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onlyancunin · 6 months ago

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So I've been tagged

By this lovely little soul that goes by the handle of @treshmind. And apparently I am the mutual they want to learn more about, which is a compliment I will hold dear and near.

Do you make your bed? People say your body is your temple. My temple is my bed, a direct reflection of how I'm doing. And right now literally everything is there, not to mention I technically sleep on a couch. But I get by, Imake my little space everyday to catch a few zzs.

Favourite number? Not sure if I have one. Probably not. Seven rings nice though. I always considered it to be the "proud" number, as it looks like a person with their chest forward. Much like the idle stance of everyone's favourite vampire.

What’s your job? Graphic / UX / UI Designer & Front-end developer. 10 years a designer, now venturing into IT. I love creating pretty things that touch people, so to speak, figuratively and literally. Something that hits them and/or they can interact with. Creating experiences, waving stories. I learned HTML & CSS when I was like 15, had a blog and couldn't find a nice skin for it - so I just coded my own. Javascript, typescript and vue.js came along last year and honestly, I'm having a blast. And no, pls don't look at my tumblr, I did code its appearance bit, but it's just tweaks, it doesn't say anything about my skills.

If you could go back to school would you? I would actually and it's something I'm considering. One for front-end development to give myself stronger foundation and boost of confidence, and another for foreign language. Spanish & German have my special attention there.

Can you parallel park? I'm willing to try!

Do you think aliens are real? I always have a hard time defining "aliens". I think most people's perception of what counts as "living" is limited at best and hypocritical at worst. I've heard of bacterias having a better time than some of the fully-formed, fully-conscious humans on Earth. Add humanity's general complex of seeing themselves as the most complex existence in the history and you can probably cook up my general stance on the topic. I don't think Earth is the only place there's a "life" on, but aliens understood as extraterrestrial livings, are probably not modeled after the evolutionary fart currently dominating the 3rd planet from the Sun.

Can you drive a manual car? I can, actually. My father is a car mechanic, I take these things pretty seriously, you know. Should I ever have a car, I don't think I'd go for automatic.

What’s your guilty pleasure? To be fair, all my pleasures are guilty. But as it stands now, my most guilty would be to indulge in my feelings and let myself play a game or doodle or write something while knowing there's piles of work I'm behind on.

Tattoos? One on my back between my shoulder blades, just a standard egdy barcode with my birthdate underneath. And one over my heart (or just over my left tit, let's be honest) saying "Ideas are bulletproof", but mirrored - so that I can read it when I look in the mirror.

Favourite colour? Black, red. I usually wear all black with golden accessories and absolutely seizure-inducing, colorful singular statement pieces.

Favourite types of music? Not sure what counts as "favourite" as I prefer music that makes me feel things, whatever the genre. I like the experimental, funky sound, but I also enjoy the deeply consuming sound of progressive electronic music, which help me deep-focus at work, so there's that ~. And oh, I love voices. Talented voices, singing voices, raw, honest voices. I sing a little and enjoy admiring this craft in others.

Do you like puzzles? Oh absolutely. I'm already hooked.

Any phobias? I thought I was afraid of spiders until I lived with a girl who was REALLY afraid of them and I stepped in as this chivalrous knight in shining armor charging at the beast and – So no, not really.

Favourite childhood sport? I actually participated in a lot of disciplines. I wish I gave acrobatics more time & attention. It felt so freeing and beautiful. So poetic, almost.

Do you talk to yourself? Like out loud? Not anymore, but I do have an old pal on me in my head which is eyyyyy, isn't that me?

What movies do you adore? "V for Vendetta" - about how trauma can reduce a person into a concept. In this case - a concept of vengeance. Dangerous, loveable, tragic concept I resonate with very much. This is also the movie where my tattoo quote comes from.

Where I validated my stance that you don't really need to see the other person to know and love them.

Your experiences and feelings are just as valid, even if someone misled you or you never truly met. And the masks and theatrics cannot really conceal what's truly important, so don't be afraid to just... feel.

Coffee or tea? Coffee, freshly ground & brewed, unless I have the instant kind of day, with milk. Tea - preferably Dilmah, either green or earl grey.

First thing you wanted to be growing up? Oh, an artist probably. Little did I know how difficult and anxiety-inducing it would prove.

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No pressure tags: @herdarkestnightelegance, @thedomesticanthropologist, @nocna-orchidea

#tag game #personal

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kopawz · 1 year ago

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idk how u code on neocites- just trying to follow a basic overview video makes me feel really confused. How did you learn how to do stuff??

well, i first get an idea.

then, like you- i am bad at videos, so i go read up on tutorials, and look at examples of how the code to do what i want is written,

next, i get confused. necessary step.

and then, i try applying what i'm reading to my site anyway, even if it's confusing, and even if i can't follow it 100% correctly.

and then i go read some more tutorials for the same thing. i repeat the process until it works... or looks how i want it to look

i try not to follow it exactly, because i want my code to be readable and editable to myself later. this is the most important part i think. you should start very small and do what's understandable to you.

it also doesn't have to be very big or impactful to anyone but yourself, either. it can be small, even, and i encourage that.

here, if you want, in this keep reading i'll show you some examples of stuff i can do with properties i learned:

this small green box, for example.

it's name, or div class identifier name is "update". it's job is to hold the massive list of updates to the site, so viewers can scroll through to see what i've done, and what has changed.

right now, i've shown you where "update" is in the HTML sheet, and we can see that it's been given in-line properties. think of "in-line properties" as adjectives, describing how tall, wide, or how rotated your element is.

