#i played minecraft and terraria a lot back in high school and if i know any latin its from thaumcraft 4

[kaiserouo]

wow its december i have that steam thing again

welp that follows my most frequent drawn games in my pinned post. the order is completely reversed tho lol

september: *stuck in wf* october: oooh fl4k and commando november: *stuck in wf*

[magitekmammet]

15 QUESTIONS + 15 MUTUALS

Are you named after anyone?

I am not! At least not that I know of.

Last time you cried?

I recently finished watching Adventure Time with my partner for liek the fifth time and I cried like four times on the last episode. I hate to admit it so openly but I cry a lot. Not seriously too much though. Hear a good song. See a good movie? Yeah, I’m crying. 

Do you have any kids?

Lol, no. I am a little kid in a little kid body that is actually an adult that should NOT have kids.

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

NO. ...Yes. ♥

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Their sense of humor! Humor is everything to me. If you can make me laugh (not hard) we are friends.

What’s your eye color?

Light brown! I have a freckle on on of them that makes it look like the color is ‘bleeding’ into the white.

Scary movie or happy ending?

Definitely happy ending! I’m a big fan of fluff, but spooky stuff is nice too now and again.

Any special talents?

Eh... Maybe? I can in fact drawn, though I don’t do so often, and specialize in architecture and building design. I wouldn’t call it a talent but I have dyslexia as well which helps me with math often and makes crossword puzzles like the easiest thing ever. i used to make music when i was in high school as a hobby and i think that’s about it!

Where were you born?

Rockwall, TX.

Hobbies?

Music of almost any kind, though I prefer classical/soundtracks (I binge through all the XIV soundtracks weekly and cry cause its perfect), videogames, especially sandbox games (FFXIV, RUST, Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, Lego Worlds), and sinking all my spare game time taking screenshots/RPing when not binging Eureka like a sugar drug (despite a lot of popular opinion I in fact LOVE Eureka and always will).

Do you have any pets?

I have a cat named Leona.

What sports have you played?

People will argue it but Chess is a sport and I used to be in it, and very good at it. I went to state my first year but it never went further than that.

How tall are you?

5′5, and shrinking! I have a back problem.

Favorite subjects in school?

Psychology, Chemistry, and most certainly Math and Geometry.

Dream job?

I think I’d like to be able to do home design, of something with architecture and building. Something scenic that helps things look pretty and bring out their look!

Thanks for the tag @yululu-and-co 💛 Sorry it took so long to answer!

Tagging: Idk who to tag cause this this is like a week old but if you SEE THIS and DO IT please TAG ME so I can be nosy and look at it :D

[ndragoon]

It's difficult to be some stoic, emotionless statue when you talk about something that left you with a huge void of a wound in your life.

I was playing games with my buddy as we usually do at the end of the day, and he started talking about my ex, who was also a mutual friend of ours for a long while, and used to be as close as family with him.

And it's difficult, trying to act like it's nothing and you're past that and trying to keep some kind of situation defused that you know isn't for their sake.

He was a friend that I got in trouble for in the tail end of high school. We got caught playing games instead of actually working on our classwork a few times, but it was fun regardless. We stopped talking consistently for a few years, but got back in touch during college and talked daily after that.

I'm not talking about just a few things here and there. I mean, we talked so much that my father had to change our cell plan because we managed to pass our limit by HUNDREDS of texts. And this didn't count the times we'd be talking over Skype or Kik, which we'd be doing every day alongside the texts.

We'd have a whole repertoire of games we'd play. For a few months we had a small group who all played on a Minecraft server I set up and modded for all of us (that I still have what seems like almost a decade later). When that group scattered, we started playing Dawn of War and just having fun with building stuff and uncovering the map, because I knew how to exploit the AI into never actually doing anything - even though we sometimes left the AI on in a 2 v 1 scenario.

This next month is going to be difficult because one of the games we played a lot over a lot of years and accrued a lot of hours is Terraria. Every update, we'd make a new world and new characters and make a new base and go through everything to see what all jew stuff was added. And it stung, because the final update finally hit last March, because they hurried the PC patch so people could play during the pandemic. And it's finally hitting console in either July or August, so now I'm going to be departing on the Journeys End all by myself, despite having a companion for the first decade of our trip. With how everything has gone these past few years, it almost feels...fitting.

It was a good 9 years that we talked literally daily. Every morning started with a good morning message, and every night was a goodnight. And despite realizing how much of it ended up being gaslighting and all kinds of subtle abuse, I still look back on so much of it fondly.

