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That I have an instinctual-attraction to low-tier characters
For example:
- Pokemon: My favourite species, Ampharos, while considered one of the better non-Legendary Electric types out there is still in Smogon's Never Used tier.
- Street Fighter: Of my four mains (Vega, Guy, Dudley and T. Hawk), only one is above B- tier (in a tier system where C tier is the joke character). Including M. Bison as my fifth main does help, but it's still not a great track.
- Marvel Vs Capcom: My favourite character, Tron Bonne, is only useful competitively because of an assist attack I never remember to use. In Marvel Vs Capcom 3 her assist was taken out and lo and behold, she plummeted to the bottom eight characters.
- Super Smash Bros: My main, Kirby, was the absolute bottom of the tier list in Melee where I first played as him (below Pichu, for frick's sake, the joke character that damages itself), and even after buffs for Brawl is still floating around mid-tier. Lucas, another personal favourite, is in second-bottom tier.
- Mario Kart: Yeah that's right, Mario Kart has tiers. For the Wii game both Dry Bones and Koopa Troopa are considered poor choices of character and lighter characters (ie. lighter than Yoshi) seem to be in vogue on the 3DS version.
In short: do not ask me for advice on what game characters and stuff to use, I will get it totally wrong.
Retrospectivity!
Alright. Time for a change of scenery. I updated my journal twice in 2017, good grief.
Truth is, I never left dA at all. It just probably looked like it. I know people aren't that fussed, but I would like the record of why I didn't write very much last year-and-a-bit to be visible for anyone who wishes. Partly, it's cathartic for me. It turns out there was more to it than 'dA doesn't interest me anymore', and I want that to be shown:
Autumn 2016 - February-ish 2017: I decided old chapters from Perception needed re-writing, and so I needed to work out what they should be changed to. This was surprisingly difficult. I then had a go at actu
Woop Woop, Fiction
I'm feeling a lot better about my writing at the moment, and indeed in general, and a massive thank you to everyone who waited patiently for me. This journal is primarily to say that I am officially cancelling my original fiction series, Perception. I um-ed and ah-ed over this, but I realised that I just don't like it as a series. Having spent roughly November to February rewriting large chunks of the plot (if you're wondering why I didn't submit anything within that time period, that's why), there were still things I really wasn't happy about with it as a series. This wasn't even small details, this was things in the nature of the setting an
Why I'm Taking A Break From Writing
It's simple, really. It was much too stressful.
I'm keeping this simple. I had taken, for some time now, a very unhelpful approach to my writing. I wasn't really enjoying it that much. I felt obliged to meet non-existent deadlines to maintain the interest of people I had projected my own impatience onto. I felt the need to be involved with every admin discussion in Pokeumans, to be reading as many things as possible, to re-create what I still feel were my glory days of having read the entire Pokeumans gallery and every new member having known my face. And I can't do that. It's changed. I'm at uni now, that makes me busy. But even just writin
Where I've Been Lately
I think this is what I write the majority of my journals about lately, but I like to keep people posted.
In a sentence, uni work has been trying to very, very hard to rob me of all my free time ever, mostly attributable to two solid weeks of assignments knocking my revision note schedule out the window.
In two sentences, my planned re-work of some of the plot elements for Perception is also taking a lot longer than I thought it would (see above), but I still want to do that before I write anything Pokeumans-y because I'm not good at parallel processing this stuff.
Yup. The good news, though, is that I'm in more of a lull period of assignme
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I know how you feel. In Dissidia my favorite character to play as, Laguna Loire, is considered the second worse character in the NA metagame.