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Travel

Tales from FWA

To help contextualize my own experience at Furry Weekend Atlanta 2024, I interviewed around 20 semi-random furries on the Monday after the convention about their weekend experience. Footage is intentionally understated. Thank you to all who helped!

Music: Laurie Mayer – Flung

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Gaming

TUNIC Any% on GDQ Hotfix

Mega shoutouts to Asuka for having me on my first GDQ Hotfix! They host a show called “Express Lane” that features speedruns under an hour in length.

I was part of an episode that specialized in animal-based runs, and ran the same run I submitted to AGDQ 2024–which was accepted! I had SO much fun and the run could not have gone much better. Many thanks to Silent for commentary and joke participation.

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Travel

Mysterium 2023

Follow along on my trip to Spokane, WA to visit @MysteriumCon and Cyan Worlds’ headquarters for the first time! Flying across the country, I met up with online friends from the speedrunning community for a week of fun, food, laughs, and Lime scooters.

Shoutouts to @flapjackretro @darkshoxx @zaustus1500 and Dan from the Guild of Speedrunners for being wonderful con companions and for putting up with me wanting footage and audio all the time. For all the new faces I met and can’t list here, thanks for being so welcoming and accommodating.

Special thanks to @Cyan-Official for opening up their campus, sharing juicy details, and being so accommodating for their loudest and most intense fans!

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Gaming

TUNIC: Dreams of a Ruin Seeker

TUNIC is an isometric action-adventure game about a tiny fox in a big world where you explore the wilderness, fight monsters, and find secrets.

First named “Secret Legend” in 2016, it became “TUNIC” in 2017. I first discovered the game in 2018, at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. I was fortunate to get to play an early demo at FWA and fell in love with the game.

My first adventure was challenging and magical. Just three days after launch, I had uncovered all there was to see in TUNIC. I joined the early speedrunning community, hoping to ease the withdrawal, and two months later ran Any% in my first charity marathon.

I feel so fortunate to have had such a fantastic experience with TUNIC. I’ve made good friends, talked with the devs, and even influenced a patch. TUNIC has quickly become one of my favorite games of all time. With TUNIC’s new platform releases, I wanted to do something to give back and celebrate.

DREAMS OF A RUIN SEEKER is a celebration of TUNIC’s artistry: its visuals, soundscape, design, world, and story. Using various UI mods (debug, no-UI and randomizer), I captured footage across the game from different angles, perspectives and zoom levels in 4K at 60fps. I then arranged it over the official soundtrack, in relative gameplay order.

This of course means this production is full of MANY SPOILERS, so please play the game before watching this!

I hope this production brings you even some of the joy I felt making it. 🦊❤️

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Travel

Florida State Parks Retrospective

Rob and I present a retrospective on our 2017 adventure of filling the Florida State Parks passport book. Sorry for the wind noise!

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Personal

Florida Springs Video

Throughout the last decade or so, I’ve had the privilege of visiting most of the springs in Florida. I had a lot of personal, amateur video lying around, so I thought I’d throw together a little fun clips video to share my adventures. Enjoy!

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Gaming

Riven Retrospective

Join me on a journey back through one of my favorite video game experiences: Riven: The Sequel to Myst! Watch at 1.5x, and don’t miss my previous Myst Retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1jkGEKnCU


Despite being one of my favorite game series ever, I dropped off the Myst train after Myst 3. In an attempt to get back on and get some motivation to see through Myst 4 and 5 (and maybe Uru) before mainlining Obduction, I wanted to revisit Myst, Riven, and Exile and share my thoughts in some form.

The above video is my attempt for Riven, which featured a whole webcam just for my notes! I had a ton of fun with this one; it’s so much harder to related the game through a thorough playthrough (as the puzzles and world are much less modular than Myst). Enjoy!

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Gaming

Myst Retrospective

Join me on a journey back through one of my favorite video game experiences: Myst! I talk about Myst, why I did this video, why Myst is special, and then I skate through all of realMyst: Masterpiece Edition! Save yourself some time and watch at 1.5x.


Despite being one of my favorite game series ever, I dropped off the Myst train after Myst 3. In an attempt to get back on and get some motivation to see through Myst 4 and 5 (and maybe Uru) before mainlining Obduction, I wanted to revisit Myst, Riven, and Exile and share my thoughts in some form. The above video is my attempt for Myst. The Riven video is being edited and is coming soon!

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Personal

008: Operation Remake

A quick-and-dirty for-fun remake of my first movie, in the small break between moving my parents to their new house several miles away. The move wasn’t particularly fun, and I didn’t really get a chance to experience it all one last time, but I’m glad I made some time for this. I’ll always have this!

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Personal

Bombadil Sunbathing

I caught my cat lazing in the sun from the skylight, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to shoot some photos/footage. Thought it came out pretty nifty. Shot on a D7000, only adjusted for speed.