#not looking for advice do not give me advice dont do it if you give me advice then i take your bones out after i take my bones out

[kiiingsnake]

Thank you for answering that mecha ask, it was very helpful!! Though if I may, could I ask if you have any advice/tips for people who are new(ish) to drawing mecha? or just struggling in general I guess

first off, sorry for taking so long to answer this- it made me really have to think about how the hell i structure my mecha drawings in the first place. so here's my best advice, structured in a very on-brand confusing and shitty manner:

really, when you're just starting out its all about taking a base shape and warping it. the biggest thing is exaggeration- what you exaggerate and where you do so really does depend on your own tastes/goals for the robot. high exaggeration reads as super mechanical/otherworldly/technical, while keeping it close to the base shapes you want to replicate will make it seem more organic.

a good thing to remember the whole time is that you're putting a shell around a frame! it's like trying to draw an animal but with only hard bits (well, most of the time). so your base shape layouts aren't exactly indicative of what will be your mecha's internal and external structure. you can exaggerate inwards to make it seem like, say, an armored skeleton, or only exaggerate outwards to seem like a carapace on a bug. it's really just a whole lot of pushing and pulling within your original silhouette and weights!

#art #my art #art advice #mecha #sorry for any spelling errors i simply just. dont know how to do it. #but this is the best i can come up with! a lot of my robots look very different from each other but they all sorta boil down to this #and #as a reminder #i cannot really teach you how to draw. i can only teach you how to draw like me #this isn't the correct or only way to think about or do it by any means! but its what makes it easiest for me #and its the advice i would give to anyone starting out

[napping-sapphic]

my boyfriend is trans, mtf but doesn't like that i consider my sexuality sapphic. what do i do? doesn't sapphic also apply to trans men?

Ah.

Another advice ask😓

Yall i appreciate that some of you feel comfortable asking me for relationship advice or that you might be comfortable here since im an anonymous stranger etc

HOWEVER, let me be straight up honest with you— i havent ever been in an actual relationship, im a MAJOR shut in so i’m not at all up to date with all the minutiae of the queer community, full on i have averaged leaving the house one (1) single time PER MONTH for the last FIVE months

I do not want to give you bad/naive/shortsighted advice

And i promise you do not want my bad advice

I am begging you Please do not ask me for advice i am so stressed

#asks #im so sorry i dont have a response to this #it sounds like something you and your partner need to discuss #i really don’t know what to say #giving ​advice is something that i honestly take pretty seriously #and i really just don’t like doing it when i don’t know much about the topic or situation #so while i DO appreciate people feeling comfortable asking me things #i unfortunately DON’T feel comfortable answering #and this goes for pretty much any advice ask #if you want tips for like how many blankets to use or like how to write an essay that’s about all i got here #airing out all my current major flaws to show yall how unqualified i am #srry i am not a beautiful bookstore customer meeting your eyes across the room #i am at home being Depressed™️ #yall do not want advice from me i am BEGGING you to realize you do not want advice from me #also putting myself down to make a Point™️ promise im good!! #also also very sorry i couldn’t give advice AND it’s a late response anon i hope you find what you’re looking for soon!

[natjennie]

the idea of "influencers" both confuses me and pisses me off to the highest caliber. like what do you mean. what qualifications do you have to be influencing anyone. what are you famous for... being famous? I don't get it.

#like. the tiktok and youtube and instagram “fame” makes no fucking sense to me. #i understand people being popular for excelling in a field- #award winning authors or actors or artists etc etc #you have people looking up to you for your impressive accomplishments #or maybe you're an expert scientist so people should listen to your discoveries about nutrition or something #but why why why are random people. who are just.. conventionally attractive? #getting famous for... being attractive? #and then they give out advice on what to drink what to wear what to do with WHAT BACKING????? #i dont GET IT #it doesnt make any sense to me. #watching a danny gonzalez video about the hype house show #and some dude on it said something about 'advancing your careers' #WHAT CAREER??????? BEING HOT ON TIKTOK???? #THATS NOT A JOB>

[cozylittleartblog]

do you have any advice/tips for posting art on tumblr for the first time?

