#adam savidan

[lrr-tweets]

[magicmalcolm]

The Dutch? Again?!

[andmaybegayer]

oh this is a dutch band that explains it.

[studentofetherium]

"There's like, with every kind of announcement, or event, or reveal trailer, or a game reveal, there is a 1% part of your body that wants to be disappointed because we all like feeling hurt once in a while. And that's true. You can't look me in the eye and say that you don't. Every once in a while you just like to get really disappointed, because then you can commiserate. And I can go to Graham and like, 'Graham yeah they announced the thing and they didn't announce the thing I wanted. Yeah, it sucks, man.'" - Adam Savidan

[talenlee]

Talen's Birthday, 2024

Somehow this one feels less of a big deal than last year. I dunno, maybe it’s because turning forty has been a big monument in my mind, turning forty-one feels just like turning forty again.

I had a fanciful idea that I could do something with the fact that 41 is a prime age; that I have turned 1, 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37 and now 41, and then I thought it’d be interesting to see if I ever turned a prime age in a prime year. Now, if you’re at all good at math you’d be able to point out that by being born in 1983, every year I turn an odd age, the year is even and vice versa, meaning that for roughly half the population at any time, they’re never a prime age on a prime year, since no even number is a prime.

It’s not a complicated math puzzle here.

Making a birthday post on my birthday doesn’t feel that special now. It’s not a milestone, it’s not important. Comically, because City of Heroes is burned into my brain, I do think of 41 as a level where you used to get access to your first Epic Power Pool choice (except now you get them at level 35, which is cool). It’s good though: This was a good way to fight the anxiety of the birthday. I remember when I turned 35 I had a real horrible moment thinking I was done, that I had wasted my entire life up to that point. I remember part of what made it okay was seeing Adam Savidan on Youtube, playing Magic: The Gathering and saying ���I’m thirty five or thirty four years old and I don’t need this.’

A thing about Loading Ready Run that makes me feel a tiny bit bad is that it’s this big long project that a bunch of friends have been making and running for twenty years, as an ongoing hobby that became a job and then became an institution managing multiple people creating things. Sometimes I get sad thinking about how what got that big project to happen was, in part, two dudes with supportive parents and supportive school supplies in the late 90s were able to work on a project, together, for long enough to become very good at it.

How do you do something for twenty years?

Well, you start.

You start, and you keep working on it while you work on things.

The internet of today is poisoned. The internet of today demands you create for it, it wants you to produce Content. Your status updates, your pictures, your everyday drama, your existence, they are all things that are being fed into advertising machine to space out the ads in the name of being ‘content.’ It isn’t how it used to be. It used to be people had websites for their special interests, the interest being the primary thing. My first website I can remember was an Animorphs fanfiction space, and I remembered how when I stopped trying to host other people’s fanfiction, and instead just hosted my own, the one author I took down got sad at me. She was probably also like, fourteen like I was.

It used to be that people made things because they wanted to share them. It used to be that people were making websites and stories and web-novels and web-comics and diaries and blogs and vlogs and microgames and RPGs and they were making stuff. It was stuff. It was not for consuming in its own continual sense, it was not being part of a pipe of things that were fed to you, it was not content, it was a lot of different stuff and that difference gave everyone a reason to do things.

But now, it’s Content.

Now, your effort, your creative material, is being pushed into a single tube for four companies who suck and you know they suck and you don’t like them and yet you make things for them anyway. Because that’s where it is. That’s where the habit forms.

Arbor Day - The Lads // Arbor Day

Watch this video on YouTube

I’m fond of this song, Arbor Day by a band that can be politely described as ‘pretty good, for a Church choir.’ The song, very simply, is that hey, do you need a reason to make a change in your life? Well, today is Arbor day, that’s a good enough reason.’ It’s been an idea bubbling around in my head that yeah, Arbor Day is a nearly arbitary reason to make a big change in your life, but that may be all you need. Sometimes you just need something, anything to mark the psychological change between ‘before I tried this’ to ‘after I tried this.’

Here’s my request for you, on my birthday.

There is something you want to make. There is something you care about. There is something you are interested in trying. Today is a day to do that. Today is a day to even just describe a plan, or a hope. Do you want to write a book? Write a description of what that book is about. A series of books? Describe all of them! Do you want to make games? Start, download one of the programs you need to use today.

Don’t waste money on things for this post’s sake, but you know there are steps you can take to make things, and I want you to make them. I believe in a world where people make things because we like making things, I believe in a world of creative people playing with creativity, and I believe that the important thing of online spaces ie being able to share them.

So please, make something, and show it to me.

No matter how small it is, no matter how little progress on it you get to make. Just spend a little time today starting something, continuing something or finishing something.

I’ll be proud of you, no matter what.

I promise.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[araveninthecrowsnest]

Adam continuing to be my favorite LRR member at the PPR today

[horde-of-impressions]

Tonight on twitter

[wintercookielife]

Friendship!

[dimestoretajic]

when you completely crush your buddy's deck with ease

[french-onion-firbolg]

There’s not enough LRR content on tumblr, so here, have this bad gif I made of Ben’s reaction when Adam no scoped that the monsters in Until Dawn were wendigo

[lrr-tweets]

[magicmalcolm]

Me, going to a local sandwich place for lunch:

[luckypastryarcade]

Another attempt at more a more realistic drawing, this time of all around great human Adam Savidan. Doing an angle from a selfie was a little challenging but I think it turned out half ok. I ended up half assing the Dauntless logo because while great game so many fiddly little bits and it was late so I called it a night. Speaking of I found out about the game from Adam so thats fun.

[studentofetherium]

never seen it posed on anon tbqh. i got it from adam savidan

i love the jar question because no matter what, someone is going to give a unique answer

[froodycartographer]

Me: how can anyone have blorbo from their shows. Putting that much emotional investment into a character seems like setting yourself up for failure fulfillmentwise Also Me: Oliver Tyndall.... he just got offered a job.... he wants to feel better

[horde-of-impressions]

I assume this was requested in tonight's Let's Nope