Or I answer emails haha.

You should get a special signature for them - "Sent from my bathroom" 

My doggy!

The phrase "shit or get off the pot" comes to mind. 

I only think about life when peeing.

I'm mystified as to why it's taken so long to get started too, especially as the money is meant to mean there's time to focus on maintaining the site.

I kinda feel bad for the people who donated their stuff/time to the rewards too.

I dunno. It seems a shame.  

I'm determined to finish this time!

I might get someone to give me a crash course in Unity, and make something super simple and gameplay light (REALLY) just as a challenge to MAKE SOMETHING in Unity.

I'm going to see if I can find someone to talk to for free because I am currently broke, but I will try to get some help. I'm in a really dark place right now, but maybe, just maybe, I can pull through. Thanks TIG, you guys are awesome and have always been here, I've gotten through a lot of problems by coming to this thread and hopefully ill get through this one too.

I don't know exactly how the situation is where you are, but there may be some mental health charities which can help with counselling. Sometimes these charities are tiny and local though. Your doctor or google may be able to help more. 

(I will contradict Danrul and say get it seen to NOW, or it can bite you in the arse when you're older. If you have to take/do whatever to push stuff away, trying antidepressants may help with the annoying tiny circular thoughts while you deal with the big proper issues which are depressing you.)

some people claim video games should perhaps not only be targeted at 18-35 yo white males, jwk5 takes personal offense, end of story

Because black men and asian men never play games.

ohshitwait

One of my previous bosses told me of an incident where a game had its marketing budget totally slashed 'cos they had a black main character and marketing decided it was too hard to sell. Also another time when they weren't allowed to include much in the way of non-white facial features in a character creator because it was racist.

So, yeah. It happens. 

Wow.  I meant this to be a humorous thread where we could light-heartedly and lovingly bash the strange idiosyncrasies common among JRPGs.  But this turned serious fast.

Ok! :D

• When you leave town to come back and find it burned down...
• When a mystical star princess drops out the sky...
• When the number of monsters is increasing lately...
• When your best childhood friend turns out to be your worst enemy...
• When the best technology is ancient technology...
• When one of your party members is a cat...

...you know you're playing a JRPG.

Seaman makes me feel uneasy. Just the face on that fishman thing...    Something about it makes me hate looking at it (but also, I kinda want to play it.)

I always try to do Ludum Dare, so I'm in for sure. I've not missed one yet since I started.

Hugs don't care about levels!  They melt the squishy hearts of manbabies and level 10s alike.

Yes, keep making those games! I'm trying to fit a few more in myself

Damn, that sort of thing shouldn't be joked about.

And fwiw, even if it was the truth, you shouldn't blame yourself. 

Oh, so that's why I'm confused as hell whenever someone mentions it.  (Because it brings to mind the game, and I think "I'm sure that wasn't Brandon's...")

what is critical magic?

Fira.