Happy new year! A few days late now but still. Between a more hopeful upcoming year and the same bad things from the past, I'm taking it easy with simpler projects I feel I can work on just a little every day.

Presently I'm playing with simple scenes in Blender. Also improving the models and assets I use in the process, part of the plan is to get them ready and more functional for complex scenes and larger projects I can easily reuse to create more content. I've begun working on some HTML5 stuff too... not quite ready to show yet but getting promising results thus far.

Other people's projects and community engines I'm keeping my distance from: I plan to focus on working with common tools rather than niche projects. After the baffling experience I had with Xonotic last year, I literally don't know which of those groups might be socially radicalized to the point of attacking me out of nowhere as we're working due to some random discussion on social media years ago.

That is also the reason why, although I have ideas for larger projects, I doubt I'm going to achieve any of them in my lifetime; Many initiatives are too big for a single person to do alone, and I simply don't trust or feel okay working with anyone else. Even if I found other game developers or Blender artists willing not to turn on me... the truth is most don't understand why I make what I make and what my vision is, and knowing that further takes away my motivation to do anything with others but myself. Why can't we have proper FOSS engines that make it easier to automate animation or generate realistic voices? Heck why can't we just make them with the power of our minds already?! I'd be out of a "job" on Patreon then but at that stage I wouldn't even care lol.

I'm also trying to find more places where I can post the animations I make in high quality. Niche platforms I can't use without risking myself or my works getting banned, thanks to the child protection cult and its ancient beliefs on NSFW content being different from everything else and needing some thought police to control who sees it: Youtube / Vimeo / Dailymotion are a given in that regard, but even most alternatives operate in the same despicable mindset. Perhaps they're quality enough to start posting on e621 now? I could also use a trustworthy Peertube instance... if anyone knows of such a thing do feel free to share.