My Bad

Uploaded some Miasmata to share after Transistor was done. Accidentally forgot to make part 2 Unlisted so...it was published without Part 1 and people have already started watching it. So I released it. They are longer videos, (45-51 minutes each), mostly because it is a single shot and we never finish the game together. I decided to encode and post it after finding the footage on my hard drive last night. Also wanted to give Shauna something fun to watch as she hasn't been feeling well the past few days. Anyway, enjoy the content that wasn't supposed to be released until next week!

Transistor is almost done uploading, so I'm rushing to make space for Dark Souls, Half Life Episode 1 anddddd maybe perhaps Skyrim. Maybe. Perhaps.

Coming up on 500 subscribers. Might do something fancy for that. Maybe. Perhaps.

Soundtrack Thursday 24 - The Master List

I almost typed "The Mast List" as a title. I have two days left until I leave this job, so this is my last Thursday here. I have some stuff lined up, but we'll see what happens. I'll miss working here...and soundtrack Thursday of course. I'm going to take 6 months worth of my favourite soundtracks that I discovered (or just in general) and listen to them today. I will post the entire playlist below.

Skyrim
Particularly: Dragonborn, The Road Most Travelled (Dragonborn DLC...because I love the throwback), Sovengarde, Ancient Stones
(and because I mentioned it and it is AWESOME...Dragonborn DLC full soundtrack)
And I'll throw in a Sovengarde Song for free.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Particularly:
Will and Elizabeth, Swords Crossed, He's a Pirate
Also: The Kraken (I know it's from Dead Man's Chest. Shhhhh, shhhh just listen, it's good)

Tron Legacy
Particularly:
End of Line, Tron Legacy End Titles, Castor,

Dishonored
Naturally:
Honor for All, Drunken Whaler
And a bonus Dishonored Song

Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows - I can give WGN and INgrooves a few suggestions on where they can shove their copyright claims. They took down the good compliation. INgrooves tried to claim rights on one of my LP videos once because of the music once. There was absolutely nothing in that video what-so-ever that belonged to them.
Anyway...
Zu Viele Fuchse Fur Euch Hansel, Die Forelle, Romani Holiday

Transistor
Particularly:
Paper Boats, Water Wall, In Circles

InFamous Second Son
Particularly:
Scraping the Sky, Abigail Walker
Oh look another song - Fistful of Concrete

Amazing Spiderman 2
Particularly:
My Enemy

Borderlands 2
Particularly:
Hyperion, Jack Final Boss

This is Not the End

But unfortunately, that's all the music I can fit in for now.

Apologies if I have posted a link or ever mislabelled a song/composer. Please let me know and I can fix it no problem.

PS - All this said and done...I AM going to be working many Thursdays at my part time. I CAN play soundtracks there, but most people will probably want to listen to trashy current pop music and not movie/video game scores. We'll see.

PSS - Okay, not all the trashy current pop music is THAT bad. It's just fun to complain about when I know I'm going to hear the same songs 5+ times in a shift.

Forgot a Title

This is the final week of my contract job. I'll be sad to leave this place, but I have a summer of part-time work, catch-up with LPs and writing ahead. July approaches and I'll be around for most of it. This is what you can expect for the next couple of weeks:

Solo LPs

Transistor - Finish uploading by the end of June.

Half Life Episode 1 - Begin uploading this week (probably starting June 25 or 26)

Dishonored DLC - Alternate with Half Life Episode 1

Dark Souls - IT BEGINS EARLY JULY. PREPARE YOURSELF FOR RAGE.

Co-op LPs/videos

Really up in the air to be honest. 

Unreal Tournament 3 will be delayed until the people I plan on playing with get some personal affairs sorted out. 

Borderlands 1 - Might be an LP

Neverwinter - Not really an LP, but I'm recording enough of it that it theoretically COULD be.

Magicka DLC - Probably going to do this with Voyeur

Evil Within - Late Summer/Early Fall (whenever it's released) with Shauna

Just Cause 2 - Multiplayer MOD has apparently been "updated." Max potential for silliness.

EDIT - Offer still stands to join us on the Dragon server in Neverwinter. Rins@drschwa, SvetlanaMcnature@drschwa. If you join, I shall make you pants. 

