Hobbies

First Post Of The 2024!

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I doubt that I’ll beat my gaming streak from last year, but I am already making progress on one of the many adventures that have gone unfinished. I played the third boss battle in Crash 3 Warped, and I actually had a lot of fun with it! To be honest I wasn’t expecting Coco to take the helm and fight off N.Gin, but I managed to make it through without taking a single hit. I showed this screenshot to a friend, and they were surprised this was from a Crash game at all.

It will probably be awhile before I release any video content. I’m still toiling away at two particular projects with no end in sight, at least for a couple of weeks. I ended last year with a game video, and now I think it’s only right to begin it with something more polished. 🙂

When Life Fucks Your Tablet, Unfuck It

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My plans ended up taking a bit of a detour today due to a giant fuck-up on my tablet, which did give me an excuse to put Windows on it to run overdue firmware updates. I just finished installing and updating it to the latest Manjaro! I’ll continue working on it tomorrow after I get off work. I’ll need to install the Surface Kernel, and get it tweaked the rest of the way. I have a perfect canvas awaiting me when I get my free time. Until then I’ll have to rough it on my Steam Deck.

I can’t complain too much, it’s been running for two years without a single reinstall. I’ve been meaning to upgrade it to the latest firmware and Manjaro for awhile now, this was just a real roundabout way to get me off my fat ass to perform an exorcism.

Evening Open Thread

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There probably won’t be much in the way of content next month, other than a couple small gameplay videos. I’ve mainly been focusing between two different SFM projects, so far they’re both tied for the lead. We were going to do some audio recording for the ending of a Tetris video tonight, but ran out of time. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow… I did at least get some animation taken care of on Operation Podcamp (not the actual title). It’s finally starting to look like a proper camping scene, well… such as it is. If I have time I’ll probably toil away at it a bit more tomorrow.

Open Thread!

Rockin’ My Friday

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Survived Black Friday like a champ – didn’t buy anything either. I did my work, and then got the fuck home, made an after work breakfast and put work into one of my SFM projects. I’m pretty much done animating the audio I extracted; now I just need to come up with an ending to tie it all together, and I think I know what to do. I just need to write it out when I’m not as sleep deprived. For the time being these ideas can spin around in my head like a blender of untamed game theory. I’m thinking this will be ready for early January! Start off the new year with some gameplay and animated shenanigans!

Been pretty much coasting on black tea until now. I’m hoping the chamomile and sleep medicine catch up with me soon. It doesn’t take much caffeine to keep me going for what feels like days. All the more reason why I prefer tea 99% of the time.

This One Time, At Pod Camp

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I recently went through a five hour Skyrim livestream, and I harvested about 30 minutes of fun from it… some of it worthy of animation! There will be at least two or three videos coming from it. At least one of them being 100% animation! Maybe it’ll make up for the massive influx of pure gameplay video I’ve been pushing out! 😛 That said, there will be a couple of those next month. Maybe they’ll give me time to get this polished and ready. If not, it can be expected to debut in early January, hopefully with more content if I’m lucky. 😛

Content With Making Content

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Space Core sitting on a Valve in a Dwemer Ruin.
SPAAAAAAACE!!!!

The 30 seconds of video I commented about in yesterday’s post magically turned into a bout 30 minutes! There should be a few videos I can make from that, one of them being a special kill compilation of my magical blade in action! I had fun revisiting this recording, it was one of my all time favorite streams! So much happened in five hours, and at least a fraction of it might be worth looking at! It took me pretty much the entire evening to sift through it, enough that I’ll revisit it on another day. I think I’ll take a break from making goofy shit to focus on other goofy shit – have to keep it versatile or things go stale.

Hell Is Always Hiring

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Come in for some flamin’ hawt burgs.

Finally have all my puzzle pieces in order for when I put the video together! That can be done another night though, the rest of tonight is chill time. I’m thinking tomorrow of delving into some Skyrim footage, see if I can turn five hours worth of footage into 30 seconds of nonsense.

Cozy as Hell

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Chill Mode Engaged

I’ll be taking a break from video releases for the rest of the month to focus on my other projects. There will be a couple videos releasing next month, though they’ll be gameplay shorts. I spent part of the evening animating something a little less peaceful than the image above.

The Karen Makyr

I did make a little progress in DOOM Eternal tonight; defeated the Kahn Makyr (not to be confused with the Karen Makyr) and now I’m making my way to the Icon of Sin. It was a nice, therapeutic run.

Time For A Lil’ Makeover

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Made some changes to the blog tonight! Replaced the RSS plugin that I was using for fetching my Mastodon posts with a more proper plugin, plus I played with the look of the site. I decided to lighten the colors up a bit since we have a Dark Mode to use as an alternative. 🙂 There are a couple more things I’d like to implement and change, but this will do for now.

I did get through another chapter of BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites, been playing it here and there in my spare time. Stopped on Chapter 9 tonight. This has to be one of the hardest Metroidvanias I’ve ever played hands down. I died so many times trying to get past pools of acid without missing platforms. It makes the Shantae series look like child’s play by comparison.

I AM THE NIGHT

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After spending a good part of the evening working on my next disasterpiece – I escaped into the world of Aragami for awhile and advanced the plot juuuuuuuuuuust a little. Got a couple scrolls and a talisman! Enjoying a little bit of tea and mochi before bed. It’s getting time to order some more soon, it’s a nice accompaniment to green tea! Kinda like black tea and cookies.

This was the final frame I left off in for tonight in SFM. I’m almost done animating the first scene! I’ll probably take a break from it tomorrow. No sense in rushing on this one – I already know it’s gonna take awhile. I’m thinking after work tomorrow of advancing the plot in DOOM Eternal, reeeeeaaalllly kick off the weekend. I just need to find one more Celestial Ring and then I can inch closer to finishing the base game and move onto the DLC!

Until then… it’s shut eye but for real, yo.