You will never have a completely original idea. That's the first thing you have to understand. The closest you can get is not being able to remember where your inspiration came from, but I guarantee it came from somewhere. The next part is to come to terms with the fact that creativity cannot be activated on demand. Your best ideas will come when you're not trying, or when you're letting your mind wander. It can be helpful to find a jumping off point in which to allow your mind to wander, like thinking of a story or a world completely unrelated to what you're doing. Don't try to consciously tie it back to what you're doing, just explore this world, and then maybe afterward compare the thoughts you had to what you're trying to do. At the end of the day though, creativity is killed by pressure. Just have fun, and don't sweat it if you struggle to come up with an idea. Oh also, don't get caught up on the idea that you somehow lost your creativity, or you used to be more creative. It's most likely not true, you probably just weren't as critical of your ideas when you were younger.
Feb 8, 2025
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Just make something, if you want to you should force yourself. Inspiration won’t usually strike before you are creating, but during the process. Even if it comes from way outside, you’ll probably only figure out how to channel it when you’re already in the middle of something. Seek the experience of making, not having finished products— and so once you've begun, you’ve already accomplished it, you’re creating something (i.e. being creative). You form a habit and things get better and you inspire yourself.
unless you once had a divine muse that has since passed you by, then maybe you’re out of luck
Jan 7, 2025
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I think a lot of us think of idea generation as separate from creating, and that in order to create, we need a good idea to execute on. I try to remember that creating is actually a mode of idea generation, that sometimes sitting down to make things opens our brains to inspiration instead of the other way around.
So I think the thing is just to make time and space to get into a focused state to make things — and specifically to make BAD things without having a plan or a great idea beforehand.
Oct 29, 2024
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Pull a joni mitchell and engage in arts that differ from your primary to inform it at a later time.
If you lean more toward visual arts try poetry, song writing, music making, acting/performances for the self, crochet, clay, claymation, videography, sound collection, whistling, discovering new sounds you can make etc.
Often when i want to create but i feel tired or uninspired i try to use still life or my surroundings— BUT If thats boring i ask myself a question and let my train of thought ramble -> connecting that rambling to my pen on paper
Honestly setting your inner critic to rest and creating things that are imperfect is actually incredible!
More often than not letting first drafts be final for a moment allows you to discover what you crave to create.
Apr 11, 2024
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The USPS store allows you to purchase shipping labels for free. 750 per order in fact. They're pretty big, have plenty of empty space and stick to things. You could draw, print, etc. on them and then cut out your creation. For free. No credit card or anything. 750 shipping labels shipped to you for nothing at all. Click the link and have fun.
Feb 9, 2025
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First of all, this will mostly only work for offline games. Second of all, if you try to find online versions of this, you will most likely be downloading a virus. Do not download from online-fix, it's a virus.
Also if you can afford to, just buy the game. Obviously. But capitalism sucks and many can't afford commodities in addition to their living expenses. For those people, you shouldn't be deprived of an infinite wealth of fun, so here you go:
Go to the website linked in my post. This place is lit. Find the game you want to download and then proceed with the instructions:
TORRENT ROUTE (VPN STRONGLY RECOMMENDED)
Now if you have terrible internet, torrenting may be your best option because it downloads from multiple places at once. Beware that your Internet can see if you torrent, and as such, you should use a VPN if you go this route to avoid fines or ISP shutoffs. If you want to torrent, download QBitTorrent here: https://www.qbittorrent.org/download. I recommend qbit because it's free, open source, and hasn't done me wrong so far. Now on fitgirl, find where it says "Download mirrors (torrent)" and then "1337x". Beside this there will be a button that reads "magnet" press it and it will automatically redirect to your torrenting app. Once it loads the metadata, you can select which files you want to download and then begin. Once downloaded, read torrenting info below, and then proceed to the installation step in this guide.
Torrenting info:
When torrenting, you're either downloading from the source, or, after it's finished, seeding the file you already downloaded so other people can use you as you did them. If you have upload bandwidth to spare, this is a nice thing to do, otherwise, right click the file in queue and press stop to end seeding.
NORMAL DOWNLOAD ROUTE (VPN LESS NECESSARY)
This method is less involved, but oftentimes slower than torrenting, depending on the download provider. The upside, is that your ISP can't see what you're doing as much, in which case you don't really need a VPN, though I'd of course still recommend it if you have it, just to be safe. Find where it says "Download Mirrors (Direct Links)" and then use your own judgement to pick a link. The ones toward the top are usually better.
Sometimes games will be so big they're split into multiple parts. In this case, you need to download all parts, and follow the instructions on fitgirl. This will typically be to download WinRAR and extract all the files at once.
Once downloaded, proceed to the installation step below.
INSTALLATION
Every game is a little different, but typically the fitgirl site has instructions on how to install what you just downloaded. The universal rundown though, is to download the DirectX version provided in the folders, along with any other drivers provided, and then execute the installation file. Once this installation completes, you should have the game and be able to play it 'til your heart's content.
If you have any problems, comment and lmk, I'll try to get to them asap :)
Hopefully this helps.
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