Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Yousef- well, technically it is still summer lol. I went out and it is still burning but it’s chilly too! A nice breeze and some nice sunlight. It won’t be officially fall until midway through the month, so I need to wait a few weeks now.

It gets super cold nearing the nighttime, it feels way more like fall than in the morning. Today here the weather is apparently going to get increasingly worse as time goes on However, I am glad August is over, cuz it’ll get cooler and we inch a bit more closer to December and Sonic 3

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Hamster Pen.

@Yousef- i finished the collection of the CSM replica props/toys. They are for adult collectors so I hesitate to call them toys. They are still in box until I figure out where to put them (gonna have to put up shelving, I think). I have all the ones for Gaim.

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For the sailor moon set I have set C D and E. (edit apparently I have A as well. Way too many sailor moon statues/figures.) Also I just realized I had a typo in that post so that was probably confusing to others. Sigh.

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Only thing left is I have a few large LEGO sets and the Master Sword Proplica and I’m going to take a break from large collections for a little while. I am praying Sailor Moon leaves me alone as that is my one weakness. But I have a house full of statues, figma, proplica and plates/dinnerware so I should be ok…I think. I feel my inner child is mostly satisfied.

To the thread: Y’all WTF. I just found out there is a Harold and the Purple Crayon movie and he is an adult. That’s it. Stop selling my childhood! (I say this on a post where I am talking about a collection that cost several thousands of dollars. Yes I realize I am part of the problem.)

@Yousef- oh and also, how was your August? I didn’t really get to talk to you. Mine was good, did some pretty fun stuff a few weeks ago!

@Ryu_Niiyama that SM set looks divine. As a lifelong fan of the sailor scouts, this is a treat to see. Appropriate merch in my book.
I didn’t know about the CSM actually. That looks extremely cool. Even if they’re toys that’d be cool still. But it’s also interesting to learn they’re for adults. That’s some really cool merch.
I’m trying to get the Digimon and Jujutsu Kaisen TCG, just for collecting purposes. I’ve stopped playing TCGs long ago.

Ah, I understand what you mean. Yeah it’s getting a bit chilly during sunrise. Sonic 3 movie will be awesome and I’ll likely see it thrice but that trailer could not be any worse even if it tried. The movie is clearly gonna be awesome, and this was obviously a poor editing choice on the behalf of the trailer editing team. But I cannot stomach how cringey the delivery was and how they never allow a moment of sincerity. Hopefully this isn’t an omen. I’m sure the movie Will be phenomenal. Shadow is my favorite character.

My august was awesome, awful, amazing, terrible, okay, average and all around pretty fun. Has its ups and downs just like every month. Hard to recount events of 30 days but it’s been quite adventurous to say the least.
When you’re working a 7-2 (our version of a 9-5 job but our shifts ends at 1:45 but that’s too long to type so I just round it up to 2) things get pretty samey every month. I’ve been working for 13 months and things are pretty samey with some occasional excitement. Going to movies is awesome, Deadpool is my favorite comic book character of all time right after the Green Lantern and Superman, so the new movie was incredible to me. I understood all the comic book references, including the reference to “Deadpool Saves the Marvel Universe” which is one of my favorite Deadpool comics of all time so I geeked out and fangirled extremely hard. My dad also had a jolly ol time.
My calmest time is at work. It’s at home where I feel I have too much free time. Even sitting at cafes doesn’t do it for me anymore because I’m not a college student anymore. My coworkers are super relaxing to talk to. Definitely a great destresser from my life and my non-work is exponentially stressful.
I cook a lot. Chicken is awesome. I’ve perfected my chicken tikka marination recipe. It was sitting in the fridge being marinated for 36 hours and came out super tender and juicy. Made a wrap out of it.

I’ve also been binging all of Naruto. Hence the pfp. It’s close to being my favorite anime of all time. I’m gonna try binging bleach as well as read some manga and binge Fullmetal alchemist. And gurren Lagann. Last year I binged dragon ball kai. This year I made it all the way to OG Naruto and started shippuden yesterday and having a blast since I prefer it over the OG.

