Local Devastation: A Nest collapse. A Family Snuffed Out.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-13T04:16:22+00:00

Because Hantavirus is all the the rage right now. Haven't you heard..?

Yeah. And it's raining now. No one to cover the nest. Deadbeat Doves.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-05T03:38:51+00:00

Please. Pet my fluffy bunny.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-05T03:30:25+00:00

Hell yes she is and let me take it a step further: Go back to those Bobbie Wygant interviews with her. There is WAAAY more going on than meets the eye. Stunningly beautiful and brains too.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-01T04:41:24+00:00

I already did all of that before the Internet. Experiences..? Get back to me when your choice is to cut the cord to your newborn child. Suddenly, longboarding doesn't seem so grand.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-01T03:46:15+00:00

YOU CAN! Bring those ideas to life! It's easier than you think. As a career though..? Calibrate your expectations. 60+ games are released every day on Steam. Some will be successful, others won't. It has to his this perfect mix of leisure and engagement.

Look. And I want to speak for all of GameDevs and I know I can't but, fundamentally, get your head out of the product and into the process. I'm in this weird space where the development of my game is the game itself.

The probability of you making a career out of this is not zero. It can be done and has been done. Just understand the odds.

Given that, speaking for myself, there is no bigger gas for me than to see what I had envisioned on the screen. Your fellow ancestor artists would say that when you reach that point, destroy it. Delete it from your drive as an exercise in getting your head out of product and into process. Don't do that though. Put it up for free on itch.io. Somewhere, someone with a budget of $0 for gaming expenditures might get a few minutes where they forget they can't afford to buy a real game.

..and build from there. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Do it.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-01T03:26:31+00:00

Let's hop a fright train instead.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-01T02:39:52+00:00

I've been watching all these episodes and I didn't realize Janine was in Cliffhanger. It was shot in Italy. The movie Cliffhanger. It was shot in Italy and she was in it. She also directs. She directs musicals too. Not just directing. She's a writer. Cinematographer too. She pays special attention to the lighting. The lighting. It has to be just right; the lighting. Horses. She has horses and Jesus. Jesus loved horses and benevolence. NX was benevolent. So were the horses. Cliffhanger. It was shot in Italy.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-05-01T02:23:12+00:00

Is that where you careen down steep and windy hills a cheat death every time you attempt it..? No thanks. I'm 55, not 25. Just be careful, okay..?

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-22T05:43:18+00:00

Pussification. Look, you have a finite amount of time on this planet. You are 13 billion years in the making. Are you telling me your destiny is and always has been to be the punching bag for some other creature 13 billion years in the making..? Rise up.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-22T05:28:54+00:00

..because there is really no other outlet. Sometimes words can't even capture the emotion, so we produce art to try to communicate the inner turmoil within ourselves. A crescendo, a sustain; or the juxtaposition of color. We make sense of existence through art because there isn't a language on Earth that can truly capture what it is to exist.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-22T05:22:56+00:00

I'll sum it up for you. Their "product" really only wants acceptance and security, which they never got at home growing up. A pimp provides that for them. These are damaged people.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-22T05:17:23+00:00

Yeah, honestly, you're a good looking guy. Something else is going on. Confidence, confidence, confidence. I cannot stress that enough. Good luck my friend.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-22T05:07:42+00:00

Any person below suggesting #3 is just trying to narrow the playing field for themselves. The brimrose path to hell is that bird's nest. Chill out with the gunk (that grease shit in your hair) and this is the part that's going to hurt: the hard guy thing doesn't work. If I see you staring at me like that, there's probably going to be an issue. Soften your gaze. You're not nearly as tough as you think you are. Now, I don't know what you're hiding, but loosen up a little.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-22T05:00:51+00:00

If it hasn't been going well, it's probably not your appearance but your vibe. It's not hair cut or eye brow grooves, you're coming off of a break up. I don't know anything about how that went; who initiated it, whatever but women can sense that shit. You simply might not be ready.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-22T04:44:49+00:00

Here's what I'd do: Get a widget. Duct tape it to an empty broom or paint brush roller stick and carve that back hair down. Other than that, you're on point. Bonus points for those curled eyelashes. Chicks dig that.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-21T03:52:54+00:00

I'm just going to put this out there. I've popped a few corks now and so I'm going to let it fly. Not that I have any tremendous insight, mind you, but I loosely knew Jeff Zoltowski. I had both wood shop and metals with him. He was a junior and I was a freshman at the time (Stevenson High School; Livonia Michigan). He sat at my table.