I’m not new from twitter, I just don’t wanna fuck up somehow

really the two keys to posting art is 1. knowing how to use tags, and 2. having a dedicated art blog

tumblr only tracks the first 20 tags on a post, everything after that is Just For Funsies. tracked tags will show up in search, both for the whole website and on your blog.

if you're not sure what tags to use, see what other popular posters are using! i think i mentioned this in my tumblr guide post, but generally you want to tag fandom, characters, ships (if applicable), and any AUs or similar things. oh, and content warnings if those apply, too. then if you want you can try stuff like mediums and other general tags, that'd be your #art, #illustration, #fanart, #fanfic, #digital art, #(program you used), etc etc. you don't really have to use those, but if you want to keep your blog Super Extra Organized or if you're posting original content with no fandom tags to lean on then they are good options. (you can use things like #ocs, #original characters, #character design, #concept art, and genre tags for those!)

really tagging comes down to: if i wanted to find content like this post, what tags would I look in?

You want to have a dedicated art blog so you can keep your art front and center, if people have to dig to see your art or you post a lot of content they aren't familiar with aside from your art, they are less likely to stick around or follow you! this goes for all social medias really, not just tumblr. it's okay to make the occasional non-art related post, you don't have to completely separate art and artist here, but if you have an art blog you want it to be 95% things pertaining to your work. I have a main blog where I post everything that isn't my art, but occasionally I will reblog important things here or share other artists work because it's good that artists support each other :D

TL;DR - Get familiar with tumblr's tagging system and what the popular tags are for the types of artwork you want to post, and have a dedicated art blog! 💖

Bonus tip: Not everyone is online at the same time, and many people don't scroll to the bottom of their dashboards to catch up on every post they missed. You can schedule your posts so you post consistently at the same times, and you can schedule a reblog of your post later in the day. I for example will make all relevant art posts at 12PM CST, and I set the post to reblog at 8PM CST. The tumblr userbase is more active in the evenings, so if you don't post around that time it's definitely good to reblog things then!

#tumblr guide #tags #tagging system #ask #anonymous #anon #tumblr tutorial #artists on tumblr #is this helpful?? i hope its helpful #my posts always get really long but when its *me* asking for advice i like when people get really in depth #i don't want to Know what to do i want to Understand it y'know #also a funny thing about having scheduled posts is some people will dedicate it in their heads #a few times people have told me they know what time i post and its just. idk its sweet :) #''7pm its cozy time'' (7pm their local time) #also dont be shy about reblogging something you made thats a few months old or older #if you want to make a post but don't have anything new #this is tumblr its ok to look at old content here #if i don't post for a few days i'll go find something nice that my newest followers probably havent seen #and give it a lil reblog. sometimes we air reruns y'know #anyway thank you for coming to me! i hope your art acquires Notes #and if it doesn't right away that's okay too sometimes it takes time. you'll get there :)

[heavenlydreamangelflyhigh]

moms getting competitive w her eating disorder again

#she keeps mimicking how ive been living and now that ive been sliding back and restricting again due to stress #she's been body checking around me more talking about how much she works out how 'toned' she looks #and dishing up smaller portions than me only eating half and then saying 'oh i'm so full...marie #if you can't finish yours just throw the rest out...' #she had her friend over yesterday and the poor woman made the mistake of confiding in my mother and i about her ed #and i gave her some advice for recovery & let her know that anorexia is hard to tackle esp when you're taking care of someone else at the #same time but its doable..and she was asking about what i do when i relapse #and obv i didnt go into detail so as not to like. give any ideas. but it was nice to have someone Nice to relate to on that front #immediately my mom jumps in with 'oh i restrict too! thats what i do! i go days without eating and count my calories. #marie doesnt work out like i do because their therapist said not to..but i work out so i can stay toned and confident.' like no you dont #it hurts me that shes doing this shit to herself but i know shes doing it in front of me to feel superior because she Always Has #its CYCLICAL with her. as soon as my gf left the mask came back off and she was right back to the mama i know #using MY CLOTHES to body check using MY MIRROR infront of me i feel insane. #like i told her i feel disgusting because i gained two pounds and im at 114 now and she immediately started talking about her weight and #that we need to stop buying 'junk food' #MOMM....OH MY GOOOD... #whatever whatever . i'll get over it in a few mins im just pissy in general and i feel like i live with a 15 yr old sometimes. #ed ment #i will say it uswd to be worse when she wasnt in therapy n shit but hhghhthtnf even my dad who is Never Home has picked up pn it and has #started checking her and telling her to keep it between yhem bc i dont. i canr handle that rn dude

