Hello people of the world! Hope you are all doing well. I'm doing my damndest to continue making blog posts, especially because I've started to connect with so many kind and creative people on Neocities. What a great idea for a platform Neocities is. A place for people to connect over things that they actually put time and effort into, versus somewhere people can just post their thoughts with not much effort.

On that note, I do want to say that I promise that I'm going to implement the other parts of the site at some point. To be frank, I was so happy that I got the blog to function at all that I stopped updating the other parts. Another concern of mine is that I would like to make the other pages visually distinct from the main page and blog, but I'm not quite sure how I'm gonna go about that yet.

In other news, I have recently begun making friends at my school! I'm really happy about this, because recently it's been difficult for me to tell if I wasn't making friends because other people were acting strange, or if it was me. The first time I went out to eat with these new friends, one of the first things that came up in conversation was 'Hey, these people are kind of weird right?' It was so cathartic to hear those words out of someone else's mouth, I can't even describe the feeling.

I started writing this entry the other night and totally forgot to finish it. I'm now running on very little sleep, so I apologize for the even less organized post than usual. Thanks so much for reading.

Hello all! I hope everyone is doing well. Immediately after writing that I realized I don't know if there even is an 'everyone' to refer to here, because I'm not sure how much of my site stats are bots/scrapers and how much is real people.

Anyways, I've been doing well. First week back at uni has gone very well. It's funny, recently I've gone from neglecting my homework because I was playing video games, to neglecting my homework because I'm working on personal projects. Kid me wouldn't believe their eyes! I am trying to work on personal projects because if the games industry is really the way that people say it is, I don't really want to go the traditional route. I want to be in control of IP and software that I create with friends, and not be beholden to other interests beyond what is required for continued existence as a development house.

That's not to say that I don't understand the career-oriented nature of things nowadays. People are struggling now more than ever, and are desperate for security. Even with all of those factors, I still think there's never been a better time in the history of games to go independent than right now, and that only gets more true as open source tools increase in quality and more people become disillusioned with the live-service model of games.

I realize that I'm writing in a very unstructured manner, which typically I would be unhappy with. Here, however, is a place for me and my thoughts to be laid out as they occur to me. I think I'll continue to write this way. Thanks so much for reading.

Hello again! Sorry about the rambling nature of the last entry, I was more concerned with writing something just to fill out the space and make sure the scroll element was working properly. Not that the things in the entry aren't accurate to what I believe, but the structure of the post definitely left plenty of room for improvement.

In other news, the first day of class at my university has gone reasonably well. My first class of the day was a Design class specifically tooled towards what I am trying to do in life, which is probably going to be game development. The professor is the same one that I had last time for my drawing class, who is amazing. It was also cool to find out that this professor has at least some familiarity with the video game world, because they had not mentioned previously that they did. The other class I was supposed to have today was cancelled because the professor was sick, and I hope they feel better soon. Sucks that it happened on the first day of class though.

I also got the opportunity to speak with a fellow student who I knew vaguely from my previous classes for some time, which was really nice. It's funny, as isolated as my generation of people are, much of it is self-imposed/learned behavior. Often if I go even slightly out of my way to try to connect with someone they are very willing to talk, it's just that most people have trouble making that initial connection. For a long time I thought 'something must be wrong with me, nobody is approaching me!' when in reality the problem is more like nobody is approaching anyone.

I'm also working on a game in my free time that I'm really excited about. I don't want to say a ton because a lot of the details aren't ironed out yet, but rest assured that when they are this place will be hearing about it.

All in all, I'd say a pretty great start to this period of classes. Not sure how often I'm going to update this blog, might be daily, might just be when I feel like it. I hope whoever's reading this has a great rest of their day and that maybe I added some extra perspective to it.

Hello people of the world! This is my first blog entry and I'm happy to finally get around to implementing it. This website is something I'm working on in my spare time, and I often take long breaks from projects like that.

My life has been going exceptionally well, to start off with. I just got back to university after winter break, and I was sad to leave my family but after just a day back at school, I'm excited at all of the opportunities for socialization that it offers.

I am someone who has always been comfortable with solitude, but I think after 2020 I (and the world at large) got too comfortable with it, and at this point I welcome opportunity for in person connection. As someone who grew up online, it's disconcerting to realize that in our excitement for the global connection offered by the internet, we allowed ourselves to be penned into walled gardens by large companies which only have the bottom line in mind.

In my opinion, going forward we need to make real efforts to convince people to ditch social media and return to the web as it used to exist. This can be difficult. Often when I bring up just the subject of social media and the harm it does at a massive scale I am looked at as if I am suggesting they join my cult, which in a way I suppose I am.

Fortunately, the effects of the harm caused by social media are becoming severe enough that even the average consumer is beginning to notice. This means that part of the job of convincing people to leave these platforms is being done for us.

Alright, first entry completed. Thanks so much for reading and stay sharp out there!

Fortunately, the future has not yet occurred...

Fortunately, the future has not yet occurred...

Fortunately, the future has not yet occurred...