Grant Butler @ Super Zeldathon

@grantjbutler.com

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Charity livestream producer. iPhone app maker.

A screenshot of an iPad app that's displaying the map of the first level of the Undermountain from the D&D 5th edition adventure module "Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage".
A battle map for a D&D session. There’s a circular room about 16 squares in diameter (about 80 feet), with a 2 square (10 foot) wide tunnel on the southern end. There are stalagmites around the edges of the cavern, with a 4x4 square (20x20 foot) slightly raised platform in the middle. The remains of a 3D printed breakable egg are on the raised platform, which pieces of it scattered throughout the cavern. An Ankheg stands in the remains of the egg, with the player characters (represented by three wooden meeples, one blue, one black, and one purple) within melee range of the Ankheg. The black meeple representing one of the player characters is laying down, as their character has reached zero hit points and is unconscious.
The completed USS Enterprise LEGO set, sitting on its stand on a wood table.
Half of the LEGO USS Enterprise set. The drive section is sitting on its stand. The instruction buckler for the saucer section is in front of it. The box for the model is behind it, blurred, looking menacing.
A folding table with a bunch of technology to run a segment for Side Quest. It consists of an M4 Mac mini and 27-inch monitor, a Sonnettech PCIe Thunderbolt enclosure, and a Behringer X-AIR XR18 digital mixer. The XLR connectors of an XLR snake are plugged into the digital mixer.
A Sony FX3 (a digital camera) mounted on a motorized slider, which slides the camera back and forth along a track.
A partially built USS Enterprise LEGO set. What has been assembled sits on a table. The instructions are open to the start of steps for bag 5 (out of 30 bags).
A picture of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D LEGO set, along with the Type 15 Shuttlepod Gift with Purchase LEGO set.
The main menu for Minecraft, stylized for the FTB Stoneblock 4 modpack.
A bar chart showing the number of steps taken over the past week. There’s a line that runs horizontally to indicate the threshold for 10,000 steps. From Sunday, October 12th to Wednesday October 15th, when I was at home, the chart shows those days as being well under that 10,000 step threshold, with the highest count being about 4,000 and the lowest count being below 1,000 steps. There’s a sudden jump to over the 10,000 step threshold for the next day, Thursday, October 16th and sustained through Saturday, October 18th, for the time that I’m at TwitchCon. This chart is expected to drop back down to well below the 10,000 step threshold after I return from TwitchCon.
An extract of the campaign description for SHIFT RPG. In the middle of the description is a message of support for the Kickstarter United union and their current strike to get better working conditions in the form of a minimum salary for all workers and a four-day, 32-hour work week.
A stack of physical media consisting of the Star Wars: A New Hope soundtrack on CD, Tom Baker’s third and sixth seasons of Doctor Who on Blu-Ray, the LEGO Ninjago Movie on Blu-Ray, the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies (Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, and At World’s End) on Blu-Ray, and Die Hard on 4K UHD Blu-Ray.
A video showcasing the TTRPG audio app Pocket Bard being controlled with a Steam Deck XL. Music can be started and stopped, and can be switched between Explore and Combat loops, with an option to play the Victory stinger. Ambience and Weather sound effects can be started and stopped. One shot sound effects like explosions, screams, and wolf howls can also be played.
A video showcasing a demo where the TTRPG audio app Pocket Bard can be controlled with an Elgato Stream Deck. The app uses macOS’s Accessibility API to discover the buttons and sliders for controlling music and sound effects, and then mirrors that data over to a Stream Deck for physical control over the audio.
An order confirmation email for TwitchCon San Diego 2025. The main text in the screenshot of the email reads “Hey, legosjedi, you did it! You’re going to TwitchCon San Diego 2025.”
The USS Voyager from the show Star Trek Voyager in plastic building brick toy form from Blue Brixx.
A Blackmagic Design Studio Camera 6K Pro.
Three copies of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with Four Swords for the GameBoy Advance. One of the copies is complete in box.
A copy of “Before the Tavern: 100 Character Concepts for Tabletop Role-Playing Games” by Haley Whipjack, Gus Rachels, and Amelia Som.
The movies The Matrix and Jurassic World on 4K UltraHD Blu-ray.
Two large stacks of DVDs and Blu-rays of various movies and TV shows.
The A/V rack in my bedroom. It consists of, from bottom to top, a power conditioner for power distribution, an X32 Rack digital mixer for audio mixing, a patch panel to pass Ethernet connections from various devices to the network switch above it. That network switch is a UniFi USW Pro Max 16 PoE. Above that is an 8 input, 8 output HDMI matrix from OREI. Finally, above that is a shelf that holds an M1 Mac Mini, a SonnetTech PCIe enclosure with a Blackmagic Design Decklink Quad HDMI Recorder card that’s connected to the Mac mini over Thunderbolt 3, and a first generation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 that’s connected to my gaming PC to get audio in and out of my gaming PC from the X32 Rack digital mixer.
