My Little Pony Friendship is Magic part 18: We Don't Need No Stinkin Hiatus

[imabanana]

I don't think your avatar is anything from this plane of existence.

no your avatar is a crime against nature

Lies !

Why all the hate ? ;_;

[GarGar]

I just want to make video games or write stories to be put into video games or something.

I may have asked this before, but have you checked out the Extra Credits youtube channel? They're all about giving advice to game developers or aspiring developers.

[Bluesparkks]

Hey, that sounds like me

It's basically why and how ponies have integrated themselves into my life. It's not just something I'm a fan of anymore, it's not just a show I like. I'm almost certain I would be dead (one way or another) if they hadn't come along when they did.

I literally can't even begin to imagine "moving on" from ponies.

[Deleted]

yep yep really good, really recommend GATE

[W1shm4ster]

yep yep really good, really recommend GATE

Planned to watch that when im in a way better mood, it looks pretty kewl.

[imabanana]

https://i.imgur.com/ehLYArV.gifv

Strange use of a sex toy.

[kortin]

I may have asked this before, but have you checked out the Extra Credits youtube channel? They're all about giving advice to game developers or aspiring developers.

Yeah, I used to watch their stuff. James's heart is in the right place, but they get REALLY preachy and a bit condescending at times (see the episode: Sexual Diversity - How a gay character made Persona 4 great (hint: "Kanji's sexuality is what makes him interesting" (hint hint: I seriously cannot stand this sort of credence being given to sexuality, because, with me for example, I don't think being gay is a defining character trait of mine and would be offended if someone tried to imply it was. It's a supporting character trait, but it doesn't play lead, ever))).

I do enjoy their Extra History stuff though. That's genuinely interesting and I try to catch every episode I can. I guess history is an avenue too, I love history and even at one point wanted to be an archaeologist (and then later a history teacher, because I had a lot of bad history teachers). I don't really want to be either of those now, though. Archaeologist is because generally you're not out digging up stuff. History teacher because being a teacher is AWFUL, and not because of the students. Faculty shit, shit work hours, shit pay, shit teaching system as a whole. It's just not something I can be a part of unless I could tear it apart and rebuild it in my image.

That tangent though.

[Golden Dragon]

rawr
how is everypony this fine evening?

[Deleted]

Planned to watch that when im in a way better mood, it looks pretty kewl.

sorry to hear about your loss btw wishy


yes you should it is really funny

[kortin]

rawr
how is everypony this fine evening?

Confused.
Tired.
Anxious.
Bored.

[Golden Dragon]

Confused.
Tired.
Anxious.
Bored.

dragon bites can help with at least two of those problems

[Deleted]

Liked 007 Spectre still nothing beats the old bond movies.

[W1shm4ster]

sorry to hear about your loss btw wishy


yes you should it is really funny

Yeah thanks, it takes me way harder than i ever expected.

Rune or Ado said it a month ago or so that i should watch it, but i kinda didn't felt like starting a new one after i finished Chaika.

[Keenaxe]

Or you just run from all your homework, go full social-recluse turtle, shut yourself indoors, don't meet up with friends, never leave except for groceries/laundry, stop going to classes, get put on academic probation, and feel increasingly shittier and shittier until you develop a slow-burning, crippling depression that takes years of pony therapy just to mitigate it to "mild depression" levels.

Not that I speak from first-hand experience or anything. Nope. Not me.

Sounds like me too. Sounds like you're going through a depression crash where all the negative things both large and small that we believe and remember about ourselves all close in at once. I go through those regularly, though thankfully less so than previously. I want you to know that I and your other friends genuinely enjoy spending time with you, and that we enjoy that time spent not for what we accomplish together, but simply for the joy of each others company, including yours. If you need support, we will be there for you where we can be. If you need time, that's perfectly fine too and I don't want to push you away or smother you. But I and the others can and want to be there for you if you need us.

Life is interesting. We're under so much pressure to live in certain ways. Strive for certain things, and avoid others like plague that we rarely have time to consider what actually constitutes as a good life. I personally feel that the answer to that, like so many other things, is largely subjective.

I find myself to be 29 years old, my life entirely a failure by the standards of our society. With few marketable skills, and little to no drive to pursue the things I have genuine natural talent for. Living at home still and barely scraping by financially by working what odd jobs I can find, and contributing to the household where I can with work around the farm and other jobs done in trade for things we need. No plan for the future, and time ticking away as I sit and play video games during the majority of my free time.

And yet, I have grown so much in other ways, learned so much about myself, and through doing so have been able to reach out to others and help them in little ways. Things that have seemed inconsequential turn out to have more impact than I could possibly imagine, in positive ways. And events and periods of time that have seemed truly dire have passed into better times, and then into dark again, and then back to light. And so while I find myself crushed at times under the weight of my perceived burdens, and guilt. I also find that when I look at it all together, even though at a glance it seems to be going nowhere, I have lived and touched the lives of others in ways that truly give my life meaning and value, even though I am often unaware of it until it is brought to my attention by those others.

