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Chronically-online story enthusiast (films & TV, games, literature), livestreamer, filmmaker, musician and writer. I talk a lot about media and AuDHD.
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- Adding a third monitor,
- Multistreaming to a couple of different platforms (Twitch, TikTok, possibly Streamplace) with horizontal and vertical outputs simultaneously,
- Running high-end (ish) games and streaming simultaneously, even if I have to do it on low graphics settings,
- Handling Twitch’s co-streaming video overlay. Like, at all.
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Finished reading: Sourcery by Terry Pratchett ๐. Not strictly spoiler-free, if that concerns you.
I’ve been reading the Discworld books very out-of-order, in terms of the wider chronology, except never to skip a book within a subseries. This has meant getting lost a few times, in terms of some of the secondary characters and where their arc is at, at any given time.
So far, the first two books (The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic) were my least-favourite. Sir Terry was still finding his voice in terms of the macro stuff (storytelling structure, themes and where the secondary characters fit the themes, pacing). Characters who are much better-developed in later books have entirely different personalities in the first few (Death in particular). The reason this is relevant to Sourcery is that Sourcery comes many books later, but is the next in the Unseen University series.
Sourcery finally starts giving Rincewind and his strange, unique position in the Discworld a sense of depth and complexity, tacitly asking the questions “why does Rincewind want to be a wizard” and “what the heck does that even mean” over and over. (His previous entries didn’t have that opportunity for plot and worldbuilding reasons.) The antagonist and problem of the story are the perfect mirrors for that question โ set up in the prologue, someone who is so thoroughly born to their talents and so intrinsically forced into their role that the question isn’t merely not asked, but impossible. The result is a bookful of fun, on-theme character work, on a level that (so far) is only bested by the Night’s Watch series.
The secondary characters let Sourcery down. I feel bad saying that, because the words “excuse me” had me laughing out loud for several minutes; some of the funniest moments I’ve ever read in a book come from the secondary characters in this book, and the way they hold up a mirror to Rincewind’s journey is inextricable from the journey itself. But story-wise, the secondary characters quietly get dropped and neglected as of partway through the main plot, which feels deflating after all the time spent building up their involvement and importance. I’d have liked to see them get to complete their own little story arcs.
On to the next book!
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Spent an entire day just going around trying to get professional advice on a hearing issue I’m having, only to be told at the end of it all, a full day and $130 down, “wait two weeks and see if it goes away!”
On the plus side, I have a local GP now. If you were there for last year when I couldn’t get one, you’d know how big a deal that is.
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๐ฎ When you’ve been having ‘(a) guest(s)’ around and you finally talk to the neighbours from the floor below:
#PokรฉmonFRLG
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When you agree with OP, but the comments don’t pass the vibe check:
#PokemonFRLG
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Guy who understands modern politics but not consequences: Finally, a solution to global warming! This “nuclear winter” sounds fire
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Hyrule Warriors has got me back in my “sad fight music” era.
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My therapist: Can Opener Beer isn’t real, it can’t hurt you. Can Opener Beer:
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Some things are manipulative in the same way that deodorant is manipulative. Some things are performative in the same way that dressing for a party is performative. The mechanical definition of the word might be accurate, but that doesn’t make it appropriate to apply the moral connotations.
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Thursday has become Coverage Day in the routine. I don’t hate this.
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My PC upgrade goal for this year is/was(?) to approximately double my processing power and RAM, in the hopes of
I’d try to fundraise a couple of grand for it, but right now I don’t see a way to provide the type of value that an online audience (any online audience) would be both able and willing to pay for.
If you’ve ever seen me do things and been like “actually, I would pledge money to see you do something similar on a regular basis”, I’d love to know that! It may or may not be sustainable for me to do it, but all such notes are potentially useful data.
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Sesame Street if it were slightly more English:
Muppet: Where’s my tea? Where did I put my tea? Passerby: Probably right between S and U. Muppet, seeing where there’s a letter S, and then looking slightly closer: oh, there it is
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Good news: Skylight Social now works on my phone. I’m not sure what changed!
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It’s been a big week! Lots of reading, writing, talking about reading and writing, and learning music for a choir I’ve just joined which has turned out to be a lot more intense than I expected (a good thing, but tiring). Happy Friday; now what?
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Something about my most recent post broke my Posts page. So that’s fun?
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Gamedev dressed normally: Whoo, first day of sales! ๐
Creepy guy with knife: We’re gonna make a fuckin' killing!
Gamedev: Man I’m gonna need you to โ I need you to dial it back.