(keep in mind that you can't literally see the html as you're editing it like i'm showing you here unless you get a dedicated application for editing and testing html and css. i don't have any apps for that, and usually just edit and refresh to see if it looks right hundreds of times.)

okay, now let's see what exactly i'm telling this "update" box to do inside the CSS,

the CSS style sheet is another way of telling what something on your site to do. you would use the CSS to organize what everything on your page does more neatly, if you don't want to brute-force style it through the HTML directly, like i do.

in the CSS sheet, anything given the name of "update" is basically given the property of "overflow:auto;" which tells it to scroll whenever what's inside of it gets too big for the box. i have given the box a minimum width, so that the words inside will very easily start scrolling.

it is also given the color of #baddad, or a nice minty green- it's about 200px (pixels) wide- it has a border that's 2px wide and is solid (fully closed border) that's black- and it has a box-shadow that is 11 px 11 long in the bottom and the right, with a rgba value given to it to make it colorful, too.

why did i put width on both the html in-line style properties, AND the css style sheet? i don't know honestly! you don't need to do this, i think. just one of them will probably work, really.

i forgot what margin-bottom does, but i think that just adds filler space between elements. or is that padding, which adds filler space -inside- elements? maybe you can figure that out. i still can't remember the difference.

is there an easier way i could explain this to you?... i dunno, maybe ask for something more specific other than "how do you learn stuff" such as "what ways could i do *thing i want to do* specifically"

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memento-morri-writes · 2 years ago

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hi morri!

you talked about doing a page for your WIP, and I'd like to ask how do you do them?? I've tried to make pages for my WIP before but coding is not a language i understand sadly T-T

do you have mayhaps some tips? or general advice? or something because I've tried for ours and i never end up doing anything and I'm so tired T-T

thanks, love

(@/ink-fireplace-coffee)

Hi Carmen!

NOTE: This is kinda gonna assume that you have never touched a custom code in your life and have no idea how html works. I tried my best to make it simple, but also cover as much as possible. Be warned, it's a REALLY long post. But hopefully it's helpful!

Ah, okay, well, there's a lot to get into here. But I will try my best to explain it all!! First off, if you've never made a custom page before, you need to ask staff to add JavaScript support to your blog. You can do that really easily, and it should only take them about 24 hours to get back to you.

Once you have JS enabled on your blog, you need to actually make the new page, like you would any other page. (Open your blogs theme editor on desktop, scroll down on the sidebar until you see "pages" and hit the plus/new page button.)

Once you've done that, click where it says "default layout" (or something similar) and change it to "custom layout". Choose a url for your page (for example, my page for ATQH is just "memento-morri-writes.tumblr.com/atqh".) You only need to put anything that would come after the /. (So in my case, I'd just put "atqh" in that box.

Okay, now you need a theme. There's not a lot of them out there when it comes to ones built specifically for written WIPs. @bebewrites has some amazing ones on her blog! (05 and 02 are my personal favorites.) Also, this page by @/seyche is gorgeous!

Once you've chose a theme, open the link to the code hosting site (github, pastebin, etc.) and copy all of the raw code. (You can highlight and copy it manually, or sometimes there's a button that says "raw" that makes it easier.)

Paste all of that nonsense into where it says "html here" on your blog. Hit "update appearance". You should see a little, sort of squished preview of the page.

Now comes the hard part. Editing the html. I'm gonna go into detail about this under the cut, since it'll get long.

Firstly, a lot of codes have some degree of instructions written in them. Any text that looks slightly greyed out is "comments" or code that doesn't do anything, but is there to give you guidance. Keep an eye out of those as you go through the code!! They'll often tell you where new sections begin or end, so you know what you're editing!

Firstly, start at the very top of your code. Nearly the very first thing on there it's going to say <title> [some kind of text] </title>. This controls what shows up on the browser tab! So make it descriptive, but short and to the point. (I usually just do the story name or it's abbreviation.)

Next there's gonna be a very long section called <style>. Most of this you don't need to worry about, unless you really know what you're doing, but there are some important bits.

Directly under where it says <style> is where you should look for this next bit. It should look something like this, but it might look different depending on the code. There are hundreds of "right" ways to code a page, it's all up to preference.

Alternatively, if there's not a nice, neat section for all the colors and fonts, you can hit "ctrl + f" and type in "color", and you can arrow through the results until you find one that mentions background/text/heading color.

The important thing here is the numbers and letters in red. Those are Hex Codes!! (hex cause there's 6 digits.) They're just a way for the computer to know what color you're talking about.

You can use a website like htmlcolorcodes to find any color you want. When you have one you like, click in the top box on the website and copy the 6-digit hex code. Paste it in place of the one in the code. NOTE: You need to keep the #. Otherwise the code won't recognize it as a hex code.

Some Quick Hex Codes: - Pure white is #fff - Pure black is #000 - #eee is a very lovely off-white that is much easier on the eyes than pure white.

Keep acessibility and legibility in mind when choosing colors!! Don't put white or off-white text on a pastel pink background! Conversely, some people have a hard time reading super high-contrast stuff, especially bright text on dark backgrounds. So try and avoid something like pure white text on a pure black background. (Light and dark is generally fine, but go for "softer", less saturated colors.) If people are getting a headache reading about your OCs, they're gonna decide it's not worth the trouble.

Okay, back on track. You can also change the font size for the headings, subheadings and body text. If it's not neatly given to you, you can do a "ctrl + f" and search for "size". That should help you find it.

Sizes are shown in pixels (px). This is the default measurement for font sizes, and really the only one. Sometimes referred to as "points". So if you hear someone say "12 point font", they mean a font that's 12 pixels tall. Pixels and points mean the same thing, so don't worry too much about it. But for html, you need to use the "px" after the number. This functions a bit like the "#" before the hex codes. It tells the computer what you want done and why. (Kind of.)

NOTE: I'm not going to talk about changing the fonts in this, since it's already getting really long. However, I will gladly answer an ask about it!

Now, onto the fun part!! Adding your information! Scroll down, or do a search for where it says "<body>". This should also be pretty clear cause the text will go from lots of colors to largely white with some green. This is where the actual content of the page starts. Or at least the content you care about.

From here on out, things could be arranged in any one of thousands of ways. So, I'm just going to walk you through the basics of html content.

First things first: basics. In html, every "type" of element or content has a symbol. That's what the stuff between the <> is. And for every one of those symbols, you need an end piece. A set of <> without a slash starts an item, while a set with a slash ends it. So a complete set would look something like this:

<[symbol]> [content] </[symbol]>

Exactly what those symbols are varies, and that's what I'll get to in a minute. Keep in mind that when you make a set of starting <> (ie no slash), tumblr will automatically add a closing set. However, it's not always the smartest, and you can end up with double ending sets. So double check that you only have one starting set and one ending set.

