Hobbies

Fun & Fantasy

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Sunday is always my recharge day, and I needed it. An orange kitty made sure I got plenty of rest, and I treated myself to a breakfast bowl with ingredients from last night’s dinner. We had our usual weekend BG3 sesh! We defeated a Witchy Biznitch and are currently making our way to a monastery. We fought some explosives drunks and demon cats along the way.

I also made time to do a little bit of animating this afternoon. I haven’t touched SFM for about a week, needed to scratch that animators itch. It’ll still be awhile, but I think I’m finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on this one… maybe after another week or two. I’m planning to release it next month, so no rush. I might even put in a little more time before calling it a night. The more I pour into it, the less I’ll have to do later.

Some Zen and Spring Cleaning

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My first act of spring cleaning was to do a little bit of dusting. I tried washing a wall, but the lighting in here was too terrible for me to want to do it efficiently. Instead I cleaned a five tier shelf of mine that I keep a bunch of random odds and ends on, but after thinking about it I’m thinking of storing my Asian tea cups and bowls on them since they would match the shelving perfectly. That will probably be my after work project tomorrow. I don’t really have a dedicated place for storing all of them, and it might be a good idea to change that so I can better organize.

After the cleaning of my shelves as well as myself it was time for a little bit of play after a day of work. So I wandered the forests of Kena: Bridge of Spirits and tried to remember what I was trying to do. Instead I hunted down a missing Rot in the Taro’s Tree area. It might be a good idea to make some time for this again tomorrow night, something about drinking tea and enjoying the scenery is nice after a long day.

SFM Update: We Be Cookin’

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I’ve been putting along with my animation, slowly but surely. This probably won’t be finished until April, was hoping to get it out this month but I’m pretty sure it won’t be happening. The beginning sequence has been completed, now I’m about a third of the way through the end sequence. Yesterday I didn’t have time to work on it, but I did manage to export some audio for the next bit of animation in my lineup. That one will also be a lengthy bit of animation, and the ending I have written for it will take even longer than yesterday’s two minutes that I extracted. It’ll be fun once I get to it. 🙂

Friday Night Open Thread

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I didn’t have time to delve into any animation tonight. Instead I sifted through last weekend’s Game Of Life recording, and it has some promising audio that might be worthy of animation. I have to do the second bit of audio sifting, but that will have to wait for another evening. I spent the last hour checking out Deathloop, and so far my only issue with it was a freeze the first time I started the game. Other than that it seems to run ok.

I only made it out of the first level, so far I have no complaints. The graphics look very nice,though optimization could be better. I was kind of hoping it would be like Prey where you could choose between two different characters, but it seems you only get to play Colt in Single Player while Julianna can only be played in Multiplayer… not that it really matters. So far I like Colt’s personality. Will definitely have to loop back around to play this again!

From The Fires Of My Desktop

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Had a fun recording session tonight for a future Skyrim vid! I’ll have plenty of audio to go over next time I have time to slice and dice it. Tomorrow I was going to go over some video footage for Borderlands 3 to see if any of it’s worth sharing, and it’ll give me an excuse to check out more of KdenLive’s video editing suite. I played with it a bit yesterday when going over video footage that I inevitably ended up deleting. Shotcut will probably continue to remain on my system, but I figure it also doesn’t hurt to see what KdenLive has to offer – especially given that I’m looking at HDR video editing, and Shotcut currently doesn’t support it while KdenLive does. That’ll be my project for tomorrow. 🙂

Greetings from the Evil Petting Zoo.

Then for my last hour of entertainment for the evening I ended up playing a bit more DOOM 2, and managed to make it through The Circle of Death. I’m thinking after beating DOOM 2 of checking out Sigil and Sigil 2, the unofficial third and fourth episodes of DOOM by John Romero himself. Two days of DOOMING it is enough though, need to think of another distraction for tomorrow night. I know once the 14th of Feb comes around there might be some new shiny vintage Tomb Raider to play, and it’s even verified for Steam Deck!

A Thirst For Blood… And Maaaaaaybe Milkshakes

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Finished the last bit of the evening playing a bit of DOOM 2! Currently on E1M9. It was fun watching the demons ripping each other apart, made it easy to kill the survivors…

Other than that I did a little bit of story writing earlier, and even went out for malts with a friend! We were going to check a look at the local tea house, but they were closed today. Oh well, it’s been awhile since I’ve had any milkshakes and the same went for my friend. Between the long walk around town and the bleu cheese burger I’ve been nibbling on I’ll be getting a good night’s rest.

Sunday Night Fun: A Lil’ Work & A Lil’ Play

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We had our weekly BG3 session tonight. I drank some bad well water, pissed off a Swamp Karen and collected sausages and other odd swag.

Also managed to frame a future scene for one of the next Skyrim videos. It’s going to be a gaming montage from one of the past livestreams, it’ll probably be awhile before it sees the light of day. I have everything pretty much posed in place, now I’ll just need to draft a story together to tie into the gameplay. I already have a few ideas, just need to put them into a format involving words.

Other than that I’ve been enjoying fine wine and creamy choco-hazelnut tea lattes. Tonight I made a spicy tuna tomato pasta tonight with olives, and last night I made my own rendition of Beef Burgundy Stew. I say my own rendition because I had to change a few things in the recipe to make it more tolerable. Like, not using four fucking onions. I traded two of them for some quartered red baby potat’s. A stew without potat’s?! That’s a fucking crime! The stew tasted even better today when I had some with a breakfast sandwich. Between those two meals I won’t have to worry about making anything for a few days. 🙂

Sooooooooon

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Now that I’m wrapping up production on my current animation I’m starting to see things beginning to thin out. There’s still an electric butt-fuck ton of footage to troll through, in fact I’ve already deleted a couple hundred gigs of what I don’t need. After the new vid drops this weekend it’ll be awhile before another release, hopefully not too long. 😛

The Inevitable Weekend BG3 Post

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Played a little bit of BG3 tonight, didn’t make it too far but we did learn some new strategies. It was a small break from the video… I’m almost done working on it – keep running into the occasional hitch, but I’m getting through it. Gonna finish the credits, then I’ll finally be able to export it! Then sleepy time.

Keeper Of The Shovel

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I haven’t posted much about it, but I’ve been animating away every night! Bit by bit I’ve been bouncing between two different projects, and tonight one of them finally won! I completed all of the animation, just need to do the final exports! Then I can begin on stitching it all together. If all goes according to plan I’ll release it next week! w00t!