Extra Life is almost here. I still haven't done my promotional video, but I guess it's been a little bit busy here lately with the car dying. GOOD NEWS THOUGH. I'm buying a new one. As of last night I put a deposit on a car. Should be about a week before I'm mobile again. Test drove it last night and this one actually accelerates when you press the gas! It's great!
Joking aside though, getting a newer car this time to get a little more life out of it. Either way, Extra Life this year will be like the first year playing at Kathleen's. Poor Kathleen will be stuck with me all day. I have a plan to do hourly update videos and smush them all together when the event is over.
We're not expecting that much locally this year because the economy and job market is really bad in Calgary right now, but here's Kathleen's donation page one more time: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=216662
She got past the $600 mark, so I think she said that she's wear a clown nose for the entire streaming session.
So new car, "saved" a community from its sad, slow, death (okay I didn't save it personally, but I believed in it until the person who could save it pulled a miracle out of his hat) and Extra Life on Saturday. Week hasn't been perfect, but it's definitely turning around.
Dishonored - The second game is coming out soon and even though I've heard bad reviews I'm still excited. I really liked playing the original game despite its issues.
I put way too much water in my oatmeal. Ugh it's like lumpy paste soup.
Thief - Yes Oliver, I will play it soon.
Nanowrimo is here. I never participate because I suck at doing these kind of things, but I'm still going to try and work on writing a lot this month anyway. The only person I actually know who has written an entire novel in a Nanowrimo is going to be participating again this year. Amy wants me to read her manuscript for her class and I'm sure I have something to do for Mesk that I haven't done yet cause I'm a lazy piece of shit. Either way, work continues in bits and pieces.
PSA on behalf of Shauna: Don't use the Steam overlay to browse the internet while playing games. Apparently she was looking up something on the PoE Wiki while playing, an infected ad loaded and it blasted her computer with a rootkit. I think she's managed to recover her data, but she had to reinstall windows on her machine. I've never really used the Steam overlay before to browse (done it once or twice) so I haven't run into these problems myself, but figured I'd pass along her message.
Also I think I did something to my finger. I can't make a fist without it hurting. Unless it's a leftover injury from dodgeball I didn't know I got, I have no idea how it happened. It started hurting after I got coffee yesterday so...?
Showing posts with label soundtrack Thursday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soundtrack Thursday. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Capture Card
Got my capture card in the mail yesterday and the splitter the day before that. I can now record/stream PS3 and PS4 as well as a swath of other consoles. The catch is that if Shauna and I want to do a co-op thing, either she needs to come to me or I need to take my entire computer to her. Either is possible, but we live on opposite ends of the city. It's a 30-40 minute drive on average. The other option is playing online, but that doesn't help for Outlast 2 when it comes out. We'll figure out something though.
Extra Life is coming up in a couple weeks. I'll likely post my ad video for it on Saturday this week to promote it. Kathleen still has a ways to go to reach her goal. Click here! Help her out! Win some shit! Dictate what I play since I'll probably be hauling my entire set up over to her house!
!!!!!
Music:
Age of Wonders 3
Overlord? - This was not the soundtrack I was looking for...but I listened to it out of curiosity.
Then I got distracted by this.
Haven't played anything since last Saturday. Meanwhile Shauna has been stealing my Steam library to play Pillars of Eternity. She's pretty much caught up to where I am in the game now. I'll probably play more tonight. If not tonight, then Saturday. If not Saturday, than Sunday.
Also I should probably get better at filling in my time sheet. I have trouble remembering what I did yesterday let alone 2 weeks ago. Ugh.
Extra Life is coming up in a couple weeks. I'll likely post my ad video for it on Saturday this week to promote it. Kathleen still has a ways to go to reach her goal. Click here! Help her out! Win some shit! Dictate what I play since I'll probably be hauling my entire set up over to her house!
!!!!!
Music:
Age of Wonders 3
Overlord? - This was not the soundtrack I was looking for...but I listened to it out of curiosity.
Then I got distracted by this.
Haven't played anything since last Saturday. Meanwhile Shauna has been stealing my Steam library to play Pillars of Eternity. She's pretty much caught up to where I am in the game now. I'll probably play more tonight. If not tonight, then Saturday. If not Saturday, than Sunday.
Also I should probably get better at filling in my time sheet. I have trouble remembering what I did yesterday let alone 2 weeks ago. Ugh.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
An Actual Soundtrack Day
It's been a few weeks since I actually did this.
Pillars of Eternity - Since I'm playing it. 10 bucks says I know who disliked the first video in the first hour. YOU SHOULD BE SLEEPING. GOD. Not sure if I'll be sick of the soundtrack after awhile. At least it's not like Divinity OS where they had the same battle music the entire game. I remember HKS being disappointed in that while I was watching. Also, I swear to god, there's a few tracks in there that are REALLY similar to Dungeon Siege. Remind me to look into the Gilded Vale track.
Dragon Age Inquisition - Kristy will be pleased.
This week is a good week. I get a bit of work taken off my shoulders and aside from clients testing things on production when they have perfectly good staging environments to futz around in all they like, it's been quite nice focusing on a few projects rather than ALL the things. Also got some very promising news from one of our clients that I'm very excited about, but I still don't want to get my hopes up too much lest they be crushed mercilessly.
Alternating Pillars of Eternity and Shadow of Mordor now. Surprised at the interest levels for PoE to be honest. I'm liking the game enough so far. The writing is mostly good, it's also has some uh...interesting word choices for some situations in that it's like someone vomited a thesaurus. Sometimes the simplest word is the best word in my opinion, but I do like the attempts at thoughtful storytelling for once. The game is pretty dark so far though. It doesn't ease you into it at all. First couple of hours and you're slapped in the face with a death tree and domestic abuse. Happy happy fun times.
Pillars of Eternity - Since I'm playing it. 10 bucks says I know who disliked the first video in the first hour. YOU SHOULD BE SLEEPING. GOD. Not sure if I'll be sick of the soundtrack after awhile. At least it's not like Divinity OS where they had the same battle music the entire game. I remember HKS being disappointed in that while I was watching. Also, I swear to god, there's a few tracks in there that are REALLY similar to Dungeon Siege. Remind me to look into the Gilded Vale track.
Dragon Age Inquisition - Kristy will be pleased.
This week is a good week. I get a bit of work taken off my shoulders and aside from clients testing things on production when they have perfectly good staging environments to futz around in all they like, it's been quite nice focusing on a few projects rather than ALL the things. Also got some very promising news from one of our clients that I'm very excited about, but I still don't want to get my hopes up too much lest they be crushed mercilessly.
Alternating Pillars of Eternity and Shadow of Mordor now. Surprised at the interest levels for PoE to be honest. I'm liking the game enough so far. The writing is mostly good, it's also has some uh...interesting word choices for some situations in that it's like someone vomited a thesaurus. Sometimes the simplest word is the best word in my opinion, but I do like the attempts at thoughtful storytelling for once. The game is pretty dark so far though. It doesn't ease you into it at all. First couple of hours and you're slapped in the face with a death tree and domestic abuse. Happy happy fun times.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Aftermath
This week was the beginning of a two-week stint of a lot of extra responsibilities at work. It's good, because I've been wanting to take on a bit of a different role at work, but it was sort of like asking for one of the gates in a dam to be opened only to have the entire damn structure (lol) explode in my face. So in addition to worrying about some medical concerns, I've been getting a cold that's been passed around (or I never fully recovered from what I had a couple weeks back) and I've had a lot of stress stacked on top as I catapult into taking on a lot of extra hours of work/dropping other tasks to make sure things are taken care of.
