Alrighty, I'm no longer a moderator. I approached a few problems poorly years prior per long overcome inexperience, and it's come back to snatch me down - I won't dive into details, but I understand what's happened, and for anyone who wonders "Why did they step down?", it was an understandable result, with me lacking any way to properly reference or discuss something that happened five years prior, so it's completely reasonable. :) Not that I'm happy, sure, but it's reasonable, and I want that to be absolutely clear. It's been great contributing to the moderation team, and I hope those still present engage happily enough too.

Cyprezz is an excellent owner, and I want it to be known he really does support everyone getting along, mediating tensions, being friendly and such- Trying to (and rather successfully) fostering a community that's diverse and often clashing while still hopefully kind and supportive enough. A respectable, admirable challenge; he just wants everyone to get along, and that's great! I have no regrets from my time as a moderator, bar the fact it's over now - and that is what it is. Most who see this probably didn't see me often nowadays, but if you do know me, hey! It was great working in this position, helping to make the community a little happier along the way, and making my own fair share of accidental errors too (as moderation always has), while trying to overall have a good impact on the site. :) Thanks for the time.

I'm not going anywhere, though - I'll still be here, as a member. Just not moderating!

So, I'll use this opportunity as a bit of inspiration/advice for other people:

• Your actions matter. You may not think it, but a mistake, error, sin, making an enemy of someone- Anything like that has lasting repercussions, which go further than just a single month, week, or even day or hour of your life. Take care, and try to make choices you'll be happy with in the future. When you aren't sure what to do in a situation and all options look to be bad, think about the long term effects it may have on everyone involved. Yourself especially. Look after yourself, and remember that actions you make last.
• Seek peace with people you speak with. Even if you don't like someone much, aim to get along with them if possible. Find ways to ease tensions, to see eye to eye. To make friends, or at least to not be at odd's ends with someone. You may have wildly different views on how life works, or there may even be a major problem at hand, but it's never worth raising tensions with someone to make them an enemy. A huge part of looking after yourself and others is respecting the differences between people. This can be difficult, as a lot of walks of life clash inherently, but if you can find this kind of peace, you're already going to be better off for it.
• Be nice. Self-explanatory, with the other two above: Coldness of any sort can genuinely catch up to you. Try to be a kind person, even while you're still growing and learning. It's difficult, and mistakes will happen along the way, but so long as someone's trying, the mistakes shouldn't be too bad.
• Believe in yourself. Even if things look tough and you're starting to doubt how to move forwards with life, remember that you can still succeed. So long as life is continuing, there's still some hope to make it through and overcome the hurdles you face. Do not let anything take away from that confidence and determination to grow, persevere, and make life your own to be happy with.
• Mistakes happen. That doesn't mean to accept and ignore the weight of the mistakes, but it does mean to remember not to beat yourself up if you do something wrong. Try to mediate tensions with involved people, apologise, see what you can do to recover from the mistake, and overall just keep working to grow as a person. We aren't defined by our mistakes; we are more than just the small parts of what makes us people. Look out for yourselves, and try to accept your errors, while not dragging yourself down with them. They are not the shackles dragging you down; they are just parts of this walk of life. Some will even be pretty bad mistakes, but if life's still ongoing, you can still change, and you can still grow, and there's still hope for you.
• There's always hope. Like the above two points, even when something's still reaching for you after a long time, there's always hope to change and develop. There's always hope to find new friends, new communities, new job opportunities- Nothing is destined to fall apart entirely, purely based on the past. The present and future will be influenced by the past, but your own actions can change and influence them too. You're never hopeless. Never. There's always a future.
• Seek help and advice. This is perhaps the hardest thing to do when so few people know how to make it through their own lives, but the reality is we're all learning and trying to make our own journeys. It isn't easy, and it never will be. There's no-one who fully grasps everything they have in life, yeah? But, you can at least seek to hear what others think about life, comparing it with your own journeys, seeking for support and encouragement to try to make your own life better, and perhaps theirs too in the process. We all have thoughts worth sharing (and thoughts that aren't worth sharing, haha. We're all complex, after all).
• Never stop learning. As said, we'll never be perfect. Always keep trying to grow. I can't promise it'll matter in some situations, as sometimes regardless of how much you've done you'll still get into problems based on a lesser-capable version of you's choices, however you should still always try to grow, because while some situations are dead-ended, it will open the door to potential options which aren't. There's hope for you. For everyone. It may feel hard to find right now, but in this society, there's no point where someone has no possible way to hope, to care for themself, to hold up a job, friends, a community- There's always hope. Keep growing, keep taking care, and keep trying to work forwards with life.

