Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Eel Oh welp. I once got the first volume of a manga at a book store, and my mom said "Oh, I'll order you the next two books" and so I'm like "Ok, sure"
The manga was based off a light novel. She accidentally bought the next two light novels instead of manga. This wasn't much of a problem, I said "Oh, I'll just order the first volume of the light novel"
Amazon lost my package and getting a refund was a pain

And then a few months ago, my brother ordered a 300 USD CPU. They gave him an iPhone lens by mistake. He got a refund. They raised the price of the CPU, so he never got to get the CPU.

@EllaTheQueen6 oh I absolutely hate it when I manage to buy something for cheap and then they just never send it.

Of course amazons solution is to “just order it again, we never charged you!” but of course the product has since doubled in price.

@Eel Yeah, I still don't have the first volume, and that still annoys me
Yeah, like, and I somewhat feel my brother's CPU thing was my fault cause before he bought the CPU I made a deal with him where he'd buy me 77 USD worth of plushies (Yes I'm insane) and I would pay him back later, as they were limited time only. Then he wanted the CPU, then he bought it, then he got a refund, then it raised in price, then he didn't have enough money to buy it again

@EllaTheQueen6 it’s not your fault, it’s the seller fault for not respecting the sale.

Why are computers so dang expensive?

@HenryKibble because the parts they use (depending on how much power you want) are not cheap.

Me and @BobTheBunkerGuy had a really bad coincidence happen. I sent Plumber a GIF and did not see this frame...

slight trigger warning...

@HenryKibble it's an investment, but you get that money back. I spent a decent amount on one five years ago, and it still works great. I've got my money's worth.

And I didn't build my own, you can save money that way but I was too scared haha

@OwlHighway1Revisited You guys are insane Lmao!

Thankfully there's very few PC-only games that I want to play, most of what I play are also available on consoles.

@HenryKibble Just build your own PC. It's still expensive, but not as expensive as getting a very expensive but very cheaply made pre-built.

I spent the entire day grinding out history lessons, only to find out nothing was due this week and I wasted my time.

@BobTheBunkerGuy oh don’t worry I didn’t think you thought it was funny.

this

@EaglyBird we are very sorry.

Random Rambling #2:
The more i do game development, the more i realize that when i release my first commercial game, i must market it like no-tomorrow in order for it to receive the most basic form of popularity

It'll be 1-2 years before i even plan to start developing it, so i hope i can come up with a really well-calculated strategy to market my game before i start the development process.
Even if it will become a living-hell to market it, it will all be worth it to be able to share my ideas and not leave them lost forever wandering in my brain

@DiamondCore Oh, right, game development
My game definitely hasn't been being pushed to the side for over a year
Definitely not

@DiamondCore a little bit of advice if you want to market the pants off your game to people.

YouTube Shorts and TikTok, do loads for game marketing.

@EllaTheQueen6 If you got burnt out, thats alright
The best strategy to get back into it is to just atleast try to spend 10 minutes a day on the game, slowly but surely building it back up to an hour or two
And if you read the code and its a bit hard to read, just spend those 10 minutes reading and understanding your code

@OwlHighway1Revisited Yeah, i will likely do a bunch of youtube shorts. they can work well with short clips which i would also likely post to reddit as thats frequently recommended from what i see too

@DiamondCore I didn't get burnt out, it was a project with me, my best friend, andsome random artist. The artists work was good but he was a student so it was very hard to get stuff from him (And I felt bad cause I couldn't pay him) my best frined only came up with ideas, and I was coding, which I don't know how to do very well. I've since scrapped it for now and decided I'm gonna learn C# so that I can stop using Python, and I'm gonna try to learn art myself so I ain't gotta feel bad about not paying someone. I might also get my best friend to help with the code since he has more experience than me.
It's a simple visual novel, so honestly it shouldn't be too hard.
Oh wait I also gotta find someone to do the music
Oh welp, I'll find someone

@EllaTheQueen6 Ah, alrighty then. that's understandable.

If you wanna skip some of the pain in making a visual novel (lines upon lines of code for dialogue), you can use Godot 3.5 and the add-on called "Dialogic" made by a youtuber named Emi to speed-up the process.
It's a great add-on and i highly recommend it, though godot 3.5 itself is python-based so if thats a dealbreaker then thats understandable (Godot 4 is actually C#-based iirc, so you could use that, but i dont think dialogic 1 is compatible with it)