Welcome class of 97

Last month, one of my favourite games of all time closed its servers. When I was young, I played a game called Ragnarok Online for more than 5 years, and even produced some YouTube content for it from around 2009 till 2013, I guess, and at that time my videos were posted on some official forums since most of them were something like "how to become a thief" and were just me doing the quest. This made me think about all the time and money I invested in it since I was young, but none of that made…

The last few weeks I've been feeling more tired than usual, to the point where I'm kinda unable to study, read, or do anything job-related outside my working hours. Those few moments it happened, I felt like I was cheating on myself or even doing something bad for myself, like I shouldn't be playing something, relaxing, or watching series. How do you deal with that? This pressure of being in constant learning or even producing useful stuff. Do I really need to feel like shit when I'm just…

I was studying, like, last night and noticed that I was tired as fuck during the process of writing a few queries while watching a video explanation on how to use the best parameters in a database. Yeah, after a day of more than 8 hours of work, 5 different meetings, more than 40 messages sent, and 1 hour of gym after work, of course I would be destroyed when I was supposed to study. Then I started to pressure myself to achieve results, like, "your time is running out. While you're playing…

Recently, I was talking with an online friend that I met in the FGC community. We quickly developed a kind of gaming friendship where we discovered that we both shared the same interests and played the same games, other than fighting stuff. In our last conversation, he told me that he was basically quitting fighting games due to a lack of progression. I was a little bit confused about that since he seemed to enjoy playing fighting games together. When I asked him, he told me, "I'm not…

All the things that I wrote below were written on the first day of my holiday. A holiday that I took to solve some personal issues and refresh my mind a little bit. I'm better now, but I wanted to post this anyway because someone might be feeling the same way and probably a few days away might help you. I'm just tired, there's nothing else I want to say. I am kinda tired. I noticed that a few weeks ago when a lot of stuff that I had to handle was thrown at me. By that I mean personal stuff…

Over the last few days, I've been surrounded by so much random bullshit that I started to think that I was the one in the wrong. People started asking stuff like everything was falling down, many priorities were crashing into each other, and a lot of pressure was building up in a way that I had never seen before. At first glance, I thought I wasn't paying attention to something, but it turned out that the more I understood what was going on, the more infuriated I felt. For the first time in a…

You are not your job. This might be a harsh reality for some of you, but a lot of people need to accept that as the truth. When you're meeting someone for the first time, how do you describe yourself? Do you talk about your hobbies, places you like to go, sleeping habits, favourite comfort foods, or do you say "I'm a developer at..." or "I work at..."? When I think about that, I often catch myself talking about my job as something I am, or with pride, and I'm definitely looking forward to…

Yesterday I was thinking about all the stuff that has lately been happening in my life and a lot of mixed feelings went all out to the point I started crying just because. Not sure if this is something that happens to everyone, but there are moments in your life where all the winds start to go south and out of nowhere a ton of shit just starts to mess with you. Like shit that wasn't even broken starts to break, bills that were supposed to be paid already and yeah, they weren't, or even people…

Lately I've been thinking and talking with a few friends about how people are strange when it comes to relationships. I personally know a few people who have a strange tendency to sugarcoat people for no good reason. By sugarcoating, I mean not speaking plainly about reasoning or even cutting short relationships that are toxic for them just for the sake of "being a good person". In my humble opinion, it's pretty "ok" to be a douche or end a fucking relationship with someone who clearly isn't…

I haven’t been posting here much lately, but I’ve been playing Pokémon Champions since it came out and I’m honestly having a good time. It might sound controversial, but as someone who grew up playing Pokémon, it’s amazing to see all the improvements they’ve made to make the competitive scene more approachable to newcomers. This is my main takeaway and something I really want to praise here, instead of all the "flaws" that X, Twitter, and Reddit have been spilling out. Well, I’m not trying to…