notnettle

just thinking out loud

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Hobbyist fiction writer. Occasional blogs about video games and other things that get stuck in my head.

Profile picture and header from Blue Reflection 2 screenshots.


MelloMakes
@MelloMakes

Today is the first Bandcamp Friday of 2024, which means musicians on the platform get 100% of their earnings. There's been a pretty noticeable drop in Bandcamp sales in the last year or so, but direct album/CD sales are a big part of what keeps me making music without having to start to rely on the small percentages of a penny per play that streaming services continue to pay musicians (spoiler: I have already started to rely on the small percentages of a penny per play). Streaming services want musicians to work 2-3 times as harder with multiple releases per year and rely on a discography getting larger, whereas direct sales give a large burst of support that allows one release every once in a while to be impactful.

But again, musicians get 100% today, it's not going to anyone else
https://2mellomakes.bandcamp.com/music

And I have an online store that always directly supports me 100%
https://2mello.net/store


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weregazelle
@weregazelle

hi! the final major update to the best pbta mecha-fantasy game* is OUT NOW! Armour Astir: Advent 1.5 represents the culmination of a lot of work over a very long period of time. More details in the blog post below:

To celebrate, I added another 50 community copies! over a thousand community copies of Armour Astir have been distributed. that's fifteen thousand dollars of tabletop game baby. on freelancer taxes that would have ruined me anyway.

*in my opinion



britown
@britown

I bought Monster Hunter World in PC because it was heavily discounted and its been finally long enough to play it again and start over after having several zillion hours on the PS4. We were rushing through the base-game story to get to iceborne, but had triggered a current special event at the gathering hub that caused the handler to be in this cat costume, which then affected all of the unskippable cutscenes and I took a lot of screenshots