>>712602743 (OP)I feel him. I've been developing a huge mod for Mass Effect 3 right around the same time I saw P-06 emerge. For a long time each new year felt the same as before. I was excited, and people in the discord servers were seemingly still excited. Then crap happens, and then you realize you're REALLY outside of the Covid-bubble around the end of 2022. You start to feel the mounting pressure of IRL again. You realize you've matured since you started because of simple aging. Then Trump is reelected. Fine, cuz I could've voted for him myself, easy. But then it's actually kind of scary anyway.
Then the wars are becoming concerning. Way less people even appear in your servers than they used to. You feel isolated.
You keep going... but it's very depressing to get to the finish line by now.