Another Milestone

More like a stepping stone as it's really not that big a deal, but I hit 300 subscribers on YouTube today. It's kind of neat having people interested in the videos I make, both on my own and with friends. One thing I realized while making this video was I really am pretty awful at games...and I find that hilarious. I've had a lot of fun the past 3 ish years making LPs (including the LPs on my old channel) and I plan on continuing my video recording and producing, hopefully getting better at it as I go.

The video I will be uploading today contains about 80% new footage (in that I haven't uploaded it to YouTube). Some of these video clips are part of longer LP videos already on the channel, but a lot of the material has been sitting on my drives collecting dust, and I figured I should remedy that. The video is over an hour long, so I'll be posting markers to each segment of it if you'd like to skip over some of the parts. This is (mostly) footage from 2013, so I might make a 2014 edition next year should I encounter enough silly things to make it. Which is likely.

Also, I have the first Penumbra video encoded. Hooray.

I'll have those going up fairly soon. I also need to start recording Alice again because I, uh, ran out of videos of it. Heh. I'll have my drives cleansed over the weekend so I can start that next week. Maybe.


EDITOR'S NOTES FOR DR.SCHWA'S 10 FAVOURITE WTF MOMENTS

Penumbra - Currently the only footage (aside from the 16 second dog video where I sound like Mr. Hanky) from Penumbra released. As mentioned above, I am working on that. That entire dream sequence section was really messed up. We were both incredibly confused. Also, Tommy Wiseau makes an appearance.

Skyrim/Oblivion - I had a lot of random footage from the game on here. I basically start recording when I find silly things, or there is a potential for silly things. And yes, I really did start choking on bread when I was trying to make a joke at the end there.

Left 4 Dead 2 - I had so much unused footage and unreleased mods/campaigns of this game. The first section was the fun little random clips from more recent runs of the game.The second was when we managed to break the game and tanks just continued to spawn. I apologize for the poor audio balancing and blurry quality. These were processed ages ago. The third instance of L4D2 in this video is basically me failing horribly. That and being tormented by my friends. The usual.

Outlast - Barely had to do anything editing-wise. It was inane on its own. I was the one at the controls in all the clips shown there, so no surprise that it's ridiculous(ly bad).

Overlord 2 - I still have no words for this. I can't comprehend, even watching it multiple times. I truly love the last little clip I added though.

Garry's Mod - Little to clarify. My terrible Prop Hunt skills speak for themselves. BUT I need to defend myself in the video where I killed myself. Both me and my brother had no idea how that grenade missed, Oliver had tossed the barrel down the stairs, Michael nudged the barrel into standing position when he said "is this you Oliver?" and when I shot the barrel, Michael screamed "oh god" so I thought it was him. I cannot justify the orange clip.

Haunted Memories - Horrible, horrible indie game. Granted it was free and made by a handful of people. Still, that's barely an excuse.

Just Cause 2 - The clip with the race car and the plane makes me laugh every single time.

Soundtrack Thursday 3

I chose Thursday because it seems like it would be the most tedious/busy day of the week working...at least it has been so far. I'm going to listen to various soundtracks every week and perhaps post my thoughts on them (if I remember to or feel like it). I'll take suggestions for good track and probably add them to the music playlist on my channel. I never posted for 1 and 2, but here's the list of soundtracks I listened to:

ST1:

Sherlock
Battlestar Galactica
Start Trek Into Darkness
Stronghold 2001
Bastion
Skyrim

ST2:

Suckerpunch
Amazing Spiderman
How to Train Your Dragon

ST3: Hans Zimmer Week!
Favourites Compilation - mixed opinions. Was pleased to see that I owned a few of the tracks myself
Pirates of the Caribbean - was obsessed with this soundtrack a few years ago
Harry Potter - I like the track, but I was pretty burnt out at this point and something about it got on my nerves. I'll try it again on a less busy day. Nine hours of music if anyone is interested.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - Brother played more of this than I did, but one of my favourite video game soundtracks

I'll update this as I continue working. Also, I need a better name for this. Maybe some alliteration is order...but then the syllable count needs to match too...hmmm

Penumbra

The problem child of recording. Almost as bad as Half Life 1...which I really should finish....

Yes, so Penumbra is a little bit of a mess. I was going through the files last night and here's a rundown of what happened:

-Audio for all of Overture and about 1/3 of Black Plague is desynced and needs to be manually fixed, which is more irritating than difficult
-Audio for a session of Black Plague is tinny and poor quality, probably because I didn't double check the settings
-Audio for the last session we did of Black Plague is beautiful...but at some point I bumped the USB connected to my external and we lost the last 10 mins of recording
-10 minutes of video is missing right, smack in the middle of the second session of Overture. The files became corrupted and I got to see segment of Diablo 2 that I had deleted a month before. Thankfully the footage isn't important as it is just me being confused about how to get a heavy box on top of another box
-10 minutes of video is missing near the end of that same segment because I bumped the USB again (going to do some rearranging next time). Unfortunately, there was more interesting stuff going on, but I managed to notice that time and fix it before the problem got worse
-Sony Vegas crashed three times while editing last night, so I just gave up until today

In other words, this LP might not be the most complete or of the same quality as others we have done. I'll see if I can come up with a solution to fixing a few of the more glaring problems. My idea for the missing footage of Black Plague is just to record it again as the problem was RIGHT at the end and we still have a save to revert to. I just have to deal with the annoying cameras and doors again.

