Editing The Pen Addict 581/transcript (section)

== Video games discussion (Starfield and Baldur's Gate) ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I haven't bought, I would have bought Starfield. I also have no time to play video games. Yeah. Also have no time. Exactly. I would have bought Starfield. I've had a system capable of running it. So my PC can't handle it. And I don't own an Xbox. So I'm out on that for the time being. Baldur's Gate 3. I don't know if I can handle the turn-based gaming. I've never done that before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If your system can't handle Starfield, your system can't handle Baldur's Gate.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, Baldur's Gate, I can get on the PlayStation.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway. Hi, this is, oh man, I forgot the name of your video game podcast. Remaster. Hi, this is Remaster. What else? What are you writing with?

'''Myke Hurley:''' In honor of one of our sponsors of this week's episode, I'm using the Enigma special edition pen from Enigma Stationery. It's like the blue and like the blue swirly one with the Heinz blue nib. It's a really cool pairing. So I'm using that today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You set me up here because I didn't know what you were going to put in here. I didn't know Enigma was sponsoring. And that pen is a candidate for my pen of the year. It's one of my favorite pens I've acquired this year. I don't do like an official pen of the year. But a few years ago, I know, a few years ago, I bought a pen, the Edison Newark Orion Nebula from Gold Spot. And I enjoyed it so much and liked it so much, I named it my pen of the year. And I didn't continue that contest on. But this Enigma is one that I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy. It's really at the top of my personal list. And that is not an ad, even though they are sponsoring us later.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, we'll get to that later on. But that's not the product we're talking about in the ad today. Yep, yep. But I will send it for free. Yes. I will just state that. You know, you've got to get your, what is it, like your disclosures. Disclosures, yeah. You really, really should do pen of the year. That should be something that you can bring back. I think that is such a good idea. And you could even do it in categories. Like you could do job pen of the year, fountain pen of the year. I really think that that is a good idea. You should put that on your content calendar.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I should do it because I need to start in January and keep some official tracking. So that's only a few months away. So I could definitely work on that for like 2024. I really think that is a good idea for you, yeah. Yeah, I should. I like that kind of stuff. It's always fun to do. And it's like super personal type of thing, right? Like I don't do like very general things, you know, like what would be, what was like the popular, like the most popular selling pen this year. Like that doesn't interest me. I want to know what I got. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to know what I had the most enjoyment with this year. So I have.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, a way that you could do that is like you could like to help you, you could apply the PAR to things like the Panatic Rain system. Right. And that could be a way for you to keep track of that throughout the year.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' True. I could just do it kind of separately. Even if you just kept it to yourself. Right, right, right. Just because I would have to keep a current release kind of calendar-ish type of thing. So as I acquire things. So like what I currently have, the Panatic rating is a backwards looking system. And I could morph it into a forward looking type of system for like a pen of the year type of thing. Yep. Good stuff. I like this. I like this. We should have more content discussions. Anytime. And hold me. Like last week, I said, I'm going to do a video of my desk. And like this week, I'm committing to doing pen of the year for 2024. So this podcast isn't really going well for me, Myke. It's what I'm saying.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm still content, baby. Content is king, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Content is king. All right. So I'm using a couple of new pens I inked up in the last two weeks or so that I'm really, really enjoying. They have been long-time top-tier pens in my collection of fountain pens, number one. And I've talked about it a million times on the show, the Kasama Una in Ultem. It's just the coolest pen. And I wanted to ink it up to bring to the Orlando Pen Show because I like to show off some of these weird pens that not everyone has access to. And that's always a great one to bring for other people to see because I've talked about it so much. And you can see them on Instagram. And they're so unique looking. So I have that in use. And every time I ink it up, I'm like, yeah, this is the ticket right here. So it has a fine steel nib with a nib grinder blade nib grind. That's Mark Bacchus' kind of Naganata togi shape. And it's a very kind of a sharp edge blade-looking tip, as the name indicates, which I enjoy writing with because it's still fine. And I ink that up with Akramon number 28, one of the greatest inks of all time. Not just great green ink, but one of the