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Mar 13: Getting Back to Work (In Theory)
12 years ago
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█ What can I say, I needed a bit of a break, and I might still need it. Inspiration is still a bit on the low side, but still playing around with a few ideas in my head here and there. I hope to be doing art related stuff again by the end of this week, if not sooner. Still unsure of what I'll be doing due to the lack of inspiration/drive. Though hopefully I'll be able to avoid future burn outs due to work overloads, but just something I do to myself since I prefer to do my best; even if it's something I could avoid if that was ever my choice.
I need to be more aware of my limits I think, and I need to draw firmer lines in the sand that I should be more hesitant to cross. Though I'm not really speaking of ideas so much as work-load. That said, I need to draw up some images to basically create a new visual guide for what my 'limits' are and what I expect of people when presenting me with their ideas.
█ Though what else is on my mind at this point. Not a whole lot honestly. I suppose SC2 Heart of the Swarm did release recently, and it's a purchase I didn't do. I consider myself an ex-Blizzard fan at this point and have very little intention of forking my money over to them. I did on the other hand watch a "Let's Play" of the whole game, so I got to see what they did with the plot and story. I'm not going to spoil anything, but my general thoughts on that was the cinematics were great as per usual. The story and dialogue? Eh, it's all rather predictable. I had the general feeling that Kerrigan was going to be all emo for this game (as in emotional, self identity issues, so on so forth) and it wasn't quite as bad as I imagined it would have been, but it still was the theme. I guess that it wasn't as bad as I imagined was because Kerrigan was given basically zero choice and time in the matter to give the whole emotional conflict any weight. The lack of build-up makes the few melodramatic moments in the game extremely hollow. I'm not exactly sure I agree with the presentation and direction they took the Zerg in either, but I guess their intention was to make people sympathetic to the Zerg; though I'm not sure they did a particularly good job of it.
Let's see... any other random thoughts in my head...
Using mods to create your own ships in "Faster Than Light" is fun. I created a ship that starts with three attack drones so you can win fights passively, a "Swiss Army Knife" ship that can provide many 'blue options' at the start, and of course the obligatory weapon pre-ignighter ship armed with weapons that can obliterate enemy ships in a single salvo.
Currently spending too much time playing SWTOR, but hey it's free and I'll probably be cutting back on that as I get back into 'work mode'.
Family is also currently sick, I'm not sure how I've avoided catching whatever they've had so far, but I might get it in the coming days who knows. Or maybe I got it but my immune system is just so awesome I didn't feel or notice it.
I also learned that bread is one of the saltest things you can possibly eat. As in 2 slices of bread is a third of the recommended daily intake of salt. That means some sandwiches probably contain more salt than a bag of chips.
Simcity, why must you fail so? I would have loved to buy Simcity 5 and play it, but I knew with DRM that it was going to spontaneously combust and it did not disappoint. What's even more damning? That apparently you can pull the plug on your internet connection and it will run fine for 15-20 minutes until the game decides "Oh hey you're not connected to the internet, I'll stop working now." The area you can build in is so horribly small as well.
I'm tired, and I should do that... sleeping thing.
█ Throwing a bump out to
goldblaze who is taking commissions.
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█ What can I say, I needed a bit of a break, and I might still need it. Inspiration is still a bit on the low side, but still playing around with a few ideas in my head here and there. I hope to be doing art related stuff again by the end of this week, if not sooner. Still unsure of what I'll be doing due to the lack of inspiration/drive. Though hopefully I'll be able to avoid future burn outs due to work overloads, but just something I do to myself since I prefer to do my best; even if it's something I could avoid if that was ever my choice.
I need to be more aware of my limits I think, and I need to draw firmer lines in the sand that I should be more hesitant to cross. Though I'm not really speaking of ideas so much as work-load. That said, I need to draw up some images to basically create a new visual guide for what my 'limits' are and what I expect of people when presenting me with their ideas.
█ Though what else is on my mind at this point. Not a whole lot honestly. I suppose SC2 Heart of the Swarm did release recently, and it's a purchase I didn't do. I consider myself an ex-Blizzard fan at this point and have very little intention of forking my money over to them. I did on the other hand watch a "Let's Play" of the whole game, so I got to see what they did with the plot and story. I'm not going to spoil anything, but my general thoughts on that was the cinematics were great as per usual. The story and dialogue? Eh, it's all rather predictable. I had the general feeling that Kerrigan was going to be all emo for this game (as in emotional, self identity issues, so on so forth) and it wasn't quite as bad as I imagined it would have been, but it still was the theme. I guess that it wasn't as bad as I imagined was because Kerrigan was given basically zero choice and time in the matter to give the whole emotional conflict any weight. The lack of build-up makes the few melodramatic moments in the game extremely hollow. I'm not exactly sure I agree with the presentation and direction they took the Zerg in either, but I guess their intention was to make people sympathetic to the Zerg; though I'm not sure they did a particularly good job of it.
Let's see... any other random thoughts in my head...
Using mods to create your own ships in "Faster Than Light" is fun. I created a ship that starts with three attack drones so you can win fights passively, a "Swiss Army Knife" ship that can provide many 'blue options' at the start, and of course the obligatory weapon pre-ignighter ship armed with weapons that can obliterate enemy ships in a single salvo.
Currently spending too much time playing SWTOR, but hey it's free and I'll probably be cutting back on that as I get back into 'work mode'.
Family is also currently sick, I'm not sure how I've avoided catching whatever they've had so far, but I might get it in the coming days who knows. Or maybe I got it but my immune system is just so awesome I didn't feel or notice it.
I also learned that bread is one of the saltest things you can possibly eat. As in 2 slices of bread is a third of the recommended daily intake of salt. That means some sandwiches probably contain more salt than a bag of chips.
Simcity, why must you fail so? I would have loved to buy Simcity 5 and play it, but I knew with DRM that it was going to spontaneously combust and it did not disappoint. What's even more damning? That apparently you can pull the plug on your internet connection and it will run fine for 15-20 minutes until the game decides "Oh hey you're not connected to the internet, I'll stop working now." The area you can build in is so horribly small as well.
I'm tired, and I should do that... sleeping thing.
█ Throwing a bump out to
goldblaze who is taking commissions.
And arf, indeed i see you're playing lots of FTL lately, i'm trying to sell some hats on TF2 XDXDXD
B)Blizzard has been... so... terrible? latly its pretty depressing. Wont buy heart of the swarm, wings of liberty was pretty bad and horribly disappointing. Diablo 3 showed some promise and then fell flat, and wow hasn't been worth playing in like 5 years... so i kinda do feel really bad for all the fan boys that still spend exuberant amounts of money on Blizzard, but considering i was one of them scenic the original warcraft, what can I say? maybe they'll improve?
C) SWTOR was really fun to play while leveling up and now that it doesn't cost a dime to do what is easily the best thing going in the game, well that's nice.
D) Keep telling myself to pick up FTL, keep not doing it
E)Depends on the bread but generally yeah, bread is saltier than most people realize.
F)The amount of illnesses going around is staggering. Ironically this was the first flu season in years I decided to get a flu shot beforehand. Coincidentally its also the fist flue season in years I actually go the flu... so yeah, good luck there, you'll need it.
G)You should do that sleeping thing.
EA STOP DOING STUPID MOVES!
Also I still need to get you to do us-as-FTL-crew art. >3>