Now, no to the specifics.

Links:

Links are kinda wonky when it comes to html. The symbol for a link is "a", but you can't just go "<a>" and be done with it. A complete link looks like this:

Yes, you have to put the space, and the equal sign, and the quotation marks. So what does all that stuff mean?

Well, the space between the quotation marks is where you put the url. If you're linking outside of your own tumblr blog, you need the full url, copied and pasted from your browser bar, including the http nonsense. (It's not nonsense, but-) If you're linking something within your own tumblr blog, you only need to include what would come after the / in the url. For example if you wanted to link someone to your wip tag, which is "wip: cos", then you would put "/wip: cos" inside the green quotation marks.

NOTE: When you're linking outside of your own blog, get rid of that slash!! It's left there as a courtesy/spacer by most coders since they assume most people will only be linking within their own blogs. If you leave it with outside urls, things will not work.

Okay, but you don't just want a giant URL showing up in your pretty text. And html knows that. That's where the space between > and < comes in. What you put between the starting set and the ending set is what will actually show up on your blog. Just like when you highlight and link something via text on tumblr.

Here's an example of a "complete" link in html:

What this will actually do is when someone clicks on the words "wip tag" in your blog, it will take them to the tag "political fantasy wip" on your blog.

Text Changes:

So, earlier I mentioned being able to bold, underline, italicize text. Yep, you can do that!! In order to do that, you just put starting and ending sets around the text you want to be changed, like this:

The symbols are different for every type of text change, but here's a quick list:

Bold -

Italics -

Underlined -

Emphasis (looks different depending on the code) -

Strikethrough -

Images:

Images are also kind of weird. You can't just upload them from your computer. If they're images from unsplash, etc., you can just right click and click "copy image address". If they're ones you made, or that are on your computer, you'll have to upload them to a hosting site like imgur, and then right click and copy image address.

NOTE: Pay attention to image ratios and dimensions when using codes!!! If you put in an image of the wrong ratio (say, 5:7 rather than 4:5), the code will force it to fit and you'll end up with a very ugly picture! So just pay attention. If it's not obvious (1:1 (square)) or specified in the code, trial and error is fine!

So what do I need those image addresses for anyways? Well, here's a complete image code.

That bit in the green quotations is that image address you copied earlier.

PHEW!

That was a really long post! But I hope it answers some questions people on writeblr might have about editing page themes!!

If you have any questions, feel free to send me an ask or DM!

#Morrigan replies #important #tutorial #html tutorial #coding #coding tutorial

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hpcrackficfest · 2 years ago

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HP Crack!Fic Fest 2022: Submission Info

SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2022. POSTING WILL BEGIN ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2022.

Submission Info

The claiming post can be found here. Claiming is available until September 9, 2022.

All participants must be over the age of 18.

Please remember that this fest is all about crack!fic, so every story submitted must feature at least a hint of that idea. As you can see in the definition I left on our rules post, that idea is pretty broad, haha.

However, I want to be clear: you are in no way required to tag your fic as crack!fic (or any variation), either on AO3 or in your header. Throwing it back to the example of my own questionably cracky work on the rules post, I didn't label it that way, but I do know it can be viewed that way. As long as you are capturing the essence of the fun and fancy-freeness of this fest, you are good to go.

We will absolutely be accepting any written form, as crack!fic does tend to lend itself to so many different things. So poetry, letter!fic, texting!fic. We’re not accepting strictly art, but I think comics and meme!fic, etc., would still fall under “writing” - at least in my opinion. So please keep in mind, anything goes!

There are no minimum or maximum word requirements. Everything must be betaed, proof-read, checked, and edited.

Posting will be anonymous, so please don't give the game away by posting anywhere else, or replying to comments, or hinting on your journal until after reveals. Also, because this is an anonymous fest, the piece you submit must be a complete, stand-alone work and can't be based on any of your other works, prequels, sequels, etc.

All submissions will be hosted on AO3, at the HP Crack!Fic Fest collection. Feel free to check it out, but please only post your submissions there yourself if you are 100% sure you know how. One mistake can make the difference between your fic being posted before its time, so if you find yourself unsure of how to do this in any way, please feel free to send everything to the mod email, and I will take care of it.

Headers with a link back to AO3 will be posted here on Tumblr.

Regardless of whether or not you choose to post your submission yourself on the AO3 collection, you are required to send the following header info to the mod account at [email protected]. In the subject line of your email, please enter your AO3 username and your prompt number. Please also let me know whether or not you have chosen to post your submission to the collection yourself or if you are sending it to me (and of course attach the gdocs or Word file to said email), and include your AO3 username only in the space for Author in the header.

Please use the header below in your email:

Title: Author: Prompt: Rating: Pairing(s): Word Count: Warning(s)/Content: Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended. Summary: Notes:

If your fic requires any html coding - such as italics or bold text - YOU are responsible for making sure that code is in your document. Your mod will NOT be adding any of that in for you. Whether or not the code is included, your submission will be posted as is - so if you want it in there, please make sure to double check before posting/sending in your entry.

And finally, you are required to add the mod account as a co-creator when submitting your work to the AO3 collection. This is for general admin purposes ONLY, and will never be misused on my part as a mod.

Resources

If you don’t have a beta, I always recommend asking in any of the various fanfic writers' groups out there! You can try the oldies but goodies like hp_betas_wanted and hp_betas, but also any one of the many Facebook and Discord groups that have popped up in recent years! (If you need invites/recommendations for any of those, please let me know, I'd be happy to help.) In keeping with the stress free style of this fest, your beta is not necessarily required to be someone official in fandom; if you'd be more comfortable having a friend or family member look everything over, you are welcome to have them do so!

phoenixacid's Basic HTML Guide

hd_writers' handy guide to placing HTML tags in a Word Document

And please utilize potterwords for all the correct spellings that you might need for creatures, characters, or anything else for your creations.

Your mod, @fangqueen

#hpcrackficfest 2022 #2022 claiming #crackfic #harry potter #hp #fanfiction #harry potter fanfiction #hp fanfiction

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bravenewweb · 3 years ago

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Getting to the next level

This week we started to learn some stuff related to the server-side web development world, sounds complicated... and it is. Understanding how this "behind the scenes" works is fundamental to getting anything done in the web development industry, that's the reason of the "web" word in web development. We could be really good building and styling sites but if we don't know how to put them online, we won't get any farther than showing the site only on our computer (what's the point then?).