@Yousef- I do wish that trailer did show a bit more of Keanu Reeves’ performance as Shadow, but given how hyped the movie is and how it’s main focus is on introducing him, I am not really surprised they didn’t let us hear a lot of his performance. I didn’t really laugh at the jokes in there, but oh well, at least we finally got a look at the film after so many months passed. I am hyped to see it with my brother. We already planned that we are getting tickets beforehand and getting seats when it releases. I am hoping they do good with the movie. I think it has the chance to be the best out of the three. I really like that the films are becoming more “Sonic” and less “Sonic in the real world.” I think a lot of older film adaptations usually mess up on that aspect, making the film it’s adapting a bit close to the source material and having the world and universe few extremely different than the universe in the video game it’s adapting. Now, the Sonic movies are using way more elements from the games alongside the original elements, and it’s great so far! It’s crazy to think how we went from that atrocious first trailer from 2019 with ugly Sonic now to a super hyped and followed movie bringing Shadow to the big screen.

Going to the movies is definitely fun, but I wish there were more movies that interested me this year rather than Sonic 3, but that’s just a “me” problem. I surprisingly never saw Inside Out 2 despite liking the first one a lot, and they are releasing a sequel to Moana in only two months but I also don’t really have an interest in it either! Seeing movies on the theater with everyone on the big screen is so amazing, but it’s maybe been two years since I last went to one in-person. The last one I saw was Sonic 2 (coincidentally) back in April when it released. I don’t know, a lot of what releases nowadays isn’t of my interest except for a few. I occasionally visit a forum on a different site dedicated to movies, and I hear of a lot of these cool new movies starring the most famous and popular celebrities and everyone talking about how excited they are, but I don’t have anything to say, but it’s probably from how I don’t watch movies a lot. I don’t know what movies would interest me a lot. I like comedic stuff, so maybe I could find something, but I don’t know which ones would be up my alley.

More about my August: it was good, but I had to get back to working a bit more, but pretty nice. If I can recall most of it, I played Conker again at the start of month because of the game club and had a blast (but the game honestly sucks at being a game with its hit or miss gameplay), played a ton of Perfect Dark Zero’s multiplayer offline, watched a few of Fox’s X-Men movies with my family after my brother saw Deadpool and Wolverine, went on a short achievement hunting spree on some games, took way too long to change my avatar on here, and ate a lot of junk food, Thai food, and sugar for my birthday. My mind is a bit fuzzy, so I can’t recall almost everything, but that is most of the memorable stuff I recall happening. It was great! I got some nice art materials too that I am using right now. I spent a lot of the day drawing. I’m probably going to hop onto Banjo-Tooie tomorrow. It’s getting too late over here.

Ooh, cooking. I would love to cook way more dishes, fancier ones than the ones I usually make. Today I made a soup with lentils, onions, jalapeño and chorizo with my mom. It tasted good, but it was super spicy and made my nose runny, plus I couldn’t taste the chorizo from how small and dispersed it was in it. She thinks the meat would be tasted way more if we had a second pack of chorizo. I never expected it to be so small when cooked. I wish I had made rice to go with it, but the rice with some beans that we were cooking yesterday didn’t cook right cuz we made it the wrong way, and the leftover rice we had from a few days ago was finished. We were supposed to make the soup days ago, but we weren’t able to because of the time we had and being super busy. I also wish we had enough cheese, because the lentil soup was supposed to be more like a chili…Cooking duds disappoint me a lot, but at least you learn what to not do the next time you make it.

