All right, looks like we'll be co-op LPing Unreal Tournament 3 in September. One of the people playing is moving and must get settled first, so we will be starting a little later. This is now officially a fall LP. We're planning on playing on a hard (if not the hardest) difficulty, so prepare yourself for my terrible FPS skills and a lot of butt hurt on my end.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Monday, July 28, 2014
Maximum Silliness
Quick note: If you add me in Neverwinter (rins@drschwa is easiest), please give me the heads up before you do (on youtube, here or a message in game). There are a lot of bots and randoms that try to add me as a friend or to a party. I will decline the offer if I do not hear from you first.
A lot of videos planned for the next couple of weeks. I will be away again next weekend, but I will be in town until late August, then I am leaving for two weeks to the boonies. Internet is not certain in that case. My plan is to upload all videos and descriptions in advance and just post them from my publish them from my phone in that case.
Over the next few days you will see:
More of the Skyrim LP
The next Neverwinter dungeon (I think it's Grey Wolf Den...)
The first couple of Dark Souls videos (which means I'm committing to the LP aaaaaa)
Two special videos.
Also, I did a little reorganizing in some of the playlists on my channel. I now have a separate playlist for Neverwinter videos and compilations/random.
A lot of videos planned for the next couple of weeks. I will be away again next weekend, but I will be in town until late August, then I am leaving for two weeks to the boonies. Internet is not certain in that case. My plan is to upload all videos and descriptions in advance and just post them from my publish them from my phone in that case.
Over the next few days you will see:
More of the Skyrim LP
The next Neverwinter dungeon (I think it's Grey Wolf Den...)
The first couple of Dark Souls videos (which means I'm committing to the LP aaaaaa)
Two special videos.
Also, I did a little reorganizing in some of the playlists on my channel. I now have a separate playlist for Neverwinter videos and compilations/random.
Monday, July 21, 2014
"Security"
Happy Monday I think. Super tired from staying up late to play skirmishes in Neverwinter, only to get no useful items from the rewards box. Ah well. At least we had a lot of interesting conversations, most of which I can't remember. A lot of game related, a bit of anime and Nick and Shauna spent an entire round testing the chat censor (the people we played with that round left in a hurry after it was finished). We even managed to break the skirmish one time, but it actually wasn't my fault for once.
So yeah, getting a bullshit security camera installed at my work right now. I'm watching them run the cable, giving them a dirty looks. Apparently they want to ensure that we monitor our "high risk" valuables and assets. This would include: a fridge with a small amount of alcohol in it, three computers (two that are over ten years old (one of which solely runs a program, copyright 1988) and one that's powerful enough to run an internet browser and some spreadsheets), a printer as old as I am, a laser printer no one would want nor could easily carry out of a BASEMENT, about 100 ratty old shoes and a coffee machine. Okay, there is a decent sound system down here, but it would take a long time to remove, meaning that they would have to come in the middle of the night not to be noticed by anyone else in the building.
I work it a bowling alley in a private club meaning there are cameras people would need to pass to get the goods out. There is one door they could escape out, but they cannot get IN that door meaning they would walk past those cameras and never come back. Not only that, they would need to be staff or a member to get through the security doors (they need a card). Now theoretically they could dodge a camera one way by using the back entrance, or hold the side door open for a person to come and meet them, but they would still have to walk by the cameras at a time that no one else is working or would notice them and the bowling alley is open later than most parts. There are a lot of hiding places here, so someone could hide until close and sneak around, but in that case why wouldn't they go after better stuff in other departments? If anything is stolen, it would likely be a staff member with unrestricted access who can hang around after hours without being suspicious. There are easier places to steal alcohol from which means that kids would be the only ones that would ever try and steal alcohol from here. The fridge is locked unless we are serving, and when we are serving we sit RIGHT in front of it. I do not believe kids are intelligent enough to steal alcohol from here without being noticed. The only thing a person I know has had stolen up here was a wallet and they left that in the middle of the curling area. The kids that took it took the credit cards, five dollars, the debit card and the air miles card (wtf). They made it to Jugo Juice, tried the card and when it failed, they ditched everything in a shoe store.
