Still on holidays. It is glorious. I have been super lazy with updating video descriptions and tags a) because it is a pain in the ass on my phone, and b) because it is a pain in the ass on my phone. I will be returning at the end of next weekend, but I will be occupied for a couple days dealing with everything I missed, figuring out if I actually have a full time job or not, and ensuring I have enough room on my hard drive to begin recording UT3.
Meanwhile in the boonies it has...rained. And rained some more. Got a little bit of wind, and then a lot of wind, and then I think the sun appeared for about five seconds. So I am stuck in a cabin with four other people unless I would like to venture out and get cold and wet. I am tempted to go swimming in the waves, but last year when I did that in this weather I nearly got hypothermia. It's all good.
So I have been attempting to write and read through a friend's script/writing for an upcoming project of his. It has been slow in both counts, and I feel bad because one of the reasons for coming out here was just to read and write. Reception has been poor, but I have a window of internet usage here that I am taking full advantage of.
I still have four videos to give you before I am back. Thank you for your patience.
PS - Keep an eye out for Guild Wars 2 videos upon my return.
PSS - Never leave tea leaves sitting in your teapot for two days. Especially when that tea has chocolate in it. I cleaned it out and now my hand smells like curdled milk.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Gone on Vacation
As of tomorrow I will be gone on vacation. I will be back the first week of September. While I am gone, I will post videos from my phone on a semi-regular basis.
You should see:
The rest of Penumbra Black Plague
Skyrim
Neverwinter Dungeons
Resident Evil 5 (posted by GameVoyeur on his channel)
Dishonored: Brigmore Witches (at lest the first few episodes)
And anything else I find that might interest you.
I don't know what internet or phone reception will be like, so if you message me and I don't reply, I'm not ignoring you on purpose.
See you all September 2.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
The Next Few Weeks
Hey all, I won't be available to play any games for the next few weeks. I will be leaving on Monday for two weeks and in the time I have left at home I have two work shifts, a wedding, a friend visiting from out of town, a ton of last minute encoding and uploading, packing, cleaning, and running assorted errands. I will not have time to play games. I am sorry. In addition, it is extremely hot in this room (35+ degrees Celsius). I am Canadian and I live in a dry place where it rarely gets above 25 degrees for long periods of time. We have had a bit of a heat wave this summer. It is slowly killing me. I do not have air conditioning...just a little fan that blows hot air around. This means I will be getting very little sleep, but I still will be trying because I have been losing sleep because of a back injury. So all in all I will be a busy, tired and agonized individual for the next 5 days, and will be declining any offers to play games. Please do not take offense to this. Or do. I just won't care because I'm grouchy and I gave you fair warning. Now just imagine me grinning stupidly here.
I will however, provide you with videos this week and while I am gone. I may reduce uploads to once every two days so I do not run out of material or in case I miss a day because my internet/phone connection where I am going will be...patchy. This also means you probably won't be able to contact me easy, so again, I'm not ignoring you...I'm just out of touch. I will return August 31 and be available again for games a few days after (I have plans so far for September 1).
This has been a heat-induced public announcement.
PS - Capture Card arrived in the mail.
I will however, provide you with videos this week and while I am gone. I may reduce uploads to once every two days so I do not run out of material or in case I miss a day because my internet/phone connection where I am going will be...patchy. This also means you probably won't be able to contact me easy, so again, I'm not ignoring you...I'm just out of touch. I will return August 31 and be available again for games a few days after (I have plans so far for September 1).
This has been a heat-induced public announcement.
PS - Capture Card arrived in the mail.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Anyone Seen My Brain?
Cause it's either missing or completely fried. I was already tired last night, and then I only ended up sleeping an hour before my back began hurting and I had nerve pain shooting through my leg. So that's fun. Managed to fall asleep somewhere around 5am but then I had to be awake for work and...well here I am. I should be able to leave in an hour, but until then, I'm stuck staring at my grilled cheese trying to remember how long it's been sitting there. So I apologize for this post and its coherency. This is what happens when I get 3ish hours of sleep...with medication for my back...and I was already sleep deprived.
