As mentioned in my most recent check-in, I'm going to do something slightly different. As in, I'm taking a leaf out of Dave Winer's book and will try to blog everyday. I've also been inspired a few other things—Banjo Guy Ollie's foray into vlogging, MsMadLemon's approach to her YouTube channel as she writes on her blog, Ivenne's (CheapShow Magazine and 1324: Out of Order) blogging on her Patreon, Logospilgrim doing the same thing while getting back into drawing, Louis Rossmann on his Bafang (or on his armchair), etc.
In short, awesome people doing awesome things. I thought about going the vlogging route, but I'm not sure if I'd be able to properly do one. I'm not exactly photogenic and being anal retentive (read: a perfectionist) would probably be the thing that scares me from doing one. It sometimes intimidates me from properly doing a blog without repeating similar things over and over.
It goes without saying that there's no structure to this. It'll all be freehand. I'll do some editing to add hyperlinks and make some sentences make more sense. Outside of that, it's like how I tweet but with no limits. I recall Winer saying something similar in one of his posts, where he takes his tweets and places them into said posts. Unfortunately, I can't find the link for that one. Not sure what keywords would bring it up.
Yesterday went really well, all things (at large) considered. One of my co-workers bought me a chocolate and peanut butter cupcake and breaded spaghetti (or spaghetti and sand) was on the menu. The latter was my favorite childhood meal so it was a nice, personal journey into nostalgia. I always preferred small celebrations with immediate family over big gatherings.
Kickstarter rewards also came in coincidentally—the first half of 8-Bit Symphony Pro on CD with the bonus "Just the Chips" album, and Amiga Rocks from Fastloaders in digital. More importantly though, the second episode of Liana Kerzner's Bossfight aired on YouTube.
If you remember the posts that I scrapped, or just scoured the Wayback Machine. I mentioned Liana in relation to me being frustrated at how reactionary the web—at large or in small sectors—was to particular issues. Looking back, I feel like my big issue was with the presumed "culture wars", or rather the art of feeling obligated to take a side on a thing you have no investment in for the sake of advocacy at large, or face outrage. There's something I remember from my university days that relates to this and what I would call superficial advocacy, but I'll save that for tomorrow. It's getting late for me.
I would say that Liana's one of the reasons why I've been able to enjoy playing video games again as games. Aside from this year's usual suspects that you may see me retweeting, liking (if the timeline isn't chronological), or recommending in the case of podcasters—Geekade's Stone Age Gamer being one of them.
On that note, this tweet thread has aged poorly. Personally anyway. The physical copy was the big gift. I played Sunshine first.
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