Penumbra has been a mixed bag in my opinion so far. Some of the puzzles have been good, and others completely ridiculous. It's not as scary as other games we've played, but it has tense and frightening moments, which usually get diffused by some silly event that you could play Benny Hill over (seriously, you really get desensitized by the dongle). That and there's freaking Red and Gilbert Godfrey to deal with. We do not like them. The place is massive and full of hallways with Dongle Men in them as well, which gets a little repetitive. Something they improved upon in Amnesia: Dark Descent.

Anyhow, the fight goes on. I will continue to work on the LP, and I swear it'll be done. Eventually. Sometime. In the future.

The Madness Returns

Uploaded the first segment of Alice: Madness Returns last night. It had three copyright notifications attached to it simply by virtue of being an EA game. I just sighed and promptly ignored acknowledging any of them. I am not done recording the LP yet (mostly due to a severe lack of hard drive space as mentioned before), but I plan on finishing it completely by the end of the month. I'm using this LP to learn how to improve my video and audio quality. You should see the audio improve after the 5th (ish) segment as I balance it better, and the video around segment 11 as I realized I was an idiot and forgot to turn off resampling in Vegas.

In other news:
-The Overlord 2 LP is now completely uploaded and organized into a playlist if anyone is interested.
-I have the bones of my Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Review video laid out in Vegas. I just need filler video and better timing on some of the segments
-Recording more Penumbra today. No that project will never be finished. Hell, it may never be started. It is a lost cause. A false dream. Abandon all hope. Despair! Despair!
-The cheese in my mac and cheese has mutated and expanded, consuming the few noodles left in the cup. It might take over my desk within the hour
-I might have to murder my workplace's internet provider
-The death blizzard continues outside. I may need a legion armed with pick-axes and hair dryers to extract me from the building. That or jump off the roof into the massive drifts that are no doubt forming below me. I shall tunnel my way home
-My lunch hour is over, but I'm having a lot more fun being melodramatic

Elder Scrolls Online Beta

Got my email to the stress test this weekend. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited about this game. I'm not big into MMOs, but I will occasionally play them (and I usually get bored quite quickly, especially if I don't have people to play with). At any rate, I love Elder Scrolls, probably a bit too much with multiple hundreds of hours clocked in on Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. Not sure why, but I really like the games. So I am slightly concerned that I will like this one as well, especially since it will be pay to play.

At any rate, if you have a beta key as well, keep an eye out for me on the weekend. My username will be DrSchwa and chances are I'll be online tomorrow evening, Saturday in the daytime and Sunday. I'll post a character name if that ends up being required tomorrow.

Overlord 2 LP is now fully uploaded in case you haven't already seen it on YT. Alice: Madness Returns will be the next LP to pop up there. I believe I am half finished the game. I've freed up a little space for it (I had a about 5% of my total hard drive space free over all 5 of my drives) and will be continuing recording after the weekend. I will start uploading sometime next week. Over the weekend when I'm not playing, I will upload other videos I have sitting around.

Also, because I can, I would like to say that BBC Sherlock Season 3 is amazing. That is all.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-01-08/sherlock-weve-plotted-out-the-whole-of-series-4-and-5-reveals-steven-moffat

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! Let us hope 2014 is as inane as the last.

The year in summary:

-Launched myself into the air multiple times on a pair of sticks and managed not to kill myself.
-Slid 2/3 of the way down a mogul run on my back, over the moguls, trapped laying on my skis unable to get up, giggling like a lunatic the whole way. Almost hit a tree shortly after. Got stuck for a good five minutes. Someone had to dig me out.
-Cherry Cola acquired.
-Learned how to drive with a bunch of people 7-10 years younger than me. Yeah, driver's ed with teenagers. Twelve hours of watching graphic Australian driving PSAs. Five hours driving with the car whisperer.
-Walked around the University and "listened" to things.
-Gamer's Thumb slows everything down.
-Went to Nerdy Christmas, dressed up as Jet Girl, felt like I was 8 again and adventuring with Sarah in Kelowna.
-Helped produce the most kick-ass presentation on video game music.
-Graduated with a degree in Advanced BS and Stuff that Happened.
-Watched Fellowship of the Ring with live music. My inner fangirl was happy.
-Imagine Dragons was the most flashy concert I have seen. Lead signer rises into the air like Robo-Jesus to play a drum suspended in the air.
-Got scammed in Paris.
-Got stolen from in Brussels.
-WAFFLES
-Got lost in Belgium, ended up in Holland. Ate chocolate, and another family's leftover lettuce and rice for dinner when we finally got that sorted out.
-An encounter with a Belgian, flamethrowing, Fishmobile.
-Best ice cream ever. Of all time.
-Best fish dinner ever. Of all time.
-Nearly died from heat exhaustion. One step short of delirium.
-Flew in the sketchiest plane I have ever encountered. Complete with cut-throat seat claiming. Belgian chocolate bars almost threw us over the weight limit (100 dollars for each KG over! SERIOUSLY)
-Saw Billy Boyd perform as Banquo. Best timing for rain to start ever.
-Played a lot of games that tested the limits of my sanity. Especially the horror ones.
-Participated in a 25hr video game marathon. I didn't make it the full 25 hours.
-Holy shit I can drive and I haven't killed anyone...yet.
-Trying a new part time job, doing some writing.
-Finally, after years and years of waiting, our internet was upgraded. Uploads will hopefully now be more frequent. Happy New Year!

Look for: The rest of Overlord 2, Alice: Madness Returns, Dark Souls and multiple compilation videos I haven't had a chance to finish yet.

No resolutions. I just want to finish WMRR once and for all. I have a good feeling that this year is the year. Though, I'm pretty sure I've said that before...