I'm gonna vent my heart out, so I apologize in advance for the possible long text. Anyway.
Splatoon community is a funny one, one I cannot fathom to be even anywhere near. And yes, before anyone says or thinks anything, I am fully aware that all communities have their bad apples, but at least I can talk about anything easily to others in other communities. I can still find people interested in talking about characters or monster ecology in the Monster Hunter community, about the possibilities that New World might have in store for MH lore from here on out, it's not always having to deal with or partake in graphics or game mechanics discourse (World good, Rise bad. Old Gen good, new gen bad, etc.) Same with the Legend of Zelda community, I've made so many good friends in the past few years, and I'm forever grateful I can always talk to them about anything LoZ wise, lore, games, dungeons, NPCs, literally anything lol. Even smaller, more niche communities like Risk of Rain or Megaman.
But Splatoon? Oh boy. You have to deal with nothing but people's takes. You wanna talk about the lore? Nope, gotta deal with either people not interested in talking about that (like, the vast majority of the community), or the few that will only care about the lore as long as idol shipping is involved. It's been like what, 2 months since the release of Side Order, and I have not been able to sit and talk about the lore to anyone aside from small bits of venting here and there with friends that don't even play the game or are into it, even they seem more interested than the fandom. You wanna talk about gameplay? Gotta deal with most of the community making their opinions from splatoon youtube, heck, I even have to deal with people in the fandom that haven't even played a single game tell me I'm racist for picking Shiver on a Splatfest instead of Frye, whom I adore greatly.
I can't even bother looking for a Salmon Run farming gang, which has been my goal for months, because most of the people who play the mode are busy blaming others for their failure, including the Salmon Run influencers that made the guides and helpful content for free out of their love for the game, or just not as committed.
Long story short, can't talk about anything without people making it about a ship, can't talk about DLC lore without people making it about Pearlina, can't find myself a party that's willing to grind for hours on Salmon Run cause I'm prone to running into people complaining for a couple wave losses, I can't say I like A without being accused of hating B, when I never said that. Headcanons are also good, but god forbid if you ask people here to respect yours or don't overstep.
I'm tired. And I'll still get Deep Cut plushies one day, cause I love them. And Acht merch, if possible.
My goal as an artists is to improve, to be able to draw art so good, that when people see me draw my MH x Splatoon AU, they think it was AI generated because Frye has 4 fingers on her hands instead of 5.
I think Age of Calamity is my therapy. I thought deleting my savefile would make me sad about losing my progress, but it made me happy to have incentive to go through all of it again.
5 hour session of AoC, and I forget why I'm sad, I stop playing, the sadness crawls back in. Should I see a therapist?
That said, I'm getting a calloused thumb for playing too much F-Zero (both 99 and Maximum Velocity, but mostly the former). It's not the same to play on a GCN D-Pad or a Joycon one, than on a SNES one, which is by far the most comfortable.
I would get one of those for the Switch if it wasn't for the fact that I don't like the L+R for spin attack.
I had the stupidest win on Fire City. I might post later, with a long explanation as to why I was playing like crap and how I didn't deserve that win.
Lol my family got mad at me cause I asked them (I confess, rather sarcastic) who had the brilliant idea to put books next to a cake? They ruined a couple of my brother's brand new Star Wars comic books by trying to take a picture of his birthday cake next to them.
I understand they're trying to surprise him on his birthday, but the cake was enough? Not only they ruined the cake decorations, but also two brand new comic books he was so excited about.
Nice intentions are cute and all, but if anyone did that to my stuff, I'd get really angry, and I like to think justifiably so. What are these pictures even for?
Either way, he's gonna get angry, and I better brace myself for the drama that's to come. Worst part is, I think he'll be absolutely right.