I have heard of chicken tikka masala, but I don’t think I’ve really eaten it. I have eaten a bit of Indian food at an Indian restaurant where I am, and what I’ve eaten is amazing. Naan is so good…Usually it’s the restaurants focusing on making cuisine and dishes from other countries that taste super good. I also recall having Greek or Mediterranean food last month and that was amazing. It was rice, some spicy vegetables, lamb, hummus and I think pita bread. The pita bread was big and like a tortilla, so I put the rice, lamb, and hummus into the pita and ate it like a makeshift taco and it was so good. I’d love to eat there again.

Oh, anime, I haven’t watched anything anime recently, I said I was going to but never got to any. I think after a prolific Japanese voice actress named Atsuko Tanaka passed last month unfortunately, I said I was going to binge-watch the first season of an anime called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (which she was in) as a tribute and even put in on a watch list but I didn’t even get into it yet, and I was obsessed with it years before. Never watched Naruto, but I have seen clips of it. I did used to have manga, but not a ton. I had the Splatoon manga, but I gave my only copy of it away to my cousin, and I think she has a full set of the mangas in English. We also had a manga of Twilight Princess (though that one was for my brother) and a manga for a video game called Yokai Watch, but that last one went missing and the first one is somewhere. I never really read manga, also cuz there isn’t any im interested in reading and really want to spend money on.

@Pastellioli couldn’t agree more. And sadly the reason why that happens has actually little to do with how much they wanna be faithful to the material. They can be extraordinarily faithful and have a passionate group, but corporate agenda will take over. Specifically the Hollywood one. Hollywood for years has had this bizarre paranoia with fictional characters. Specifically masked heroes and cartoon animals. I’ve mentioned this before. But Hollywood has a gigantic paranoia over these “faceless” characters hogging the spotlight. “Faceless” means no human faces. Meaning they can’t put an actor’s face on it and market said actor more easily. I’m not necessarily demonizing this practice. I understand why it happens. It’s just that it’s important to know about it at all as to feel less frustrated about them being “unfaithful”. It also explains why the jokes can take priority. It’s just a Hollywood-ism, if you feel.

As for your august:

Cooking is amazing. It’s basically art.
Lamb is divine. It’s awesome that you’ve liked it. Super common in Kuwait obviously and the other stuff you’ve mentioned. We have an Arab/Indian mixed cuisine, with obviously a lot of kuwaiti-original dishes.

Naruto and Jojo are awesome. I look forward to when you eventually get to them.

@Yousef- Having a group of producers and filmmakers that are extremely passionate about the source material and treating it right is sometimes super rare, but it sometimes gets ruined by executives or big companies. I have heard way too many film stories of people trying to make a film as good as it can be and then getting ruined by executives and forced to change things that make the final product bad or mediocre. I think that the Sonic films have been directed by Jeff Fowler, and I think he has had some (albeit small) involvement with Sonic before, specifically he did CGI work on that Shadow game from 2005, and I think he sounds super passionate toward the source material and I’d say that through his direction, he has done a terrific job so far. I can imagine some of the people they got to work on those movies also care about handling the films right.

Can understand that criticism with Hollywood. I think I recall you telling me something like that a few months ago when I was talking about the wedding subplot in the second Sonic movie that had the animal characters out of commission for a few minutes. There are a lot of things Hollywood is known for commonly doing in their films or just the culture there in general. One criticism toward them is always wanting sequels when they are sometimes unnecessary or ordering a ton of remakes for previously successful movies and wanting the same results from a lack of originality and looking to make quick cash (looking at you, Disney). On top of the lack of originality, I also think the sincerity of the work is why. Because, the originals had work into them and the effort was genuine and sincere. With most remakes, they tend to lack all of that and it’s easy to tell what is a cash grab and what isn’t.

I pretty much love any meat. I often eat chicken though, but there is pork I need to cook soon. Hoping it’s good. Asian cuisine is probably my favorite cuisine from another country. I have tried Vietnamese, Thai, Indian and Chinese, but I haven’t really tried Japanese. I have had ramen, but it’s a more American version. I haven’t had a lot of Japanese dishes now that I think about it. As a quick correction, I actually ate Vietnamese food last month, it wasn’t Thai. I ate Thai last year.

