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I think it's perfect.

@carma said in MU Things I Love:

@testament

Congratulations! Do you have a link to your game?

I do but it's not public. It's in a closed alpha and I'd rather not flood the game when changes are still being made. That said, I appreciate it when people intentionally break my game so I know what I'm doing wrong.

(Which is probably a lot)

The only E3 presentation you needed to pay any attention to was Devolver Digital's.

Finally getting to the point in your game development that you're, after so many months of writing and stress and frustration. Finally, I (mostly)ready for a soft alpha for my game. At least for people that have stuck it out on the Discord server while people toiled away in theme writing.

Granted, it's not completely finished. But it's finished enough. For the moment until I fill everything else out.

I know for myself, there are people I enjoy talking to but I haven't shared my Discord handle with because I've always been a rather private person when it comes to people being able to contact me if I don't want to be contacted.

Logging on MUs, even if I'm not playing(and let's be honest, I'm barely playing anywhere currently)creates a buffer that makes me feel a touch more comfortable.

I don't know. If any game made me wait over a week and half for the response to a roster application, I would've told that game to go kick rocks.

This isn't the late 90s or early 2000s where games expected or perhaps desired you to write a small novel in order to get a character and eventually they'd respond....at some point.

So I get bouncing after a week and half. Longer than I would've waited. After three days I would've been asking about the status of things.

@ganymede Exo-Squad was a gem that was unappreciated in it's time. I always considered it the American version of the original Gundam. Tackling very hard theme around the cost of war.

Shame it never went further.

As for not animation styles not jiving, I dunno, the visual style I just don't find appealing to me, so there's a disconnect or disinterest for me. Whereas I love Castlevania because of my roots in loving the horror genre. And it has that certain touch of Evil Dead camp that really just tickles me.

@wizz I admit my bias simply because I have more of an attachment to Voltron. I remember I was kid, couldn't be older than 5 or 6. My older brother had a friend that was a bandmate of his, and he'd come over and they'd practice. But he brought over his all metal(this is a big deal to me, because the plastic shit just wasn't as good) lion Voltron for me to play with. And boy did I play with it, though it was always hard to give back when he had to leave.

As for Masters of Universe, I know it's intentionally a continuation of the original series as opposed to a remark. So maybe less of a remake and more of a sequel. Either way, this seems like it's one of Kevin Smith's dream projects, so I'm all for it, which is fine, because in this instance I'd rather he be a produce than director.

Especially after Tusk. But I also feel like that movie was intentionally made to be just that insane. Like it's some kind of joke that I haven't quite figured out the punchline to.

@wizz Mostly I couldn't stand the animation style. Just couldn't get past that.

So, I came across this last night in my youtube feed. And I have to tell you, this hit every single bit of nostalgia that light up the 5 year old me that still lives in some unknown corner of 38 year old me.

I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)but a He-Man remake that's being overseen by Kevin Smith with a Mark Hamill as Skeletor channeling his Joker real hard? And being animated by the same company that did the Castlevania series?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm all about this. I'm here for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcOc8wL4k8

Been working on importing theme files from so many various GDocs into my game's wiki.

There's still things left to do, and left to write.

But it's finally starting to take shape. And feel real. Like it's a thing that may actually happen.

@wizz My thoughts on how I believe I'm perceived not only here but in most online spaces.

I've had to go into work every day, so I suppose this sensation isn't something I'm able to really comprehend, labeled as an essential worker as I am. But working in a lab surrounded by Covid samples probably hasn't been too great for my mental health or stress.

What I have discovered is how truly alone I feel. Certainly I go into work, converse with my co-workers but something is missing. I go home and there's just...nothing. My cats, my significant other, certainly, but the friends I had before last year? Gone. Taking care of their own matters, their own lives. It's disheartening when you've tried to contact or reach out and told often that 'maybe later, let me call you'. And then you never hear anything. Despite how many times you try, and eventually, you stop trying.