An order confirmation from Sweetwater for a Behringer X32 Rack digital mixer.
The selection of gifts from the second Christmas of the day. From left to right, top to bottom, there is the book Make Your Own Rules, the book The No-Prep Gamemaster, the game Spots, the imported soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and Pikmin 1 and 2 for Nintendo Switch.
3 board games stacked on each other. From top to bottom, Dungeons & Dragons: The Yawning Portal, Betrayal at House on the Hull 3rd Edition, and Catan: Starfarers
A small Millennium Falcon miniature encased in what I believe to be resin. There are some painted pieces of wood that are supposed to be asteroids, as well as some flecks of paint to be stars. This comes with a base that has LEDs in it, plus a remote control, to light up the little diorama.
Two Star Wars shirts, and a pair of Star Trek pajama pants. The first Star Wars shirt has a four panel cartoon picturing Luke Skywalker agains various “enemies”, including the Ewoks, the Wampa, and his Dagobah Dark Side cave self. The second Star Wars shirt features the Star Wars logo and the Millennium Falcon. The Star Trek pajama pants feature version of the Starfleet delta from the Original Series that includes the department logos.
The Kepler Kit, a DIY electronics kit for the Raspberry Pi Pico W.
A row of books above a row for Blu-Rays. From left to right, the books are Stories of Your Life and Others, How Not to Get Eaten by Owlbears, and Game Programming Patterns. The Blu-rays are Arrival, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Arrival, 2001, and Wrath of Khan are all 4K Blu-rays, and Wrath of Khan has both the theatrical and director’s cuts. The film Arrival is based of Stories of Your Life.
The character Discord from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, voiced by John de Lancie.
A massive pile of sealed boxes for various plastic brick models. From top to bottom, there’s a Type 6 Shuttlecraft Blue Brixx set, the Delta Flyer Blue Brixx set, the USS Defiant Blue Brixx set, the USS Voyager Blue Brixx set, a Danube Class Runabout Shuttle Blue Brixx set, the Dungeons & Dragons LEGO set, the ATARI LEGO set, the Loop Coaster LEGO set, and the UCS AT-AT LEGO set.
A Blue Brixx (a German plastic brick toy company) box for a USS Voyager model, as seen in Star Trek: Voyager.
A Blue Brixx (a German plastic brick toy company) box for a Type 6 Shuttlecraft model, as seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
A screenshot of Ivory (a Mastodon client) next to the official Bluesky client, both running on macOS. The Ivory window is about twice as wide and twice as tall as the Bluesky window.
The Bluesky iOS app running on a Mac. The window is small because it’s running at iPhone screen size resolution and it can’t be resized to be larger than that.
The back of a van with the whole back row and one of the middle row seats folded down to make space for the various things for Zeldathon, including a whole gaming PC, a cooler, several folding tables, plenty of luggage, and boxes with other A/V gear.
The Field Museum Brachiosaurus Dinosaur at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. It’s just a dinosaur skeleton, just vibing in the middle of the airport.
A File Explorer window from Windows. The window is blank, the progress bar at the top is mostly full, though this was after several seconds of waiting, and the sidebar only displays the item “Quick access”.
The Windows installation screen. It shows a loading indicator with the text “Installing Windows, 89%. Don’t turn off your PC. This will take a while. Your PC will restart several times.”
A Minecraft warden named “Pain” from level 3 of Decked Out 2. He is somehow in the hole that leads to level 4. He’s not supposed to be in the hole that leads to level 4.
The Wii safety screen that reminds you to use the wrist strap and to make sure there's adequate room around you, except the Wiimote controllers have been replaced with crowbars. There's a fake "getty images" watermark overlaid on top.
The "Look at me, I'm the captain now" meme, but the text is "Look at me, I'm the dungeon master now" with an image of PearlescentMoon's skin overlaid on top (this is a Decked Out 2 meme).
My Twitch Viewer Recap for 2023. I watched 1,042 hours, visited on 320 distinct days, and sent 3.4 thousand chats. My top channels were HazelTheJoy with 170 hours watched and 442 chats sent, followed by SergeYager, DeadPine, Zeldathon, and TangoTek. My top watched categories were Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and The Sims 4 somehow??? I was in the top 10% of viewers for those categories. My favorite emotes were zeldaEyes, zeldaParty, and legosjEdiPog. My bonus achievements were Top Twitcher, Category Champion, and Gift Giver.
The board game “Clank: A Deck-building Adventure”
The file save menu of the Bionicle game for the Nintendo GameCube.