[kanamedaite]

I hate making this post but after a year of unemployment I am still looking for a job and I do not have enough money for rent this month after paying my phone bill. It would mean a lot to me if I could get some support during this time (it's totally okay if that does not include financial support, just sharing the post is a-ok)

I will not ask for money for nothing, my commission information is in my pinned post and im also totally okay haggling if the price is too steep for any reason

#and before anyone tries to give me employment advice: i have tried literally everything you can think of so please do not patronize me #all links to my paypal and kofi and information about my commissions is like I said in my linked post so please check that out #dont really know what else to say but yeah. been really going through it recently and not being able to buy any of my creature comforts #and the looking threat of losing my place of living is stressing me the fuck out

[superchat]

i try to talk to my mom and stuff but even just a 15 minute talk is so draining

#just constantly going off about all this drama and stress and arguements that went down and and and and #along with trying to give me advice abt every thing and micromanage stuff i dont even think abt #i barely have room to ever say anything cuz she talks so fast and for so long so i just sit there like :| #''so have you met any of your neighbors?'' no. i havent ''ah thats too bad. i was hoping you could say hi to them. itd be good'' #mother if i wanted to do that then i would have done it by now #''hows the internet been?'' same as it was yesterday ''have you looked up how much data video games used up on it?'' #(for years i have told her how little data video games use compared to them streaming shows on hd and she never really believes me i think) #(cuz video games are bad cuz stereotypes)

[kn11ves]

idk what it is with me and women but they just flock to me in my time of need. 5 seconds ive been in a room and they want to tie my shoelaces for me they wanna help me do things they want to give me advice and make sure im okay i what

#i wish i was kdiding #I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH IT! #btw im not talking about like. older women although that also happens to me #im talking about girls my age theyll just go to me like im a helpless baby bird if i need something #its not even my cane either because even when i have to do things without it (like my danza folkorica) they still wanna help me #like im so fr first day i showed up a girl tied my shoelaces TWICE and THEN drove me to my dorm afterwards with the rest of her friends i #mean that was so nice #idk what i activate in them but they always wanna help me out its so particular to me #and like. listen ok today we are learning a dance from sinaloa and to be short about it one of the moves is bending your back really far & #i was doing it wrong and bending badly and i ''nearly fell'' multiple times #except see i would never have fallen bc i have been so used to living without a cane until now that i know how to catch myself and im very #yk. good at not falling so i dont embarass myself #but it LOOKS very much like i am about to fall and at least THREE times the president was like ''oh my god ivan are you okay??'' #i spooked her so bad i felt bad😭😭 #its bc km always in front when shes teaching bc i wanna see her n others r too scared to be up front #and anyways what i was on about literally i was visibly struggling and EVERYONE IM NOT EXAGERARINF ALL THE GIRLS (well there was only one #other guy there but) STARTED GIVING ME ADVICE AND TRTING TO HELP ME one girl moved all the way accross her spot to mine and help guide me #shes so nice i hesrt her her name is charisma bro imagine your name being CHARM and she is charming :> very nice #it feels weird calling her my friend bc well we r all friends in a sense as we r clubmmates but. U Know #long rant TLDR women love me #dont tell them im afraid of them

[festynoodle]

talking into the void but this blog didn't age well at all, in the best way though. i want to give younger me a hug so badly, it got so much better. love x

