Readers are voracious and always looking for new things to devour. But your writing isn’t for them, its for you. Every page is slowly honing your craft, getting your ideas onto paper, and turning an amorphous idea blob into a tangible story.

I hate when people tell me this but annoyingly it works, but sometimes ‘just write’ is a solid strategy to just start putting words on the page. Sometimes its rough and you’ll want to go back to edit it, sometimes seeing things start to flow is a great feeling, and the words get easier.

The other trick is spite. Just lots of spite. Spite for the sometimes terrible writing that gets published anyways, spite for the reader who you might lure into falling into love with a character you plan to brutally murder, and spite for the music player that can’t seem to find the right song to match your mood for the scene you’re writing.

I’ve been struggling to get a game project rolling forward. All my previous games have been average to mediocre so I’ve been having this fear of focusing on the wrong project and landing on another weak entry.

I told myself that I have to just decide on something this week but its Thursday and I’m only marginally closer to deciding than before.

Also my computer mouse broke and I can’t quite find a comfy replacement.

It most definitely takes a toll. Most devs don’t even talk about the weird sadness you get after finally getting something out the door either.

I don’t mean to make it all sound bad though, there is some genuine joy in making something and seeing it come together. Anyways good luck on your game dev projects.

I shop at small businesses if its an option. I prefer my money supporting the community than someone’s fourth yacht.

That being said there is a particular type of small business whose customers are largely old retired people. They’re usually open 8-5, have higher than normal prices, and are in no rush as they usually like to chat - Which their customer base likes.

There are other types of course but sometimes you got to do hunting because they likely don’t have big advertising bucks.

Its very very difficult for small businesses to compete with big box stores. They can’t out price Walmart or outship Amazon. So they usually try to find a niche to focus on… Or wither on the vine.

They’re referring to these kind of dogs:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/small-white-dogs-with-crusty-eyes

Well some people do care, they just can’t stop you from living like that.

I have friends and family who are struggling and live like that and I’d like to help them if I could.

I am unfortunately aware about how predatory microtransactions are - This is a ragebait thread so the broad (and mostly incorrect) blaming was the intent.

Any shows that feature other cats or birds. They get pretty interested pretty quick.

I used to ask it a question here or there if I couldn’t find the answer anywhere else, but I wasn’t too satisfied with what I got. I tried to use it for coding but I kept getting funky answers so I stopped using it for that too.

The last time I used it, I was doing a repair job and asked it a question I essentially knew the answer to because I wanted to verify a step. It gave me an answer that was not only wrong, but legitimately straight up dangerous. I haven’t used it since.

As far as I understand it, the vast majority of ‘successful’ indie studios are in the same boat. You need to continual decent hits to keep afloat in an ever turbulent and flooding market. Even if the next title is successful, they already mentioned the other looming problem, burnout. You might be able to push yourself through one game, two is a struggle, and very few make it to three.

To me, and maybe I’m being a bit cynical, but this feels like a very foreboding article.

Maybe its less about literal rifle accuracy and more about Stormtroopers having better knowledge of machinery and so damaged critical components to disable the sand trawler?

Though I think the top scene was more of Obi Wan knowing the Empire was finally catching up with him and trying to relay to Luke how dire the situation was.

No, every elephant I’ve ever met doesn’t use Lemmy.

Its more likely they increased the price and immediately starting shaking down anyone who was paying for the old license price. Its a frustrating scummy tech company “strategy” that unfortunately works because someone at a developer or publisher will be willing to pay the hike if it means avoiding any legal battle.

They complain about it all the time, but gamers deserve the microtransaction and slop hell the AAA industry has created, as those same gamers pump billions into these soulless corporate behemoths and keep the system rolling.

He’s actually a human guy, not a car guy.
A car guy is Bumblebee from Transformers.

The man with the backwards hat is confused.

I sort of agree. They work decently well but lots of people use them for things they’re not really intended for and it makes the results look much worse than they should be.

I usually only listen to music when I’m doing something else, like driving.

I listen to a lot of game audio or background music though I couldn’t tell you who the artists are, only what game/movie they’re from.

I think that puts me into the ‘not really a music person’ category.

Oh that’s true, I did forget about that one.

Red.

Simply say “oh, its a full moon tonight?” Then look at them with your now piercingly red eyes and state “I must leave, immediately.”

Get out of any social situation and you can get your friends to think you’re hiding some big secret. Win win.

Looks glorious.

That’s pretty good for a first attempt, most people’s first games are barely functional, if at all, so I’d consider this a win.