# Comings and Goings

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/comings-and-goings/26719>\
**Category:** Arcade\
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/comings-and-goings/26719 "2024-02-06T21:32:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Iro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/iro/32/34749_2.png) [@Iro](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Iro)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/comings-and-goings/26719/1340 "2026-02-16T16:36:31Z")

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Hey guys, I am back! Thanks for all the support!

> [@Luke](#):
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> Personally, i decided not to become an artist because its always been such an financially unstable career for so many of its paths. However, I might have gone for it if not for AI which kinda killed any of my already shaky ambition to make it a career.
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> Skill and talent isn’t everything when it comes to being successful in art as a career, - world renown artist Van Gogh died long before reaching any kind of fame (only selling one painting) . This issue of just not getting recognition is orders of magnitude worse now that AI art exists.
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> But im sure its still very possible, people will always want to hire real imagination. It’ll just be much more difficult. _being an artist as a job_ has a broad scope tho. It really does vary and i would pinpoint what you really mean by that.

Thanks! Although I guess I wasn’t that clear, I did not mean as a Job. My plan is still to be a game dev.

> [@randomuser](#):
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> Thank you so much, I’m glad you could find a place in our community for a while : - )  
> That artwork is SO AMAZING!!! I’m a huge fan of that angular, somewhat human style for animals, I’m jelous you could get the anatomy of the snout so perfect!  
> I hope your future endevours in art are sucessful, and if you do return, we’d love to see what you’re working on then! 💖 👋

Thank you so much! Fun fact, that was the first out of like, 40 attempts to do that, and I cannot seem to replicate it!

> [@RoboVacDev](#):
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> Well, see you on the other side, my friend,

not entirely sure if this was to me, but if it was, yo wassup bro?

Anyway, here is the topic for the WIP game I have been working on for the past month and 1/2:

[[message-received]](https://forum.makecode.com/t/message-received/42159)

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