Curse of the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli (+Updates!)

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Thank y'all for the lovely response to the first-ever What's Nicky Learning? post! 💖 I'm pleased lots of you found it valuable, even specifically useful to your jobs.

The full post is Patron-exclusive, but as promised, the Emotion in Learning section is now public, for any of you who want to share it with colleagues/friends!

🍫 Curse of the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli 🍫(9 min read)

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Also as promised, I'm making some Patreon changes based on what you voted in the survey. Here's the new rewards!

Of note:

1) R.I.P. PEEP REWARDS. If you got the Custom-Drawn Peep Reward before I retired it, I sent you an email yesterday asking for a reference photo – 🚨Let me know if you selected the reward but didn't get the email! 🚨

2) ALL patrons get the What's Nicky Learning? + My Sketchbook posts!

3) NEW Wall-Of-Thanks reward! $2/mo now gets you a permanently archived spot right on my site. The in-game-credits reward has now been moved to...

4) THE BIG $5 PACKAGE. $5/mo now gets you a bunch! Like: 24hr Early Access, in-game credits, and the good ol' polygon-avatar rewards. 

5) Some high tiers that don't actually give you anything new. Well, except for the drawing of the duck. It won't even be a good duck.

If you'd like to change your pledge (upwards or downwards), you can do so here! 

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And finally, a new screenshot of Voice Gender Trainer 5000!

You know when I said writing What's Nicky Learning would help me, too? Well, when I revisited the 10 Principles for Reducing Cognitive Load, I realized I could apply them not just to "explainers", but this tool too!

So, previously, I separated the spectrogram & instructions. The tutorial was in a sidebar. Some of the text was even in a sidebar-in-a-sidebar, ack.

The new design has the tutorial on the tool itself:

(not final text or instructions!)

I hope to start testing this with folks next month. If you or someone you know wants to change the perceived gender of their voice – trans/non-binary, but also voice actors – please Patreon Message me!

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But first, I'm taking a break on the voice project, to finish some errands before the new year:

• Moved countries 7mo ago – I still need a new doctor & dentist
• Fix Emoji Simulator's saving feature. (It's been broken for TWO YEARS)
• Change some dialogue in Adventures With Anxiety, and upload it to itchIO
• The FINAL PEEP rewards
• Upload a talk I gave 9 months ago.
• My yearly end-of-year blog posts: habits I made, books I read, etc.

Also, I probably need a mini-vacation at some point.

Anyway, thank y'all again so much, and Happy Whatever-Holiday-You-Happen-To-Celebrate-Or-Not!

🍫🍫🍫,
~ Nicky