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get one with light cheese and maybe have veggies as the topping so its healthier.

why not protest private jets or those massive parking lots that do nothing but harm the environment?

superben posted...

Why the fuck is squidward there?

because the new meme format is a zoomer's interpretation of how a boomer would go about trying to recreate the random nonsense zoomer meme format.

scoop/clean it 2-3 times a day and top off a bit every few days. dump and start fresh every other week.

Scardude posted...

Maybe pick your favourite comedian and share their joke instead.

all of my favorite comedian's jokes (norm macdonald) are either too long or don't translate well into text (or, not the type of joke you'd share with someone you don't know....learned that one the hard way, my boss was a HUGE oj simpson fan. i always thought of him as some kind of jerk)

this topic is hotter than a 2 dollar pistol!

Hayame_Zero posted...

Make sure you don't have nothing but selfies.

oops
the last time i was in a non-selfie picture was like 8 years ago..

"i have all of my wisdom teeth but i'm still a dumbass"

asking for a friend (me) who has been single for a few years and doesn't know how to meet girls, or even talk to them without getting nervous.

cus i made the account and i didn't receive likes yet so i'm thinking it's either unfunny or that i'm ugly. i'm really hoping it's not both..

generally speaking, as long as you try to limit or remove processed foods from your diet, and have a balanced nutrition intake you'll be fine.
yes, spinach is fairly high in oxalates, but that's also something your body makes on its own.

salt's another one that gets a big fear factor surrounding it. it's really dangerous in super high quantities, but it's insanely helpful in small quantities to help reduce dehydration (this is why lots of sports drinks have salts, so your body will retain the water more efficiently)

i think the internet tends to sensationalize things, cus if you write an article saying "if you eat 10 pounds of spinach a day and don't drink water, you'll probably get kidney stones" is gonna get a lot less clicks than "OMG! spinach does WHAT ?!?!?!"

anyway, if you're looking for some foods that can help cholesterol, look for foods with good amounts of niacin (vitamin b), so musrhoom, avocado, peanuts, potatoes, and stuff like that

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fun, slow paced exploration game. lots of it's doing collectibles (like, collect feathers, collect shinies) but the animations and graphics are on point for a cartoony game, really pixar-y or disney-ish animation styles (for the cat, the ppl dont have faces they just pet you or get mad at you when you knock their phone out of their hand)

pretty fun overall if you like cats.
it's like untitled goose game in some ways, but it's more exploration oriented than goal oriented like goose game.

there's also a dedicated meow button

tie between jolteon and flareon

UT1999 posted...

wow,really bad area right?

hamtramck, michigan. not terrible, but the entire city is inside of detroit, so break-ins and petty theft are pretty common. i think detroit as a whole gets a bad reputation since most of the people are simply trying to live their lives and not bother anyone, it's just there is a gang violence and drug problem esp in the outskirt neighborhoods.

show's terrible, but that girl who cackles at everything is super hot.

no, but one of my cousins had all 4 of her car's wheels stolen while it was parked in her driveway.

drink? i'll have a beer prob 3 nights of the week, very rarely will i have more than one drink in a night
smoke? smoke what?? who's asking??

i also use an e-cig vape (one of those refillable ones) which helped me quit cigarettes. i'm at 0.9% nicotine which is super cool, most of the disposable vapes are 5% nicotine. soon i'll be nicotine free :) :) :)

he's there to steal your artifacts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLlpcfRFpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2bc0088b.jpg

we didn't have cookie monster pajama kids, we had the cookie monster trucker hat kids.

and yes, all of them are actually in jail now so the picture is accurate. except they wore DC shoes, not Osiris.

R_Jackal posted...

Dedication over motivation. You're doing this for yourself, get to it! You deserve better than to push your wants and projects aside for distractions.

But all that aside, make a work time for you and give yourself a reward after

thanks, that's a pretty good way of reframing things.
esp the reward, i haven't been doing that when i work, it's just work then freak out and give up for a bit lol
i did do some work the past few days though :)

TheGoldenEel posted...

i remember you posted video of your game and it looks great!