It's just not easy to have someone who you adored and loved so deeply for so long just leave because you were no longer useful to them. Because you were no longer a convenience after they finally took every away from you that they could and you had nothing else to give but blood and tears.

I'm not even talking from an ex lover standpoint. He never even actually acted like a boyfriend the whole time we "officially" dated. For a while, it was clear that I was just a placeholder for someone else in his life that he actually wanted around. I had become a pest that he felt resentful of being forced to keep around.

But he was still the only friend I had that was that close, that I let in so much. He was more than just some best friend because he had become my Favorite Person. He was around for more than a third of my life, even three or four years after everything. You don't have someone that close for that long that takes everything from you and utterly destroys you before just walking away as if none of it ever actually meant anything and walk away unscathed.

There is still so much that we used to do together for so long that I still can't even literally simply think about doing without feeling like I'm breaking. Sometimes, I want to force myself to just push through it...but I can't. I can't even look at the games in my library without feeling the extreme distress, without every emotional and mental detail of the whole ordeal rushing through my head in some kind of godforsaken speedrun, without feeling every single ounce of pain and every single good moment with the realization that I'll never find someone like that again, every single time.

I'm sorry for the huge thing yet again. Anyone who reads this probably knows the story from memory by now. But it's one of those times where all my problems are making me feel awful, and people keep dredging stuff up that makes me feel worse, and then stuff like this gets dredged up and amplifies not only itself, but everything else as well.

[torithehoshi]

Another year, another summary to get done. And I have to say.... I'm not completely sure what sort of things I've managed to achieve. I guess for one thing, I've managed to grow out of using just single colour backgrounds and played more with the different tools on my art program being FireAlpaca. And I'm really getting used to how I've been colouring in eyes. Like, I honestly really like how I've been doing with them. Much more fun compared to just having them outline with black like everything else. And even then, I thought it was nice to try and do weekly doodles even though I stopped in August simply because I didn't draw a lot to be able to post more. Okay you know what, I can see it. Small changes that are still important to improving my art overall and understanding FireAlpaca better. Now overall for 2017... Okay well. 2016 felt saved to me because personally, it wasn't the worst thing ever. There were some good things with me in terms of having a good summer. Although with 2017, it has a similar case with everything is tiring and looks terrible and personally it was... all over the place. The first six months don't feel real to me. Sure, there are good things I remember like Hardcore having a great time with Minecraft 5 finishing and Terraria 3. Also, I made some great new internet friends with being able to get Discord to work so that was dandy! Although starting from July due to... an almost incident (which probably shouldn't have affected as much as it did), I had to deal with a lot of thoughts and trying to motivate myself more to do art. And while I managed, those thoughts really came to a head in August and September. Afterwards, it just felt like everything was falling apart but I can't say I didn't learn more things about myself. For one thing, I can't take too many political things all at once. A constant stream of it hasn't been great for me and my mental health I find. If I do decide to invest more into them, I have to do it slowly and try to understand things better (even if it doesn't sway my political stances). Although I'm definitely more aware to things than I have ever been compared to any other year. And going back to my art, I've had to slowly accept that I have too many high expectations for myself especially how much busier school has been (although adding to another good thing, my fall semester of this year has been great despite the difficulties). I need to take things slowly and have one main idea that I want to finish in the month. If I make any other things, those are added bonuses but I should focus more on those things. And I might be able to do better with the coming year?? We'll have to see. Still, I'm being a bit careful with 2018 to see what's coming up. I had high hopes for 2017 but it squandered it. So let's take this carefully and slowly but still look at 2018 with some optimism. Because some optimism is better than none at all.

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[arielhrycykunit7]

Owen: Pixel  Art Documentary

What is the appeal of pixel art, why do you think it is a style still used today?

The appeal of pixel art, many people like old games and in most of the games you can see pixels everywhere, people are playing those types of games because they are charming and they have old school appeal. The style is colourful and simple in it’s own way.

Why does Mario supposedly have a mustache and hat?

The mustache was added and worn by Mario because in that time when they created Mario this was used to help them create a nose/face. His hat was added to Mario because in that time they couldn’t show his hair bouncing when he is moving, it was easier to add a hat which is not moving and gives them less work to do.

Find 3 pieces of pixel art that inspired you, what is it about this are that you like: the Colour design, meaning behind the art, character design.

1:Pokemon

 I mean the game Pokemon Fire and Red this game I was playing in childhood even knowing that this game is old doesn’t matter because I could still playing it and I think I will enjoy that much as I played first time from the bird’s eye view position.

