Open Threads

Sunday Night Open Thread

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Spent some time refining a bit of animation tonight while watching Yutram Stream Control to my second monitor. I’ve slowed down a bit on video production. I don’t want to get too into it since I do have plans to upgrade the system. I still need to order some NVMe drives, but I’m waiting to see if the prices go any lower before Cyber Monday. If not I’ll swoop in and make my purchase.

Then at the end of the night I decided to wander around for a bit in Yakuza Kiwami 2. Actually completed a couple of quests despite forgetting half of what I needed to accomplish. Too many games, etc, etc.

Evening Open Thread

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Waking up is always difficult during the autumn/winter months. The rain and darkness make for a want to hibernate. I had to fight myself to get out of bed to get ready for another day of work. I don’t care much for the later shifts, but at least it does give me some extra time to eat a bit of breakfast. Also been preparing for an upgrade to my desktop build. Gonna swap out the motherboard and processor and RAM. I’ll be upgrading to the Ryzen 9 9900X. The GPU is currently a 6800XT, which I’m still fine with. I do need to replace a few hard drives, some of them are showing signs of wear and tear after several years of film abuse.  The new motherboard will be able to hold 3 NVMe drives – I’m thinking about getting a few 4 TB drives to really ramp up my storage. The more the merrier, especially since I have quite a few games that play nicer on faster drives. Plus SSD drives are great for rendering 4K footage on. My older 2 TB spinners take an eternity and a half to properly export 4K footage. I’ll probably restructure my files and programs once I have everything setup.

Either way I’m looking forward to it! It’ll be one of my winter projects.

Evening Open Thread

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Not really feeling it tonight. I came home from work feeling on the slight opposite of good, and I have a bad feeling it will pour over into tomorrow. Gaming just didn’t sound good tonight, even titles that wouldn’t cause motion sickness had to be left on the table. Instead I focused on videos for next month and a New Year’s video for December. Just going through the footage, any other ideas will have to wait for a day when I’m in less pain. Time to sip some tea, read for awhile, and maybe work on something computer related before bed.

Open Thread!

Evening Open Thread… KITTENS!!!

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It’s been awhile since making an Open Thread, but I don’t have much time to sit and clippity-clap at my keyboard. So for now please enjoy these two precious baby kittens!

There’s a whole story to them, but that will have to wait for another evening where I can properly tell it. This is definitely not a story that I would want to rush.

Until then…  Open Thread!

Early Evening Open Thread

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Ever since I’ve started my new video hiatus my head has been spinning with all the other things I want to do, or try. It’s the curse of wanting to do ALL OF THE THINGS but only having so much free time in a day to pick a couple. I spent some time with a friend in Resonite this evening, and also looking at stuff relating to Blender (the two may or may not be related). I enjoyed good tea and company, and found the last flower and vantage point in HZD before calling it quits. That brain fog is rolling in now, which can mean only one thing…

Open Thread!

Evening Open Thread

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I think my setup is FINALLY ready to do some livestreaming, at least for retro and indie stuff. I did some test recordings over the network, got all the scenes I want to do in place, etc. I would have done a live test run tonight but I have an early work day tomorrow, but at least it’s ready for when I decide to! The hardest part is trying to find the time to do it, and what game to play. I don’t think every game in my almost infinite library would be streamworthy, but there are some bangers in there I wouldn’t mind sharing. There’s a few I’m looking at for tomorrow, but I think those will be private adventures that may or may not involve a Steam Deck.

Open Thread!