well hey everybody my name is mal and i'm here to show you today my favorite things for 2021 so
let's let's get at it so the first thing i want to share with y'all is a pair of synthesizers by korg
i really particularly like them they're called essentially the volca series
and what makes them awesome is the fact that they are just an all-in-one synthesizer
you don't need something like a daw a digital audio workstation on your
laptop you can essentially just make music like off the bat and just kind of have fun
with them and so the ones that i have available available to show you guys is
the vulcan mix which is a mixer that you can essentially attach all these other synthesizers to
this is the volca base which can make some pretty fun bass lines uh this is the volca drums which
you can make beats with and then also modulate and kind of warp the sounds to make them
kind of wacky and wild and then there's also the vulka keys
which is like a really fun little standard but also not standard
key synthesizer and so the motivation behind having one of these is the fact that i just really
wanted to make music music in on mobile and um i just would look into a lot of these sort of like
i would go into logic which is like a particular type of daw and i would have a hard time feeling
creative because there's just like so many noises so many patches you can make so many samples
so many things you know but this it's like you can just sort of pick up one unit if you want it to
make a b comprise it create a whole sequence these are all have 16 sequencers so you can
actually program the beat if you wanted to and then just sort of have it play if you wanted to
sync them you can essentially patch them all together and then create like a little fun
sort of sequence you can control the tempos make it faster if you wanted to
make it slower it's kind of fun and there's a lot a lot of modulation you can do with them
yeah it's hard to talk about all each one has so much to it that it's quite hard to like go into
the nitty-gritties but at the very least i hope to show a sequence of what you can possibly do with
them again they're just like a boatload of fun i love having this like taking this on a trip taking
it out putting on headphones and i literally just have a whole a whole music jam sesh to myself
all right second thing i want to share with y'all is this really awesome camera it's kind
of an older camera but i do fancy it quite a bit this is the black magic cinema camera 2.5 k
they have all these fancy models now they have the 4k they have the 6k they have all kinds of k's but
this is like one of the og um cinema cameras that blackmagic had first released and so i have a lot
of sentimental value for for this particular camera i actually got it um on craigslist
this guy essentially was like i have this old camera i'm not really using it i super glued the
the uh the lens cap holder onto it it's completely broken it's only like 200 bucks like do you want
it and i was like yes and so it was like this huge journey with like bribing one of um my friends to
essentially take us all the way out to like the like a boonier part of the east bay to pick this
up and get in and out burgers that's fantastic um i got it to actually i repaired the lcd screen i
repaired basically all the things it looked like it took a huge tumble and so now it has become the
camera that i like to shoot with um what they're known for is honestly the cinematic touch that
they have they have a very wide range in terms of like dynamic color and so a lot of folks like it
because it gives that sort of movie look to them and from my exposure to this and like some of the
higher end cameras i will say that it is has a very big soft spot for me for that reason alone
and it's yeah it's pretty cool i wouldn't call it the most like portable but it is uh yeah if
you're willing to have it to sit down and play around with it it's a good time quite enjoy it
all right then going on to the next thing i just wanted to promote this really awesome game called
world of horror uh this essentially was made by individual independent developer named patenzat
and it's been in like the sort of like early release limbo for a bit but he recently just
tweeted about having a major update with some really cool stuff so i figured why the hell not
i'm kind of obsessed with this game um why not promote it so this is a really fun almost like
roguelike but then also i don't know how to call it yeah it's like solving mysteries and
puzzles in this almost like really retro aesthetic it's a one-bit style but you can also do two-bit
which is what i have currently in and basically the gist of it is like if you like janji ito
like mangas and you like and you like love you know love crafty and horror this is like
a really great game for that reason alone so you're essentially just traveling in
solving mysteries to then prevent the impending doom of an old god and so you go through
these different morbid mystery events which in total is about five right now currently
and you essentially just traverse around hoping to not horribly die in the event or go crazy or
or just like you know i guess live a life and lovecraft life which is in
sheer terror and nightmarish land so you go in and you're like all right i'm gonna
just investigate things and you have like these events that occur and you have choices sometimes
you also get into combat but not necessarily you don't necessarily want to treat it like
an actual adventure game where you think you can kill everything you really can't it's
it's a doom and gloom kind of world and based on how good your dice rolls are you either
come closer and to closer to solving the mysteries and then also preventing the doom
clock that is impedingly trajectory down into your hometown or you go crazy or you horribly die or
that kind of fun stuff so it's quite great i like it it's it's a bit of a grinder oh
looks like i failed and i lost some some yeah okay yeah
but yeah i wanted to promote it i also made a really quick model um in blender to
basically showcase like one of the cool like prop pieces you can have this is a cult mask that they
have there's like cult worshipers inside this game there's a lot of really fun uh just like if you
are again if you're really into janjito and you've really like looked at a lot of his monsters and
stuff there's a lot of like homages to it there's also some really just fun like lovecraftian lore
in there too overall i think it's like quite a fantastic game um yeah highly recommend it
the last thing i want to showcase is what i'm wearing so this this carried me through covit
for the most part this is a flight suit called the cwu-1p it's from designed by the for the u.s air
force and essentially it's from like around the 60s or so 60ish going towards 70s i guess often
you'll find it on ebay where it's like vietnam war era esque flight suit orange you'll find it it's
fantastic this is the winter edition which means it has actually like wool and a bit of nylon in
it so it was fairly warm it's fairly warm what i like the most about it is frankly i mean besides i
guess it's looking really cool is like the pockets there's so many pockets in this thing um i don't
know if i can really showcase this but i'm going to try anyway what's kind of cool is this i think
originally was for knives to cut when you are like flying your plane you crash and you come
out and the parachute's fallen you want to break yourself free they usually have this like tied
in but some people also calling like lovingly call it um like the beef turkey compartment because you
can also fit beef jerky in here if you wanted to it's kind of fun um yeah i got this in covet
because i got bored i was tired of being indoors in a cave and i thought you know what would spark
up my life is being born in a cave in a jumpsuit every day and it actually did help a bit so it's
magical it's wonderful it's also waterproof it also has a hood here well i guess waterproof is
a strong statement it's water resistant but it does have a really nice rain hood so i actually
do take this out during incredible rainy days on my bike just to try to pull it through
keeps me nice and snug warm
all right i think that's it thank you so much for letting me share a bunch of
my weird stuff again i hope you guys have a great holiday and i hope to see you all soon