Kevin Blades

It’s podcast recording day! So of course my brain went to a different subject. I’ve picked up and started tinkering with my Neverwinter Nights sever again. Neverwinter Nights (hereafter short formed to NWN) is a venerable and somewhat legendary game…

Heavy sigh. I’ve made no secret of my dislike of corporate, algorithmic social media. I’ve always been aware of its problems, but particularly after wrapping my head around Mastodon and seeing what an organic, non-exploitive platform is like, I’m finding…

As I keep saying (probably too often), Operation: Puppet is so small that “success” in terms of follows/views/listens etc. is measured in ones, not hundreds. All the way back on Jan 5 (what is time?) I said that if our…

Being a former web developer and seeing the horrific (and unnecessary) layoffs in the tech industry lately, I’m constantly reminded how lucky I am to have stumbled into puppet building as a viable career option. If you’re curious how I…

Generally speaking I try to keep these blogs on an upbeat tone, but today we’re going to talk about a little something that, as the kids say, “really grinds my gears”. In the end I hope it will provide insight.……

One of our ideas for Pixels and Puppets is we’re taking a more contemplative approach, rather than just trying to be a nerd news firehose. None of us are journalists, we’re just ordinary folks, so we shouldn’t pretend we’re “covering”…

So, about those Frankie Play streams… As mentioned on yesterday’s blog, the Frankie Play streams tend to be our least-viewed content, and that’s why I’m having a re-think about them and moving them down the priority list. However yesterday on…

It’s Wednesday, which means build stream day, (11am ET on Twitch and YouTube), which means at the top of my brain is usually metrics. How many people will watch today? How many views will the VoD get, and so ……

We tend to throw around the word ‘community’ pretty loosely, but I’ve always tried to make O:P (and its’ predecessors) a place where folks can gather and feel welcome, which is at least in the right direction of a ‘community’.…

Ah Monday, we meet again. Every week I plan out the builds I’m going to do, and this can be a delicate process. One reason I focus on building for the shop instead of custom commissions is I can prototype…

Pretty nice coffee mug, huh? If you listen to the upcoming Episode 2 of Pixels and Puppets you may even get a chance to win one! Speaking of the podcast… Belgium. We need to talk. *Turns chair around backwards, ……