Now that we learned some of the basics of uploading our files to a server that is published on the Internet, I was able to upload one of the activities we did in the lab. So now the HTML file is totally public in my URL: https://knuth.griffith.ie/~s3012890/

Besides that, I also started to understand how does interactive sites works, they basically get built extracting data from a database. In our server-side web development class, we made a simple PHP application that grabs data from a MySQL DB hosted locally, manipulates the data through JavaScript, and populates the index page with HTML elements created through JavaScript. The app looks like this:

At first glance we would imagine a simple HTML file with images, grid, and divs styled with CSS. But it isn't, if we open the HTML file we would only see some divs with id's but nothing of the content. This is the HTML file for the whole thing:

And the whole thing is happening behind the scenes in a couple of PHP files and a single Javascript file. To add or remove elements from that site, I don't need to touch the code at all, I just need to add, delete or modify records in my SQL database. We are making that through an application called XAMPP.

Right now that app is just able to run locally, on my computer, or any computer in which it can run a MySQL database and rebuild it with a dump file of the DB. I need to make some research to know how could I do that but on a published server, but right now I feel accomplished with what I have learned so far from Client-side and server-side classes.

With this, now I have a little idea about Wordpress. I have used WP before but I didn't understand what was happening behind scenes until now.

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actuallyschizoid · 8 years ago

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I think ppl often confuse the idea of having szpd and simply having schizoid as a personality type. I'm suspicious of bpd+szpd bc based on what that person responded w those are pretty normal symptoms and consequential reactions of bpd. I'm confused about at what point you could say it's szpd. Since there are more szpd symptoms in bpd as opposed to bpd in szpd. I don't mean to be that person but I wonder if it would be helpful for ppl to recognize the possibility of having certain

personality types rather than assuming disorders, but also being able to find common ground &relation amongst the two. There’s a difference btwn having symptoms &those symptoms being core parts of yr personality. One of the main requirements of the symptoms of PDs are they have to be consistent across time and various situations. Nancy McWilliams is a specialist on ptypes &wrote one of the main articles that gets around–she was more specifically writing it for the type, rather than disorder.

Yeah, I mentioned schizoid as a no-disordered personality type before (or that it’s one awesome personality type in my opinion).

It is a good thing to understand that not every schizoid has szpd. As a non-professional, I can’t really discuss whether any specific case would be a the disorder or something else, but we can talk about some general stuff about schizoids who do not have a manifested szpd.

For one things, non-PD schizoids are rather common (relatively to PD ones). From what I understand, schizoidness is often considered to be one of the essential parts of any human personality. There’s even this pro psychiatrist test called MMPI, which has (and I had to google the correct english spellings for some of those >.>) hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic tendency, the proper fit-your-birth-sex thingy whatever it’s called, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, hypomania (not sure about this one) and introversion.

I’m just translating from the russian version of this test so it might have some things wrong, but all in all those considered to be parts of personality. It can range from about expected of any NT to really sky-high values. How accurate is it I’m not sure, but pro psychologists still seem to use it on occasion. At least I filled that thing back in the days I was diagnosed. Or actually, I did it before I decided to get a diagnosis, and that saved me a good deal of paid time to have a result printed out beforehand.

I actually have the link to my result from like 8 years ago saved, can even post it here to make it less vague what I’m talking about:

This graph might seem like gibberish, but it’s easier than it seems. Each number 1 to 0 means one of those things I listed above, in same order. First three letters are just validity checks, if they go nuts — you probably lie (I didn’t).

Now, you can see it pretty clear that there are three spikes which go well beyond the grey area (non-pathological or so). Well, that’s to be expected of someone with szpd and some gender issues. Last one being introversion, and the one before… well, my only guess is that’s how my ADD traits shows on it. Other stuff seems below avg even, not sure why but oh well. I guess being hypochondric, depressed, hysteric, hostile, paranoid or anxious aren’t really my things.

Anyway, the point is, only the hypothetical perfectly average person would show the absolute even line on this test, with everything around its 50 mark. While most actual real people would have a bunch of those declining from the middle mark a bit here and there, but it wouldn’t go too far. Think the difference between my 1-4 & 6 & 7 bits — about that kind of variation, but probably closer to 50 line.

Now, for a person to be a schizoid without actual PD manifested, they don’t have to have this high of a spike on 8. They’ll probably score something along the non-pathological range like 60-something, just a bit above what most people would do. If schizoid is really the center of your personality, then it’s probably the most notorious bump or has a nice addition of introversion thingy raised along with a few others a bit lower than usual.

But all that’d mean is that you are, in fact, a schizoid — you have it in you. But if it doesn’t go beyond that, it’s probably far from your main problem. Or not a problem at all, for that matter.

On the other hand, if you have other prominent thing of those elevated high along with the 8 bit, but others are higher, it’s likely that szpd is not exactly the core of all that’s happening with your personality. It could be that you have comorbid schizoid symptoms or maybe even about enough to get szpd diagnosis — but then it just happened to be that you can’t be diagnosed with it coz there’s that twice higher spike on another bit making that one the core of everything.

So the main thing here is that you can be a schizoid person, and it can combine with just about anything. It can be a major part of you and you can have maybe even all the symptoms to some degree.

But it is only a Schizoid Personality Disorder if it goes to the point where it not only defines you, but it negatively affects your life on a daily basis. Always, consistently, permanently. It is a problem — even if you as a schizoid might think of it more like the world has this problem with you (I sure do so).

At the end you still live your life at a worse quality because of those traits being so intense they interfere with everything. They limit you, dictating what you can and cannot do. You suffer some consequences that won’t be there if it wasn’t for those schizoid traits being this intense.

Like, in my case, if not for my completely conscious unwillingness to deal with people, its highly likely that I wouldn’t spend past 10 years pretty much locked in my own home, without having a job or even thinking of it as a potential option (because where the heck am I supposed to find a job that wouldn’t require me to communicate with people?).

