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- 4y ago
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oh that’s awesome! ive got adhd so ive been hyperfixated on the marvin trilogy for a while (aka the musical falsettos) as much as i’d love to ramble about it i think im too tired and stressed out to do that right now lol but i hope others enjoy talking about their intetests!
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- 4y ago
No worries! I'd like to see people posting in this thread regularly--not just today--so drop back in tomorrow if you want and ramble to your heart's content!
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- 4y ago
@Aaron R. will do!
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- 4y ago
This is such a great idea for a thread! Im really into video games too! Im really looking forward the the western release of persona 5 scramble that comes out in a couple days. The persona series has been a long time special interest of mine and i love the story and style of p5 especially so im really pumped! As for more chill games ive also been playing a lot of stardew valley and animal crossing. Theyre so relaxing, especially if need a distraction from ocd thoughts lmao What kinda animation are you into btw? Ive been wanting to learn to animate myself for a while now but i can just never find the time
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- 4y ago
Hey, thanks for sharing! I've heard great things about the Persona series, but I don't really play M-rated games, so I'll probably never get to experience it for myself. As a Smash Bros. fan, I'm at least somewhat familiar with Joker. I know P5 Scramble is a Warriors spinoff, and those games can be a lot of fun. I sunk dozens of hours into Hyrule Warriors. It's funny, I always think I would be really into life simulation games, but I've never played one that's really resonated with me. I picked up New Leaf back on 3DS a long time ago because I heard such good things, but I fell off of it after maybe 10 days. I just couldn't get into it. When New Horizons exploded in popularity, I figured I owed it to myself to try again, but I still find myself bored with it. It's really frustrating because I desperately want to like Animal Crossing! I've wanted to like it so badly that I've actually put about 70 hours into it. I wish it relaxed me, but it honestly just kind of stresses me out, lol. I keep wishing I could do things faster and think, "If I have to pluck one more weed or listen to Blathers tell me how to get my fossils assessed one more time, I'm gonna lose my mind!" 😂 I haven't played in a while, but I'll probably at least dip back in to get the Mario furniture they're adding. Stardew Valley is one I've never played. I'm very curious about it, but I feel like it would be similar to my Animal Crossing experience. I also have a hard time getting into indie games with pixel graphics. Shovel Knight is pretty much the only one that really does it for me. I think the co-op update for Stardew was really awesome though, and that really tempted me to buy it. I've loved cartoons ever since I was a little kid, and I still watch them pretty regularly. I like watching wholesome, family content (hence not playing M-rated games), and I think that's definitely influenced my love for the medium. Avatar: The Last Airbender is and always will be my favorite animated series for how emotionally compelling and well-written it is, as well as the stellar visuals. I've always loved drawing and writing (I'm an English major), and telling stories through animation is just a natural fit for me. When I was little, I spent hundreds of hours making Flipnotes on my Nintendo DSi. My mom got me an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription a couple years ago, which includes Adobe Animate. I've messed around a little with it, but I haven't really made anything worth sharing. Because of the poor self image my anxiety causes me, it's often hard for me to power through it and actually make something creative. Making cartoons for a living is my dream, so I hope I can find the motivation to pursue it more than I currently do.
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- 4y ago
It ain't much, but here's a short animation I made for a class project. Ignore the crappy background, lol. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6sXI6vDaG4
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- 4y ago
@Aaron R. Sorry for taking a couple days to respond but!! Wow youre really talented! You have such a charming style, reminds me of early 2000s cartoons! I love animated stuff a lot too, tho i tend to prefer stuff aimed at older people i still LOVE avatar. It was a really big intererest of mine growing up and now i kinda wanna rewatch it lmao. Also re: you getting stardew valley, I think you might like it more than animal crossing because theres a lot more stuff to do and though it is mostly a day to day farming sim, theres still a bit of a story to it. Though if you get overwhelmed with too much stuff to do in games it might not be the best fit (I have this problem playiny sometimes and i end up needing to put it down for a few days)
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- 4y ago
@rokay Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! Yeah, I'm very inspired by shows from the early 2000's, since that's when I grew up! This particular character was based slightly on Mandark from Dexter's Lab, though that's technically more of a 90's show, lol. Avatar is on Netflix, so there's no matter time to rewatch it, haha. Just today, the creators confirmed they're working at Nickelodeon again to create more shows in the Avatar universe, which has me really excited. That's good to hear about Stardew Valley. I get very bored doing the same repetitive tasks in Animal Crossing and often feel like nothing new is going on. I like the idea of having lots of different things worth managing. I don't think Stardew is at the top of my radar right now, but I'm definitely interested. I just really have to get past the 16-bit aesthetic, lol.
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- 4y ago
okay! im feeling better so im gonna infodump abt some of my interests :3 i’ve been into the marvin trilogy for about three years now (a series revolving around a guy named marvin n his family, consisting of three one act musicals, the second two being merged together to create falsettos, also where my username came from) but recently i think it’s been wearing off and i’ve started taking an interest in a new brain, which was written by the same man and has some similar themes. (i was into a new brain beforehand, it’s just stronger now.) it’s about a composer named gordon who works children’s tv show that he hates who developes arteriovenous malformation and passes out at work. most of the musical takes place at the hospital afterwards while he waits and recovers from treatment all the while trying to juggle his job, his past, his family, and his relationship with his sailor boyfriend, roger. something cool about it is that it’s based on william finn’s (the composer) own life and experience with the disease! i like pretty much all his musicals. he’s really good at telling realistic, emotional, gay, neurodivergent, jewish stories. I actually relate to gordon a lot and i can even see some of my ocd in him! (he doesn’t have it canonically, i just like to think he does based on his personality) so i really recommend it to those who’d like to see themselves in a character on stage. there are a lot of interesting characters other than gordon and roger, like mr. bungee, who is gordon’s boss and also a frog. (well, a guy in a frog costume) rhoda, gordon’s best friend and coworker, mimi and joe, gordon’s divorced parents, two very different nurses, a minister, a doctor, and lisa, a homeless woman who councils roger when he’s worried about gordon. (she also steals gordon’s books when his mom throws them out and sells them. i like to think she’s a girlboss.)
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- 4y ago
This isn't about video games! But I like to crochet! My son is an aspiring gamer, so I have to get in the loop sooner or later
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