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Time marches on, we march with it

Hello everybody,

As we enter the back third of 2017, it seems time is always accelerating.

Our speedrunning marathon event (formally announced for mid-2018) continues evolving with more planning and hardware purchases completed and even more yet to go.  Some of our efforts are starting to have visible, testable results, though: many elements coming together in a grand audiovisual feast.  Yet, there is still more to be done, with a pseudo-milestone in place for early November.  We plan on participating in this year's Extra Life charity event, in full, and that will make for a closer-to-practical test of our intended setup.  The slated day is 04 November, and barring any sudden physical impairments, we're aiming to fill the full 24-hour period with our unique brand of shenanigans; or, our ShenanibrandTM, if you will.

On the company front, we have finally obtained all proper financial accounts.  This doesn't change our ability to move forward - nor did it slow down any planning or execution - but it is a small comfort that yet another bland-yet-important administrative task is marked off.

Insert Credit(s), our monthly podcast (for which I am perpetually behind on posting show notes), is getting a minor audio upgrade.  Previously, we had set up the audio chain to use our mixer's built-in pre-amps, with a compressor as a not-too-uncommon 1/4" line insert.  This worked fine...for the two microphone inputs that the mixer allowed for 1/4" inserts.  The third used a combo jank-hack of two lines across two microphone channels and an auxiliary bus that magically worked without too much signal degradation.  Well, that jank-hack is no longer required, as we're now using a separate pre-amp and the audio flows in a much simpler one-way chain.  The result is a cleaner sound with less cabling.  Hooray, efficiency!

Quest for Semi-Glory continues at a moderate pace.  I've added another regular time to my schedule, this one centered around The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past randomizers.  I've wanted to run these for quite some time.  Naturally, the tipping point was running my first one at SGDQ 2017 - alongside Tormod, in what could be loosely described as a co-operative experience.  For now, and the foreseeable future, I'll be running one randomizer a week, on all my spare Saturday evenings, 7 PM CDT / CST.  You know the place.

I continue to refine (and mostly enjoy) my speedrunning for Assault Android CactusTucanSam (my co-op partner for our SGDQ 2017 run) and myself have submitted a co-op run for the upcoming Shots Fired 5 marathon.  With any luck - and tons of our natural, certainly-not-garbage-trash-skills - you'll see us grace the fine internet waves once more.

That's all for now.

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