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My roommates and I moved into a new place a few weeks ago. We’re still in Portland, Maine, but now we’re in a rental house, which is really awesome and gives us a lot of freedoms we didn’t have before. We’ve talked about getting/making some flower beds so I can grow herbs (Basil, oregano, etc.) and maybe some veggies. I’m looking forward to when life “returns to normal” (though it’ll probably be a new normal, as with any other world changing event) so I can start having friends visit and make plans.
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In response to @richardmv‘s query for the ask game I reblogged yesterday:
1) Idea of a Perfect Date: fuck man I don’t even know. I’ve only ever had house dates, dinner dates, movie dates, and one amusement park date. I guess... I’d like to bring someone back home to my mom for like, a week, so we could go to Chicago and the zoo I always used to go to growing up? That’d be really sentimental for me.
12) Turnoff I look for before dating someone: dickishness, of any sort. When I was still able to use my dating site profile, it would mostly manifest as sexist beliefs regarding women. I have to deal with enough assholes in life without dating one, too.
29) Most strange/uncomfortable coming-out experience: don’t think I really had one. My coming-outs have been pretty mundane, since I’ve elected to simply preemptively cut off all my bigoted relatives rather than bother telling them. Closest thing to this would be how baffled I am at how sincerely surprised some people are. No one has any business being surprised to learn I’m gay if they’ve heard my normal speaking voice.
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Thank you for letting me know the artist who did that fantastic Gif! someone posted it elsewhere without a source, and even using Google image search, I was having trouble tracking it back to where it originated. I will update my original post to include the animator. I would never take credit for their work (I couldn't even pretend to have their skill; I'm a terrible artist :( )
You’re very welcome!
Another way you can source your arts in the future is with SourceNao.
Thank you very much for updating your post. The No. 6 fandom really appreciates it
~Vox
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I think it's safe to say that most gamers are getting tired of cookie-cutter games like Call of Duty. Since around 1996, the focus in game creation seems to have largely been on increasing polygon counts rather than innovating the way we play games. Recently, though, it seems like developers are pushing into a new era, and I'm wondering what you think the big focus will be: Voxel based graphics, new control structures (Wii, Kinect, etc), or advanced AI/reduced scripting.
I find it a little funny that you mention the lack of innovation since 1996, and then go on to name Call of Duty, because CoD first rose to some prominence with Call of Duty 2 in 2005 and didn't start the juggernaut path it is on today until Modern Warfare in 2008. I would actually say that the innovation has been happening all around you already; it's just that gamers tend to be a conservative lot who like what they like, and don't like trying new things.
Since 1996, we've seen many gaming innovations rise to prominence. Some of them have fallen out of favor, but it's still important that they existed, since they paved the way for new games, new genres, and new ideas. Here are a few of the ones I remember (and the year they were introduced):
Dance Dance Revolution (1998)
DotA (2003)
Social/Facebook gaming (2004)
Katamari Damacy (2004)
Nintendo DS (2004)
World of Warcraft (2004)
Guitar Hero (2005)
The Nintendo Wii (2006)
IPhone/Mobile gaming (2007)
Kinect (2010)
Skylanders (2011)
That said...
I think the future of game development is going to be in making development more efficient. The manpower requirements for development are simply too high for AAA development to continue into the future. Games that regularly require teams of over 200 people are simply not sustainable, which means that something needs to rein in the runaway development costs. I predict that this means more things like procedural content generation, outsourcing, adoption of middleware, consolidation of technology (like shared game engines), user generated content, and that sort of thing. This will be the next big focus of the core (read: PC, console) game development industry.
I would also be on the lookout for more digital distribution and connectivity in games. I think that it's really only a matter of time before the heavy internet requirements become a given, because people are already (and willingly) connecting all the time - you can play games on Steam without an internet connection, but for the vast majority of Steam users, the vast majority of the time is spent connected. I expect that in the near future there will be some sort of interface built between mobile devices (tablets, smartphones) and gaming devices as well - there are far too many people out there with both, and there's no reason why they can't build connectivity in for things like an iPad or an android tablet the way that a WiiU controller, Vita, or 3DS works.
