Cammy's Big Rambly Journal

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January 08, 2024
Hello chat!

I used to play THPS2 all the fuckin time, wow


Little minor update—I've gone through all my old streams and given them new thumbnails. Check it out:

Matching stream thumbnails for all my old ones!

I've also gone through and standardized the descriptions, so they have proper lists of games, intro songs if present, and a link back to mari.somnol (gotta always be linking places, right?). It's a weird feeling, going back through these old streams and seeing all the names of people who popped in and I don't talk to anymore. Definitely some good times had on those streams, though; I'd like to go back to some of my greatest hits (the Boohbah stream comes to mind, which was much funnier than I remember it being) and do little edited highlights reels for those who didn't catch 'em or did and wanna reminisce. I'm optimistic these new streams will make some memorable moments as well.

Speaking of! I have settled on 7PM EST on Sundays for streams. The most recent run of them have been a hell of a lot more comfortable than the old streams were, more casual, less stressful, less focused on being a good streamer when it's really only my friends watching anyway. That said, if you want to drop in and say hi and chat a bit, we'd love to see you there. Here's the direct link to the next one coming up on the 14th. (Obviously, if you're reading this past the 14th, that'll be a direct link to the stream VOD instead.) We're about a third of the way through the first Sly Cooper, and it's been nice playing something familar and doing it on real hardware this time too.

CD copies of Isn't Anything and Fables of the Reconstruction

By the way, yes, my CDs were retrieved and redelivered. You can expect a review of Isn't Anything to drop in the Somnol zine in the spring (and on my site eventually after that).