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>>89
>What was coming out like?

I have only come out to my parents and aunt so far. I am not looking forward to coming out to friends. I do hang around mostly liberal people so I'm not going to be beaten and hung in the streets or anything. Worst case is that the friendship will be over, but this is still terrifying for me.

>A large percentage of Trans kill themselves; have you considered therapy as an alternative to transitioning?

Yes. In fact, I have been in therapy for a year and a half now. I've been with many therapists, some SJWs who were over-encouraging, and some conservatives who automatically leveled me as mentally diseased. While I value their outside opinion (I wouldn't seek out therapy in the first place, otherwise), I consider this to be a much more self-involved process I had to do and decide for myself. Despite depression from time to time, I am pretty mentally stable.

>What exactly compels you to alter yourself so drastically?

As mentioned, I can't stand to be refereed to as a male. Despite the many, MANY potentially life ruining cons of making the transition, I honestly feel that the ability to have a female body is a decision that has to be done.

I don't mean to be offensive OP but please read this, I assure you I mean this in a positive and caring manner… Well that's how my heart feels for you so I urge you to keep reading and to consider all my words as a whole.

Have you tried being a real man? And by that, I mean assessing who you are as a male who has a penis and a higher level of testosterone? By breaking out of your environment that you are currently surrounded with instead of breaking your biology?

I worry that you may have been brainwashed into thinking that this is what you want and need in a society that fully promotes things like this. Everybody gets confused at some point in their lives but transitioning is a huge step and you said yourself, earlier that you are into women but still a tad unsure?

Do you have low self esteem? I grew up and effeminate and camp and was berated for being a nerdy kid but I was not homosexual or confused, regardless of how the others teased me… Although I could see how many people could see transitioning as an escape from their own personality and individuality. Still, regardless, I am still a man at the end of the day, it was an identity i got born into… It's was given to me, this life. I make do with being a man, my personality or views do not stop me from being that man, see?

If you love women, imagine what a great boyfriend you could make!? The problem is that you will most likely end up with men as a tranny or women with some serious mental problems. This is not being disrespectful, this is just from what I've experienced with family members and knowing counselors.

Do you think perhaps that you have constantly told yourself what you think you are and thus you have slowly but surely believed that this is the right thing to do?

Have you looked at how many post op tranny's regret their re-assignments? The figure is shocking and I fear that your therapy may be encouraging your thoughts and compounding them to think that you are doing the right thing… What you could very well be doing is confusing yourself more.

I also understand Christians can be dicks, but have you sought out Jesus Christ? We are not to hate you but love you, but we are to hate the sin so please do not dismiss my message either… There could very well be a lot of pain in your life, that or a lot of transgression that may have blinded you.
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>>61
I agree that there's a big rush of developers right now, but I think it's actually a response to a profitability spike that ended a few years ago (when when Steam was first accepting self-published titles). Huge audience and a very small number of games on the service meant everybody with a title for sale was raking it in.

If the Zoe Quinn shit is a sign of any kind of decline, it's with people moving away from online publications and towards stuff like down-home Youtube channels for recommendations. Don't think I've heard of any notable effect on the developers.

>>69
The other day, I implemented a simple global scene transition in a puzzle game. In doing so, I broke level progression, text rendering, and the "retry" button. The bugs didn't surface until I had a playtester sit down to try it out. Pic related

>>98
Being a solo dev is tough. You become responsible for such a huge range of tasks that it's not really plausible to actually be good at all of them. You have to figure out how to make the most of the stuff you're good at while minimizing the impact of your lack of skill in other areas.

On the other hand, nobody can tell you what to do, and that's both a very fun and relatively terrifying prospect, because if someone doesn't like the game, it's very literally all your fault.

Don't be shy. I won't bite… Mostly because I can't.