m. tarah henry @Lobst@scalie.club

#introductions

Hi, everyone; I'm tarah, otherwise known as lobst. I've drawn a few comics that people have seemed to enjoy, and programmed a game demo that won 10th-place in a 140+ entry game jam despite having no sound. My ability to finish any individual project has been stymied by mental health problems for over a year, but I've been seeking treatment and making progress. I've also been streaming videogames on weekends. Watch this space!

https://lobstworks.com/
https://lobst.itch.io/

Rough day today, but I'll nevertheless be continuing my playthrough of NieR Automata at the top of the hour: https://picarto.tv/lobst/ 🔸

*looks at tortoise fursona* Nice 🔸

One of the rare advantages of routinely using Kinect for exercise in 2019: if a piece of software ever comes out that's worth getting a VR setup in my room for, I at least have a nice 7'x5' rectangular patch of open floor at the ready for it🔸

Anyway, I'm a session into this and I'm enjoying it quite a bit more. Here's an early favorite in what appears to be a game full of bangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zXe2gwXIuY

Oh right! "Swish, Swish" has the twist of the century 2 minutes in, also. Imagine playing this as the third dancer from the left, realizing what's happening as you're doing it, and nevertheless following through the entire sequence as best you can (because that's what happened for me, I'd classify the experience as 'incredible') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls_FWxWo9PI

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Oh, uh, I finished this a while back. It's OK, nothing special; it did give me 90 free days of Unlimited (and that apparently stacks with the free trials from the other games), and I think that's the best I can say about it.

The final song was an unlockable behind the not-real-currency gachapon; I got 8 out of the required 9 components, which means it shall forever go unplayed

(I liked "Risky Business", though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To_jVuz3gkI

The archive of last night's stream is up! I'm proud of how it went in general, considering it's my first time streaming together with Phen without a gimmick to distract from the usual discussion you'd expect from a video like this 🔸

https://youtu.be/Ovpmul7RPSg

All right! In less than 15 minutes, @phenokage and I will be spending the evening playing a game or two on Switch for, hmm, no reason: https://picarto.tv/lobst 🔸

Starting in less than 10 minutes, the next part of playthrough B of NieR Automata, coming in hot at https://picarto.tv/lobst 🔸

This will be a rare week where I stream games on two nights: the usual NieR Automata at 6PM (Pacific) on Tuesday, and a second one starting Thursday at 8:30PM, you know, just connecting my Elgato to my Switch for a few hours for no reason: https://picarto.tv/lobst 🔸

I feel like the root of this self-confidence problem is I've been promising to show off skills I haven't been adequately exercising offstream. This seems like the type of problem that can only be solved by good habits cultivated through incremental effort over time 🔸

If it gets to the point where folks like me are seriously actually kicked off Youtube for being unprofitable I'll probably just spring for a folder on a cloud storage service (I'm not moving to Twitch and I don't have the patience for self-hosting) 🔸