Point is, yeah, you could steal something from here. I could think of exactly how you'd do it, but it's too much effort for too little payoff. This is a way to keep an eye on us and try to cut jobs and hours by proving we don't need as many people down here. We're already short-staffed meaning we'd be screwed for large parties where half the people usually get drunk and do stupid things that we need to manage. So good job guys. Way to waste time, effort and money on something that will ultimately be useless and make us all uncomfortable. I only ever worked in one place with security cameras and I worked retail for 7 years. In this place, half the security cameras were fake so you could always find somewhere you're not being PEERED AT.
So bullshit aside. Knife of Dunwall has finished uploading. Neverwinter dungeons, Skyrim and soon, Dark Souls will be going up. I will be taking a few vacations at the end of July here and in August. My plan is to upload everything I want to post before I leave and then publish at regular intervals from my phone. Whether this system works or not will be an adventure in itself.
PS - Give my coworkers a week with that security camera running. They will find a way to exploit it. These are the people that used the monitor for an old security camera in an adjacent room (as we were responsible for it and didn't have someone there for operating hours) to set up a Nintendo system over the summer, used the stick designed to raise the bumpers to give people their shoes without getting out of the chair, spent a significant amount of time on pranks (such as jamming ever bowling ball in the alley behind lane 4 in a way that they would have to be moved, by hand, back to their lanes) and come up with elaborate zombie apocalypse strategies should it happen while we are in the bowling alley. Do not underestimate these people.
So yeah, getting a bullshit security camera installed at my work right now. I'm watching them run the cable, giving them a dirty looks. Apparently they want to ensure that we monitor our "high risk" valuables and assets. This would include: a fridge with a small amount of alcohol in it, three computers (two that are over ten years old (one of which solely runs a program, copyright 1988) and one that's powerful enough to run an internet browser and some spreadsheets), a printer as old as I am, a laser printer no one would want nor could easily carry out of a BASEMENT, about 100 ratty old shoes and a coffee machine. Okay, there is a decent sound system down here, but it would take a long time to remove, meaning that they would have to come in the middle of the night not to be noticed by anyone else in the building.
I work it a bowling alley in a private club meaning there are cameras people would need to pass to get the goods out. There is one door they could escape out, but they cannot get IN that door meaning they would walk past those cameras and never come back. Not only that, they would need to be staff or a member to get through the security doors (they need a card). Now theoretically they could dodge a camera one way by using the back entrance, or hold the side door open for a person to come and meet them, but they would still have to walk by the cameras at a time that no one else is working or would notice them and the bowling alley is open later than most parts. There are a lot of hiding places here, so someone could hide until close and sneak around, but in that case why wouldn't they go after better stuff in other departments? If anything is stolen, it would likely be a staff member with unrestricted access who can hang around after hours without being suspicious. There are easier places to steal alcohol from which means that kids would be the only ones that would ever try and steal alcohol from here. The fridge is locked unless we are serving, and when we are serving we sit RIGHT in front of it. I do not believe kids are intelligent enough to steal alcohol from here without being noticed. The only thing a person I know has had stolen up here was a wallet and they left that in the middle of the curling area. The kids that took it took the credit cards, five dollars, the debit card and the air miles card (wtf). They made it to Jugo Juice, tried the card and when it failed, they ditched everything in a shoe store.
Point is, yeah, you could steal something from here. I could think of exactly how you'd do it, but it's too much effort for too little payoff. This is a way to keep an eye on us and try to cut jobs and hours by proving we don't need as many people down here. We're already short-staffed meaning we'd be screwed for large parties where half the people usually get drunk and do stupid things that we need to manage. So good job guys. Way to waste time, effort and money on something that will ultimately be useless and make us all uncomfortable. I only ever worked in one place with security cameras and I worked retail for 7 years. In this place, half the security cameras were fake so you could always find somewhere you're not being PEERED AT.
So bullshit aside. Knife of Dunwall has finished uploading. Neverwinter dungeons, Skyrim and soon, Dark Souls will be going up. I will be taking a few vacations at the end of July here and in August. My plan is to upload everything I want to post before I leave and then publish at regular intervals from my phone. Whether this system works or not will be an adventure in itself.
