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[bramalamania]

i love my new banner😊😊😊😊😊

[blazehedgehog]

March 2026 Update

Another month has come and gone. And you know, I've realized I've been too much of a bummer in these posts. Or just in general, I guess. Yes, absolutely things are hard. But I think I've been letting it drag me down more than it probably needs to. It still is what it is, but I'm going to stop letting myself wallow in it quite as much.

Unfortunately, the reality is it's been another month with absolutely zero job interviews. I've applied to golf courses, retail stores, food service, everything. The job fair I attended last month turned out to be a total bust; the "leads" I'd gotten never materialized. Places that told me they'd have openings "soon" never posted any -- or they posted and filled those positions so quickly I never even saw the listings materialize at all. I'm about $450-ish short on rent this month as a result, which is better than last month, but it still means I need to raise the money in order to keep a roof over my head.

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In better news, I'll be pet sitting for a family member for ten days at the end of April, and that will cover almost the entire rent bill for May. Regardless of what happens, I won't be here begging for money this time next month! I'm also trying to get setup on a gig worker app strictly for pet sitting, since that seems like a desirable talent of mine. There's a $50 screener fee before I can start taking pet sitting jobs though, and I can't afford it right this second.

I'm also moving towards possibly setting up sort of a portfolio site to offer some of my services for people willing to pay me. Voice over, maybe some pixel art, things like that. Some of that will also probably have to wait, however, as I've spent the last week dealing with back to back toothaches, seeing a dentist about it, and prepping for dental surgery. If that sounds bad, it kind of is, but it's not as bad as I was expecting, so that's a silver lining. However, there will probably be a recovery time of 2-3 weeks all told, during which time my capacity for voice over will be diminished.

But bad teeth sort of run in the family, and this is a problem I'm overdue taking care of. As such, I'm a little scared, but a little excited, too. I had an extremely bad dentist experience in 2008, but I want my mouth to feel normal again. And luckily, my freebie poor person insurance will cover all of it! I consider that my first real win in a long time and I want to bounce back stronger than ever from this.

Upcoming Videos

The final Strange Encounters podcast came out! And it flopped! The algorithm really liked the first one but I think a lot of people don't like my long intros. That's understandable. I still feel like I deserved to give them long intros, and I put chapter select into the Youtube versions so you can skip around if you really wanted to. It's also just not Halloween anymore, so people might just not be in the mood for that kind of stuff right now. I'm the kind of weirdo where usually by the end of February or early March, I start getting back in the mood for Halloween stuff again.

When I wasn't blinded by pain or having a panic attack about dentist stuff, I've been plugging away at the audio for the Shadow Generations video. There are SEVEN TOTAL recording sessions that make up the voice over audio for that video, spread out across three hours, and I'm done with processing the first of those.

Similarly, when it comes to the NiGHTS documentary, I've recorded the little bits of pick-up audio I needed for that. So in addition to seven recording sessions for Shadow, I have another six recording sessions for NiGHTS that also need to be processed.

And to explain what I mean by "processing" the audio, that generally means doing some basic equalizer work, a denoising pass, removing flubbed lines, and cleaning out breath sounds. That last step is particularly tedious, because you have to remove breaths in a specific way or it can mess with the pacing of the whole voice over session, and I HAVE to remove the breaths, because people complained about it the last time I did not. I've done what I can to streamline the order of those operations as much as possible, but it's still a lot of long, mind-numbing work. It's a good thing I'll be unable to speak properly for a considerable amount of the next month.

Throwback Articles

I actually need to queue a few more of these up, because April is where the current queue runs out. But here's what went up in March, in case you missed it:

Text Review: Fortnite Save the World (2021) https://www.patreon.com/posts/148181216?collection=1952317

Returning to Donkey Kong Country Returns (2023) https://www.patreon.com/posts/148508979?collection=1952317

That's it for this month! I still haven't filed my taxes yet so hopefully nothing drastically bad comes from that. See you soon!

[sairitaikutsu]

you guys will be hearing this first before the youtube folks because idk how to close polls early

originally i let the poll last a week because i didn’t expect so many people to actually vote but

(i only voted so i can see the poll results)

you’re getting an iron lung ost analysis stream this week. i hate all of you lmao /silly

[sairitaikutsu]

yooo wtflip new music

[sairitaikutsu]

new video!!!

[sairitaikutsu]

colorful array rock mix speedpaint, if anyone cares

[sairitaikutsu]

showing this to the swarm like a shy little kid who just finished a crayon drawing

anyway new video!! i’m pretty happy with how i drew them so here’s the art by itself ⬇️