Thanks. I always feel a bit strange since I came to this job so late that most of my colleagues are decades younger than me while folks my age have more senior positions. But I’m doing what I love and I’m making the right people angry with it so it can’t be all that bad.
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Thanks for the detailed intro! As someone who is still figuring out what they want to do it is always inspiring to see people making big life changes like that. Do you have any particular pieces of fanfiction you are particularly proud of/would be willing to share?
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Thanks! But unfortunately I won’t share my fics. I hope you can respect that I prefer to keep a seriously robust firewall between my fandom life and my professional one. I will say though, that if you’re in the right fandoms/pairings you should be able to spot my work pretty easily.
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Just confirming that you can talk about your husband all you want! Whatever you may be perceiving as too much is something I definitely haven’t noticed, so fear not.
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This counts! Welcome!
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What an incredible name for a dog, especially a corgi.
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Hi
I made an earlier attempt to introduce myself in this thread but it seems to have vanished, so I guess I’ll try again.
Anyway, I’ve listened to the podcast for years but only just got around to checking out the forum. I live in China and like italo disco, chicken jalfrezi and houseplants.
Edit: Everyone can just call me Quest. He/him.
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I have belated realized that since me and my husband are in the process of trying to start a family, that i’ll have to jettison names that i’ve had picked out since I was a little girl in order to name them Alexander/Alexandria just to commit to the bit.
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Hi Quest. Welcome. What is chicken jalfrezi and can i make it?
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Yes! Jalfrezi is a Bengali curry dish that I often make for my family. I like to follow Latif’s British-Indian one-pot recipes as an intro to learning a new curry, as he usually keeps things simple:
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Heyyy, The Infinite Review is the best! The ‘Cookery in Colour’ video is one of my favourite things on the internet.
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His simple Bengali daal is great
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Man if I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life it would definitely be curry. Absolutely love that stuff.
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I’m glad to have suffered for you
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Hey Ash, it’s surreal to be able to communicate with you. I resonated with your posts on Kotaku, and how you express yourself candidly in written and spoken forms. Your story is inspiring. Though I struggled similarly in school, failed twice and dropped out of Music School, gave up on becoming a Music Therapist, I’m now able to scrape by doing IT contracts. I am hoping that one day I can be courageous enough like you, and just go for what I wanted out of life - making games, game music, making art all day, writing about games - because those days seem to be dwindling. Anyways I appreciate you and what you bring to the table.
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Hello everyone,
My name is Tim or TJ and I have been listening to IC for a while, and joined the forum just a month or so ago (jk, august). The vibes here feel good, and I appreciate how much of this forum is dedicated to not video games. It feels like a pocket of the internet I used to find back when I was in high school that has become much harder to find.
I heavily identify with what @adashtra posted about barely being able to hold on in university and then dropping out after being “celebrated” in high school (I was over the moon when I heard you were going to be a regular guest, by the way). Now I work the graveyard shift and am looking for ways to continue my education and become more gainfully employed. I am still have little faith in myself to successfully self regulate at school, however.
Some things I’ve enjoyed recently: @Moon’s post on the death of cyberpunk (and related readings), The first 10.5 chapters of The Power Broker by Robert Caro. John Carpenter’s The Thing. Hunt: Showdown. Sharing voice memos with a new friend instead of text messages. Taking photographs. Seeing my friends post their photographs on a discord server I created.
Hope to see you all around :)
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That game is so good. Really underappreciated.
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Hey friend! I remember you! Good to see you again. Thank you for your kind words and I’m glad sharing my story has resonated with you and others here.
You can make your dreams come true. It might not look exactly how you envision it, but i truly believe trying, working toward a goal like that, even if you fail, is worthwhile.
I think of it a lot like shooting an old timey canon. You first shot will almost always biffs so you make adjustments, little corrections here and there for each subsequent shot. You may never hit your target. And i think its detrimental to happiness or feelings of satisfaction to get so hung up on the fact you didn’t. But i think zooming all the way out and seeing all the little canonballs and how close they got is evidence of a life well lived.
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I think it’s my favorite pvp game of all time. Such a cool aesthethic, and just the right amount of punishing for me.
Friends call me Leon. Internet calls me Renegade Cut.
I’m a YouTuber. I actually started in online video in 2010 on a now-defunct video platform and moved my work more fully to YouTube in 2014. My early work was in video games before I changed topics but have recently returned my career to my one true love.
Born in Baltimore, lived all over, now in Boston. 42 years old and having a great time with my life lately. Nice to find a good video game forum in 2024.
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