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Tom Brien @I-smel

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Here's a blog of me being a dick

Posted by I-smel - February 1st, 2010


>:(

jknow like I was makin that stupid fucking game right, since like 1996 or whatever stupid fucking long-ass time? well guess what I STILL FUCKING AM. I STILL AM. I'M STILL HERE, STILL DOING THIS AND I WILL BE UNTIL THE END OF TIME.

I wanted to finish it last year, then I wanted to finish it for January, and guess what now it's February 2010 and this is absolutely killing me. It's at that magical fabulous point where it takes half an hour to open, then crashes every 3 minutes. It's 4am. This is what time I go to bed now.

I so want to drop it an just delete everything, but I've put SO MUCH into this that it'd be as if I'd wasted all that time and effort on nothing. Also I'd look like an absolute idiot. When I had my last job (NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR.) they asked what I was gonna do and the only plan I had was to finish this game, then make a plan. It's now February. People are asking have I made any games recently, I just say no.

I HAVE A BEARD.

Every time I release a new game I feel more n more like some retard kid on the internet who's wastin his time doing weird shit. Like a guy who cuts anime clips to pop songs and put em on Youtube. Or a guy who makes a vlog apologising to imaginary people that his Legend of Zelda parody will be pushed back.
I used to think I was that guy, but at this point I'm fucking certain.

I should be gettin a job, or learning to drive, or fuckin y'know- doing anything else. GETTING A GIRLFRIEND, HOW BOUT I TRY THAT? But anything I do that's not making this game will prolong the amount of time that I'm in this state of unfinished.

I WAS THINKIN (like a fool) I WAS THINKIN Y'KNOW maybe tonight I'll put the cutscenes in, even though they aren't animated, an I'll fix that save|load shit, an I'll throw it out fo testin. Just cos I could do with a milestone. An hour somehow turned into a day, an now it's 4:10am, and Im going to bed.

Pretty sure my family think I'm a retard. Including me. What do I even do after this game's finished in fucking 2063 or whenever? All the possible 5-year-plans I could've had av bin destroyed over the passed year. I can't get a job in games cos there is nowhere lookin for anyone at my level this side o the country, I can't just make a load of more financially efficient (by which I mean smaller) Flash games cos then at what point do I grow up, I could go to uni but that's 2 o 3 years of classes with people who've never opened 3DSmax, do I throw it all away an get a normal job? I know people who are renting flats and getting engaged; I'm still doin this same weird nerd shit I was doin in high school. I'm on newgrounds for fuck sake- remember newgrounds? dot com? that, yknow, that games site. All my stuff's on there. My username? Oh well its I FUCKING SMELL. SPELT WRONG.

WHY AM I THE ONLY DUMBASS WHO WRITES POSTS LIKE THIS? Everyone else on Newgrounds just seems to say HEY GUYS, NEW GAME, HERE IT IS or post a youtube video or something. I guess I'm doin this wrong n all.

Right, I'm not makin this game anymore.

Fuck, I allready sold it. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I could release it now, but it wouldn't have any plot, so it'd be nowhere near it's potential. I'm not doin that.

In other news NOTHING. cos this is what's bin in my head for about the passed month, an in that time I've done fuck all else. Except for y'know, social stuff. I still go out. I don't mention any o this cos people'd think I was a fucking psycho.

course I can talk about it on the internet, cos I dont fuckin know any o youz, so it doesnt matter.
This is pathetic. I should kick the shit out of myself. Now it's 4:47.

I'm gonna check this tomorrow, an there's gonna be one of two things:
1-no replies. maybe one from a guy bein like- comedically dissmissive.
or 2-A load of people telling me I'm a fucking idiot and need to stop crying about dumb shit on the internet, which; yeah thanks, that's allready the first thing on my mnd.
or 3-someone actin like they only read this next comment that doesnt relate to anything, and commenting on that.

I watched avatar in 3d, I liked the the little helicopter lizard guy, I thought it was a bit sad that he had to spin about in circles whenever he wanted to fly somewhere, he must get well dizzy.

Here's a blog of me being a dick


Comments

Your "One of two things" covers every possible aspect of commenting. I'm trying to think of a way to get around it, but it's foolproof :C

I know exactly what you mean... god dammit this flash project on my mac right now is fucking lagging like crazy. >:(

lol your guess at when you said you'd make it was 1996? You were like 4 back then!

DAMMIT IT IS FOOLPROOF

ummm okay figure out a resolution....

FINISH THIS GAME.... then.....

QUIT... for ...ummm.... SOME TIME... and....

