Man, this looks really promising.
I get the feel with occassionally being a bit of a toxic person. I tend to behave that way when i fall in love, becoming passive aggressive and mildly abusive. It's kinda strange, because it never felt really conscious for me. I have really improved in recent years, though and actually approaching the problems and expressing discomfort anger early instead of suppressing it has improved my social life quite a bit... I dunno, i used to see anger as something inappropriate and bad. Now i see it as a sign of myself being discontent and wanting something to change. If i don't listen to it and try to change things, i will start behaving in accordance with it... but maybe not in a way that i deem acceptable.
And while i do believe you weren't as bad as me, i do believe that approaching things more is a good thing for you as well. Indeed I feel like you've starting moving again, approaching things at your own pace. Don't forget every step you take is a step forward, no matter how small it may be: )
I'm really happy that you're starting to come to terms with your previous work, approaching problems getting better one tiny little step at a time is the way to go. Heh, this sounds so negative, but damn, composing 85 songs, i don't even know how to be this productive. I love how you always do these recaps. Sometimes things are just bad, but just look at where you are this year. You even made a release. You're quite right, it's a small step, but man, it is a step forward. At some point you might be able to take slightly larger steps, then larger still. I'm very much looking forward to seeing that. No worries, we're here to support you all the way, and i'm sure even your social skills might improve with more contact, if you go for it. If it stresses you out... don't worry, you seem to be capable of doing great things even in your free time.
I do wish you a great new year, cheers to you, Tobias,
Yours,
Sven
PS: You may wanna consider shifting the positions of the adversaries a tiny bit, so they don't block vision of each other.
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Tobias 1104~4Y
Attraction to other people does seem to bring out the worst in us sometimes. That's been the case for me, too. The purpose of anger is to express feelings of injustice, though, and to encourage change, so I'm not surprised to hear that expressing it in some form would help. One of the biggest problems I've had is that I try to be so open about everything myself, but I've grown close to people who just keep quiet about their frustrations until they become unbearable and they leave, without even telling me what I did wrong. I would have appreciated if they'd actually expressed their anger early so then it never got to that point. So I know I have crippling social defects and I'd never deny that, but it's not as if the fault is 100% mine. I wish everyone were better at communicating.
Thanks for your comment, anyway.
I'm not sure what you mean by the last bit though! What are you referring to?
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Phantomfrettchen2~4Y
Yeah. I feel ya with the communicating stuff. I've heard a couple developmental psychologists suggest that there has been a strong decline in social skills in young people. This is actually interesting, as it goes hand in hand with a steep increase in anxiety disorders and depression. It reminded me of what i'd learned about how we learn. And how one cannot really empathise as well when one outscources interactions to the internet. I wonder if error related negativity can trigger high enough of a response on the internet to initiate a change of behavior and thereby learning. If the neural response is in fact lower as we cannot mirror our opposites emotions as well online, this would explain a problem in social skills in our and younger generations. If we then assume that relatively bad social skills(for your age) can be related to insecurity with social situations...
Kinda funny how i'm an absolute internet addict that starts to actually question it quite a bit.
As for the game:
I feel like the way the characters are positioned behind each other might actually hide them behind each other. So it might be best to actually break them up a bit perhaps in a formation like:
------2--------------2----------
5------------------------------5
------1------vs------1---------
4------------------------------4
------3--------------3----------
That way the characters might have a little more room for themselves. I mean you're already doing this in part. But currently it's more like
10----5----------5----10
9-----4----------4-----9
8-----3--- vs----3----8
7-----2----------2-----7
6-----1----------1-----6
What you displayed there looked a bit clogged. I understand the desire to go for bigger battles, but but this can go at the cost of general overview. It might be better actually going for waves, as when you increase the number of combatants, you not only diminish the impact each singular character has on the fight, in addition to their visual representation in it. This wouldn't be a problem if this were a massive battle in which individuals don't play a role. But in a heroic story, going for too many characters and having them in each others space just diminishes each individuals impact.
I get the feel with occassionally being a bit of a toxic person. I tend to behave that way when i fall in love, becoming passive aggressive and mildly abusive. It's kinda strange, because it never felt really conscious for me. I have really improved in recent years, though and actually approaching the problems and expressing discomfort anger early instead of suppressing it has improved my social life quite a bit... I dunno, i used to see anger as something inappropriate and bad. Now i see it as a sign of myself being discontent and wanting something to change. If i don't listen to it and try to change things, i will start behaving in accordance with it... but maybe not in a way that i deem acceptable.
And while i do believe you weren't as bad as me, i do believe that approaching things more is a good thing for you as well. Indeed I feel like you've starting moving again, approaching things at your own pace. Don't forget every step you take is a step forward, no matter how small it may be: )
I'm really happy that you're starting to come to terms with your previous work, approaching problems getting better one tiny little step at a time is the way to go. Heh, this sounds so negative, but damn, composing 85 songs, i don't even know how to be this productive. I love how you always do these recaps. Sometimes things are just bad, but just look at where you are this year. You even made a release. You're quite right, it's a small step, but man, it is a step forward. At some point you might be able to take slightly larger steps, then larger still. I'm very much looking forward to seeing that. No worries, we're here to support you all the way, and i'm sure even your social skills might improve with more contact, if you go for it. If it stresses you out... don't worry, you seem to be capable of doing great things even in your free time.
I do wish you a great new year, cheers to you, Tobias,
Yours,
Sven
PS: You may wanna consider shifting the positions of the adversaries a tiny bit, so they don't block vision of each other.
Thanks for your comment, anyway.
I'm not sure what you mean by the last bit though! What are you referring to?
Kinda funny how i'm an absolute internet addict that starts to actually question it quite a bit.
As for the game:
I feel like the way the characters are positioned behind each other might actually hide them behind each other. So it might be best to actually break them up a bit perhaps in a formation like:
------2--------------2----------
5------------------------------5
------1------vs------1---------
4------------------------------4
------3--------------3----------
That way the characters might have a little more room for themselves. I mean you're already doing this in part. But currently it's more like
10----5----------5----10
9-----4----------4-----9
8-----3--- vs----3----8
7-----2----------2-----7
6-----1----------1-----6
What you displayed there looked a bit clogged. I understand the desire to go for bigger battles, but but this can go at the cost of general overview. It might be better actually going for waves, as when you increase the number of combatants, you not only diminish the impact each singular character has on the fight, in addition to their visual representation in it. This wouldn't be a problem if this were a massive battle in which individuals don't play a role. But in a heroic story, going for too many characters and having them in each others space just diminishes each individuals impact.