I would echo to remember that youre doing this for yourself.

i would try to get a little bit done at a time because even a little progress is still progress. But also remember that a lifetime is a long time and if youre not feeling inspired for something that should be fun, that you have a lot of time ahead of you to come back to it

thank you, your topics are actually what inspired me to keep working on the game more seriously, i was in like a limbo state of not really progressing for a bit so it was really cool to see someone else making their own progress :)

KanWan posted...

Make a list of what that last 10% is and give yourself a strict timeline of when that thing is due

so on Monday you do X
on Tuesday Y needs to be done

set some alarms.. timers for every hour just to remind yourself that youre supposed to be doing the thing

this is good too, i just bought a weekly calendar with no dates on it, just a bunch of pages with sections for Sunday thru Saturday and a place to fill in the date at the top
this way I can just write out a to-do list for each day at the start of the week

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i do need to get back to the gym, all i do is go on bike rides lol

thank you to everyone for the kind words and advices, it really does mean a lot to me even tho we're strangers

Proto_Spark posted...

The minor things are always the hardest part to get started on because it doesn't feel as significant as making the big steps. Playing around in something else where you can still actually make something or be doing the "important stuff" is always much more appealing because it's the "fun" part. Especially if this isn't like, your job or you have a pretty vague due date that isn't like, right now, it can be really hard to push yourself to sit down for the menial tasks that also have to be done.

But in my experience, there isn't really an option besides forcing yourself to sit down and get to work.

Try something like a Pomodoro timer - which is basically set up a timer for ~15-25 minutes and exclusively work during that time, and you can take a break only when the time is up. Oftentimes after 20 minutes of actually working you'll have gotten over the big hump (which is just sitting down to get to work) and you'll just keep going for a while, and if not, you can take a 5-10 minute break, then sit down for another 15-25 minutes of work.

thanks, yeah not having a deadline or a boss/team who's depending on me to be punctual w/ getting stuff done is pretty tough, cus i'm not really great at setting dates for that stuff. if I do, I always push it back instead of going like "ok, no, not this time. i need it done by this day no matter what"

i'm gonna try that timer idea. another thing i have to do is turn off distractions which is difficult cus it's all done on the computer lol, but i guess having them turned off for 20 minutes is easier psychologically than thinking "i absolutely cannot watch youtube or whatever for the rest of today" cus my brain is gonna try and prove me wrong by saying "oh yeah? go on youtube right now. do it, i bet you won't"
seriously starting to think my brain has it out for me. lazy mfer. if my brain always had its way, i'd be like Bender in that episode of Futurama where he got turned into a human.

SF_Okami posted...

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky actually lol. I like PMD way more than mainline and I feel like you can do a lot more creative things with the story.

super cool. the few romhacks i played were of mainline, and yeah it seemed like they either changed mechanics or added minor stuff. i played crystal clear which is crystal version but open world and that was pretty neat
that's awesome tho, 16 hours of a unique story/content is really impressive

SF_Okami posted...

I am making a Pokmon rom hack and its at 16 hours long so and not even near done. I release it in installments. Im not sure how Ill feel when Im nearing the end, but what keeps me going is feedback from people. When there is a community of people who care about your work and want to see whats next, that makes everything easier imo.

If I was in your situation and the game is in a playable state, Id get a friend to play it and see what they think. If they really like it, then naturally you are gonna want to finish it and make it as good as you possibly can. Maybe that doesnt work for everyone, but thats my mindset.

that's really cool, which game are you doing a rom hack of?
and that's a good idea, i'm kinda shy about sharing stuff, but i think i'll ask someone to try it out. or even maybe join reddit or something so people can see it. i'm not really good at that stuff. i do like to give like programming or unity help if i can sometimes, like on the unity forums but i don't really post actual stuff i make.

shironinja posted...

