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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 22h

Stream Schedule: 5th to 11th October 2026: Month end was done over the weekend so that means we're back to normal schedule! This week will be more art-oriented as I'm doing a new Outfit and stuff for my character for Halloween. Hope to see you at twitch.tv/nostalgianinja!

Schedule - 5 - 11 October 2026

Monday: Schedule Day
Tuesday: Art Stream - New Outfit!?!? (17:00 GMT+2)
Wednesday: Offline/Longform Content day
Thursday: Art Stream - Vtuber stuff :) (17:00 GMT+2)
Friday: The Witcher Blind Playthrough (22:00 GMT+2)
Saturday: Art Stream - Vtuber stuff :) (22:00 GMT+2)
Sunday: Rest Day.

See you there!

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 23h

While sorting out my schedule render for today I did an experiment to see if the Photo Album I make for the schedule is the right size. I'm going to need to redo the album, but that's a later me problem. Right now, I'm happy with what I have so far.

the blue selected outline is the size of the page I want, compared to the pages of the photo album I created in Blender last year. All of this in solid shading mode before rendering.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 04/10/2026

I got my scene set up in Warudo and I'm pretty happy with it. It needs some tweaking but other than that it's looking pretty good. I'll be adding props to the shelves as I complete projects.

The room scene I was creating in Blender for Warudo

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 04/10/2026

Time to get modding on Warudo.

Finally all set up with my Unity again. (I'm not looking forward to dealing with the project management system again)

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 04/10/2026

Looks like It'll be a hot minute before my Unity is updated with the new Modding Project.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 01/10/2026

I had to get the APK off some dodgy site to play it because it didn't even soft-release in my location. Played it in an emulator it it plays exactly as you think it does.

Cranky Food Friends screenshot with a boss battle against a mint creame enemy saying the following:

Hi, dude. I'm Doug! Don't listen to him; I'm Doug! NO! ONLY THE DARKNESS IS DOUG!!!

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 29/09/2026

Stream end! We finished the environment outside by making a dirt path towards the houses and library and using Scatter on Surface for trees! Pretty happy with the result~! Did not raid out to anyone today as I didn't really have anyone to raid out to. See you on Saturday after month end has ended!

External scene of two islands: a village island and an observatory looking towards the stars!

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 28/09/2026

Stream Schedule: 28th September to 4th October 2026 It's Month End week so I've got some work I have to deal with, so limited streams for the week. Going to be art week this week so just a heads up that there'll be no gaming streams. Hope to see you at twitch.tv/nostalgianinja!

Monday: Schedule Day
Tuesday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene (17:00 UTC+2)
Wednesday: Offline/Longform Content day
Thursday: Month End work - Offline
Friday: Month End work - Offline
Saturday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene (22:00 UTC+2)
Sunday: Rest Day.

See you there!

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 27/09/2026

Dunno why they want to solve this. It can be solved with a weighted A* Algorithm (Closed list)

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 27/09/2026

What I've been working on for the past couple of months. Slowly been chipping away on it for two hours at a time on streams #blender3d

Inside scene, showing an angle from inside the Observatory, which is a photo studio, and a small office area with a bulletin board, some shelves and a table. Next to the chair, a book is on the side. There is also a window that shows the outside area of the Observatory.

Outside Scene, showing the small village island and the observatory.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 26/09/2026

After a little bit of tweaking, I got the model below vert budget. Joined the hair and then played around a little bit and got a decent result, too!

The Low-Poly Witch model, now underneath vertex budget (512 vertexes)

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 26/09/2026

Made a low-poly Witch in under an hour for a doodle. Went a *little* over vert budget (512) but still, pretty good for a doodle. #puyopuyo #blender3d

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 25/09/2026

Played UQM again, And I'm surprised the Children of Infinity demo I played feels so nice compared to this. Guess having new tech really DOES help! Won this fight, but feeling that itch to play around some more with the newer ships.

Ur-Quan Masters Melee mode against a standard Cyborg opponent.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 24/09/2026

Making progress. Time to deal with the Graph Editor and see what can be done about certain frames. The basic outline is done and I'm actually happy about it! For my first Character animation I'm learning a lot about keyframing and it's a lot to take in. #blender3d

A Blender Window with a blockout camera view, colored perspective view, Graph editor and Outliner. My character is currently focused with pose mode in the 3D viewports.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 24/09/2026

Looking at the difference from my theme (left) and Kame404's Midnight theme (right), It's pretty insane how much I've changed my theme to be my own. I think I understand the Blender theming system well enough now.

