Didn’t have much time to play tonight, but I learned how to parry in Hi-Fi Rush! Probably would have made it further if I didn’t futz around with photo mode so much, but… it does add to the journey!
Today Was One Of The Days Of All Time
Today went by so fast. I usually wake up half an hour early before the alarm goes off because of the sun gracing me with its presence. But today I did a good job of cocooning myself in blankets while having psychotic dreams about two young boys running away from angry wheelbarrows and an old fat dude that may or may not have been in it with said wheelbarrow. It didn’t really matter after they ran down several basements worth of flooring only to enter an astral pocket dimension with one door, leading to the old man in a bathroom with enough ass crack showing off another dimension. To where? I don’t know. I finally knocked the blankets off of me in time to see that my alarm would be going off in two minutes. Amazing what drinking antihistamines and wine can do during a good night of sleep!
If only I had planned THREE weeks of vacation instead of just the two… then I might have unraveled this mystery that no one in their right mind would care about. Anyway… The rest of the day seemed fast paced. I got to work, it had its fast and slow moments, and then I got home and was immediately invited to go clown on some fun videos in Resonite. 🙂
Overall, today was a good day.
What Is This “Inspiration” Tab On YouTube & Why Do I Hate It?
The other day when I decided to prep some videos for future release I happened upon the new “Inspiration” tab that you may have noticed if you use your Creator Dashboard. Like with most things Google does, I had to laugh to myself and wonder what YouTube would consider to be inspirational to their users and content creators? Then I clicked on Inspiration to see what Google thinks I need for inspiration.
If you guessed regurgitated AI bullshit then congratulations! You win! Your prize? Regurgitated AI bullshit! It basically takes videos that you’ve published, a mix of successful and recent videos, and it spits out “ideas” for what your next video should be along with an explanation for what the video should be about. As an added bonus (if you think even more AI bullshit is an added bonus) it will auto generate thumbnails for the video idea! I thought some of my thumbnails might have been on the lazy side… but using AI for a video thumbnail is an even lower form of lazydom.You can also type up ideas into the AI and have it come up with other “suggestions”.
I wish Creepy Uncle Google would allow us to disable, or opt out of their AI nonsense. Relying on a database scraper (which is pretty much what it is, there is no “intelligence” to these queries) look over my content and give me ideas for what I need to create next is the antithesis of inspiration. The only inspiration I got from discovering this feature was the urge to do a write up about how insufferably dull and unimaginative it is. I have no use for this feature for the type of content that I make (Game Videos & Hell Porn).
May their “Inspiration” go the way of the Dinosaur, or Google+.
All Things In Their Place & Time
Kept my promise and did a little bit of gaming tonight. Meanwhile I’ve also been re-organizing my game library; I’ve moved all the larger demanding games to the NVMe drives, and now I’m divvying up the lower maintenance games between a couple of mechanical drives.
As far as work goes – I start with a full shift tomorrow. My Steam Deck is ready, my work clothes are in easy reach, and I’m pretty much set. Pretty sure my two weeks off will be undone halfway through my shift. Seems to be a fine standing tradition.
Sunday Night Open Thread
Yesterday was spent getting the new hardware in place, and today was spent installing software and dialing things back to my liking. I haven’t had a chance to do any gaming, will probably have a bit of time for that tomorrow though. Though now that I have several terabytes of NVMe storage I can finally set a good chunk aside for games that would perform slower on spinner drives.
I’m sure I’ll set a little time aside for gaming tomorrow, it’ll be my last day of self enjoyment before having to return to the hole to earn the hole, to earn what they claim passes for a living. Gotta make my last day count!
Open Thread!
That Time I Put A Baby Spermit On My Head!
First video of the new year! Why not start it off with a small clip of me traumatizing friends while wearing a perfectly innocent albino tadpole on my head? This was a part of some other recordings, but I decided to cast it off as its own thing.
Intense Pals
Did my final Palworld stream!… on current hardware. Tomorrow I’m going to tear into the system, everything is pretty much backed up and ready to be migrated over. The gutting will start tomorrow after some shut eye and a good breakfast. We once again had a nice long stream. It actually lasted longer than expected, but we did finally encounter a challenging boss. 😀
Neva Say Neva
Last night I decided to give Neva a try on my Steam Deck. It’s an indie sidescroller made by the same team behind Gris. Neva tells the tale of a young wolf cub with antlers named Neva, who a young woman named Alba cares for after losing Neva’s guardian after a battle with darkness. The two run through a world threatened by darkness, with Alba helping pave the way for Neva,
You play through four different seasons, starting with Summer. Each area is two parts. You have the option of playing Story Mode, for those who just want to enjoy the story. Then you have a more classic Adventure Mode where dying is possible, though so far it hasn’t been too difficult to play. The visuals and the atmospheric music were a great way to end a late evening. 🙂 If I finish this I might have to check out Gris! I’ve heard about it but never had much of a reason to look for it, given I have so much to climb on Mt. Backlog as it is…
Happily Out Of Place
We had fun doing another live stream! This time we lasted for almost three hours. A friend shared a visit while we were jogging around the various islands and committing crimes.
Also lined up a few videos for release this month! Starting this weekend! Finished doing the subtitling and making the thumbnails. Now to call it a night.
Storage For Days
Before moving everything over to the new system setup I decided to play musical chairs with my mechanical hard drives. I’m retiring two 2TB’s and a 4TB that are showing signs, and it’s a good idea to get things onto new drives before they give up the ghost. So far I’ve gotten two of my video scratch drives onto one new drive with room to spare, and now I’m working on moving over my Audio Video libraries from the old 4TB onto a new 4TB. I foresee it doing file transfers while I sleep tonight, but I don’t mind the additional heat this time of year.
I just looked at the label of one of the old drives I finished emptying, it has a manifacture date of April 2012. Though the drive itself only got about six years of usage. Overall a good run given that these are enterprise drives.