All of this cumulated in a massive panic attack while I was driving, which, believe it or not I was grateful for. I was on my way home on my long work day (I now work 7:30am-10:30pm on one day at two jobs, which may need to change) and I was feeling pretty sick/faint. I was terrified that I was going to pass out suddenly, even though I've never actually fainted before. I got myself all worked up and I felt the panic attack coming on. The thing is, even though I KNOW what it is, I can't stop it from happening. It's the kind of thing that needs to run its course once it gets past a certain threshold.
It's not exactly comfortable and I haven't had too many of them before (I've had maybe 4-5 massive attacks over my entire life, and most of them are in the middle of the night), but I've had enough that I know how to recognize them. It was the strangest experience, because I went from feeling faint and nauseous, then short of breath, to completely alert with full concentration. I got this tingling sensation in my hands to the point where they went completely numb (I could still use them fine but I couldn't "feel" them) and it felt like my blood in my hands was bubbling. It wasn't hot, but it felt as though both my hands had the circulation cut off, but it wasn't painful and it was super intense. The rest of my body had tremors running through it and I had a burning sensation across my chest and face.
I was worried I wouldn't be able to go again if I pulled over into the shoulder on the road, so I just...kept driving. I experienced that for about 15minutes for the rest of the drive home and it started to go away when I was about 2minutes out. My subconscious was aware that I was almost in a "safe" zone I suppose. Anyway the reason I was grateful for it, was when it came on I knew that I WOULDN'T faint, because it was literally impossible. When I have panic attacks, my heart rate and blood pressure increases and you faint when the opposite happens. My nausea went away too so, I got the lesser of two evils.
So yeah. That was fun. Waking up has been difficult the last couple days, but I am feeling better for now. All of this will be addressed in a week's time. And yes, if you are all wondering, I would have pulled over if I was actually going to faint or throw up. I know what fainting feels like cause it's almost happened a few times (but never actually lost consciousness).
Anyway...here have some soundtracks.
Destiny: Rise of Iron - Actually like this soundtrack quite a bit. Apparently it was officially released this week. I should play more of this some day.
Game of Thrones - Apparently this is all the soundtracks. It's like 6 hours long. I'm going to just listen to a bit of it.
Working on the RPG again. Fixed a bunch of issues that were mildly frustrating, but also kind of hilarious. Working on the battle system and items now, but it's going to require a lot of testing to make sure it's functional. I'm hoping to have the first map done by the end of October. Theoretically, barring issues finding or making specific assets, the rest of it should go a lot quicker now that I have an idea of what I'm doing.
It wouldn't be a possibility this year, but maybe I can use this RPG as an incentive for Extra Life next year. Not that anyone would actually want to play the damn thing, but I could give out a copy to the top three donors or something. I'll talk to Kathleen about it. This year I may get Mesk, Shauna and Delta in on Extra Life activities. Likely going to be purchasing a capture card so I can do PS3/PS4 games.
All of this cumulated in a massive panic attack while I was driving, which, believe it or not I was grateful for. I was on my way home on my long work day (I now work 7:30am-10:30pm on one day at two jobs, which may need to change) and I was feeling pretty sick/faint. I was terrified that I was going to pass out suddenly, even though I've never actually fainted before. I got myself all worked up and I felt the panic attack coming on. The thing is, even though I KNOW what it is, I can't stop it from happening. It's the kind of thing that needs to run its course once it gets past a certain threshold.
It's not exactly comfortable and I haven't had too many of them before (I've had maybe 4-5 massive attacks over my entire life, and most of them are in the middle of the night), but I've had enough that I know how to recognize them. It was the strangest experience, because I went from feeling faint and nauseous, then short of breath, to completely alert with full concentration. I got this tingling sensation in my hands to the point where they went completely numb (I could still use them fine but I couldn't "feel" them) and it felt like my blood in my hands was bubbling. It wasn't hot, but it felt as though both my hands had the circulation cut off, but it wasn't painful and it was super intense. The rest of my body had tremors running through it and I had a burning sensation across my chest and face.
I was worried I wouldn't be able to go again if I pulled over into the shoulder on the road, so I just...kept driving. I experienced that for about 15minutes for the rest of the drive home and it started to go away when I was about 2minutes out. My subconscious was aware that I was almost in a "safe" zone I suppose. Anyway the reason I was grateful for it, was when it came on I knew that I WOULDN'T faint, because it was literally impossible. When I have panic attacks, my heart rate and blood pressure increases and you faint when the opposite happens. My nausea went away too so, I got the lesser of two evils.
So yeah. That was fun. Waking up has been difficult the last couple days, but I am feeling better for now. All of this will be addressed in a week's time. And yes, if you are all wondering, I would have pulled over if I was actually going to faint or throw up. I know what fainting feels like cause it's almost happened a few times (but never actually lost consciousness).
Anyway...here have some soundtracks.
Destiny: Rise of Iron - Actually like this soundtrack quite a bit. Apparently it was officially released this week. I should play more of this some day.
Game of Thrones - Apparently this is all the soundtracks. It's like 6 hours long. I'm going to just listen to a bit of it.
Working on the RPG again. Fixed a bunch of issues that were mildly frustrating, but also kind of hilarious. Working on the battle system and items now, but it's going to require a lot of testing to make sure it's functional. I'm hoping to have the first map done by the end of October. Theoretically, barring issues finding or making specific assets, the rest of it should go a lot quicker now that I have an idea of what I'm doing.
It wouldn't be a possibility this year, but maybe I can use this RPG as an incentive for Extra Life next year. Not that anyone would actually want to play the damn thing, but I could give out a copy to the top three donors or something. I'll talk to Kathleen about it. This year I may get Mesk, Shauna and Delta in on Extra Life activities. Likely going to be purchasing a capture card so I can do PS3/PS4 games.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Extra Life 2016 Announcement
Hey all, we're getting ready for Extra Life again this year. Kathleen was unfortunately sick last year, so we had a little bit of a quieter year. This year she's going for a goal of $2000 dollars for the Alberta Children's hospital, so I'm hoping to help her raise that!
I'll probably do an announcement video as I normally do, but I'll wait until I've got things a little more under control with work etc. In the meantime, you can find Kathleen's donation page here, and her Twitch here (I need to get the link...will add later) . She may do some pre-streaming, so you should all go subscribe to her on there.
A few weeks before I'm going to throw up a poll or something to see if I can gauge what you all want to see me play. I might order a capture card that I can hook up to the PS3/PS4 since both Shauna and I have an interest in LPing some of those games in the future anyway. If there's more interest for some 6-year-old gaming laptop friendly games, I can play those as well (problem is getting them to stream smoothly). I would love to bring my tower to Kathleen's place, but I don't think I want to risk moving it.
