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I need to share this here as well, for those who know me and may not have read my post on VG Discord - this is a copy of it for the most part cuz I can't keep typing this out over and over.
This past Tuesday, I found my Uncle unresponsive in his chair watching TV when I went inside for coffee. I did CPR as the ambulance came. He was in his 70's, my mother's brother, raised my like a father. He was 70, but in good health. He didn't drink heavily, he didn't smoke, he didn't do drugs.
I'm all alone now. First my (only) brother died back in 2017, then family friend Nancy this xmas, then Cousin John just after, then my mom passed away on hospice just 5 days ago, and it was only a last weekend that Uncle Mike contacted the funeral home ... I don't even know which one, she's not been cremated yet. [update: the funeral home with mom called my uncle's phone and I got in contact with them]
Now I'm all alone. One surviving friend of the family came over, I was able to google his number - I've known him my entire life, he's like a second uncle. He has been a massive help this week, and will be helping me out in the coming weeks. He's the only one who knew Nancy, John, my mom and uncle, and me and my (deceased) brother.
I also have my kid (27, married) in Missouri, and her mother (and his husband) - we're all friends. Life has majorly shit on me, and I'm gonna spend a lot of time escaping between dealing with all of this in the coming months. I have never been so fucked so many times in a row in my life in such a short period, this doesn't seem real. I keep expecting to wake up. I will be escaping online even more in the coming months between dealing with all of this. I'm numb.
I will get through this, but I am obviously super fucked up right now - spending time dealing with this, and then escaping online to try to feel "normal" for a few hours. I'm getting by one hour at a time in that fashion... when things get too heavy, I escape for a little while.
Also wanted to say don't worry about me: I also don't drink, don't do drugs, and won't let this curl me into a ball of pity and remorse - but I am definitely strained to my maximum limit. -
RIP cousin John Smith 7/3/1941-1/24/2026
He'll live forever in our memories of the Hot Springs Fork in Mt. Hood National Forest.


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Santa had one more present in his bag that he forgot to give me on Xmas -- WOO HOO!!


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Just released the first episode of my playthrough on Mars in the latest version of Stationeers!! Check it out here, and let me know what you think!
I want to make more episodic content, to fit more than a 20-minute Martian in-game day into one episode, and to keep the video lengths close to the 25 minute mark. I spent a lot of time testing different formats, and i really hope folks enjoy this structure!-
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Just finished my (other) Summer project - I make voice control profiles for the VoiceAttack program, specifically my most popular is for controlling radio menus in the Falcon BMS F-16 simulator ... just made it smarter, faster, better than it was before ... users just point it to the program folder for the Falcon BMS simulator and it generates the radio voice commands for them automatically. Slick stuff I've been wanting to do for years, and finally was able to make the magic happen.

The BMS developers change their game files and in-game radio menus every few years, new things added, old ones removed, and I was always playing catch-up - now, my systems adapt themselves to any BMS version!
...and of course, I had to make some sort of epic promo vid for the fans of the project
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The Cribbage game I'm making in Unity this Summer is coming along nicely! Still so much to do, but it's in a playable Alpha build stage now with a decent ai opponent (best I can code so far), and I just added a fancy-pants animation layer to the game!
Check out this short demo video and my slick 2D sprite squishing for card flips!






