I've made embarrassingly few update posts, here or YouTube.

This topic is a good excuse. So, off to it!

Why I hide my review scores

Simply put, I don't think they matter. Even if I score submissions anyway

The actual review is what matters, no matter how short. Now, if we go

outside of Newgrounds, or at least focus on just games. Given their origin,

they make no sense. Game review scores were carried over from hardware reviews

and I'm sure we can agree you can't objectively compare two games like you can

two cars, for example some engines are objectively better no matter what car they're in.

So honestly, IGN and all those places, even indie publications could benefit

from replacing them, especially if they're shown before the review itself,

with a TLDR-style sentence summarizing every major point of the review.

Am I talking nonsense here, or simply making too much sense?

Stuff I use

Software

Image: GIMP, Inkscape, Krita

Video/3D Modeling: Shotcut, Blender

Audio/Text-To-Speech: Audacity, Ocenaudio, Loquendo TTS Director 7

Music/DAW: LMMS

Password manager: KeePassXC

Sprite ripping: Fighter Factory Ultimate (MUGEN assets)

Hardware

PC/Case: HP 280 G1 MT

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 550

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590S

RAM: Single-Channel, 8GB, DDR3-1600 (Samsung M391B1G73QH0-YK0)

Graphics tablet: XP-PEN Deco 03

Controller: Steelseries Stratus Duo

Poems

The Petty Devil

The petty devil cried a river

A poor soul offered their helping hand

In hopes of inspiring a change

But regardless of change

Born a devil, a devil they shall stay.

Short Stories

Nothing here yet

An intro post, in a typically late Ali way

Hope I don't get too wordy about it, but cutting it short I had an account long before

Not like anyone but my fiends would know me, but my regret comes from the history.

Which speaking of, it makes me cringe but at least I had a good reason behind a name that bad.

The Story

So, after seeing my then de facto username was taken, and all the spins on it were as well

I in an attempt to get anything that hadn't been taken started mashing words together

from stream of consciousness and ever-so-slightly wordflow (Still not my strong suit, clearly)

And so it was born, the absolute monstrosity of a username that is DareHackWall666DIE

Yes you read that right. But like I said, biggest regret is throwing that account history

and years of NG browsing basically down the drain.

Wish I knew Supporter status allows for username changes before deleting it

I think even Livecorpse would've laughed at such a nonsense name. Incidental depression aside

About Yours Truly

That line in my profile is no joke. I dabble in everything from writing to making Doom WADs

Maybe if I procrastinated less I could get pretty good at some of those, but on the subject of that.

I actually uploaded one old song (Combine Revolution) there as well as another to my now

long-defunct Soundcloud where I went by The Bad Badnik, then Sonic Shapeshifter.

Been seriously wanting to get into music production again. I have even have finalized track names

for 3 EPs. Which then leads me to mention, my lead tools would be Audacity, Ardour,

Surge and Hydrogen, the latter two for the VSTs, all of them open source

Because say it with me, open source is the best source.

Linux Ramblings

And yes, depending on how things go when you read this I might have matured

from the Windows cocoon and blossomed into a full on EndeavourOS user.

Anyone looking to get into Linux, or planning to do so I mighty recommend you go over

to Alternativeto.net to look for apps to replace all those crummy proprietary ones.

I personally can't live without KeePassXC or CopyQ, and LibreOffice is just a must-have.

So yeah, I'm quite the staunch FOSS supporter. And I'm glad Newgrounds as a company's supporting it as well