Animation in action (vertical format too)

Learning Blender continues with much thanks to Alice Walsh’s art direction & feedback!

I did this during June :0

Originally it was everyone bouncing with controllers but Alice pushed me to do better/more with different animations for Chicken and Mallard 😀 I think I cheated a bunch to make it animate how I wanted and apparently that’s normal haha

A lot of getting my head around Crossy rendering at the time :0

Happy with how this came out!

Unihorse, Chicken, Mallard and Blue playing games on their consoles

It was meant for marketing but marketing shenanigans got intense and busy.

I’m grateful that it’ll get used eventually; thanks Sara for your hard work! If it doesn’t get used, well I checked with her with the art and am still allowed to share on my end and show my learning progress yay!

I feel like I am the unofficial marketer of Crossy shenanigans with things that I’m involved in (as I work with Sara and the team) haha

Leonie rambles about…

• is “true friendship” dead? (Mina Le)
  • yeah I don’t call out friends’ names or anything in recent years since privacy is important
    • I’m not trying to “monetise” the friendship
    • I do credit/link artist’s/people’s work and efforts though to the best of my ability/knowledge
    • I am not friends or know them super well though :'(
    • I am not comprehensive with credting coworkers that are not artists as I assume they want to be kept private and I don’t know well enough
  • it’s harder to speak up in groups when something goes wrong
    • then you reasonably get in trouble for mentioning it afterwards and more privately :’)
    • it also happened recently –
      • I don’t know why I froze up,
      • I default to being more passive when put on the spot??
      • I was sleep deprived??
      • Just excuses?
      • I don’t want to feel like a burden?
      • I find text more to the point and clear?
      • did I dissociate?
      • Why am I so conflict avoidant to this extent?
    • …do I analyse myself hmm
  • relate to a lot of phone/texting/ghosting and losing friendships shenanigans
    • it leaves me not want to bother when people are too busy for communication
    • for some it’s too much
  • I didn’t think that leaving people on read is the default for many;
    • I’m usually the end of it and feeling hurt, frustrated, not valued, ghosted, ignored especially when I can’t communicate with them much in other ways
    • well I don’t have too much ongoing text communication with acquaintances, friends anyway now
    • for some people I assume they’re not responding based on their past patterns
  • I’m mixed on exact numbers for what you owe people when eating out together
    • it really depends on the people, there’s no hard rule
    • I tend to be exact with people I don’t really know/see often/unsure about
    • I am not rich so I can’t afford to be financially generous too much :’)
    • though it’s more rounded off if it’s someone I trust already and being exact with what people owe doesn’t matter because I value the connection much more
  • yes I don’t want to be always online and available – it stresses me out!!
    • Privacy and boundaries!!
    • stop tagging me to the extent of spamming too
    • also stop commenting with no clear indication of tone – it feels accusatory…
  • yeah I don’t hate many people but people change,
    • drift off, move on,
    • have different priorities/interests and life schedules,
    • people don’t click and time is finite, capacity is finite
    • I don’t like vague, uncertainty either as that’s another form of anxiety and tension and discomfort with intentions and values and their presence
    • friendships are terribly time/emotionally consuming too indeed
    • do people support you when you’re in need?
      • Hmm usually not if they’re not in your life and vice versa
  • female friendships…I don’t have it much
    • this “sisterhood” thing feels like a fantasy/something on a pedestal
    • friendships are complex and people can’t live up to every high expectation
    • maintaining them is difficult too – effort is required and it’s not going to be some perfect thing
    • online communication does feel like you’re inconveniencing others when you put more effort than they are
  • things are proximity based and even then it could be shallow and one sided
• I Infiltrated the Manosphere (Shanspeare)
• YouTube and the Death of Media Literacy (Zoe Bee)
  • that it’s a mess when creating and consuming media
  • all you can do is do your best with understanding context
  • take your time with things given the systems built against critical thinking
• Does “MAN REPELLENT” clothing work? (Tara Mooknee)
  • nope it does not exist as a thing
  • people will be creeps regardless; stop that victim blaming
• Landmark study shows what makes a successful relationship (Anna Akana)
  • relationships are less about personality and checkboxes true
  • more about if you feel satisfied and great as you build the connection and engage with the dynamic
    • makes sense with focusing on where you water your garden
  • well…if I’m anxious, not fulfilled/secure and overthinking around someone then that’s a no
• what a terrible time to be online (D’Angelo)
  • seasonal depression, the world and feeling helpless
• I didn’t think they’d be isolation rooms still happening 🙁