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richardmv replied to your post “richardmv replied to your post “GOD DAMN IT. I AM GOING TO TAKE...”
I run around collecting all the wood, fences, and string in those tunnels as I go, then build walls to close off the paths that are devoid of anything useful. Try leaving a dirt block as a marker before each fork/crossroads, too
Meh, I'll just dig as much as possible and open up the area. I may find gold, redstone, or even diamond (if I'm lucky).
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Thanks to some posts I scheduled a LONG time ago, I wasn’t technically absent for the whole month of December, just most of it :P (well, there were the music posts, but I schedule those in bulk). Things have felt non stop for a bit with work and life, but it’s calming down now. Plus, I was addicted to the game ‘My Time at Portia’ for a bit (okay, I still am, but I’m taking a break). Honestly, it might be fun to start posting personal gaming pictures. Don’t count on it, since I’m notoriously unreliable when it comes to delivering on such things on my Tumblr, but it could happen (but it probably won’t).
Anyways, happy New Year, everyone! Thanks for continuing to keep my posts on your dashboard, even when all I post is the random music I listen to.
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This cake was on sale, so I figured that was cause for celebration. And celebrations deserve cake, and, conveniently, this one was on sale.
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I guess I should write a new years post. I don't make personal posts much these days because I've had a LOT going on in my life.
This year has been a year of transformation, endings, and new beginnings. In a few weeks, I'll be saying "See you later!" to my closest friend for the past five years as he moves to the other side of the country. I'm sad to see him leave, but I know that this journey will be one of growth and help him find himself and the path he should take in life.
I've joined a group I've always admired from the outside and made many, many new friends. I've been going out bowling, to a barbeque, laser tag, and just hanging out with the group, and every meetup leaves me eager for the next. A couple of these new friends will be taking my current roommate’s spot in my apartment when he leaves and I'm optimistic that the three of us will work very well together and have tons of fun. I've also made a friend who has quickly become one of the most important people in my life and with whom I expect to share many adventures in the future.
After my former manager at work left for bigger and better things early in the year, I've been putting in many more hours at work, and since our company expanded this summer, my hours are much busier than they've been in years past. There have been many changes this year at work and many more are planned, and nearly all of them have left me feeling more optimistic about things here than I've felt in a long time.
Two years ago I met a good friend through the internet and for a while we were talking on Skype all the time. He came into my life at a time when I was really in a bad place and helped me get through, worked with me on a project that I was (and still am) very excited about, and became a dear friend despite the vast distance between us. This summer I finally had the opportunity to meet him in person; his visit was probably the highlight of this past year and I hope we'll be able to see each other much more in the future (especially if plans go as planned...)
I wanted to focus on the positive here, but this year I also experienced a great deal of heartbreak, fear, and feeling trapped. This has been a very hard year for me, maybe one of the hardest. But I'm trying to remember that despite everything that went wrong this year, it also means that I'm learning, growing, and stripping away the people/things that have been holding me back/down, preparing me for great things in the coming year.
I'm excited for all the changes that 2019 might bring. I'm optimistic that the change in my living situation will lead to renewed energy and productivity. I've felt miserable having all my projects on hold and I'm eager to dive back into working on my game design and writing again. I'm looking forward to lots of time with friends and family throughout the year as I make new friends and become closer to the ones I've met this year. Lastly, I'm excited and hopeful that this year will hold the dawn of a new romantic relationship, one that will last more than a few months, maybe more than just a year ^_^.
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Oops, forgot to post another vacation update (and my friend still hasn’t sent me the pictures she took). But I went to a really fun furry meetup at an arcade near Chicago and met some awesome people. I really love this area and I’m hoping to come back more in the future.
Also, after a conversation with my roommate about how my use of coconut oil for shaving my face is affecting others in the apartment, I’m scheduling a consult to restart laser hair removal. I’ve been putting it off because my friend gave me a home kit, but it’s probably better to have a professional fire lasers at my face and neck. I’m excited about not needing to shave anymore; I have sensitive skin and the shaving has not done it any favors.
