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Thought I should leave my thoughts about my first year doing Art Fight here.
With this being my first year doing Art Fight, I went in with very tempered expectations. I didn't expect revenges, I didn't even expect anyone I didn't already know to draw my characters While the first happened (which again, not upset by, I understand) I'm happy the second happened at least. I got some burn-out half-way into the month. I definitely wanted to draw some more characters but that just how it be sometimes. I had fun. I'd probably do it next year. I need to make more little reference images. Sad the one character I really wanted art of didn't get any though lmao. Oh well xP
I'm proud of all of the pieces I created this year. I like to think I had some very creative ideas and executed them to a degree I'm happy with. It was really fun just looking at random user's profiles and finding characters I really liked the designs of. I can only hope any piece I did was enough to put a smile on the faces of the creators of these characters. That's all I need. Even if some of them were goofy pictures I made for the sole purpose of making people laugh. I tried to make sure everyone who attacked me got some piece of art in return. It's the least I could do for anyone taking the time to draw my silly characters. if I felt like an image was too simple, I tried anything to spice it up even just a bit. I never drew for points. It's nice to be rewarded for your effort but this was all about having fun and drawing. Sometime I haven't done in a while I gotta admit.
It was a grand ol' time. I went in with some worries about my abilities being subpar but this experience has shown that even it doesn't matter. As long as you have fun, that's what counts... and I did! I had tons of fun!
Thank you Art Fight! Team Crystals 2025 :p
I'm not much of an artist I must admit. I only really draw for fun but lately I've been having a lot of fun drawing so I decided to join this year's Art Fight! I know this blog entry is coming in a bit late given Art Fight goes throughout the entire month of July. I had to make sure I actually still felt motivated after starting. This is a common issue for me. It seems to be going good for far. I've already done six attacks and I still have a few more planned. Most of my attacks are on random users who's characters I found interesting.
Any attacks on my characters is for sure going to get a revenge! (Even if your characters are complex, I'll try my hardest!) So I do encourage anyone who is also fighting this year to check out my profile. The link will be my profile card. I absolutely love looking at and learning about other people's OCs so this has been a great time for me. I can only hope people think the same about my funky little animal people.
Aside from Art Fight, my brithday was a few days ago on the 5th. It's been a bit of a weird time. Recently turned 30. Time is fake so I don't magically feel different but it's still a weird time. Not gonna lie, when I was younger I thought I'd be dead by now. It's strange, but like in a good way. I don't exactly know what I'm doing in life but that's the fun part I guess. Gotta keep living, no matter what. I can't let myself fall back into how I was a decade ago. I want to live and I can't forget that.
Thought it'd be fun to just a blog post about what I've been playing recently and my thought on them. I've mainly been replaying games I haven't played in a long time.
Starting with Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak for the GBA. I've always been worried about replaying this game. I thought that maybe the slower paced gameplay may clash with my current taste in games. Luckily I still really enjoyed it! There are some puzzles I forgot completely, and I did get stuck a couple of times. Some of the puzzles are very "adventure game" if you know what I mean. I've been into "RetroAchievements" and I ended up 100%'ing the game. Would genuinely recommend it to anyone who enjoys cozy little adventure games.
Next up was Sonic Battle. I've been on a bit of a GBA kick and I had to revisit one of my favorite Sonic games. Sonic Battle is one of those games that has invaded my mind palace ever since I played it all those years ago. I made my through it and let me tell you, a 20 year difference in a person matters a lot. I remember this being a much harder game when I was younger. It was still a great time. Just, even with its flaws I can't hate this game. The style, the presentation, the vibe. It's all so good. I love how it's like this mix of Adventure 1 and 2 in terms of characters. Once again I ended up 100%'ing it via RetroAchievements and it was pretty painless. One achievement was kinda grindy but nothing too bad. If you've never played it. Give it a shot.
