I absolutely can't stand that Windows 11 treats sleep mode or an idle PC as permission to blanket update itself. My absence is not consent, Microsoft! Not only did it mess up the data I was uploading (causing me to start over), I now potentially have the SSD killer firmware. I want to fucking cry.

My keyboard is dying and they don't make this model anymore. I've been using this one for over a decade, so I'm *really* reluctant to change. So many boards anymore are uncomfortable, loud, distracting, or weirdly not meant for typing at length for long periods of time??

This week has been rough. Three family members had to go to the hospital (two were ER - one for a possible severe infection, another for Covid + pneumonia), renovations were scheduled the following day, and now I'm also having a really bad autoimmune flare (doing my best to also avoid the hospital).

DH: Outbreak is going to take a bit more grinding than previous games in between episodes, as so many standard enemies have either complete physical or magical resistance now. And when each dungeon is a gauntlet that can easily wipe out half your inventory, you need to grind for that too.

Baked a chocolate zucchini loaf. 🍫🥒🍞

Fridge decided to give up the ghost despite only being 4 years old. 🫠

Well, I'm in the cue to be able to MAKE AN APPOINTMENT. Not to GET an appointment. To have a CONSULTATION about getting an appointment. What a headache. And it's 2 months away in October 2025. For. A. Scheduling. Phone. Call.

Harvested a good garden bounty in the rain. Probably going to bake some zucchini bread and make some marinara spaghetti squash for dinner.

Latest Windows 11 is corrupting various SSD's, so best not to update for a while, or to uninstall the update KB5063878 if you have it (and then proceed to turn off immediate auto-updates until resolved). It seems to mostly affect people downloading/transferring (creating?) large 50GB+ files.

drifting 🪐

Good news is I've been quite productive behind the scenes schedule-wise. Bad news is that none of these games are currently streamable. Do...I take up a 4th game and mess up my schedule further? I doubt several weeks of Switch demos would really be to anyone's preference.

So good news, no cavities! 🦷🪥 I just have super sensitive enamel and I subconsciously clench my jaw when stressed (which is always these days), apparently to the point of bruising the ligaments in my jaw. But my X-rays came back spotless, so my treatment is once again...relaxation. Lmao.

Finished recording everything for Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. Started recording for Dot Hack: Outbreak. This one will be a blind playthrough, as I've only read the light novels past this point. So I may know some story elements, but gameplay will be all new for me.

The wildfire smoke has been really bad here the past two weeks, so sorry I've been K.O.'ed for streaming and editing. Stuff will probably continue to come out late for a while, or be sporadic or short. But I am still trying. Please bear with me. My autoimmune system is very unhappy.

My Ratchet & Clank (2002) playthrough is complete, and all videos have been edited and uploaded. I finished the story, saw all cutscenes, obtained all gold bolts, and purchased the R.Y.N.O. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Unfortunately, I and other creators cannot control what ads appear on our Twitch channels whatsoever. And we don't have full control on YouTube either. HOWEVER, for fellow creatives, we CAN try at least to block specific ads so long as we know the URL, or what categories bad ads are coming from.🧵

As someone who mostly listens to a lot of game/anime music on loop in the background while I'm doing other stuff, I'm especially not trusting of an AI to sort whether or not I'm an adult on their platform. Sorry for the youthful whimsy, I guess. Don't make me charge my 2005 iPod Nano. I'll do it.

oh jesus fucking christ FUCK OFF WITH KOSA ALREADY JFC

*TAPS THE SIGN* also, below is a thread of action you can take, from petitions, to emails to phone numbers (with some scripts you can copy/adapt) as well as ways to support affected creators. do as many as you can. try to do them all. 🧵 1/12

Bleh. It's 85°F (30°C) with 85% humidity today. The corn sweat is making it feel like a tropical rainforest this year. It was 91% humidity this morning when I woke up.

I am also recording Genshin and Ratchet & Clank in the background. I want to have more of Natlan accessible for Genshin's summer event, since I don't know what area it'll be in or if it'll have unlock criteria. And I'm almost done gold-bolt hunting in R&C. Then all that's left is the final boss.

The next HRR patch is supposed to allow for dub mixing for missing character voices. So if EN voices are still in limbo, I'll have the few mute characters be in JP. So if this applies to story content too, I'll probably get back to recording again in the next patch. If not, it'll still be on hold.

Squash and tomatoes are finally starting to grow in the garden. And I also finally got to harvest a bunch of semi-wild raspberries.

Really wish I could get my PC to stop grinding like this. It’s done so for about a year after I got it. It’s not the pump, as the sound is coming from either the radiator or top right fan. And I’m terrified to disassemble it, lest I break something and can’t go back. As this thing is so fickle.

I'll be hearing this sound in my sleep. Been farming this spot for bolts for like an hour, and only 135,000 more bolts to go. 🙃 (Bonus, I forgot I can disable the frame limit with F4. That'll help tremendously).

