Ok, my 2nd experience generated code with switch case fall through and had a misunderstanding of how URL structure works and doubled down on being incorrect when pressed and I found a couple bugs from the first session too. I'm back at its a good jumping off point but then ignore it...if that.

Did my first "vibe coding" this week to filter a spreadsheet to do string parsing and generating a query and then refactor and deploy it to as an web app. It both feels like magic and insanely frustrating to have it write code that mostly works but has a bunch of bugs baked in too.

Got the platinum for Nightreign! Still have to finish about half of the remembrances but this game has hooked me for almost 100 hours at this point. I absolutely love it!

I forgot to save my gameplay so the trophy is the best replay I've got sadly. oh well, I'm happy!

I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pull it off but I managed to beat all the night lords in nightreign (including the hard mode gaping jaw from this week) with a little help from my friends and some internet strangers. The final boss was quite a bit easier than the last couple I was stuck on.

If it wasn't for the matchmaking issues where groups take forever to fill I think I'd just play Elden Ring Nightreign nonstop. I don't know if I should be frustrated of grateful tbh.

Hell yeah! This nightreign launch trailer has me so hyped for this weekend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqLM...

Far from perfect play but a pretty good run as squirrel girl in Marvel Rivals from a little while back. she is going to be a realmonster in lower ranked games after the buff for sure.

My favorite part of being a Mac safari user is having to restart the browser multiple times a day because videos just stop working or text just doesn't render anymore until I do. It just seems to get worse every year and I might be finally running out of patience. Software is hard but damn...

I beat Expedition 33 today! That game is really a once a generation masterpiece. It surprised me from start to end with a creative narrative and modernized takes on ideas largely left behind in AAA. A breath of fresh air and insane value at $50. Congrats to the team on creating such a smash hit!

It turned out great! Thank you!

New video for @pepthefish.bsky.social! This one was focused on trying to get a longer edit done quickly without sacrificing quality. Really happy with the turn around on this one and the final product! YouTube: www.youtube.com/shorts/d0ZSh... TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@pepthefish/...

I just started Expedition 33($50), am enjoying blue prince($30), and I'm playing Nightreign next($40). The number of games I'm willing to spend $80 is basically non-existent with games this good for less or free. If sales still cap out at ~50-66%, publishers can expect to make less money from me.

I wanted to experiment with a faster edit by trying this clip based format for the latest video for @pepthefish.bsky.social with a the cyberpunk 2077 bug showcase. Enjoy! Watch on Youtube: www.youtube.com/shorts/34prL... Watch on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@pepthefish/...

This project was about using masks to be able to composite apply effects to the background. I'm trying to expand my skills while showing off some different type of content for @pepthefish.bsky.social Watch on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@pepthefish/... Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/shorts/RqGZr...

To back up my marvel rivals matchmaking gripes this season: quickplay stats: 79% win rate 55/78 where I've only lost 2 games in a row 1 time in the last 39 games competitive states: 39% win rate 11/28 games in BRONZE...and the loss streaks are insane...won 3 out of my last 11 games...

Marvel rivals ruined competitive season 2 by collapsing 9 levels down to the lowest level. I've been 40/6 and still lost. I've had 30k+ healing and still lost. Matchmaking is broken and even if I'm top 1-2 players on my team it does matter I still lose 60% of my games in bronze. RIP

Played a more marathon today and had the totally different experience: losing at ~half of my games. No VC at all and lots of confusion and split groups as a result as lots of people went to where they wanted to complete their own goals. It might be a game that you really need a friend group for.

How could they name this Marvel Rivals Mantis skin "Flora Maiden" when "Plantis" was right there in reach 😔

Got one!!!!! Please don't get canceled🤞

Switch 2 preorders going as expected. 20 minutes refreshing and trying to get a payment to process till it sells out at target and then after I got through a queue at Walmart selecting my address failed for 8 of my ten minutes and then my bank marked my purchase as fraud and they sold out after 🙃

Marathon ~5 game impressions: Gunplay feels good. Almost noone on console uses VC and that can lead to extraction coordination issues. Early progression seems easy enough early on which is nice. If you die but your team wins the fight you can still be "rebooted". nice! Haven't wiped yet. More below.

I didn't think it would ever happen and ti ruined my sleep schedule but I finally unlocked the marvel rivals Platinum! Time to sleep 😪

Silver 3 finally! Hopefully the nightmare is over and I can just get to gold quickly. Turns out the "don't player support" advice is really true with how the strong dive is and how the new "merit based" scoring works. I'm guessing this is not working out like intended.

