Hobbies

Achieving A Good Evening

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Shantae standing with her uncle and friends after completion of her uncle's dynamo.

Didn’t have time to do much playing, but I did advance the plot in Shantae: Half Genie Hero! The Dynamo has been built, an achievement has been acquired, and more quests have popped up for next time.

I also finished up another part of my ongoing animation project! It’s currently keeping the room nice and toasty (and not just in universe!). It’s looking like it will still be rendering when I go to bed, and it’s cold enough tonight that I have no qualms about using my RGB space heater. Next time I touch SFM I’ll begin prepping the next stage. I’m anticipating another month of strange imagery on the horizon.

All Work & One Hour of Play

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Ammy keepin’ it real.

Spent the last hour of the evening trying to gear myself towards achievements in Okami. I’m thinking after this romp I’ll be taking a break though, maybe play something completely different for my next session. Possibly something with a more humanoid form?

This is fine!

It all hasn’t been about play though, been getting a lot of animation done… unfortunately we keep coming up with other ideas to animate into the scenes. Damn our imaginations!!! I’m hoping to have something rendering in the next few days, which is good because that’ll warm the house and it’s supposed to be getting into freezing temperatures… FREEZING TEMPERATURES.

Evening Open Thread

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It’s looking like the weather will be wet and stormy this weekend. I’m already contemplating the after work PJ’s tomorrow! I’m thinking about trying a couple more things from my Skyrim cookbook over the weekend. There’s a recipe for spiced milk with honey, and it sounds like it could be a good drink on its own, or a nice addition to chai. I might even try to make the Honey Pudding, or if I’m up for it the Sunlight Soufflé! Minus the entire cup of fucking nutmeg!

RIP that one Pepsi can

My after SFM treat tonight was more Commander Keen. I swear, this game is the Dark Souls of its platforming era. It starts off easy and then the level design really starts to show itself, and then it becomes fun, then a pain, and after a break more fun again. It’s a viscous cycle. I might consider playing one of the other hundreds of games in the ol collection instead. We’ll see what the nostalgia meter says.

Set An Open Course For The Virgin Space

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Last week I mentioned that I’m taking a bit of a hiatus from YouTubing. I’m currently working on what originally started as an ordinary GMod gameplay vid, and turning it into a full SFM animation based on the recording! We’re currently heading towards destinations unknown… the French side of the moon perhaps?

Open Thread & Chill

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The mornings have been starting with a bitter chill, and have been thawing out towards the afternoon finally! I was actually able to treat myself to some watermelon mint iced tea I got for Christmas! Been hydrating with tropical teas after a long day, even treated myself to a little spa action just before bed. I didn’t get much done on animation tonight, but I did export some additional audio into SFM to work on tomorrow.

SFM Diaries: All The World Is A Stage Is A Boat

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It will be quite awhile before my next video sees the light of day, but what I’m putting in a lot of ideas to hopefully make something half way watchable. As a normal GMod video I don’t see it amounting to much, but recreating it in SFM and taking a liberty or two could spice things up a bit!

Something in the next scene is going to catch my eye… I wonder what it’ll be?

Living The Moderately Neat-O Life

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My first day off always seems to be the day that I just chill and try to collect my myself. I passed out early enough last night that I woke up to a beautiful sunrise! Enjoyed some brunch, did a couple chores, and even had time to render the first part of my upcoming animated video! That gave me some time to play a couple games on Steam Deck while rendering. Got my ass trounced in Bayonetta, and I gave myself motion sickness in Overload. I guess this is my punishment for time traveling back to the early 90’s to make progress on one of the many games I never finished. Goals, we all have them.

Imagination Overflow

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I went through the motions of chopping up a GMod video tonight, and it’s giving me some interesting ideas. I don’t even think I’ll use most of the footage… I’m kinda curious to see how it would pan out if I mostly animated it. It’s just a matter of seeing if I can gather up the necessary assets to pull it off, and given that GMod and SFM both run on Source there is a likely chance. I would have to take a video hiatus, but I think it would be worth it if everything came together.

I’ll allow tomorrow’s slightly more awake brain determine that. I’ve done enough for tonight.

Perfect Day Of Nerding

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I enjoyed my bonus day off by making a breakfast tostada, relaxing in comfy clothes while listening to the pitter patters of rain, researching Mastodon installation stuff, and sitting down in the directors chair to go over some video footage! Within the last couple of days I’ve blown through a couple hundred gigs that I don’t need anymore. I finished going over some footage from Yakuza Kiwami 2, unfortunately it’s all stuff that I have to shelve for now. There will be at least one Yakuza video later in the year. For now? I have a few Skyrim videos slated to go out this month!

As far as what to chop up next? I’m setting aside some GMod footage that probably has no value. I might also tear back into the VM to install more things in perpetration of the Mastodon server.