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Vacation adventures part 1!
I haven’t posted nearly as many personal updates as I’d like to my Tumblr lately ever but after living in Buffalo for close to a year and working for a pretty awesome company for most of that time, I saved up about two weeks worth of paid time off and decided to spend it with one of my best friends, @thelegendoflivz. She moved out of Maine about 2 years ago and I’ve missed her terribly. But despite all the awfulness in the world, it’s still a pretty amazing place, so despite living hundreds of miles apart, we’re still able to keep in touch and see each other pretty often.
We spent the first few days of the trip in and around Buffalo. This post will focus on that portion of the adventure. First we went to the Eternal Flame Trail in Orchard Park, NY.
It was a pretty short walk through the forest down to a creek. There were some places where trees were planted seemingly deliberately in a straight line, which was kinda’ strange to see.
The creek was nothing much to see (might be due to lack of rain recently?) but there were some small puddles with (I’m pretty sure) tadpoles (they didn’t really show up in the picture because my phone’s camera isn’t the greatest).
At the end of the trail is a narrow waterfall (I’ll be posting some more substantial waterfall pictures soon...).
Notice the alcove on the right? Inside is...
The eternal flame!!! It’s actually a natural gas leak that sometimes goes out (visitors are encouraged to relight the flame if it goes out). There were also some pretty cool and stubborn trees growing in the area near the waterfall.
We intended to do a lot more that day, but it was getting late, so we ended up ordering some pizza and spent the rest of the night relaxing at my place.
Tomorrow I’ll be posting about the next stop in our adventure: Niagara Falls!
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Things that would be nice right now:
If one of the two (three?) guys I’m kinda’ interested in would tell me (without prompting because I’m a wimp) if they had any interest in me. Hell, I don’t even know if either of the two are into guys (I know the third one is, at least) and I don’t know how to bring that up in casual conversation (”Hey, how are you? So, do you like guys, because I kinda’ want to [use your imaginations here]”). As long as all two (three) of them don’t express interest in me at the same time, because I wouldn’t know what to do at that point...
If one of my friends would introduce me to someone who actually was gay/bi, who might actually put up with my nerdy, clingy, nocturnal, awkward, introverted, passive-aggressive, generally annoying self, and whom I actually was both physically and emotionally attracted to (to some degree).
It’s been almost two years since my last relationship (which didn’t last very long) and... well, the relationship “dry spell” isn’t the only one I’ve experienced in that time. And even in my past relationships, they were all (mostly) emotionally satisfying, but in a lot of cases I didn’t really speak up about my feelings on my satisfaction (or lack thereof) in “other departments”, so there’s a lot about myself that I don’t know in that regard.
It’s weird seeing my friends, a lot of them younger than me, in their first, second, or so-on LTR, getting married, having kids, and I still haven’t really had my first “real relationship.” (That’s not saying that my past relationships were fake or didn’t mean anything, but most of them didn’t last longer than a month and the longest one I was in was poly and both he and his significant other made me feel secondary, usually unintentionally).
I know I probably sound whiny right now (this was supposed to be a semi-funny post that was just the first part; not sure how it turned into this, but here we are) but at this point, I don’t even know what to do. Like, how do you meet guys at 31? Work doesn’t seem to be working out. My friends haven’t really been introducing me to people (I’ve asked one of my friends to introduce me to this one guy he knows and he told me the guy is “too much drama” for me). I made some friends through the online dating thing more recently, but apart from that and the things I did in college (which we shall not speak of), that’s all I’ve found from online dating. When I do meet guys I like, how do I ask if they might be interested in me? Like, how does this dating thing work? I clearly need a relationship tutor or something. A Mr. Miyagi of dating/sex, I guess? (would that person be a master of ‘marital’ arts?) Or, you know, maybe one of the guys I like will happen to actually have interest in me; that would be nice... and now we’ve come full circle
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Gabe took this picture a few months ago, but he just remembered to share it with me. My lack of hair is definitely showing (shame I forgot my hat that day) but I actually look pretty good, probably because I’m so happy to be hanging with these two awesome people.