I probably wouldn’t be this 30 y.o. useless piece of flesh living with my parents. I would probably have a family of my own, even if some unusual kind of it. Would there be a possibility I’d consider having kids by now? Not sure, but I wouldn’t exclude that. What I know for sure is that as I am now, this is really not even an option to consider — it’s somewhere along the ideas to fly to the other Universe.

Now that is what makes a schizoid personality not just personality type — but a personality disorder. Then again, you could have other disorder, like the mentioned BPD. Or maybe avoidant or antisocial or whatever else. It might share a bunch of symptoms. And it would surely show you a spike on that test. But if you look carefully, read more into how different disorders show on it, you might just find out that it’s normal way things look for whatever other disorder or condition you might have. Or at least within expected range.

Btw, if you’re thinking about completing this test yourself after reading this post, I’d suggest to think twice before you spend hours on it. Keep in mind it’s not some kind of casual psycho-quizzes to tell your MBTI or anything. It’s one massive thing with over HALF A THOUSAND questions. Yes, you read that right. Worse then that, is if you complete it yourself, you’ll end up with a bunch of psycho-babble as a result which you’re unlikely to decipher unless you’re willing to read a whole boring pro book about it (I did). And even then you’re likely to understand it wrong.

So if you’re really curious, try asking your favorite psycho-pro about it (I’m assuming you live in a proper country where people usually have one), and maybe that won’t cost you all that much even. Though if you really feel like giving it a shot, it is online and free of charge at least on russian. If you happen to understand russian, that is. ^^’

It seems to be harder to find a free one on english. Tried to google but the only thing I could find relatively quick is this source code someone posted from google cache. Can’t say for sure whether it actually works, but if you copy-past that text it into a new html file, at very least it appears to have the test buttons in it. Anyway, careful with that.

#actuallyschizoid #szpd #quizzes #traits #Anonymous

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god-and-janjo · 7 years ago

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How to Design Your Blog

- and today I'm going to teach you an important lesson in blog customization now if you know about blog customization you're probably still going to want to watch this because I might make some interesting points you don't know about but we'll see where we're going with this because I don't exactly have a plan for this so I'm just going to improvise but this is a note no this is a video is the thing that I've noticed people don't seem to customize their blogs much and there's an important reason why they might want to and I'm going to show you so we're going to create a new blog here we're going to call it the test blog would let's do this one in Steve this woman's simple obviously dynamic uses a slightly different customization method the other ones we're gonna do this one in simple create blog now you may be asking yourself why do I want to customize my blog well it's a good question you see every blog if you want us to read your blog it's a good idea so that to make it to the blog itself looks different see this this looks just like a lot of blogs out there to give an example it looks like metaphysical fiction bio stone envelope amalgam Sakuraba but this obviously isn't that a physical fiction this is the test blog of butter I want mine to look different I want mine to look unique to stand out I want to make it my own but there's also another important reason you this is a one that you didn't really want to know look look at this now when you think of a blog you probably well other than the posts you probably notice that there's something missing from this something that for some reason bloggers decided to take out of every average blog rather every new blog Oh something you now have to put in yourself it's a follower thinking about you can't even click on follow up here let's find out I don't know what this thing is nope you can't do it so let's go to the design or whatever ever is we're doing well I'm going to show you how we do this in a simple way so first of all you can just click design but here you can click on anything really click on that you can click on this you can click on that yeah let's just click on this share this employ test blog of butter and then you go down to layout or template or settings I guess the size here in settings you can change the name of the ball you can change the scription you can add new saving buffers here's something important this is actually a point that Amy brought up and what's all of the cold again I haven't checked your blog in a while hang on something boring right was that something wrong something generic that's what it's called Sun in America she borrowed up she said take out the freaking capture things so and now here's how you take out the capture things you go down here word verification no there you go now what if you type in a comment you won't have to do a freaking capture thing now let's go do the bulk of this first of all you want to add...

See more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1MV8LU8QDw

Web Design Advice You Can Apply Today

If are not familiar with just what all website design is, you definitely are not alone in this thought. There are many individuals who either do not know what exactly web design requires or how important it is with advertising a company. Review this short article to obtain a good background concerning the topic. For multimedia presentations, make use of the brand-new HTML5 specification. Although HTML5 isn't really quite as durable for computer animation and video games as Flash, it has the advantage of working stably on smart phone internet browsers, including those included in Apple equipment. HTML5 is also a fair bit leaner compared to Flash, so load times will boost, too. Keep away from having a lot of animations on your website, although it may look rather. It will likely drive potential viewers away, although having your sales sprinkle page spin, turn as well as blink could look cool to you. When you add too many showy sprinkles like that, it makes your site look incompetent which is not the message you want to share. Prevent packing page aspects with each other. Each part of your page need to be normally divided from each different, as this makes the function of each area much more clear. The simplest method to different sections is using DIVs, yet there are different methods, including absolute positioning (not advised), the CSS margin command, and floats. Break up long content blocks. Having a big wave of content is unneeded for any type of site, specifically when you could damage it up using photos, and even separating it right into different web pages. Uninteresting your audiences will only make them leave, so keep things as easy and also fresh as possible. Check your website to see if the major translation services function appropriately when equating your site. Some websites receive numerous global site visitors, and also these visitors often make use of solutions like Google and BabelFish Mean translate the text to their language. Certain website design troubles, specifically poor server side code, can damage these solutions. Understand the background on your web site. You don't want your content to be tough to review! A disruptive background is ... well, distracting. Choose backgrounds that coordinate with your site, as opposed to clashing with it, and also your message will certainly be a lot more clear to your visitors. Have a site map. These work to your clients and also the internet search engine, as they give a comprehensive summary of your whole site. It can be a guide for customers searching for a specific component of your website, and also permit you to keep an eye on its format and framework. Discovering some basic HTML will assist you include some fascinating extras to your website. For example, you could have words that follow your arrow, or a banner that blinks crucial info. Ensure to transform the shades and fonts sometimes, so you appear a lot more involved with the internet site as well as its layout. When making your website, you should utilize cascading style sheets, or CSS. These style sheets could be put on every page on your web site, as well as will make sure that the customer encounter corresponds throughout the site. They are likewise reliable for making quick style modifications to your internet site as a result of the fact that you just should alter the design sheet as opposed to making changes on every webpage. Put together a wonderful web page concerning you or your title and organization it "Around" or "Regarding United states." A lot of web sites make use of monotonous, generic biographies. Make this location of your site much more amazing. Purpose to provide visitors a small glance of your personal background. Show how you started website design, individuals that influenced you to do this, and also just what your company objectives are. Now you have fairly a great feel for it, although to wrap it up, you were not exactly sure of the vital role that web design plays in a company's success. Preferably, this write-up will be sufficient to allow you to pass this info on as well as aid other individuals with the exact same inquiries.

