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Well, the Whinny City con got postponed a few months...I was really rushing to get everything ready to head to Chicago, too.
On the plus side, I was able to cancel my old hotel reservation and get a better reservation at a cheaper rate at the same hotel where they're hosting it!
This coronavirus scare has a few upsides, I suppose!I shouldn't say that; it'll jinx it! -
I just saw a story online that disturbed me: a genius programmer with an anxiety disorder basically fled to the woods to live alone like a crazy survivalist and then seemed to die due to an injury:
What hits close to home about it is that I'm a programmer and I have an anxiety disorder...!
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I was going to write that I'm still not quite over the series ending, but---then I saw Pear Butter and Bright Mack, working with their kids, and that REALLY gave me the feels!
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Ugh. Just ugh!
I felt sad, but not depressed, while watching the finale. But after watching it, I've gone into a spiral...
The worst part was when I tried to sleep at night afterwards; I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to sleep, so I took a couple of knock-off NyQuil before going to bed. But as it's 3:22am and I've probably slept for a total of two minutes, both of which awakened me with a despairing nightmare...well, I suspect those NyQuil contained something that's keeping me UP!
I keep having feelings of despair and horror in the pit of my stomach: no more new episodes of MLP! I know the comics are coming, but still---the despair and horror just won't stop appearing in me! And it's keeping me from sleeping!
The worst part of THAT is what'll happen in the morning: I won't be in any condition to go to work. I do NOT want to be sitting in my apartment alone in the morning; that won't help with my depression and anxiety. But that'll happen, too.
I done got too attached to something, and now that it's gone, I'm miserable and afraid. This is the second time this has happened to me in the last few weeks! Ouch...sucks to be me...
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I'm feeling better this evening, but throughout the day, I was struggling with depression and anxiety. There were times when I actually cried---not while watching the finale, but the day after watching it. I was blubbing like a little child, and I'm in my mid-30s.
Still...this reminded me a lot of things I've seen the characters do in the show: just like Twilight in the Season 8 premiere, I didn't want to leave bed. Just like Twilight in the Season 5 premiere, I didn't want to face any reminders of what I'd lost---I was trying to stay away from my computer so much that I did things like work for longer than I really needed to on my work computer (I have the ability to work over the internet), empty the dishwasher, and vacuum my apartment despite my low energy levels. And just like Rainbow Dash in Tanks for the Memories, I found that it wasn't easy to cry, but after I was done crying, I actually felt better, like crying was cathartic.
These characters were SO believable...! I think that's what made FiM feel real to me.
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I've seen the finale and Jeric's/Say My Name's thank you video, and I've decided what I want to do:
My Weather Factory Meltdown game engine was always meant to be versatile and to give other users the ability to make their own games. And IIRC, when Lauren Faust was first asked to create Friendship is Magic, she was actually approaching Hasbro about making a franchise out of her Galaxy Girls characters.
So...since my game is all about having a lot of characters in your party and letting them play off each others' strengths and cover each others' weaknesses, how would it be if I approached her with my game engine and let her use it to make a Galaxy Girls platform game?
It's not ready today: I'm still in the middle of working on equipment, items, and playable character buffs. And I need to add customizable enemy attacks (including debuffs for playable characters) and customizable playable character abilities (including debuffs for enemies) before it'll actually be useful for Lauren. And...well, ideally I'd have a better items system and a shopping system in the game, as well.
But Lauren Faust gave us so much when she created these characters and the world they live in and the story they've been through; I'd like to give something back to her.
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Aaaaaand iTunes doesn't have the finale yet---it looks like it won't be available until tomorrow; it's Sundays that I get notifications that a new episode is available :/
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Dang...hard to believe the series is over...and my fangame is probably still a couple of years away from being done! All because I just HAD to have a level editor for it...
I don't quite consider it a failure; the level editor makes it versatile to the point where it can be used for other, non-MLP related stuff. And even if it's after the series finale of G-4, that doesn't prevent other bronies from making fangames or other fan content---with or without my game. Still, when I started, some part of me wanted to present it to Hasbro and get it approved...though I knew that'd be a long shot then, I know it's not even that now.
What's really got me cut up, though, is the sheer finality of this finale. I kind of wish I had some IRL friends who're into FiM, as then I'd have someone to talk with about it.
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I just watched the Uprooted episode...it almost felt like it was the writers assuring us that, even if FiM is over, it still lives on in our hearts. I know it lives on in mine!
