- Every creative hobby I can dabble into under the sun. I’m a jack of many trades, master of none. And Oh, I love picking up creative hobbies.
- My characters, my friends’ characters, and original characters in general!
- Video games, game design, and so on! I love stuff ranging from interactive fiction to action games, FromSoftware Soulslikes, RPGs, simulation games, Dwarfy Fortress, and so on. I have a deep interest in video games in general.
- Art in general. I love looking at art. One day I will have a dedicated gallery room with all my friends’ art and so much more.
- Writing. I’m always writing.
- Roleplaying. I do a lot of Forum RP.
- Reading of all kinds.
- Making up things. This factors into writing but y’know...sometimes I just like to worldbuild or come up with neat magic that doesn’t go anywhere in a while.
- Stories and storytellin’ in general.
- I like the idea of TTRPGs but I haven’t gotten heavily into any of them. Yet.
- A veritable cauldron of music genres
- Inspiring others, making others laugh
- Body horror, some horror stuff in general
- KNOWLEDGE. give me all of it!
Whenever I get asked what I enjoy, my favourite things, or asked to write an About Me, I find myself struggling with it a lot. You put me on the spot and I'm ???, so it's likely I'll add to this more later. I think one of the worst ones is specific favourite things--I may not be able to list every book I like in the spur of the moment, or all of my favourite characters, but I sure will know what I like whenever it comes up. Or rather, I could name characters not everyone knows, like my friends' characters or that one character that gets drawn by an artist I know all the time that I'm fascinated by.
And since I love knowledge, feel free to share what you like also !!
I just realized I keep thinking/listing art as from 2024 when it's from 2023. 2023 and 2024 are a massive smear for me now, even though 2024 was so recent. I really just /can't/ with time @.@ ...also I keep thinking it's 2026, which is also amusing enough
time is convoluted for my meatbrain. next you'll tell me it's Thursday already !
ps. I'm on a small social media break, but I will be uploading art here as I still have stuff left to upload. Take care !!
(psst: check out my previous journal, Art Check, for a fun idea)
It’s really one of those days! A lot of my progress on a few things are going at a sluggish pace, and before I know it, it’s already night. It might have to do with things getting warm again—tl;dr heat has a toll on my body. Or just weather changes in general. But well, I can’t expect every day me to be capable of making massive progress like some other days.
And it isn’t the slow progress as much as how bad it’s also made me feel, I’m over here with a low mood as well. Not quite catastrophically bad, just... :gloomy_exhausted_cat_here: When this happens, I’m usually concerned that it’s going to last a while, as it kinda does become more than one day frequently, with my health and all.
Rest is good though, so while I feel the whole “I wish I did more today”, I’m just gonna drink some water, rest, and maybe put some time into some series I keep meaning to watch.
Take care, y'all!
Trying to start something called an “Art Check” where you can send those words in in a group environment that has opted-in (Discord server, forum, etc.) and this prompts people to post what they’re working on/what they last worked on/etc. if they want to share.
Private messaging someone also works for this, but the direct message/PM version should be separately opt-in. “Sending “Art Check” is okay!” Set on profiles/somewhere else or something like that!
Why?
I feel like some artists want to show their work or talk about it but are waiting for someone else to prompt them, or feel like it’s just “not asked for”, and this creates a way of asking for it. It’s also optional, nobody has to share anything at all.
& Makes You Change The Way You Interact With The Internet (Again)
So, lately I have been playing Dark Souls Remastered Seamless Co-op, and I was having an issue: 60 frames would, at a consistent interval, drop down to 47~. I just thought the Seamless co-op mod was having performance issues with my build that should be able to run Dark Souls Remastered quite well, but after digging around, I found something out.
The game checks your blocklist at periodic intervals. Cue my blocklist: 2k people (I made the mistake of reading steam forums, you know how it is). So, because of the online features of Dark Souls and how they work, there’s a lot of possibility for player interaction at any time, and so it checks your blocklist often. Whatever way they did it, it caused massive frame drops at the frequency it checked, and I mean...it’s maybe old code?, and I haven’t worked with Steam API, so I have no idea what developers were dealing with.
After all, I’m fairly certain it wasn’t playtested by anyone who had 2k people on their blocklist! So, perhaps quality assurance for online games should try to factor this in, though I understand this feels like a fringe case. Though nowadays, with the way steam forums are and people are in general, especially in the gaming sphere, can you hardly blame anyone for having such a massive list of names blocked?
Anyways, I searched for a mod that simply turns the block check off and I didn’t have a lot of progress in that. So I kissed my massive blocklist goodbye and I’m, from now on, trying to prevent myself from reading the steam forums in the first place. It was cathartic, blocking certain types of people who were rage tourists on random games etc. for various politically-charged reasons, but...
I don’t want to keep seeing people if I can avoid it. So much is unavoidable nowadays, and so many people I love are in tough absolutely miserable situations due to...everything. I need to focus more on paying attention to communities that are more welcoming, that have very few people who are anything like those people I blocked. Most of all, frequenting communities that have more of the wonderful people trying to get by in this mess of a time, in places I belong a bit better.
Who knows what the future holds! I would have liked to keep my blocklist, even if I finally gave up on the steam forums (my guilty pleasure was reading it and making fun of it sometimes, after all), but y’know...that’s lack of playtesting for certain scenarios. Though truly, if you had something that constantly checked a list like that, wouldn’t you want to make sure it didn’t cause performance issues?
Anyways! Take care, all of you, and make sure to lean on each other, yeah? Because what we can always have, as long as we cultivate it, is each other. There’s no permanent political trend, nothing lasts, and there’s so much we can do to ensure it. Try spread the love when you can, keep making art, communities, and so on.
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