{"id":908,"date":"2021-10-26T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2021-10-26T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T23:33:13","slug":"frustrated-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/2021\/10\/frustrated-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, the title says it all. I&#8217;m feeling frustrated today. Mainly, it is the spam comments on the blog that I have to keep trashing. The spam has been going on for a month, and frankly, I&#8217;m tired of it. It wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if it were from the same email all the time. At least that way, I could block the email. But instead, it is different emails and IP addresses, but always one of two user names. I don&#8217;t want to shut down comments because of it. I also don&#8217;t want to add another module to WordPress to handle spam for me. Sorry for the rant, but it is frustrating me. Also, I&#8217;m frustrated by how long it is taking to get my new glasses. I had hoped to have them by this past Saturday. Now, I am questioning that I will have them by this Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s Next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As I wrote yesterday, the next tutorial will be the fourth in the going real-time tutorials. I will cover actually activating spells and talents. I will start with self-targeting spells since they are the easier of the two types of spells. (I am going to use spell meaning spell or talent.) In the following tutorial, I am not so sure about the topic. I know that I mentioned yesterday that I want to update the UX, user experience. After all, when I started the tutorials, the UX was based on a computer game from 1991, Darklands. That was thirty years ago. God, do I feel old now! I have been feeling nostalgic this past year, and I actually got it on sale from GOG. I&#8217;ve played it a little, but I always die quickly. I don&#8217;t remember it being so hard. If there is a game you suggest, I model the UX off of, drop a comment in the comments section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So, my project work has been non-existent. I&#8217;ve either had work to do, been working on tutorials, or just dealing with life. I would like to get back to my projects, though. I am missing doing programming for me. The last time was many weeks ago; I can&#8217;t recall how many. I&#8217;ve loaded the project a few times but haven&#8217;t had the opportunity to actually modify the code or do any graphical work. I think when I finish here, I will work on Forest Rush a bit. I want to make it at least a little more challenging. Not too difficult, however. I don&#8217;t want people to get frustrated and uninstall the game because they can&#8217;t make any progress. Once I am done with Forest Rush, I want to do something a little more substantial but not as complex as a full-blown RPG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I did run out of steam, working on three tutorials over the past three days. I just couldn&#8217;t open up Eyes of the Dragon this evening. Granted, when I signed into the blog to make a post and found all of the comments, I completely lost heart in it. Though I want to work on my project, I don&#8217;t know that I will do that either. I will see what the evening brings. So, I encourage you to keep visiting the blog for the latest news on my tutorials and other goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck with your game programming adventures!<br><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Cynthia<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the title says it all. I&#8217;m feeling frustrated today. 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It wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if it were from the same email all the time. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiamcmahon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}