2:Terraria

The think what I like the most about this game is that is 2D and I can see everything from the side, this game has lot’s of bosses and different biomes and it’s still updated with new features and equipment. This game has something that moves me to play more and more. In this game I love using my imagination to build my bases (houses) and traps for monsters.

3:Minecraft

This game is updated not too much as Terraria but if the update is comming more people will know about it and will come to play more. Because if you finish playing once and you know everything about the game, then you think about waiting for new update. 

3 pixel arts!!!

Pokemon (My own design)

Bee (My own design)

Robot (My own design)

How did you make your Pixel art what tools and techniques did you use?

Pokemon: To make my own pokemon I have used different colours to make him more unique than other pokemons. To create shape of his face I had to change size of a pencil tool to: 12. Pencil tool is for drawing things (Especially work cool when page size a 64x64) number size 1 is seeable on this size. Helpfull tool to do work in high quality details + zoom tool.

Bee: I have used the same techniques on Bee as well on Robot and Pokemon only they look different and present different things. My favourite pixel art what I have create is a Bee because is giving me back flashes of being in Poland in my home town Myszków. On Bee I spend the most time especially of my lesson.

Robot: I’m not happy of Robot what I have create, its not looking the same as a robot by comparing the to each other. But at least I didn’t copy from internet my ideas but create them from my head. When I zoom out my robot it was looking like an (ant).

What were the design decisions behind your designs?

I was thinking about the work how could it look like and then I have think about my favourite series from childhood Pokemon. To create all designs, my point was to reflect the Pokemon series. All designs are pokemons.

What would you want to improve on in future with this technique?

I want to do even bigger Pixel Art than those what I have already create and more details added, probably It will be as well Pokemon. More bright colours will be added in future to my projects. I hope so!!!

[ndragoon]

As a back story (don't know how long this is gonna be, so bear with me or just scroll on) I met this guy in vo-tech in 11th grade back in high school. I walked into the back room where I was fixing up a lot of pc's so we could use them. This was before they gave our class the funding to just overhaul everything.

He turned out to be really good at it and we flew through everything, fixing all of them so fast. One day, we were talking and just so happened to stumble upon Monster Hunter, and that's when we really clicked. He invited me to his lunch table to I could join him and his buddy on hunts during lunch. Some days we'd skip eating just to get more hunts in.

Unfortunately, at the end of the year, we didn't stay in constant touch. Occasionally, we'd jump on our 360s and play some Lost Planet 2 since that's all we really had to do at the time. It was a month or two between sessions before he just disappeared for another year or two.

The next thing I knew, he put up a Facebook post about coming out to everyone, and that was what started the beginning of the end. We finally got back in touch and he said how the guy he was seeing was into Minecraft so I used my then-good pc as a server to host everyone's games. We played Minecraft, Terraria, you name it. We built and explored so much and we had things set up that we had our own little multiverse. Things were great.

At least untik they split up. We didnt know it now, but the guy was cheating on my friend. But they decided to split up and stay friends since the distance was getting to them. Both og them quickly became busy, but I stayed on, hoping they'd join the server if I played. But days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and the guy wasn't interested anymore while my friend went off to do other things.

We kept in touch, though. Eventually we started talking so much that my father had to change our cell plan just to keep up. Things were going great, until I professed my love for him because it happened somewhere along the line and he refused me. I still loved him, but he clearly wasn't interested. We just played more games that we had and left it at that.

Months pass...maybe a year or two or three? And he tears his (first) ACL. He was bedridden and was lined up for surgery, and we were doing our usual thing when he asked me to ask him again "because maybe the answer won't be the same as usual this time". So I asked him, he said yes, and that started a good few months stretch. As soon as he was able to get up again, he told me he wasn't interested anymore and wanted to go back to being friends. So we did, and we kept doing things business as usual.

Que this guy. He asked to let some friends join our Terraria server. There were two of them, A and B. A didn't stick around long, he already went through the game and had everything. B stuck around and they kept talking and talking and as soon as A left B (I found out later they were dating), B latched into my friend and asked him out and my friend said yes.

B became totally intolerable. Every chance he got, he had to exert his sexual dominance on my friend and make sure there was no ambiguity about them dating. They spared no effort to make sure I knew I was a third wheel and this is where I started to really dislike this guy. That dislike turned into hatred as my friend told me about their discussions and how pushy B was. How everything had to center around him. My friend wanted to do something but B didn't? They didn't even think of it again. B wanted to do something but my friend didn't? Oh well, he had to deal with it and do it anyway.

It was a good year that they were together before my friend left to move in with him. He never told me he was leaving at that time, and I only found out because his mom talked about it in the background. When I got mad, he told me that he just forgot and I have no right to be mad that he was leaving two months earlier than I had previously known.