Here is a list:
1) Unreal Tournament 3 has a tentative start date for recording. We will be playing September 1 (or very close to that depending on when the other three gentlemen are available to play) when I get back from going to my grandparent's cabin out in the boonies.
2) I started another LP with GameVoyeur. We are playing resident Evil 5. I literally retyped "resident" four times and the shift key wouldn't register to capitalize it. So it is staying like that. That's what you get for defying me resident. Now everyone is going to stare at it and be uncomfortable. Anyway, that's started to go up here. I will post the playlist on my channel when a playlist exists.
3) Guild Wars and Neverwinter Nights look like other likely co-op LPs/videos in the future. I have no idea what the timeline on those would be though.
4) Uh...I didn't record any more Dark Souls. This weekend was a little rough on me unexpectedly and I ended up quite busy. I still plan on continuing it, but you may not get many more videos before I go off the grid.
5)Fallen Earth stuff is up. I have another video for it, so I will be posting that before I leave.
K I keep seeing the little bit of paper at the end of the teabag in my drink move and it's freaking me out cause I keep thinking it's a bug.
6) You will be getting a lot of Neverwinter, Skyrim and Penumbra in the next few days. I can't remember if I have anything else prepared. It'll be a surprise for you if there is.
Today is Monday so....
Monday - Neverwinter Dungeon, The Pirate King Part 3, Fallen Earth Horse Video
Tuesday - Skyrim Part 12
Wednesday - Penumbra Black Plague Part 3, Neverwinter Dungeon the ice mountain one that I forget the name of Part 1
Thursday - Neverwinter Dungeon the ice mountain one that I forget the name of Part 2, Skyrim Part 13
Friday - Penumbra Black Plague Part 4
Saturday - Uh...something interesting I'm sure
Sunday - I will get back to you after I have a nap
Monday - I'm disappearing into the wilds of Manitoba to become one with nature, though I'll have videos queued up while I'm gone.
Oh god this is a terrible cover of House of the Rising Sun. Please make it stop. I can't handle this.
Saturday, August 9, 2014
THANKS GOOGLE
Ugh. Just spent an hour getting angry, then upset, then REALLY upset over YouTube's new uploading shtick. I woke up this morning and stumbled over to my computer to see that both uploads that I had started, had failed. The reason? Unsupported file format.
Wait. What?
Apparently, as of yesterday, .mkv files are no longer supported. I encode everything in .mkv format. For the past three years, I have encoded all of my videos, everything I've posted, everything I have not posted, in .mkv format. There are very few exceptions. Why is this a problem? Well, .mkv is a container. It is very difficult to covert the files back into a format I can work with and edit. This is additionally a problem because I delete the raw Fraps files as soon as I have encoded the videos properly to save space.
Beginning to see an issue here?
Let me show you something. This, is my computer:
This, is an example of one of the drives I use for recording:
I have added two internals and purchased two external drives for this hobby. I know people who have more drives with larger storage capacity to do exactly what I do. This is why I encode in .mkv format. One of those .mkv files takes 134GB of video and turns it into 3GB.
All the videos you see on this page are in .mkv save one. This is where the bad and good news comes in. Here's the bad news first. All those videos in the top middle, were videos I had prepared in advance for YouTube. I'm leaving for two weeks...in a week. These were intended to keep my channel updated while I was gone. I cannot use them now. All those Dragonborn videos need to be converted. I do not have the raw files anymore. I deleted them two days ago. So I need to figure out a way to convert them if I want to post them, which will most likely mean a drop in quality. I will consult someone about this. The good news is I can start encoding in .mp4 format. Seems to have little difference in file size and the quality seems fine. I can start encoding all of the videos for YouTube that way. Life moves on. I'm over it now.