Soundtrack Thursday 23

The final Hans Zimmer week. At least for awhile. I may continue to do this outside my job, but we'll see. I was a little disappointed to see that he didn't do the second How to Train Your Dragon movie. Went to go see it a couple nights ago. I'd recommend it, but it wasn't as good as the first. There were some good aspects to it, but the first story had more...impact. This story was basically rehashing everything we already knew, throwing in a little random death and a bunch of SHOCKING TWISTS that you could see coming a mile off. But the movie is adorable and has dragons and silliness, so overall I enjoyed it. That and I want to support one of the only other animation studios out there that can take on Disney. As much as I enjoy Disney, I do not want them to be the only source for decent animation. Seriously.

So we've exhausted a lot of YouTube's resources for Zimmer tracks, so we have to GO DEEPER. Oh wait, we already did Inception. Damn...um well

Oh hey, Divergent. Heard it was a decent movie (and book), but haven't seen or read any of it. I just got excited because I saw Hans Zimmer + JunkieXL.

Next I've got a Gladiator soundtrack. Another movie I haven't seen, but I've heard it's terribly inaccurate in terms of history. One of those turn your brain off movies I suppose. Also the soundtrack compilation appears to have large periods of silence. Maybe it's just me.

Crysis 2 - Oh here's a good one. Bear in mind that other composers produced the majority of the soundtrack, but Hans Zimmer was involved so it counts. We have this game for some system...actually I think I have this on Steam. I know Michael played it but I have no idea if he finished it.

FINALLY.

Some random compilations:
One
Two
Three

Hurray I can still count.


Also...I discovered this today. Here's a breakdown of my thought process before my thought process caused a breakdown:


Wait...what's this?

A new Imagine Dragons song? Let's see what the comments say about this!

Wait a minute...no. No that can't...be...

No. No no no no no.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHY IMAGINE DRAGONS WHY?

I'm going to go weep uncontrollably in a corner now.

*rocks back and forth* Why must we all sell out? Why why why why....

Oh god, oh god. I just checked. It's not a lie.

CURSE YOU MICHAEL BAYYYYYYYYYYY!






...this over-reaction brought to you by Michael Bay: Ruining your childhood and favourite bands with explosions, idiotic jokes, racism and rampant sexism for 5 years.

ugh

Summer Approacheth

Transistor will begin uploading tonight I think. Still have a little to recast, but that shouldn't take long if I actually sit down and just power through it. Or ramble through it in this case.

I may do some more Half Life Episode 1 recording over the next few days in addition to finishing the Dishonored DLC (heh). Other smaller, random projects will go up sporadically whenever I feel like it or happen to have relevant footage.

A lot of things are changing over the next while. I'm not too sure where we'll be, even a couple months ago, but I will say there are a few constants:

Videos will continue
Writing will continue
Cookies will be forever delicious.

As long as we have videos, writing and cookies, everything will be fiiiiiiiiiine.

Soundtrack Thursday 22

I meant for today to be another Retro games day, but then I saw Child of Light in my suggested videos sidebar and heard it was good soundtrack. So we're starting with that today and we'll see where it goes from there.

Going to follow the recommended videos further to Beyond Two Souls. Will be interesting to see if we have anything resembling a theme by the end of the day.

Next up is Tomb Raider, still navigating through the recommended videos of course. This soundtrack should get me to lunch, and we'll go from there.

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation is next up on the list, though I cheated a little by not following the recommended videos. I did however, get the idea from it as ACIII was a suggested video.

While I haven't played it, I hear that Metroid Prime is pretty good. We'll see what it sounds like music-wise. I may not listen to the whole compilation though as it is almost 3 hours long. Depends if it's really good or not I suppose.

It's too bad I already had Mirror's Edge and Transistor in previous soundtrack Thursdays. The point is to listen to new soundtracks, even though I've listened to these multiple times other days of the week since discovering them. I am sad that there aren't more games with female protagonists. Character creation games don't count in this case. Seriously.

In other news:

I have decided to alternate Transistor and Half Life Episode 1 after Dishonored is complete. Which will be soon. I shall post the Dishonored DLC periodically. Just thought I'd mix it up a little. Shauna, Nick and I are playing Neverwinter again. If you play, feel free to add me as a friend/join us. My username is drschwa.

My writing is beginning to stress me out, because I want to write these parts properly. They're going to end up as heaping piles of drivel bits, but if I go in with a different attitude, they will be smaller heaping piles of drivel bits. This summer could be it ladies and gents.

I'm starting a new(ish) job September 1. I have a whole summer of part-time work and video games ahead unless I find something else before then. I will likely apply for volunteer positions in areas of interest and write during that time.

