Psaldorn

I think you’re misunderstanding/I’m not explaining well.

Accessing emotions is hard for a lot of us because we’ve been trained to clam up. But without that external factor, it wouldn’t be.

But when we do actually do it, it now takes effort and strength when it probably shouldn’t.

But the physical loss of control when, for example, crying, makes us physically vulnerable as well as emotionally.

I can see why times in history, having v people be scared and breaking down would jeopardize themselves or others. But we’ve magnified that, or lost the nuance.

Crying or raging or withdrawing in camp is safe, on a hunt or while driving a truck is the exception not the rule.

I wonder if this is a modern human problem or just a human problem

Maybe I’m off but… they do make you weak, right?

And we don’t just let emotions happen sometimes, we should acknowledge they are always there to one degree or another. There may be times when having a brave face is what is needed, but for most people most of the time, it isn’t

So, the real takeaway should be “you don’t need to be strong all the time, in fact, you can’t”

I looked into arts council grants and they just flatly do not do game development, sadly

Already got the landlord and energy companies lording it over me…

Would like it if they had a loan option or similar. Business loan was the only option left, grants come in tranches anyway, could have just had milestone based grant tranches.

In order to get the “content” (aka “make the game”) grants (at least recently when I applied) you needed to have at least 2 PAYE employees working on the game AND have the other half fully funded by non grant means.

Solo Devs are rejected out of hand and that seems incredibly short sighted. I am biased though.