What I'm not over is that in my rage, I made the mistake of posting my complaint in the wrong place. I actually debated it knowing that a select few would be pricks about it, but I ultimately did it because it was cathartic. I then proceed to be lectured on how my problems meant nothing and that people are currently dying of disease and war in other parts of the world right now. A completely fair point. That said, I have control over my emotions, control over what's going on in my life, control over what I care about. This person didn't bother to ask what I do or think or care about in these situations. He just assumed I was being a selfish asshole. Yeah, maybe I was. For a single hour of a single day I dared to be angry about something relatively trivial in the grand scheme of the universe. Of course it means hours of work on something I don't have, especially when I've made promises to other people to make things for them. I can handle strangers being jerks. Most of the time if just makes me laugh. When it's someone I know personally, that hurts a lot more, because there is more meaning behind the comments besides being an asshole for the sake of making people mad. I'm over this, but now I get to feel like a terrible human being for the rest of the day, no matter what I tell myself or how much I care about what's going on in other places.
This is why I post videos. This is why I do LPs. Everywhere I go, everything I do, I feel like very few people take me seriously. Everyone else is more important, has worse shit to deal with, has a louder voice. I can sit, and talk and enjoy a game, for a few hours of my day, and not have to worry about the more pressing issues in my life and around the world in other people's lives. It helps me deal with confidence issues, depression, anxiety and all the abuse, names, bullying and manipulation I have been at the receiving end of for at least fifteen years (and why I am extremely lucky to know legitimately decent people these days). That was why YouTube's decision was a big deal to me, because for a moment I felt like something extremely important to my well-being was threatened, and I panicked. No one ever stops for the full story though.
So thank you for putting up with my rant. I'm over it and on to figuring out the .mkv issue. It's a challenge and I like those most the time.
Also, I'm going to attempt to bake cookies for a friend as she is leaving for grad school. This will end one of two ways: I will make a passable cookie...or I will burn the house down. Though, in reality, I'll probably just forget a vital ingredient again. I'm a terrible baker.
EDIT: The house is still standing and I have made a passable cookie.
SECOND EDIT: I have heard rumors of other people having similar issues and that it is a bug. I am praying this is true. Either way, I have spent the entire day being upset over essentially nothing. On the bright side, I now know that a) I say some dumb things and over-react when these things happen and b) I made a very good decision in 2009. I will leave it at that.
FINAL EDIT: It's fixed. Sigh...well this is a good lesson for when something like this happens again. Thanks to the people who put up with me yesterday and helped me feel better. You know who you are =p
Wait. What?
Apparently, as of yesterday, .mkv files are no longer supported. I encode everything in .mkv format. For the past three years, I have encoded all of my videos, everything I've posted, everything I have not posted, in .mkv format. There are very few exceptions. Why is this a problem? Well, .mkv is a container. It is very difficult to covert the files back into a format I can work with and edit. This is additionally a problem because I delete the raw Fraps files as soon as I have encoded the videos properly to save space.
Beginning to see an issue here?
Let me show you something. This, is my computer:
This, is an example of one of the drives I use for recording:
And this is how much space an hour and a half of recording your average game takes up:
All the videos you see on this page are in .mkv save one. This is where the bad and good news comes in. Here's the bad news first. All those videos in the top middle, were videos I had prepared in advance for YouTube. I'm leaving for two weeks...in a week. These were intended to keep my channel updated while I was gone. I cannot use them now. All those Dragonborn videos need to be converted. I do not have the raw files anymore. I deleted them two days ago. So I need to figure out a way to convert them if I want to post them, which will most likely mean a drop in quality. I will consult someone about this. The good news is I can start encoding in .mp4 format. Seems to have little difference in file size and the quality seems fine. I can start encoding all of the videos for YouTube that way. Life moves on. I'm over it now.