DO REAL LIFE STUFF.... and come back 3 years later with news of succes (hopefully)

.....

dam we need more ppl living your life to understand this problem maybe get a placeholder job for the time being then think some more

I did that from december to january, an now Im back here

Friends getting engaged at 18/19? Crazy. You can also get a normal job and not have to sacrifice this stuff at all. Just manage your time. As for your project, you can just forget about it (which it sounds like you can't), or just churn that shit out and be done with it.

Anyways, who gives a fuck what other people are doing or if they think you're an idiot or slacking behind? Fuck em.

i would go to school personally. you can teach yourself a lot when you have people to show off to and compete with

your stuck in the game slump, you work on something for so long you get sick of it. Take a couple months off, come back and you will have a fresh perspective.

Ive done that loads o times, that's why it's took this long.

I used to get that feeling of "what the fuck am I doing making flash games for newgrounds? I should be doing something more cool!"
but I got over it

I get that feeling roughly this time every month

Dude, you have a brilliant sense of humor and great taste in game design.

You have got a lot of time ahead of you and a lot more marketable skills than the guys who spent their high school years on the sports team. Things will turn out all right in the end.

You can always go to school or go to work.

I would like to see something of the game. Maybe some positive feedback from newgrounds would help

Why does it crash? Is it that epic? Also, maybe upgrade RAM or something so you can continue working on what hopefully will be awesome, given how long you've been working on it? Would you really drop 10 years of your life? I mean, it seems like it's nothing but problems now... but what will you feel like when you realize that you've wasted all that time for naught.

If you abandon it now, all that time you spent on the game is gone. You can't get it back. You can't go back in time to spend your time getting a job, a girlfriend, a family...but you can finish this. Or, you can put it on hold until you manage to get a better computer. Put it on hold for a while if possible. Is there a due date for this, since you said you sold it? Get a job, a girlfriend. Eventually, upgrade your computer and resume your work. That is, once your life has been sorted out and you feel comfortable with it.

Oh, and that lizard guy was awesome.

Also, if I've been trolled into posting a serious reply... Well, at least these 1,000 characters or so were counted by WhatPulse. And I got a post which somebody with ADHD would reply to with "tl;dr".

Enjoy your life, successful troll and/or annoyed flash game developer. Either way, you successfully passed ~10 minutes of my time.

Man, I never saw you as some dumb kid. I'm expecting great things from you, please don't let me down :( Keep doin what you're doing, the girls'll flock to ya, i promise! :O

was three things.
Im just saying is all

Dont bother with Uni its a waste of time, youve already got the skills. Theyll just make you work twice as hard to get good grades for everyone else.

I see where youre coming from, spending so much time working on your own can be really really demoralizing. My advice would be to do some smaller collaborative projects after LoJ, I find its a lot easier to stay motivated when working in a team on a game.

Is the game massive enough to sell to xbox live? Wait no, of course it would be. It has games like puzzle-quest which were probably made over a weekend.
Incidentally, I'm starting to make a game which will probably take me several years and I'm not skilled enough to do it. Reading this post was like a terrifying window into the future and now I'm scared.

DONT MAKE THAT GAME!! I AM THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTUTE.

Actually now that I think of it, most of your stuff would be great for xbox live. Shit, I'd buy any of them. Bit late now seeing as they're on the internet for free, but... well yeah.

I was makin an amped up Robot Dinosaurs in 3D at one point; I've still got a whole bunch of assets. The problem was that mates in college who say they're programmers usually aren't :(

Usually I don't reply to shit like this but,

I'm making a living making small/medium flash games. You mention that in your blog that you'll be stuck their, but that's untrue, you can keep making them practicing game design/art/programming till -

1. You make a full indie game that sells like Braid
2. Your website starts to make an income from ads e.g armorgames
3. You make an online game that requirs money that you can work on heaps like your above game except you release in patches.

Anyways this probably won't fucking do any fucking help or difference but hey...your blog was funny, so you get the pointers for that.

IN OTHER NEWS, HAVE SEX WITH MIDGETS AND YOULL BE LAUGHEN SO MUCH IT WILL EASE THE PAIN OF GAME MAKING.

- Eggys wonderful tips of the day.

in 1996 you were four years old

I WAS EXXAGERATING.

"Helicopter lizard guy"...?

I prefer posts like this to the majority of the waste-of-a-privilege-and-opportunity front page posts. This is the real shit people go through when trying to realize a grand vision. And you could be doing whatever most other people are doing but none of them will leave anything cool behind when they're gone.

Yeah I like people stories.

an I'm not a big fan o the leave-something-behind idea. I mean- if you're Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandella or somethin then yes- Flash game, not so much. Thanks anyway.
You are kind of right in the way that I'm the first result on Google for my name though, I don't know anyone else with that. That's probably yr point.

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