I’ll probably watch an anime when I draw later today! I’m just listening to music at the moment. But I’ll probably go to bed once I finish outlining a part of my drawing. Luckily I’m almost finished and ready to share the art on another NL thread

@Pastellioli Depends on the problem, but refreshing fixes 502 errors for me too...usually. Have you considered budgeting when it comes to your art hobby? That way you can pick/plan out what you really need/want and not have to worry about throwing away too much disposable income at once. Easier said than done I know. :sweat_smile

The forums here show that there actually are sane online spaces for a great discussion. Generally it is good to stay on topic, but then we have threads like this where users can waffle about pretty much whatever as long as it's within the site's rules. Then of course there are very old threads where they say it's generally better to start a new topic than to necro the old posts ones.... Especially if people start responding to others who probably haven't visited here in years lol.

I kind of got into gaming on my own; neither of my parents really gamed. My siblings did somewhat back in the day, but they really don't anymore outside of the rare mobile title. Gaming is my main hobby even in adulthood, once work related stuff and adult responsibilities are out of the way. I think that's neat you grew up in a dual Nintendo/Sony household. Conversely we never had TV consoles until the Wii, though I would have loved a PlayStation. I really wanted a PSP or Vita at one point, but they were expensive, had a lot of proprietary things you needed to buy (such as special memory cards), and most of the franchises that were on them I wasn't into back then. You had a lot of PS access, which must have been cool/useful indeed.

That is very unfortunate about Game Pass, but I suppose it was only a matter of time with all the price hikes in pretty much every industry right now. I say go for that $1 Game Pass Ultimate deal, but in your own time and at your own discretion. Online sessions can be hard to arrange when we have many responsibilities, but it is doable! Schedules just need worked with...sometimes a lot, and with many delays. Typing from experience here.

Hello! Just finished a drawing while watching JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure! FINALLY. I can’t believe it took me this long to make a finished picture and watch that anime. It took me two months to make a finished picture thanks to this art block I’ve been having. I’m proud of the art, I would share it right now but I can’t since it’s too late to take pictures, so I’ll wait for tomorrow. Can’t wait to share!

@Tyranexx I never have thought of budgeting with my art hobby. Usually when I was smaller (and even now) when I come across an art section of a store, I take so long with choosing stuff and I don’t have a plan of what to buy beforehand. With stuff like the oil paints, it was a bit of a “fad” for me. I wanted it after I saw people making art with it, spent WAY too much of my money and then realized after wasting all that money that they weren’t for me, plus I lacked necessary supplies like oil for cleaning brushes off after using the paint, so a lot of my paintbrushes were unusable after. I could do that, even though I don’t really have any art materials I want to buy right now. Only the necessary stuff and stuff I’m familiar with would be good instead of some random high-end art supply I’ve never used that I have a 50/50 chance of liking and not liking when using it. Inexpensive art supplies and even office supplies are good for art. My recent piece used a lot of ballpoint pens and gel pens I bought at Dollar Tree and Walmart! My favorite art material has swapped a lot. I used to like markers, then colored pencils and markers, now oil pastels and very recently gel pens and ballpoint pens. I really want to go back to markers one day, but I need to find a way to make it fit my current art style.

I have heard of that a lot! I sometimes look at old threads that haven’t been updated in years and then someone comes in and leaves a comment in an attempt to revive the thread, and other people come in and recommend that they start a new one, since it’s useless to revive it if everyone else that participated in the thread hasn’t responded in years. Some old threads are still around though and still get comments to this day!

