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What's been done?

Scooby

• Added music and sound effects
• Tweaking

Misc

• Streeeeeeeeeess

Nothing too exciting work-wise. We are in the final stages so it’s mostly just testing and tweaks. Other than crying over Ren’py’s horrible animation system there isn’t much exciting going on. The issue with animations in Ren’py is, they are very static for an animation. You can set up the frames and the timing between them, but if you want that timing to be dynamic, you’re shit out of luck. In the intro for Scooby for example, we are driving in the van and want the trees to come in random intervals. I thought I’d figured out how to do that but then later discovered during a tweak that it doesn’t actually work.. It sets the random interval alright.. The first time.. And then never gain.. Even though it’s calling the function.. The only way to change anything in the animation is by reloading it.. Resetting everything and making it look janky as fuck.. Fun times..

Personal shit 

(you can skip this, it's fine, just me ranting for way too long, give Bannerlord a go sometime though, pretty fun)

Eeeeey, it’s time for one of these again =D. So what’s going on with me? Well, the good news is that I’ve been signed up for a program for autists, so at some point I’ll get some help =3. The bad news? I’m without meds again, because of my reaction to the previous meds the psychiatrist wants to be more hands on with tests and such.. But corona kinda threw a wrench in that plan, so I’ll be my usual mess again for a while =<.

This was followed by a week of pure stress, as I decided to get a new car radio =D. The problem though.. I decided to put it in myself, after people kept going on about how easy it is. What could possibly go wrong? So I watch some videos and it all  looks easy enough, I see I need an adapter to connect it so I order one, and realize the car doesn’t come with the tools to remove the old radio so I get those as well. Adapter comes in and I find half of it isn’t connected, fine, I triple check everything before connecting it all.. Only to realize I put them in reverse order. FINE, I struggle for 15 minutes to get these annoying shits out and finally get them in right (after fucking up 1 more cable).

I get into my care and remove the old radio, to realize.. THE ANTENNA ALSO NEEDS A FUCKING ADAPTER!.. FINE! I didn’t listen to the radio (I use bluetooth to listen to spotify as I can’t stand even the smallest amount of white noise) anyway and this one came with a DAB antenna anyway.. Then I discovered a loose cable labeled “steering wheel control” (this is the sole reason I bought this radio, so I can use my steering wheel controls for spotify), but it has no connector so I can’t connect it..Whatever, I’ll order a connector for it later, right now I just want to be done with the radio.. I finish plugging it in AAAAAAAND it doesn’t turn on..

At this point the research for the radio, how to plug it in and the adapters had already stressed me out several days and now it doesn’t even turn on?! I was just done.. Angry, stressed and tired of it all..Ended up calling a mechanic to fix it for me, he mentions that I’d need an adapter for the steering wheel controls.. That apparently costs $100.. We start talking about different radios, maybe go for one with a screen and I ask him if it would show my parking sensors.. To which he replied “Oh you have parking sensors? You’ll need an adapter for that”.. Which would cost another $80.. Why can’t it be like the old days where you buy a radio and just plug it in.. Noooo you have to have 20 fucking adapters.. T.T

So yea.. Diving into a new world like that is already very stressful for me, having everything go wrong and getting surprises thrown at me left and right only made it worse and having to call up a stranger is a big nono for me as well.. So that basically killed me for most of last week.. I’ll be driving to the mechanic tomorrow to see what my options are now, cause I just want to be fucking done.. Never touching a car myself again, I’ll leave it to the experts xD

In an attempt to destress I decided to give Bannerlord.. And boy, was that a mistake.. Both in a good and a bad way. It certainly kept me distracted alright. The first time I started it was at 2 am, I thought I’d give it a quick look, finish creating a character and maybe play the tutorial or something.. I went to bed 7 hours later xD. It’s a fun game but the longer you play the more you can see it’s an early access game. Now that I have some land and armies the game becomes very tedious, because you can’t control other armies, only yours. So three factions declare war on you and start sieging 5 places. You can only go to one of those locations and HOPE that your allies will go to the other places and not slam their face into an army ten times their size.. The diplomacy also kinda sucks.. Wel.. It doesn’t exist, the only thing you can do is declare war (by attacking someone directly), convert someone to your side (answer 4 questions each with their own rng but if you are at war with them you will get all of their land as well) and peace out.. Now.. Peacing out is the worst thing about this game, because you can’t just peace out with a faction in a menu. No no, you have to talk to someone for that.. Except you have no clue where they are and if your army is too big they’ll run away from you and be faster.. Fun times.. T.T

What’s next?

Scooby

• Finish up the build

BenX

• Mainly just tweaking and looking over old notes

Misc

• Camp Pinewood 2.8
• Unity
• Discord bot
• Tutorial

Yea, nothing changed here, still finishing up Scooby and with the stressventure I had going on I didn’t have the energy to do anything else (Just Scooby was too much already at times). I’ll try and do Camp Pinewood at least this time round and really no clue about the 3 other misc’s, because they are all new things and I’m not sure if I could suffer another defeat at the moment.. But we’ll see I guess, let’s hope I can at least scratch off some things off that list this time!

Until the next time,
A defeated Akanoes