KatrinaTheLamia

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KatrinaTheLamia, also known as Catalina Payne, is one of the more noisy members of the sites she is a part of. Generally willing to not only tell you what her point of view is, but why exactly it is correct. Regardless of if this is the case outside her mind. She generally is known to take criticism, but only after it has been decently questioned. Katrina will often cycle between taking hiatus from a site, to returning on a high action posting.

KatrinaTheLamia has not made much for decent works herself, however, she has had a hand in giving advice and support on various other works done, include her (roleplayed) twin brother, JasonTheEchidna.

KatrinaTheLamia is known as a Game Designer, Artist and Writer.

Fursona

Katrina is a coral snake Lamia with black leathery wings, blonde hair and two long red horns on the top of her head. Generally having taken on various Succubus traits as she has gone along. This is just what she calls her "preferred form"--listing her correct form is mostly for those cleared to see it.

History

Katrina was not always a Lamia--she spend many years as DakeDesu the Confused Werewolf. That is a werewolf that generally seemed to be rather confusing to talk to, and confused herself. Generally tended to show a fair amount of bipolar type traits.

She however stopped going by DakeDesu after a while, noting that, "it was beaten to death by some girl with oddly coloured eyes, who screamed out oddly polite japanese gibberish as she beat the name to death."

She notes that her old nick of "DakeDesu" is based on poorly translated Jerry Springer slang, and predates Rozen Maiden by about a year--never mind the DesuDesuDesu meme.

She also went as Sheol while promoting an ill fated website "Rastar Hell".

Accomplishment

Not much. She has mostly slunk around various communities, such as GameDeveloper.Net (down), GameDev.Net, Bob and George, Kid Radd. GamerDNA and Rant Radio. She has spoke a few things, and really has not gotten much solid behind her. Lists of things she has done:

  • Got people to enjoy her writing--which is only mildly furry.
  • Gave some decent programming advice out
  • Made some mediocre, at best, artwork
  • Some small demos of programs that never reached high functionality
  • Helped start the trend to refer to graphics as 2bpp, 3bpp and 4bpp with their style noted on the Bob and George forums. After raising a big tink about the ambiguity of the terms 8bit and 16bit in terms of Pixel Art and Sprite Art.
  • Kept the KidRadd community going--if only in life support as a comatose vegetable.

NIMH Labs

NIMH Labs is mostly a website of Katrina's that has largely fallen into neglect as of late.

It was named by one of her friends, Yugosaki, as joke based upon Katrina's apartment at the time. Noting that it was such a chaotic mess, that if sentient intelligence were to crawl out of anywhere, it would be her apartment.

NIMH Labs, is meant to be a location where Katrina posts her graphical works, games she has made, various programming type elements, writings, and all those other wonderful things she does. She just has yet to find a back end that she particularly enjoys using for the site. Having gone through MediaWiki, Wordpress, Zepto and ModX--without much satisfaction on any of those. Currently working on a back end known as Rosebush for this. Other projects of NIMH Labs are expanded on below

Lamia Browser

Lamia Browser started off as Katrina looking into the code bases of Links, Elinks, Links2, Lynx and Links Hacked for the purpose of adding DOM3, HTML5 and CSS3 to the code base. However Katrina found that the only part of the code base of Lynx she really cared about was the console and frame buffer output code (which likely will change).

Katrina having issues thinking of a super cat type name for it simply applied her own species to the product. It currently is in the Alpha stage, with Katrina posting updates to it on github sporadically.

Once into the release cycle, Lamia will base its major releases on various species of snakes, such as milk, corn, coral, etc.. With minor release being code named after various subspecies of these snakes. With the mascot of the product reflecting that species. Making it amongst the rare ranks of web browsers with a cartoon funny animal mascot. Currently holding FireFox/Firebird, Lynx and Arachnid.

Lamia's main goals is to go beyond the web browser market and move into also adding newsgroup, twitter, facebook, youtube (via frame buffered mplayer), irc, and other support via its interface that from the start is designed to be highly moddable.

