Criz-Zone

dehumanisation? absolutely not! unless, we're talking about someone turning into a creature and it's going the "would you still love me if I were a worm?" kind of of direction.

then don't even write bad write the outline, just write what happens, any blib of dialog that is already in your mind. If you're thinking of some details write those, otherwise just jot down the bulletpoints if need be. Don't know how to get from A to B? Skip it for now. Just write the bare bones. Then write it bad. Make it good later. You got this!

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

no, you don't understand I have to speed-run recovery from the soul-crushing so I can turn to the soul crushing sooner ...

my super inflammatory game design opinion is that no game should ever encourage you to to play every day. yes, this includes animal crossing.

Half the people commenting on this sound like the people from 'just a little makeup?' post. No encouragement means no encouragement. Not 'oh daily tasks and small streaks don't count'

I'm working on a simple farming game in my spare time and I'm already stressing out about how to 'market' it, because it feels like it's more about what it is not about: - no huge farm you need to manage - no economy - no optimisation to maximise profits - no NPCs whose problems you need to solve - no daily/weekly or otherwise check-ins required just select a character, pick a plant and choose a little garden to tend to

Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years

Hey guys, what if *puts the most horrifying mindblowing concept into your head with about 15 pages*

very tempted to read a few of the things mentioned in the notes, but 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' by Le Guin is already something that leaves a strange feeling with me and it's not even the one that left the biggest impression that I read by her (either 'Diary of the Rose' or the one where a man can't handle light anymore, I forgot the title right now) I've seen a YT video on 'I have no mouth and I must scream' and that pops up sometimes in my head randomly ... So, I need to tread carefully, but I'm oh so curious ...

this is a controversial opinion and I’m not a gamer but I don’t need my graphics to be that good. I don’t need to see every individual feather on a bird. my poor computer doesn’t deserve to carry that weight either.

as someone who has relatively to really old games on their to-do list along with current ones ... yeah, kinda I know I need to replace my computer and all the news about exploding prices isn't making me happy, but sometimes the difference is in how loud my poor old PC gets. And I'm like "calm down, the graphix aren't even that (ultra) high" Having good designs and making the best of lighting might give you better results than just upping how detailed you can be. Also, give me good atmosphere over horse testicle hairs blowing in the wind or whatever some studios invest time in.

had the 'new' Tomb Raider games (from 2013 and onwards) on my to-do for quite a while. Finally started the first one and I'm really not getting into it. Maybe these days (months) is just a bad time for certain things because of mental health issues, maybe it's the way the quick time events are handled and going from running to aiming etc. The list of games I pause to try something else is getting too long for my taste. As weird as it was and unnecessary in itself and as unnecessarily 'eh' the combat in Scorn was, I still kind of 'enjoyed' the game overall. The potential, where I gladly would have played more if it hadn't ended upruptly (funding issues from what I heard). Herdling, was enjoyable if short. It could really do with an 'endless' mode that just lets you shepherd the Calicorns across the land without threats for a while for a 'touch grass' kind of feeling

finished it in the end, but it's definitely not one of my favourite games. Not saying it's bad though! I can see why others would love hat level of constant action and being kept on your toes because something's happening all the time. Or who like getting new things to collect each level etc. All fine, just not for me. I'll put something in between (FAR: Changing Tides) and then tackle Rise of the Tom Raider, then another small one and then Shadow of the Tomb Raider. To get through them all, tick of having played them, but I won't spend time on collecting everything. Also, with luck, they fixed some of the things that irked me in the first one. Gotta add, that while Scorn had some pretty gross moments, similar things in Tomb Raider felt worse to me. Maybe it's the fantastical/sci-fi setting of Scorn. Odd ...

another of those things that's not huge but you just gotta drop somewhere ... I've been a fan of the Turtles since ages. Lucky for me, first as a kid with the cartoons in the 80/90s, then the live-action movies and later I found the comics that had started it all. And I got pretty much all of the old ones I think. Didn't get into any of the new cartoons though. The Bay movies ... had room for improvement, but I don't think they were *that* bad all things considered. And I was happy that a new comic series was in the making and followed it through the years. I got the latest delivery of my comic subscriptions the other day ... the main series and the mini-series and the crossovers. And while TMNT always had a large amount of crossovers it just felt like too much. Same with the mini-series. There's alwayd been some of those now and then, or 'specials' that focus on one of the characters. Or the Tales of the TMNT as a whole side series for a while - I loved those ... different artists, vastly different stories. It's been a while since I read DC or Marvel, but I remember the big events that spread across multiple series and maybe had some additional comics just for that event. But for Turtles too many things run parallel across several comics all the time. It didn't seem to calm down after Armageddon Game. I didn't want all of that anymore, almost like I had fatigue ... Maybe it's because they missed a chance to do a reset after the Armageddon event. I really didn't like where they took it afterwards. Though maybe it already started before that big event, too many characters, too many dimensions, magic and aliens and most of all too many story strings for what is at it's core a story about four mutated turtles that are ninja in New York. So, I cancelled pretty much all the subscriptions. Maybe I'll keep the main series, but it might be better to just order the comics every once in a while if I really want to catch up again. It just feels like giving up on something that's been with me for so long. The TMNT have been a fandom that stuck with me for decades and through so many (though not all) iterations. An end of an era ... or maybe I'm just needlessly emotional about it ...

this was also followed by diving into TMNT fanarts and things on pinterest, so I'd say it's clearly not that I left the Turtles behind. Might really just be about being tired with it being spread out so much. Now that there might not be any new issues added to the collection for the time being, I could actually rearrange my comic ... TMNT is a large part, but there's other things as well and I've accumulated so many comics that still need to be sorted into boxes ...

in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.

THIS IS SUCH GOOD ADVICE this is what I mean when I say “be gayer, take care of yourselves, and read more Terry Pratchett.” Do stuff with groups of people, put yourself in greenery, play games, and do fun shit.

I'm so sick of defending shit I don't even like. I hate porn. I think gender and sexuality are boring. I've never taken an illegal drug and have no interest in doing so. But people won't back the fuck off and let people live their lives so here we still are, still on the front lines with this shit. "You guys make everything about" I'D REALLY LOVE NOT TO, MATE, BUT WE'RE NOT THE ONES CREATING PROBLEMS HERE. Stop trying to control people's lives and we'll all get a chance to shut up about it, but unfortunately the Moral Police are out here endangering lives and livelihoods so here we still are. Forever.

God I fucking feel you. Too real.

"Why do you have to make everything about" WE'RE NOT. YOU ARE. WE'RE RESPONDING TO YOU.