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symbianosgames · 8 years ago

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Prune is a tiny mobile game about the simple pleasures of growing and cultivating trees.Of breathing life into barren soil and thriving against all odds in a hostile, indifferent world. It’s a delicate dance to remove that which does not matter in favor of that which does.

Prune is my love letter to trees.

The seed of the game (first and last tree pun, I promise!) actually started with a tweet from a friend:

The game was originally supposed to be a short two to three month project to get my feet wet as a solo indie game designer. I had a fair amount of experience as a designer on large AAA teams but had never put anything out on my own so I figured I should start as small as possible. Unfortunately, three months quickly turned into six months, and finally into a year and three months.

I, along with the help of Kyle Preston and Simon Ferrari, finally managed to get the game out onto the Apple App Store in July of 2015. For most of the game’s development I had zero clue as to how the game would be received since it was this weird procedural, interactive art thing. Prune has far exceeded any of the modest expectations I had for it. On release it garnered Apple's Editors' Choice award and more recently has been named TIME Magazine's Game of the Year for 2015 as well as Apple’s iPad Game of the Year.

I wanted to write this postmortem for a couple reasons. First, I’ve been reading postmortems for a while now, starting with classic issues of Game Developer magazine, so it feels almost like a rite of passage when you finally get to write your own (as cheesy as that sounds). But more importantly, having read so many, I know it can be tempting to not exactly give the whole truth, to sugar coat things, to TED-ify the long arduous development into Five Easy to Digest Takeaways. And as a reader, especially as a young, thirsty game designer, it can be easy to convince yourself that if you just “do these five things, and avoid these five other things” you’ll be well on your way to your very own Notch house.

Just pick the exact right platform (Ouya obviously), iterate-iterate-iterate, and find the “fun”, all the while avoiding nasty things like feature creep and you’re set!!

So with all of that in mind I’m going to try my best not to candy-coat the development of Prune. I want to try and illuminate some of the less talked-about aspects of indie game development, especially as it relates to success. Obviously game development is an incredibly messy and complex process and a single write-up is never going to paint a fully accurate picture, but hopefully it will help paint a slightly more honest one.

1. White Moves First

Privilege is something that’s really easy to take for granted and of all the postmortems I’ve read over the years I don’t ever remember seeing it mentioned. Yet, more than an original game idea, more than streamlined design, more than any other thing I feel that privilege was the key contributor to Prune’s success.

It’s impossible for me to fully acknowledge everything that was on my side, but here’s a start:

I was born male, middle-class, and white. My dad was a computer programmer and we had a computer in the house from an early age. Since I was a boy growing up in the 80s and 90s videogames were this socially accepted thing for me. Being middle-class gave me the free-time to dabble in computers from an early. It gave me the luxury of taking part in the Quake mod community and eventually led to me getting my foot in the door in the AAA game industry.

Being fortunate enough to work in the game industry gave me a huge advantage. I may not have known much of anything when I started back in 2006, but seven years later I had an Education in game design, in the game production process, in how to make an interactive experience worth having. It also allowed me to make friends and connections that proved crucial later on. I’m truly not saying any of this to boast, but to simply point out the huge amount of privilege I had on my side when I decided to quit my job and go indie in the fall of 2013.

Even upon going indie I still took so much for granted. I was incredibly lucky to have time and money to burn (more on that below). Oh, and did I mention I live in the US? Turns out being near critical developer events like GDC is a pretty big deal, not to mention that whole speaking English thing. Indie developers in other countries have a much tougher time breaking through and we in the US get this free ticket to a ton more coverage and press.

Looking at Prune’s success in a vacuum is just seeing the palm tree and cute little mound of sand peeking above the water and ignoring the mountain of privilege that built to that island. It’s ignoring the years of repeated failure I was allowed to have suspended over a safety net built and subsidized by my starting position in life.

If you’re reading this and you are in a minority or marginalized position, then you’re well aware of the uphill battle you face. Please, please don’t be discouraged by all of this. New organizations are popping up more and more lately to help address the issue. There’s Girls Who Code, Dames Making Games, and Different Games to name a few. Plus the IGDA has long advocated for inclusivity and even the ESA is trying to help. I, and I’m sure many other indies, would love to help out, so please don’t hesitate to reach out.

2. Have a Lot of Time/Money (Preferably Both)

The hopefully not-so-big secret is that becoming a “successful” indie (usually defined as financially sustainable) takes a whole lot of time. A recent Gamasutra article concludes that it tends to take two to three years to sustainability while I’ve heard some indies estimate the average to be as much as five years. And all of this is assuming that you’re even lucky enough to become sustainable at all.

The main reason it takes so long is because you need plenty of time to fail a lot. For me, first there was the last 15 or so years of stumbling my way through how to even make game experiences, then upon going indie there was six months of prototyping questionable game ideas, and finally with Prune I spent another six months lost, prototyping everything I could think of.

Having the luxury of time allowed me to eventually find the soul of the game.

Six months in, I basically had a full game, with over 60 levels (more levels than I eventually shipped with). But I wasn’t happy with it. Playtests showed the game was clinical and frustrating. After talking to some friends, I worked up the courage to essentially reboot the game.

I stripped things down to a bare minimum: just a tree, sunlight, and shadow. I also had been thinking for a while about how to make pruning more expressive. Up until now, pruning was a wholly subtractive process. Trees were these static structures that could be cut away but that was it. This was limiting and was one of the reasons I had to rely on a bunch of other mechanics to bolster the game.

