Ok, I had some time to cool off and I made some changes to my day. While going into my personal life and explaining why I am the way I am, I don't want to burden people with my numerous issues nor do I want to give excuses for my lack of being civil with people. I can maybe explain things better at DM but about a little over a year ago, I was at my lowest. This probably started in the winter of 2022 though.
Let's just say that the end result was that I was alone, drove away most of my friends and family, was still in debt, was arrested twice, and even experienced homelessness for a small part of last spring. This is why I am working so much: so I can pay my debts, avoid the streets, and do right by everyone. I felt I was in a good place when starting this thread again because I had stable employment that pays very well and a place to stay. But the job got busy around September and the stress of the job has increased; especially with working around the people I work with. It stresses me out very much and when I am there 8+ hours; it just adds to it. I cannot think about anything else like I used to and, when I come home, I am so depressed and tired that I don't have the energy to do this. It's just I am back at my lowest point right now. To add onto that, I fear I have a health issue as I am losing feeling on the left side of my job and unable to perform certain tasks as well as before. I have nearly lost feeling in three of my fingers nor, if I have feeling, it's a stabbing feeling. I am also experiencing issues with memory loss and the inability to bring up important short-term information. Like I have forgotten my work schedule several times resulting in being reprimanded. So I am writing it down but considering I am left-handed, well, I can barely write now due to loss of feeling in my fingers and arm. To be blunt, I am in constant pain on one side of my upper body.
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ BELOW TOP PART IS NOT SO IMPORTANT
I wanted this project to be more easy and carefree and, it has been but until now I made what some may call an unfair ruling about the prompt. I do understand that is on me to not properly explain the prompt to you guys but, honestly, I had like 5 minutes to think and write it. I still enjoy running this thread; even at times like this.
I REALLY dislike the idea of announcing future content for this thread when 1) I had time and moment to announce it and 2) I wanted it to be a surprise. I hate the idea of announcing something to make people happy if that makes sense so I am going to hold off on that but, in future jobs, I will make sure to take into account to make prompt restrictions more of a community vote rather than me deciding it for us. That being said, when I do make a ruling, I expect it to be followed. When I say it needs to be a popular character, it
NEEDS to be a popular character. When I make a ruling, you have to
follow that ruling. You may not like that but, as a thread runner and someone who actually mods this area of the site (something I am looking to get rid of as I wish to step down from mod duties eventually), we need to have this respect for those who make job prompts. I said it earlier before I removed it but if you want to make zany submissions for characters, go to another thread. I try to keep this thread "slightly remotely realistic" and, I am sorry Wario, adding three Dragons from Atari Adventure as our last character is not realistic in my mind and I have a feeling some people agree.
So please, for my sake, submit based on the prompts. I don't want to have you change it but, if I do, please respect those wishes. You can debate about it and you know I will try to consider it. I truly do but if I feel it doesn't hold to the prompt, I reserve the right to decline the submission.
You may not think this is right, democratic, or fun but sometimes control needs to be implemented to ensure we have a balanced product that everyone can enjoy. Again, we are not making this for ourselves, we are making this for the fans.
That being said, I still will accept Acrueid but,
Justoneguyhere1999
, please note this submission did cause issues because I decided to accept it when I did not accept others. If you wish to change it to adhere to our "popular game popular character" submission, that would be greatly appreciated though. Acreuid is not universally known which is the vibe I am trying to get here with that,
KneeOfJustice99
, I do get the appeal of Durmal and part of me likes the idea but would it be possible to change this to Akira to keep in line with our job prompt?
Wario Wario Wario
, I do apologize if I ever see that I am targeting you. I won't hide the fact you generally do annoy me but you don't deserve me to be condescending and purposefully antagonistic to you. I wasn't for this job but, in the past, I was overly judgemental to you. I still do not think Atari really needs a playable character but we have included Atari content in the past. You weren't here when we were doing assist trophy submissions but I would have accepted Atari characters with open arms for them. Or even a stage. Just not a character. I hope that makes sense.
Mushroomguy12
, I always appreciate your criticism. I just don't have the time to invest as I did in the project so when you come to me about a schedule, I sort of groan and roll my eyes. I will be honest, I do try to get a schedule up on Sunday evening about what we will do during the week but I do not have a start-to-finish schedule. But I do fully appreciate your activity here. As for Shantae, the situation came when all content that was Ultimate would be ported to Infinite. Shantae's inclusion as a Mii Costume came before her official deconfirmation and it was decided, back when I had helpers, to keep to that. I continued to do that again in Infinite Beyond. It is nothing against Shantae. That being said, I wanted our final character to be drawn from a pool of universally recognized characters. Shante would probably fit like Sans but, due to that indie ruling, I didn't want to pool to be muddled with characters that really do not belong in the list of considered characters for our final one. I hope that makes sense.
To the thread, I will try to be better in communicating things to the thread. I certainly did drop the ball but it wasn't due to a lack of interest, due to annoyance with people, or because of ill-intent, it was because I simply don't have time (and I really want to watch the new season of Loki....) and the energy. Some days I am good so I will invest time and energy into it but, some days, I am literally a zombie. Yesterday was one such day where I was in pain, I had a 12 hour day, I had money issues to worry about, and then the dreaded 3rd party character submission. The prompt, and I just re-read it, was vague and not helpful. That was on me. I did not explain my thought process clearly (if I had any at that time) nor did I handle this situation well. Should I decide to move this project along, I will be mindful of others and make sure I explain things properly but I do ask in return for those participating to be equally mindful and understanding. I would appreciate any advice you may have as I navigate this as I generally do enjoy it.
For those who will want to participate by submitting a character, here are some usable ones
- Gordon Freeman (Half-Life)
- Ezio (Assassin's Creed)
- Kasumi (Dead or Alive)
- Revenant (Apex Legends)
- Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes)
- Master Chief (Halo)