There's a bit more I think I'd be interested in rambling about, but this is already quite long and the post is partly motivation for myself, and ideally, motivation for others too. :) Life's tough, but there's always a path forwards. Don't let the complexities of this world make you feel helpless; you can always grow.
Even if it feels really tough.

Take care. :)

Always seek to take care.

You may not know what for, but future you may well thank you for doing it. :)

This dog is a massive bully to the other wild dogs. Won't let the Mohawk Dog (or his family) near the feeder and will attack them. It also hogs the feeder and eats like...half of the food in it.

This dog has a mohawk!

I spent the last like...5 months or something saving up for a new lens and oh boy am I happy with it, $3200 well spent.

Hello there, I have killed the dragon in Minecraft on my current world, only took...100+ days because I was busy doing other things on the world.

¿Cual es tu SAW favorito? / What's is your favorite SAW GAME?

- SAW 1: the game begins

- SAW 2: the game continues

- SAW 3: the beginning of the end

- SAW 4: live or die

Hello all, I have decided that being a member was too much for me, it came with too many responsibilities and extra buttons. Sorry to have let you all down but I have retired from being a Member and returned to being a Retired Moderator.

I hope everyone had fun with the little april fool's joke organised by the mod team however. It was certainly strange seeing some of the mods with the member blue for their name instead of the colours I've become so used to over the many years I've been on the site.

I would like to inform you all that I have retired from being a Retired Moderator and I have now been promoted to the rank of Member! I hope to make you all proud during my time here as a Member, I will strive to do my best.

This little dog is a cheeky bugger. I've not been able to get a decent photo of this lil dude over the course of 2 workshops and he has just the cheekiest looking face.

Moving over to actual Coding instead of using MCreator since the Lithostitched API doesn't like MCreator lol

Getting to photograph unique dogs is a real hoot.

1. Terraria. (Garry's Mod is a close second)

2. DOOM. Rip and tear!

3. Drawn to Life / Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter on Nintendo DS.

4. Undertale. I liked the game and it's fine if anyone else liked it too but I just think it's a little overrated.

5. Java. It's just what I'm used to.

6. Sea of Thieves. I despised its PVP and seemed pretty aimless but thanks to its new mode that makes a separate PVE server possible, I'm probably going to try it again soon.

7. PC. I've been investing more time on console but PC is my personal preference since that's where most of my games are.

8. The first games I remember playing are Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii. Let's just say I grew up with a Wii and a DS and not much else.

9. God of War 2 on PS2.

10. Super Mario RPG; the Switch remake. A lot of other games apply to this but this is my current priority.

Well a new megastructure is being built for the mod I'm working on. Current Largest piece is 48x45.

Just posted two more remakes of skins I originally made years ago. Would you be so kind as to check them out?

Moon Lord (Terraria) - originally posted in 2018

Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal) - originally posted in 2016

I might continue this trend and remake more of my older content. We'll see where this goes.

When not working I've been attempting to practice macro photography on this here dog. I also tried on other different dogs in the same tree but some were more difficult due to their constant movement.

My dog issssss talking funnysssss. I think sssssomething may be wrong with himsssss.

Not the best dog* photo I've taken tbf, but I had to salvage it from a pretty crappy image so I did what I could. This is a very territorial dog* found in many places around where I live.

Instagram



*It's a joke, I know it's a bird, take the damn joke people.

Is this a dog?

Photography Insta

Hello, I tried an artsy thing with one of my photos. Also have a signature for my photos now. :^)

I've been using a CRT monitor for a while now, and today it finally died after 20 years of use.



What sucks is that it had the highest resolution and refresh rate out of any of the monitors I own.