PS - Give my coworkers a week with that security camera running. They will find a way to exploit it. These are the people that used the monitor for an old security camera in an adjacent room (as we were responsible for it and didn't have someone there for operating hours) to set up a Nintendo system over the summer, used the stick designed to raise the bumpers to give people their shoes without getting out of the chair, spent a significant amount of time on pranks (such as jamming ever bowling ball in the alley behind lane 4 in a way that they would have to be moved, by hand, back to their lanes) and come up with elaborate zombie apocalypse strategies should it happen while we are in the bowling alley. Do not underestimate these people.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
You Can Steak the Bus
One of the better typos of mine that I've come across. Took me a good amount of time to figure out what I meant, which is probably due to being tired rather than anything else. I am tired because it is hot. It is hot because the temperature outside has been ridiculous and my room traps heat. I also have a computer and a laptop, both of which are usually running. I have switched off my computer for the evening, so hopefully that helps. I just hope I don't burn out another fan motor.
Oh yeah and I hit 500 subscribers today. That's pretty cool. I do not have a video prepared yet, but I will post something...different...for the occasion. Not sure when it will be done, but I will be posting it soon.
Let's see...what can you expect out of the next few weeks...
-Half Life 2 Episode 1 is finished, so I will begin recording Episode 2 shortly.
-More Dishonored DLC. While it's not the most popular, it has been one of my favourite games that I've played over the past year, so I will be sharing those videos
-I will be making an attempt at Dark Souls once I get a controller hooked up. I will not be able to play on a keyboard. I took a look at the controls and it was...well disgusting to put it mildly. I hope to have some episodes up by next week
-More Neverwinter videos (montages and Schwa Can't MMO episodes). I will be posting two of the dungeons we completed (the ones I didn't have random crippling lag in) as we had a lot of fun playing them.
-I have Skyrim videos, so I will probably post those. It's not just clip shows either! It's an honest effort to try and LP some.
Oh yeah and I hit 500 subscribers today. That's pretty cool. I do not have a video prepared yet, but I will post something...different...for the occasion. Not sure when it will be done, but I will be posting it soon.
Let's see...what can you expect out of the next few weeks...
-Half Life 2 Episode 1 is finished, so I will begin recording Episode 2 shortly.
-More Dishonored DLC. While it's not the most popular, it has been one of my favourite games that I've played over the past year, so I will be sharing those videos
-I will be making an attempt at Dark Souls once I get a controller hooked up. I will not be able to play on a keyboard. I took a look at the controls and it was...well disgusting to put it mildly. I hope to have some episodes up by next week
-More Neverwinter videos (montages and Schwa Can't MMO episodes). I will be posting two of the dungeons we completed (the ones I didn't have random crippling lag in) as we had a lot of fun playing them.
-I have Skyrim videos, so I will probably post those. It's not just clip shows either! It's an honest effort to try and LP some.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Alternator
Summer heat is getting to me a bit. Took a week off, binge watched Orange is the New Black, and worked on videos and writing. The phone I got to replace my old one (as it was beginning to fall apart) is defective (are you really surprised?) and so I must go and get that replaced. I expect the rest of this week to be filled with writing, uploading, encoding and trying to figure out if I should post anything special for 500 subscribers. I probably won't have anything ready in time, but we'll see. I have a couple ideas.
Half Life 2 Episode 1 and Dishonored DLC will continue to alternate. I will run out of Half Life videos first, so I'll probably start uploading some other content when that is finished. I still need to record Episode 2. I am just clearing off the Neverwinter videos off my drive and then I can start Dark Souls. I expect rage.
Got menaced by another dude in a truck yesterday. I swear I'm going to develop a nervous twitch every time I see a pick-up now. I pulled over to text message someone and figure out if I had the address right, and about 30 seconds later this man in a black truck speeds into reverse (seriously, he was going about 50km/hr in reverse) and accelerates towards my car and stops less than an inch away from my back bumper. So I'm effectively wedged between him and the car in front of me. Then he just sits in his car. At this point I'm freaking out because I had no idea what this person's deal was. I didn't do anything. I was actually going to leave before he did that, only I wasn't sure if I could still get out. Eventually this woman comes out from across the street, talks to the guy in the truck and then comes over and tells me I need to move to the loading zone. I told her I just pulled over to send a message and that I couldn't get out, but she wouldn't tell the truck driver to back off like AN INCH (he had like 5 metres to work with behind him...if he wanted to park where I was all he had to do was back off for a second at most). So I had to slowly inch my way out past the car in front of me, which I almost hit, and I got out of there. Seriously had no idea what these people's problems were. It wasn't an illegal place to park and the truck was faffing about in the street before I parked there. I hate downtown man.