great inks of all time. So that's right up there with Pilot Orochizuku Shinkai. That's probably my two most inked inks is Shinkai and Akramon number 28. So I'm getting down to like the bottom quarter of each of those bottles. Oh, and Robert Oster Fire on Fire. I don't want to give that a shout out as well. Those are all like quarter bottles left in all those. So we'll have to rethink what we're doing here. Next up, I had San Francisco pen show FOMO from all of the Aboya pictures that I was seeing. And I bought an Aboya at, I think it was the show before you came in a previous year. I bought it. The model is called the Hauga. It's just basically a long cigar-shaped pen. But it's in a green and black swirled ebonite. It has the only Bach gold nib that I own. And it has a fine cursive italic grind on it done by Myke Masayama. It is one of my favorite nibs. It is so firm, which you don't normally expect from a gold nib. But I think it's just a 14k nib. But it is a firm, crispy italic that works really well with this pen. And I have it inked up with Papier Plume Rebirth, which is a new ink Papier Plume just launched at the DC Pen Show. So this is a very pen show filled pen here. So it's a pen show pen and a pen show ink. So there was a pen show grind from Myke Masayama as well. So and then the notebook I'm using, I am going to talk about this more in coming weeks. So maybe like by the time, you know, October rolls around, we'll have a notebook discussion. I'm currently using the Life Noble book, A5. It's kind of my everything notebook. I really, really enjoy it. And I'm not quite using it enough. So I've made the point to pull it forward, if you will, to where it's the accessible, always to be used notebook for everything that I want to do. So like I'm still like, that's just like my journal, my notes, my sketches. You know, like I'm still using my plotter. Like I didn't put down like the things I use on the daily, like the plotter and the Hobonichi 5 year, like all that stuff's still good to go. But these are the new things. And then trying to get this notebook more dedicated to the rotation because it's a really good product and something I love very much. So that's, those are the ones that are getting me right now. I have a third pen that I'm actively using, but we might save that for the Orlando Pen Show recap.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm excited.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think you're going to like this pen. I think you're going to like it. I'm scared. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Should we take our first break? Let's do it. This episode is brought to you by Enigma Stationery. Like the whole proceeding beginning of this episode. Yeah. Enigma Stationery, they offer unique items made from in-house designs, along with top brands and hard to find imports. They also have a new exclusive Vinta ink, which is available while supplies last. It's called, oh boy, Pala, yeah, I'm going in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm going in. Hang on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm pulling it up here. Palazapan. Palazapan, which is Filipino for Enigma and is a beautiful turquoise ink with blue shimmer. You can get your 30 milliliter bottle for $20. This is a good blue, Brad. I don't know if you've seen it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It looks like their logo color.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. This is a very good blue. How would you say this word?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think you did a good job. I'm not even going to try.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Palazapan?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Palazapan. Yeah, we're all on board with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Palazapan. So what do you think of Vinta inks, Brad? I love Vinta inks. I am, they, one of their original inks is called Armada, and it is still something I use on the regular. Vinta has really good quality, really exceptional, like, color characteristics, right? Like, it's not, Vinta inks, every Vinta ink I've used is not just, like, a flat color. Like, you see, okay, you know, if this is a turquoise color, there's lots of different shades of turquoise. It's not, like, a singular flat shade, and you can kind of see this in the sample images that they have over on Enigma. So all the Vinta inks I've ever experienced have this same type of characteristics. They're one of my favorite ink makers going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Palazapan.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Did you pull up the pronunciation guide?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I did. I did. I think I did an okay job. I just stumbled on it at first. You know, it's hard. Words are hard. You know what I'm saying? Words are hard. I love the packaging and the, like, the stickers that go on the bottles and stuff that show the ink and the information. Like, that just looks very high quality. I like the look of that a lot.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They've done this from the jump, and it's always been one of my favorite things. Just, like, aesthetics do matter, right? Like, you're not, you know, the bottle and the box, like, that doesn't really affect the end product, but it makes you feel good about the product that you're getting. And this is, that's something Vinta does very well.

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