NN Blue - My own theme I created for Blender

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 23/09/2026

Well, good to know my account is safe from Discord's bullshit.

Age Group text on Discord saying I'm an adult.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 23/09/2026

Getting keyframing down on an animation and soon... soon I'll deal with the graph editor. Feeling pretty intimidated with my animation project starting to take shape and form. Will be interesting to see how this plays out when I finish it.

Dope Sheet in Blender, moving things from frame 0 to frame 150.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 22/09/2026

Stream is cancelled on the account that video bitrate is far too low to do anything at the moment. We'll see if the situation improves but right now I can't guarantee anything.

11 bits of video bitrate in the Auto Configuration wizard. It's unsuitable for streaming.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 21/09/2026

Schedule for this week (21-27 September 2026)! This week we're changing it up a little. Afternoon gaming scene will be trying out the Combat Demo for Free Stars: Children of Infinity, and times are set back an hour to 5PM my time. Hope to see you at twitch.tv/nostalgianinja

Schedule: 21-27 September 2026

Monday: Schedule Day
Tuesday: Free Stars: Children of Infinity Demo (17:00 UTC+2)
Wednesday: Offline/Longoform Content day
Thursday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene (17:00 UTC+2)
Friday: The Witcher Blind Playthrough (22:00 UTC+2)
Saturday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene (22:00 UTC+2)
Sunday: Rest Day.

See you there!

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 14/09/2026

Quick doodle from memory to see if I can make a head still. I think I need to brush up on my anatomy. #blender3d

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 14/09/2026

Schedule for this week: More or less the same as last week's schedule, but I've given the exact times I'm going to attempt to stream. There may be a dinner break in between, we'll see. Be sure to follow me at twitch.tv/nostalgianinja to see when exactly I go live!

A render of a photo album laid open in the middle of a table, with two Polaroid cameras around it. The photo album explains a schedule for Nostalgia Ninja's streaming times. Text is as follows:

Schedule: 14-20 September 2026

Monday: Schedule Day.
Tuesday: The Witcher Blind Playthrough - 18:00 GMT+2
Wednesday: Offline / Longform Content Day
Thursday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene - 18:00 GMT+2
Friday: The Witcher Blind Playthrough - 22:00 GMT+2
Saturday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene - 22:00 GMT+2
Sunday: Rest Day

See you there!

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 08/09/2026

Not really feeling in the mood for much, so I ended up just playing with scatter on surfaces a little bit. There's some neat things you can do to make trees this way I feel. Might also want to play with particle settings and Geometry Nodes. Dunno yet, though.

Leaves in a scatter on surface with a hidden sphere cube.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 08/09/2026

My head today feels like frame 55 where everything is a mess. (yes, this is normalized, but I'll be fixing this when making the animation 5 seconds long.)

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 08/09/2026

In the middle of animating and one of the frames is this. It's pretty neat that I'm working with interpolation and stuff. That being said, a lot of tweaking is being done. and my rig needs to be a little bit more alive. #blender3d

Nostalgia Ninja holding his Polaroid 635

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 07/09/2026

Uh. Nvidia are you okay bud? I know you JUST updated, but c'mon. You can't be THIS unstable on Windows can you?

There was a problem with NVIDIA App

Try restarting your PC, reinstalling the driver, or relaunching the NVIDIA app. If that doesn't help, please report the issue.

And yet, in the background it said that the installation has finished.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 06/09/2026

Streaming Schedule for this week! I'm bringing back the schedule render and refining it some more. This week will be a trial run of if I'm able to stream in the afternoons. If all goes well, next week we'll continue the same way. Join me at twitch.tv/nostalgianinja on these days!

A render of a photo album laid open in the middle, with two Polaroid cameras around it. The photo album explains a schedule for Nostalgia Ninja's streaming times. Text is as follows:

Schedule: 7-13 September 2026

Monday: Schedule Day - Schedules to be posted here
Tuesday: The Witcher Blind Playthrough (Afternoon)
Wednesday: Offline / Longform Content Day
Thursday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene (Afternoon)
Friday: The Witcher Blind Playthrough (Evening)
Saturday: Art Stream - Warudo Scene (Evening)
Sunday: Rest Day

See you there!