Soundtrack Thursday:
Psycho Pass 2nd Season - I liked the other music I tried out from a couple months ago so...here's some more!
Tokyo Ghoul - Don't look at me. I don't watch much anime. I just followed the dongles from Psycho Pass until I got to something I haven't listened to before.
Deathnote - An anime I actually watched in early University years I believe.
I am very tired today, but I'm still going. Going to be hopefully getting more answers at the end of the month and I'm not leaving until I have a course of action plotted out. I've had enough of this months ago and nothing I do or change seems to affect it all that much.
Meanwhile some sort of war rages in the comments section from last week. I'm amused, confused and wondering what the hell is going on. I'm only engaging to throw a little humour and information in there. We'll see if it hits critical mass and collapses on itself.
Also meanwhile, every video I post is getting bot spam on it lately. "Liked and subscribed" my ass. I can see all my recent subscribers. Thankfully YT is smart enough to identify these as spam and the problem mostly takes care of itself. I liked the "It looks like you put a lot of work into this and you make it look so easy haha!" on Shadow of Mordor where I literally make the game look as hard as possible with the amount of things that go wrong.
I'll probably do an announcement video as I normally do, but I'll wait until I've got things a little more under control with work etc. In the meantime, you can find Kathleen's donation page here, and her Twitch here (I need to get the link...will add later) . She may do some pre-streaming, so you should all go subscribe to her on there.
A few weeks before I'm going to throw up a poll or something to see if I can gauge what you all want to see me play. I might order a capture card that I can hook up to the PS3/PS4 since both Shauna and I have an interest in LPing some of those games in the future anyway. If there's more interest for some 6-year-old gaming laptop friendly games, I can play those as well (problem is getting them to stream smoothly). I would love to bring my tower to Kathleen's place, but I don't think I want to risk moving it.
Soundtrack Thursday:
Psycho Pass 2nd Season - I liked the other music I tried out from a couple months ago so...here's some more!
Tokyo Ghoul - Don't look at me. I don't watch much anime. I just followed the dongles from Psycho Pass until I got to something I haven't listened to before.
Deathnote - An anime I actually watched in early University years I believe.
I am very tired today, but I'm still going. Going to be hopefully getting more answers at the end of the month and I'm not leaving until I have a course of action plotted out. I've had enough of this months ago and nothing I do or change seems to affect it all that much.
Meanwhile some sort of war rages in the comments section from last week. I'm amused, confused and wondering what the hell is going on. I'm only engaging to throw a little humour and information in there. We'll see if it hits critical mass and collapses on itself.
Also meanwhile, every video I post is getting bot spam on it lately. "Liked and subscribed" my ass. I can see all my recent subscribers. Thankfully YT is smart enough to identify these as spam and the problem mostly takes care of itself. I liked the "It looks like you put a lot of work into this and you make it look so easy haha!" on Shadow of Mordor where I literally make the game look as hard as possible with the amount of things that go wrong.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Emo-Cakes
Life's been a rollercoaster since I got back. I want to leave again. Maybe I can go become a hermit in the mountains and live off the land or something. I'll give myself 5 days before I get eaten by a bear. Or squirrels. A swarm of squirrels. The little red ones. I'll put up a good fight, but in the end they'll surround my encampment and wait for me to get weak from hunger and dehydration. Then they'll descend upon me and I'll ignite the fire traps I set around me taking the little bastards with me. One will survive to tell the tale. And thus I'll discourage the great rodent uprising. Humans be crazy.
Actually if I'm anything like my one D&D character, I would probably just shove random mushrooms in my face and get taken out that way.
Going to be calling up all the old favourites today. I'm not in the mood for searching for new stuff.
Bastion
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Witcher 3
Been playing pretty much exclusively Shadow of Mordor. I want to get another solo LP out. It's been so long. I've actually been having quite a bit of fun playing it, but I keep getting myself into insane situations. The tagline for it really should be "I didn't want this" and the thumbnail for the series can be our emo-cakes protagonist doing a faceplant into a group of about 20 orcs.
That or I can do a compilation of faceplants when the series is over. Evil Within has got me all CREATIVE. Which, by the way, if you haven't seen it, I'd check out the oddities compilations. Those videos perfectly outline why that game is a "work of art".
The Oddities Within
Actually if I'm anything like my one D&D character, I would probably just shove random mushrooms in my face and get taken out that way.
Going to be calling up all the old favourites today. I'm not in the mood for searching for new stuff.
Bastion
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Witcher 3
Been playing pretty much exclusively Shadow of Mordor. I want to get another solo LP out. It's been so long. I've actually been having quite a bit of fun playing it, but I keep getting myself into insane situations. The tagline for it really should be "I didn't want this" and the thumbnail for the series can be our emo-cakes protagonist doing a faceplant into a group of about 20 orcs.
That or I can do a compilation of faceplants when the series is over. Evil Within has got me all CREATIVE. Which, by the way, if you haven't seen it, I'd check out the oddities compilations. Those videos perfectly outline why that game is a "work of art".
The Oddities Within
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Brand New Day
So Oliver got his car all cleaned up. Apparently it wasn't as bad as it could have been since all he had to do was pull up the lining in the trunk. The trunk's roof lining was taken too for some reason cause...uh...there's a whole lot you can do with that. Oliver seems to think it was some drug addict that did it based on what was taken in terms of change and valuables.
Anyway, unpleasantness behind us, today is soundtrack Thursday.
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Repo: The Genetic Opera
Little Shop of Horrors
It's one of those days.
I'll be working on Evil Within probably Sunday/Monday since I'll be busy the next few days catching up with some people and going to a wedding. I'm also trying to get the Myst 4 content off the G Drive so I can record some new things (namely Shadow of Mordor and Myst 5). Also debating on whether I want to do the Dawnguard DLC for Skyrim or a run on Oblivion (I have a plan if I do this one). Dying for another solo LP since it's so easy to edit.
In the meantime I have a ton of Vermintide videos as well as Saints Row 4. Probably going to start posting those soon since it's been like...2 weeks.
Anyway, unpleasantness behind us, today is soundtrack Thursday.
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Repo: The Genetic Opera
Little Shop of Horrors
It's one of those days.
I'll be working on Evil Within probably Sunday/Monday since I'll be busy the next few days catching up with some people and going to a wedding. I'm also trying to get the Myst 4 content off the G Drive so I can record some new things (namely Shadow of Mordor and Myst 5). Also debating on whether I want to do the Dawnguard DLC for Skyrim or a run on Oblivion (I have a plan if I do this one). Dying for another solo LP since it's so easy to edit.
In the meantime I have a ton of Vermintide videos as well as Saints Row 4. Probably going to start posting those soon since it's been like...2 weeks.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Msuh. Yes...Msuh.
Or "mush" rather.
So tired...was up late just staring at the ceiling wanting to sleep, but couldn't despite my measures to do so. Just staring, thinking about useless things.
Brain is mush. Abdomen hates me. Everything blowing up first thing in the morning cause people don't know how to click on a link. Ugh.
But yay soundtracks.