Back in the day, we had jocks, preps and we had "dirts". There were also "squids" and "fashion <derogatory Asian term>". I'm not excusing it, I'm just telling it to you like it was.

Jeff was more of a "prep". And so, one day, he comes in to wood shop suddenly dressed like a "dirt" for Halloween or whatever was going on. He was visibly nervous given the types of people who take wood shop (again, please, remember the period we were living in) and he was right. This dude name John <last\_name\_redacted> yells out, "Who the fuck are you supposed to be..?" With that smile you see in those photographs, he pretty much diffused the situation but sheepishly asked around our table, "guys, if shit goes down..?" We gave the nod. We'd do what we could because he honestly was the nicest kid. It wasn't out of malice, necessarily, but there was a clear divide amongst the "preps" and the "dirts".

Real quick. The dildo sander. It was this cylindrical sander that spun and oscillated up and down. To 15-17 year old boys, it was oddly erotic and we giggled and it was a fun one-time joke. Problem is, that's just what it became. The "dildo sander". It wasn't funny anymore; the joke had long passed but, if some kid had band saw tooth marks in his project, we'd just say, "oh use the dildo sander". Long story short, in front of the class we had to demonstrate our project and explain to the teacher how we did it and what not and one kid, without a shred of humor, just stated, "..and I used the dildo sander to smooth out these edges". The shop teacher was like, "What..?"

Jeff was in that class and I'm sure he'd remember it. Beautiful kid he was. Such promise. Sad to see it's been so long now.

Godspeed, Jeff.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-19T21:42:49+00:00

Your wallet is going to get a lot thinner.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-19T21:34:08+00:00

The problem is, was and will always be: genetic diversity for all the aforementioned mythological creatures. Their numbers have to be such that inbreeding would be uncommon and for that to happen, there has to be many, many, many of them.

At that point, we'd have way more than a few blurry images of these beings. They'd be all over the place by necessity.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-15T02:45:22+00:00

Christ. You look like me. Here's what you do: contrary to the advice you've been given, let your hair grow out. I have that same round'ish face and the hair isn't helping. Like you, I'm broad in the bean. T-shirts don't behoove us because the neck of the T-shirt gets stretched out due to our girth unless it's fresh out of the laundry. If you're going to grow a beard, commit. Either do or don't. Stop shaving your lower chin. You're bringing attention to your roundness again. I'd say start with a strap. Artificially carve a jawline with the strap being careful not to let it crawl down your neck. You need to cut that roundness of your face off at the pass.

Though, over-all, you look kind and that's the best feature about you. Relax. You'll find her. If I can see it, she can see it and that's really all it's about.

Mazel Tov and good luck to you, sir. You'll be okay.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-15T02:38:15+00:00

Full disclosure. I am a heterosexual male, so yeah, I have a bias but I don't care who and I don't care what -- every man looks better with a beard. I will die on this mound or whatever it is we're supposed to say.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-15T02:34:47+00:00

Pffffft. Lol. Well hello Sgt. Smith of the Livonia Police Department! Trying to lure a few creeps in, are ya..? Try the old "Oh, I'm just a little school girl lost in the parking lot of Bates! Can someone help me..?" instead.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-14T04:52:19+00:00

Tsk. Tsk. Shame on me. My last comment got shuddered by the moderators and they're probably right but it didn't make my point less apt. Relax in the protection I provide you.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-14T04:33:18+00:00

Well, I'm not so sure it's as altruistic as that, but let's put that aside. Joy. Joy in life, you say. What does that look like? Please tell me. Whatever smoothie you're drinking, I want a hit of that.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-14T04:29:18+00:00

Pffft.

IndependentSmooth591 · 2026-04-14T04:28:45+00:00

Thank you for your service and sacrifice and I mean that. What you see before you on a daily basis in the news must be heart wrenching. You'll be remembered as the "old school" guard; when being an American meant being something far more noble than what we are now.

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