Week 43, 2021

Review: A Cheap Microphone Arm by @edent@edent (shkspr.mobi)
I am so easily influenced. After 18 months of watching streamers using nifty microphone arms, I cracked and purchased one. Oh, I could claim that I needed to free up space on my new desk. Or that I need the mic closer to my mouth to pick up the delicate sounds of my voice. Or perhaps that a spring-l...

Heh, say hello to mine, @edent microphone holder made of a former Ikea desk lamp (https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1624646462034.jpg). Yes, that’s a former desk lamp (on a tent pole) and it offers various degrees of movement. Quite happy with it. It replaced a similar model that broke down after several years of usage. Hard to tell what it did cost because it’s old parts from the stash 😀

Yesterday I noticed that my kids crossed the street from behind the school bus they just left without looking.

In the evening I prepared a model of the situation with toys and asked them if they can see the “toy children” from various angles approaching from behind the bus and whenever they said no I drove over the miniatures with another car yelling “Bam, you’re dead”.

I guess that left quite an impression. Especially the little one, after examining the “school bus” model further (a Volkswagen Samba van), went off to build a complete road system with paper and tape in his room and “trained” the rest of the evening how to cross the street – and even some more in the morning after breakfast.

I’m totally going to wait at the kitchen window this afternoon again to see how they’ll do this time.

Shadowrun Returns by Thomas HochsteinThomas Hochstein (Netz - Rettung - Recht)
Ein CRPG im Shadowrun-Universum. Nichts besonderes, aber ein netter Zeitvertreib.

Zur Story möchte ich noch anmerken dass die im Vergleich zu den anderen Teilen eher mager ist. Man merkt bei den Nachfolgern doch eine deutliche Steigerung bei der Qualität der Erzählung 🙂

Mir haben die jedenfalls viel Spaß gemacht und ich werde bei Gelegenheit bestimmt noch einmal zu der Reihe zurück kehren.

You all can stop with the “shocked face” crap on preview pictures. By now I’ve trained my brain to file such videos as click-bait or _low_ quality. That’s right, fingers don’t even twitch any more. No more clicks gonna happen. Even for channels followed.

Fly Dangerous - Ship Sound Design - Update 1 by Mono Hive (youtube.com)
Preliminary sketch of sounds for Fly Dangerous. Intro: 0:00 Ambience Breakdown: 2:46 Ambience Mix: 7:49 Thrusters Breakdown: 8:55 Thrusters Mix: 12:59 Throttle Up breakdown: 13:38 Throttle Up Mix: 17:49 Throttle Down Mix: 18:17 Roll Yaw Pitch: 18:28 Boost Breakdown: 18:57 Boost Mix: 26:39 Download link: https://jukibom.itch.io/fly-dangerous Join the discord: https://discord.com/invite/4daSEUKZ6A

Fascinating, a peek behind the scenes of sound designing for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9iq9gFx6c

October Update! by Valheru Rides!Valheru Rides! (valheruride.travel.blog)
Not to be confused with Red October, the Soviet nuclear submarine at the heart of the Tom Clancy novel. No dodgy Russian accents and all gun battles fully cinematic. Anywho…… Back in the proverbial saddle at last after what seems like forever. No real saddle action yet but that will shortly be e...