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 05/09/2026

I can't believe that this photo is 5 years old. How time has flown... I still am an avid Puyo Puyo Witch fan, and while I don't play as much of the game as I used to, she brings me joy every day of my life. Puyo literally changed my life and I'm thankful for being a part of the community

Me holding a Puyoman Honpo Witch Plushie. Photo taken September 11, 2021.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 05/09/2026

Putting in some work for tonight on an intro video and blocking out animation, I also found out about about motion paths. Needs some work on the fine motor skills. #blender3d

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 30/08/2026

Quick doodle during quiet hours of work. A flask! Surprisingly the node tree was SUPER simple to get right! #blender3d

$The node tree consists of a Fresnel pointing into a Principled BSDF with a Influence of Refraction of 0.920.$

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 29/08/2026

OH HELL YEAH! This means I'll be supporting GOG more the moment they get their Linux launcher and support up. Thanks, @gog.com!

A banner on top of gog.com saying "Hello South Africa! GOG now supports Rand! with a link to change the used currency to ZAR.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 29/08/2026

It seems like 128gb might not be enough for me anymore to run Linux wuth how Steam installs compatibility tools in my /home directory instead of my /mnt/steam directory. That being said, storage prices are rather high right now and I may be due for upgrade soon...

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 26/08/2026

Hiya, I'm Nostalgia Ninja! I'm a 3D artist making low-poly stylized models in Blender. I work during the week and stream games and art over the weekend. I play many games, but Puyo Puyo Chronicle is my favorite! Twitch: twitch.tv/nostalgianinja Web: nostalgianinja.com

Nostalgia Ninja smiling in front of a starry backdrop, taking a photo using a Polaroid camera

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 26/08/2026

I may be a smaller streamer, but I care a ton about artists and I dislike the unsolicited scraping of art. (Using Zen Browser by the way. The addon recently got added.)

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 15/08/2026

Stream end! We ended up planning the island and getting an idea of what we want to do next. Didn't raid out to anyone, but making slow but sure progress on the scene!

A doodled outline of what the island is going to look like going forward with a park and house denotations.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 13/08/2026

I've created a panel on my Twitch channel from the image and gave a small description for it. Thanks so much for doing this (I also gave you credit and linked to your Twitch.)

Twitch has requested the use of Generative AI from its users, and NOW is the time to tell them NO! Go to your Settings -> Security and Privacy -> Training for Generative AI and turn it OFF!

This channel does not condone the use of Generative AI and requests that content is not trained.

Image created by: HiyaPixel

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 12/08/2026

Accidentally found my art style the other night with lighting and I really like this. Lighting was the final factor to getting my character looking the way I want. I wonder how it'll affect my Blender to Warudo workflow.

Warudo scene room with adjusted lighting to match my model style.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 11/08/2026

Whew, lots of work to do. I found github.com/Menithal/Mal... to get my blendshapes into VRM. Let's see if it responds appropriately.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 10/08/2026

Made small tweaks to the eye sockets. Soon I'll start making the blendshape proxies I need for ARKit. Not entirely happy, but it'll do the job.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 09/08/2026

It was a nice and productive stream! I added some more details onto the boat model today! #blender3d Didn't raid out to anyone today. I'll need to consider what's next for my models. It was interesting using the pomodoro timer to work in short bursts though. Kept things going and kept me focused.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 08/08/2026

A little frustrated that I'm still dealing with Flatpak, but whatever. I'm still sorting it out. OBS is software rendering at the moment so I'm fixing that. Once Warudo is able to accept Spout2PW output again, I'll be able to stream again.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 06/08/2026

New Profile pic up since I really wanted to use the VDB clouds as a backdrop. Photo edited and composited as a Polaroid in Blender. Felt the need to change it up since the noise clouds just didn't feel right.

Polaroid photo of Nostalgia Ninja, rendered in Blender

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 06/08/2026

After futsing with my pen sensitivity, I've found these settings to work pretty well on the KDE Wacom tools. Pretty neat! I like libwacom for what it is. This will work until I'm able to afford a replacement. I do have a question to ask the HID team at @kde.org though: Where's profiles here?

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 29/07/2026

For some reason Online Essentials is broken for me in Blender 5.2. I've had to disable the checkbox in Preferences -> Asset Libraries.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 28/07/2026

That would be so, because of sin() correct? since sin() takes values from -1 to 1 as far as my understanding of the texture coordinate space comes into play. I followed your instruction and quite frankly I'm surprised that Blender's capable of this. I need to dig deeper :O

As instructed, plugged in #frame/200 for location x and #tau for wave texture scale.

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 28/07/2026

For those curious, this is how I set up the driver.

Texture coordinate -> Mapping -> Wave texture -> Principled BSDF -> Material output.

Scrolling on X axis by sin(frame/200).

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Nostalgia Ninja @nostalgianinja.com · 28/07/2026

played with drivers again. =sin(frame/200) on x axis gave me this. Might be pretty fun to play with the scale. #blender My understanding of drivers is improving.

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