Gonna attempt to finish up Ratchet & Clank some other time. The stream from today is also going to be private until I get time to edit it all together, because one of my neighbor's "friends" (clients?) attempted to break into our house. Again.

The wildfire smoke has been super bad this weekend. It feels like I've come down with a cold, but it's probably just airborne pollution.

So is YouTube compressing anyone else's old videos to the point they aren't even really watchable anymore? Especially stuff that used to be 720p, even when set as such, now looks as bad as 144p. (My bitrate back then was 15mbps). The videos themselves also seem to freeze or crash a lot now.

How naive I was to think I'd get some sleep before a Monday. Nope. Another next door rager. Day 4 almost no sleep. One dude even got the wrong house and attempted to let himself into ours. At...all the doors. Forcefully. Like you could tell he was inebriated but...the entirely wrong building man??

*Sigh*. Rest in peace, mulberry shrub.

I’m so tired over this inebriated clownery every year. Here’s hoping the repaired roof and deck are more flame-resistant to stray fireworks now. But I hate essentially being on neighborhood fire-watch for multiple days straight just because the same idiots never deal with real consequences.

Another brief Genshin hiatus because current content is getting copyright trolled. Someone pretending to be UMG is flagging the music in videos, causing them to get blocked. Including on official pages.

Thankfully the basement didn't flood, but it rained sideways hard enough that the laundry dryer still did. ☹️

Finished recording and editing the story portion KH:DDD, so the final video will go up on Sunday. FF14 has gone on hiatus for the summer, and Honkai:SR and ZZZ are still in language patch limbo. Genshin will still be on backlog quest and timed-events-only updates for the time being too. So uh...

something something self-destruction

So far I've been getting vids back up at a decent pace. I try to do either several shorter videos, or one large multi-hour one, about 2-5 hours of stuff per night. So please bear with me. The World Ends With You, Spyro: A New Beginning, and Spyro: Eternal Night are all fully back online.

Because of the current economy, a lot more people are getting into thrifting, and this is just a reminder to FREEZE. YOUR. HAULS. Especially stuff like clothes, blankets, and books. Seal them up in AIRTIGHT ziplock bags and freeze at 0°F for 1-2 weeks. It's good practice to avoid problematic bugs.

Having some success with downloading old videos to edit, and re-uploading them. I won't do this with every LP I'm unhappy with because omg what a time commitment, but for stuff I can't re-record, like Genshin story segments, it's better than losing large, important parts of the LP.

I'll also most likely be taking sporadic breaks from livestreaming during this time, for my own mental and physical health. I'll still occasionally stream, but not with any regular frequency like I was doing before. I kind of just need a break, and my environment in summer is too chaotic.

Regardless of sidequest completion, this will be my final week for recording FF14 until autumn/winter, due to how hot it runs my PC. I got the entirety of the MSQ for Heavensward done, and anything I didn't get to I'll pick back up post-summer hiatus. After that, I'll focus on getting KH:DDD done.

I don’t like instant pudding as-is, but had some that needed to be used up, so I baked it into some lemon cookies. They taste kind of like Trix cereal. 🍋🍪 (Pardon my powdered sugar job I was in a rush at the end lol.)

I've been unhappy with some of my older Genshin videos for a while now, as they also became pandemic vlogs. But since I can't just redo them (due to exclusive timed content), for the time being, I'll be privating them for manual review, and making them public as I comb them over.

Well, my archived videos are now YouTube exclusive due to Twitch's new time limits. I was able to leave some starters and first parts up on the site as a way to self-promote, but even that's pushing really close to the allowed limit.

Reminder that if you want to save your highlighted Twitch VODs, you only have until this weekend to get them all downloaded, before the site deletes them forever. The deadline got extended to May 19, but I'm kind of doubting they'll give us another one.

Found some black-capped morel mushrooms in the garden. Gonna prepare and dry them. 🖤🍄‍🟫

Genuinely begging corporations to stop putting onions and garlic in EVERYTHING. I'm allergic, and already have to make almost everything I eat from scratch now, because I can't find basic things like soup broths/bases or anything pre-made that doesn't have it.

I caved. If a 4K edition comes out later I can probably just patch it or sell this one. But I don’t know how long I’ll even still have access to physical here, and I don’t want to miss out like I did with XBC2 and Torna. As for whatever reason Xeno games don’t stay in print very long.

I have such a Mighty Need to play at least one classic PS2-era platformer this summer. It's actually been hard to hold back from starting early. But I gotta be responsible and complete my other projects first.

The huge rush of FF14 streams is because after the 7.0 graphics patch, the game makes my PC run really hot, there's only so far I'm willing to lower the settings (anything below 1080p/60 is kind of unbearable for this game imo), and I want to get Heavensward done before summer heat/distractions.

Not being able to eat the same foods (not at risk of going bad - like cereal) two days in a row is such a weird symptom, and a big indicator a lot or this is autoimmune. Day 1? Fine. Day 2? So YoU hAvE cHoSeN dEaTh. A week later? Fine again.