heh, you just reminded me of me with your "makign other versions of mario"... I've always been making games. In 7th and 8th grade I had a game running that based on pieces of paper with stats of your character on em, and most of my class played it all the time and I was really happy with the game, especially how balance turned out (i had to nerf and buff stuff here and there, and I really enjoyed to see how everything evolved by itself - I actually didn't expect the balance to be what it was, and I really enjoyed seeing it evolve into what it was :) ). There was an even better game after that, but by that time everyone was "to cool" to play anything and it wasn't as popular (but it was really good)... I really miss those days :) I think its actually the only memory that can actually make me feel happy (And this is coming from a guy who's 16 and never expected to say those words)
The thing is, even though modding might be a sort of passions, there are things that come into the way of other people, and some don't set their priorities the same way as you and give up mapping. People have different priorities for it I guess, just as with everything else.
And financial and family issues aren't the only things that are counted as "Real Life" - People have school or jobs or other responsibilities, and some of those may change and disrupt their previous free time schedule and therefore cut into modding (if before you had all your responsibilities in the morning and therefore the afternoon off, and you get promoted or something and now you have the mornings free and afternoons you're busy, you'll sleep longer and stay up longer and other things will be a bit messy compared to your previous time schedule)
4 posts while i was writing/getting distracted... no time to read em at the moment... Hope im still on topic... Sleepy, good night guys
People say "Real life" because this is the internet and people tend to not like sharing personal non-internet-identity-based details about themselves. When "Real Life" gets in the way, it means there's something unavoidable or more important that requires time to be taken off from other aspects of one's day, like hobbies, which include the editor. If an internet related issue comes in the way, people will most likely say what it is. "I'm part of my guilds core raid group", "I've need to make regular content for my channel", or in other cases "I really need to work on this mod", which is why the phrase is "Real Life" - It's not connected to their internet identity but their real physical selves that goes to school/work and the likes.
"Real life" issues that pop up could be exams, getting a different shift at work, getting an extra shift, family related stuff (marriage, children, divorce), more "emberassing" issues (having to visit a shrink, court, doctor), or other things that people aren't keen on sharing with the interwebs, which is why the "Real life" phrase is used instead
At least that's what I think.
If you're asking specifically how "Real Life" stops a mod, meaning i misunderstood you're question, well, I guess it's either what Dalemil said, or there was a change in a person's life that changes the amount of time that person has for his hobbies. Maybe he needs more money for X and has to get a second job, maybe there's exams coming, maybe he finished studying and has to get a job, whatever.
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I see what you mean...
heh, you just reminded me of me with your "makign other versions of mario"... I've always been making games. In 7th and 8th grade I had a game running that based on pieces of paper with stats of your character on em, and most of my class played it all the time and I was really happy with the game, especially how balance turned out (i had to nerf and buff stuff here and there, and I really enjoyed to see how everything evolved by itself - I actually didn't expect the balance to be what it was, and I really enjoyed seeing it evolve into what it was :) ). There was an even better game after that, but by that time everyone was "to cool" to play anything and it wasn't as popular (but it was really good)... I really miss those days :) I think its actually the only memory that can actually make me feel happy (And this is coming from a guy who's 16 and never expected to say those words)
The thing is, even though modding might be a sort of passions, there are things that come into the way of other people, and some don't set their priorities the same way as you and give up mapping. People have different priorities for it I guess, just as with everything else.
And financial and family issues aren't the only things that are counted as "Real Life" - People have school or jobs or other responsibilities, and some of those may change and disrupt their previous free time schedule and therefore cut into modding (if before you had all your responsibilities in the morning and therefore the afternoon off, and you get promoted or something and now you have the mornings free and afternoons you're busy, you'll sleep longer and stay up longer and other things will be a bit messy compared to your previous time schedule)
4 posts while i was writing/getting distracted... no time to read em at the moment... Hope im still on topic... Sleepy, good night guys
People say "Real life" because this is the internet and people tend to not like sharing personal non-internet-identity-based details about themselves. When "Real Life" gets in the way, it means there's something unavoidable or more important that requires time to be taken off from other aspects of one's day, like hobbies, which include the editor. If an internet related issue comes in the way, people will most likely say what it is. "I'm part of my guilds core raid group", "I've need to make regular content for my channel", or in other cases "I really need to work on this mod", which is why the phrase is "Real Life" - It's not connected to their internet identity but their real physical selves that goes to school/work and the likes.
"Real life" issues that pop up could be exams, getting a different shift at work, getting an extra shift, family related stuff (marriage, children, divorce), more "emberassing" issues (having to visit a shrink, court, doctor), or other things that people aren't keen on sharing with the interwebs, which is why the "Real life" phrase is used instead
At least that's what I think.
If you're asking specifically how "Real Life" stops a mod, meaning i misunderstood you're question, well, I guess it's either what Dalemil said, or there was a change in a person's life that changes the amount of time that person has for his hobbies. Maybe he needs more money for X and has to get a second job, maybe there's exams coming, maybe he finished studying and has to get a job, whatever.