But there's more---it'll live on in a new form, just like the Tree of Harmony does. I hope it's a good form!
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Well, I just watched the Season 9 premiere in preparation for the series finale, and I'd really forgotten how lighthearted the show usually is. DisQord's jokes when Twilight was freaking out REALLY helped liven up the mood early in the episode!
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Welp, I'm miserable: my main laptop was practically my life, and a Windows 10 update made it overheat, and it completely ruined its hard disk! Even Geek Squad couldn't fix it ;(
The silver lining is that I had backups for WFM and a couple of other projects, so I can use my gaming laptop to continue. But MAN does it hurt---I liked that laptop! -
Well, I just submitted my seven thank-you videos to Spike and the Main Six. But I forgot to check the "Permission to Use" checkbox for Rarity's video before I submitted it; I'd like to edit it and mark that checkbox so they have my permission to use it, but I don't see a way to edit it. I wonder if I should do the whole submission again...? I'd feel like I'm spamming if I did, though.
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Well, I just uploaded seven youtube videos that, in and of themselves, might be completely useless for the Closing the Book project:
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@Rikifive thanks
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Well, I've never been to a pony-specific fan-convention in my life, and I still haven't, and there went the last BronyCon ever...! I sure hope there's another convention I can go to next year!
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At least this gives me hope there'll be a convention I can go to in the near future:
https://twitter.com/WhinnyCityPony/status/1130961995333869571 https://twitter.com/WhinnyCityPony/status/1130961995333869571
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Happy new year! I'd not planned on being awake at midnight, but...that's how it happened; I'd wanted to get some work done since I was inadvertently and unexpectedly behind, and then I saw that midnight was close, so...I just stayed up!
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Say, did you once have an Artificial Thunder account on deviantart? Because I just noticed that user seems to be gone.
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I can't remember whether I asked your permission in the past to use your Wind Chaser OC in my fangame before today, but would you be okay with it?
I've been working on that fangame for a few years now, and it'll probably still be a few before I release the final version that includes an explorable Ponyville with NPCs, but when that day comes, would you be okay with Wind Chaser being in it?
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It's depressing...I'm a conservative, and I had some questions about transgenderism, but...it feels like there's just no safe place for a conservative to discuss that subject! It's like I can't even bring up what conservative media has led me to believe about it so far, not even to give someone a chance to give me evidence that it just isn't true...
I've got friends who're on the other side of the fence, and some part of me would like to join them, but...it's not enough that I have friends who hold a belief; I need some proof of it to make that leap! -
...How did I just manage to get awarded all these gemstones all at once?!
I mean, it's kind of appropriate, since my fangame uses gem golems as enemies, but still...! -
Well, I just tried Rikifive's Bookhorse game, and it took me a while to get the hang of it. I'm probably going to post a Let's Play of it soon!
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Wow. I step away for a few days, and I have almost 80 notifications! Was there an epic new episode while I wasn't paying attention?
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I sure hope I get some feedback on this base-project soon; I've been working on this project for a while, and I just got done with my first draft of Celestia's tail-animation!
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Know what's getting under my skin these days? It's the talk about racism---and not what I'm hearing, but what I'm NOT hearing.
See, different cities can have very different race relations: in one city, racism can be a huge problem, while in another city, racism isn't an issue at all and people are generally treated equally.
That means that you can't make blanket statements about racism...but people are making blanket statements about it, anyway!
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Well, I watched the MLP Movie again with some friends, and this time, I didn't feel like it was triggering me. I noticed that my heart was pounding at several points in the film, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an anxiety trigger.
Watching it again...well, it gave me a different perspective on the characters, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it...!
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I've been working for a few years now on a fangame, Weather Factory Meltdown---still at it, though I'm taking a break to work on an art request.
But having worked on it for several years at this point (since 2012!), I've thought of a lot of things that Hasbro wouldn't let me do if the game were an official piece. Like, a LOT of things. Like when I'm sitting in my cubicle at work, Skippy's List-like things pop into my head, and I write them down.
I've accumulated a LOT of rules over the years, and I think I should start sharing them. Here's one of the first:
1) When naming OCs for the Canterlot Royal Guard, the following names are off-limits: Cannon Fodder, Red Shirt, Brown Pants.
According the the banner, I'm lively!
Too bad you can't adjust notifications separately for each member.