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These are a selection of the album covers I have either been commissioned to draw, or have drawn for myself. Just informing people that I take commissions! And the passion that you feel from here -- no lie.

E-mail and Discord handle are in the description; HMU if you'd like something like this drawn for you, and let's talk rates!

Hi, I'm Stryxnine. I'm an esports broadcast producer and audio producer. In this chost I'll be explaining the key ways to immediately improve the audio on your livestreams.

Why should I care?

Glad you asked! The biggest reason is because advertisements are fucking loud. Unfortunately, with advertisers constantly in a loudness war with each other, we have to care about our audio levels so when ads pop up for our viewers they don't scare the everloving piss out of them with the immediate difference in volume. Beyond that, we wanna make sure we can be heard over the game and the music playing in the background.

Ok, so how do I do it?

It's pretty easy, but it's also a bit of a process!

I abstained from talking about EQ's in the above post because it requires a lot more tinkering and a bit of a trained ear. A good EQ will change based on your microphone, your recording environment and even appliances like oscillating fans or A/C units nearby. This guide to EQ's won't be tackling those specifics, but instead tackling the most common problem with un-equalized microphone inputs - The Woofer Thump.

Looks like the game got a lot of good attention at Barclays Game Frenzy this year.

If you haven't, please check out the soundtrack I've composed for the game! It's my take on Hisaishi/Sakamoto-adjacent orchestral music, and I'm rather proud of it~

You can check it out on Spotify or on Bandcamp~

any time I see people enthusiastically taking the side of a company that wields corrupt government as an instrument in order to throw people into prison to Make A Point because Piracy Is Bad it just reminds me how difficult "kill the cop inside your heart" is to actually put into practice. because I see it a lot.

like, for-profit piracy exists. it probably shouldn't. but it's funny how at the end of the day our judicial apparatus decided to teach some poor guy A Lesson because he had the gall to do mundane work as basically a customer service/sales rep selling a product that should be legal. just look at the actual charges they were able to make stick:

Bowser's official indictments include "conspiracy to circumvent technological measures and trafficking in circumvention devices" plus "violating the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision." Both counts carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

one completely made up crime - that basically exists to let the MPAA throw people into prison for format-shifting DVDs, mind you - and then "conspiracy" to commit said made up crime. they couldn't get him with anything else because he was just a random dude who got caught up in other people's bad behavior. But Nintendo Has To Teach You A Lesson, understand? And you've learned the lesson and let a cop take up residence in your heart. He learned his lesson too, spending 2+ years in what was functionally solitary confinement due to his health issues, and now spending the rest of his life paying off a massive unjust debt far in excess of the moderate salary he earned doing ordinary white collar work.

and then while the cop in your heart is defending the MPAA and Nintendo because idk it makes you feel bad to imagine someone getting Tears of the Kingdom for free - every download is a lost $70 sale! plus treble damages to make sure they get it - meanwhile massive swathes of media and game history are destroyed permanently because the rightsholders would rather destroy it than let it be archived, because that means it might get pirated even once, or they wouldn't be able to sell you a half-baked remake of 5% of those games 10 years later at full retail price. okay, sure

like, as a game developer who does earn less money if people pirate my stuff instead of buy it - okay, i get it, really! i think we should encourage people to buy stuff instead of pirate it. but also if we're at the point where we think sending people to prison for being adjacent to software piracy is the way society should work maybe our society shouldn't exist at all. personally i think every censored because I might need to publish a title on the eshop one day to pay rent