And so I also wish you to know that this is true for you as well, time you have spent with me, whether in games or through reading stories you've written and seeing what art you have created as you attempted to practice that skill, has had an impact on my life for the better. And I am certain that I am not the only one that your life has touched in this way. Though it is rare for us to hear about how we affect others lives in this way, as it is highly discouraged by the conditioning we receive growing up.

Five years ago my mom was in a coma after suffering a head injury during a riding accident, and she was not expected to survive, though she has, and indeed near fully recovered in a way that her doctors considered truly miraculous. I mention this because I have learned from her that before this accident she was deeply depressed, and suicidal, though she hid it so well that none of us suspected it. This was because she believed herself to be worthless, that no one truly cared about her and that her life was a failure and everything she had ever aspired to be or do was a failure, that she had never touched anyone else's life in a meaningful way, at least not enough to cause them to care about her. This was, of course, entirely false. But she didn't know it.

Then she had her accident, and something happened that she would never have expected. Literal thousands of people that she had known through the course of her life, many that she'd never given a second thought to the interactions she'd had with them, considering them to be inconsequential and largely meaningless. All these people seemed to suddenly pour out of the woodwork and tell her how much she meant to them, and how she'd affected their lives once they learned what had happened to her through various social media sources, and friends of friends of friends. Wishing her a speedy a full recovery, and making her aware of the impact she'd had on their lives even those she'd spent very little time with, or never even met, but had heard of her from other friends. It transformed her life. And she's never done anything famous or anything of note at all by societies standards. Just lived a relatively normal life working her job, getting married, and raising my siblings and I.

The point is, we don't know the profound impact we have on the lives of those around us. But from what I've seen, we certainly do have that impact, and as your friend, and being a friend of some of your other friends. I can assure you that you have made a profoundly positive impact on at least our lives, and I have no doubt that there are many others that we are as yet unaware of.

[GarGar]

Yeah, I used to watch their stuff. James's heart is in the right place, but they get REALLY preachy and a bit condescending at times

Condescending toward the game makers who screw up, definitely, and there's plenty of examples of that. But in your example (I remember that episode), his point wasn't that sexuality was the defining characteristic, or that anyone who is gay should make it their defining characteristic, in fact the opposite. His point was, here's some examples of bad ways of representing a stereotype, and here's an example of a good way of representing a character who, had he not been gay, would have been a different character and the story wouldn't have been as meaningful. His point was that that character trait added to the greatness of the overall story ("It made him interesting in context"), not defined it ("That was the ONLY interesting thing about him") like the bad examples of games try to do. It may be a subtle difference, but in my opinion it's an important one to be able to see if you're gonna be making games.

[Deleted]

Yeah thanks, it takes me way harder than i ever expected.

Rune or Ado said it a month ago or so that i should watch it, but i kinda didn't felt like starting a new one after i finished Chaika.

it will hit you hard when all the hectics die down and normal life is suppose to start again, it did for me when my grandmother died. the first week i was fine cuss you are surrounded by ppl and things to take care off. then it hits you when all that is over. all i can do is wish you good luck =3

[W1shm4ster]

it will hit you hard when all the hectics die down and normal life is suppose to start again, it did for me when my grandmother died. the first week i was fine cuss you are surrounded by ppl and things to take care off. then it hits you when all that is over. all i can do is wish you good luck =3

It already hits me pretty hard, because besides me not going to work until next week, everything is "normal", but it doesn't feel right at all.

[kortin]

Condescending toward the game makers who screw up, definitely, and there's plenty of examples of that. But in your example (I remember that episode), his point wasn't that sexuality was the defining characteristic, or that anyone who is gay should make it their defining characteristic, in fact the opposite. His point was, here's some examples of bad ways of representing a stereotype, and here's an example of a good way of representing a character who, had he not been gay, would have been a different character and the story wouldn't have been as meaningful. His point was that that character trait added to the greatness of the overall story ("It made him interesting in context"), not defined it ("That was the ONLY interesting thing about him") like the bad examples of games try to do. It may be a subtle difference, but in my opinion it's an important one to be able to see if you're gonna be making games.

Well I'm not going to be making characters who have defined sexuality, because that's irrelevant to a character as far as I'm concerned, so I guess ultimately it won't matter.

[Deleted]

It already hits me pretty hard, because besides me not going to work until next week, everything is "normal", but it doesn't feel right at all.

nothing will feel right for some time

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funny how the princess is called pina co lada

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im off to bed

nighty night all =3

[W1shm4ster]

nothing will feel right for some time

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funny how the princess is called pina co lada

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im off to bed

nighty night all =3

Night then.