Half Life 2 Episode 1 and Dishonored DLC will continue to alternate. I will run out of Half Life videos first, so I'll probably start uploading some other content when that is finished. I still need to record Episode 2. I am just clearing off the Neverwinter videos off my drive and then I can start Dark Souls. I expect rage.
Got menaced by another dude in a truck yesterday. I swear I'm going to develop a nervous twitch every time I see a pick-up now. I pulled over to text message someone and figure out if I had the address right, and about 30 seconds later this man in a black truck speeds into reverse (seriously, he was going about 50km/hr in reverse) and accelerates towards my car and stops less than an inch away from my back bumper. So I'm effectively wedged between him and the car in front of me. Then he just sits in his car. At this point I'm freaking out because I had no idea what this person's deal was. I didn't do anything. I was actually going to leave before he did that, only I wasn't sure if I could still get out. Eventually this woman comes out from across the street, talks to the guy in the truck and then comes over and tells me I need to move to the loading zone. I told her I just pulled over to send a message and that I couldn't get out, but she wouldn't tell the truck driver to back off like AN INCH (he had like 5 metres to work with behind him...if he wanted to park where I was all he had to do was back off for a second at most). So I had to slowly inch my way out past the car in front of me, which I almost hit, and I got out of there. Seriously had no idea what these people's problems were. It wasn't an illegal place to park and the truck was faffing about in the street before I parked there. I hate downtown man.
Saturday, July 5, 2014
White Trucks
White trucks and beaten up minivans are the source for most my woes on the road this past year. Well, perhaps trucks in general. Got run off the road yesterday by some idiot in a white pick-up because he didn't know how to turn properly. Turning onto a two lane road, he was turning right, I was turning left. I turned shortly after him, but for some reason he decided my lane was much better to turn into. So he turns and immediately drives into my lane, so I had to slam on the brakes and drive into the curb. He continues driving in my lane, and then takes off speeding AND THEN CHANGES BACK TO TURN RIGHT ANYWAY. Why? Cause he knew he nearly totalled my car and wanted to get out of there before I could get his plate (had he stayed left he would have been stopped by the light).
So yeah, there's a huge gash in my front wheel now. I can still drive on it for now as there is no air leaking, but it will need to be replaced asap or risk a blowout. So there's money out the window there. Then I learn my brother was rear-ended by a truck in the same car the day before. I was rear-ended by the minivan last year before I even had my full license...then we had to write off the other car because of another white truck in a parking lot. That and when we got the car serviced the mechanics FORGOT TO TIGHTEN THE FUEL LINE and it started leaking gas all over the damn place.
Incompetence everywhere. Calgary drivers suck.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Summer Time
It's ridiculously hot here this week. It's supposed to be over 30 degrees outside today. It's only 11am and this room is like a sauna. My icy Canadian blood can't take it!
THE FAN DOES NOTHING.
So Transistor is fully uploaded and I'm working on getting HL Episode 1 out. I have a few segments produced, so I can post those whenever. The entire LP is finished (it was really short), so I'll transfer those files and start recording HL Episode 2 when it's not so hot and people aren't ripping a fence to pieces out back. I'd close the window but...
So on the schedule for this July we will have:
Dishonored DLC
Half Life Episode 1
Half Life Episode 2
Dark Souls
Any other random videos I come across when cleaning out my hard drive.
Also.
WHY AM I EATING SOUP?
THE FAN DOES NOTHING.
So Transistor is fully uploaded and I'm working on getting HL Episode 1 out. I have a few segments produced, so I can post those whenever. The entire LP is finished (it was really short), so I'll transfer those files and start recording HL Episode 2 when it's not so hot and people aren't ripping a fence to pieces out back. I'd close the window but...
So on the schedule for this July we will have:
Dishonored DLC
Half Life Episode 1
Half Life Episode 2
Dark Souls
Any other random videos I come across when cleaning out my hard drive.
Also.
WHY AM I EATING SOUP?
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