What works for me is to procrastinate until the due date and then drink Red Bull / alcohol the night before to finish as much of it as I'm able but usually that's just a rough prototype / proof of concept which I can demo and then push back the due date another two weeks and repeat.

hth.
anyway yeah.. Red Bull / vodka. Try that.

i dont have a due date lol :(
i have the steam thing but its not live yet cus i think it needs a video. i might do red bull or maybe like tea or something cus i made one of those gallon bags of tea today

coyot posted...

Tc, you are gifted. Wrap it up each time.

um, thanks

StealThisSheen posted...

By "90% done" do you mean it's actually 90% done or just you planned all of it and still actually need to like, develop it?

nah its 90% done, maybe 85%.
but yeah like everything from the driving, menus and selection, unlock conditions for cars, cars stats (like how fast it is, if it turns well, etc), the arrow that points you to the next spot, power ups stuff, scores/saving, sounds, half the music, and all the other things i forgot are either done or just about done. im not doing like achievements or anything like that cus i dont like those tbh
if it was how i originally wanted it, it'd be like 20-25% done lol but i removed a lot of features i wanted and just got it down to a small handful. like i had planned a deathmatch delivery mode where its like risk of rain with tons of power ups that stack, endless enemies that get stronger/more of them over time, and boss fights that were the competing restaurants that turn the building into a giant mecha you have to fight
i have like the basic aspects of all those in a working condition but then i was like "oh shit idk wtf this is even trying to be" and just made it simple-ish

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

my only advice is to focus on what you like and keep doing it and build a portfolio around that. no one's going to hire you for art unless you're a badass artist, no one's going to hire you for level design unless your levels are badass, etc. if you're into data and making procedural systems, then you should really just focus on that. don't think about 'releasing a game'. think about building yourself into a master of some focus. because when you get a job in the industry, you're only going to be focusing on one aspect, and you better be good at it.

thank you, yeah that makes sense. sorry if it was a lot, i tend to word vomit cus i'm not good at writing lol. i don't mind not being great at some aspects, i think that adds a quirky charm to indie games, but yeah there are some things that i'm way better at compared to others. maybe that's why i'm putting things off
I guess another issue is I'm juggling wanting a more regular game dev job versus trying to go it either solo or as a small team. so I guess the best thing to do is just stick with it.

LonelyStoner posted...

How long have you been working on it? Whats it about? Do you have any other people working on it with you?

I ask all this because creating my own video game from scratch seems like a daunting ass task that would make me extremely stressed.

a little over a year and a half. its like the game crazy taxi, but the driving is more like mario kart and instead of picking people up and taking them to their destination, you're a pizza delivery driver and will race other cars to get to the next destination and they'll try to slow you down/attack you but you can attack them back and leave traps and stuff. and its just me, i guess technically it's a team cus i'm not really great or patient with making 3d art, so all the buildings and car models are purchased assets. but like the actual programming, levels, characters, shaders, music and the rest are done by me

its pretty daunting but its also pretty fun.
idk, i'd say go for it if you're interested in trying. even tho i vented and complained a bunch in my post, i still really enjoy working on that game when i do, it's just that lately it's slowed down.

PerseusRad posted...

Right now, you have a clear goal, and when you finish, your goal will become muddled until you find another project. And on the other hand, you might fear that when you finish, itll be mediocre or even bad. But you cant know until you finish. And youll continue to be bottlenecking your own growth until you finish.

Its possible youll end up disappointed or frustrated with the end product, but instead of fearing that, figure out where things went wrong, and try to resolve those issue. Youll have more for your portfolio, and youll be better at what you want to do. Of course, this is all just my assumptions.

thanks, this is pretty good advice
i kinda have an idea for the next project, but 100% needed to hear the bottlenecking growth part.
and yeah, i think that i really need to change how i think/approach and see it like a learning experience that won't continue unless I keep at it

thank you

downward spirals, usually.

never.
the closest is I'm steam friends with a potd member from years ago because either I gifted them a game, or they gifted me a game, idr. that was a looong time ago.

i think i'm either completely unlikable in all walks of life, or that i'm incredibly forgettable and am unnoticed by everyone. i dont even receive text messages from ppl anymore lol..

friendly reminder that taco bell got rid of the quesarito which is the greatest goat of all time food.

i'm making a video game, it's been going on for too long and i need to finish it. thing is, i'm really, really bad with consistency.

by all accounts, I'm like 90% done with the game. I have some tweaking to do, and am finishing up the background music and stuff like that. but a lot of days I just won't work on it at all.

