Downshift 54 Posted March 22, 2019 Bruh, tell me you have Smash Ultimate on the Switch 2 ISO Share this post Link to post
Shade Aurion 54 Posted March 23, 2019 Thanks guys. I missed the Center TBH What's new? Well, I quit smoking and am now 90kg or nearly 200pounds give or take (not good with conversion) am at the gym turning it into muscle so one day I can beat up Chax though I'll probably still lose to Jenny. The Metal Review is at a healthy 5-10k monthly viewership whether I neglect it or not, DudeGoBack is about to pass 1000 episodes. Also I have been writing proper gaming reviews and recently got picked up by a guy who works in IGN/TechRadar/Etc so I'll be a paid gaming journalist soon. On top of that I'm developing 3 games including a secret remake of Zelda 2 in LTTP/Minish Cap style/graphics and have completed 1/3 of the entire world map. So yeah, I keep busy. I'm a pretty different guy TBH. I've been regularly seeing psychiatrists and psychologists for years, have a heart monitor implanted in my chest with Bluetooth and connected to my phone, have to take 6 pills daily and just turned 33. No Switch yet, just got out of debt from moving to a way bigger apartment with the best internet I've seen in this smouldering coal of a nation. Bought a whole house on new furniture etc. But, am saving for a Switch now. I need it to record episodes and review games with regardless (plus new pokemon. Oh lord he comin!) Long story short, being an adult sucks. I miss not caring about stuff or needing to. Here's a photo of my cat. 1 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
webhead 519 Posted March 23, 2019 Jesus that is a lot of updates to unpack. First off, congrats on quitting smoking. Fuck that shit. The earlier you stop the better. Weight gain is a bitch there but that weight doesn't sound too bad for you. Shit I wish I was 200 again. For the gaming journalism stuff, way to go! Have you written anything you can link to? Would love to support you! Also show us your work on that game!!! Heart thing... You have an AFib problem or something else? Curious. 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
Shade Aurion 54 Posted March 23, 2019 Being a chonk is alright. It kinda went everywhere so I'm just in general physically larger. I have shed the body of a Chinese girl and am now mostly a man. Sadly all my good clothes don't fit and now I wear the newer fatter variety and only have like 2-3 pairs of everything that I refer to as my fat pants/shirts. I swear I'm like 3 times stronger too. Currently writing for Bonus Stage but one of the guys that works under Dan Stapleton recently informed be that Bonus Stage is a reputation gamble due to shady dealings in the past. Then both he and Jason Coles of EuroGamer both referred me to the guy setting me up. I still have two review obligations to Bonus Stage before I'm done with them but here's what I've done recently: https://www.bonusstage.co.uk/author/glen-nilsson/ Last 2 reviews are Shadow of Adam and crap.. Either Killer7 or Killer is Dead. One of them recently re-released on Steam in HD. Can't remember which lol As for my Zelda 2 remake (slyly titled AZ2R) is there like.. A sub-forum for gaming or whatever? I'll need to jump on my PC to do that. Essentially done 4/5s of Western Hyrule and mapped all dungeons on paper. It's actually transitioning well. It will be a long and ongoing process and I won't release or teaser demo anything til it's complete anywhere but here to keep it unknown before the full version is launched so as to avoid DMCA prior to release but it'll be as true as possible to the original only changing it to a top down action adventure. Sadly no more jump thrust or downward stab but there will be a few substitutions and advanced implementations of new items to make the game more consistent with the series but also more.. Ahh.. Traversable? You know, varied in terrain with more usable items, puzzles, etc. Less primitive. Other two games are my long revised and retconned jrpg and an action adventure survival horror, the latter being based in the Russian tundra in an old derelict missile silo with a dig site at the base ? As for my dumb heart I apparently have a slow heart, arrhythmia, had tier 1 and 2 heart blocks but the tier 2 one is gone. Basically I am encouraged to be a sloth so I'm cool with that. Almost worse than that, I have had pleurisy for over a year and am still on the ass end of that. After it hurting when I breath for so long I convinced myself I was dying but apparently I'm fine but I can't be medicated for it and just need to wait a billion years for it to go away lol 2 ISO Share this post Link to post
