Adventures in 3D Printing
Scopique
August 1, 2022
My daughter, who is down at Otakon as we speak, asked me if our ancient 3D printer could…
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August 1, 2022
Hobbies, And the People Who Hate Them
I guess “hate” is too strong a word,…
Discord Abuse
Two nights prior I had an inkling for…
A Spaceship-Shaped Hole: X4 Foundations
The Star Citizen lifecycle is far too predictable.…
Getting Back to my Roots
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve…
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Hobbies, And the People Who Hate Them
Scopique
July 31, 2022
I guess “hate” is too strong a word, but it provides the emotional punch necessary in a title…
Discord Abuse
Scopique
July 22, 2022
Two nights prior I had an inkling for a post that I wanted to write, but it was…
My VR Renaissance
I have been doing a lot of non-gaming…
Note Taking With Technology
I’m one of those weird people who really…
Games! Games! Games!
Slipways
Slipways is not a 4X game, despite what it might seem when you look at screenshots.…
Star Citizen – A Bounty-ful Harvest
For all of the time I have been playing in the Star Citizen Alpha, actual space-based…
Star Dynasties – You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me!
Back in mid March I wrote up my initial impressions of Star Dynasties, an Early access…
Guilded – Roles and Permissions
After my original post on the difficulties of switching from Discord to Guilded, I decided that…
Evil Genius 2 – Evil Harder
I really like building games. Back when my wife and I were dating we would play…
Guilded – Are We REALLY Doing This Again?
I could sit here and recount my feelings on the rumor that Microsoft is thinking about…
Motion Graphics and Video
Swim Lane
When the weather is nice during the work week I will head outside for a quick…
Enter the Wombat – Drop-in Logo Intro
Here’s my first project featuring Trapcode Particular. I think it came out OK overall. We have…
Choosing Expensive Hobbies
Little did I know when I started down the road of motion graphics and VFX that…
Virtual Screen – Take 1
Here’s a quick test. I’ve traditionally used the chroma key when live streaming, putting the screen…
Embedded Timepiece
Continuing my love of tracking, I had watched a tutorial video that covered a lot of…
Mocha CC and Planar Tracking
Even though I got into After Effects to make widgets for live streaming, that idea has…
Development
React – Adventure Outliner Main Layout and Horizontal Scroller
Hot on the heels of today’s post about what a pain in the ass React can…
React – Getting Turned Around By React’s Component Nature
I have waxed poetic about React here at Chez Scopique, but I’m here now to tell…
Adventure Outliner – Authentication and Portraits
Man, sometimes things are way more difficult than they should be. Exhibit A: “dropping in” Firebase…
Adventure Outliner – Registration
This is now an actual, “working” website. Working is in quotes because A) it’s not a…
The (Latest) Project, Revealed
Usually when I get to the point where I give into the desire to talk about…
Battle of the Network Databases
I have to say, the more I work with React, the more I hate working with…