The past couple of days I’ve been obsessively working on an update for a Stellaris mod.
Honestly it’s become almost crippling!
I completely forgot that I wanted to stream today because I spent a full five hours writing out different branch points.

The actual contents of what I’m working on is a pair of event chains for an origin mod.
I can’t actually mod, and have no experience with Stellaris beyond writing some flavour text in the past.
So what I did was throw together some material as an outline with all the dialogue and text boxes.
Then someone smarter than me will turn that into actual gameplay.

Honestly for how long they take to concept and write, they’re probably not gonna be a big deal to players though.
I hope at least someone enjoys them.
The only problem is that they might mess with a couple of bits of the base game, since it needs a determined system nearby to trigger.

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I’m commissioning another piece of art of my novels heroine, Eleanor, tomorrow hopefully.
The issue is I have 13 ideas and don’t know what one to go with!
Does anyone have any ideas? Maybe some extra ideas will help me decide, it could even be that you suggest an idea I already had.

I could just give the artist a list of ideas and let them pick one. Maybe I should go with that.

What do you think?

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» Chapter 115 «

So now that things have been finalized regarding Blue Sky’s future, I figured it prudent to explain that we have 10 weeks of chapters left.
Which to be honest, is quite a lot when you think about it.
Even though we said we were ending it.

In other news: I got my friend into watching GATE again. I had intended to buy the BluRay DVD bundle for GATE but it’s apparently sold out.
My friend informed me that I had left it too long getting distracted with buying other things.
Unlike with Horizon it seems I won’t be able to find copies on third party sites either.
Bit of a bummer.

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» Chapter 114 «

Well in vtuber news the EN curse delayed the Gen 2 debut.
How do people find their designs?

Honestly other than Nanashi I’m not too big of a fan.
The one with darker skin seems to lack a sense of depth to her art, and her skin isn’t very well shaded.
But I’m not an artist so I might be totally wrong and actually blind.
But at least to me, aesthetically, she feels off.

Do like Nanashi’s design though.
The mix of nordic, celt and egyptian influences are great on top of the typical steampunk aesthetic.

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» Chapter 113 «

A friend reminded me of the sad reality that two of my favourite internet radios are still down.
One presumably lost for all time, and the other seems to be…. having troubles?
For those who don’t know which two I mean.

Obviously I am talking about the Idolmaster radio, shijou.moe which was responsible for many many EuroTruck catastrophes as a distraction.
And the other which is having troubles and has been AWOL for about a year now is animenfo which was a general anime radio.

Both were great backing music with a lot of variety.
I’m pretty sad that shijou.moe just shut down overnight, and animenfo hasn’t recovered from a string of problems yet.

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» Chapter 112 «

With myself having started to recover.
I’ve sort of been able to handle gaming again.
No more Genshin motion sickness!

I managed to barely scrape by on the treasure event and reputation.
But I need to do the boss weekly and the new event.
I hope I can catch up. Running out of time!

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» Chapter 111 «

Good news everyone:
I am recovering from that thing that people are getting all over the globe.
The only symptoms I’m left with are a persistent and incredibly annoying cough.
In the time I@ve had it, two others in the house have caught it too.

Bad news everyone:
Blue Sky has been a massive financial sinkhole for the site, so the translation will be stopping in the future.
We still have a massive stockpile and need to find a replacement in the schedule first though.
So you won’t actually realise this until muuuuch later. In fact I could have just not told you.

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» Chapter 110 «

I got some new art a few days ago, I absolutely love this one!

Don’t tell Silva I’m linking it here again.
I think there are a few things that could be improved upon, but mostly that is because I wasn’t 100% sure what I wanted for background wise.
The character and outfit is perfectly on point, just what I wanted.

It was just my vague request for a background that caused some style issues. Not that I find it bad!
It’s like 90% good, and I’m making a note of what I need to get it 100% next time I commission.

It’s a learning process.

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» Chapter 109 «

Well it’s possible I may have got Covid. It’s not 100% yet but it’s highly possible.
Basically my social anxiety prevented me from going out at all during this whole situation, and naturally that extended towards going to the doctors for the vaccine.
At first I comforted myself by saying “I don’t leave the house so it’s fine to let the workers take the vaccines first.”
But eventually it became obvious it was an excuse.
Then the government removed mandatory restrictions and my anxiety went up further.

And now I am reaping the seeds I have sown as my middle brother is ill from work.
I’m going to blame him though because he works and still didn’t get the vaccine.
So I wouldn’t have got it if he had been vaccinated.
Yup.
That works for me.

I just hope I don’t get too sick.

Oh right, I’m battling headaches right now, expect a quality dip in my editing.

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» Chapter 108 «

We had some very interesting and very British weather today.
Including but not limited too:
Too much sunshine.
Lots of clouds.
Heavy rain.
Lightning!
Really really heavy hail for half an hour.
More rain.
More clouds.
And sunshine.

It was like a microcosm of everything wrong with the weather in one day.
Climate change people. Fun stuff.

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» Chapter 107 «

I commissioned another piece of art today.
Yup.
My second isn’t even finished.

So here’s how things have gone so far.
I got art of the main heroine, Eleanor.
I then got art of Eleanor, but in a ball gown. This is ongoing.
I have no purchased art of the main character, Llyn. Which will start sooooooon eventually by the end of this month.

Look forward to them.

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» Chapter 106 «

Oh right I forgot to say last ramble, but we have a new editor now.
Shiro is here to reduce our suffering.
Basically they can do all my hard work for me now. Muhahahaha.

Well they’re actually a little more strict than me on the editing front. They remind me of when I first started out, actually caring about perfection.
Now it’s like “is this readable?” “yes” “then it doesn’t need fixing”.

Don’t tell Silva, he might get mad at me.
Shhhhhhh.

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» Chapter 105 «

So Inazuma is out on Genshin, how are peoples opinions of it?
Honestly there is so much to do it’s a bit insane.
Interestingly they timegated some world quests too to make content last longer.

Honestly I am loving it but I’m a little worried I won’t unlock Reputation before the time reset. The number of quests you need to do are quite high!

Well I’ll try and blitz through my remaining ones then explore a bit to get some world percentage.
I need to do all the shrine stuff.

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