Hello, everyone.
Today, I'm here to talk about something a bit special... It's about my drone. As it turns out, RIDVAN22 has confirmed that the sprite wasn't for my drone but rather, it was a top weapon that's been collecting dust in the item libraries. Now, I would leave it off on this note... But RIDVAN22 did something else that I really want to make clear.
He's framing me out to be a sprite stealer.
So, I'ma start things off by talking about my rough draft. RIDVAN22 says that upon noticing the sprite, I "made a topic about it". Let me emphasize to you all that my topic outdates his post by a month and when I did make the topic, the concept was spriteless. It wasn't until he showed the sprite in General Chat 2.0 that I was intrigued by the sprite. However, he failed to mention anything about it being a top weapon... Actually, he captioned the sprite image with "some kind of drone?" when he revealed it if I can recall correctly, so where in the hell was this idea that it was a top weapon? (Keep in mind that he was one of the few people that retrieved the image from the game files, where all of the information about what the sprite is should be.)
The next point -- The Profile Picture. If you didn't remember, I made a Exponential Equinox.gif on the forums and used it as my profile picture. If you also didn't remember, I was also constantly asking everyone as to if they knew the artist of the sprite because I wanted to verify if it was actually the sprite of my drone. Surprise surprise, no one answered... Until RIDVAN22 came along and spilled the beans behind my back just a week or so ago. And in case you were wondering, I made that pfp shortly before the new forums were made, not when I noticed the sprite (do you see where I'm getting with this?).
If I'ma be honest about this... It seems that RIDVAN22 assumed things rather than doing a short search to find the context behind the whole thing. I would be fine with this if it didn't frame me as some kind of thief when in reality, it's all been nothing but me asking questions into a void while the one person with answers just sat nearby until a few months later.
I didn't want to do this topic in the first place, either, but since he decided to do that, there's no other way to clear things up rather than make a topic to counter his post.
With that out of the way, I hope everyone has a nice day.
And remember...
To expect the unexpected, pilots.
I couldn't fetch the image and make the topic at the same time, so I made the topic and decided to add the image after... Oh, and RIDVAN deleted the "new item sprites".
Real classy, mate, really classy.
If you want context, that little smiley face had a full catalog of item sprites that he listed.
Like this.
And the "I wanted to show this again" addition has the "drone" sprite that he failed to emphasize about.
RIDVAN, if you're reading this, try looking at context before you go on about how I could be a sprite stealer.
https://tacticsoft.discoursehosting.net/t/to-the-artist-of-exponential-equinoxs-sprite-yes-its-a-long-read-and-explanation-about-everything
Oh, and that link shows the topic where I asked for the artist of Exponential Equinox. RIDVAN didn't show this at all.