My Streaming Plans
	2026 February 16
	Current Mood:	cohooooost aaaaaaaa
	Now Playing:	"My Father's Shadow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" by Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra

This January I finally restored my PNGTuber setup on my new laptop, and for that I had to rebuild my PNGTube program in Godot once again (first time I had to compile a Linux build which broke some things).

Found out yesterday that my PNGTuber program built in Godot won't work on my new apple silicon macbook because there's a Godot bug related to audio drivers that was only fixed in Godot 4.6 (dev 6) and I made the program in Godot 3. So to be able to stream again on my new laptop I now have to download this dev build and remake my whole project again.

I am so tired of computers.

They've fixed the audio input, but they didn't fix this function:

AudioStreamPlaybackMicrophone::stop()

So now my program crashes every time I close it.

Also, a macOS universal build of a (C#) program with two small png images takes up 350MB of space

- some immediate thoughts on the situation from my mastodon

I was relieved to find out that new versions of OBS for newer macOS iterations now support Window Capture without the need to manually inject syphons. Yayyy (:

My first test stream was playing through Hellfire Saga — a really atmospheric Sonic3&K romhack that uses assets from Castlevania series, Super Ghosts'n'Ghouls, and other bloody and gothic video games. It has a story! With dialogues! I would honestly even call it a storybook Sonic game, akin to Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic and the Black Knight. This romhack might also have the best bosses in a classic Sonic game I've ever experienced.

What do I have planned for my next streams? More Sonic of course ^__^
But also some other stuff!

• First one in the queue is going to be Sonic Mania Megamix that was finally released recently. I spent more than 3 hours installing it on macOS, but eventually I succeeded and I can't wait to finally play it in full!
• I also can't wait to finally play Sonic Time Twisted — another highly regarded Sonic fangame that I still haven't played properly.
• During my short-lived Linux PNGTuber career I also started playing La-Mulana — the game I quickly fell in love to and already have several pages of game notes from just 2 streams. I can't wait to continue playing it on stream — I think it's the best kind of a game to stream: both silly platforming shenanigans AND solving cool environmental puzzles.
• Another game that I think would be great for streaming is Trackless — my friend Vi gifted it to me because I couldn't buy it on Steam, but my old laptop was too weak for it at the time. I can do it now though? I think? Hopefully one of the free wine wrappers will help me, or maybe by that time I will have a CrossOver license...
• I am also going to do a very big "Best Sonic Zone Music" UwUFUFU tournament to commemorate one of my biggest effortposts on cohost, which also involved quite a few cohost users who helped me add more music to the tournament. Unfortunately I have lost the rights to edit this tournament on UwUFUFU, and I won't be able to add new music to it — but I can still do a long opinionated stream hehehe :) I will announce this stream in a separate blog post
• Finally, the biggest stream effort I'm currently planning is going to be a game session of SUPER BEATMAKER RPG by Jon Makes Beats aka Jonwayne! I was planning music production streams in some form for a very long time already, but now I finally have technical capabilities for that, and this TTRPG format should be at least fun to watch with less pressure on my actual results! I will announce this stream in a separate blog post