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.

Everything is on Fire

The sun is a lovely shade of blood red today. Time to ring in the apocalypse with some coffee, cookies and my return from the Place of Spiders (oh, and the Chicken Dance as is tradition with apocalypses). 

Yeah so my city is covered in smoke from the forest fires in Washington today. Heard it's pretty bad down there at the moment, so hope any readers living there are safe from the fires. I couldn't see downtown from the beltline today driving to work, so the air quality is pretty bad. I may add a picture later.

I am back home. I spent a lot of yesterday catching up on video work. I have a small segment of Saint's Row 3 left to go through, but I am essentially done that series. It's nice to have that 600GB back. I finished some work on Testament of Sherlock, but mostly it was just preparing clips for Mesk, who said he would do a in-depth analysis cast of the game for me. That should be fairly amusing. I also continued some work on Tera and the Dungeon Siege 1 Revival series (which I haven't continued since like...May or June). 

I need to finish recording Dead Space 2, Awesome Possum, Gauntlet (with Mesk, HKS and Wibod), Half Life Episode 2 and Riven (will get back to you on this). Guild Wars 1 and Tera need attention, but recording on those are on hold, I think until Mesk and HKS are done Divinity OS due to hard drive space limitations on their end. Not to say my end is any better what with my 600GB free on my flaky external hard drive. 

Oh yeah I still haven't finished Fire Emblem either...

I don't really have an upload schedule worked out yet as I'm still trying to figure out wtf I was doing before I left (nothing productive in the video world I'm guessing). So enjoy the random crap I throw at you for the next week. Hopefully by the weekend I'll have something resembling a regular upload schedule again.

PS - Yesterday I was talking with Mesk, HKS and Shauna and suddenly I'm the proud owner of SOMA and Planet Alcatraz, and apparently I'm LPing both. I'm not exactly sure what happened.

Slowly Getting There

The subs have been teasing me the past few days. Jumped from 990 to 998 super fast, and then I lost three, and then I gained two, and now it's just sitting there. Regardless, I have my content ready once I'm safely over the 1000 mark. I could lose some at that point I guess, but meh. Good enough for me.

I also have another random video I'd like to post in the next couple days. I may still edit it up a bit, but I'm rather proud of it for a video I made over the span of a day and a half on a whim.

Since I've crammed too much into my head and don't know what I'm doing anymore. I've been creating lists everywhere to do the remembering for me. My poor brain.

Current LPs and videos being released:
Among the Sleep, Tag-Team - almost done (it's like 6 episodes total)
Bioshock 2 - there's a lot of this left
Farcry 3, co-op - LP is finished as of a couple days ago. There's still quite a bit left
Tera - I don't have any more episodes prepared, but some Bastion of Lok is coming up (likely a couple clip shows and then an entire run or two of it)

I think that's it. Yeahhhh must be. Also I've been finding a lot of random unreleased stuff...so it's either being thrown on YT whenever I find them, or on the public drive. Unless I think I've released them and I actually haven't and wonder why you are all looking at me strangely. That's also a very likely possibility.

Strange is Life

Yeah so I meant to play Life is Strange Episode 3 after midnight on its release. I'm a genius and thought it was midnight this evening and not last evening at midnight. And it's very confusing to talk about because technically midnight is a new day, so it WAS released midnight Tuesday, but I still thought it was later today. Point is, I'll be pretending it was actually released tonight and I'll play it through when I get home from work at 11pm.

My 1000 subscriber mark is approaching. It's really just an arbitrary number as I'm pretty sure only 10 of those people are actively watching my videos. The rest I'm sure are either bots or subbed because of the Dungeon Siege or Diablo 1 videos. Still, I feel it's an excuse to do something special. Not going to say what, but I'm in the process of making it now (when I'm not trying to sift through 7-8 hours of Saints Row 3, the bits of Tera and War for the Overworld I have left, Guild Wars 1 and other things that have been getting stale on my hard drives).

Halfway finished the Among the Sleep LP, which really isn't that monumental as it was something like 3 hours long in total. Still, I feel like SOME progress is being made. Then poor Mesk and HKS have been wanting to play through more Guild Wars and Tera, but I've been all out a lot the past couple weeks (doing things like covering for my coworkers who monumentally messed up their shifts at work and interviewing for a new job). Once my hard drives are a little cleared up, I owe them quite a bit of game-time to catch up.

And hopefully I can avoid upsetting Mesk further with how I'm playing my archer in Tera. Hee.

Broken

I thought I would break this game. It is breaking me.

