Donate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac shares that she is traveling to Seattle to see her partner and reconnect with the city in the next few days. She is filled with jitters but knows it will go well. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica . If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donation...
Nov 04, 2021•11 min•Season 15Ep. 50
Patreon Donate Simply Magpie Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac talks about flying The DA62 vs The SR22 and how their sim spending and time has changed since finding a partner. She also mentions her excitement about the initial devlogs coming from Laminar Research regarding X-Plane 12. Finely Nicnac admits that she will likely be a near-exclusive X-Plane user in the future. Credits Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England , and ...
Nov 03, 2021•18 min•Season 7Ep. 31
Donate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac tries to get her head out of the happy clouds long enough to think in the face of the challenges posed by all the things that have happened in her life as of late. Although they feel lucky, they know that they and other divergent people like themselves face a severe uphill battle, particularly in these times. She is continuing her climb up the mountain and hopes you are as well Credits The music is Ra...
Oct 31, 2021•27 min•Season 15Ep. 49
Donate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac talks with her friend Moss Wildwing about a unique Coming Out Day Experience they both had that inspired each other. They go on to talk about being queer, trans, and otherwise divergent in both Chico and San Francisco. They also discuss mental health and psychology. They come to no definite conclusions but they both express much hope and look forward to future conversations and a more positive world h...
Oct 29, 2021•35 min•Season 15Ep. 49
Donate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac talks with her partner about how they found each other, their shared dreams, and the unique experience of Actually Autistic Love. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica . If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRide...
Oct 27, 2021•19 min•Season 15Ep. 47
Donate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac tells of a new partnership and love that has her crazy twitterpated and happy. She asks listeners to help her get some writing projects finished and work towards seeing her new partner in Seattle. A place she has been homesick for for 10 years anyway. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica . If ...
Oct 25, 2021•11 min•Season 15Ep. 46
Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac notes the personal progress she is making in the midst of the challenge of her transition and her environment. She reflects on the intersection between the leftist community and the LGBTQI+ and neurodivergent communities. An intersection that she views as purely anecdotal but worth noting nonetheless. She is so thankful for her comrades and new connection the world over and asks for your support in keeping this labor of love going . Cre...
Oct 21, 2021•17 min•Season 15Ep. 45
Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac finds herself half hearing Anne Murray’s version of “You Won’t See Me”. This ties into her ongoing transition and recent coming-out day events in Nicnac’s mind. She does her best to info dump and tell her story in an entertaining way. With hopes that she may be able to do another conversation episode around this sort of topic with a friend soon. Credits The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunn...
Oct 16, 2021•32 min•Season 15Ep. 44
Donate Contact Simply Magpie Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac starts branching out to other simulation games to try and demonstrate some good design principles within the storied genre. Nicnac references everything from Oregon Trail to MSFS 2020 to try and get at what makes a simulation game works and what will make it nose dive. Credits Support for FSrideAlong comes from Simply Magpie Virtual Airline and Flying Club based in Newcastle, England , and by the generous contributions of listeners ...
Oct 15, 2021•20 min•Season 7Ep. 30
In this episode, Nicnac talks about where she is in divergent life, transitioning and thinking back to a person they once knew in passing who was so cool. She feels the sting of the missed connection even years later and tries to find the good in the missed connection and living the day-to-day challenges of being divergent. Nicnac advises you to skip if you aren’t ready to bawl your eyes out with love. She thanks you for sticking with her! Credits The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberr...
Oct 14, 2021•24 min•Season 15Ep. 42
In this episode, Nicnac finely completes their cerebral transition. She is psychologically a woman!!!! Still Nicnac but please she/her. The road ahead in autism and gender will be difficult. She needs love. Please; soft gentle empathetic love and support. Take your western medicine elsewhere. She has no interest! She wishes she could tell you this in person. She can't. She has been told off far too many times. She is a scared little girl. See that!
Oct 11, 2021•28 min•Season 15Ep. 41
*Reminder of Trauma* In this episode Nicnac talks about Dungeon and Dragons and their content creation philosophy. They also talk about #StopTheShock
Oct 10, 2021•11 min•Season 15Ep. 40
*Trauma Warning* In this episode, Nicnac attempts to create podcast art while dealing with a brain and back on fire as best they can. Hopefully, next episode will be more normal. But, if you want a window into Nicnac's brain this isn't bad!
Oct 10, 2021•5 min•Season 15Ep. 39
Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and divergent life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac returns to unscripted formate to talk more about their fantasy of love, their admiration, and envy of Robert Evans and their not-so-pleasant f...
Oct 07, 2021•37 min•Season 15Ep. 38
Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac does their best to process their birthday and more connection issues with other humans without excessive bitterness. They hope they’ve succeede...
Oct 04, 2021•12 min•Season 15Ep. 37
Download Donate Contact Simply Magpie Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reviews their virtual experience of FSExpo via time-shifting. They were very grateful to have online access to the talks and are chewing on both The Laminar Research Team and The Lockheed Martin Prepare 3D Team. Their only minor criticism of the talks involves not having a good idea of where things stand with MSFS due to the conference’s lens of serious simming and the lack of MS/Asobo talks. Not a thing that’s entirely und...
