It's weird because a lot of that is just stuff we still do now??
It just hit different because it was both a period of discovery and a version of the internet that didn't fill me with daily dread to interact with

"surely these things that could wait like 8 hours overnight can't wait 2 more while we wake up and go through a morning routine of some kind"

But then I feel insane when I talk to people about a popular game and I have all these random issues with it nobody else has

Or worse, I just don't like the vibe. Well Designed Video Game, but the vibes are poison to me specifically, 0/10.

Often it feels like I need to get out of my comfort zone, but then "out of my comfort zone" would be like, what? The same derivative games I've been exposed to for the last however many years?

But they're games people have actually played and I can talk to them about, I guess

It's annoying because I know there are plenty of games people really like, but what I really want out of games is so specific, and I can't just force myself to care about those games when they have different things that I find less interesting

Even something basic like the spraypaint tool can get some really cool textures, or just layering a couple strokes

Once you select your palette gradient, drawing with either the left or right mouse buttons will brighten or darken the area a single shade

The Ooze: now available via Dial-up Modem

peak

EXACTLY

Why is something so basic such a riddle to figure out in this engine specifically??

When you're working on a game one asset as a time, the game can feel so disjointed and unfocused, but then I'll actually play a larger chunk to see how it actually flows and I think

"This is actually turning into a video game????"