June O5, 2O22

Sorry i havent updated this shit in a minute, i've devoted all my free braincells to defeating Toe Jam & Earl: Panic on Funkatron. I need to protect my people from the humans that have invaded our land.

hey folks.

So for the past few days [or weeks? time is?] ive been pretty engrossed in a new project- building out a beginner's guide to the Retroid Pocket 2+, a handheld for retrogaming i ordered and FINALLY arrived. Basically its like a gameboy for everything from old school nintendo to playstation 2, including dreamcast and n64. It's kind of the shit (i played Toe Jam and Earl: Panic on Funkatron at the DMV yesterday), but it takes awhile to configure in order to run so many different consoles*, and most guides out there assume a bit of working knowledge when it comes to emulation and retrogaming in general.

I think its a holdover from my manic video editing style, that allows me to really go to town on multi-day single projects in a way that i've never been able to tap into before, besides the final hours of a paper being due, or a alternative press expo i had it in my head to have a zine ready for. so, thats where i've been, not even bothering to finish the last season of 90 day fiance or start the lastest one to boot. Im a changed person. wasting all my free hours and finishing work early in order to make a hyper-kawaii digital guide to an obscure tech gadget that only a few people have ever heard of, and of that set, even less will have a need for a beginner's guide like the one im making.

You know how when people who do arts or writing, but arent artists or authors, say some corny dramatic shit like "if only one person finds meaning in my work, then that's enough for me."? I'm kinda there, but its more like if this guide helps 36 people save time on set up, that would be.. neat? Putting it on paper really makes it sound like a stupid time investment, just like the sex robot show- trading off dozens of hours of free labor to produce something only a smattering of folks might truly care for. But in both cases, i think the driving force isn't even audience, if im being honest, its making something that i wished had existed and knowing that it doesnt makes it super-easy to go gung-ho; that is, making the guide i wish i had when configuring my retroid, or consolidating the research i expected to be connected while researching my thesis. And in both cases im learning little skills, like how to use style sheets effectively or make animations in AfterEffects.

Anyhoozles, ill link the new site to this one when i finish (obviously), until then, have you seen the neato links page I made? there's some cool homepage buttons for other sites like this on neocities.

*sneaky peeky

i gotta say, for all the inclusive gestures being made in the comic book world, this specific classic hip hop cover variant from marvel is the most seen ive ever felt as a consumer.

This is a long one, so Ive made it a separate entry. The TLDR of it is, here's how I wound up working four jobs at once, while still being able to wake up whenever I want, and having enough time to make this dorky websites and a thoroughly researched sexy robot video series, full of charm, wit and gifs.

Yesterday I watched TFW NO GF on kanopy, a streaming service with a pretty fantastic selection (criterion, A24, independent docs). I’ll pretty much watch any feature on internet culture and at first I was pumped for this deep dive into 4chan. The most important question this film raises is

Other than that it was… maybe one of the better background fillers of the year, with many instances of single creator produced content far outranking it within this category. Theres something unsettling about wojacks that speak to everyone on a subliminal level and their heavy use of him and all his iterations keeps it interesting.

I mentioned watching TFWNOGF to Clarkford, who returned volley with a link to this article, lovingly titled “Look At What We’re Doing With Your Money, You Dick: How Peter Thiel Backed An 'Anti-Woke' Film Festival" which partly covers the films making in telling the story of Trevor Bazile (above) and the NPCC

TLDR Summary

Watch: Kanopy streaming service
Read: Anti-Woke Film Festival article
Pass: TFW NO GF

Everyday since the new year started I've been working on making videos for my youtube channel, The Sex Robot Show, a project that was based on my thesis. A few days ago, i got yeeted the fuck off the platform. It was really disorienting. At first, I didnt even react; a few days later telling myself I should be happy that it happened sooner rather than later. Tons of people were sending their condolonces, and suggestions to just make another account. But if the whole thing could come crashing down at a moment's notice, and the content certainly wasn't going to change, it just wouldn't be worth the constant stress wondering if all my hours editing would wind up for nought.
And when I say i got yeeted, i mean Im the baby in a Joan Cornelia painting. I cant even view youtube links people send me. I am banished. BA-NEESHED. banísche™-ed. And it's just not worth the effort.

So I've been looking into other platforms, and trying to take it as a blessing in disgusise. While I was getting tons of great feedback, and views faster than I expected, I was a long way off from youtube's monetization goals. I've found an alternative called Odysee that puts content on the blockchain and allows creators to start earning immediately. Obviously the reach is a lot smaller, but it might be a chance for me, to be, in the immortal words of Ice Cube, a big fish in a small pond.

. Im also taking all my weird editing energy and throwing it into making this website for myself.