Hornet 114 Posted March 23, 2019 I cannot picture a chonk Shade. Shit don't parse. GJ on being a writer now mayn, sorry to hear about the health stuff. fucking Pleurisy?? What???? That's the sort of disease you hear about in fuckin wild west stories. You sound like you've really accomplished a lot with a lot of bad shit going on and that's mad commendable. How'd you quit smoking? Just "Fuck This Shit" or Nicotine Replacement Therapy or whut? 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
webhead 519 Posted March 23, 2019 @Shade Aurion There's a video game forum here of course! Throw up a topic, my friend. I'll also link to your little author profile in our quick links on the portal. I'm keeping a running list of community people's related websites. Sorry to hear about the heart problems though man. That is a bummer. I'm glad you finally got all that health shit looked at though. 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
Shade Aurion 54 Posted March 24, 2019 16 hours ago, Hornet said: I cannot picture a chonk Shade. Shit don't parse. GJ on being a writer now mayn, sorry to hear about the health stuff. fucking Pleurisy?? What???? That's the sort of disease you hear about in fuckin wild west stories. You sound like you've really accomplished a lot with a lot of bad shit going on and that's mad commendable. How'd you quit smoking? Just "Fuck This Shit" or Nicotine Replacement Therapy or whut? Thanks dude. Honestly I stopped because they were costing too much and tasting more and more like chemicals. A pack of 25s go for around $30-35 here now. $65 for a 40g punch. It's literally cheaper to smoke weed but I'm pretty straight edge now. Don't smoke, don't drink, no more raves or festivals (though I miss my flamboyant poly lifestyle sometimes XD) Pleurisy is awful. It's like a fungal or viral infection which is essentially next level pneunonia and I couldnt get antibiotics for it. It's sometimes a symptom of cancer or tuberculosis but thankfully I have neither. It's the worst. If I had to describe it, early on its like putting a rubber band around a balloon and trying to blow it up. That's how breathing felt. Later it's like a hedgehog inside a balloon. Breath out too much and sharp pains. I still feel pain here and there and feel strain but I'm nearly through it after a whole year. I quit smoking beforehand but if I hadn't that would have driven it home XD Writing felt like a natural path to take. I used to bitch about music and games online so I might aswell do it professionally. I also do politics and am launching the new Australian democratic socialist party and am only 486 signatures away from being able to be legitimately voted for as a party in federal elections but I'm aiming for next term 4 years from now. Buuut politics is banned here so I'll just leave it at that. Suffice to say many of my views have changed over the years, some refined and reinforced. Interesting what happens when you study, read and change your views based on the facts rather then the other way around. It fucks my head up how shitty my opinion was on a lot of things in the past. But hey, better I get where I want to be eventually then never lol 16 hours ago, webhead said: @Shade Aurion There's a video game forum here of course! Throw up a topic, my friend. I'll also link to your little author profile in our quick links on the portal. I'm keeping a running list of community people's related websites. Sorry to hear about the heart problems though man. That is a bummer. I'm glad you finally got all that health shit looked at though. Nice, will do. It's been on hiatus for like 2 months now as I rotate projects so I don't lose interest. I'll put up a bunch of work in progress pics though. I have a bunch done and a lot on paper and already planned out. Yeah health is a bitch sometimes. That's life though. Cruel mortality constantly reiterating that we're lucky to be here and likely always taking it for granted haha 2 ISO Share this post Link to post
Hornet 114 Posted March 24, 2019 I think they'll probably let you slide a little on the "no politics" rule to tell us you're running for office holy shit. 6 ISO Share this post Link to post
Jane 100 Posted March 24, 2019 18 hours ago, Hornet said: I cannot picture a chonk Shade. Shit don't parse. Yes, this! Jeez, Shade, lots of love to you - it sounds like you've been through a lot. It sounds like you're handling all the challenges so well. Good to see you here, and good luck with your health as well as the mountain of things that you're up to! 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