Reservoir Dogs - Heather suggested this to me last week so I wrote it down here for the sake of my memory and let it sit in drafts until today. Another soundtrack that uses Hooked on a Feeling? Oh dear this song will be stuck in my head forever. Oh no, it got worse. Not Coconut. Nooooooo.
No Man's Sky - Just searched "soundtrack" out of curiosity. Think this came up because of it's current relevance.
Abzu - Did the same thing for this as No Man's Sky. I think I got it for the same reason. It's very mystical sounding.
I'm going to be away for a week and a bit. Yearly trip to Lake Winnipeg. Got some family stuff going on so will be out there with them. Will have limited internet access, but I think the cell tower down there is actually good enough to hold better than an Edge signal. I think I had LTE last year. Anyway I'll try to finish up Murdered completely before I got and upload some stuff I can release every couple days down there.
Going to try and figure out some games as well. Either going to take Arkham Horror or Kill Shakespeare with me. I don't think I can fit both in a suitcase and still have room for a few books and clothes.
But yeah, if anyone needs me I'll be hiding out in a remote location begin tormented by the evil white stripe hunting spiders while I stuff my face with as many baked goods as I can afford. I apologize in advance to my stomach.
So tired...was up late just staring at the ceiling wanting to sleep, but couldn't despite my measures to do so. Just staring, thinking about useless things.
Brain is mush. Abdomen hates me. Everything blowing up first thing in the morning cause people don't know how to click on a link. Ugh.
But yay soundtracks.
Reservoir Dogs - Heather suggested this to me last week so I wrote it down here for the sake of my memory and let it sit in drafts until today. Another soundtrack that uses Hooked on a Feeling? Oh dear this song will be stuck in my head forever. Oh no, it got worse. Not Coconut. Nooooooo.
No Man's Sky - Just searched "soundtrack" out of curiosity. Think this came up because of it's current relevance.
Abzu - Did the same thing for this as No Man's Sky. I think I got it for the same reason. It's very mystical sounding.
I'm going to be away for a week and a bit. Yearly trip to Lake Winnipeg. Got some family stuff going on so will be out there with them. Will have limited internet access, but I think the cell tower down there is actually good enough to hold better than an Edge signal. I think I had LTE last year. Anyway I'll try to finish up Murdered completely before I got and upload some stuff I can release every couple days down there.
Going to try and figure out some games as well. Either going to take Arkham Horror or Kill Shakespeare with me. I don't think I can fit both in a suitcase and still have room for a few books and clothes.
But yeah, if anyone needs me I'll be hiding out in a remote location begin tormented by the evil white stripe hunting spiders while I stuff my face with as many baked goods as I can afford. I apologize in advance to my stomach.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Gooey Paste
I actually made some video editing progress this week. Be amazed! Jumped back to Murdered to give myself a break from the anguish of Evil Within and was greeted with 10 minutes of dancing around jittery demons (I was REALLY bad here, but it's funny so it's okay I think). Other than that this week has been pretty uneventful other than working on writing and other such projects.
This week I've decided to do some soundtracks from some of the LPs I've done. I've posted most of these before I think.
Bulletstorm - Probably one of my least viewed LPs. Likely not one of my better ones either since it was pretty early into my voice commentary LP "career" (not sure what else to call it). I arranged this compilation myself back when I thought I could do such things. Mesk provided me all the tracks.
Half Life 2 - Some really good tracks, but also what I'd classify as ambient noise and stingers. The Half Life series has always been a favourite of mine.
Saint's Row 3 - All videos found on the LAG YouTube channel, but I think there's a link somewhere on my own channel under co-op LPs.
Stomach/abdomen no better really. It's been a week, so maybe I should see a doctor or something. I just hate it when I go, they can't find anything (usually the case) and I end up wasting more time in places that I really don't enjoy too much. I appreciate hospitals and medical centres for what they are and what they do, but they're loud, crowded with sick people and I get no answers. A lot of anxiety for very little payoff most the time.
Working on stuffing my face with pretty benign foods, including oatmeal (which I'm not particularly fond of, but it's filling and healthy or something). Like do people actually like oatmeal? I mean the taste isn't so bad with sugar, but the texture is just...like it's a sloppy, chunky mess. If you put too much water into it it's like a mushy soup and if there's not enough water the oatmeal soaks it all up and it's a gooey paste. I've tried it with lactose free milk, but that doesn't seem to help the texture all that much as it's...just water with other crud in it.
This week I've decided to do some soundtracks from some of the LPs I've done. I've posted most of these before I think.
Bulletstorm - Probably one of my least viewed LPs. Likely not one of my better ones either since it was pretty early into my voice commentary LP "career" (not sure what else to call it). I arranged this compilation myself back when I thought I could do such things. Mesk provided me all the tracks.
Half Life 2 - Some really good tracks, but also what I'd classify as ambient noise and stingers. The Half Life series has always been a favourite of mine.
Saint's Row 3 - All videos found on the LAG YouTube channel, but I think there's a link somewhere on my own channel under co-op LPs.
Stomach/abdomen no better really. It's been a week, so maybe I should see a doctor or something. I just hate it when I go, they can't find anything (usually the case) and I end up wasting more time in places that I really don't enjoy too much. I appreciate hospitals and medical centres for what they are and what they do, but they're loud, crowded with sick people and I get no answers. A lot of anxiety for very little payoff most the time.
Working on stuffing my face with pretty benign foods, including oatmeal (which I'm not particularly fond of, but it's filling and healthy or something). Like do people actually like oatmeal? I mean the taste isn't so bad with sugar, but the texture is just...like it's a sloppy, chunky mess. If you put too much water into it it's like a mushy soup and if there's not enough water the oatmeal soaks it all up and it's a gooey paste. I've tried it with lactose free milk, but that doesn't seem to help the texture all that much as it's...just water with other crud in it.
Thursday, August 4, 2016
OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING
The theme of this week is screaming internally. It's the kind of scream you imagine you'd have if you turned and started running away in horror with your hands in the air. Not of terror, not of delight, just a vocal expression of NOPE. I will also accept this.
I have so many windows open on my work computer I think it's going to just give up. People have returned to the wedge section of the office, so there is increased traffic by my desk and the return of loitering behind me to have extremely loud conversations. Touque guy is now fedora guy. Also children are here for some reason. One has a batman hoodie and they decided that jumping as hard as they can near my desk is a good idea.
This week I learned that the fastest way to horrify Amy is to tell her I put bras in the dryer. Her despair was exponentially increased when I told her one of them escaped the mesh bag I use, hooked itself to the door on the inside of the dryer and got trapped under some clothes to be mercilessly ripped in half by the soggy mass of linen (I'm in a descriptive mood today). I opened the dryer and half of a bra was just...hanging there. I actually laughed when I saw it cause it was old and falling apart anyway, but DAMN it was comfortable. Its loss will be lamented. Usually it's the tank tops that get their straps all a-twist. Anyway, I guess I truly am the Lord of the Laundry (incidents).
Evil Within Chapter 5's first 30 minutes start with a 2 second audio desync. It ends with a 10 second desync. How?
And now for something completely different
Yeah okay something else - Look what this week has done to me. How fast do you think YT will rip this playlist apart?
