I've been desperately aching to have-already-been-doing a massive creative project that showcases my voice and interests in authoring interactive systems. This isn't new, but I'm still pretty shy about even talking about it.
I just feel like I have no community or friends who share with me a central desire to bear witness to each other's creations. I have friends and I share these things and I get a perfectly polite "that's cool". They're great friends, it's just that most of them I'm friends with for other reasons.
I've still been playing Genshin, Endfield, Honkai Impact 3rd, and Brawl Stars. I mostly play them for dailies, to keep up with the stories and characters, and to pull. I've also been playing a lot of neopets recently, and that made me reconnect with my deep interest in game economies. Neopets is really interesting because it's one of the few games of the era that has both inflation AND increased item accessibility. It's not like Gaiaonline where the inflation made items inaccessible.
I dream of running my own live service game, managing balance and economy and writing stories and making characters. I started writing down notes for TCG ideas I've been having. I dream of creating a whole ecosystem of stuff together.