Garlic Junior 136 Posted March 24, 2019 Glad you decided to join of your own accord. If you hadn't I was going to start pestering you The politics stuff sounds super interesting actually. We'll need to talk more about it off-site for sure! 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
Shade Aurion 54 Posted March 24, 2019 Aww you guys. I missed this place to be real. Things just got too polarised while I was going through a lot of bad shit with my health, wasn't medicated, etc. Passionate debate turned into arguments far too easily trying to have open conversation about partisan issues where some people were just never going to change their mind and just wanted to argue their stance. It became easy to snap at people, be nasty and eventually get toxic. It wasn't good for my head space or the Center for me to be around in the state I was in. I needed to get my shit together in a lot of ways. I thought about you guys a lot, even those I probably pissed off beyond reason. Eventually I reflected on a lot of people's words during past disagreements. Because of Slyph I studied up about European and UK political history out of curiosity and am now a proud Democratic Socialist (though happy with Social Democracy) and am a proud Liberal Feminist/Egalitarian. The man was right about so much. Because of arguments with Downshift, I now keep a healthy balance in my political news feed because I know for a fact that like him there are good conservatives with integrity out there. I spent a long time considering my perspectives and researching theory/history to learn more and validate my stance on a lot of things instead of knee jerk reactions and pure emotional responses, and while I may disagree with some independant and conservatives I follow on fundamental issues, I at least know that they have conviction in their values and truly believe they're doing the right thing. I can respect a difference of opinion and focus on what I agree with people on and compromise on the rest. It's when people lose integrity and conviction in what they stand for when I have a problem. Charlatans, fakes.. People who flip flop on their values to ride the coat tails of other temporary politicians. It's sad and hollow to me. I actually like being wrong as it's an opportunity to learn. I change my views to suit facts because it's always better that way and I wish I was always so calm minded as I am now. Divisiveness can be dangerous. That shit out of the way, I'll refrain from discussing politics any further. Okay, that said I may not have ever returned, but MT was like "Yo, no politics, no Chax conspiracies" and I was sold. That's a happy feel good Center I can be into. I'm still passionate about issues but frankly I'm emotionally exhausted with arguing politics online. I'll stick to building a real IRL party and The Center being a chill zone ?? 1 2 ISO Share this post Link to post
MT 917 Posted March 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Garlic Junior said: Glad you decided to join of your own accord. Yeah, about that... 1 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
Galeigh 308 Posted March 24, 2019 1 hour ago, MT said: Yeah, about that... Shhhh... Let him have it. 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
Tassifox 418 Posted March 25, 2019 Far as I know you were good w me brah. I still kept in link with your FB posts at least even if they were mostly memes. 2 ISO Share this post Link to post
Hornet 114 Posted March 25, 2019 How anyone could get any truths out of the sheer fuckin foaming vitriol and bitterness of my typical posting IDK. There was a modpost on the Zizek subreddit recently about how important it is to try to be a pro in discussions/debates because there is an instinctive revulsion/opposition to signs of jouissance in an interlocutor where we just don't want to agree with them... We don't want to be on the side of someone who appears in some way to be getting off on yelling at people. You must be a very singular person indeed to be able to get anything out of being yelled at for no raisin other than This Asshole's ego and I'm impressed. Thanks for listening. 4 ISO Share this post Link to post
webhead 519 Posted March 25, 2019 You know for once I actually understood something you said. Well said. ISO Share this post Link to post
Deszae 88 Posted March 27, 2019 Welp, I learned a new word today.? 1 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
Garlic Junior 136 Posted March 29, 2019 I just noticed the tag on this topic 1 ISO Share this post Link to post
