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@winterfairy2022 pursuing creative hobbies is not monetarily successful for the vast majority of people who do it. we don't do it because we make money from it, we do it because we enjoy it. any money you can get from doing what you enjoy is great. if you don't enjoy doing it enough to keep doing it without people paying for it, maybe it's something you'd be better off not doing as bad as that sounds. sometimes people may even need a bit of a break that can help remind them why they love their hobby so much in the first place.

personally, i'm already supporting baraag itself and some artists with cheaper subscription tiers. i'm not made of money and things are only getting more expensive. from the consumer's point of view, at 3000 yen, it is a little hard for someone to justify spending that much to support a single artist while getting something tangible in return when they could divvy that money between several artists with lower subscriptions instead. i know you do give some things out for cheaper tiers sometimes, but most of it is at that 3000 tier. so perhaps a reworking of that would be beneficial so that you can bring in some more supporters. it could be good to look at other artists' fanbox accounts and see what their pricing and rewards are like.

i like your art a lot, but you may just need to change your approach to creating, selling, and promoting it. even still, always make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. i don't play music or make video games to make money, i do it because i enjoy doing it and others enjoy it too. it's nice when i make money but i never expect it. sometimes things are hard and you know, maybe you have to dedicate more time to something else if you do actually need the money and what you want to make money from just isn't cutting it. i've been there a lot. but i'll always find the time to dedicate to my hobbies in some way or another.

This Donald Trump Batman and Bill Clinton Joker bit at 1 hour is fucking HILARIOUS.
https://youtu.be/yFLSMQgKG3w?t=3600

@smugumin @kerosene DK bananza is the most fun I've had in a video game in a long time. Pokémon isn't actually developed by Nintendo it's just partially owned by them. Mario Kart World is alright but it could have been much better. Even tears of the kingdom which has so many problems is still a really good game. I think certain indies will be better than Nintendo games but honestly, in the AAA space not a lot of other companies come close. That's a pretty low bar to surpass though haha.

@RustyCrab it is this very concept that proves squidward is a god-tier artist

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@agegapist we ballin
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@hazlin yeah it's not exactly like I'm heading straight for unity or unreal. I'm using RPG In A Box which is built in Godot. It's similar to RPG Maker but in 3D and it uses voxels with custom collision maps for tiles and stuff. So it's still an intermediary you know? It's just that learning basically everything from scratch again when I've got 20 years of experience somewhere else is extremely daunting and I always catch myself thinking "I could just do this in rpg maker instead and it would take a fraction of the time" but then it wouldn't be 3D and I would like it to be... Bleh.

I'm stuck in paralysis again... Is taking so much extra time to learn 3D in a different engine over 2D in RPG Maker that I already know so much about worth it? I could be developing my next game RIGHT NOW but instead I'm learning something else and it is making me really antsy. Maybe I'm too worried about time. Maybe I should just stay dedicated to RPG Maker and build on experience I already have. I don't know man. Thoughts?

@verita84 i only played like 2 hours of lies of p and the end of my free game pass sub but it is by far the best soulslike i've played and i'm not really a fan of the genre. so yeah i would say it is very good.

silent hill does not have a history of great games since the originals, with middling results at best, so it is safe to say that the absolute peak of soulslikes is going to have better gameplay. i'd only pick silent hill f over it if your main focus is wanting horror.

@verita84 september 25

apparently silent hill f is going to be a souls lite with a stamina bar, weapon durability, and tool kits. they just can't stop wringing out this franchise.
https://gameinformer.com/preview/2025/08/01/when-beauty-is-the-beast

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"IF STRAWBERRY SMELL WHY NO STRAWBERRY TASTE???"