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2022-03-07 / \/ \/ / \
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I have decided, March is Project Month! / _/ / /
What? Since when? Since now, keep up. \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
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So, if you hang with me on IRC or keep up / _/ /_ _/
with me on Fedi you know that I have been /- / _/ /
running really hot since December. Something \________/\________/\___/____/
interesting happened on my birthday and it
kind of lit a fire under me and I've been running off that energy since. Sadly
it's starting to dwindle and I'm settling back into a routine of picking idly
at projects or being easily distracted. Before I'm creatively becalmed again I
want to get as much stuff across the line as I can. Consider it my final
sprint to the finish line.
I'll dedicate a new phlog post to each project as it launches or at least
when it reaches close to done or when I feel like talking about it but first I
wanna cover some of the stuff you may have missed.
Let's get the bad news out of the way first. I've posted this already on a
few places but for completeness I'll mention it here too; KONPEITO is over.
There's one more "thank you" tape in the works but that'll be it. I'll leave
the capsule up for now and give fair warning before I take it down but there's
not going to be any activity beyond that. My heart just wasn't in it this year
and it didn't seem right to continue it. Thanks again to everyone who's
supported KONPEITO for the two years it ran.
Ok on to better news. baudVision is back up and running after a long hiatus
and it's got way more drive space now. I'm still ironing out a few bugs with
VLC so it's falling over every now and then but it's way better than it was.
Working on just slamming it with content so keep an eye on it.
And then there's the card game.
The what?
So there's this game I really love named Cypher, I've mentioend it in FAX
SEX before[1] and I've always thought the rules would work really well for a
game based on the movie Hackers and now that I have some kind of supernatural
motivation I went ahead and did it. Let me tell you, it has been quite a saga,
and one that is still ongoing. I've released the game as a bunch of
print-and-play which you can find here on baud.baby or on my GitHub[2] but I
also wanted to get some professionally printed copies out there so I set it
all up on The Game Crafter and, womp womp, they almost immediately shut me
down for some imagined intelelctual property violation. There was no actual
infringement they just thought there might be or something like that, I
honestly don't know and couldn't get a straight answer out of them. In the end
I called them clowns and they decided that I was being disrespectful and they
banned me. If you act like a clown I'm going to call you a clown, sorry.
Weirdos.
I've since been working with some manufacturing companies to try and get a
run of physical copies done but that's turning out to be a much slower
process. Stay tuned for more info on that I guess.
Lastly, I recycled the lurid.pink domain into a Web site for my
street/sticker art alter ego iKU. I'm on a mission this year to try and
improve the visibility of the bits and pieces I make I under that name and
re-establishing an Instagram account and setting up a Web site seemed like
logical steps.
So that's it, that's about where I'm at. Lots of new stuff on the way,
hopefully, and I hope to inspire some others to get the little projects that
have been eating that them out the door too.
[1] gopher://baud.baby/0/phlog/fs20190528.txt
[2] https://github.com/cryptohymnologist
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