theme; Rebirth

so.

https://local.theonion.com/global-pandemic-that-has-killed-thousands-giving-woman-1842528634

today was supposed to be the follow up to this:

https://pellakensblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/i-tweeted-this-but-it-will-become.html

but I'm not going to do it.

There will be major life-changing things I'm doing, but, given the context of the world situation, all you will get is the name of the theme which is Rebirth.

that is all.

crisis energy

Crises give me energy. I don't know why. I think it has something to do with the fact that I dig into data to make sure what I'm doing is right; and knowing I'm doing the right, thing, I feel good and empowered.

I'm starting to feel that now.

"Doing it right" - Streaming video games

This might sound odd or weird, but, this is one of the more emotional posts I've ever written.

Let me take you back to the 90s. Lets say 1996 or so. I lived in Summerside PEI, and I was growing up.

Every friday we'd go to the rental store, and I'd rent a game to play. I'd play them all weekend and return them on Sunday.

Some of these games were RPGs. I quite enjoyed them. I loved the story, the music, and the exploration. I loved experiencing a new world.

Of course, being rented, I never had the time to ever complete one of these games. Even if I could, in sum, have played all the various parts of the game, none of those runs were 100% mine.





Now let me take you back to about 2008 or so.

I learned about emulators. I also had a very boring job working overnight. As a result, I ended up re-playing all those old games and beating them. It really felt like I was re-living my old life, but, doing it right this time. Going back over how I grew up and correcting mistakes I'd make. It was very cathartic.

However.

I had a walkthrough open for each. I made heavy use of safe states. I basically cheated my way to victory through shortcuts.

I have played those old games since. here and there. Never for more than a few hours.





It's now been so long that as much time has elapsed between my re-playing of those games and my original playing of them in the 90s.

It's time to do it again. This time, truly doing it right.

I've actually been planning this for a while and have been waiting for my new computer to be up and running, with my new internet connection, to stream it all on twitch.

The problem is, that will take time, a lot of time. And I'm ready now.




As such I'm announcing that I'm going to start doing this. At least part time. In my discord.

The last time I did this it was extremely emotional and I don't count it as a small coincidence that I stopped suffering from major depression at exactly that time.

Lets see if we can't make this time just as helpful to my mental state.

I tweeted this, but it will become increasingly important, so I'm putting it here too

so I decided a bit ago to do that whole @cortexpodcast theme thing. Officially we start in April, with an annual (april-to-april) theme, as well as a seasonal theme; but the theme for march, I've decided, is "Embarkation"

stupid question - WW2 ship crew

The Japanese battleship Yamato, supposedly, had a compliment of 2800. That means 2800 crew to operate the ship.

My question is... what did they do?

Okay, so you need a captain. And a pilot to turn the ship's wheel. And a guy down in the engine room to keep an eye on the engines. And people do do that at night. So that's what, 6 people? Okay okay maybe you also need a cook and a doctor and night crew for that, so that's 10.

I mean, I understand you need a lot more than 10 people to run a ship the size of the Yamato. The problem is that when I get to about 100-200 people, I start running out of things for people to do.

So, what the hell are these 2800 people doing??