Instead, what if I made pruning both a subtractive and additive process? By imbuing the tree with a sense of “conserved growth potential,” I could get a much wider, more dynamic range of expression from the tree.

Old vs New

Of course, this wasn’t as easy as flipping a switch in code. I had to completely rewrite how the trees grew in the game, and it took me several tries over a couple months’ time to get it right. But it finally felt like I had found Prune’s soul. If I had had tighter constraints on my time, the game likely would not have found nearly the success that it did.

I’m extremely fortunate to have had all of this time and runway to experiment. Growing up middle-class put me at an advantage from the start. Add to this living in the Midwest, being lucky enough to not have any student loans, and being a generally frugal person. Combine all this with the money from my AAA job and it meant that I had way more time than I deserved to get the necessary failures out of the way and have a chance at success.

3. Don’t Listen to Advice (Including Mine)

The indie scene is in no shortage of handing out advice, that’s for sure. There’s plenty of advice on which platform to bring your game to, how best to market your game, how to monetize it, etc. Of course, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with advice, as long as you temper it appropriately and realize that it might be tied to a specific time and/or place. Videogames as an art form is moving so fast that the sage advice you hear at the beginning of developing your game may be completely null and void a year or two later when you finish.

The first piece of advice I heard upon going indie back in late 2013 was, whatever you do, don’t go mobile! Mobile is an unhealthy marketplace, a hopeless wasteland where your game will go to die. The PC/Steam was where any smart indie should bring their game. Make a good game on PC and you’re pretty much guaranteed success, is what they said.

So I actually listened to this advice and probably would have followed through with it were it not for stumbling upon Prune. Of course, now it’s 2016 and the so-called indiepocalypse is a thing and PC is not at all the safe bet it once was. Here’s the funny thing about advice—if you’re hearing it then EVERYBODY ELSE is also listening to this advice. Any proclamation that doing X is a guarantee for success is a lie and is going to be this incredibly fragile thing.

Another commandment I failed to follow was if you go mobile then you HAVE to go free-to-play. Premium mobile games are dead! It may be true that going F2P can increase your revenue by 10X or whatever, but F2P certainly wasn’t right for me (I can’t stand it) and I wasn’t necessarily interested in maximizing the game’s revenue. It also turns out that there are a lot of mobile players who are thirsty for quality experiences and are willing to pay a fair price for that. My point isn’t that F2P sucks and you should definitely go “premium”, but that you should listen to your heart. Do what’s right for you.

4. Finding a Creneau

Now that I’ve finished telling you to never listen to any advice I’m going to dispense some advice! First, some background: I’m the type of person who always wants new experiences, new and different ways to do things. This can sometimes drive my wife crazy when I refuse to watch a good movie again if I’ve seen it in the last ten years or so. But it turns out this is a pretty useful trait to have when you’re an indie since you’re naturally drawn to want to try things that nobody has done before.

As it also turns out, there have been entire business and marketing books written on the subject. Crazy, huh? I would have never sought one of these out on my own but, upon going indie, a friend suggested I read the book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, and it did a great job of explaining what was already deep inside me. It’s not a revolutionary concept but it explained how to find a creneau. That’s fancy French for a hole, or pivot, in which to get a foothold to position yourself with respect to the competition. If that sounds too business-y, think of it more as what makes your game special? What’s the one thing you’ll focus on that is going to make it stand out against all the others?

This was exactly my approach with Prune. The App Store is crowded with cutesy match-3s, zombie tower defense games, and infinite runners so why do anything remotely close to any of these when I could instead go the complete opposite direction? One of the clearest ways to see this is in the art direction for the game. Rather than finding an artist and commissioning elaborate, hand-drawn or 3D modeled assets I chose to embrace my limitations and make something procedural that didn’t look quite like anything else I was seeing on mobile.

5. Have a Lot of Luck

This postmortem wouldn’t feel complete without mentioning the L word: luck. Luck tends to be a big part of any success and it’s not something I want to discount. I’ve already mentioned a few things but just to drill home the point here is a non-comprehensive list of times when luck was on my side:

Lucky that I even saw my friend’s tweet to begin with

Lucky that I had time and money to burn, finding the game’s soul

Lucky that I happened to have an iPad to test on (I don’t own a smartphone)

Lucky that I had a family to support me while working from home (to keep me sane)

Lucky that I met Kyle Preston and that he was able to contribute his amazing talents to score the music in the game

Lucky that well-respected, successful indies would take the time to help me find the game’s soul and build up my confidence

Lucky, when black smoke started billowing out of my computer, that it was only my spare hard drive

Lucky that I was introduced to Apple contacts from a friend

Lucky that Apple happened to love this particular game

Lucky that I didn’t go up against Angry Birds 2 which released the following week

Et cetera, et cetera

And who knows how much luck I’m not even accounting for! Please don’t take this as me saying “hey guys and gals, just be lucky like meee!” Again, it comes from a place of trying to be sincere.

There are, of course, ways to increase your chances of being “lucky.” The usual advice is to open yourself up more, to try and make more connections with people. I pushed myself to do this. I went to local events. I shared the game with people. I kept a devlog. One example of how it paid off was that I got to meet Kyle, my eventual composer, through TIGSource where I had posted my devlog.

But luck is also a messy, tangled web of systems that are ultimately out of our control. To me it seems wise to acknowledge that luck exists and do our best to influence it. But at the end of the day, we also need to remember that luck, of the out-of-our-control variety, is still a considerable factor for any success or failure.

1. Getting Lost in the Wilderness

The initial prototype for the game was finished in only a couple evenings. It was clear this would be a game with procedural trees growing in real time and the player’s main verb would be cutting branches away. Oh, and remember: it would be finished in a couple months!

My next step was to explore the design space. I had heard repeatedly over the years from wise, successful indies that the key to a great game is to fully explore the design space around your game idea. I’d heard it described as this vast undiscovered wilderness. Some game idea design spaces will prove to be rich and fertile with gold nuggets lying everywhere, while others would be barren wastelands.

The problem is that I misinterpreted this advice to mean I should just start prototyping anything and everything related to the broad topic of trees. I didn’t know what my design space really was, I had no focus.

