Justin Gaiden

Being a parent is one of the hardest things to do. Not because of the actual act of parenting itself - but because of how hard it is to be away from your child. Worrying about them day in and day out. Worrying if they are being a good person, worrying that they are safe, hoping they remember the things you taught them and stay away from things that could put them in danger. Parenting is hard - but not because being an actual parent is hard - it’s hard because you have to trust the world. We all know the world is a terrible place, but hopefully the lessons I teach my kids can turn it around and make it a little less shitty.

I finally figured out how to use variables in Inform7 so now my attack stuff works. The game is slowly coming together but the problem is I can’t get it to calculate an attack minus defense. I’ll have to do some more research.

I hope life just starts over for me and I get to just experience the same events over and over. Just because I’d miss my family the most vs all the stuff I’ve done.

Hopefully I’ll have that time.

So I’ve been working with Inform7 to make my own interactive fiction and it’s going pretty well I think. I’ve been able to create stats fairly easily - the hard part is to create something that happens with those stats. I’ve also gotta figure out experience points and how to use that as well. I think if I can figure this out then I’ll be on my way to making a text based RPG without issue.

Some douche left a hateful comment on my YouTube video about my poetry I posted some time ago. Not really sure why it bothered me so much - but it did. I decided then to take all my videos down and take my book off for sale. It’s been a long time coming anyway and I guess that was the last motivator I needed. It was foolish of me to think I’d make a difference with my writing. I don’t think I’ve sold any since 2015. I guess it just reminds me of how often I fail. Which is pretty often at pretty much everything in life. Oh well. At least I don’t have to worry about all that garbage anymore.

So, I have another site...www,justingain.com which I want to use for more business facing stuff...but I felt like I needed another place for more personal thoughts and ideas. So I started Justin Gaiden - which I felt was quite clever in its own right. So, I’m going to be using this to do all sorts of stuff that I don’t feel like can stand on my other site..