I hope bungie removes the publisher restrictions on uploading marathon clips to the playstation app when the alpha is live as that is my main way of getting clips to my computer for editing. I guess maybe I should migrate my capture card to my new PC this week just incase that doesn't happen.

iPhone mirroring would be such a killer feature if I didn't have to often power cycle or update both devices when it stops working. I hope it gets sorted in the near future because It makes exporting footage from my ps5 so much easier when I only need to worry about working with 2 devices vs 3.

Oh shit, I almost missed that I got into the Marathon Alpha and they have dropped the NDA 👀

If anything gets me to quit Marvel Rivals it will be this season's grind. I've played more matches in Bronze 3 than I had to play to get to gold for the skins last season. I still lost this match because my team all went DPS after and one "DC"ed the 2nd half of the match. Now tell me to get good 🫠

One of the more technical edits I've done for @pepthefish.bsky.social. This was my first time attempting to do a tracked mosaic blur and every shot was a composite mask of vtuber and gameplay. It shows of Pep's edge too 😅 Youtube: youtube.com/shorts/UKFbX... TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@pepthefish/...

Here is another project for @titibohbaka.bsky.social! This is what I like to call a topic video where I find related clips to tell a story starting with a few key phrases from transcribed captions. In this case poor booh is a little lost. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/shorts/y7m2b...

What are video editors using for a video converter/FFMPEG frontend app these days on Mac? Is handbrake still the go to or are there newer better options that have popped up in the last 10 years that I should be aware of?

The last Bungie game I played was the original Destiny at launch and while it was a miss for me I did enjoy the multiplayer quite a bit. Thats enough for me to give marathon a shot even though this guy (who is old enough to remember the original) is sort of over FPS games at this point.

This was my favorite project to date for @pepthefish.bsky.social. I mashed up 2 cuts that were right next to each other in the main VOD and they worked so well together. The reflected explosion was a fun detail to work on as well. I really loved the final result on this one! Links in the replies.

My first short form video for @titibohbaka.bsky.social! This was a fun moment to edit where I learned how to composite her model that has some big hair, a built in crop on the right hand side of the video, and lots of manual masking of background UI elements. I learned a lot! Thanks Booh!

It felt really bad jamming all my tech purchases I'd normally spread out over years into a few months but my worst fears have basically all come to pass and justified it sadly. No escape in your hobbies anymore either. Shit is only going to get worse from here.

This is an example of what I'd throw in as a freebie. This came out of the last pico park project I worked on to keep the flow going and avoid a bit of repetition. @pepthefish.bsky.social liked the content so we just made it a super short. This was like the 4th video I ever edited quite a ways back😅

A PvPvE game from From software?! I'm loving this experimental phase From Software seems to be going through between This and Nightreign. More of this from all developers please! www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bn...

The Switch 2 looks great. You win my money again Nintendo!

Video game bugs can be stunning sometimes.

Adepticon was good this year and Milwaukee was a pretty damn cool city. Good change for the event overall I think.

Adepticon 2025 badge line and advanced badge swag. Pretty nutty to get a full skaventide.

My emergency vacation shoes from Taiwan shoes have served me well for the last year and a half as my daily pair but are now being replaced with emergency vacation Chicago shoes after a minor blowout. Obviously I was pretty happy with the last pair.

I've really been enjoying learning to play wolverine in Marvel Rivals. I'm still pretty bad at him but every once in a while I still do something cool that feels really good like this. I didn't quite stop the Ultimate so there is still a lot of room for improvement.

@pepthefish.bsky.social went from tough to timid in 0.5 seconds! A fun moment that let me practice playing around with captions. I'm still figuring out how to use the base Final Cut Pro titles to make more interesting captions but this project was good practice. www.tiktok.com/@pepthefish/...

Getting marvel rivals clips from ps5 to my computer is wild: 1) click save and watch the entire highlight 2) upload to cloud via media app on ps5 3) save to photos via ps app on iPhone 4) share to email on Mac for mp4 format 5) right click - save to downloads folder There has to be a better way.

My weekend project was was to learn how to make and rig a very simple vtuber. Disclaimer: I am not an artist (if thats not obvious) and wanted to avoid too many tutorials (that might have helped with the mouth). Other than that I think it was a pretty successful single workday time boxed spike.

Once you get through the main story the friction gets a lot better but it's 20+ hours of pain if you want to play with someone else till you do at the time you are most excited to play the game is rough. It feels like Capcom did the math and determined it wasn't worth the cost of addressing.

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Monster Hunter multiplayer feels ancient philosophers mused how remote gaming should work, wrote it on a stone tablet, and then it was discovered and implemented by engineers without having any user testing. Woof. Love the gameplay but has anyone at Capcom played a networked game before?

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