War for the Overworld is almost finished. I didn't think I would encounter a level more broken than mission 9. Yeah...in this level I have had to deal with endless streams of imps in multiple locations, rituals that don't work (including the super power one that does literally nothing), draining territory battles (where if you attend to something else for 5 seconds, suddenly half your base is gone), rituals that break functions that normally work, dudes getting stuck places, dudes not paying any attention to rally flags, dudes running away, enemy dudes getting rescued and healed almost instantly, and invisible people attacking your dungeon core. Oh and broken ghouls. Broken ghouls everywhere.

Then I spent a good number of hours last night getting Guild Wars 1 ready (at least figuring out my account stuff) as Mesk and HKS would like to start that soon. I was having trouble logging in and linking my accounts. At first I tried resetting my password, and then none of the possible emails worked, and then finally one randomly decided to work, and then it wanted me to use one of my GW1 character names as a security question. I played this over 7 years ago. Thankfully, I'm a predictable little twit and correctly guessed my character name. So now it works. Yay.

Bioshock 2 is finally uploading. I hope you enjoy my misery.

Lost Kingdoms continues. It's actually close to being done. It's a pretty short game.

You already heard all about War for the Overworld.

I need to finish up my Tera stuff.

I need to finish up all my co-op stuff.

I need to finish a lot of stuff.

Sanitarium Finished

Sanitarium is completely uploaded. Dead Space will be completely finished tomorrow or the day after. Hunted will be likely finished by next week.

I have ready to upload:
-Tera
-Bioshock 2
-War for the Overworld
-Testament of Sherlock Holmes
-Lost Kingdoms

I don't know which ones I'll upload first. Probably War for the Overworld and Bioschlock 2.

I am extremely exhausted so I don't really have much more to add on that for now. Whatever's got me has me in a vice. Can't shake it off. Lab tests Wednesday. For reals this time. Going to go home and try to sleep this off.

PS - Keep an eye out for Part 8 of the Tera videos. It's an experience.

PSS - War for the Overlord is still being patched and it is slowly getting less and less buggy. Even Nick has managed to crash the game a few times.

Long Week

Cue jokes surrounding the word "long."

My boss was away in Italy this week dealing with family business, so I have been working every day this week. It hasn't been too excruciating as it's been pretty quiet here aside from random groups of noisy children and legions of dudebros who leave the lingering scent of Axe. Regardless, I have not been home much this week. Any time I have been, I have either been busy (plans for D&D etc.) or too tired to do anything useful. On one hand, due to people's graphics cards being toasted (not that it's a good or anything cause...money) and me currently not having any running projects besides Fire Emblem (Life is Strange doesn't count because that was a 2 and a half hour one-shot) I haven't been behind on any recordings. I finished encoding Hunted, and I'm SO CLOSE with Tera and Alien Isolation. On the other hand...

I should have had a lot more productive week. I managed to get through work (one more shift tomorrow then I get to break on Sunday...perhaps literally XD). Problem is I literally have had no energy this week, and that's not because I've been busy. I am sick, again, but this time it's...really weird. I have extreme fatigue (I actually don't know how I made it through Wednesday), I've been waking up exhausted every day (yes I've been getting at least 7 or 8 hours of sleep every night...frankly I'm too tired to stay up later; I just pass out), I've been having trouble...concentrating (more than usual...yeah I know that's kinda hard to imagine), and the weirdest thing is I've been experiencing pain in my joints. Like...not just a couple of them. Every. Single. Joint. I have the usual lower back and knee pain that flares up at annoying times, but this is different. My hips, knees, elbows, shoulders, back, hands, wrists, ankles, all ache or have this burning sensation. My toes currently have a "hot" or burning sensation (I used to get this in university and I thought it was stress related). I can still type and use the mouse, but my fingers feel swollen and brittle (they are not swollen and are in fact, quite solid). It doesn't keep me up at night or anything, but I feel it immediately when I wake up in the morning. I thought this was a flu at first, because I get really achy when I get the flu, but I literally do not feel sick otherwise. I have no other flu symptoms and they started last Saturday evening. They have only marginally got better some days this week. Still eating normal amounts of food for me. Eating fairly healthy etc. Pain meds sort of help. Takes the edge off but it doesn't actually go away. I just don't understand what's happening.

Good news is I have an appointment to see a doctor on Monday morning. I am hoping I feel better by then and this just gets dismissed as a bad flu. I will be happy with that. That said, I almost wonder if there's something else wrong. I may be okay with that too because then I might actually know why I get sick so much. I don't WANT something to be wrong, but maybe I can finally take some steps to be healthier. And if we don't find anything, at least I'll know it's just me and I got to get my shit together for once.

Anyway, just typed that all out here because I'm actually kind of freaked out. Going to keep going on as normal as I can in the meantime (don't have time for this shit man!). I will keep you updated.

All five-ish of you.

