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Wondering what to get for my uncle's birthday, I went to the other shopping mall where I knew there was a game shop where I also get a lot of Skylanders from (that's where I got the Skylanders Giants game). I was only popping in for a visit and unfortunately, just like in the last mall. The game shop was also closed down.
That's three Malaysian game shops that have Skylanders closed. The other one closed in 2014 some time before the release of Skylanders Trap Team. Now I am really worried. The one that's still open doesn't care about Skylanders and there's only one other mall I know that does have Skylanders (but my parents are not very keen on that mall). If that is closed and if the one I know that's open doesn't get any Skylanders Imaginators toys, I am doomed. I may have to give up the Skylander fan business. I wasn't planning to do so until 2018-2021.
That's three Malaysian game shops that have Skylanders closed. The other one closed in 2014 some time before the release of Skylanders Trap Team. Now I am really worried. The one that's still open doesn't care about Skylanders and there's only one other mall I know that does have Skylanders (but my parents are not very keen on that mall). If that is closed and if the one I know that's open doesn't get any Skylanders Imaginators toys, I am doomed. I may have to give up the Skylander fan business. I wasn't planning to do so until 2018-2021.
My Patreon is open to simple again until May/June
I am open once again for Patreon, and the Super Thanks system is open again. BUT I have a few temporary rules until sometime in May or June. (https://www.patreon.com/blackrhinoranger/membership ) Within the next few months, the commissions will have to be simple again, due to life changing events which I cannot reveal until later and I'm also preparing as much work as possible before my birthday arrives. If you're going to give me some commissions, keep it simple, keep it short and quick, and don't ask for too many characters, maybe about 1-5 characters max. I need to spend as much time as I can for other projects as well as my family. I don't know if I have enough time to do another livestream or request challenge after my Save the Spider challenge. But I'll see what I can do. Once that's over, I may reveal what's happening to me in the past few months but also allow more complex commissions again.
New Laptop + What I'm doing now
So since my old laptop is completely busted after 8 years of its lifetime, me and my dad went out to get myself a brand new laptop. And it's funny that I have transitioned from Alienware to Predator (cause, you know, Alien vs Predator). Now before you say that things seem like they are back to normal, not quite. I'm still trying to login back into as many of my accounts as possible and I am still testing which old softwares are compatible with Windows 11 and which ones need an upgrade. Thankfully, my old Macromedia Flash 8 still works (and good thing too, because when I tried loading my old flash files onto the latest Adobe Animate, they kept crashing). And since I just got a new version of Adobe Photoshop and several other latest versions of my old apps, it will take me some time to get use to them. And keep in mind, I haven't gotten everything out from the old computer yet. The old computer's hard drive is with me but it needs a casing or needs to be transfered to another hard
Computer update
Bad news. Just got a call from the guy saying my old Alienware laptop is completely broken beyond repair. So I have to get my hands on a new laptop and face some incompatibilities for some of my old softwares, including Macromedia Flash 8, the software I've been using for all my animations since 2006, and Sony Vegas Platinum, the software I used for other videos since 2010. Good news is that I still got some stuff saved on an external hard drive. But the ones within my old computer will have to be extracted into a new one. But if I have no choice but to upgrade to the latest Adobe Animate, as I'm not sure if any of my previous Flash files will be compatible with the latest software, I might have to start things over from scratch. If I am unable to reuse old materials, I might have to cancel my Skylanders animation series and just focus on new material, like Rhino and Dile. Even cancelling Skylanders University, the Skylanders Christmas redux and the rest of the Sky Wars series.
How my grandma in her last years affected me
While I don’t have a computer to do any digital drawings at this time, I can still do some journalling. And now some time has passed since my last grandparent passed away and I have a lot to say how her last few years of her life affected me as a Youtuber, Animator and Gamer. Some of what I’ve written may come off as selfish but I’ll do my best to explain how Grandma took a bit of a heavy tow on me and my family and why I haven’t been the happiest chap since 2014. Before that, let me explain to you all why 2015 is perhaps the absolute worst year of my entire life. Let‘s start off with some nitpicks before I get to the parts that truly sorrowed me. It was when I had to get a new laptop as I accidentally spilt some water over my previous one. It was mainly because a cockroach was right next to me. As I squished it, I accidentally toppled a glass of water over. I then decided to go to a computer repairer to see if they can get the hard drive files out of there and into a new home. In the
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*GAAAAAAAAAAAASP* Oh, NOES!!!!!!!! 