#my favourite thing was talking in the tags #this is so nostalgic #I have such a love hate for tumblr #it damaged my brain so bad but taught me so much about community and compassion #I thought i found myself on here but I looked deeper and fell in love with myself #if i could give myself advice I'd say to not think too much #experiment and question everything before you think you have an answer #trial and error and trial again #i did NOT have all the answers when i was 13-19 and i was so hell bent on figuring it all out as soon as i could #i still dont have all the answers #although i know myself better than i ever have #i will always be learning #because i will always be changing #change is the most certain thing in life and its fucking awesome #change is growth in any direction #typical teenager thinks she knows everything when she actually really doesnt know shit my guy #she knew a lot but had to get to the point where she realised she didnt know anything at all #and thats when life really started #im going to delete this app again but im going to look at my old posts and cringe before i do that #love is the answer x

[toytulini]

pain nausea the last 3 fucking days and my shoulders and ribs so much im gonna take out all my fucking bones and become a worm

#toy txt post #pain nausea. = nausea. from the pain #also also also also. on top of this. wrists have become wretched. carpal tunnel symptoms. motherfuckers #i spent all weekend resting them and behaving and tHEYRE NOT BETTER. I BOUGHT NEW BRACES AND #THE BRACES ARE NOT COMFORTABLE. IM STARTING TO THINK THESE SPECIFIC BRACES ARE DOING FUCK ALL #AND I HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DESIGN #anyway #chronic pain #getting me a bit fucking testy #and i still. have to do a waterrrrrr chaaaaaange #aka. pretty strenuous physical activity. cant wait to do that at 4:30am bc i put it off. honestly 4:30 is pretty optimistic of me. tbb #anyway. just.frustrated. its fine. #not looking for advice do not give me advice dont do it if you give me advice then i take your bones out after i take my bones out #and im replacing all of them with sour gummy worms #oh lol didnt post thos before closing the app #anyway guess who did a water change at 4:30am and is finally going to bed now. at. 7am #its me goodnight goodbye

[haveyoumetmythief]

Everything is so fucking difficult all of the time

#trying to find a tattoo apprenticship is an act of violence #bitches love giving contradictory advice #and getting mad that you followed the Wrong Advice #the other hot tip is to already know someone #which is bad advice because like...... i cannot go into the past. i can only network now. #but everyone keeps saying you gotta already know them or else they wont give you the time of day #or just hang around the shop until you have a repore #which is also garbage because no one can tell me how to start hanging around a shop without being a nuiscance #I'm not about to sit in someones lobby like ''I'm just here to watch'' #and i dont have the money to get tattooed on the reg #and i dont have time to hang out because i have a job #and how am i supposed to both ''cast a wide net'' and ''knock on doors'' at the same time as hanging around one particular shop #i hate it i hate it i hate it #every single interview has told me i have an impressive portfolio #and every single one is not looking #meanwhile other bitches keep being like ''just started my apprenticeship!'' #and I'm happy for them but also I'm fucking exhausted #you really just have to already know people but all i can do is try to meet them #i hate it #and on the drive home my neighbor called to say she found my lost cat #and i rushed over and it wasnt my cat #i have no money #and am very tired all of the time #how do people afford to just hang out at shops #i have genuinely no clue how to even start that #tattoo apprentice #autobiography

[honeylover]

as some people know. I have pronouns. This is a dilemma

#i completely understand that it/its pronouns are not easy for strangers to just Use lol they dont roll off the tongue #theyre not really practical to go by in a school setting imo but now i have to pick a placeholder set of pronouns...? #instinct says they/them bc i wanna flag to other nb ppl that i am nb in no uncertain terms #but those like arent my pronouns so i feel like a little bit of self betrayal even figuring this out 😶 like I dont want to lie to people #so then im like maybe i should just use she/her and then when i meet someone i like be like listen. i have a secret set of pronouns lmaooo #because she/her is a much more common set of public facing pronouns if that makes any sense like a common mask #AND ONE LAST THING. i lowkey wish i could be brave and impractical and be Visible to cishets as someone who uses neos #bc like i wna be loyal to my nb identity and help normalize it a tiny bit ..... :/ but i know there are also queer ppl who #hate neopronouns bc they scare and bewilder their oppressors and make the community 'look bad.' (to the oppressor. lol.)🫣 #and while i do not buy into that thought process at all i know my feelings will be way way way more hurt if i get backlash from #another queer person. #there is even more nuance that i wont mention but anyway i am overthinking this So Much good god #gravel #qomh #can you read this and give me advice #im prbly just gonna use she/her at school i think? does that sound like a good plan

[simstationdance]

🤡, 🎶, 💖 and 🤗 please for the Emoji Ask! Thank you!

