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  • Satisfactory: Rocky Start, 2.5 Updates Later

    I got this done, start to finish, in the span of about a week. This included taking yesterday off from work (as an ostensible mental health day, which I definitely needed) to hunker down & finish adding clips, editing footage down to a somewhat-reasonable 39 minutes, and recording my voice-over.

    This meant listening to my recorded voice bits repeatedly until everything was trimmed down and slotted into place. It was every bit as cringe-inducing as you suspect.

    At any rate, here you go:

    All things being equal? I’m actually proud of this one. I took the fact that the game loaded in with a reset/default player avatar and used that to create a kind of narrative path for the video to follow. During the edit, I discovered a couple of other fun things to do along the way.

    It could be better, but I could’ve done much worse, too. Go, me.

  • Satisfactory: Turbopower!

    I picked Satisfactory back up a couple of months ago in anticipation of the Update 6 patch landing on the Early Access branch. Instead of starting yet another new save, however, I decided to keep going on the save I started back before Update 4 landed. This neatly avoided having to climb the tech tree all over again, not to mention it takes advantage of the fact that I deliberately left the Spire Coast region alone the entire time so far. (The developers warned everyone that major map changes were coming to that area.)

    Update 6 and its quality-of-life improvements arrived at the same time that I unlocked my very first ever “Turbofuel” recipe. I needed more electrical supply anyway (the lines on my power graphs criss-crossed a lot more than I was really comfortable with) so I decided to try out the more potent variety of fuel generation.

    Gus? Buddy? You know that the Blender is not your friend, right? No, no you don’t.

    Here’s how that turned out.

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  • Impressions From First Episodes: Fall 2022 Anime

    Remind me to, at some point, backfill my impressions of the Spring 2022 anime season, because it had a lot going on, most of it genuinely good.

    Anyway, since I am actually watching more than merely one or two new “first episodes” this season I figured I should jot down some thoughts. Here goes, listed by the order (mostly) in which I viewed them:

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  • Tualatin Hills Nature Park – Ch-ch-ch-changes

    On an absolute last-second whim, I headed out this afternoon to take a hike around one of my favorite nearby attractions, the Tualatin Hills Nature Park. It’s just two stops away via MAX light rail, but between the pandemic and everything else I just haven’t made it over there in a couple of years.

    This is what the entryway to the bridge over the creek bed from the MAX station park entrance looked like in 2018.
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  • From Liquid To Metal

    Apparently this month is all about problems with cooling.

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  • The Gray Man

    Back to back movie posts? Apparently so. I’m not going to bother with spoiler protection, though, since there’s honestly not much to spoil in this one.

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