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Scribings Vol. 6: Regatherings is finally here! If you’re interested in picking up a copy of the eBook, it can be found on Amazon as well as a variety of other stores. You can also buy a physical copy like this one I’m holding in my hands on Amazon. If you’d like to check out our work but can’t pay for a copy of one of our books, Essential GPS, a collection of some of our best stories from our first five volumes, can be found for free on the Android or Apple stores.
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I keep saying I need to post more, but then I get distracted. For a while there, I was being productive and programming, but then I started playing Disgaea 3, which is an incredibly good game and rather addictive. Oh, and I’m also working about 48 hours a week, which keeps me pretty busy :P.
I need to get back to my Skyrim stream, but there were some serious issues with the recording last time, so I’ll probably wait until I have a better setup or something. This laptop overheats pretty easily, so trying to stream while it’s not on a solid surface has not worked out well.
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I’ve been super inactive lately, and I’m sorry for that. I’ve been at least trying to keep my song of the day posts going, but that’s about all that’s been going on on my blog for the past few weeks.
I’ve been going through some major personal stress where I’m suddenly not really sure what my living situation will be in five months. I know that’s far away, but I went through an experience a few years ago where I got stuck homeless (I stayed with my current roommate/best friend and his mom for two weeks, which wasn’t bad, but still...) and ended up moving pretty far from everything and everyone I cared about for over a year. Up until a few weeks ago, I thought my current roommate and I had a great plan for next year and I’d be living in a big apartment with our friends. Now ALL of them are planning to go to college next year, most of them two hours away, and I don’t know where that leaves me.
I’m back to working five days and usually over 40 hours a week. The money is great and I’ll need it when I have to pay my car registration and insurance next month, but it’s been difficult for me to get much of anything productive done. Our busy season has stretched far longer than normal, and for a period of a few weeks, we were extremely short staffed after our college students returned to school and a few other agents decided to move on to bigger and better things. Things seem to be calming down now, so I’m hoping to have more time to work on my writing and programming. That should also mean that I’ll be more active here, but I don’t know if that will happen right away or not.
In better news, I’ve been feeling really positive about my projects, recently. ‘Faceless’ was going well (until I stopped writing, of course :P) and I’ve received some great feedback on the manuscript for the first novel in my Haven series. My writing group’s sixth volume is finally complete and we should be publishing very soon. That means I don’t have to ever think about my short story ‘Adrift’ ever again. I don’t think it’s among my better works, though reading it now, after some time has passed, I found that it was a pretty good story, even if the focus shifted away from what I originally had in mind.
So I’m a bit stressed out and nervous about the future, but I’m also optimistic (aren’t I always, though?). I’m hoping I can really put a lot of work into my projects this fall and winter so that maybe I can publish a novel or get my game finished (instead of just a prototype). I’ll still need some help with art for the game, but now that I’m using RPG maker, I’ll need much fewer assets created for me.
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Vacation adventures part 2!
On Sunday (8/8) my friend and I traveled to Niagara Falls!
I grew up to a pretty popular tourist attraction (Acadia National Park/Bar Harbor) but that feels like nothing next to this.
We decided we wanted to go on the Maid of the Mist, which I, of course, recognized from one of my favorite movies, Bruce Almighty. I was pretty happy about which boat we took, too.
I was absolutely prepared for the spray from the falls and how wet we ended up getting. What I was not prepared for was the wind. The force from the falls produces gusts that were powerful enough that I was afraid my Zelda hat would be blown away. But, thankfully, the hat stayed attached.
After the boat tour we explored the park around the falls. As the sun went down, the lights came up.
The two of us definitely enjoyed sharing this experience (so much so that we came back again before leaving for Chicago). It’s pretty amazing to be able to just drive up to see this anytime. I’m hoping more of my friends will visit me in the near future so I can share this with them, as well.
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