The Catboy's Humble Abode

Hello there! Kept ya waiting, didn't I? Yeah, I greatly apologize, I'm not sure why I felt the need to skip last week's daily journal, I guess I'm too caught up with college homework before even considering getting back on track with everything else I'm trying to do. On one hand, I finally got the main room figured out for my upcoming map: Duskfall Fortress! (spoiler alert, I used ChatGPT to help me with the name, but I modified one of its name suggestions lol)

Other than that, nothing really special. I spent WAY too much money on the first week of February, which is already a huge mistake of mine and I need to think about better financial decisions. On another note, I got to hang out with my old high school friend this Wednesday and Thursday, we mostly did a lot of walking but we did watch some YouTube videos together, hella fun.

Time for another weekly journal! Sorry I had to skip the last one, but I'm back in College now! The first week back in school was a bit slow, I will admit, but I managed to take this as an opportunity to build a house in my Minecraft world using the newly added Pale Oak logs. I know, I tend to use the same formula for house building quite a lot, but if you have other house building formulas you'd like to recommend, I'm all ears. I still need to finish up that mountain, but it's kinda gotten a lil tiresome and burning me out a lot more than it should, simply because I start cooking more than I can chew up.

On another note, I also decided to explore the rest of the seed that my creative world is contained within, and as I was flying across the place, I managed to find myself a floating shipwreck. Honestly, this discovery is quite incredible for me as despite how much I've seen in this game's world generation, this one is definitely out of my league; who would've known that a shipwreck can be generated out of the water, barely even touching it?

Hello there, this is my 2nd weekly journal of 2025. As of writing this journal, I am stuck at home, as per usual. I'm sure you guys know about the story about a severe fire spreading around the east coast, whereas a big-ass snowstorm happened in the midwest. Turns out I'm among the midwest, meaning we've got 10 inches of snow over here. Now, I may be very into snow as a kid considering I used to love playing in it whenever it happened, but nowadays I can't stand snow in the slightest. It just drives me absolutely insane whenever it happens because too much snow can be a little troublesome for me, and most other people I know about.

I did some snow shoveling. Not much of it, but I certainly got as much as I could off the back deck and the front deck of the house. Couldn't exactly get it off the road, not only because it's made of gravel but there's a HUGE layer of ice underneath all that snow that I just couldn't get into. I did get it all off the top of the cars we have, of course, so there's that.

Besides the snowy stuff and me being stuck at the house, I didn't really do much this week. I've been having issues staying motivated, not to mention my desk chair being broken by now so I have to stick with a dining room chair. And needless to say, it's VERY uncomfortable compared to my desk chair so it's practically unreliable for hour-long sessions of any kind on my laptop. And, as much as I've been meaning to catch up on my gaming backlog, the closest I've gotten was playing Webfishing again and getting more mileage on Infinitode 2. If you're into tower defense games and want something other than Bloons TD6, I highly recommend it.

It's finally 2025! One year passes, another one takes its place, meaning it's time for new memories to come along. I won't lie, this year has been a bit of a rocky start, but rest assured; I'm still kicking and trying to pick my feet back up.

So, despite my best efforts, Webfishing sadly didn't win the 2024 Steam Awards for the "Sit Back and Relax" category. Of course, I was devastated seeing which game actually won, and it... kind of made me upset for quite some time. But the good news is that Webfishing actually got a new update that (hopefully) fixed all the issues that people have had with the game's bot issues, so I took advantage of it and decided to play for a little bit. And as it turns out; I managed to catch... the big boi.

Yes, that's correct. I caught the rarest fish in the whole game, which certainly made my New Year's despite all the circumstances. I'll still be playing this game back and forth once every blue moon, so if you see anyone in a lobby named "Cattobutt," that would be me. Can't wait to fish with you guys in the near future!

Well, other than that, nothing else has been going on in my end, just a slow week into the beginning of 2025, but I'm sure that things will pick up eventually. Just know that I'm still alive, and I'll still be here to keep you guys updated on how I'm currently doing. Thanks for reading week 21 of my weekly journals, and I shall now sign off to say this;

This is my final weekly journal of 2024. I was meaning to write one for last weekend, but I got caught up with some things at home, so I'm gonna get this one out of the way for the time being.

Hoo boy, what a roller coaster of a year! While it may not seem like I was doing much, I actually got back in touch with a high school friend of mine and we actually hung out quite a bit this year, mostly playing Minecraft with each other on his modded Create server, as well as visiting in person to have a few sleepovers here and there. It was quite a good time, and I'm hoping we can arrange more meet-ups in due time. But we'll see.

I also managed to get some proper help with my mental health and emotional stability, even if it doesn't seem like much, and it's a little bit slow, I'm sure it'll end up being worth it in the long run. Despite all that, I only managed to upload one map to the Garry's Mod workshop, but I think it's among the best one by far, despite it mostly using Team Fortress 2 assets and not much custom ones.

I am hoping by next year, things will be better and more semi-productive, at least in terms of the hobbies that I do. I have a huge backlog of unfinished games, Source maps, and other projects I'd like to at least catch up on, and I'll sadly admit that it's been especially slow, even with the weekly journals I've fallen behind on.

The Steam Awards 2024 voting has now begun. And I need your help to vote WEBFISHING to win its award in the "Sit Back and Relax" category. Here are 15 reasons you should vote for WEBFISHING to win the 2024 Steam Awards:

1. You can fish in a toilet.

2. You can get dr0nk with the boys.

3. You can jump and platform across the map. There are clip compilations for stuff like this.

4. You can fish out some big-ass fishes, including whales and leeds(I don't know how to spell the whole thing).

5. You can enter the void.

6. You can gamble your life savings away via scratch-off tickets.

7. You can cosplay as whatever you want. (in my case, I dressed up as the Roblox noob, I'm probably not the first one to do so lol)

8. If you're feeling competitive, you can see who wins the biggest/smallest fish out there!

9. You can draw on the sidewalk, and I've seen some VERY impressive things drawn using this thing on the Subreddit as well as in-game, too.