Other goals of Lamia are to try to have it be decently commented and try to have the source follow something similar to Python's PEP-8 standard. As well as allowing the ability to turn off parts of Lamia to keep them from loading. Lamia also plans to have the option to optionally load in the JVM, Parrot, Mono or SAGE Miss System Virtual Machines. Since it is modular as its base design, this does not imply bloat.

RPG Source Books

Katrina in her goals with NIMH Labs desires to present various elements of graphic design, marketing and programming into her page. In amongst a few psychological elements. Taking advice from a few of the people on Rant Radio she had also plans to employ the use of using various ttRPG systems to demonstrate one's skills in real life, as well as promote problem solving skills presented in many ttRPGs

Typically in how she presents the Source Books, it will be for material that is out dated, public domain or for other reasons, hard to purchase a decent copy of the information presented. Katrina also plans to present and publish a few fan made source books as well, as various esoteric or legacy source books.

Complimenting this, she also will present a few charts on current game data, such as Pokemon, Megaman: Net Battle and other games with fairly developed metagame systems.

So far, plans for source books to be released are

Running these source books will put the focus on fan based additions to the series, rather than the core series material.

Supporting databases for this will include information various jRPGs, for the purpose of demonstrating rather well balanced and varying systems. The idea is to mostly point out how jRPGs are capable of having deep systems just in cutesy dressings.

Kid Norrin

An AI project that Katrina is mostly researching at this time. The idea is an AI that studies Katrina's vernacular well enough, that every now and then. Katrina can select a few clients to run in autopilot mode.

Various Game Engines

She has given various names to various game engines over the years. None have gone anywhere. These typically are for sprite based games.

Comics and Games

She has had a few ideas for comics and games on her site, the only ones that have stuck around for a decent amount of time:

  • Kid Radd (fan works)
  • Planetary Defense Squadron (a furry comic)
  • W!PE (an Anime parody)

Elissa's House of Burlesque

Elissa's House of Burlesque was a website that created after Katrina got confused by her hosting's ToS. Elissa's House was a site set up by the hosts of the Futanari Palace, to host the artwork that Katrina drew. They were generally very crude and poorly drawn. Included both pornographical works she did and clean stuff. Include various pictures that included anthropomorphic animals, robot guro and bestiality in the porn section. The clean section had mostly anthropomorphic animals and characters from various works she was playing with.

None of the works had any polish to them, and were crude--not really that decent as far as furry art goes.

Therian Status

Katrina generally regards her mental state, most of the time as Lamia. Generally noting that she can S-shift into other forms (usually an Eris Spider Drider, Dayglo Purple Goo Girl, Bee Girl, Fifteen Tailed Kitsune and a few other states)... however she notes in doing so, it has a nasty side effect of having herself M-Shift into that state as well. Usually with mixed results, that switch between lusting after whatever is closest (the Goo Girl), or just hunting for "food" (the Dryder).

Katrina has always known she is a fur of some sort. Not really understanding what it is like to not be a furry in her mind. Not really needing to outwardly express this furriness all that often. Just having it exude from her, regardless of her day to day life.

It seems that her S-Shifting will cause side effects on various electronic devices--having issues keeping electronics stay in an intact state. Mostly because she has no other name for it.

Otherkin Status

Katrina refers to herself as "the self proclaimed daughter of Eris". As well as a servant of Inari. Not really stating who the father is--and generally stating that she is an odd amagolation of Hysimnia and Makhai.

Noting that every other religion out there has a messiah figure--citing Horas, Marduk, Jesus, Krishna (refering to him as the East Indian chap she cannot ever remember the name of), and Mithras--Discordia really needs their own Messiah type figure. She states that her qualifications as "Daughter of Eris" are that she is the only one insane enough to take up the role. I mean--you'd have to be crazy to go around calling yourself the Messiah of any deity, much less than the Messiah of Eris.

She also makes odd claims about being a representative of Temporal Matters. Noting that Eris is the correct leader of Temporal Matters (hence why most people find time travel plots screwed up--it was Eris), as Eris has pulled off the Grandmother Effect as she technically is her own grandmother. Catalina is to take over from Eris over the next century.

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