Lastly I replayed classic Doom and Doom 2, albiet via a multiworld randomizer. I'm kind of shocked just how much I forgot about Doom 2. It felt like a new game with how little I remembered of it. Doom is always a fun time, even if Icon of Sin is such a garbage boss fight. I probably don't have to tell you, but if you haven't played them, then you really should if you enjoy fast first person shooters. These replays got me in a real Doom mooD and I looked for some total conversion mods and found a really cool one. I really love Splatterhouse so imagine my excitement when I saw a Splatterhouse TC! I haven't played far but it's been pretty fun so far. If you plan on giving it a try, make sure to have GZDoom 4.3.3 or older. That's what the dev says at least. That's been it for the most part aside from the usual suspects. Tetris 99, Pokemon, Stepmania, the regulars. You can typically find what I'm playing on my Retro Achievements or Backloggd.
As a self-described clown I feel as if I have to lament the decline of today's date, known as "April Fools." At least when it came to the internet. I feel like websites don't go in as much as they used to. Back in the day you'd see whole websites completely rebrand and take on a whole new visual identity just to make a joke. Sometimes it would come at the expense of usability but to see the effort and care put into these overhauls was always a joy. Now we're lucky if we even get a singular changed element on the webpage.
I know some video games have kept up some funny yearly gags but there have also been others that have turned it into just another yearly "event" which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Just another chance to put fomo items into some kind of in-game store to make people spend more money. It completely goes against the spirit of the holiday. We're supposed to come together for a fun time, not gatekeep the joy behind paywalls.
It really seems like the best "jokes" we get in recent years are the ones where the joke is that there is no joke. You see a trailer or social media post about something silly and it turns out to be true. Pretty commonly, this would be some kind of short video game with a silly premise. Although not all are made equal. You have good examples like "The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Lovers of Aether" whereas other attempts feel so cynical and disingenuous like Palworld's "More than Pals"
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that I miss when it seemed like more of the "core web" would have fun for a single day. The core web already feels so stagnant and corporate that having some fun for a day would be a nice breath of fresh air.
Nintendo recently announced their own music streaming app. It's just called "Nintendo Music" and has the world's more boring app icon (white music note on a red background) since they're in their google iconography phase thanks to how popular the Switch was.
I've used it for a little bit and it seems fine. You need an active NSO subscription to use it. Which, fair I guess. Pretty much every music streaming service has a subscription and I'm already paying for it because I wanna play Nintendo games online.
The main flaw at the moment is the lack of music selection. Which shouldn't be surprising since launching something with very little to offer is Nintendo's specialty at this point. (Looking at every collection of games on the NSO retro consoles). Any other complaints I'd have with it are the same for any music streaming service.
I'm pretty well out of my "I only listen to video game soundtracks" phase of my life so this isn't going to be a game changer for me specifically. I'm very anti-music streaming service. I use youtube for music (I do not use YouTube Music though) while on the computer every now and then but that's about it.
I'd much rather download/rip MP3s and have the files myself, but at least with "Nintendo Music" they offer something and that something is the ability to extend certain tracks upwards to an hour and the ability to block soundtracks under the guise of "Spoiler Prevention". While I'm probably not gonna make use of these features, I appreciate they're there.
I've seen some backlash from people upset that Nintendo is doing this instead of just putting the music on spotify and while I understand that and the theories of they're doing this because they're control freaks with their IPs..... part of me also thinks those features mentioned might have something to do with it. Nintendo is very particular with how they want things to work. It would not surprise me in the least if they opted to making "Nintendo Music" purely because they wanted quirky little features like that.
I mean.... same to be honest. I love little quirky bullshit lmao. Anyways, overall pretty standard. Nothing all that special. Good if you wanna listen to the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet soundtracks. Which I do so that's what I've been doing with it lmao. Though it doesn't have Toby Fox's remix of Celestial by Ed Sheeran. so, 0/10 I guess. Sorry.
