of the day. i will say across the board what’s been achieved is damn fucking impressive, this is going to be a really big deal once its been sent out into the world

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 2d

when? eh, it’ll happen when it happens. most of what’s left to do on the project has been very much just accuracy passes & whatever polish we can get away with. we have a fully playable product from start to end though, so we have been hoping on it happening this year - don’t count on it, though.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 2d

“so why dont you make a new updated video?” asked nobody

well maybe its because i want it to coincidence with the eventual release of aforementioned 2009 portal 2 remake project im part of to document how we did it despite how little actual tangible pieces we have of the era

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 2d

the portal 2 beta remake scene is in a hilarious stage in which:

- a majority of projects base themselves entirely on my outdated video
- the ones who are in the know are effectively just remakes *of* the one remake project im part of
- the wider portal modding scene hates them all cus “ew beta”

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 3d

i genuinely dont have any better way to describe people like zesty. its basically 1:1 the same talking points and way of arguing with people only reskinned for a tf2 context

Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 4d

this is a post about the tf2 emporium

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 4d

guys. did you know that a solid 70% of the hammer maps on the portal 2 workshop as of late come from a single discord server? they’re LITERALLY a secret mafia thats trying to take over the entire game because theyre EVIL and its totally not because its just the discord for mappers to congregate at.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 4d

i still think the funniest thing that what i can only describe as “the tf2 conservatives” did is convince themselves that what is effectively a hub for asset creators is actually some secret mafia that controls everything because all the asset creators congregate there.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 5d

you know it.

Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 5d

new combat initiation strategy dropped on the RTD run today

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 5d

shoo

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 5d

the allure of the one specific OTHER thing that has it's anniversary on october 10th is simply too strong. i cannot stop it.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 5d

happy 18th birthday portal 1. i am sorry my undiagnosed adhd ass cannot work on the video i wanted out by now <3

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 8d

yall need to learn to read the full thread of something sometimes

Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 8d

you sound like someone who needs to read the rest of the thread

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 8d

Adding this reply too - because yes, there is historical precedent to Valve doing this. Black Mesa had to drop the "Source" suffix from it's name when it went onto Steam.

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GreenSwede @greenswede.bsky.social · 8d

In the same vain how Black Mesa had to remove Source from its title

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GreenSwede @greenswede.bsky.social · 8d

In the same vain how Black Mesa had to remove Source from its title

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 8d

The guidelines DEFINITELY need a rework though. The 'better' name examples are in one single format, there should be subtitled examples too (i.e. Portal Revolution, Half Life MMOD) because I'm seeing a lot of people take what's being said at face value.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 8d

This all also only applies to projects releasing on Steam for the record. Valve historically turns a blind eye to mod projects outside the platform except in incredibly rare scenarios like when they reached out to TF2C and OF years ago.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 8d

This was definitely not something Valve did because they secretly hate modders or something. I've seen numerous occasions where people mix up the names of TFC and TF2C given they're one character off from eachother, so the fact they've encouraged they do a rebrand makes sense.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 8d

Valve has updated the Source SDK Guidelines on Steamworks in regards to mod names in response to Team Fortress 2 Classic.

The TL;DR is that they want mods to have clear names that indicate they aren't games by Valve, so you can't use subtitles like 'Source' or 'Classic'.

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 17d

its the fever that turns me into a cartoon horse ftr thats why i look like that in this image

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 17d

friend put on the homestuck pilot while i was in vc and suffering from a fever

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Portal Bump // Ossilia 🎨 @ossiliaflawol.bsky.social · 24d

placing down my personal interpretation of the young noelle sprite that toby fox teased us with in the undertale 10th anniversary stream

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 27d

“theyre totally gonna do a new portal based tech demo for the steam frame” WRONG. Valve is digging up a fucking grave as we speak and theyre reviving the motherfucking Portal 2 Sixense MotionPack???????

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