What I'm not over is that in my rage, I made the mistake of posting my complaint in the wrong place. I actually debated it knowing that a select few would be pricks about it, but I ultimately did it because it was cathartic. I then proceed to be lectured on how my problems meant nothing and that people are currently dying of disease and war in other parts of the world right now. A completely fair point. That said, I have control over my emotions, control over what's going on in my life, control over what I care about. This person didn't bother to ask what I do or think or care about in these situations. He just assumed I was being a selfish asshole. Yeah, maybe I was. For a single hour of a single day I dared to be angry about something relatively trivial in the grand scheme of the universe. Of course it means hours of work on something I don't have, especially when I've made promises to other people to make things for them. I can handle strangers being jerks. Most of the time if just makes me laugh. When it's someone I know personally, that hurts a lot more, because there is more meaning behind the comments besides being an asshole for the sake of making people mad. I'm over this, but now I get to feel like a terrible human being for the rest of the day, no matter what I tell myself or how much I care about what's going on in other places.
This is why I post videos. This is why I do LPs. Everywhere I go, everything I do, I feel like very few people take me seriously. Everyone else is more important, has worse shit to deal with, has a louder voice. I can sit, and talk and enjoy a game, for a few hours of my day, and not have to worry about the more pressing issues in my life and around the world in other people's lives. It helps me deal with confidence issues, depression, anxiety and all the abuse, names, bullying and manipulation I have been at the receiving end of for at least fifteen years (and why I am extremely lucky to know legitimately decent people these days). That was why YouTube's decision was a big deal to me, because for a moment I felt like something extremely important to my well-being was threatened, and I panicked. No one ever stops for the full story though.
So thank you for putting up with my rant. I'm over it and on to figuring out the .mkv issue. It's a challenge and I like those most the time.
Also, I'm going to attempt to bake cookies for a friend as she is leaving for grad school. This will end one of two ways: I will make a passable cookie...or I will burn the house down. Though, in reality, I'll probably just forget a vital ingredient again. I'm a terrible baker.
EDIT: The house is still standing and I have made a passable cookie.
SECOND EDIT: I have heard rumors of other people having similar issues and that it is a bug. I am praying this is true. Either way, I have spent the entire day being upset over essentially nothing. On the bright side, I now know that a) I say some dumb things and over-react when these things happen and b) I made a very good decision in 2009. I will leave it at that.
FINAL EDIT: It's fixed. Sigh...well this is a good lesson for when something like this happens again. Thanks to the people who put up with me yesterday and helped me feel better. You know who you are =p
Friday, August 8, 2014
Huehuehue
My house is peaceful and empty again as all the relatives that have been staying with us over the past 2 and a half weeks are gone. They're all nice people, but I'm glad we don't have so many people here anymore. Gets a little claustrophobic and it's harder to explain all the inane gibberish I spew while LPing to guests.
Well, I caved and got a capture card. This means two things. One: I can finally do the Gamecube LPs that I want to do. I have three specific games in mind, which I will leave a surprise as I have no idea how well this is going to work. Two: Shauna and I may be able to do more horror LPs since she wants to get some for her PS3/PS4. For now, we're going to work on completing Bioshock Infinite. And I'm going to...uh...finish producing Penumbra...which is kind of maybe over 8 months old now. Heh.
I will be recording more Dark Souls over the weekend as my brother is out of town and I can steal his gamepad for prolonged periods of time without him needing it. Lots of Skyrim videos are produced, so you can expect those for the rest of August. Looks like I will be starting another LP with Voyeur very soon as well (once we confirm what it is we are playing). Might also be adding to the MMO series with a new game "Fallen Earth," but I am unsure of whether I will be playing a whole lot. It feels a little stale and incomplete to me. Plus I got mad about the horse steering. Regardless, you can expect a video of that experience up within the week.
Coming up this week:
Skyrim - Likely two segments
Neverwinter Dungeon - The one from the Pirate Skyhold area. I'm too lazy at the moment to look it up
Dark Souls - One or two segments. We'll see
Fallen Earth - Another very silly video approacheth.
