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Welcome to my page, my name is Rowedahelicon , but you can call me Rowdy or Rowe for short! It's pronounced Row-we-da-hell-eh-con.
I'm an artist / programmer living in a quiet corner of the golden kingdom.
I enjoy music, video games, drawing, toying with websites and overall being a goof. I started and run a gaming group on Steam known as Southerncrossgaming, which I spend a lot of time interacting with and maintaining. I'm also the (not so) secret artist of ScritchWorks
I'm also always good for a talk, if you need an ear for anything! Which is weird because I prefer using chat clients and such, I get nervous around new voices. But I'll try if you realllly want me too! Thanks for reading!
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As mentioned, I've put a lot of thought into my 2024 goals, here they are~!
These are the big ones, the ones I absolutely want to get done, in order.
This will be split 3ish ways, ~2k to help cover debts, ~2k to invest in art supplies (new tablet, printer, cutting tools, etc), and ~2k to serve as savings for emergencies. The 2k for supplies is a rough estimate, I will detail what I'd like to get below. I intend do this asap, by whatever means most effective. Current plan so far is to crunch as long as needed over January / February on art until I reach this goal.
As I mentioned in my 2023 recap journal, one thing I struggle with is trying to balance art with other demanding tasks such as programming or design, I want to avoid getting into workflows where these are overlapping each other, which seems to affect my focus and or my overall performance. I want to be better about sitting down to focus / complete a single large task at a time rather than picking away at them piece by piece and have reserved time each week where I can work on unexpected issues that otherwise delay current tasks, leading to a huge delay in everything. This also stops me from being able to do things like art streams because I am unable to properly plan things.
Related to the above, a problem with the way I spend my time is that often I spend time working on things that ultimately feel invisible. Things I do that I am proud of that I am unable to accurately portray to others. This is not a matter of ego, I don't need praise for every little thing I do, but what I need is some tangible evidence that I actually did something rather than this mush of time spent because I continue to get into mindsets of feeling lazy / unaccomplished and it affects my morale.
I want to start a blog on the topic of gaming and gaming communities. Community is a very important virtue in my life, and its relationship with gaming is a subject I have a lot to talk about. I want to take my years of experiences and put them on paper (metaphorically). It is a subject of great personal attachment to me.
My end of year goal ultimately is to make a game. Even if it's some short, simple, little nothing game. I want to be able to say I've made something and not be too scared to do so. I've made mods before and know quite a lot about game design, so I want to do something. I know full well I don't have the time nor the means to make anything amazing "yet", so it just has to be something to get me started down the path, get some experience.
I have been good about dieting and exercise, so this is not worthy of a huge focus, I've already made great progress and if I continue on the path I'm going, it'll be perfect.
While the easiest solution here is to just get a job, I don't have a reliable means of travel so my options are limited. I have been coasting along so far by keeping my expenses as low as possible, but it would be nice to not have to worry so much...and also...afford things. I was working on setting up a nice side activity but it needs far more startup cash than I am willing to invest right now and would put a lot more work into my schedule. Discouraging but I'll figure something out.
I am too obsessed with work as of late, but I am too aware of how boring it is to really geek out about it, so I feel like I've been coming off too quiet and distant as of late. Makes me feel bad, I want to be more openly nerdy and gush about my activities more.
Pretty obvious, I feel like I get better every day, but I do want to take the time that I can to really push myself, try new things, do better.
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