My dad gamed a lot years ago, but he has had less time to do so. My mom also played games with us, but she isn’t a gamer, and it’s been years since she last touched a game controller, though she plays some games on her phone occasionally. My brother is sorta like my dad too; loves gaming a lot but doesn’t have all the time for it. My sister had way more free time than all of us though with gaming. Yeah, I did play the PlayStation a lot back then, though with the Vita the only game I really played was Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. I had a lot of good memories with the PS4, I recall playing LittleBigPlanet 3 with my siblings and we nearly finished it, but after my brother wiped the PS4’s memory clean to trade it in for a game we sadly never finished it in the end. I had a ton of gaming sessions in Overwatch with my dad and his friends before things went downhill over the years in that game, and I played random games like Gang Beasts and some game where you play as a cat and have to damage stuff around a house within a time limit. There are way more memories I have, but I can’t list them all. I absolutely loved the PlayStation, but I have not played it at all recently. I never really played the exclusives, my dad had a lot of them, but I did not ask to play them because I sort of wasn’t into them besides LittleBigPlanet. I know that there probably would have been a game that would have been up my alley like Ratchet & Clank. I’ve been a Nintendo fan forever, and only recently I became an Xbox fan too. I should maybe try a bit more games on the Xbox.

Gaming is also one of my main hobbies alongside drawing, but I’ve played games way more than drawing recently. I just found with art that for me, I’m super slow and take way too long, and I especially feel like I wasted time if I spent a long time on a drawing only for it to end up looking bad. I feel like that gaming doesn’t take long and that I accomplish more things when I play, plus I get less annoyed at it too. It’s a bit sad that I have found myself disliking drawing at times, I still love it, I will keep doing it, but I’ve found it has been annoying me sometimes and I’ve also found myself having to do other stuff. I almost always waste time when I’m about to draw because of so many things I want to draw, but I can’t imagine them well enough or vision how what I want to draw will look in my style. I want them to look a certain way, but I just can’t replicate that look onto paper. Plus, seeing how fast everyone pushes out art on social media and can seemingly draw anything sort of contributes to my current feelings toward art. I also want to practice, but a lack of time never lets me.

I am disappointed with Game Pass, but maybe it isn’t so surprising that they did that, because Game Pass has, in recent years, been known to have price hikes that are so constant that they annoy a lot of their userbase, and the annoyance and criticism is very understandable. I chose to cancel the cheapest tier at the worst time…I am probably going to get that deal soon, but maybe not until next week or two weeks later, because I’ll have more free time one of those weeks. I am excited, mostly for the online sub that goes with the Ultimate deal because there is a friend that has been considering playing online with me, but because I don’t have an online sub, we can’t yet, but probably very soon! I need to find a good time and do it right, and make sure that he is also free. He is gaming a lot, completing games back and forth super fast, but he says that he has been a bit busy, so he can’t respond to my messages super fast, plus we live in different countries with different time zones, so I could be up in the morning, but he could be up at night and getting ready for bed. I am hoping that I can still find a good date for our online gaming session though.

@Pastellioli huh, should’ve pinged me about jojos. That’s awesome, it’s a pretty great show. Starts fantastic and is a joyride through and through.

Yeah, it was me who informed you about R&C being potentially your thing. Glad you seem to be warming up to it. It’s a phenomenal ps2 trilogy.

Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed is actually my favorite kart racer. I love the larger emphasis on skill based racing rather than just items. Even the items are really fun.

I don’t think I’ll sub to GP again. I’m not in a position to justify a subscription anymore. Just got too much going on atm.

@Yousef- I’ve only gotten to the sixth episode of JoJo but I love it. I love the characters (Jonathan is such a gentleman and Dio is an awesome and scary antagonist) and the presentation and animation is so great. I think a lot of people say the second half of the first season is the best, and I am looking forward to it. Though, with the anime site I am using, Crunchyroll, I’ll need to sub to a higher tier to watch the remaining seasons, and the fifth season isn’t even on there and is Netflix exclusive. Bummer, but I really do want to finish watching the anime, so I’ll wait a bit to get a new Crunchyroll sub. I was obsessed with JoJo years ago and drew the characters way too much even though I didn’t watch or read it lol. The artwork I made looked bad though haha. I think what got me into it was the intro songs. They all sounded amazing when I stumbled across them on a YouTube video three years ago! I had heard of JoJo before that, but never had an interest in it.