Or maybe this - Can't remember if I did this one before. Oh well.
My brain - Don't ask how I stumbled upon this. The chorus sums up the week nicely though.
I think I discovered why I constantly feel terrible. It's a combination of stress spikes and what I'm eating. Seems to me that I can't have more than a little dairy (most cheese and yoghurt seems to be okay) because even if it's lactose free, it seems to sucker-punch my digestive track. Also beef is occasionally terrible in that I'll have it when I'm feeling generally good and be okay, but if I'm even SLIGHTLY off it'll be a few hours to a few days of just an unpleasant feeling in my gut (kind of like the Drumpf Effect). Carbonated drinks make things worse. Random types of seafood seems to make my heart race despite how delicious it is. Also legumes are apparently the kryptonite to my intestines.
So that's fun. Not really sure what I want to do. Eat delicious things and feel terrible or contemplate cutting out everything remotely tasty for periods of time. I should probably get this looked into, but like with other issues usually I just get a shrug from the doctor rather than a legitimate plan.
I have so many windows open on my work computer I think it's going to just give up. People have returned to the wedge section of the office, so there is increased traffic by my desk and the return of loitering behind me to have extremely loud conversations. Touque guy is now fedora guy. Also children are here for some reason. One has a batman hoodie and they decided that jumping as hard as they can near my desk is a good idea.
This week I learned that the fastest way to horrify Amy is to tell her I put bras in the dryer. Her despair was exponentially increased when I told her one of them escaped the mesh bag I use, hooked itself to the door on the inside of the dryer and got trapped under some clothes to be mercilessly ripped in half by the soggy mass of linen (I'm in a descriptive mood today). I opened the dryer and half of a bra was just...hanging there. I actually laughed when I saw it cause it was old and falling apart anyway, but DAMN it was comfortable. Its loss will be lamented. Usually it's the tank tops that get their straps all a-twist. Anyway, I guess I truly am the Lord of the Laundry (incidents).
Evil Within Chapter 5's first 30 minutes start with a 2 second audio desync. It ends with a 10 second desync. How?
And now for something completely different
Yeah okay something else - Look what this week has done to me. How fast do you think YT will rip this playlist apart?
Or maybe this - Can't remember if I did this one before. Oh well.
My brain - Don't ask how I stumbled upon this. The chorus sums up the week nicely though.
I think I discovered why I constantly feel terrible. It's a combination of stress spikes and what I'm eating. Seems to me that I can't have more than a little dairy (most cheese and yoghurt seems to be okay) because even if it's lactose free, it seems to sucker-punch my digestive track. Also beef is occasionally terrible in that I'll have it when I'm feeling generally good and be okay, but if I'm even SLIGHTLY off it'll be a few hours to a few days of just an unpleasant feeling in my gut (kind of like the Drumpf Effect). Carbonated drinks make things worse. Random types of seafood seems to make my heart race despite how delicious it is. Also legumes are apparently the kryptonite to my intestines.
So that's fun. Not really sure what I want to do. Eat delicious things and feel terrible or contemplate cutting out everything remotely tasty for periods of time. I should probably get this looked into, but like with other issues usually I just get a shrug from the doctor rather than a legitimate plan.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Wow, Much Lag
Very Slow. Such fail. Wow.
My browser and the internet at work is flipping out.
The park has been fairly quiet this week since the tire exploding incident. I still have no clue how they managed to drive the wrong way down a one-way street and burst their tire (and then proceed to drive on the flat tire despite the damage they were doing to their rims). That and the swing lady seems to be mixing up her schedule to be out there at midnight instead of 5am.
Grosse Pointe Blank - This is Kim's fault.
High Fidelity - This is Heather's fault.
Hey Mesk. Look. - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Matador (Official Video)
Video work is going slow, mostly because I'm lazy and also because I've been spending the majority of my time writing or watching people make fun of the American elections. I'll be away all weekend. I'll either be reading and trying not to get a sunburn, or being dragged behind a boat at unreasonable speeds if people can talk me into trying to drown myself again. The former would be good 'cause I'll finally get some reading done, however, the latter would be good practice for the Drumpf presidency scenario.
I'll be back Monday night. Ish.
Oh, also, I caught an Abra and hatched a Snorlax. Yey.
My browser and the internet at work is flipping out.
The park has been fairly quiet this week since the tire exploding incident. I still have no clue how they managed to drive the wrong way down a one-way street and burst their tire (and then proceed to drive on the flat tire despite the damage they were doing to their rims). That and the swing lady seems to be mixing up her schedule to be out there at midnight instead of 5am.
Grosse Pointe Blank - This is Kim's fault.
High Fidelity - This is Heather's fault.
Hey Mesk. Look. - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Matador (Official Video)
Video work is going slow, mostly because I'm lazy and also because I've been spending the majority of my time writing or watching people make fun of the American elections. I'll be away all weekend. I'll either be reading and trying not to get a sunburn, or being dragged behind a boat at unreasonable speeds if people can talk me into trying to drown myself again. The former would be good 'cause I'll finally get some reading done, however, the latter would be good practice for the Drumpf presidency scenario.
I'll be back Monday night. Ish.
Oh, also, I caught an Abra and hatched a Snorlax. Yey.
Friday, July 22, 2016
Street Racers and Poke Battles
This past week has been an interesting one. Started out with a Karaoke adventure that ended prematurely because I started feeling really ill and also included the room randomly clearing whenever a new Pokemon was announced to be running around outside. So far a number of friends have been out late every night doing laps around the major Pokemon areas, one of them out until 3am with about 100 other people. Then, since there's a gym literally in front of my house (but unfortunately not close enough to access which would have been GREAT for trolling), we've had the daytime horde of children and teens fighting over it. Then between...let's say 10pm and 2am we get cycle of small strike teams that will either walk or spontaneously jump out of cars to come take the gym and then just disappear into the night. The cycle is usually Yellow > Red > Really strong Blue > Weak Yellow. Last night it stayed blue. Not that I'm monitoring it or anything. But literally anything anyone says in the middle of the park is amplified and echoes because the houses are in a semi-circle around it.
Oh and then a couple nights ago I was woken up at 3am by street racers when one of them (a beige/brown truck...like actually a truck...street racing) didn't realize the road ended and promptly slammed on their brakes to stop. Doesn't really work when you're going 120km/h+ in a 50km/h zone, so I woke up to tires squealing, then a crunch, then more squealing, then some engines revving, then one final squeal. Eight minutes later the police show up and one of the neighbours goes out to talk very loudly to them (not that the entire block wasn't already awake. Went outside to assess the damage the next day and well...
This is the fourth time this has happened in some form. This wasn't the worst though cause the truck drove away with its two buddies. The worst was when a couple of high teenagers were speeding, didn't realize the road ended and crashed through the park to hit a tree on the other side. No one has been seriously injured yet, but it'll likely happen eventually. I mean singing lady is out there at 5am a lot.
Today's theme for Soundtrack Not Thursday is stuff people have been trying to get me to watch and I just haven't had time for yet:
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Chris and Amy both say this is good and encourage me to watch it. I binge-watched the original series when I was a teenager after a high school friend died. No idea why I did that to myself, but it wasn't bad. Apparently this series is better.
