STARSKIPP'S PROFILE

I have this really bizarre theory on this. There's nothing that actually changed in the last year or two with the site layout, the moderation team nor any notable events to speak of. It was all well and good until someone mentioned the word "toxic" that seemed to have sparked a chain reaction in the last few months, we all talk about these poisonous people that are ruining the site but yet I can guarantee that not one of us will have a consensus on who these people actually are.

Even someone mentioning "oh there's only a small minority of bad users, ignore them" might be contributing to the problem, even my comment right now! And it's starting to get to the point where people are getting angry over the small things and generally pointing fingers at each other.

And I honestly do believe that it never existed in the first place until someone coined the term out of the blue. Even this morning I didn't think there was an issue, however thanks to that stupid word being thrown around all day, I'm sort of starting to believe in it. Chances are, there's probably no problem what so ever and we're all trying to find something that wasn't even there, all in the while tearing ourselves apart in pursuit of this phenomenon.

Okay, that's enough weed for tonight >:

Oooo it's abit of a tricky one, it's more of the case on being sensible. Fundamentally I want to make a game other people would enjoy even if it's at the expense on losing some of my enjoyment factor. There's ideas that I want to implement but I think to myself, would that be more suited for another game?

However there's only a small number I did end up ditching and it's more of the case on the principle of it all, not letting it become an overly ambitious mess because I thought it was cool at the time. However I really do miss making free games, how you can use rips, scripts and mold anything you want from wherever you want. Now I have to pay for it all or go the long way round with making stuff and I'm having some burnout at the moment.

Maybe it's because I've been developing a commercial game for the last four years with those restrictions gave me rose tinted glasses on how I used to be, you get abit nostalgic on some stuff. That's probably my major problem but on the plus side all the gameplay mechanics that I first envisioned have made it in there even though at the time I thought it would've been impossible and going through that extra effort for "what the player may want" has actually produced some impressive results in my biased opinion.

But I do miss making shitty games with big ideas, even if it would've been at the expense of it's overall quality. Maybe I should make a short contest game, see if I still feel the same way and hope it's not a quarter life crisis sort of thing.

Wow, you're quick!

The image of a apocalyptic figure asking for help on his dating sim is all kinds of magic xD