today was absurd. i almost feel like a page just turned into a new chapter for myself, but it's been an emotional rollercoaster and it's just plain late.

today around 6-7pm PST, several of the leading members of the Spiral Knights community announced they had formed a small studio and were now starting their own project called Knights. it's an "interoperable" program that attaches to Spiral Knights that can produce NFTs of your player character. the idea went under fire so fast it was impossible to catch every angle of it. the goal is to generate revenue, purchase the Spiral Knights IP, and assemble a team to continue to develop the game properly. the plan is riddled with holes.

one leading community member, the admin of the modding scene for the game, quit the team months before and then today, with the project public, openly denounced the entire project and severed all ties. ties with people he had been friends with for years.

i wrote many, many messages across servers trying to display some degree of competence on the subject. i wrote to one person i specifically trust, one of the six that comprise this new studio, to reason with him. i still believe that if he were to falter and quit this project, it would be significantly harder for most others to stick with it. i don't think he has complete confidence in the project either.

i was exhausted long before bed, but with what little energy i have tonight i imported the coherence playground into Unity. set up for tomorrow...

i kind of still feel like i'm reeling, i dunno.