Walking Dead (Vol 1) - Nope still haven't watched any, much to a lot of people's surprise and disgust. What? Zombies just don't really interest me. Yes, I know it's more than that etc etc.
Daredevil Season 2 - Watched the first season, but haven't gotten around to the second season. Still waiting for Jessica Jones season 2.
Also if you would like to see one of the most anguishing moments I have ever experienced in a game. Enjoy.
PS - If anyone is wondering, I'm Instinct. I think the dodgeball Pokemon group (this is kinda hilarious when you think about it) are all in denial because they keep telling me to take the gym in front of my house for Valor. And I'm like sure...for "Valor." I'm literally the only one in that crew on team yellow. 90% of them are Valor and the rest (like 3 people) are on Mystic.
PSS - Pro tip: Put your coffee down before you try to catch Pokemon.
PSSS - With the coffee incident, the two times I've fallen up the stairs with drinks and the spill of an entire glass of lemonade all over my desk, I feel there is a sippy cup for me in my future.
PSSSS - You both scary and hilarious America.
Oh and then a couple nights ago I was woken up at 3am by street racers when one of them (a beige/brown truck...like actually a truck...street racing) didn't realize the road ended and promptly slammed on their brakes to stop. Doesn't really work when you're going 120km/h+ in a 50km/h zone, so I woke up to tires squealing, then a crunch, then more squealing, then some engines revving, then one final squeal. Eight minutes later the police show up and one of the neighbours goes out to talk very loudly to them (not that the entire block wasn't already awake. Went outside to assess the damage the next day and well...
This is the fourth time this has happened in some form. This wasn't the worst though cause the truck drove away with its two buddies. The worst was when a couple of high teenagers were speeding, didn't realize the road ended and crashed through the park to hit a tree on the other side. No one has been seriously injured yet, but it'll likely happen eventually. I mean singing lady is out there at 5am a lot.
Today's theme for Soundtrack Not Thursday is stuff people have been trying to get me to watch and I just haven't had time for yet:
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Chris and Amy both say this is good and encourage me to watch it. I binge-watched the original series when I was a teenager after a high school friend died. No idea why I did that to myself, but it wasn't bad. Apparently this series is better.
Walking Dead (Vol 1) - Nope still haven't watched any, much to a lot of people's surprise and disgust. What? Zombies just don't really interest me. Yes, I know it's more than that etc etc.
Daredevil Season 2 - Watched the first season, but haven't gotten around to the second season. Still waiting for Jessica Jones season 2.
Also if you would like to see one of the most anguishing moments I have ever experienced in a game. Enjoy.
PS - If anyone is wondering, I'm Instinct. I think the dodgeball Pokemon group (this is kinda hilarious when you think about it) are all in denial because they keep telling me to take the gym in front of my house for Valor. And I'm like sure...for "Valor." I'm literally the only one in that crew on team yellow. 90% of them are Valor and the rest (like 3 people) are on Mystic.
PSS - Pro tip: Put your coffee down before you try to catch Pokemon.
PSSS - With the coffee incident, the two times I've fallen up the stairs with drinks and the spill of an entire glass of lemonade all over my desk, I feel there is a sippy cup for me in my future.
PSSSS - You both scary and hilarious America.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Moose Moose Beaver Hockey, Igloo Igloo, Hoser
Pretty angry so I forgot it was Thursday until now. Granted it's only 10am, but still. Currently listening to the Age of Empires 2 soundtrack because I like it and it makes me less angry for some reason.
So I'm supposed to get officially cleared by one of our clients because I MIGHT work on the account. I likely won't be, but I need to do it anyways because apparently we're all criminals waiting to happen. I fill out their forms and give them an arm and a leg. They ask me for my soul next and I'm like, dude, I can't give you my soul right now, I don't have the right information at the moment. So they keep emailing me over and over ignoring my email stating why my soul is currently off the market. Finally they find my email or w/e and are like okay well you could TRY sending this part of your soul and I'm like k, I'll do that when I'm able to. Then they just email me out of the blue today and are like yeah...so we're going to need your first born child as well.
The analogy has gotten a little weird, but I don't appreciate having arbitrary requirements thrust upon me. Apparently this has only happened to one or two of my other coworkers and some got away with sending like...a driver's license as ID AND proof of address like...there is no reason you, as a company, should know everything about me.
Talked to some other coworkers and apparently only two of them have gotten off with no additional requests. One person got it bad enough that they were asking for financial records from their personal business.
Anyway....
I remember last week I decided to have a Final Fantasy week (suggested by Delta). So here you go.
Final Fantasy 3 - A lot of people seem to really like this one.
Final Fantasy 4 - I THINK this was the one Shauna said she really liked.
Final Fantasy 6 - Because tormenting Mesk is fun...I mean, in honour of his LP.
I'm off for the day. Expect Riven to appear soon on my page. It's time. Also working on another video project that I'll share soon.
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Toasters and Kettles
I burned the top of my mouth on stew last night. It's not happy today. What is happy is the breaker was reset (finally) for the coffee machine in the kitchen at work, so today should be a little more functional than yesterday. Apparently running the toaster and kettle at the same time is catastrophic.
Dirty Dancing - Kim's suggestion. Was nice an upbeat for working on reports, which all managed to work somehow this month. Well, as much as they ever work.
Princess Bride - Guess I'm stuck in the 80s today.
Top Gun - 80ssssssss
I started constructing custom assets for the RPG. I did a test piece last night (in the form of a photocopier) for the game, because until this point, the placeholder for these things were rows and rows of microwaves. It didn't turn out half bad...though the shadows on it are a little funky. Also having trouble gauging size, but I've always been a little spatially challenged (as anyone who has watched me play puzzle games will know). The good news is I have some base-level skills for making my own crap, so I might be able to make items and objects on an "as-needed" basis. One thing I'm not skilled enough to do (at the time) is characters and portraits. That I may need to find other assets for. Also I got Mesk's Captain Planet Sprite to function as intended so there's that little success as well. The office (tutorial zone), believe it or not, is reaching completion. I have all the hard stuff and customization left. Most of the scripting is done at this point...except Grey Morton, some encounters and battles, and the last bits of Purple and Blue Morton. I still don't know what to do with the one room either...
I'll need to do some edits and clean-up of the dialogue (I've been rushing a bit out of necessity to test if certain scripts work) and then test absolutely everything. There's already a few things I've encountered that just make no logical sense, so I'll need to get clever.
Clawing through the rest of the week. I'll have like...a million questionable quality Vermintide videos on reserve if I run out of things to post. Meanwhile just trying to get through the backlog as usual.
Dirty Dancing - Kim's suggestion. Was nice an upbeat for working on reports, which all managed to work somehow this month. Well, as much as they ever work.
Princess Bride - Guess I'm stuck in the 80s today.
