trans christian, any pronouns. artist at heart, programmer by trade. this is my journal of sketches, project notes, and assorted thoughts – spanning games, technology, creativity, neurodiversity, and more!
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Skysometric - Sky's Journal - Tumblr Blog
i've never made anything like this before! this is completely from scratch!! how did i nail this first try!!!
rivers in minecraft REAL
hoping to finally stream vividlope tomorrow evening, who's interested? 👀
In which I talk about what the present means to me... and live in the moment with my wonderful friends.
To @somethingwittyandweird, @qixils, @notquiteapex, and @jadeghosthill, thank you for the memories! 💖💖💖💖
it's official, we're on for tonight! see you in about 6 hours ✨
still hammering out plans but i'm most likely going to be streaming the grand festival tomorrow at 7pm central time with friends!
oh god, happy two year anniversary of when i started writing a blog post series about my new logo and got halfway through before suddenly getting writer's block and never coming back to it
they're all still in my drafts too. aaa
A hexagon has two sides, the front side and the back side. Cant believe a supposed hexagon expert could get this wrong
why yes, you're right! a hexagon also has two sides. both answers are correct; it's all a matter of perspective.
sky, you're the only person i know who can help me with this
how many sides are on a hexagon. please. i'm going to fail kindergarten
don't worry, i've got you covered with an illustrated guide! just print this out using the color printer in the library and sneak it into the exam room:
oh and btw you can mute the tag #sky's gay ass enters the discourse if you don't want to read about that shit. which i imagine most people don't
i promise i won't use the tag much.
I don't think it's brain dead to acknowledge how deeply flawed and doomed from the start cohost's business model was. Relying on an anonymous angel investor, running at an exclusive deficit, ignoring the reality of (shitty! i acknowledge!) laws and basically saying they're built different, and squeezing money out of poor marginalized people for a doomed project kind of sucks. I think it's fine to say that and it's okay for you to feel defensive because you liked that website but eventually you have to acknowledge the reality and not just project your anger onto people who are pointing out the sad truth.
there are two major problems with your ask and i will address each in turn.
cohost's entire business model was predicated on eggbux, their patreon alternative, which was delayed due to one of the devs getting long covid and eventually canned because of policy changes from their payment processor, Stripe, that restrict tipping and subscriptions. everything else you listed – living on investor funding, and your gross mischaracterization of "cohost plus" that was both billed entirely as a tip jar and explicitly not promoted as a way for them to break even – was in service of getting to the point of launching a product that was worth paying for. you would know this if you actually read the financial reports.
i didn't actually like using cohost all that much, so to call me "defensive" tells me you're here just to argue. i did want to like the site but ultimately i kept bouncing off of it, and i made my issues with it known on several occasions. you would know this if you actually read anything i've posted about cohost.
no i'm mostly just annoyed at the braindead takes from folks who don't know how to read. like yourself!
the death of cohost is bringing all of my least favorite types of posters out of the woodwork, everything from armchair "experts" with braindead diagnoses of its death, to deliberately misinformed takes on other social media sites and the internet at large, and good god i'm gonna lose it
someone stop me before i end up writing 500 massive rebuttal essays of my own addressed to a bunch of people who won't listen to my words no matter how nicely i put them
hello twenty-something with depression! we're here to fulfill your biggest childhood dream – that's right, your parents are finally getting back together after 15 years! we know how much you missed the soothing sound of them arguing from across the house 💙
fuck this perfectionist fear of failure anxiety shit. if i've learned anything in the last few years it's that i'd rather do things messy than not at all
IT'S HER!!! she looks AMAZING thank you so much 💖💖💖💖💖
Rivers, @skysometric 's oc!
the flipside of this is that i know what my salary will be, and the recruiter there will try to get me interviews for other already-funded positions. so it's still a waiting game, but at least there's some solid hope now!
i heard back.
I GOT THE JOB!!!
...if their proposal goes through. which should be "any day now." but also no one has a clue when that might be.
In which we play the other half of the new Monkey Ball, with the game's most dastardly stages and difficult challenges! It's everything I love from the series... including the pain.
hoping to play the rest of the new monkey ball tonight! i LOVED the first half so i can't wait to see just how far they push the challenges in the second half... 👀
In which our train engineer skills bear fruit at last in a Pac-Man battle for the ages!! Luigi XV takes the wheel, and— wait, didn't we start as Luigi IV? Don't worry, it'll all make sense in the end...
hoping to FINALLY finish Spirit Tracks tomorrow, as long as i wake up at a reasonable hour. hope to see you there!
to everyone who's ever written a comic about their experiences with an eating disorder, thank you for your service o7
seeing people talk candidly about it helped chill a lot of ocd thought spirals about my own weight, like the time i weighed 130 and said that was "overweight for me"
i don't know if i would've developed any of the more severe compulsions, but the way i was thinking about it was definitely unhealthy – now i simply don't care what i weigh, and my body and mind are all the better for it!
so thank you to anyone who's been open about eating disorders or body positivity. seriously 💙