Dylanrockin
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This feeling when your parents don't believe in psychological scarring and refuse to admit to their flaws as parents. There's nothing worse than a parent who thinks they're always right and I'm wrong, and that I just endlessly respect them because they birthed me.
No. They lost my trust and I deflect their attempts at speaking to me for a very good reason: they belittle me, act like what I do is pointless, hate that I put my time, effort and money into game development, and their hatred towards art. I don't respect parents like that.
On top of that my dad acts like I should've been done with college 2 years ago, and is the most impatient human being I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. Threatens to disown and kick me out of the house, WHILE I'M IN COLLEGE TRYING TO GET A JOB TO LEAVE! You want me out? Then let me fucking finish school and leave to where I can sustain myself financially!
How do you sleep at night knowing that you do stuff like this? Acting like you're justified in being literal scum? If I had kids, which I won't because I'd be repeating what they did, I sure as shit wouldn't subject them to that kind of torture for 18+ years of their lives. A lot of what I say and do now has been dictated by their awful parenting throughout my lives. Their constant fights growing up as a kid and me having to be around it and "putting up with it", because lol they're my parents and I have to endlessly respect them.
In short: fuck them, fuck what they say and do to me, AND FUCK what they have made me into! As if I even had a choice about it anyways.
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Remember one thing my dear friend, you come thru your parents, not just because of them. They aren't the only reason for your existence. Even if they are wrong, respect them but don't lose your temperament. You are nothing without it. Think of it like this, the strong warriors never bother with the weak even if they come in swarms. Your life is yours. Live it well. May the almighty ease your tensions. This is an age where parental care can also be harmful to us, we should endure everything and move on ahead. I can't give you a panacea to this, but you yourself are the best solution here. Smile at everything. Then, people wouldn't bother saying anything coz ur attitude will be strong once you learn to smile. There is a fine line of difference b/w parental affection and trouble here. Be careful and yet saintly happy. Know what to speak where(most importantly) and how.
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So, in terms of the manga's progress, we have come a very long way since we started out, last May. This summer we're hoping to get Volume 1 finished and ready to sell by either the end of summer of fall. Below is all the pages we have done/are doing at the moment. The ones that look clearly like storyboards are in-progress pages:
Overall, I am supremely happy with my manga-artist and all that she has done with me over the past 4 years. We have worked together on various mangas, and we're hoping to continue working together for... who knows how long. She has been able to nail my character's personalities, characteristics, mannerisms and subtle qualities better than I ever could. Same goes for a lot of the locales in the manga, as they were designed with absolute care and delicacy that puts the biggest, dumbest smile on my face. I seriously couldn't be happier with how this turned out, as it managed to be even better than the game as it has everything corrected from plot-holes to even subtle aspects about character backgrounds and their motives which were... a little off in the actual game, and I still need to get around to fixing sometime.
For those of you still waiting on my game, I sincerely apologize, as I mentioned before in previous posts, as school has become ultra sluggish, harsh and the fact that I need to hammer through this last semester before I can readily get stuff done for the game. Currently though I have found time during the weekends to get work done, as I've went and made many changes to several of the game's core components to make things a little better overall. However, don't expect another video from me, about my game, until I decide it's necessary or if I have anything relevant to show off.
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More snippets from my manga:
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tfw you're feeling incredibly lonely and depressed.
Feels bad man.
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For the longest time I've had a crush on Jennifer Hale. Scratch that, I still do have a total crush on her.
Favorite voice actress, tbh.
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You know what I am getting tired of: being threatened on the internet by some random people who are upset with me doing what I do, stalked, doxxed and even been threatened to be "swatted". Seriously people, can't I just make games in peace and do what I do, please? It's bad enough that people take their jealousy to whole, new, levels of sociopathic. But it's equally bad when I never did anything nor said anything that warranted it aside from me just working.
Guys... it's just a game, get over yourselves.
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I have the need to want to play Borderlands Co-Op with someone, but I don't even know who'd be interested in doing that.
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Here's a question for all of you: what would this be considered - when you are asked the equivalent of a yes/no question, but when you answer no, your parents berate and tear you down because of it. Why would you even ask if you don't want me to say no? And then you have the nerve to break me down and weaponize past events against me?
To me that's freaking low.
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You know what I hate: Parents who keep telling you that you can't do it, and that you won't amount to anything. My parents are the literal worst when it comes to that and how they strut their "superiority" over me, just because they're my parents. Just because you're my parent, doesn't mean you're better than me, and you know how my life will turn out - also, I don't have to respect you, if I don't want to, based off of past experiences.
It's hard being a creator, because the whole world is against you, man. Whenever someone is trying to make a living off of creating I sympathize with them, in that regard, because it's so difficult.
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Isn't that a tough kind of irony. To create is to add value. THAT is what societies thrive on. You know what is really weird? Going into very deep debt to learn a service skill that doesn't add value. I will never understand somebody doing a degree in language studies, history, or ministry. It's sad that graphic design is not an easy career choice, while everybody enjoys graphic art every day. So, I appreciate graphic designers for sticking to it!
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I still can't understand the reasoning as to why people complain to me about how there are so many more female characters in my game, versus how many males there are. You know, I could say the same thing about games being way too masculine in how many male characters there are.
I just prefer working with female characters over male characters. Inspiration comes to me better with them, than with male characters and I can be creative with their designs. It's at least easier for me to do than it is coming up with designs for males. I believe that's a good enough reason.
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Here's a question I'm willing to ask to you: Is it dangerous that people see YouTubers as their "friends"?