I answered the clown emoji question before, and I'd add more moments I've written that make me laugh but I'm struggling to think of any (just woke up, memory bad..)

As for the music question, I'll post another absolute banger from the SimCity 4 soundtrack. It's so good it makes me go insane

Also I ended up rambling A LOT for the other two questions so I'm putting them under a cut sdfghdfjsgj

What made you start writing?

I honestly don't really know. When I was a kid, people kept telling me to write my ideas down and do something with them, and I was like "okay :)" And then I wrote fanfiction for 20 years.

For the Sims 2, specifically, I told stories with my sims pretty much from the day it first came out, but somehow had no idea that there was a whole community of people doing the same until 2020.

That's when I found Fortune & Romance by Skell. My mind was blown because of the attention to detail, the composition of the pictures, the writing, and everything else, and all I could think was "you... can do that? you can just do that? people did that?" And then I found a bunch of sims stories on Tumblr and thought, "people STILL do that?" because by that point F&R was pretty old and literally no one really uses Livejournal anymore.

And then I was like "omg I wanna do that," because I genuinely think using video games as a storytelling medium is extremely cool.

What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?

uhhh I'm not good at giving advice but something that worked for me is... "just jump right in and start writing, man." Probably not the most helpful advice, I know it's not that easy. 

But what I mean is, I have terrible anxiety, so if you're anything like me, you'd know that Getting Started and pushing past that anxiety just enough to actually post something is one of the hardest parts, because of thoughts like "oh no what if people don't like it :(("

So, this is advice both to myself and to anyone reading this: Don't let an idea fester in your brain forever just because you're scared of the What Ifs that come with writing something and posting it. Not everyone will like it, but surely someone out there will. And if that someone is just you, that's perfectly fine.

Because writing fanfic - sims related or not - is a hobby, and hobbies are meant to be Fun.

#|| ask #i dont mean to sound pretentious with that advice #im being 100% genuine #i dont know how i did it but i was like 'im gonna write sims fanfiction and no one is gonna stop me' #and would you look at that. Nobody Stopped Me. #not even myself or my debilitating anxiety #so the best advice i can give really is just... 'JUST DO IT!!'

[penisliker-moved]

im like *Gets mad at my parents*

#im like constantly baseline mad at them but i cant be Mad at them all th time bc i run out of fuckign energy yk #i just wish theyd stop trying to give me financial advice like 1. Stop fucking looking at my bank statements leave me the fuck alone #my dad literally said it up so hed stop seeing my bank statements why the Fuck is my mom seeing them. shes not even connected to th acct #2. you think im going to take financial advice from ppl who had kids at age 20 one hs a shopping addiction the other buys new gaming #consoles when his kids r starving. You think im gonna take financial advice from th couple who hve been on th brink of divorce for 15 years #and then decided to BUY A FUCKING HOUSE as soon as one of them got a job that paid like 25 dollars an hour. full offense. if i want #financial advice im not fucking going to you two chucklefucks. #if my childhood has taught me fucking ANYTHING its 1 #what not to look for in a marriage 2. what not to do with my money 3. how not to raise kids 4. Dont ever be like my parents #like. gddd #and she ws like #bitching at me abt having a savings acct. which i have #and i have a decent amt of money stockpiled and she knows that bc she snoops on my shit #and ALSO shes literally never had a savings acct in her fucking life afaik #ik its mot their fault explicitely that we live in poverty ik both of their families r like. well theyre both pretty poor #but yk like. theyre bith so fucking irresponsible with their money qnd i hate that theyre trying t act like paragons #when again. th only thing theyve ever taught me is What Not To Do. i never wanna be like them id genuinely rather be dead. #ik im just like a dramatic teen but. the thought of ending up like either of them is my biggest fucking fear. whatevr #and ik ppl say moving out rly helps yr relationship with yr parents but gd i. Ik theyll keep asking me for money and keep rpetending that #either of them r like. even Slightly worthy of being called a parent #GD. WHATEVER

[insertdisc5]

🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮

Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?

