Thank you all for the support over the years. It's always meant a lot to me. I still really love Splatoon and I don't think I'll abandon the franchise anytime soon. I still play Salmon Run with my friends almost daily, afterall hehe

- that'd take.

I already felt a bit... disappointed with how much life things got in the way of doing Grii and Tenta justice and putting them onto the page. At the very least, I can imagine using another medium like animatics as depiction, but time is another issue

It's been incredibly hard to just lose connections with OCs that meant a lot to me, for 10 years, seemingly overnight. I'm not even sure how common of an issue this is when it comes to ... the subject I'm withholding here

My hope is that it'll come back to me with time, but I'm not sure how long -

- my characters in my head, the hard part was executing it

But now it straight up feels like I have aphantasia when it comes to my own characters. I try to imagine dialogue and it'd just dissolve in my head. Same with the scenes. It's as if I forgot everything ,

- to guess.

As for the relevancy here... It's. Completely changed my ability with character writing. I'm not sure how many of you followed me through my fic SFKE, but common compliments on that fic were about how real the dialogue in it felt. I could easily hear and picture scenes with -

The primary reason is a lot more complicated and I don't really want to be more specific for the sake of my own privacy. It's something on a cognitive level that has vastly changed my understanding of my own identity . I'm being vague about it on purpose but I'm not sure how hard it'd be -

I got a bit unlucky and the classes I signed up for were incredibly packed with work, despite the abroad institution having a reputation for being incredibly relaxed during the summer

But that's only a partial reason for my absence ,

So, I'm back from my abroad program. I kind of just wanted to log into this account to talk about my absence since things have been kind of hectic for me. I jokingly asked for well wishes to win scholarships so I could have time to draw in while there but things ended up being. really busy there

AAA devs don't usually get paid from game sales 😭

Unfortunately options for online multiplayer games are limited due to costs for upkeep, but Super Animal Royale is a wonderful experience. It has a similar microtransaction model, but -tons- of free cosmetics and unlockables. But more importantly, it's fun

"Your options are quite literally 'more expensive games with a high quality' or 'cheaper games that are broken at launch and have predatory monetization' " Only really applies to AAA games. You'll probably find things worthwhile that also are affordable if you look for hidden gems honestly

Like one of my friends works for a professional game studio and she also makes her own videogames. She thinks the switch 2 game prices are ridiculous and is on the same side as everyone else. The people who *appreciate* indie games arent the ones demanding they be cheaper in most cases ,

I'm going to be honest but I don't think that's an equivalent. The people complaining about indie game prices are those who devalue indie games to begin with and believe they're inferior since they're not AAA. Meanwhile I saw people say 24.99 for deltarune is a total steal

That's such a bizarre thing for them to delete ...