I look at this not only from a psychological perspective (mostly towards children in this regard), but also from a "professional" one. In regards to the latter, I look at it in the same light as how a student-teacher relationship SHOULDN'T be. You should not make friends with your teacher, just like you shouldn't make friends with some guy on the internet making videos, who is pretty much playing up a funny facade for your retention and ad-revenue. It's a one-sided relationship in that regard. When it comes to children, which comprises a huge majority of the demographics there, it's not exactly a safe option for them, from a sociological standpoint, to treat their favorite YouTuber as their friend.
I could go on, but I'm mostly interested in how others feel about it, because it is a topic of debate that would be interesting to delve into more.
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I believe the furthest it could get would be "idolization," rather than being friends. Much like how some of us (and many that came before us) had idols as we grew up, whether it be a pop singer or an action star. I'm personally not the one to indulge into idolization, but seeing how most people (going by people around me + news coverage) aren't reported to have gotten themselves into the wrong path because of idolization, I don't think it's particularly dangerous to do so.
Honestly, considering how the line between Youtubers and the viewers are only ever so slightly thinner than stars outside Youtube and their respective audiences, I believe that experiences with the two are very much alike. I haven't seen people considering their idols as friends, so I would expect people not to consider Youtubers as friends, too, though I would appreciate a counterexample of someone that has considered a Youtuber as their friend, with the one-sided intimacy that one would expect from a relationship of unequal powers (Perhaps the case that had made you ask the question?). -
Pmuch what Seal said, it depends on how genuine they are. Some of the people I watch are just being themselves while doing something they enjoy on camera, and those people are often very interactive with their audience.
None of them can gain my friendship, as I very narrowly define it, but I can see why others feel a more intimate relationship with them. And to be honest, I feel in many cases it's not one-sided. The YouTuber may not be aware of each individual, but I can see them developing a sense of intimacy and affection towards the concept of an individual fan. Just look at the level of trust displayed at meetups they do at conventions compared to more typical celebrity meetups.
As for danger, I'd say yes. Because developing a sense of mutual trust and intimacy without actually knowing someone sounds like it could lead to all sorts of messy.
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One way that I feel it'd be easier to look at this situation would be from a personal vlogging/live streaming aspect of it, where you see the person's face quite a bit, and there's a lot of interaction. Some have a camera on and some don't, but a huge majority do. One unhealthy way of thinking about it from a streaming perspective is when some impressionable viewer reads the description of stream and the streamer says something along the lines of "donate x amount of dollars for me to notice you". Some viewers really do, genuinely, care about their favorite streamer or vlogger and tends to take upon them, what IntSys said, a sort of "celebrity/idol worshipping" stance on the matter. They believe their streamer is their friend when it comes to that (this mostly applies to significantly younger audiences, as I'm sure most adults would definitely not let themselves be manipulated so easily like that.)
In that situation I put above, it's a matter of the viewer thinking that their "idol" cares about them when they show a genuine reaction to their donation and praise them, and in some vain scenario where the viewer meets them irl and realizes their idol doesn't know who they are, then... well, I don't need to tell you the rest there.
But, that's just a very specific scenario, and I'm sure some other people have counterexamples to that and probably better organized than my scatterbrained...ness.
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Hi. I'm Matt. I'm a Radar Technician:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/undercover-boss-starkiller-base/2969845?snl=1
Literally the funniest thing I've ever seen for Star Wars anything, ever.
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Microtransactions and EA fuckery aside, Battlefront 2 is not a bad game. In fact it's actually quite fun, but just for the simple fact that EA had it's dirty, greedy hands all over it is what upsets my stomach a little inside. It could've been awesome and I wanted it to be awesome, but EA didn't want any of that.
I don't base my enjoyment off of what critics score a game, but most of the review scores that you might see from the game are mostly laddened with the caveat that it is a solid game at its core, but flawed in aspects regarding the obvious EA involvement, loot box progression, and a few minor things.
But, in my opinion, disregarding microtransactions and loot box progression, the game is a solid 8/10 for me, and I think that's fair. A tad flawed, a tad rushed (okay, maybe a lot rushed), but fun at its core.
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EA published it, and with certain publishers the developers have to adhere to certain... criteria that must be met or the developers won't get the funding for their game. EA basically said "put microtransactions in the game, till it's fit to burst, and make it a pay to win system. Everything else is up to you." Activision is a million times worse and would definitely NOT result in anything better.
Activision made a system in the recent CoD where you get something for watching people open loot boxes. Like... WHAT?
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Yeah, Activision, or sorry: Activision Blizzard is known for their focus testing and trying to appeal to their one and only audience, and making everything as boring as possible, while shoving microtransactions down everybody's throats. They would've focus tested the shit out of Battlefront 2 and made it just another, glorified Call of Duty game, rather than what it is now, which has more substance than anything they could ever make - let's be real here.
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If you haven't seen this before, then you're in for a treat. You need some of this in your life.
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So... how about that Net Neutrality? T-Minus 3 weeks until the final decision is made. It's quite literally the final countdown to the biggest shit-storm the internet has ever witnessed.
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I'm just questioning why anyone would've wanted to vote for the tyrant of a president we have now, to have him be the supporter of removing Net Neutrality - the fucking hack. I'm just eagerly awaiting for all the protests and boycotts of companies like Verizon, until they realize just how badly the fucked up and they can face the music like EA is, with Battlefront. The same principle applies, where they do something the internet REALLY does not like, and then the internet makes their voice known in a very unpleasant way, and giving the recipient a whole lot of negative PR and loss of credibility. Among other things.
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Meanwhile on the Dragon Ball Wiki:
This guy just wanted to let everyone know how much he hates it.