Sleepy

Oh online moderation...things do explode so quickly sometimes. Over silly things. You check in on a community and everything his happy and peaceful. Check in again five hours later and suddenly all hell has broken loose. People make me sleepy.

I have a busy week ahead of me. I need to get a lot of video finished. I ran out of Alien Isolation videos again (I have about 4 hours left to edit I just need to stop playing Fire Emblem and GET 'ER DONE). I need to finish up two LPs so I can work on other projects. First, I need to finish up Hunted with Mesk. We have one more chapter to complete. Second, I need to finish Dead Space. I think I have 4 chapters to complete. Third I need to get all that Tera and Guild Wars 2 footage off my computer. I have no idea what the hell is going on with those projects. Both are adventures of screaming, horses, random encounters and giggling and I just don't know anymore.

I have told GeneralDelta I will be prepared to play Borderlands 2 by Thursday. So I have to get everything together and off my drives. I HAVE THREE DAYS.

What's new this week other than heaps of recording work?
-Sanitarium - Started posting this yesterday
-Tera videos should go up sometime this week
-I might start uploading Bioshlock 2, but I might save that for filler when I need it

I don't know if there will be any streams or not this week. If there are, it will likely be Left 4 Dead 2 with Shauna and Nick, Borderlands 2 with GeneralDelta, or Transistor and my bitter tears.

MOAR VIDEO

Yeah I messed up and didn't upload enough video to cover the week...so instead of two per day, you'll get one video some days. Meh, my uploads are usually super inconsistent anyways as I sometimes forget or am too tired to post them (also I hate doing the tags). Regardless, you should still get some video each day, just less than normal.

Also, Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is now a completed LP. I recommend watching episodes 40-46 for maximum wtf factor. It is so random, rushed and horribly corny. I love it...mostly because even though the quality drops and there are sudden unexplained events, the game is still playable and entertaining. Three points of ughhhhh: Grima, Funny Looking Orc Dude and the stupid Nazgul in Osgiliath. That is all.

Coming up this week: Alien Isolation, Hunted, Dead Space 1

Coming up next week: Sanitarium.

Bioschlock 2 is next on the list after these. I will likely start posting it once Dead Space 1 is finished. Among the Sleep is next up after Alien Isolation in terms of LPs with Shauna (AtS is about 3 hours of gameplay so it should only be about 6 episodes at most). Then I will focus on getting all that Bioshock Infinite off my drives (which was also played with Shuana).

The next Gamecube game I will be posting is Lost Kingdoms. This will likely be followed by Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on Hard difficulty (because Sacrosanct wants a piece of my suffering). I'd share the anguish of Fire Emblem: Awakening on Lunatic Classic mode, but you are likely only going to get a crummy video from my phone on that at most as it's on the 3DS and I can't emulate that at this time. Guys it's painful. I am currently stuck on CHAPTER 2 because SOMEONE couldn't remember their god damned axe. Yeah the issue is really the pointy stick dudes. Frederick survived the Hammer Man and now it's just the pointy stick dudes.

The next solo LP I will be doing will likely be finishing Half Life Episode 2. The end of February and March is CATCH UP TIME.

Finally expect some extremely silly video from Tera.

Triple O

"Out of Office" for the next week. I will be travelling to Murica to partake of the many flavoured Oreos and Cherry Cola. I will return next weekend. I will have internet access for the entire week, but there shall be no recording (which is not necessarily a bad thing as I am low on hard drive space for the 1000th time due to Tera recordings) and I will either be bringing a hard drive with me, or pre-uploading my videos for the week. So there should be no interruptions in video releases unless I forget to make them public.

At least one of you will be pleased to learn that I am almost done editing Alien Isolation. It has been difficult finding a good chunk of time to do this as I have work, people I have promised to game with, other chores and appointments. Also turns out I need this "sleep" thing I keep hearing about. I thought I could just not sleep, but I tend to pass out periodically and it's really annoying. Sometimes when I'm playing a game. Yes, I recently had two microsleeps while recording Neverwinter with GeneralDelta. Oops.

Lord of the Rings: Third Age will be finished this week. I have 4 more episodes. May also add custom title cards as GeneralDelta was so kind to make them for me. Dead Space will continue as well. I REALLY need to finish recording it soon or I will completely forget how to play, and it's not a good time to forget about it. I've just been putting it off due to space constrictions and because I've been a little stressed out (and it is kind of a stressful game).

Meanwhile I've been streaming a bit as it does not require any hard drive space from me. I may be streaming some Left 4 Dead 2 with Shauna and Nick tonight. I'll see if they're up for a stream or not. Usually it's only one or two people watching anyway. http://www.twitch.tv/drschwa


SEE Y'ALL IN A WEEK.