MrHoatzin

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  1. Life

    If you click the MORE REPLY OPTIONS button in this thread, there is a melodramatic heading "Replying to Life" right above your textarea. It made me roflmao for some reason. I am on the verge of quitting with no backup plan and barely a few k in the bank + monthly debt payments. It seems kinda crazy, but I have all of these projects in mind and no time to make them and I am sick of waiting for a time when I will have time to do these things. But then, I don't know how quickly I can monetize any of these… but I don't want a full-time job. I want something that would keep me barely afloat (and take not much of my time) while I spend the lion's share on my own projects and also just kinda living and doing things and walking my dogs at 10 am on a beautiful tuesday morning. It shouldn't be too difficult for something as fancy as Hobo Lobo to generate a couple of semi-fancy ("affordable haute couture rate") freelance gigs a month, do you think? I was also thinking about offering creative/design/development consultancy services. I also have this other project that I could conceivably Kickstart and maybe live off of for a short while... Does this sound like something that would be impossible to pull off? Hobo Lobo style? At first I wanted to find another job and jump ship, but the more I draw it out, the more I realize I am sick of doing other people's bidding. But I might be getting myself into hot water because I have never done this sort of thing before and I don't know how good my professional network is. I would really have to get all of my shit together in a month or less before the money runs out… which would in turn be a bad time to start flailing and looking for a job… if only I had slightly fewer debts or slightly more money in the bank I would be so much more comfortable about this course of action.
  2. Life

    I was not bemoaning the loss of materiel so much as the fact that there is such a thing as rent and its payment sometimes causes so much weird destruction.
  3. Life

    NES and SNES are admirably well-emulated these days. Who cares? Still, sucks to be pawning things to pay rent.
  4. Gone Home from The Fullbright Company

    That just takes it too far.
  5. Gone Home from The Fullbright Company

    And then Leigh Alexander will cry some more. Someone should make a mod for Gone Home called "Game" which litters the house with guns, med kits and bad guys.
  6. Gone Home from The Fullbright Company

    SPOILERS AAAAAA
  7. Broken Age - Double Fine Adventure!

    Oh noes, no one is answering! I hope I didn't accidentally leak sensitive backer-only info.
  8. Broken Age - Double Fine Adventure!

    I seem to recall reading somewhere that John Lithgow was somehow connected, did I dream that?
  9. Broken Age - Double Fine Adventure!

    <blocks elmuerte, finally>
  10. Gone Home from The Fullbright Company

    It is only novel because the industry is governed from above, by money—by money that by and large doesn't even understand or play games, but sure as fuck has a checklist of features that make a game. When fishing for a convenient metaphor I see Gone Home as more of a narrative installation art piece than a game (as defined by the Game Police et al). And that is a very exciting direction for games to go more boldly. These are hardly new and novel things to say, but we have such a spectacular medium for allowing an audience to experience a world and we generally see it used for hamfisted ends.
  11. Life

    I've been told this book is a good resource. I find that it is easier for women to pull off lookin' stylin when fat than it is for dudes. All the large dude clothing is loose and formless, it's like wearing a tent. Having dispensed with 60 of my erstwhile lbs over the past year and some, I am confused as to why I didn't do so a couple of decades ago. I guess it took me a while to find a dispensation method I enjoyed. Turns out fasting is not only quite doable, but feels great.
  12. Life

    ¬¬ Nails are such prime real estate for wacky designs. Too bad only women, drag queens and Snoop Dog can get away with it.
  13. Life

    In an act of general anti-establishment angst I wore nail polish to work today. Clear gloss middle fingers, and matte finish on all the rest of the nails. World's subtlest metrosexual punk right here. I need to get out of San Antonio. Anyone living in a cool city out there know of a company looking for someone with my amazingly varied skill set? I can art, design and code, LAMP, javascript, jQ, etc. I'm currently rocking the lofty title of Director of Development, but I am open to any kind of hands-on position that doesn't insult my abilities. It would be nice to work on larger internal projects for a length of time instead of relatively dinky client fare that describes my 6 years in this company. I need to properly put together a snazzy CV website dealio, but it's been hard freeing time to do so. Leads appreciated.
  14. Broken Age - Double Fine Adventure!

    Oh man, so nice! <MELTS>.
  15. Feminist Frequency

    Now, this is the proper tone of discourse for a thumbs thread. I too can relate this to being 20 and on the internet. I can likewise relate to Luftmensch, in both the cadence of his pedantry and the magnitude of his wrongheadedness on the topic thereof. Someone told me at the time to exercise humility. It took me forever to actually internalize this as an on-topic morsel of criticism.
  16. Thi4f

    Everything is flat, sharp as fuck, and uniformly busy at a micro scale. Looks like Skyrim with overly sharpened textures. There is no art direction, only a texture mill and a model farm and nothing in between. It is very much not like Dishonored in this way at all. Then again, the original Thief was ugly as sin, so who knows. I would've preferred something more inspired by decisions made by Mark of the Ninja. You know, something all-around more designed.
  17. Plug your shit

    Oh sorry, did I just cheat? ¬¬
  18. Plug your shit

    Or open Photoshop, paste each in its own layer and turn the top one into difference blending mode.
  19. Plug your shit

    Rad. I kinda wanna steal your brush settings.
  20. Plug your shit

    PST! The French translation of Hobo Lobo is almost ready for prime time. Let's call the super double plus exclusive leak you're witnessing before your very eyes a beta release of Lobo l’Clodo. Woo! It was translated by our very own Ossk! We still need to translate the interface and link it up from the rest of the site, but it is pretty much done.
  21. Internet Comics

    I second the MS Paint Adventures vote. MSPA = Homestuck + Problem Sleuth. Andrew Hussie's really on to something special. Homestuck is an extremely humongous thing that requires some dedication and a leap of faith and I don't feel comfortable just thrusting people into that. I would suggest starting with Problem Sleuth which defines the fake video game storytelling medium a lot more crisply—since large amount of the story was effectively community-navigated, dungeon-mastered by Hussie. Homestuck is a wonder of structure. It is kinda hard to describe off the cuff. Its weird hybrid presentation was a direct inspiration for Hobo Lobo's own experimental format, with the images above and narration below.
  22. Life

    You should've had BBQ in Lockhart, it is the capital of TX BBQ and it is not much out of the way b/n Austin and Houston...
  23. Proteus

    Such a gorgeous game! For those having a hard time figuring it out, I would suggest helping the experience along with something that would mellow you out, amplify your visual awareness, shift your lateral thinking knob to random mode, etc… I think that people's problem with Proteus and these kinds of games in general (and the reason for all this semantic bloviating re what is game) is that they know how to interact with (what they consider) games and Proteus is a kind of subtle experience that is murdered by the kind of inflexible preconceived notions gamers are awash in. It is a problem of education, but it is also a question that we reeeeaaaaallly shouldn't waste too much breath on since people with objections are so patently wrong that they don't deserve to be humoured; every one of these games (or un-games or anti-games or whatever the detractors insist on calling them) that makes it, proves them wrong and evolves the popular perception of what games can be.
  24. Proteus

    Ah, thanks, there doesn't seem to be a way to get to that page from one's Humble profile section.