Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Comics (yes, comics) and game streams news:

Game Streams:

As you may have notice game streams have stopped. This is due to a worsening chronic cough I've developed over the last few years (you can actually hear it starting as far back as the Play All The Zeldas Quest II streams). I did one a few weeks ago and while the cough wasn't bad, it was worsened through the stream.

So, what I plan to do is instead of doing a stream a week, I'm going to do a one-off game every month. Mainly to guage how my cough is doing (it's getting better, but not going away, something my doctors are looking into). Once I'm able to do a stream without coughing too badly through it, I'll reinstate the once-a-week streams and get back to finishing up Skyward Sword, then Mario VS Donkey Kong and move on from there.

The first one-off stream should be April 7. I might do a April Fools day special like I did a few years ago (where I played every Zork game for seven hours straight), but again, I don't think my cough will let that happen.

Comics News:

The comics have been dormant for years. Two reasons: (1) Life has sucked for a while now and (2) ever since I beacem diabetic, my eyesight took a big hit, making it hard to stare at computer screens.

I'm INCREDIBLY near sighted, meaning that without glasses, for things to not be blurred they have to be just a few inched from my face. Since I became diabetic, I've required bifocals that, when I look at my tablets, require me to tilt my head back to see clearly, and that was painful and achey on my neck (you might remember pics of my old drawing setup where the tablet was almost flat under my TV...this was why I did that). Both those helped kinda stall the comics.

I recently had an eye exam, and my optometrist mentioned that my eyesight hadn't gotten worse on any big way, and if I'd like, I could keep using my old glasses. But my insurance would be willing to pay for new glasses when I wanted them. I told her my troubles and she suggested a set of glasses specifically for computer use, where the bifocals separate much higher up and it's been a godsend.

I worked on some art a few weeks ago, and it was a great success (the drawing sucked, but I'm WAY out of practice), so I'm hoping to get back to comics again. Maybe not weekly, but at least one a month. ::fingers crossed::

And that's The State of the Comics/Streams! Stuff is FINALLY coming!

Three medical appointments down, two to go, two to try and schedule.

WORST. GLAMOUR. SHOTS. EVER.

Also, pure oxygen smells like an old Lowe's lumber yard.

Jenn: "I kinda get wierd under sedation, so if I say something funny, record it. And if I say something offensive, hit me. I won't feel it."

Crystal: "I'm not gonna hit you while you're on painkillers!"

Boy am I glad I like chicken soup, cause I've had nothing but Chicken Broth for 48 hours and am still not sick of it.

Gonna get a pizza after all this, though.

::worries::

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/14/23635663/supreme-court-transgender-sports-constitution-stanford-kyle-duncan-protest

Friends have said I should do a cooking stream. I don't think I will, just cause, well, once you saw my face on screen, the next sound you'd hear are fists punching monitors across the world.

But if I did, it'd probably be something akin like Brutalmoose's BrutalFoods videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17fNtTBk8F8

Happy Pi Day!

(I'm sad to say that I use the memnonic in the middle of the song to remember digits of pi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanjZw5hPvE

Flopberry: Star Trek Discovery - Main Theme on Floppy drives and stepper motors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yWaW0C33aaQ

Anime before bed:

https://youtu.be/70N21Mynaa0

This is the ideal female body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Another fun plot point from Closetspace. Carrie gets her guitar smashed in an accident, and Victoria gifts her a guitar at her funeral. Originally, it was supposed to be Mike Nesmith's Black Beauty guitar (which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gzmxI6oisg - watch out for some flashing lights at the end) that I erroneously thought was stolen. Howe Victoria got a hold of it, we'd never know.

Instead I changed it to a pastel pink and maroon guitar that was gifted to me by some friends in Second Life.