hellerphant

@hellerphant@peoplemaking.games

Former game journalist, former game developer, now running a digital agency in Tokyo, Japan.

Email me your indie press releases for news posting to Pixels for Breakfast - heller(at)pixelsforbreakfast.net

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hellerphant, to photography

View from our camp site last week. It doesn't matter how many times I see , I am always awe-struck. Camping there with my wife and doggo was utter bliss, and it's only a 3 hour drive from our home too!

atomicpoet, to random

So time to answer the burning question: why did I move from mastodon.social to calckey.social?

First, let's get the obvious out of the way.

I bought the calckey.social domain back in December. You see, I run a local Calckey server called vancity.social, and I noticed people were registering there just to try . In the spirit of keeping vancity.social a local server, I felt that I needed a space to kick non-Vancouver residents so they can fool around with the software.

So the idea for calckey.social was born.

A month later, @kainoa asked if he could make it an "official" server for Calckey. It was originally supposed to be the junior server to calckey.cloud. But after awhile, he felt that there should be a place for casual folks to hang-out.

Well, once we got our ducks in a row, calckey.social shot off like fireworks.

We discovered there was lots of demand, and it was all so unpredictable. So now calckey.social is the flagship server, and it's grown by 1,200 accounts over the past 2 weeks.

Naturally, people asked why I'm on mastodon.social and not over here.

At first, it was because I didn't want to be the one to dominate the server. People who know me, realize how loud I can be.

But now that we're coming close to 1,500 accounts on calckey.social, that's no longer a big deal.

However, I still imagine that this account migration may change the very young culture here. Now that the migration is complete, I am the largest account on Calckey by follower count.

Things are about to get more noisy here.

But what a time to build a new community!

hellerphant,

@atomicpoet so for someone like me who does not fully understand, Calckey.social is a federated community that has a different front-end with more features for the average user than a standard Mastodon instance, right? Is more designed, but still talks to all the other Mastodon instances out there?

How hard is is to migrate across? I do like my instance, but Calckey just looks beautiful and more what I want from a new social home.

hellerphant,

@atomicpoet I created an account and it is suuuuper nice. Might look to migrate over so I can keep my followers!

hellerphant, to internet

A long shot, but does anyone have a invite code? I want to start investigating it for work purposes, but haven’t found much luck getting a code.

Not interested in it personally, mastodon definitely feels like home, but I’ve been tasked with doing some research.

hellerphant, to random

Found out today that it looks like I will require another jaw surgery to remove the plates.

This was completely unexpected, and has really thrown me for a loop. Surgery is scary (at least to me), and throw in it happening in a country I can't communicate well in, compounds that terror.

Then there is the cost. The recovery time. All things that are making what was shaping up to be a decent year look very dire right now.

Happy Monday I guess.

hellerphant,

@virtualwolf thanks mate. Much appreciated.

hellerphant,

@raeis3d thank you for your kind words. Still a little devastated but trying to deal.

hellerphant, to gaming

Having some pretty good discussion around on our Discord.

Yes, the game is broken. Yes, it is far from perfect. No, it is not the worst game I've ever played. In fact, despite these issues, I have largely enjoyed my time with the game.

It feels like an Early Access title. It also feels like a dated design, that could be improved upon, but it will never become a top-tier game without significant loop restructure.

But the setting. The ancillary writing. These things are super intriguing, and it is not often we get to traipse through a suburban town like this in games.

Redfall is a bad game. But I think I like Redfall. I would never tell someone to buy it, especially at the price it is now.

How has your experience been?

hellerphant,

@travisromany not really. It is the least Arkane game so far, and the story has some neat moments but is not really special.

I like the world and the atmosphere. I like the weird chill vibes that it has. But no, do not buy this looking for an Arkane immersive-sim world filled with things to interact with.

hellerphant, to photography

Now this would be a utopia.

hellerphant, to random

Anyway, pour one out for one of the most thoughtful and inspiring games outlets out there. I hope we see them reunited somehow down the road.

hellerphant, to random

To be honest, I’ve never gotten over that. Even making games was just the second choice to being a games writer. If it was viable I would do it again in a heartbeat.

That’s the whole reason @pixelsforbreakfast exisits, and why I take it so seriously even though it kinda never goes anywhere.

hellerphant, to random

Really sad to hear about shutting down. @patrickklepek has long been a favorite writer of mine, and the rest of the crew developed a totally unique voice in the space.

Hearing Patrick talk about questioning worth, and if he was able to do something else, was something I super identity with.

My dream was to be a games writer full-time, and I fulfilled that dream once. But then games writing in Australia became an almost impossible way to make a living.

hellerphant, to photography

Off duty.
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hellerphant,

@sifterHQ I think it’s a WWII era Imperial Japan Army uniform. Was a little odd to see.

hellerphant, to photography

What you lookin' at?

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hellerphant, to random

Sitting in our Shinjuku office, surrounded by a mountain of boxes that is stacked up on the two spare desks, just below roof level.

The rain is trickling down the window, and the smell of coffee wafting in from the boutique roastery a few doors up is pretty divine.

Working startups is always stressful, but sitting here in this very moment, I actually feel like we are building something here at my company.

Or maybe it is the compulsion to build a box fort? I am slightly unsure.

0xThylacine, to photography

Yesterday morning's aurora. I was both too tired to go out and I didn't want to wake anyone up, so it was out the window. As you can tell, the aurora was very strong, completely out of the top of the frame, even with a fisheye lens.

Cropped substantially and a quick distortion correction. Video in a couple of days. (I finally have a location to move my containers to, and that's tomorrow).

📷 Samyang f/2.8 8mm fisheye

hellerphant,

@0xThylacine is this a common thing in Tassie? I never knew you could get these views down there!

I secretly hope to movie to Tassie one day. I’ve always loved it whenever I have visited!

ct_bergstrom, to photography

Yeah, I guess Brooklyn was OK.

hellerphant,

@ct_bergstrom That is a pretty great frame though, well done!

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