To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:

SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!

Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it): THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles! ✨Cons: None really <3 Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup

Twine: Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want) ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) ✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain. Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity

Bitsy: Little topdown games! ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small! ✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing! Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty

RPGMaker: To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!! NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post. ✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here! ✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale! Some games to look at: Yume Nikki, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)

engine.lol: collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden! NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?

✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨

ENGINES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND THEY SEEM HARD BUT ALSO GIVE IT A TRY I GUESS!!!! :

Unity and Unreal: I don't know anything about those! That looks hard to learn! But indie devs use them! It seems expensive! Follow your dreams though! Don't ask me how!

GameMaker: Wuh I just don't know anything about it either! I just know it's now free if your game is non-commercial (aka, you're not selling it), and Undertale was made on it! It seems good! You probably need some coding experience though!!!

Godot: Man I know even less about this one. Heard good things though!

BUNCHA RANDOM ADVICE!!!!

-Make something small first! Try making simple: a character is in a room, and exits the room. The character can look around, decide to take an item with them, can leave, and maybe the door is locked and you have to find the key. Figuring out how to code something like that, whether it is as a fully text-based game or as an RPGMaker map, should be a good start to figure out how your software of choice works!

-After that, if you have an idea, try first to make the simplest version of that idea. For my timeloop RPG, my simplest version was two rooms: first room you can walk in, second room with the King, where a cutscene automatically plays and the battle starts, you immediately die, and loop back to the first room, with the text from this point on reflecting this change. I think I also added a loop counter. This helped me figure out the most important thing: Can This Game Be Made? After that, the rest is just fun stuff. So if you want to make a dating sim, try and figure out how to add choices, and how to have affection points go up and down depending on your choices! If you want to make a platformer, figure out how to make your character move and jump and how to create a simple level! If you just want to make a kinetic visual novel with no choices, figure out how to add text, and how to add portraits! You'll be surprised at how powerful you'll feel after having figured even those simple things out.

-If you have a programming problem or just get confused, never underestimate the power of asking Google! You most likely won't be the only person asking this question, and you will learn some useful tips! If you are powerful enough, you can even… Ask people??? On forums??? Not me though.

-Yeah I know you probably want to make Your Big Idea RIGHT NOW but please. Make a smaller prototype first. You need to get that experience. Trust me.

-If you are not a womanthing of many skills like me, you might realize you need help. Maybe you need an artist, or a programmer. So! Game jams on itch.io are a great way to get to work and meet other game devs that have different strengths! Or ask around! Maybe your artist friend secretly always wanted to draw for a game. Ask! Collaborate! Have fun!!!

I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye

#reference #gamedev #indie dev #game dev #tutorial #video game #ACTUAL GAME DEVS DO NOT INTERACT!!!1!!!!! #this is for people who are afraid of coding. do not come at me and say 'actually godot is easy if you just--' I JUST WILL NOT. #long post

[actual-corpse]

Had a customer frantically ask me questions on how to make coasters...

Ma'am, this is a Walmart, and I just so happen to always stock the craft dept... I know a little bit about a few things and can try to guide you towards where to begin, and that's about it.

#reminds me of the time a man had me smell body wash for him #or the other time someone asked me about baby stuff... Im glad you think i look like someone who fucks but... Idk nothing bout babies #i can give advice on paiting and sewing and how to use Mod Podge to seal works and I can advise use on stencils and safety #other than that? #regurgitating shit I saw on TikTok and entertaining conversation despite how much work I have to do #Never apologize for 'wasting my time' Customer service supercedes stocking... I really dont care #just dont be an asshole and I'll do just about anything to help you #i once followed a lady around the store bc she needed a special cart for some furniture and had her hands full #a separate time I ran across the store twice for one lady who was in Pharmacy and needed shit from Grocery #i dont care #being nice opens so many doors for you #please #people will do crazy shit for people who are nice #and its so easy #its easy to be nice