New desk at work for my final few weeks. I was going to keep my old chair, but then I tried out one of the new ones and it has MEMORY FOAM. So I have adopted this new chair and am enjoying it a great deal. I like the window view. I do not like that every single person working in the room has to walk behind me to get to their desks. Visitors also constantly have to walk behind me. It stresses me out.

I found out if I wear my ear buds and drink a carbonated beverage, I can hear fizz inside my head. It sounds like pouring dry sand into water.

I can't remember where I put my damn lactaid again. That stuff is not cheap and I like ice cream too much. Ugh.

This news section has rapidly become more trivial.

Transistor

While uploading Dishonored I have been writing, playing Skyrim (shhh) and now, Transistor. I also keep thinking of "Transistor" as "Mansistor." Thanks for that one Mesk.

Transistor is pretty amazing (thanks Kristy, Oliver and random people I follow on Tumblr for encouraging me to pick it up). I am recording it and I'm not doing too bad. There is a distinct learning curve that I'm on. I can imagine the little graph in my head, but I'm having a lot of fun trying out a bunch of the combos. I eventually figure most things out, but the beginning might be a little cringe-worthy as I jump in knowing very little of the game. Like Bastion, this is a rare instance of me going into the game without playing any of it at all. Even in Dishonored I played a little bit of the first level for sound and recording tests. I will post these videos eventually.

I will finish Brigmore Witches this week, then I will continue recording Half Life Episode 1. Expect Transistor and HL EP1 to appear near the end of the month. I will start Dark Souls first week of July, because I will have ample time. I will start Bioshock around this time as well.

...

Also, I am really sad that I didn't think to name my Bulbasaur, Bulbafett in Pokemon Y. It's almost painful. These are the things I think of randomly when I'm in the car. I am pleased with my Pikachu's nickname of Zappy McGee however, so it all works out in the end.

PS - I am slowing down the recording a little bit. My wrist and hand are in rough shape.

Soundtrack Thursday 21

Coming up on our final Soundtrack Thursdays. I will be leaving my current job at the end of June as my contract has ended, so Soundtrack Thursday will be on hold until further notice. For now...

Transistor - I plan on playing this very soon as it's by the people that made Bastion, and I hear it's a good game.

The Last of Us - Played through MOST of the game and currently watching an LP of it. I like the game all right, but parts of it are....frustrating. The dialogue and storytelling element to it are quite good. I'd like to say it has a lot of movie elements in it. The music definitely has a similar style to a lot of other zombie games.

Halo Reach - Because I felt like Halo and it was linked as a related video on The Last of Us. I've always enjoyed the Halo soundtracks.

Mass Effect 1 - A series that I really need to get around to playing.

More Dishonoured episodes, as usual. I have about 10 segments left, plus the DLC. Thinking about my plans for solo LPs over the summer. I will come back with a more detailed schedule/idea of what's going on. Expect a lot more Retro gaming episodes.

Aches and Pains

Lots of projects underway and games to play. There's one problem that may slow me down, however. Last year I got pretty bad tendinitis in my thumb, and while it has a tendency to flare up, it hasn't been too bad since I gave it a break last summer. It's still doing all right, but I'm starting to feel pain in other locations in my wrist and in my far fingers from typing and gaming so much. It's been aggravated since I started playing console and handheld games again. I have still only played 1 hour of Watch Dogs because of this, so I've been watching my brother play instead because I'm curious. I will need to be careful as I need to use a computer and type to do my job at the moment, and I do not want to sacrifice the ability to be able to write (I'm on a roll with WMRR and I really do not want to slow down).

Dishonoured is about half finished uploading. I think after that I will be working on finding a good chunk of time for UT3. This has the potential to REALLY destroy my wrist and hand, so we'll see how it goes.

While I plan on releasing a few LPs over the next few weeks, I would like to say that I most of my energy for personal projects will be going into finishing my writing. I have worked on this bloody thing since I was 16 (9 freaking years) and has gone through many versions, but never a COMPLETE version. It may be shit, it may not go anywhere, I may have to rewrite it again, but I am going to finish one full rough copy and it will happen this year. The reason I bring this up is that I've had people message me to ask if I'd like to play some video games or join in LPs. My answer is I'd love to play more games, but with this and other things going on (like work and ageing grandparents and errands and trying to get my own vehicle), I can't currently give you a lot of my time. So please don't be offended if I say no. I just don't have enough time to do everything.