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Had one of those semi-regular talks with mom today, where she asks about my plans for the future, tells me how I can't be working my current job forever, how I need to be looking for something better, that I'm worth more than this, that I should grow up, stop playing games, get serious about life, all the good stuff.

Now, it was never my plan to work where I'm at forever, even a long time really (creeping up on my second year there in a few months) because it's not the healthiest or most fulfilling lines of work, but it gets me out of the house and the pay is fairly decent for these parts. That said, the plan always was to save up a decent sum and gtfo. I'm already sitting on a nice amount (mostly because covid kinda killed the majority of my expenses) but the getting out part is a bit tougher considering the whole 'pandemic going to town on modern civilization' thing that started a year ago.

Furthermore, my plans always were fairly loose, simply because I got burned by expecting things to go my way too many times, can't get fucked if you don't depend on a specific thing to happen. Plus it's kinda easier to keep a life dream a dream than it is to see it crash and burn for whatever reason. What they did include was finally going whole hog into art, be it illustration, concept art or a mix of both, whatever works out better I guess. One part of that (and the major part really) is getting back in shape artistically since I've grown super rusty over the past several years, especially in terms of digital stuff. And that is all without the entire mountain of doubts and fears I've got piled upon the whole thing, however valid some of them might be.

So uh yeah, ton of uncertainty coming up, something I'm not terribly great at dealing with as well as trying to work out a ton of personal issues that have sorta built up over the years.

I think that's mostly because the full 'stache has been much more widespread and used than the hitler one. You know, when you see the hitler one you immediately "Ah a hitler!" as opposed to the stalin one which just makes you go "Jolly old uncle or something"

Yeah, US versions of anything amp up the drama to retarded levels, because heaven forbid someone wants to watch a cooking show for the cooking and not fabricated drama and conflict. And don't get me started on the artificial time limits and everything that goes with that shit, how the interesting parts of the craft (whatever it might be) get buried under unnecessary drama and bullshit.

Ah the good old days of Discovery and Nat Geo where you watched shit to learn and not watch garbage 'reality' shows.

Don't you have night shift apothecaries? Around here, we have multiple ones and they're on a sort of rotation where every night/week (can't remember the exact schedule) a different one is open all night, regardless of holiday or whatever. Of course you can easily check online which is open any given day of the week.

Anyway, current bummer, aside from the regular new years depression kicking in is the whole mess that's happening in northern Croatia. Today they had their third major earthquake (4+ in scale) in the last month. That's all coming on the heels of the massive one that hit around a year ago, damage from which was still being fixed in certain places. Folks are sending help any way they can to the region but there's only so much you can do when the whole thing just gets repeatedly shafted within days :I

Yeah it was fairly early on, don't think I even had much wood around, just coal.

Anyways, second attempt went well until it didn't. This time around I was expanding more aggressively (had a ton of unused space too) but for some reason the nimrods kept spilling everything when they were emptying the latrine, which wouldn't be too bad if the spill somehow didn't slosh it's way trough a bloody airlock, several tiles further and trough my one pumping station and into my major water reservoir. Didn't do much I don't think but food poisoning was somewhat common.
What spelled doom was a geyser next door that I just had to look into, without realizing the dolts have zero sense of self preservation (on that note any way to tell them to piss off in case they find themselves being cooked alive?) so my main tech guy literally fried himself alive because he was too goddamn stupid to stay away from the geyser while it was spewing out steam. I probably could've salvaged the thing but it was slowly starting to spiral due to not great planning.

On to attempt number 3 I guess :V

Quote from: Jopax on January 01, 2021, 03:56:32 pm

This is more trying to remember the name of the website someone linked in the past few months, it's essentially a project to compile and create a playable archive of a massive number of flash games from the golden years of sites like Kongregate or Armorgames. I thought I bookmarked it the first time around but looking trough my bookmarks I couldn't find it.

One of the ones mentioned here?

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154091.msg8214579#msg8214579

Yep, Flashpoint was the one I was thinking of, thanks a bunch

This is more trying to remember the name of the website someone linked in the past few months, it's essentially a project to compile and create a playable archive of a massive number of flash games from the golden years of sites like Kongregate or Armorgames. I thought I bookmarked it the first time around but looking trough my bookmarks I couldn't find it.

They're practicing for the moment they wipe us out, so that they can dance on our graves