Throwback Thursday: STOP BREAKING THE GAME

Throwback Thursday: STOP BREAKING THE GAME

by all accounts, 2022 was a miserable year IRL. work and health tag-team bullied me all year, with recurring stomach issues that knocked me out for weeks at a time, and a work environment so untenable that i couldn't compile any code for months – i had to write it all blind!

but when the going got tough IRL, i kicked ass online, finally resolving threads started years ago. like streaming more than in the past 3 years, finishing my site redesign (4 years), making a new stream highlights video (5 years), and releasing a new Retrush demo (8 years!!!)

so as the year draws to a close, i'm not making any resolutions about what i'll accomplish online, because i know that i'll be drawn to it no matter what happens.

no, my resolution for 2023 is to improve my IRL, so that this year is not as miserable as the past two have been.

there's a lot of effort to put in, for sure. i need a new job, i could stand to get some health screenings, lots of things are falling apart and need fixing, and if i'm lucky i might even be moving by years end...?

but more than that, i want to focus on the little things. like getting out of the house more and talking to people. or when i finally unpacked my bookshelf a couple months back. or getting some new clothes, so i'm not wearing the same shorts as i was before high school.

for the past several years i've been fighting hard to maintain what i have... but "what i have" was made for the me that i was five or ten years ago. i'm a different person now! and i need new things that make me happy, rather than old things that are just Good Enough.

then, once i've bolstered my IRL with stronger foundations, more joy, new inspirations, less stress... online stuff will naturally follow.

i will always want to create.

resolutions are for putting in the work.

so instead of resolving to stream once a month or whatever, i resolve to better my circumstances... so that i can stream whenever i want, not just when i "find the time."

Sage from Sonic Frontiers

another step toward seeing if these drawing methods work for me... it's certainly a lot faster!

👊 fighter kirby 👊

purposefully messy to loosen up a bit. i think i finally found a fundamental aspect of drawing that i was missing, but i have to un-learn some old habits to incorporate it, and re-learn some new techniques. seems to be working so far!

new stream archive, in which we tackle Splatoon 3's final challenge – and run some more salmon run shifts, despite everything. those golden eggs won't collect themselves!

new stream archive, continuing Splatoon 3's story mode and playing a few rounds of Salmon Run! btw, that moment i stopped to look at the skyline was *entirely* to get a good thumbnail ✨