Penumbra Black Plague - Slowly but surely it will arrive.
Well, I caved and got a capture card. This means two things. One: I can finally do the Gamecube LPs that I want to do. I have three specific games in mind, which I will leave a surprise as I have no idea how well this is going to work. Two: Shauna and I may be able to do more horror LPs since she wants to get some for her PS3/PS4. For now, we're going to work on completing Bioshock Infinite. And I'm going to...uh...finish producing Penumbra...which is kind of maybe over 8 months old now. Heh.
I will be recording more Dark Souls over the weekend as my brother is out of town and I can steal his gamepad for prolonged periods of time without him needing it. Lots of Skyrim videos are produced, so you can expect those for the rest of August. Looks like I will be starting another LP with Voyeur very soon as well (once we confirm what it is we are playing). Might also be adding to the MMO series with a new game "Fallen Earth," but I am unsure of whether I will be playing a whole lot. It feels a little stale and incomplete to me. Plus I got mad about the horse steering. Regardless, you can expect a video of that experience up within the week.
Coming up this week:
Skyrim - Likely two segments
Neverwinter Dungeon - The one from the Pirate Skyhold area. I'm too lazy at the moment to look it up
Dark Souls - One or two segments. We'll see
Fallen Earth - Another very silly video approacheth.
Penumbra Black Plague - Slowly but surely it will arrive.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Phantom Mooing
Yes, mooing. I'm back from vacation over the long weekend. I at least managed to post a few videos from my phone while I was away though editing tags and descriptions was a pain in the ass. So I didn't do it until I got home. I will now be in town until August 16, which means videos will upload regularly.
It was a good weekend. I was actually pretty relaxed out there despite the number of people that showed up. Regardless, I got some swimming in and I didn't get sun burned too badly. Aside from the party barge blaring AC/DC in the middle of one of the nights, and the phantom mooing and windstorms on another, it went fairly smooth. I was happy to get away after the shit-storm I had to deal with at work in the form of the most disgusting group of people I've had to deal with in a very long time. I honestly felt like I had been thrown back into Junior High. Of course I get home to find out one person in my household covered in bandages, another with stitches in her head and one recovering from a cold. Seriously guys, I was away for THREE DAYS. Usually having me around causes these sorts of problems...
Probably going to be starting up another LP with Voyeur in the next two weeks. Not sure what we're playing yet, but it's sure to be silly. A new channel trailer is uploaded, because the other one was getting a little dated. I still have a few other non-LP related videos to upload this week as well. Skyrim is coming along nicely. Dark Souls is...a lot slower. I also have a skiing video to create now that I have the actual videos in my possession. We'll see how things go. At the very least, I have Neverwinter Dungeons I can post.
It was a good weekend. I was actually pretty relaxed out there despite the number of people that showed up. Regardless, I got some swimming in and I didn't get sun burned too badly. Aside from the party barge blaring AC/DC in the middle of one of the nights, and the phantom mooing and windstorms on another, it went fairly smooth. I was happy to get away after the shit-storm I had to deal with at work in the form of the most disgusting group of people I've had to deal with in a very long time. I honestly felt like I had been thrown back into Junior High. Of course I get home to find out one person in my household covered in bandages, another with stitches in her head and one recovering from a cold. Seriously guys, I was away for THREE DAYS. Usually having me around causes these sorts of problems...
Probably going to be starting up another LP with Voyeur in the next two weeks. Not sure what we're playing yet, but it's sure to be silly. A new channel trailer is uploaded, because the other one was getting a little dated. I still have a few other non-LP related videos to upload this week as well. Skyrim is coming along nicely. Dark Souls is...a lot slower. I also have a skiing video to create now that I have the actual videos in my possession. We'll see how things go. At the very least, I have Neverwinter Dungeons I can post.
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