My initial focus (basically everything)

I spent the next six months prototyping all kinds of things--shield power-ups, infinite fractal trees, tree planets, weird inverted trees, and countless game modes like 2-player coop, FRENZY!, and endless modes.

This all had a time cost and a mental cost. I started to become overwhelmed with the possibility space, lost in the wilderness. In retrospect I should have focused in on the heart and soul of the game. Pruning as player expression was the most interesting part of the game and I should have been searching in that much more constrained space from the beginning.

Where I *should* have focused

2. Worry About Every Little Thing

I don’t want to belabor this point since others have talked about it at length, but I definitely have a bit of a perfectionist streak running through me. This is a common trait with game developers and can often be good for ensuring things that really matter to the project are just right. But when the things you’re fretting over don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things you just end up wasting a lot of time.

I would waste hours of my time tweaking the look of a soon-to-be-cut mechanic, days of my time picking the exact right font, and weeks or months of my time deliberating over decisions such as how to represent the score in game.

Even up until the end of the project I maintained a hotlist of must-do items before shipping the game. These were “super important” things like ensuring certain branches in certain levels didn’t look too thin when curving a particular way, or certain pipes at the end of the game not having proper collision. Well guess what? I shipped the game having never addressed a huge chunk of these “critical” issues and even now, half a year after release and I *still* haven’t managed to get to them and nobody has noticed! The point is, our time as developers is incredibly precious, it’s limited. I should have asked myself more often than I did, what’s most important and what will nobody ever care about?

3. Be Really Bad at Scheduling

If there was an award for being the worst at scheduling I’m pretty sure it would have my name on it. Remember how I mentioned that my initial goal was to finish and release the entire game in two to three months? That’s a bit of a lie. In actuality I was hoping to “game jam” it and have it out in a month. But I’d heard enough times that you should double or triple your initial estimate so that’s why I picked two to three months. It’s hard to explain just how bad I was at accurately forecasting how long things would take me and actually sticking to a schedule.

Here’s how it would generally go down. I would first make a crude schedule, not based on anything reasonable or sane but based on what I delusionally wanted to get done. I would give myself a fraction of the time actually needed to accomplish the remaining tasks. And then I would let this schedule sit in a dark corner of my hard drive for a while and get to working on stuff. Then one day I’d happen to unearth the schedule and look at the calendar and realize it was now 45 days later and I hadn’t even finished half the tasks on my list.

I did this over and over again during the development of Prune, partly because I didn’t know what game I was making and partly because I had completely unrealistic expectations. After a while it started to become a boy-who-cried-wolf situation where I felt like I couldn’t even trust myself at all any more. The only thing that saved me was finally realizing that I could use external deadlines, such as awards submissions, to force myself to focus and make hard decisions.

4. Struggling to See the Light

Searching for my game’s soul, spending too much time on dumb things, and constantly being over schedule all led to some really low, discouraging times for me. I constantly questioned whether this was the right project to be working on or whether I was just wasting my time. I considered just cutting my losses and releasing the game as-is several times since I figured the game would probably never make back the little bit of money I put into it. I questioned whether I was even cut out to be “indie,” to work on my own game.

Even though going solo was the right decision and is how I work best, toiling away alone for over a year was hard on my emotional well-being. It may not sound like a lot, especially when some indies endure three or more years of this, but for me it felt like an eternity at times. I’m fortunate that I had my wife and two boys to keep me in balance—I at least had an escape at the end of each day, somebody to talk to.

I went on a lot of walks during dev. Often it would let me distance myself from a problem just enough to let me think clearly about it. But at the lowest points I walked to distance myself from the game, to distance myself from my self.

Of course, all of this that I’m describing develops into this vicious downward spiral wherein you get discouraged and stop doing any productive work on the game, which in turn discourages you further, causing you to lose more calendar time, ad infinitum.

This is something that isn’t talked about as much as it should be in the indie scene. So often we only pay attention to results. Was the game a hit? Was it successful? Did it pay off the dev costs? We sweep under the rug the process, the struggle, the emotional drain. In the future I need to focus more on my creative process and direct more of my attention to my mental health before it gets too late.

Even though I struggled and made a whole lot of mistakes, I’m still really proud of Prune. My goals for going indie were to live modestly, work on new and interesting games, and make just enough money to get by. As my first project, Prune has done all of this and more.

One of the best parts about the experience has been the player reception. I didn’t make the game for gamers—there’s plenty of options out there for them—but for anyone. My heart has been warmed over and over again upon receiving touching emails from old ladies who have never played a video game in their life. I’m humbled that my tiny game has resonated with so many people and am incredibly grateful that I’ll be able to continue on this journey going forward.

#IFTTT #Blogger

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symbianosgames · 8 years ago

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Prune is my love letter to trees.

The seed of the game (first and last tree pun, I promise!) actually started with a tweet from a friend:

Just pick the exact right platform (Ouya obviously), iterate-iterate-iterate, and find the “fun”, all the while avoiding nasty things like feature creep and you’re set!!

1. White Moves First

It’s impossible for me to fully acknowledge everything that was on my side, but here’s a start:

2. Have a Lot of Time/Money (Preferably Both)

Having the luxury of time allowed me to eventually find the soul of the game.

Old vs New

3. Don’t Listen to Advice (Including Mine)

4. Finding a Creneau

5. Have a Lot of Luck

Lucky that I even saw my friend’s tweet to begin with

Lucky that I had time and money to burn, finding the game’s soul

Lucky that I happened to have an iPad to test on (I don’t own a smartphone)

Lucky that I had a family to support me while working from home (to keep me sane)

Lucky that I met Kyle Preston and that he was able to contribute his amazing talents to score the music in the game

Lucky that well-respected, successful indies would take the time to help me find the game’s soul and build up my confidence

Lucky, when black smoke started billowing out of my computer, that it was only my spare hard drive

Lucky that I was introduced to Apple contacts from a friend

Lucky that Apple happened to love this particular game

Lucky that I didn’t go up against Angry Birds 2 which released the following week

Et cetera, et cetera

1. Getting Lost in the Wilderness

My initial focus (basically everything)

Where I *should* have focused

2. Worry About Every Little Thing

3. Be Really Bad at Scheduling

4. Struggling to See the Light

#IFTTT #Blogger

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