10. You can buy some silly titles (Goober, Gay, ":3", the super rare titles for catching golden fish, etc.).

11. You can punch people across the map using blue boxing gloves.

12. It has a Pokemon T-shirt of a smoking Pikachu (though legally destinct)

13. It also has a hat that says "I <3 PEEING" on it.

14. You can spin on the floor after you dive if you don't press space to jump again.

15. If you're bored of playing the game, you can always download mods via GDWeave! May take some time to get used to, but it's still worth it!

My deepest, greatest apologies for not catching up with my weekly journals after... a month now? Let's just say that I had to catch up on my college assignments, I was having a hard time trying to adjust my headspace to become more productive (horrible excuse, I know) and I just haven't exactly thought about my Tumblr journals, given that college was finishing up for me. This semester has since been fully complete, as I had my last day of class yesterday, and now I only have two weeks left before moving back into the dorms.

I guess I should start using this weekly journal for more than my projects, and simply tell you guys how I'm doing. Lately, I've gotten way into Webfishing, a little too "hooked" into it, if you will. I've met some cool people, some mean people, and some... absolute weirdos, across most of the servers that I entered. It was a fairly good experience, and I want to keep playing it more often. Unfortunately, the game seems to be in a rough spot as bots keep joining servers and flooding the chat with weird junk, so there's really not much to say about that.

Finally back on the grind again. Not much to share this time around, though I did make myself a font that I'll probably end up using later down the line, at least I hope I am. The lowercase letters probably look a little inconsistent, but I may modify those accordingly if possible. I can't exactly share this as a usable font yet, but you can still take the raw files and use them accordingly if you wish. Though don't say I didn't warn you.

Cloudburst Woods is now available for download on the Steam Workshop! My deepest apologies for skipping last week's journal, I've been a bit caught up with my birthday celebration last weekend that I barely found the time and place to write a journal for last week. Nonetheless, I'm hella proud of what I made here, and I'm sure I'll be able to deliver just as well for the next project. Thanks for sticking around!

The map is just about finished! I am currently planning on a release of the 4th of October of this year. I am hoping to get a trailer finished by then to really up the hype for this place. Or at least try to since, well... my audience is rather small. But regardless, I'm quite proud of what I've made here, I don't wanna spoil too much, but here are a few highlights of what I have to show here.

I will begin working on my next project soon! However, I've been rather low on caffeine lately, so it makes it a lil harder for me to focus... but soon I might stock up on some refreshers to at least hopefully keep me awake soon so I can provide more amazing content for you guys. (I sound like a YouTuber when I say that lmao)

Do you remember, on the 21st night of September? (sorry, I couldn't resist lol)

Hello again! Finally updated my journal on time this time, on a Saturday. I've still been hard at work on Cloudburst Woods, adding some pathlights and other useless details that may cause the compiler to have a seizure. But so far, I think it's looking pretty good. Sadly, I can't show too much because it might cause the compiler to have a seizure and spew out random errors to get me to fix it. But regardless of that, I think we're getting somewhere.

I can't show too much right now as it'd spoil the surprise, there are some hidden details in this map, some of which you may be familiar with.

I had to skip a day of journal writing for personal reasons and save it for today. I wasn't really feeling the best in terms of emotional stability, but I'm doing much better now.

Oh me oh my, do I have a lot to share this time around! I've been hard at work on this map, and I think it looks absolutely phenomenal so far, probably just as ambitious as Stoneway, though I think it needs probably one more structure and a few more detail props scattered around, and I think we're just about done with the map on the surface after those two.

Short journal, I know, but I feel like the map is nearing completion. We already have a properly photogenic location or two, and with all the foliage scattered around, it's already looking more and more lively by the second. Thanks for reading my weekly journal, have a nice day!

So, I've been quite hard at work lately! This is perhaps been the most productive I've been in a lil over a month. Sadly, no progress has been made on my TF2 map. BUT! I did start working on another project of mine that THANKFULLY hasn't been abandoned yet. Introducing: Cloudburst Woods! A continuation of Cloudburst Town that takes place in a forest this time, not much of a town. Sure, Cloudburst Woods may also be town-like, but I feel as if it'd make more sense to name it as a forest instead. Even if there might not be that much trees, I'm still discovering more and more props within TF2's files so I can use them to their full potential when decorating my map with detail props here and there. I think this looks fantastic thus far.

As usual, any and all recommendations are welcome for this project and others that you may have in mind. Thank you so very much in advance, I'm willing to hear anything you got for me!

Guess who decided to open the Hammer editor for the first time in months! There has been some time wasted on trying to get my TF2 map layout properly set up, but I've been burnt out from so much thought processes going through my own brain to figure it out, only to have my thoughts run blank from within the ideas, since my map is covered in skybox textures and I didn't want to mess it up too much and make it unrenderable due to the messy structure of it. On another hand, I got back to work on one of my earlier projects; Cloudburst Woods! I've built this lil house on the cliffside, it took a bit since I made it slightly too big at first, but I did manage to scale it down properly. Now it looks... somewhat livable, despite being in a damp, swampy forest. At least, that's what it's supposed to look like, buuuuut it's still a heavy work in progress. On another note, I've been working on something for my Ceramics class that I'm sure you guys might like to see once I finish it up, or at least once the teacher allows us to finish it up at some point in time. But anyway, here's what Cloudburst Woods looks like so far, starting with the house on the cliffside.