All the time. One standout was FF8. Made it to the last castle area and stopped. Then, ages later, a friend showed up quite late one night needing to hang out, so I fired up the game and played it while we did. Somehow, I managed to get over the bump I'd hit previously and finally beat the game.
You said it. "It depends." is the short answer to basically every design question.
Haha, re-read my last few posts and there were some errant words here and there. When I'm just dashing off something about cake or walks or whatever, I guess I just pay less attention to making sure everything is correct and coherent. I'd make an "either that or" joke here, but irony is merciless.
It's funny. Since I've was diagnosed diabetic, I eat more sweets than I used to. On the other hand, I switched to diet soda and moved to control my carbs better. Really, I guess I'm just choosier about what sugar I consume. If I only get so much, I want it to be the good stuff.
Mmm, tastes just right, maybe it was just to do with the temperature in the room when I was mixing it or something. Might've been a bit colder than usual? I dunno, I don't pretend to know much about baking.
Pound cake cooling now. It seemed a bit thicker than usual in the batter stage, but everything was the measured the same. Guess we'll see how it turned out in a bit. But I keep thinking "maybe next time I'll change up the recipe some", and honestly, I think I kinda just like plain pound cake.
No deer this morning, but that's okay. Saw a bunch of squirrels, including one white squirrel, and a woodpecker. When I got home I took an egg, 1/2 a stick of butter, and a little block of cream cheese out of the fridge to warm up, as I'm gonna bake a 6" pound cake later on today.
Hmm, it's a nice brisk morning. I think I'll grab something warm to wear, get a mcmuffin from McD's, and go for a walk in the nearby park before it gets crowded.
But it's always been the games where I leaned in on my tastes, fought to keep mechanics/theme intact, and didn't worry if anyone else would want to play the game that did the best. I need to trust that more and stop pre-placating critics.
I hit a patch in my career where I spent way too much time self-censoring my designs to remove randomness, take-that elements, and such, but none of that stuff sold in the end. Now I'm coming back into freelancing with a renewed sense of my own style and tastes, and not everyone's gonna like that.