What I’ve Been Playing – Better Late than Never Edition
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What I’ve Been Playing – Better Late than Never Edition

So I meant to be way more regular on these things but I've kind of failed at that. Two reasons mostly, I suppose. One, often I decide I want to do a full write up on something instead of a brief write up in one of these posts. Two, mostly I have just been playing Fortnite. I actually want to go on a bit of a tangent regarding Fortnite and Sky, Children of the Light, and paid seasonal passes. I posted a series of posts on Sky: CotL recently. I'd been meaning to write them all out for a while,…
Evangelion Finally
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Evangelion Finally

While I'll talk a bit on this album, Evangelion Finally, this also covers the vinyl version of this album. So, a bit of a story here. I really don't plan to collect up a ton of records for my recently activated vinyl hobby, but I really could not resist this one when I came across it. I was originally looking into albums at Best Buy, because I had some credit, and went to do some price comparisons, then this one, and another came up as recommended. Which has spawned a bit of a new angle of interest for my vinyl…
Raffaella – Ballerina
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Raffaella – Ballerina

Raffaella feels like a bit of an interesting oddity in my list of "artists I like to listen to". For the most part, to be frank, she feels like kind of a nobody level musician, though not for not trying pretty hard to get somewhere. Though Wikipedia says she was dating Justice Smith for a while and she got a set on Vevo Discover, which is pretty sweet. I'm not really here to gossip though. My first exposure was when she opened for Sigrid in 2019. Before the show I started listening to this album just fro the sake of…
Aurora – All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend
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Aurora – All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend

Released 2016.03.11 I don't know exactly when my first exposure with Aurora was, but I can say my exposure of actually becoming a fan, was through Sigrid. Which is kind of funny because I feel like it more often would go the other way. I don't know that Sigrid and Aurora are "friends" exactly, but they have, I dunno, been in the same room together, and re both originally from Norway. Though Sigrid seems a bit more based in England, Aurora is decidedly Norwegian. I'm sure overtime my music tastes will evolve again, but for the time being, Aurora is…
Code Project – JavaScript Pixel Camera
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Code Project – JavaScript Pixel Camera

Sometimes I do projects that end up being entirely fruitless and pointless. Ok, maybe not entirely fruitless, but sometimes I get caught up in an idea, and end up essentially just sort of, reinventing the wheel, in a complicated way. For starters, I got caught up with this little tutorial here: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges/166-image-to-ascii . It uses JavaScript, to convert the input from your webcam, into ASCII art. It's a nice little step by step process that really explains what is going on along the way so you get a good understanding of the process. And I got it to work out…