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๐ฎ I was not expecting Bastila Shan to show up.
Context: Early in the Jedi Consular story (Star Wars: The Old Republic), you collect a series of Jedi devices that apparently store the wisdom of past masters, each based on a theme (Science, then Wisdom, then Secrets). #SWTOR
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Life can come at you fast, and often right when you’re trying to settle into a sustainable rhythm. I’m re-learning how to be okay with that. Part of performing is how you get the show back on the rails after you mess up. Sustainability is about what you can protect, maintain, and repeatedly rebuild.
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Found embedded in a tree stump.
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๐ท That’s the best shot of the Aurora Australis that I’m likely to get from here.
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Ok, internet’s fixed. Now to catch up on everything I missed.
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Found a bull ant in my room, then another, right before bed. Got out the surface bugspray ‘just to cut off their path’. Entire flat now smells like bugspray. Opened doors and windows to get airflow, not sure how long I’ll have to wait it out. It’s now 4.20am. You win, ants. You owned me.
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No internet connection at home for a few days, and while I get phone signal here it’s pretty weak and unreliable in the wake of the fires. It’s turned even uploading screenshots (let alone clips) into a whole process. Hoping the NBN guys will be able to fix it right away when they come tomorrow.
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That’s Episode 1 done, and that’ll do it for tonight. The storytelling’s tight so far, there’s just enough interactivity to put the player ‘in’ the scene, and the shift gameplay intrigues me. I can already see how this is “Twilight for dudes”, but as a dude I fuck with that! #DispatchGame ๐ฎ
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Oh man, even in the tutorial you have to be conservative with who you send out and for what. I assumed it’d be a cakewalk, tried sending a bunch of heroes out together, and took a cascade of losses when they weren’t back in time for a wave of calls.
#DispatchGame ๐ฎ
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This is a cool system. Strategic, chaotic, and story-driven all at once. I’ve never seen any game integrate all that โ they usually pick two. #DispatchGame ๐ฎ
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On at least two levels, I was not ready for Phenomaman to call them “subscribers”.
#DispatchGame ๐ฎ
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The animation in #DispatchGame slaps harder than it has any right to. ๐ฎ
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Opening scenes go hard and fast. Feels similar to the opening of the Telltale Batman series. I’m okay with going back to the same well if the well still kicks ass.
#DispatchGame ๐ฎ
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And so it begins.
#DispatchGame ๐ฎ
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๐ท Bro, same.
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Anyway, who up poking their mans ๐ฎ
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So we lost the coolstore, which will affect nearly every local business that produces food or drink. And we’ve lost the broadcast towers (for a little while), which will impact the entire local media sector. 2026 is not starting out well for Central Victoria.
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“They’ve given you the juiciest steak and the butteriest lobster, and here’s you demanding the juice from the bottom of the bin.”
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C’mon, guys. Obviously Sandilands was legally obligated to do this as part of his community service hours. [Link]
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Man. I’ll be making it a point to get out there and buy a Harcourt juice or cider this week if I can find one.
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Bromine โ The element of your mate taking the shenanigans too far.
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Bye, money. ๐ฎ It was nice seeing you.
Nintendo Switch 2 - Joy-Con 2 Light Purple (L) / Light Green (R), available 02/12 #NintendoToday nintendo.today/s/cZHwJfl…
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This show’s proper fucked. Keep ‘em coming, boys.
Watched: Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe S1E5, We’re Getting a Toilet Door ๐ฟ
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I love the ‘pre-2010s internet’ vibe the Fediverse gives off, but I’m frustrated with how impenetrable it seems for a non-tech person. If I want a community of like-minded people anywhere near there it seems like I’ll have to build it from scratch.
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Happy Piplup Day to those who celebrate! ๐ฎ
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CTV+ is finally coming to Smart TVs Australia-wide, bringing all 6 episodes of my sitcom (The Assenders, 2016) with it. ๐บ ๐ฆ
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In games like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, most choices are between ‘nice guy’ and ‘complete bastard’. When you pick ‘complete bastard’, NPCs start bending over backwards to justify your behaviour. It keeps the narrative on its rails (or else it gets the hose again).
I’m thinking about that a lot today.
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Mario Kart World’s photo mode is pretty great actually. ๐ฎ๐ท
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Good news: Mario Kart World’s knockout mode absolutely slaps. ๐ฎ
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Weather at home: 8ยฐc in the morning, and again around the time you come home
Weather in Melbourne, where I’m going: 35ยฐc
Me, trying to dress for the weather: ๐
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Testing testing, one two three