It stung, but at least we were able to still do our nightly gaming sessions and hang out virtually even if we couldn't hang out IRL. It was another few months that he was out there that he decided to come back since things all of a sudden ran their course (I had mentioned this guy never really loved him and only wanted him as a sex toy. I still stick with that to this day, even though he got mad at me and told me I had to stop when I said it).

When he got back, both of his parents refused to elt him stay there, so he was brought in by a buddy of ours, 2ndB, who is important to the story and I'll be talking about later. He was only 20 minutes away so we started hanging out almost daily. 2ndB and we started doing more and that's when they got me into Destiny. After I left for the night, we'd jump on and do more and we played almost every day for months. When it wasn't Destiny, it was Diablo. We all had so much fun, and it was a great time of my life. I finally felt like I belonged somewhere.

One day, 2nd B was getting ready to move and when we were packing stuff up, he joked about how me and my friend got along so well that we should just date each other already. Now, nobody knew about the first time because my friend wanted to keep it a tight secret that no ody knew about, and it was already a common thought in our extended friend group for us to date, so I asked and we did. Again.

Things seemed to be going well. I was buying him whatever food and other stuff he wanted and he was happy, he asked me to come over daily and I was glad to despite the drain in gas. We kept doing things as always, but at 2ndB's new place and things were still good. It became so reliable that I just kept my pc there instead of lugging it back and forth each day.

Things were going well, until he just one day told me he's moving back into his mom's over an hour away. He told me I wasn't allowed to be upset because it was annoying, even though his mom made it very clear she only wanted him back to bleed him of all his money, but he went anyway. This is where thighs started to go downhill. Shortly before he moved back, a...buddy of his moved to the state and he started to become distant to me. We'd still talk, but just much less despite him being online and despite me sending messages.

So he finally left, and we still hung out once a week despite the massive drain on gas. I started spending entire weeks there just because and head back to my place for another week or two before going back up. Eventually, my mom started arguing with me and told me to never come back until I apologize for standing up for myself and I decided to stay there because his mom said I could. That's what started the year of us living together.

I couldn't really work any of the jobs around there and I wanted to get checked by a doctor before I even tried, but when I had a neurologist appointment, he decided he just didn't want to drive me so he could play more games, so I didn't go and lost my insurance the next week so I couldn't try again.

I was asked to do the chores, so I did stuff like dishes, cooking, mowing, trimming, and some shopping to make up for the no job so everyone else could have free time outside of work and things were working well. One day, while I was picking up my friend from work, some woman got distracted by eggs on her passenger seat and floored it into my bumper, I lost my car and was stranded.

One day, he came home and told me they desperately needed someone to hire as a dishwasher and I decided to jump on it. After all, I could replace my pc and pay for his part of the bills if I had an income, right?

Well, it turned out to be the worst thing ever. I was perpetually overwhelmed and the 13 hour days felt like 24. When I first started, my friend just said "okay, get to it" instead of teaching me anything so I was expected to keep up with a rush while not knowing anything. I was burning my hands on the hot dishes and needed to get out but pushed myself because I loved him. The third day I had enough and asked him if I could quit and go back to what I was doing before and he asked me to keep going through at least the weekend before I quit since it was going to be a bad time and later asked me to keep trying anyway. Being the loving boyfriend I was, I told him I promised I'd keep going to help him regardless of what it's doing to me.

I had a terrible sleep schedule where I'd wake up to take him to work, come home and try to sleep a few more hours before I went to work myself. However, when it was almost time to go in for my fourth day, I got a call saying they are sorry to know I quit and for me to get my paycheck of what I did earn.

Confused, I did just that and went back. My friend had me act around his mom as if I quit of my own accord, and she got mad at me but just made me do more chores.

Some time later, my friend asked me about hanging out with his buddy. I suggested a temporary hiatus because I KNEW what this visit was for, and I figured if I did that, he'd like me more. I knew that if I didn't give him a hiatus, he'd be hiding it and acting like it never happened. But he refused. He said it would be wrong to sleep with someone else when he was already "devoted" to someone else.

But then the day came and he still refused it. He was gone for a few hours, his phone off. But when he came back, he said he took me up on my "offer". He told me every detail of what they did and in the next week, I had to sit through video after video his buddy took of them banging because he couldn't bother tilting his phone.

So about two months after that I sent him a message "do you think we could try that?" and he said he'd think about it. Every time I asked it was a "maybe" or "I'll think about it". It was never a yes or a flat out no, which would have stopped it entirely.