Top Gun - 80ssssssss
I started constructing custom assets for the RPG. I did a test piece last night (in the form of a photocopier) for the game, because until this point, the placeholder for these things were rows and rows of microwaves. It didn't turn out half bad...though the shadows on it are a little funky. Also having trouble gauging size, but I've always been a little spatially challenged (as anyone who has watched me play puzzle games will know). The good news is I have some base-level skills for making my own crap, so I might be able to make items and objects on an "as-needed" basis. One thing I'm not skilled enough to do (at the time) is characters and portraits. That I may need to find other assets for. Also I got Mesk's Captain Planet Sprite to function as intended so there's that little success as well. The office (tutorial zone), believe it or not, is reaching completion. I have all the hard stuff and customization left. Most of the scripting is done at this point...except Grey Morton, some encounters and battles, and the last bits of Purple and Blue Morton. I still don't know what to do with the one room either...
I'll need to do some edits and clean-up of the dialogue (I've been rushing a bit out of necessity to test if certain scripts work) and then test absolutely everything. There's already a few things I've encountered that just make no logical sense, so I'll need to get clever.
Clawing through the rest of the week. I'll have like...a million questionable quality Vermintide videos on reserve if I run out of things to post. Meanwhile just trying to get through the backlog as usual.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
In Memorium
My grandfather passed away early Tuesday morning, so this week has been a little chaotic. A lot of my family had to fly in from other cities, but they got here in time. Will be having random family passing through the city all the way up to the funeral next week, so I'm going to be a little preoccupied dealing with that as well as my own personal feelings. He hasn't been well since before my grandma passed, but his health declined after she was gone. He had a rare type of dementia, so his quality of life wasn't the greatest. He would have never wanted to live like that. The staff where he was living was fantastic though, and I can't thank them enough for taking good care of him and making sure he was as comfortable as possible.
Soundtrack Thursday is dedicated to him today. When he was healthy, he really loved watching Star Trek. Going through his things at his house a few years ago we found so many VHS and DVDs of Star Trek, old and new. He never watched any of the new remake movies, so today I'm going to listen to the old movies as well as TV soundtracks.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Great nostalgic soundtrack...until you hit Amazing Grace in bagpipes. And I know why there's bagpipes. I've just never been a fan of them at funeral type things. That said, if I could arrange a chorus of screaming bagpipes for a my funeral, that would be hilarious. Would have to be like 5 conflicting bagpipes though.
Star Trek VIII: First Contact - Figured I'd get a film from the second generation of crew and captain. I always personally liked Picard more, but I'm also a fan of Sir Patrick Stewart, so I'm biased.
Collection of Musical Scores - Here's a broad range of feature scores for Star Trek that I stumbled across. Figure it's a good way to end off the afternoon.
For those of you that missed the last post (of the like...5 people that read this), the Myst series is now fully live and updated on YouTube. The playlist is public, but the videos are unlisted. It's the weakest in the series (of my gameplay at least), so I thought I'd avoid spamming people with an entire 8 part LP when it's not that great. I'll be uploading Riven in July, which in my opinion is the best so far, and I will make those videos public. Other than that, I can't promise any regular updates over the next few weeks, but I'll try to get what I can released.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
I Remembered This Week
But I forgot my lunch for a second time. I grabbed the important things: keys, clothes for badminton, coffee...but left my sad Frankenstein salad on the counter. Second time this week I forgot my lunch. There is no delicious food from a food truck to save me today. The double food truck week is next week. Guess I'm going to have to venture into Hipster Town to get over-expensive food. See, this is why I need to restock on emergency noodles.
Payday 2 - Asked Delta what I should listen to and he said Skyrim and Payday. I'm pretty sure I've done Skyrim a few times now so...Payday it is. So far it's been pretty good to work to. It has elements of Unreal Tournament in the tracks. It's like they took that sound track, added more dubstep or drum/bass and then...uh opera? Sorry operatics suddenly just started as I was typing this. Ode to Greed. All right.
Crypt of the Necrodancer - I have no idea what the hell this is, but it seems to have a similar music style, so I was curious. The art they use for the video looks like female Link digging up a rave grave.
VTM has turned out to be amazingly broken. Might have been my fault though. Okay, it's DEFINITELY my fault, but we're not sure if it's 'cause I ran it not on the patch once. Shauna had a patch for VTM that I didn't know about or forgot about, but we didn't seem to have issues then. Now...well the wires, cables and chains that are physics enabled look like they're caught in a hurricane, doors are disappearing, entire assets are disappearing, and we're getting stuck in doors and between shelves constantly. There's also people warping all over the place, a lot of jittering and fences and water missing so we can access areas we really shouldn't be able to access.
More War for the Overworld (DLC) coming as well as Murdered videos. I want to try and finish that series soon so I can move on. Motivation...we'll that's harder to attain.
Payday 2 - Asked Delta what I should listen to and he said Skyrim and Payday. I'm pretty sure I've done Skyrim a few times now so...Payday it is. So far it's been pretty good to work to. It has elements of Unreal Tournament in the tracks. It's like they took that sound track, added more dubstep or drum/bass and then...uh opera? Sorry operatics suddenly just started as I was typing this. Ode to Greed. All right.
Crypt of the Necrodancer - I have no idea what the hell this is, but it seems to have a similar music style, so I was curious. The art they use for the video looks like female Link digging up a rave grave.
VTM has turned out to be amazingly broken. Might have been my fault though. Okay, it's DEFINITELY my fault, but we're not sure if it's 'cause I ran it not on the patch once. Shauna had a patch for VTM that I didn't know about or forgot about, but we didn't seem to have issues then. Now...well the wires, cables and chains that are physics enabled look like they're caught in a hurricane, doors are disappearing, entire assets are disappearing, and we're getting stuck in doors and between shelves constantly. There's also people warping all over the place, a lot of jittering and fences and water missing so we can access areas we really shouldn't be able to access.
More War for the Overworld (DLC) coming as well as Murdered videos. I want to try and finish that series soon so I can move on. Motivation...we'll that's harder to attain.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Whoops
Never finished or pressed publish on Friday. It was a musical day.
Lion King the Musical Soundtrack - Shauna recommended this one to me. Always enjoyed Lion King music. I was obsessed when I was 5-7 years old.
Prince of Egypt - Such a good soundtrack. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit as a kid too. Hans Zimmer did an amazing job.
Disney Piano Collection - I just thought this was nice to listen to on a Friday afternoon. Need something a little lighter before the weekend. Monday is the heavy music day.
I'm just going to call last week a fail in terms of regular posting for both video and these blog things.
Monday Edit: So early Sunday morning I wake up and I hear someone outside singing or something. Being a tired grouch, I just turned over and promptly fell back asleep. Wake up one hour later and they're STILL singing. I fall back asleep again cause 6am is an ungodly hour. I was later informed that it was a woman, singing back and forth on a swing at the playground in front of my house, for over an hour. Kind of weird/creepy. Thought it was a one-off thing, but yeah, it happened again this morning. Either I need to figure out what this is about or start closing the windows at night (weather is about to get hot though so...)
Lion King the Musical Soundtrack - Shauna recommended this one to me. Always enjoyed Lion King music. I was obsessed when I was 5-7 years old.
Prince of Egypt - Such a good soundtrack. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit as a kid too. Hans Zimmer did an amazing job.
Disney Piano Collection - I just thought this was nice to listen to on a Friday afternoon. Need something a little lighter before the weekend. Monday is the heavy music day.
