It's Will Smith

Having to pay for EVERYTHING! Want to not live outside? Gotta pay rent. Want water? Gotta pay the water company. Want to eat? Gotta buy food. Want to go somewhere? Got to pay for vehicle insurance.

I keep telling my friend that we're heading to the Cyberpunk society without the cool cybernetics. Hell, Nestle tried to privatise water which FALLS FROM THE SKY.

Well, for someone like me who had no inkling of programming skill until I forced myself to learn, let me tell you it was HARD. Everything about my game was a learning process but I took that as a challenge to improve myself and make myself more adaptable for future projects.

To give you basically a rundown of how I'm making my game is I first started with an idea. I liked playing Paper Mario and Super Smash Bros so I decided on gameplay similar to those two. Then, I chose Unity based on a recommendation from a teacher. As I learned coding through YouTube tutorials and asking questions on forums, I started with a simple script to control a tic tac that runs around a quick map I made with primitive shapes. And from that initial prototype I added more and more things. Different mechanics, quests, etc. For art, I'm making most of it on my own since I'm an artist first thing but most I'm getting from free sites like turbo squid or the Unity Asset Store. Music and sounds I'm using temp stuff until I can get to making them.

For myself, even making a simple mechanic of controlling your cat to explore an environment is a game. Sure, it might not be GTA quality, but it's still a game. From here you can make something more interesting. I always say that in order for something to look beautiful, first it has to look ugly. Even a beautiful butterfly has to start as a worm.

I'm on the cusp of the change between Gen Z and Millennial and I'm with you in this. When I graduated college and got my bachelor's, I envisioned a life where I'd live in a big city, go do some interesting work, and in my off time I'd be able to finally afford to travel. Explore the world. Meet interesting people and do interesting things. But, I was quickly humbled.

I had to fight, I mean literally FIGHT for my current job for a year. No matter what I did, I couldn't get one since I had no experience and no one wants a college graduate. Now that I have one, I sit about 6 to 7 hours a day in front of a computer. I'm having lower back problems and the lack of exercise is giving me gut problems. I can't afford to live my own so I can forget about traveling. And, now, my contract is nearing its end so I might not even have a job soon.

This was the world we were handed and, now that I've experienced it, I'm looking forward to the day everything goes haywire and we start all over again.

I made one. Mainly to show people what I'm doing for my creative projects.

I don't want to show anyone up

Well, from what I've been reading, apparently there's some sort of 80 year contract that was made in 1947 that is supposed to expire. Either with aliens or something like that.

There's a lot of buzz going around the UFO community about something BIG coming. I've been hearing people talk about 2027 a lot.

I wouldn't say that. In Far Harbor, one character asks you if you're a synth and that's it.

Shit. I associate that with how my friend and I used to say it during games. "Ah Chiet!" like you have no teeth.

I use this dns.adguard-dns.com as a private DNS provider for my Samsung phone which basically blocks everything for me. Even apps. As for YouTube, I use revanced so I basically never see ads on my phone at all

I had a random guy I have never seen in my life recognize me in a city I don't even live in. I was walking by a dude in an aisle of a thrift shop and he did a double take when he looked at me. If looks could kill I would've dropped dead right there. As I walked by I heard him mumble something and swear. Immediately I felt uncomfortable so I left. I was showing my mom around town at the time so the next time I saw him while we were waiting for the bus he didn't seem to recognize me since I was standing beside my mom.

Later on, I heard a news story from that city that some dude was randomly shot. Apparently it was a targeted killing. Sometimes I wonder if that was going to me just based on how that guy looked at me.

I usually distract myself with a YouTube video or a movie. But it'd be nice to have some help with it

If the suits who run society find out that people would get this fruit for free, they'd probably make it so that taking this fruit is considered stealing. You'd get a fine, charged with thievery because it's property of the city.

My anxiety is particularly bad today. I woke up with my hands shaking and I got so nervous I started to dry heave.

Everytime I get a meal with vegetables I eat that first no matter what else is on the plate. I think of it working my way to the best part of the meal

The idea of being in a relationship scares me. I grew in a house where my parents had fights, sometimes violent but most times quiet and tense. My sister has had a few relationships where she had to physically take a gun away from her boyfriend. My closest aunty has an on/off relationship with her boyfriend. And, the rest of my family, with the exception of one or two of my aunts and uncles, are all either single or having relationship issues.

Who's to say that I won't be roped into that? I still have nightmares about the fights that still happen to this day. I cower everytime I hear someone raise their voice and I retreat back to my room whenever I feel that tension. I don't want my future spouse to go through something like that so I'd rather just stay alone.

Weird. I drew this exact comic when I was just starting University!

That's a coincidence. I remember getting shot right in the middle of my forehead with a pellet gun. My friends and I were playing at their house and were shooting pellet guns. I was leaning over a railing in the side of their house looking down to where my friend was shooting at. To this day I don't know how it happened, but I remember the pellet ricocheting straight up to where I was leaning over and hit me directly in the middle of my forehead. But, I don't remember feeling any pain or having a mark. I remember looking up at friends in surprise and that's it. If I had moved my head just a tiny bit further up or to the side, I probably would've lost one of my eyes. That's just one of the many times where I would've gotten a serious injury when I was a kid but somehow, I never did.