Alright, I think this is kind of due. Where was I for the past 2-3ish months?
To put it short: I got desinterested with a lot of things, as I come to find out when I have too many things under my plate. To give you a perspective as to what's been going on...
- I'm currently working on Project OutFox, doing the Mac thingamajigs.
- I'm also managing the StepMania Archive, which is still for the most part manual.
- I've been making animations under the RykeShrk moniker, and that's been popping off.
- I've been on the hunt to get a stable full-time job.
- I've been studying how Metal 3/4 works so I can help out with future OutFox endevours once Apple removes OpenGL from macOS.
- I've tackled into the Vulkan API, and made some tweaks to a [Quake 2 port that uses it] (https://github.com/JoseVarelaP/vkQuake2).
- I've dove deep into GTA:SA modding and been continuing development on a V-Styled hud mod.
And you can pretty much call some of these distractions, cause now looking back, they pretty much are; but at the time, I thought of them as different escapades. Hell, I've even been having more fun doing animations than programming, which isn't really something that you should be thinking about in a job-like scenario.
Other things that have also kept me silent has been the many many adventures with my family, not that I have any beef with anyone, its just that I'm pretty much along for the ride for most of the feuds that occur. One of such events I showcased briefly on my BlueSky, since I don't really like sharing my life around, even right now. I know that I need to talk with people to just vent out what has been going on, cause if you just keep it to yourself, it can be very detremental for your wellbeing as you feel caged from being able to speak about it. I'll just leave that part as that.
As a way of distraction as well, I've been getting a lot more into VRChat with my friends, and those are really fun. As a word of advice: just hang out with your friends in VR, there's just no point going to public instances if at the end of the day you're going to be bombarded with misery.
Its funny, this is the second time I'm trying to write this out. The original one, "Biting more than I can chew", was back in May. That should give you some kind of idea of when I tried to go back, and then trouble started rising again, so I still had to be away. That original version also was a lot more out of rails...
Hopefully this can serve as an explanation as to why I just ghosted everyone. I know some won't like it, and that's understandable.