Hi everyone, it's Glitch here! It's been another long while since my last news post 3 months ago, and I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for my tendency to occasionally disappear for long periods of time. But rest assured, I have not and will never abandon Newgrounds; I love this place too damn much.

So first of all, an update on me. You might recall that my last news post was about my newfound struggles with anxiety. I'm happy to announce that, since I started to take antidepressants, I have been in a much better state of mind. Although I'm not 100% back to normal, I'm at a point where I can confidently say I'm back to living comfortably. The bad news is that, in what I suspect to be a side effect of the antidepressants, my fatigue levels have risen, and I now struggle with daily bouts of uncontrollable drowsiness. Oh well, you win some and you lose some.

But enough about me, let's talk about... me, and all the stuff I've been getting up to in the last three months. Perhaps the biggest thing that's happened is that I got given a new room in the house which I have dedicated to video games. I have all my modern consoles hooked up to a 45-inch, 1080p television at the back of the room, as can be seen in this photo:

On the other side of the room, not visible in the photo, is both my computer setup and a CRT television setup for retro consoles (the only one I have right now being a PS1). It's a neat little place where I can go to relax and unwind with some good old fashioned gaming. Or I can play something hardcore and rage-inducing instead. You never know.

Another big thing that's happened is I have invested in my very own Kindle. In an effort to expand both my knowledge and creative horizons, I decided that getting a Kindle would be a great way to encourage me to read more books.

This is my Kindle 11th gen (2024), currently in the middle of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. I also have two other books loaded up onto there: In Order To Live by Yeonmi Park, which is an autobiography of a woman who fled North Korea at a young age, and Ultra Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken, which is a book by a doctor about the prevalence and potential dangers of ultra-processed food.

But enough about boring nerd shit like books and reading, I know exactly what question is on everybody's mind: "In the three months since his last news post, has GlitchBuddy purchased an ASUS ROG Ally?"

You know it!

I've always liked the idea of having a handheld gaming PC, but honestly this purchase has led me to wonder if I should have just bought a Steam Deck instead. I went for the ROG Ally over the Deck as it was a native Windows 11 device, and so would be able to run games from the Epic Games and Xbox stores that SteamOS just couldn't. But the problem is that Windows just isn't designed for handheld PCs, really. I do like how the device lets you move the mouse using the right analogue stick and shoulder buttons, but it's not really a simple and seamless experience like I thought it was going to be. I also wasn't able to get the UWP version of Skyrim to correctly recognise the Ally's controller layout. Nevertheless, the few Steam indie games I've played on it so far have controlled well, and I plan to keep it around and see more of what it can do in the future.

There's one last thing I wanted to touch upon in this news post, and that's my actual art projects. For a while now I have been working on a new project behind the scenes, known as The Guild. It's a project about a small group of adventurers who may not be the strongest in the world, but all have a burning passion for exploration, as well as the support of one another. I'm still working on things, but I want to make comics about these characters in the future.

This means that, like I tried to do back in 2023, I'm once again working on three projects at once. While that previous attempt failed, I'm looking to take things more slowly this time around, and work on each project individually in time chunks, rather than trying to do all three at once.

Well, that will indeed be all from me this time around. Once again, I'm sorry that I keep disappearing for so long, but due to my issues with concentration, motivation and fatigue, I unfortunately can't promise that it won't happen again. But rest assured, I don't have any plans to leave this site, and I still love Newgrounds as much today as I did back in 2022.

Hope you all have a great day, and I'll see you soon!

-Glitch [ I - ]