Sep 29, 2021•22 min•Season 7Ep. 29
Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac drops as much of the mask as they can muster and just tries to deal with it in hopes of coming out the other side. Credits The music is Raindro...
Sep 24, 2021•20 min•Season 15Ep. 36
Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes: In this episode, Nicnac’s creativity and life train is jarringly derailed by their very frustrated body’s instance on closeness despite Nicnac’s mind objecting to the cries. This forces Nicnac to explore a different kind of date seeking despite their extremely rational objections and ongoing gender changes. Nicnac hopes this episode can serve as an admittedly dramatized look into their mind and their loathing of the gender they were assigned at birth. They ho...
Sep 23, 2021•16 min
Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In the episode, Nicnac reflects on their second conversation with Antony and tries to signal where they want to go next. This leads Nicnac back to their creative process and the problem of not being commercial while having walked backward into broadcasting. They tie it all to John’s simple statement of fact that genius is pain while noting it has to be packaged in just the right way. Nicnac hopes they package it in the right way just often enough. Credits The ...
Sep 22, 2021•19 min•Season 15Ep. 34
In this episode, Nicnac has the privilege of being rejoined by Antony to wax about the challenges of being creatively divergent in a world nobody told us about. They muse about the last 20 years, the future and the further-flung past in a worthy follow-up to “ Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed” . Please check out Antony’s wonderful music and podcasts including Glass Onion: on John Lennon , Film Gold and Life and Life Only Credits The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, Mr. Rainbow-No Lo...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reflects on the horrors of 9/11 even from 2,800 miles and 20 years away and tells what they remember of that morning 20 years ago from the pers...
Sep 16, 2021•46 min•Season 15Ep. 32
Full Show Notes at FSRideAlong.com In this episode, Nicnac reviews the completion of the 11th and final leg of The Simply Magpie Extreme Tour from Chico, CA US to Newcastle, England, UK in The TorqueSim version of The normally aspirated Cirrus SR22. They also talk about X-Plane, The Flight Factor 767 and A350 as well as The Zibo 737 mod. They celebrate the 100 episode landmark and are looking forward to attending the online component of FSExpo. They end by thanking listeners, past guests, Attica...
Sep 13, 2021•38 min•Season 7Ep. 28
In this episode, Nicnac thinks back to the horrors of being a child and having that natural wonder beaten down and suppressed. Although Nicnac has never been able to tolerate children (even as a child) they see and know the pain of childhood. They encourage those that do have the skills needed to be there for children to let them be human. They encourage adults to remember a free their inner child. Donate To Support Nicnac Credits The opening music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry. The cl...
Sep 04, 2021•16 min•Season 15Ep. 31
Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reviews some notable media portrayals of Autism and autistic traits and puts them in the context of their personal experience of life on the spectrum as best they can. ...
Sep 03, 2021•21 min•Season 15Ep. 30
Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Show Notes Donate...
Aug 31, 2021•20 min•Season 15Ep. 29
Trigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please skip this one! Donate To Support Nicnac Autistic Education Survey Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac wrestles with the reality of their internal world and how that impacts the way they see the external world af...
Aug 28, 2021•41 min•Season 15Ep. 28
In this episode Nicnac shares that the next FSRideAlong will be their 100th flight sim audio episode, having started including simulation content in their podcast in 2010. To celebrate Nicnac is committed to finishing The Simply Magpie Extreme Tour where they are taking The Torquesim SR22 from Chico, CA, US to Newcastle, England, UK. For more extensive show notes please visit fsridealong.com Watch Twitter for the date and time of leg 11! Donate Contact Simply Magpie Credits Support for FSrideAlo...
Aug 25, 2021•32 min•Season 7Ep. 27
In this episode, Nicnac reflects on the view outside their Windows and tries to synthesize the last month or so of their progress and creative endeavors over the last month or so. This is definitely an ongoing creative experiment so Nicnac would appreciate constructive feedback. Nicnac is thankful to their recent guests for sharing their time effort and views. Please don’t forget to check out past episodes. Donate To Support Nicnac Autism Survey Detester Magazine Autistic Education Survey Learn ...
Aug 20, 2021•13 min•Season 15Ep. 27
In this episode Nicnac talks of a frantic string of continuous P3D flights mostly over The Pacific between California and Australia and ending in Toyko before they finely took a full-fledged 24-hour rest. They note their attempts to comply with FAA rest regs even in the sim because fatigue is just as much of a factor in the sim as it is in real life (though real-life consequences are more real). Nicnac states their support for carrying more than 2 crew members on any flight longer than 4 hours. ...
Aug 19, 2021•20 min•Season 7Ep. 26
In this episode, Nicnac explains why they love taking the PMDG 747 to Melbourne so much despite the crazy trip length from the US west coast. They also talk a bit about The 747, ETOPS, their dream airliner, and their dream sim. If you listen closely the theme song may get explained as well. Donate Contact Simply Magpie Other Aviation And Simulation Resources TorqueSim Reality XP X-Plane Matt Guthmiller Kneebon5 Zerosideslip Flight Sim Association Flight Sim Community Podcast Airplane Geeks Uncon...
Aug 16, 2021•18 min•Season 7Ep. 25
