Exile and Revelations

Both Myst 3 and 4 do not work on this computer no matter what I try. In addition, something seems to be wrong with my mic and I'm getting random BSODs. This bodes well.

My plan is to put my recordings/playthroughs of Myst 3 and 4 on hold until I can get the old computer up and running again, troubleshoot the mic and try to get rid of the files on the external that I'm 95% sure is causing the BSODs.

In the meantime I have the Journeyman Project games (well 2 and 3 since 1 has never worked on anything) as well as Grim Fandango, the rest of Dead Space 2 and the upcoming Life is Strange Episode 5 (release on October 20 as far as I heard). I finished Riven the other night. The ending still freaks me out. I still can't believe this game traumatized me as much as it did when I was a child.

I have almost processed all of Tera (one little segment to go) and I am continuing work on the never-ending influx of co-op LP stuff.

In other other news, I am likely quitting my part-time job to focus on my full-time so I actually have my weekends and evenings free. This will happen in the next 3-4 weeks. So. Almost there.

Macs

Can I just take a moment to express my frustrations in switching from a 100% PC user to needing to use a Mac for my work computer? Because it's really frustrating. You wouldn't think a slight change in hotkeys would change much, but not only did I need to look up everything, I can't sync the keyboard or mouse I was provided, the hotkeys are fairly unintuitive (instead of the ctrl key I have the cmd key which is way closer to the z, x, c, v making it harder to copy/paste and undo, and the refresh key isn't f5 meaning that I was just changing the brightness of my screen over and over when I tried to figure that out on my own. Also I can't connect my own mouse to the computer cause....reasons? I can't click by touching the touch pad. I can only "right click" by placing two fingers on the touchpad and clicking. Also I just tried to use the delete button and found out that there is no delete button. The power button is in the delete button's place. Muscle memory is going to make me turn off my computer over and over and over...

I need to look into connecting a regular keyboard and changing some keybindings. My poor PC brain can't comprehend this. In the meantime...it's going to be a slow day. And not because I'm lazy.

EDIT - Apparently the computer was pairing with a mouse halfway across the room while refusing to pair with the one in front of me. Easy fix at least cause the other one didn't belong to anyone. The USB mouse continues to not work. At all.

EDIT 2 - My computer thinks I'm in Copenhagen. Also the if I press shift + 3 I get £ symbols. Because as a Canadian I definitely use the £ more than the #. I think I know who owned this computer last...

EDIT 3 - Updating Excel upset the delicate balance and the mouse decided it didn't want to play nice anymore. It has since been replaced by a wired microsoft mouse. Which works. It doesn't like wireless Logitech ones apparently. The saga continues.

Nothing New

Nothing really to talk about, but I figured I'd make a short post to say I'm still here, but not getting stuff done.

There's lots of recordings that have been done and my drives are full, but I haven't done much video editing. I just have less time in my evenings to sit and dedicate to this since I need to be in to work every day at 8am except Sunday. So I need to go to sleep earlier, and late at night is when I traditionally do a lot of this stuff. I want to go through it all (especially the Evil Within and Gauntlet stuff), but I want to do other things more like trying to get some reading and writing done. That and catch up on some video watching.

I'm going to suddenly get a burst of productivity and flood you all with videos. But for now I'm just tired, grouchy and anti-social. Maybe next week I'll have a more exciting update for you.

Can't remember if I showed this to you Michael.

Turn the Crank

One of the levels in Evil Within was literally just turning cranks and fighting pyramid head ripoffs. We played 6 ish hours yesterday and we're still only 2/3 done. We have five more chapters and we STILL have no idea what's going on. It's hilarious and so very disheartening at the same time. If it's not cameras being shoved up our rear ends, or statues glued to crows, it's confusing plots and awful texturing. We'll get there some day.

Good news! I am now officially a fulltime employee at the place I was doing contract work for! This means I might be able to drop some of the other things I'm doing and have more time for faffing about in games and video production. Likely I will work at the library job I have as well for a time and see if it will work for me. If not and I end up a nervous wreck again, I will have a clear answer.

Almost complete Awesome Possum. I'm on the final gauntlet run of bosses. I'm stuck on the loser with the skates, monkey wrench and kabuki mask. I think he's supposed to be a hockey player? Regardless, he's annoying because he reads input and there's no corner I can wedge him in to kill him in seconds. I started working on a Tera video. It's actually almost done, I just need to do final edits and an encode. I just want to get the footage off my drives as it has been sitting there for months. Oh and people finally convinced me to start Mass Effect. I made an extremely pissed off Shepard with the most tragic backstory I could muster. I was giggling cause all I could think of was Calhoun from Wreck It Ralph.

Going to try and get more Gauntlet time in this weekend. Mesk and HKS have been complaining that I'm constantly dead, so it may be time to pick this back up. That or play more Guild Wars. I'll leave that up to them.

Lastly, Delta was wanting to play some games this weekend. I'll likely be joining in a stream of theirs at some point (late Friday night for me is the most likely). I will regret it in the morning, but sacrifices must be made (I work an 8 hour shift starting at 9am ughhhhhh).