beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

when i was a kid i used to fuck with shrimp heavy but these days i HATE it. i don't know what changed but it seems like every time i've had shrimp in the past ten years the texture of it has just really bothered me. i still like popcorn shrimp and shrimp tempura, but just shrimp by itself is nasty.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the layoffs and studio closures will continue until the games improve. There's no other way around it. The gaming industry is not some sort of infinite money glitch. Yeah, sometimes it is going to suck to be the guy at the bottom that gets totally screwed over by higher-ups thinking they know best. It's happened to me in at three jobs at this point and I'm not even 30. There is always more work somewhere else and it might suck if you're not doing the thing that you want to be doing, but that's literally just the way it is.

For the sake of the gaming industry's health, I also hope that these teams and budgets get massively trimmed down so that games can be more focused. I know making games is harder now, but it's also pretty damn easy with the tools we have available. Indie teams can make incredible things with what are essentially skeleton crews. Lethal Company sold more than Call of Duty did. I'm sure that whenever Hollow Knight Silksong comes out, it'll outsell whatever AAA games are currently being pushed on the market. Back in the days of the 6th generation and before that, you had teams of like 15 people making these amazing games that have aged relatively well and are still beloved by so many people. Those games would take like, 3 years to make tops. They had to do all of that from absolute scratch, and you're telling me you can't make a good game with a team of 200+ people over the course of 6 years with the tools we have now? No way. It's gotta' just be so much bloat.

Yeah, this is coming from someone who spent 9 years making a single game. I'm a solo dev doing it as a hobby, it is 100% not the same thing lol.

@tomie @Mr_NutterButter depression doesn't necessarily mean sadness or wanting to kill yourself or something. it can be just general exhaustion or apathy too.

i don't have bipolar but i have cyclothymia, which is in the same "family" of mood disorders. there are definitely swings of absolute extreme motivation as well as not wanting to do anything at all.

the key to helping me get over the latter was to just do something on whatever i'm working on. anything, it doesn't matter, for at least 30 minutes. every day. often times it'll be longer than that and that motivation will spark again.

the only reason my game is being released next year is because i've been following this sort of work ethic since march of 2023 (shoutouts to @xianc78 for showing me this sakurai video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN-Uh2VfL8c) otherwise it'd probably still be out a ways. it might seem like you're going nowhere sometimes if all the energy you have is that 30 minutes, but it definitely helps.

@Leims she's super cute!

Tfw no Espeon gf

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/gammainks/stern-partner-part-5

#gammainks #newgrounds #furry #espeon

something about this video is so magical lol, it kind of brings me back to old youtube a little bit. i just like seeing how happy this guy is about his huge wheat field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFiyjp4g3q4

@ShinyEeeveCosplayer "it's fine" is about what i'd expect haha

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/sunsetnivaris/raven-s-even-more-perfect-butt
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SunsetNiva

#sunsetnivaris #newgrounds #raven #teentitans

@j the parallel version of me doesn't have a beard and i hate him

@Tony there will always be someone who is better than you, but there will also always be someone who is worse. good to keep that perspective lol.

@rlier23 maybe it's the ROM?

Merry Christmas, you can live for one more second #Lilyhops