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 Alright, please don’t laugh. I hated the final result too, and believe me, I had over a week to put this mess together. Sure, the random draw of scene elements didn’t help, but the deadline was looming, and I had to turn in something. Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo are part of that group of cartoons I absolutely despised as a kid. They’re right up there with Top Cat, Jabberjaw, and Captain Caveman. Top Cat was way too slick for my taste, Jabberjaw’s laugh and goofy voice drove me nuts, and Captain Caveman felt completely out of place in his own show. That furry ball of chaos made zero sense to me. This piece.. I swear I’ll revisit and redo someday... I want to crank up the distortion, make the background scream Plaza Murillo vibes, and actually finish those darn bears. On the bright side, I’m kinda stoked that their visual identity is so strong you can still tell who they are, even in this half-baked state...
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Libertad!

A black and white sketch of Simón Bolívar riding a rearing horse, holding a sword aloft, with dynamic, scribbled lines capturing the motion.

 After 7 years, I finally broke free. I quit Marvel Strike Force. That game that popped up in countless ads until it wore me down lol. I joined an alliance, risked getting kicked, got promoted to captain, and then leader. It was the game that stuck with me through the entire pandemic... I’ve never had such a hardcore habit, logging in every single day, no exceptions.
But it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows... the game was blatantly pay-to-win. Offers for resources and new characters cost as much as a full AAA game, which already raises a massive red flag. Whenever a shiny new character dropped, the whales would spend enough to buy a brand-new car... with that kind of money involved, you’d expect some serious payoff or at least a polished experience, right? Nope. Every update came with the expectation that something would break, and we’d just get some measly compensation for it.
Over time, I stopped playing the competitive modes, one by one... I no longer read the patch notes, watched videos hyping up new content, or shared anything with my alliance.
The final straw for me was when the parent company bought Pokémon Go. 3.5 billion dollars. The company is swimming in cash. They had resources this whole time, yet for 7 years, every update put the game’s competitive integrity at risk.
Get out while you still can, break free, don’t fall for the sunk cost fallacy. What are you even getting out of it? Are you being respected? Is your money being respected? Is your time being respected? Set yourself free.

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