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You hear a lot about creators and creative burnout and I don’t know about anyone else but I always thought,

“See, that happens with PRODUCTIVE people. People who work 27 hours per day to produce works of magnificence. I’m a lazy bum who produces silly things. Nowhere NEAR the opulence of works of others I’ve seen. I’m fine. I can keep going. Gotta keep going.”

And I think we may not CONCIOUSLY think that burn-out is a noble thing. In fact we may think that it is a sad unfortunate thing that happens to great creators who try to over-exert themselves.

And I think that’s… I think that’s part of the problem. right there.

“A sad, unfortunate thing that happens to great creators”

“GREAT creators”

This means a couple things that I don’t think I consciously acknowledged.

1. Only great creators can experience creative burnout.
2. If you have experienced burnout, it means you are a great creator.

What this means to me is “you haven’t earned ‘burnout’. Only greats ‘burnout’ and you’re nothing special.”

It lead to this subconscious idea that I needed to EARN my burnout. That when I do burn out, I’ll need to have earned it and I can be counted as one of the greats who eventually did too much.

But the truth is… ANYONE can burn out. Anyone. From anything. And it’s not something that’s “earned” from being “too productive” or a “great creator”. It’s not heroic, it’s not glamorous. It’s not something to be proud of. something that needs to be addressed. To be fixed.

If any of this is speaking to you, I’m here to tell you that you CAN overdo it. There is nothing noble in working to the breaking point. It is LESS noble to know you’re working yourself to the breaking point and need to stop, but continuing anyway because you haven’t “earned it yet”

I’d be down…

I’d love smth like that yeah

YESSS WE NEED RWC 2024

U-R, basically it was a writing contest thing. The first year’s theme iirc was video games and the second was music. The hosts (Pio and ub) would give a prompt, like Kirby, earthbound, etc, and the participants would create a short writing piece (about a paragraph long)/poem, whatever on the topic. The judges decided which piece was the best, and they would get a point! I think it typically ran for a month or so before ending.
By the way, no, I don’t know what RWC stands for. Heck, I don’t even know if anyone does.

Pio and UB, if I got any details wrong do correct me. If you want to view the past events click anyone’s blue badge with the brown book and music note/game console

it stands for wRiting Writing Contest

It was random writing contest, it will return this year i promise

Witch’s Cadence:

I kind of wish there was still a decently sized music making community on this forum,
but I think most people that make music that are on the forum don’t really post about it lol

That’s so true I refuse to post.

Anyway, I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE CRANE SCHOOL OF MUSIC AT POTSDAM!!!

I know very little about music in the grand scheme of things, aside from listening to it. Hey! At least I’m good at that!

I do hereby suggest that any starmen.net musician or music fan post more about it here. We have a board dedicated to music, and the only thing that hinders that board is a lack of traffic – There’s only one cure to that, you know!

And congratulations, VeryBlue!!!

HI PIO I’M WAVING AT YOUR GOOGLE CHAT SELF ALL THE WAY FROM THE FORUMS

I made my starmen.com account yesterday I think so Im kinda new but how do I get the badges, they seem really cool!

oh awesome! Thanks for letting me know! I beat earthbound a couple of months ago and I started mother 3 recently and Ive been trying so hard to make my friends play earthbound so I thought Id join starmen.net lol

Thanks for all the help!

Bro I can get them by just “Being around”?!

Yeah, that’s basically all badges are. Some are kind of obvious – Funfests will always have badges, for instance. Some are from activities, such as making avatars for other users in the avatar thread or for winning a game of riddles. And many, maybe even most, at this point, were just given to commerate some weird, spur of the moment thing.

They’re little visual representations of memories than anything else.

ChromiumTrinity:

Bro I can get them by just “Being around”?!

ye! The two I got, and the avatar I got, I just got from stumbling into fun events that happened. One was a cute little easter egg game thing (well it was a lot more complicated than that actually), and the other was for a funfest I submitted some art to on a whim.
Just interact with the forum and post around and participate in events that look fun and you’ll wind up with some funny pixels under your name in no time

Oh I see the egg exists now, epic
My badges look pretty silly now due to where my invisible badge is located

It was for the Danny DeVito Devotion Democracy art collab that U-R ran. I think it’s over now unfortunately, but you could ask U-R about it

Ok, but I want the egg.

OilFreak:

Ok, but I want the egg.

become one with the egg

presented without comment.

except that last line, and this one explaining it.

I hear that you can sell the egg badge once it grows into a chicken badge for a hefty profit, but that’s all rumor so far.

Huh? Is that where that music is coming from? No wonder I can’t sleep.

I forgot to turn my lights off when going to sleep last night and I had this horrifying sweaty dream with an entire segment of me writing dumb Metallica punchlines. Here’s a few I remember.

They wanted to make the next Enter Sandman, and then they did! No like seriously. King Nothing is the exact same song as Enter Sandman.

You know Metallica’s bad because they wrote an entire album shipping Eddie Van Halen with Nikki Sixx.

And my favorite:

Where’s the guitar?