Also I quit Side Order. Spoilers and venting ahead:

I hate hearing how people finished 30F in their 3rd run :’) I’m salty yes.

I did my 9th run where I quit early (juggling 2 zones in the diamond shape was too hard) plus 10th and 11th run that took me 3.5 hrs to reach floor 30 (I am slow with bosses and rigorous/hard levels especially).

I kept failing at the 3rd phase with the final boss even with hacks so far – I quit!! You get wailed on, get targeted exploding fish, get fish coming at you, get laser turreted and get rained on, exploding mines, honing fishes, super waves and the spinning thingos attacking you!! It’s a huge overwhelming difficulty wall I have no more patience to finish >:(

I don’t want to waste anymore time, I technically finished almost everything except final phases of the final boss and doing all 30 floors for every other 15 weapons (no thanks! That’s X attempts x 30 floors x 15 weapons!)

No thanks!!! I’m already struggling with my weapon of choice as it is!! The hacks don’t help a slow player like me fast enough when you have to grind through frustration and waste time first!! I exclaimed “I hate youuuu” to the octopus when I lose my lives during a moment of overwhelming attacks as I can’t win 🙁

Tired of repeating all these time consuming floors & don’t want to grind anymore. This is my first rougelike and it’s not for me!! All you get for fully completing it are Marina’s diary entries…which are great but not worth my suffering.

I like the game but the boss and the whole starting from square 1 too many times broke me. And I was straining my arms and eyes too. I am so salty over this final boss and I hate everything :’D

It takes longer for me since I take it slow (80-90 minutes each run and the hacks didn’t make this shorter)!! I hate bashing against at this overwhelming difficulty wall and grinding all the other floors over just at the final boss!!! WAH

Grinding seemed so futile!! I don’t see any acknowledgement of progression aside from getting more vague hacks, keys and currency!! I don’t feel encouraged to keep playing anymore!! I hate the diamond “protect the 2 zones” level (I quit the run as I couldn’t progress much at all), when the whole level is dark + all the others are stressful and I don’t have much favourite objectives to floors. I don’t want to do roguelikes ever again!

I wanted it to be over so I can move on >:(

Was fun but got too stressful, repetitive & frustrating for me. I should be relaxing :’)

Watched someone do the ending instead, true ending and read the diaries and more lore from a wiki ;P Turns out you just stick close to the tentacles during the laser/wailing and then you don’t get hit. Or you invest into continues so you can just redo from the checkpoint oof.

There wasn’t much lore beyond talking about saving octolings one day (but not yet as memverse is in testing). It doesn’t go into octolings getting saved from sanitisation and this memverse is just stuck at this testing stage after saving unintentional souls that got sucked in 🙁

It’s great if I weren’t sore, tired and frustrated with grinding, starting over and roguelikes. It was not fun anymore :<

Maybe splatoon is not for me anymore. I just pop in used to play the Splatfests and collect for the catalog but it wasn’t worth it. I played the single player mode too.

Was Splatoon 3 Saved? – Two Years Later Retrospective Review (Captain Astronaut)

• I agree with his single player mode rankings
• yeah I don’t want carpal tunnel – it hurts if played too long
• It’s sad that there wasn’t a new story that fleshes out Deep Cut (we don’t know them that well) so it’s no surprise they didn’t win the Great Splatfest – unfortunate for them as characters

Personal update

My eczema is acting up arghhh :’D Also I don’t want to start using my inhaler as it feels like a hassle…

I’m now just started Miles Edgeworth Investigations yay! I’m going to be very slow at it though.

Anyhoo more juggling continues….!

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