I would love to play Ratchet & Clank, I love platformers, but too bad I don’t have a PS4 anymore for it. Maybe one day!

I played that a lot and did like it. I believe there is a game that preceded it, called Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing, but they never made that one backwards compatible for newer Xbox consoles, which sucks, but Transformed is luckily backwards compatible! I am in the mood to buy a Sonic game soon, I was looking at Sonic Unleashed since I haven’t played it.

Game Pass sounds fun still, but I don’t have any interest in subbing again. It’s gotten too pricey, and the fact that they are now removing core features with one of the newer tiers makes me feel a certain way, sounds like they are pushing the pricey tier and trying to convince people to not buy the cheapest one by making it unappealing. It is nice they are finally including internet for the cheapest tier, but them removing the day one games thing (which was one of the main selling points of Game Pass) really made me annoyed. I don’t really care about Game Pass at the moment, maybe I will later, but not now. Also don’t have a lot of time to play the games in its large library.

EDIT: As an update to the JoJo part, I still am not done with season 1, but I finished the episodes covering Phantom Blood and got onto the 10th episode covering Battle Tendency, but I’ll watch more of that later cuz it’s early morning here and I’m actually getting sleepy! Phantom Blood’s ending is so bittersweet and I think I was a bit close to crying! So far from what I’ve seen in episode 10 I am really liking Joseph already. I think I’ve heard he is a fan favorite and I can clearly see why.

@Pastellioli I’m really happy you’re enjoying it. Jonathan is an incredibly good protagonist. Standard boyscout writing at its finest.
Dio is great, though he has a cool bit in the manga that doesn’t make it into the anime. I’ll post it whe you get there to avoid spoilers for now.

First ps2 R&C is on ps4, which I think is a great way to pop your R&C cherry. Unfortunately, the other two likely won’t make it due to Sony’s garbage negligence with game preservation.

Both Sonic Kart Racers on Xbox are fantastic. You’ll love both.
Edit: I’m lucky to already have banjo in my library. Means I won’t sub to play it.

@Yousef- Yeah, I loved Jonathan a ton, seeing him die in the end almost immediately after achieving happiness from his marriage to Erina after suffering for so long actually made me really sad. I don’t really feel things with fictional characters or get super attached to them, but that scene in the ship at the end made me super sad cuz I liked him a lot. Dio was super intimidating throughout the entire thing, and the other characters in there were great too. I can’t wait to see the later episodes in season 1 later today.

Hm, maybe I’ll pick up Transformed soon if I am in the mood. After seeing the Sonic 3 trailer, it sorta put me in a little Sonic mood.

Oh yeah, I’m glad I also have the Banjo games in my library too. I intentionally recommended two Rare games for the voting section in the game club because I don’t own any of the other games that they had available for voting. I actually joined the club for Conker because that was the only game there that I actually owned. I really like owning games more than having to rent or sub to play them. I almost instantly bought Rare Replay when I had a Game Pass sub a year ago so I could play it all the time and get a lot of fun out of it

@Pastellioli too true… too true… one of the best character arcs in the series already, and it only goes up from there!

Ate lots of lentil soup and pork today. So good! I ate a strawberry buttercream cake from the store since it was on clearance. Good stuff, I need to stop eating so much sugar.

Going to binge watch JoJo still. I did finish watching an episode of it today, but I didn’t get far into it yet. I’m in the mood to draw a character from it now…I was super obsessed with it before I even watched it and I loved drawing the characters so much, but my art skills were…lacking to say the least. I wish I could show my bad JoJo fanart so we can all have a laugh at it, but I lost it years ago when moving. I am actually planning the colors out already, but I need to make sure that I can make the characters fit into my art style. Sometimes characters look super off when I draw them in my art style.