If I brought it up, even as just a topic, he'd tell me it's the worst thing two people can do. He said he wasn't interested in such things. But if I brought up his buddy, he'd stop just short of getting violent. He'd be that angry. Even 2ndB told me how friend would be so incredibly angry even when he'd ask about the guy.

So another few months pass by and he just becomes so distant we barely even talk side to side. He still got mad at me for doing my own thing and not just watching him like I used to. He got mad at me if I talked to other people on my phone instead of doing what he wanted to do. When my grandfather passed away, he outright told me that my crying over my grandfather was annoying and inconvenient and I needed to stop.

And eventually, things gave away. He told me he wanted me packed so I can be gone shortly after he gets home from work. He told me he was miserable because I wasn't suffering as much as he was. He told me that even if I got an alternate income, it wasn't about the money. He felt this job was so bad that he wanted me to suffer as much as he was because it wasn't fair.

So I was sent back home and we kept doing some stuff online, but it became spotty. Whenever I tried a demo and got him hooked, he'd act like he was getting it so we could both play, but then go around and get a disk so that only he could play and he would tell me all about it. When I told him I was hungry because we couldn't afford food, he'd tell me every single detail of every single thing he'd be eating every time we were talking together, even if we had a full party.

When the newest Destiny 2 DLC got released (curse of Osiris), he didn't tell me anything, so I decided to start it up and prepare. The next thing I knew, he was on and playing it anyway. I sent a few messages talking about it and he was just silent. I started to get increasingly angry because he was ignoring me and refusing to reply despite seeing my messages. Eventually, he told me he didn't reply because he "knew I was mad the whole time" and how he "didn't want to deal with that". That's the point that everything turned into arguments. He refused to do anything with me and if I dared ask, he'd chew me out for "forcing him to do stuff when he just wanted to do his own thing". He even told me some friend of his wanted some help in warframe and asked me to assist. I gladly did. Of course, I found out later, this was a guy he was secretly dating and he tricked me into helping him because he knew I wouldn't have if I knew who the guy was. When I started doing stuff with 2ndB in his place, he started to get mad and started acting like we must be sleeping together or something since we do stuff regularly without him. Of course, it wasn't for alck of trying. He'd always tell us how the game we were playing was boring or how he was tired of it and refuse to join. wouldn't stop him from acting like we were intentionally excluding him, though.

And then he told me he didn't want to talk anymore, removed me from all his accounts, and told me to never contact him again for any reason. And so things turned into a great friend tug of war. He spread lies about me, I showed them the messages he sent to clear things up. I explained things I kept secret all that time, like how I practically begged to run down to hang out with our friends, but he refused. Yet, he'd run all the way down to bang his buddy. This didn't sit well with some people and they started to really dislike him. Others were worn down from his selfish attitude and how he treated everyone else. Or how he'd make a huge fuss about certain things (like Diablo, Destiny, or ESPECIALLY Borderlands 2).

And recently, thanks to the pending Borderlands 3 release, a mutual friend, AG, has been telling me that my friend wasnt as bad as I made him seem and is now trying to drag 2ndB back into dealing with him again by telling him that I left out half the story and he'd be more understanding if he heard friends side of the whole thing. So even though we haven't talked for a whole year or so, he's still trying to rabidly ruin whatever he can of mine after taking everything he could of mine, whether it's games, belongings, or money.

And jokes on AG, 2ndB has his own reasons to not deal with friend anymore because of how he was treated as well, even if it started out of principle of how friend treated me in some regards.

So here I sit, mere days after finding out that AG is trying to recruit for the abusive gaslighter that I managed to get away from. Besides some kidding around, I've left things as they are and letting people make their own decisions. Yet he decided to come back into my life and just randomly start taking away even more because he wasn't content with what he already took. Still trying to make me into the bad person despite everything.

And I needed to get this out because I'm riding high anxiety and high depression while wondering if he really did get to my last few friends since I haven't heard anything for a while. I'm just trying to excuse it as being busy, but my mind wants to keep making those links and saying the worst has happened.

It makes me sad to think about how things are and how they used to be.

Even now when a new game gets announced, I get all excited because "oh my god, we can play together!" But then I realize...

There is nobody to play with, not anymore. The one person in my life who wanted to play all the same things as me turned into an incredibly abusive gaslighter who decided I wasn't worth it anymore and walked out of my life.

But yet...even now, more than a year later, i still get all excited before that sudden crash of "WHY do I need it, I don't have anyone anymore", and the great announcement of something I was looking forward to turns into more depression fuel.