Hey, now. No need to play tug’o'war with the dragon. Plenty of Hikaru for everyone, ya know?

NEW: Justin.TV archival video! Because you like watching noodles boil, right?
Ink to Partial Color
Partial Color to Completion

Unfortunately the Justin.tv archive videos will expire in a few days. I’ve got the FLV files looted and they are playable, but I cannot edit them because everyone and their cat is freaking over the lack of audio (VLC screams bloody murder over “LOL undf error”). I did the initial streams without audio since, well, there was nothing worth sending up (aside from, uh, my Pandora Radio stream). I guess in the future I’ll just have to suck it up and let Blastoise stream with audio. :P Of course, future broadcasts will also enable doods to call in and sass it up via Skype~

In addition to WIP screencap, I bring you what I hope will become a regular feature here on Ayarane Project: Instant Ramen LIVE! Click on the screencap to go see the archived video. :D
pardon the preroll ads -_-;

With Blastoise’s transmigration, he now has the ability to livestream the contents of his desktop without horrendous input lag. What this means for you is that… well, recall that others had the ability to “sit in” on Blastoise to watch me draw (via VNC) but even then it was laggy and I could only hold one other person at a time. Now the dude can stream to my Justin.tv channel and many can watch if they want to see the sausage being made. :)

You may want to follow me on Twitter if you want to know when I’m about to stream. But, Justin.tv auto-archives all streams for a little while after the fact– they used to do it indefinitely but the archived stuff only lasts a few days now. Worst-case, I’ll just have to do a local recording and upload that to YouTube manually. One way or another, these will be available somewhere for later viewing if you can’t catch the live show.

This first attempt has no sound– all I was running was just Pandora’s Christmas music anyhow. But in future sessions, presuming this draws in some sort of an audience, I’ll turn on the audio so I can pick select doods to call in on Skype for sass and lulz.

Short version that probably isn’t: Gopher-series balls (the type that Leo Laporte uses on TWiT) are… adequate for sitting on when playing video games, but not so much for painting or involved computer-y stuff. And I should probably get the bigger silver ball, too, since blue isn’t quite enough for the big-and-tall like me. :P

Yeah, my current office chair on Blastoise is reaching limits on how much I can tolerate. Old chair is old, creaky, has lost most of its arm padding, is rather stiff on the butt support and sinks too easily, so I tried using my blue Gopher ball for the day. It was slightly less annoying overall, but… yeah, looks like I need to start hunting for a new office chair. Considering how much time I spend on Blastoise, this needs to be a really freaking awesome chair. The one I’m using now I’ve had, uh… maybe 10 years? I know I got it before Blastoise’s first transmigration.

Speaking of things related to TWiT…

So, apparently I must be made of AWESOME or what-have-you, because this thing I did for NSFW got turned into a print and sent up to the TWiT Brickhouse as a gift for the technical staff and editors. :O All I had to do was provide the original PSD, someone else from the audience who works at a print shop had the print made. Hopefully the doods at TWiT know to unbox this thing on the air, since that way I can do an archive extract from Justin.tv and repost it here for lulz and glory.

This chair I’m sitting on is bothering me tons, and I need to change out of these itchy-as-GTFO pants, so I’ll have to do the ink job of this Snowscheme tomorrow. For now, a midnight Disgaea 4 session in my bedroom~

Sharing is caring. It can also lead to headfire.

I need to not torpedo my own (extremely self-serving by virtue of being of my own creation) OTP for others’ amusement and go back to when I would shamelessly draw Hikaru and Numair fluffy happytimes. On the other hands, scenes like the above are stupidly funny. Oh well. One of these days! :P

Yet another example of “life made better with beer.” Or not. Just imagine those three wandering through Prontera City, singing loud and off-key and just… laughing it off, Beavis and Butthead-like.