I still use Unity daily, and will work on things... just not that specific game. What do I do instead of finishing? I'll make random shaders in hlsl, or weird tools that have absolutely nothing to do with my game.
like last week I made a thing that will allow my Polyend Tracker (music gear) to control a game through MIDI. that has literally nothing to do with anything but it's cool.
Or I made a thing that's basically a procedural music synthesizer using pure data to make procedural in-game music based on actions.. again, nothing to do with my game.
I literally spent 3 months doing 50 hours a week recreating all of my hardware synths in pure data. when will I ever use that? lol. if I wanna get those sounds, all I need to do is turn the synth on...no need for some weird pure data recreation by some crazy guy who lives at his parents house.

the game is like a crazy taxi clone but more kart-racer-y and with some combat like from twisted metal. but I'm so lazy JUST when it comes to working on that. I'll gladly find the motivation to work on anything but that.
ffs I even have a working, but barebones, GTA clone.... like... why??

I really don't get it. is it some weird psychological thing? am I afraid of finishing it and it turns out to not be good? am I afraid of finishing it and it turns out to be good, and then my future projects can't be that quality?

it's really annoying. I've made finished games in the past, but part of a team. this is a solo game, and I wanna sell it some day or at least give it away to free just so people can play it.
but whenever I open up Unity...instead of getting to work, what do I do? I make a bunch of stuff I may never use.

I'm sorry for the blog post. I don't like to get personal on here, and it was more of a vent but it's still frustrating.
worst part, is that I'm really, really hoping to build a portfolio or something so I can get a real gamedev job so I can afford to take care of my grandma so it's like it's very important to me to actually have something to show in that portfolio... and an unfinished game? how is that impressive? how many unfinished and abandoned games are out there, even by AAA studios?

ok blog post over, good night.

uhhh
please stop being a creep.

I'm 6'2" and one of the shortest guys in my extended family, the average is around 6'4"-6'5"
I even have a few aunts and girl cousins who are taller than me lol. i have one cousin who was born the day before me and she always gives me shit that she's taller than me smh..

have you tried turning it off and on again?

people don't call a coworker to cover or trade shifts? that happens a lot at my night time restaurant job, it's pretty annoying but I don't really care cus it just means more tips for me.

when you think a new thought...how much does it weigh?

does a thought you've thought before weigh less than a new thought? what about a complex thought versus a simple one?

i bought one of those digital TV antennas at target and that's how I get my tv channels. I get like 40-50 channels depending on the weather. not bad for $25

I'd assume they're from the south and think nothing of it.

where I live, we say "ope, just gonna sneak right past ya" when we do something like that.

can they still see user maps? i wanna remember my old usernames :(

maybe not tho cus what if they think "oh, hmmm, that guy??!? banned!"

i've changed in the last few years, i swear.

asking for a friend.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Isnt literally their entire fucking argument about Trump that hes an outsider and not a politician?

it's cus she was a bartender in new york, which makes her not an outsider by default since NYC is insider central
/s

idk. I plant a lot of plants and feel really accomplished and proud of myself come harvest season.

I'd imagine having a kid is kinda like that, except you can't eat them later.

wonder if that's where that republican lady who wrote a book about killing her dog got the idea from

no comment.

no, the closest one is a 2 hour drive.

besides, i have crackers and barrels at home, all i'd have to do is combine them.

Trumble posted...

I think TC broke Steam and is trying to cover it up.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d2fe4564.jpg

if you snag it, please confirm so ppl dont try to redeem an invalid code

game - little kitty, big city.

hope you enjoy.
MNMB2-A9IIX-YWJC9

divot1338 posted...

What do I look like a cat owner?

those are fighting words

Ballinari posted...

22

how???