mattgemmell

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

@scottearle There’s a combined Kindle called the Scribe too!

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

@ctietze I’d be interested to hear about your sync solution. I haven’t signed into Boox and don’t really want to. I don’t think I really need sync, but occasional backup would be useful.

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

Sorry it’s a bit too tightly cropped at the end regarding the case. Witness the madness of it!

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mattgemmell, 4 months ago

Also very much love the orange highlights.

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

@chrisphin Think you can switch off labels. Probably designed for Chinese!

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

@ctietze Ingram these days. The way it works is that you specify the trim size, paper stock, page count etc, and it produces a custom template with suitable guides, in the right colour-space and at the appropriate DPI. Also generates the barcode from your ISBN. You can try it here: https://myaccount.ingramspark.com/Portal/Tools/CoverTemplateGenerator

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

@ctietze They’re good. They have print services locally in the EU, UK, and US (the old LightningSource facilities). The main benefit of Ingram is that they’ll also handle catalogue-insertion so that regular bookstores know about the book, and also handle Amazon, both in terms of the catalogue and supplying copies for warehousing.

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

@DJDarren Must be the time of day I always use it (late morning), but I didn’t even know that Ferrite had a dark theme.

mattgemmell, 4 months ago

@dxzdb Neither of us can remember that ever happening. She says that I’m the more romantic one, and don’t have a problem with those parts!

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

Son is RAPT. Points things out, asks to go and see them, enquires about characters and scenarios. Seems amazed that the game mechanics he’s already seen are replicated here in interactive form. He’s on the couch beside me, cuddled in, for two hours. Never asks to press the buttons, just constantly agog. So we’re exploring Hyrule and, entirely unplanned by me, we happen upon a balloon canopy component.

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

Son says “that looks like a hot air balloon!”, just as an observation, and I can’t properly express how excited I was, because this is Tears of the Kingdom and it has the physics model and the construction mechanics, and there’s a balloon basket assembly near by. So I go WELL, maybe we can build a hot air balloon. So we do that. Then I ask, how could we make it fly? And he’s already learned from youtube: “Fire can make it go!” So I put a flame emitter on there, and we FLY.

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

We did the same down at Lurelin on the south coast, where he saw a stationary boat and asked if we could make it go, and I said well maybe we could build a boat ourselves (having seen a big board lying on the beach nearby). We do that, and cruise the southern sea. I can see THE EMPOWERMENT OF KNOWLEDGE written upon his wee face. Neurons starting to high-five each other and form a dim view of the idea of underlying principles that make the gears of the world turn.

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

Just tooling around in Zelda not really accomplishing anything in-game, but lads it was maybe the most important and rewarding thing I’ve ever done? His first words the next morning (today) to his mother were “I want to see Link and go and see a castle and some goblins, and a dragon, and the red yuck that makes you sick.”

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

Just that coincidence of him knowing what a hot air balloon was, that heat makes it rise, recognising the design in the game, and the game offering the actual mechanic to build it and make it fly, was an incredible moment for a dad. Caught him at exactly the right age and developmental stage. I (mostly accidentally) did something super incredible for my kid, thanks in large part to Zelda TOTK’s game design.

mattgemmell, 5 months ago

@felicitymartin Thank you! I’m trying to make the kind of thing I like to listen to myself.