@Pastellioli battle tendency is a phenomenal part, and it goes higher and higher as the series goes, with genuinely one of the greatest finales in all manga.

@Yousef- I can tell so far! The part with the grenades in the fight between Joseph and Straizo really shocked me and caught me off-guard. I unfortunately fell asleep while watching JoJo because it was so late, but I’ll continue watching it.

How is everyone doing? I’m super tired, feeling stupid and getting into my feelings way too much over something stupid I said in another thread, but hoping everyone else is having a better time than me. A few of the good things today was eating maple donuts and watching anime. Probably going to watch anime again until I fall asleep later. Didn’t feel like drawing at all.

I find it way too hard to be super happy right now and almost everyday. I feel like my happiness can only really be found in my hobbies and going outside while not having any responsibilities, but it only lasts for a few hours, and my low self-esteem never helps. I feel so bad whenever I make small mistakes or spread misinformation by accident that was passed off to me. Did that today on accident, and I feel so stupid and can’t stop thinking about how much I may have ticked someone off a lot and I just kept reprimanding myself a lot about it. I always try to deny that “words have power” as an excuse to be negative and insult myself, but sometimes as I type or write those words out, I feel really awful. I often insult myself as a joke, but they don’t make me feel better at all, and my current situation is just so negative and unhappy almost every day, and when I make mistakes like spreading misinformation by accident, I feel even more terrible for unintentionally causing problems and telling them what is essentially a lie.

Sometimes I think what I say on this site shouldn’t be said at all, but I can’t ever shut up about making lengthy posts and adding so much unnecessary info and comments. I’ll stop ranting, I think I am taking this way too seriously, but one of the worst feelings ever is unintentionally making someone extremely annoyed. I just wanted to get my feelings out there somehow.

@Pastellioli just had breakfast. It’s chapatti wraps with fried potatoes, boiled eggs and Kraft cream cheese inside and some chai. All very filling and great way to start my mourning.

I’m still contemplating getting into JJK and CSM as well as a similar manga; Undead Unluck, another shonen jump that’s very recent. But I’ll elaborate more on that later in the anime & manga thread as I have a lot to say there.

You don’t need to be so hard on yourself, making honest errors is not always your fault and you shouldn’t put yourself down so hard for making mistakes that aren’t always within your control. Erroring is not only human, it’s inevitable. We must learn from it and rise above, rather than let it consume and overcome us. It’s why even when I feel incredibly embarrassed about my mistakes, which happens quite often than I let on, I make my best effort to make it a lesson for me. A wisdom gained, rather than harm caused.

I hope you find the urge to draw again, and I’m sorry about your self-esteem. My advised way to combat it is to keep in touch with positive connections and get a healthy dose of positive feedback and make an effort to listen and make meaningful connections. That can certainly help ease up the internal pain.

Happiness being fleeting is much more common than you realize, don’t beat yourself up over the emotion suddenly go away. It’ll be back again. Hopefully stronger than ever.

I’d advise not spend so much time overthinking. Hobbies are a good distraction. Meditation helped me a lot too, and getting a ton of sleep too.

If it’s any consolation, “words have power” is something more commonly used with larger verbal influences. Such as insults or words said by a large influential figure. A small error made in a quick post in a thread that not everyone checks religiously isn’t actually something to worry about too much. No one will come after you for that and if they do, that’s on them and it’s not your fault at all.

I highly doubt you truly annoyed anyone here and trust me, if someone got genuinely annoyed by you, chances are it’s on them.

Don’t worry too much about “accidentally making someone feel worse”, fears like that can consume you. I would know.

Nah man, don’t self deprecate a lot. It’s unhealthy. A few silly jabs are fine but be careful about it. I also don’t think you should “talk less”. I can tell you from experience that doesn’t always work out how you expect them too.

You could maybe take a break though. That’s a valid option without a doubt. But it’s all up to you of course.