bruh this year is like, trying to kill us i swear. i'll fight god

Is that Sora????

Kind of relateable? Sometimes the energy to be a human and interact just isn't there, though holding urself back from actively being a cunt is wild. Usually when my battery is gone, speech in general goes with it. I feel like it's more energy to be mad.

How does the build size tend to shake out? I remember it feeling excessive, but ur right that the project size isn't going to translate one-to-one.

I get flashier stuff sells, but god I wish the selling point was "this thing could run on a potato and still be recognizeably itself" and not pushing hardware. It makes gaming hard to engage with if you don't have up to date hardware, and I don't want to spend several thousand yearly to keep up.

Optimization needs to be way better prioritized. I think a lot of game engines fundamentally don't allow for it, I've touched Unity once or twice and a big thing that bounces me off is how massive the project files are baseline. I think it's a gig minimum? Don't recall, but it's... bloated.

I think it also helps a lot, in any creative pursuit, to prioritize processes that are at minimum natural, if not enjoyable, to do often. I've gotten real ambitious early in a project only to get stuck in the drugery of what it takes to make the cool thing real.

Slightly more radioactive slimes beloved

That's an interesting mindset and also maybe why I can't relate to that stuff. Like, the thing I like isn't mainstream and I'm an outcast? Oh no! I'm exactly where I was before. MFers gotta embrace their freak.

Also I forgot to comment on the ad-based platform point, that's basically just minimize your social media time. The platforms that need you to be engaging to make money. If you're there to speak with friends or organize, that's fine, but try to prep entertainment other than YouTube. That's my plan!

I think that ethos makes it doubly important to replace and not just avoid. The point is to hurt corporations, to hit them where it matters to them, the bottom line. Small businesses aren't the problem, shit like Amazon is.

This kinda just turned into "temptation avoidance" advice, but that is the crux of a boycott, avoiding something. An important note on the website: "The Mass Blackout isn’t just about not spending. It’s about rerouting our time, money, and energy back into our communities."

The way my brain works, just removing a temptation isn't enough, I need to replace it somehow. I can't just sit indoors and tell myself not to go buy things, I have to fill that temptation with something else.

Recently yeah. Feels like my body is struggling to deal with the sheer amount of stress and fear.