And I've suddenly found that trying to connect with people, despite being around them through this entire over year long affair, there's less of a real connection anymore. People are too fearful of getting connected. Or maybe I am, I'm not sure. Could be it's just become so much harder than it used to be.

But what has hit me hardest is that I don't have any real connections anymore. Not in regards to real life connections. My online ones(the very few that I have)are different. You can only do so much. Mush with the ones that are into it. Or generally talk. But there's that lack of connection. Of being able to go out and do things together. Or just spend time together.

This solitude eventually starts to drain, starts to pull and tug and tear. Every day is exactly the same. You start finding yourself feeling strongly about stupid little things, because it's an excuse to feel something. It's hard to remember last week, because the week before that was exactly like the one that came after it, all blurring together. That's left me...I don't know, angrier. Getting annoyed about some process at work where it occupies more space in your head than it should and all you want to do is tell the Director that it's and stupid and you're making other suffer for it.. Or getting hurt by the fact that someone misconstrued something you said on a game as criticism when it was really just trying sympathize.

Maybe it's trying to put meaning to something, instead of looking down the barrel of one day after the next, repeating itself over and over. You try to occupy those empty spaces with hobbies, in an attempt to create something fulfilling for yourself. And maybe it's fulfilling for yourself, but it would just be nice a some point if it was noticed. Not even for being good, but the fact that you're trying. I daydream about that, thinking it could develop something more solid. Trying and failing to reach out to make some kind of connection and hoping something sticks.

I just feel very alone. And it's disturbing to consider the idea that this might be all I have to look forward to for the foreseeable future. And no amount of pills or talking to my therapist seems to make it better. It worries me.

@ganymede In this instance, it was a case of having to take off the entire air intake, and then the whole upper manifold just to get to the spark plugs, the fuel rails(which is what house the injectors), and the coil packs, the last of which I really dread replacing. Not because they're hard to replace but more that coil packs are just so goddamn expensive.

Also, pre-gapped spark plugs are bullshit. Standard gap width should be a 4.0, granted my Charger runs best on plugs gapped to 4.3 but I was willing to ignore that point. All of them came gapped at 3.5.

ALSO also, I had to buy buy a inch/pound torque wrench, because my foot/pound wrench wouldn't go low enough for the 89 inch/pounds which was the torque spec for the bolts when putting the upper manifold back on. But this is just me griping at this point.

Remember when you could work on your own car with only a miminal amount of automobile knowledge? Change oil, a tire, spark plugs, stuff like that and it was always more or less dummy proof.

You could, if you were feeling frisky, do a brake replacement or rotar swap if you had the tools for it.

I have 2017 Charger. I love it, I call her Rachel. Two weeks ago, the car started having a rough or hard idle. In my head I had three well know options: spark plug, fuel injectors, or vacuum line(a friend said motor mount which was also a possibility).

I decided to change the spark plugs because, why not, that tends to be the most frequent reason. I had to take apart a decent amount just to get to them. And turns out that wasn't even what was wrong(it was one fuel injector).

I'm very happy I got my dark blue speed machine back. But I won't deny that I'm just a touch salty about how much effort I had to put in to replace something that maybe took me an hour on older cars.

Modern cars are nice, but man, I really miss working on stuff that was easier. Still, I'm happy my car drives again.

@aria I now need @Crawfish to draw Mia in a Macho Man Randy Savage getup.

@aria

From now till the end of time I will forever associate Mia with Macho Man Randy Savage.

So anyone that knows me knows that I have far too many pairs of sneakers. There was recently a restock of the Jordan 5 'Toro Bravo' colorway that I just so happened to walk in at FinishLine recently. I usually take pictures of my new shoes for the 'gram by using the cat tree.

Hence, new shoes, but a Bubba for scale. He's such a majestic bastard.

He sure did a good job of 'owning the libs'.

But nothing of value was lost.

@crawfish Well. You could just tell people to send money to this PayPal address if you want to donate. That always works too.