Why WouldntI Be Making Super Mario Maker Levels With All My Spare Time?

Why wouldn’t I be making Super Mario Maker levels with all my spare time?

A couple of these were already posted here, but I included them anyway just to keep everything in one place. If you want to catch these levels as they’re posted, check out my Twitter.

me: *makes thing*

me: I hope people like this thing

people: Wow your thing is really great!

me: No, you're wrong, it's terrible, I'm awful at this

Whoops I accidentally more courses again, someone take this game away from me

Adventure! - Secrets and shortcuts abound! Zip through in record time or explore at your own pace. F539-0000-004C-4BA6

Cannons’ Cliff - A level with on-rails shooters! I mean, uh, cannons on tracks. (I’m not sorry.) 6B81-0000-0048-C696

Cinnamon Cavern - One heated minute to traverse a deadly corridor. Speedrunning skills are key! E13E-0000-0058-8E3D

Dark Side of the Airship - A perilous climb beneath a floating behemoth. Be sure to jump on the Note Block at the beginning! 5CD6-0000-0057-C125

Recovery

Recovery has been a steady but very slow process.

Since moving back home, I’ve had plenty of time to rest and recover from the lovely college experience I had. My parents are taking good care of me, and I’ve had time to decompress and de-stress. In fact, there’s not been much of any stress here - I pretty much have free reign to work on anything I want to.

Yet I still find myself with little energy to actually do anything. Most days, I just... sit in bed. I know that’s enviable for a lot of people, but I’m not satisfied - I got stuff I wanna do! That said, I am still doing things, just not as much as I want to. I get things done on a weekly basis now, rather than a monthly basis - which is an improvement! But because it’s not a daily basis, I feel like I’m twiddling my thumbs and wasting time.

There are things that are going very well, however. One is that my creative energy is in full swing. I don’t think there’s been a single day since getting back that I haven’t come up with some grand new idea. The problem, then, is that most of them are going to waste, since I can’t get these ideas out of my head and into reality too reliably.

The second good thing is that my interest in my hobbies is coming back to me. While in college, there was a point where I almost completely stopped playing video games for a few months! Hard to believe, I know, considering everything else I do is steeped in them. But it felt like I could only “focus” on one thing at a time, and games were not that thing. Lately, everything’s coming back to me at once - drawing, designing, levels, mazes, even writing (to an extent). I just need to do it all more and stop sitting around.

In the end, college or not, I still struggle with the same old problem: I dream too much and work too little. That needs to change, somehow.

Here’s a digital art thing I made recently! It’s my first real attempt with it so it’s nothing fancy yet, but I’m glad I’m starting to get back into drawing more - it’s something I’ve missed a lot.

Speaking of missing a lot, I actually posted this a whole month back on Twitter... haven’t been on Tumblr in a long time, I really need to fix that. How many memes have I been missing out on???

Video content is go! Here’s a highlights reel from my recent streams of the Splatoon 2 Global Testfire! If you’ve never seen my streams or haven’t been able to make it to them, here’s a quick taste of what they’re like.

This is the first of (hopefully) many more, so I hope you enjoy!