Fish

All I do is cry while watching the Olympics

ok i kinda like crafting since it means less trips back and forth if i need something.

also i was gonna complain that you can't mass release pokemon after catching them but then I just unlocked that ability so thats cool but why is that something you have to unlock

Attempted to explain why a business would label themselves at women/minority owned to my parents..... It did not go well 😩

6 hours in, def liking QOL improvements like auto healing after boss(?) fights, level up system, faster transition between battle etc

Not sure how I feel about crafting yet 🤔

Jfosifndk💀 the loud drum/boom sound effect keeps jump scaring me

A shining gold light with a video game text box that says "Welcome to my realm, located beyond both time and space."

I haven't played a Pokemon game since gen2 so we'll see how this goes 🙃

YouTube video by Hamish Hamilton TV Inside the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show Control Room

watching the half time show reminded me of this director bts from super bowl 50 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfjW...

live broadcast stuff is so fun :3

Same tho

A large number of bicyclists (enough to block the street) in front of San Francisco city hall

Also there was an anti ice rally right outside the venue so on a related note you should totally check out
twitch.tv/reallyreally...
which is fundraising for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota

A pile of camera gear sitting on the floor inside a rotunda. Wedding guests are mingling in the background.

Nothing makes you feel old like going to a wedding and barely knowing any of the songs the DJ is playing 👴🏻

Theres also no feeling quite like being in the middle of setting up your video gear and realizing there's a hold in your pants 🫣

David Chang and Momofuku will no longer enforce 'chili crunch' trademark “First and foremost, I want to apologize to everyone in the AAPI community who’s been hurt or feels like I’ve marginalized them or put a ceiling on them by our actions,” Chang said.

FWIW we ( AAPI in my immediate area) try to avoid momofuku after this fiasco www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

It's been said by so many others before but doesn't hurt to say it again, I'm proud to be part of and forever thankful for the inclusive community GDQ has created where I can safely explore what it means to be myself.

and as always: do good, relentlessly.

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It also made think about trying to be more intentional with the time I spend online. My extreme introvertedness carries over to online spaces as well but I want to try and put more effort into being part of an online community as opposed to just being active twice a year at GDQs 😅

Considering the last two points, it made me realize we always talk about remembering to tell the people you love you love them but it's not something I'm particularly good at (I'm actually quite bad at it) so thats something I want to work on, even if it's something small like "i like your shirt!"

red tshirt with the adobe premiere pro "media offline" wording on it

black techware pants with the labels "FISH" and "MEDIA" on it along with a celeste jet tag from @thekittenbomb

2) This was the most comments I proly ever got on my outfit?! I was sorta expecting it for the "Media offline" shirt given the GDQ demographic, but was totally not expecting it for the techware pants! Someone on the fashion panel liked them so you already know i'm riding that high for the next 50yrs

a 3d printed articularing fish

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1)This was the 1st event where people I didn't know recognized me and stopped to say hi! Crazy that people know about me now🤯 I know im not the most friendly/talkative but if you were one of the people that said hi, I appreciate you! Special SO to Izzy who gave me a 3d printed 🐟!

glad you like it!

Adef looking distressed while sitting on a couch

I think that just about wraps up the thread for AGDQ26! Leaving you with 4 of my favorites this time around. Until next time 🫡

Also shoutout to all the photographer volunteers! We have a lot of returning volunteers and it's awesome to see them all growing and expanding their skills every event!

Just want to draw special attention to this photo since it sorta shows how much work goes into making every run work and how things are constantly being worked on and fixed, even mid run. Shoutout to all the BTS people 🙏🏻

A few of the hacker photos made it into the album this time around :P (cont.)

Always gotta stop by the arcade! I don't think I took any "regular" photos of DDR/SMX this time, they were all shutter dragged to make the lights look like they were coming out of the panels. Tried doing this on some other games/cabs with.... no so great results lol

A welcome addition to the stream room this event was the RGB lighting around the walls! The definitely helped give runner and couch portrait shots a pop of background color that didn't exist previously.

This lead to a bunch of slightly blurry photos that i should have been able to capture with no issue. I hate that I'm been saying this for the past couple recap threads but cranking the shutter speed when needed isn't much of an issues with advanced in denoising, i guess old habits really die hard.

One pretty big mistake I made this event was forgetting to changing my shutter speed. The rule of thumb is to set your shutter speed to 1/(focal length) to prevent handheld induced blur/shake and due to low light throughout the venue I had both cameras pretty much locked to 1/200

To no one's surprise, lighting was TERRIBLE in the hotel which made white balancing a nightmare, especially in the casual gaming + panel areas. sometimes you're dealing with stage lights (~6000K), hotel lights (~2600K), and daylight (~5400K) all in the same shot, masks are your friend >.>

Having both cameras(a9iii and a7v) hit 15fps and have similar AF performance definitely made my life a lot easier but, as previously mentioned, a lot more photos to cull through when shooting in bursts. eshutter on a7v held up WAY better than expected, you can hardly see any bend in the drumsticks!

This lead to the coloring in some of the photos looking different at the start of the week before I figured out what I was doing and the end of the week after I had ironed out all the kinks
(elite_spud from start of the week, kirbycatcher from the end of the week)