you do voice acting or something?

I'm one of those people whose tried nearly every legitimate profession, I still do VOs once in a while, but not for anything impressive, sometimes it's for kiosks, sometimes for children's educational materials. I don't get much work from it though.


What's on my mind is a myriad of things:
1: I have yet to install a few programs, that I don't need at current to do the dev work I am focused on, but I'm still considering it because my computer still feels like it's a person whose lost a few memories.
2: noticed some missing files, am considering getting a harddrive to usb cable to hook up the old drive and see if I can't pull some more stuff off my old drive.
3: I want to unlock my hybrid and genesis incarnate slots on my tank in city of heroes, but I rarely get enough time to do the content necessary to get the XP. considering doing some of that tomorrow.
4: I've also got a buffet on my mind that I will likely be going to for my birthday. I'm considering upping my food intake to prepare a bigger stomach so I can enjoy more of the buffet. but it has it's drawbacks because then my normal food amounts will leave me feeling hungry. and I can't just drink tea all day.. meh, if I get into a good work mode I won't have time to recognize I'm hungry, so it should even out in the end.
5: thinking about relaxing tomorrow
6: I actually want to work on my projects, but I set a rule to keep work fun.. friday evenings to monday morning is for "fun projects" or rest. thinking about what fun game dev project I can work on (it doesn't have to be game dev, but that's usually what it ends up being, especially when I'm motivated and in the mood to do it).
7: also on my mind is that I promised I'd ship some "super hot" ghost pepper sauce I made to someone I know who wants it. but it's international shipping and I'll have to find a box and pack it with enough foam and peanuts, it'll be a job.


for that last one, I grew ghost peppers one year, I made 3 sauces with it "mild" which had less than 1 ghost pepper per bottle(sold out), "super hot" which had like 8 ghost peppers per bottle and turned out a neon orange color (reserved, people mix it in chili con carne), and what I call "weapons grade" which was essentially shredded ghost pepper in oil, and had like 32 ghost peppers in a single jar and turned out as a dayglow orange oil.. my friend likes hot food, so I sent her some weapons grade stuff, I told her to just take a tiny bit of it on the tip of a spoon and mix it in with a whole plate of food, but before long she was using spoon-fulls of it, I tried it myself, spoon-fulls.. that's enough to upset your stomach and leave your mouth burning for hours. she's gone through 6.5 jars of weapons grade ghost pepper oil, and wants whatever I have left. on the plus side if someone ever pepper sprays her she'll probably enjoy it "that smells nice".

jokes aside I do need to find a box big enough for 6 bottles and enough packaging to protect the glass bottles from the donkey kongs of the postal service. in a way that's another joke I guess. where "donkey kongs" is meant to illustrate the postal employees (especially of the hulking variety) who save time by throwing packages around, they throw it extra hard if it has a fragile sticker.. I used to think it was a joke till I did alot of shipping and flying and saw how they handle boxes at the airport... but yeah I'm not thrilled about the price either, shipping outside the usa somehow is the most expensive shipping you can do, this box will probably cost me like $50 - $80.

these are the things on my mind. that and when will the next english dubbed episode of some of the animes I follow be released online.

this list could go on and on if I keep thinking about it.

i'm so tired and my voice hurts

been doing vocal training, the tired's unrelated

I'm gonna be PMing some of those redditors very shortly! Thanks for the link

edit: well, I guess the one person on there who doesn't already know

yoooooooooooooo!

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/c...arly_internet/

There's a reddit thread?? Haven't ever seen VGC mentioned on there. I did preemptively start a subreddit for the site when I acquired it but there hasn't been any members/posts.

I am working on a solution for ya

It's very surreal, coming back to the place that has had such an immeasurable on me during my teen years. It's been 20 years man, and here stands the remains of the vanguard from the wilder and more innocent, if not naive, times of the internet. When I found out vgc was back alive from the reddit thread, I could hardly believe it. When I arrived on the landing page of this place, I felt a skip in my heart. From the black and neon green to all the banners, it was like a time capsule had been opened. I know I was annoying and at times insufferable in my youth, and some members I didn't get along so great with, but you know I wouldn't trade any of that for nothing. All of you guys made impacts, some big and some small, but all of it added a little bit to me.

I can't state how big a part of my early life this place was. I sincerely hope everyone is in a place they are happy with, and here's to another 20 years you buncha oldfags.

I joined the discord, but it's giving me this:
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I respect that this may have been necessary if you've been getting problems with bots or something, but I'm afraid I'm not gonna give Discord my phone number, so I'm just gonna be a perma-lurker and do my talking over here. Didn't want you to think the silent treatment was because I don't like you guys.

Just staying up, waiting for my black cat to come back inside.
it's 1am and I wanted to be in bed an hour and a half ago.

He's known for escaping but we thought we finally had the balcony all secured but nope, give him some motivation and unsupervised time and he will take his chances.

Wow. This might really be a stream of consciousness post.

Sleep deprivation is really not good for one's health.

My health is better than most but **** this is the 3rd time this year ive had a sore throat.
better.i guess sometime it's just unlucky.
or being around people who have something.
and not enough sleep again isnt helping.

I wonder if being around people who think it's OK to just start vaping when nearby is problematic...not a fan of vape heads...

So im juat sitting here writing stuff, waiting for Binsy to come back.
man, i hate how this new phone does auto correct.
How lazY have we become as a species...auto correct.
much better writing thia stuff on a computer but well...talk about lazy.

I think i heard a bell.
he normally gets bored and comes back within a couple of hours.
So should be due.

I feel this post will make me look like a wacko.
Ah well, im amongst like minded weirdos.

I think ill just keep writing till i think what I'm writing isn't interesting or start going blank.

Yep, I'm starting to blank, or trying to come up with something amusing but kinda getting nowhere.
I at least heap this is amusing to anyone who reads it.

Dam cat!

Games...
Yeah it's good playing Mental Omega at work.
I've just recently started trying to play with the game speed slightly higher.
I can do it, it is faster than I'd like but it feels like a good...Mental (ha!) Challenge
Used to play on 4 speed, now its on 5.
wish it had a 4.5 speed.

.maybe I should make some new maps.
Maybe a 4 vs 4 would be fun.
Man i love that I can make maps for a game that's over 20 years old and it feels fresh.

Are my mate and I the best duo in the world at Superstar Soccer 98?
Probably.
Are we giving away all out tactics and how to beat us by streaming the game...yeah we are.
But that is a sacrifice im willing to make so people can. Discover how cool the game is.

Now it's starting to rain.
That should bring the cat back in.
you would think.

Ok, now this is probably getting too long and isnt amusing anymore.

I might wrap it up soon.

Its 1:45am now.

Just thought id EDIT this in.

Binsy is back.
**** cats!

Time to get some sleep.

Yeah that will.do.

I remember Shin-Ra, an old member here, introduced me to Opeth. I liked "The Drapery Falls".

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Thinking about how much fun it's gonna be listening to this with the one and only netman later tonight!

It's pretty chill! One former member stirred the pot a bit for a couple hours but then bounced

is the discord pretty chill? i've settled down considerably since my old posting days and would join if it's all good vibes

so true! glad you found your way back! I think we're all getting some nostalgia therapy from reconnecting on here.