I'm just going to call last week a fail in terms of regular posting for both video and these blog things.
Monday Edit: So early Sunday morning I wake up and I hear someone outside singing or something. Being a tired grouch, I just turned over and promptly fell back asleep. Wake up one hour later and they're STILL singing. I fall back asleep again cause 6am is an ungodly hour. I was later informed that it was a woman, singing back and forth on a swing at the playground in front of my house, for over an hour. Kind of weird/creepy. Thought it was a one-off thing, but yeah, it happened again this morning. Either I need to figure out what this is about or start closing the windows at night (weather is about to get hot though so...)
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Patience Test
Well, on the driving related topic of last week, I got my class 5 GDL license...but at a hefty price. Yeah sure, I passed, but it was expensive both for my wallet and for my patience. The person who tested me was confusing, took me on the wrong route, pointed out random things that had nothing to do with the test CONSTANTLY so I was distracted, then would announce when I missed the important things to the point where I was so confused and flustered and made more mistakes because I had no idea what the hell she wanted. It's taken me a full week to get over this. Whatever. I passed. It's done. I don't need to do another test until I'm old and probably shouldn't be driving anyway. By then we'll likely have all self-driving cars anyway.
So this week I've been working on some side projects including writing, some Left4Dead2 with friends, working on that RPG I started weeks ago and re-editing some stuff for Mesk. Pro tip. Don't edit a document across 3 computers under two different formats. Apparently you lose half of what you've done. I still don't know how this happened. Also participated in a dodgeball tournament and came second. I have some lovely trophy bruises on my legs, so I've been wearing pants all week to work despite the heat. I actually participated in the Quick Draw as well this year so, you should see me losing horribly in that video.
Update on that RPG: Mesk sent me a bunch of the scripts he used for his Captain Planet RPG and I'm slowly beginning to plug those in and test them. There are a couple that work independently and a couple that need a few of the other scripts to work, so I'm going through them, figuring out what I'd like to use, and testing them out. Nothing too complicated has been added...yet, but I expect everything to snap in half at the slightest provocation. I'll make the second dev video of this soon. First can be found here if anyone's curious. It's mostly just me getting confused and laughing at my own oversights/stupidity.
Uncharted 4 - Not quite done this yet, but I don't see much harm in listening to the soundtrack. I can imagine what's in store for me. It's a really good game so far though. I've been enjoying a lot of the random little dialogue bits and just the detail put into the different environments and the way you interact with them. Simply fantastic.
Tomb Raider (2013) - I plan on playing this series sometime in the future. I have a collection of the games on Steam, so I just need to find the time to play them (hah).
Thief (2014) - Oliver is still afraid to play this because he's worried it'll taint his perspective of the original 3 games (which I also still need to play).
Oh man where am I at right now? Currently finishing Uncharted 4, continuing VTM with Shauna, occasionally making more Saints Row 4 (will be posting those soon), haven't touched Shadow of Mordor or Planet Alcatraz in awhile, need to continue Myst 4 and...I think I have some outstanding projects with Delta.
So this week I've been working on some side projects including writing, some Left4Dead2 with friends, working on that RPG I started weeks ago and re-editing some stuff for Mesk. Pro tip. Don't edit a document across 3 computers under two different formats. Apparently you lose half of what you've done. I still don't know how this happened. Also participated in a dodgeball tournament and came second. I have some lovely trophy bruises on my legs, so I've been wearing pants all week to work despite the heat. I actually participated in the Quick Draw as well this year so, you should see me losing horribly in that video.
Update on that RPG: Mesk sent me a bunch of the scripts he used for his Captain Planet RPG and I'm slowly beginning to plug those in and test them. There are a couple that work independently and a couple that need a few of the other scripts to work, so I'm going through them, figuring out what I'd like to use, and testing them out. Nothing too complicated has been added...yet, but I expect everything to snap in half at the slightest provocation. I'll make the second dev video of this soon. First can be found here if anyone's curious. It's mostly just me getting confused and laughing at my own oversights/stupidity.
Uncharted 4 - Not quite done this yet, but I don't see much harm in listening to the soundtrack. I can imagine what's in store for me. It's a really good game so far though. I've been enjoying a lot of the random little dialogue bits and just the detail put into the different environments and the way you interact with them. Simply fantastic.
Tomb Raider (2013) - I plan on playing this series sometime in the future. I have a collection of the games on Steam, so I just need to find the time to play them (hah).
Thief (2014) - Oliver is still afraid to play this because he's worried it'll taint his perspective of the original 3 games (which I also still need to play).
Oh man where am I at right now? Currently finishing Uncharted 4, continuing VTM with Shauna, occasionally making more Saints Row 4 (will be posting those soon), haven't touched Shadow of Mordor or Planet Alcatraz in awhile, need to continue Myst 4 and...I think I have some outstanding projects with Delta.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Balls, Pedestrians and Cold Coffee
This week is out to get me. Tuesday evening I nearly got hit with a 5 pin bowling ball. They're not the massive 10 pin ones, but a 4-5 pound ball travelling 20-50km/h could potentially kill me if it hit me. So I'm at work and I go to retrieve a bowling ball for a kid that didn't throw it hard enough down the lane and to fix the pins for him. The guy on the next lane, however, continues to whip balls down the lane as hard as he can while I'm there. Suddenly I see this blue object fly past about 5 feet to the right of me as the ball launches off the gutter and bounces off the top of the pinsetter.
5 pin balls regularly launch off the gutters there and fly into the back room. They bounce around a bit and dent walls and get chipped. They also sometimes bounce off the catwalk in front of the pins and smash into the black lights used to light up the pins when we do the glow bowling. I've seen that happen twice now where the black lights will get knocked out and fall, smashing all over the lane. Apparently there was some Russian guy in the bowling alley a few nights before that who got pissed that the scoring system didn't give him a spare and he ran down the lane, ducked under the board and kicked the pins over. He was removed. Also one of my coworkers has been spreading rumours about theft (multiple month old rumours actually) and now people are worried about being spied on by hidden cameras in the back room. Trust me guys, there's no cameras back there. We haven't been given the budget for it.
Then yesterday must have been a full moon or something because people were doing such stupid things. All the stupid. So downtown after I picked up Shauna to take her to her apartment walkthrough, there's this guy who just starts walking out into the middle of the road. I have a heart attack because I think I somehow missed a red light, but I looked up and it's green. The dude just crosses, staring at us like we personally offended him (I wonder if this is the same guy Kristy encountered...only this happened to me at 5pm and that happened to her at 12am). So I continue to drive and he just stands in the middle of the street. Meanwhile everyone behind me is confused and unsure of what to do cause he continues to cross after I've passed him.
I spend an hour taking pictures of Shauna's old place in case she needs them while she negotiates the moving out conditions and then we have to listen to the landlord go on and on and on about literally nothing. I have no idea what he was talking about the entire time. He was giving us some lecture on how some people like to clean a lot more than other people and then brought up some unrelated tenants and their cleaning habits. I had absolutely no patience for any of that so finally I just walked between him and Shauna, picked up my bag and just started opening the door. I think he finally got the idea at that point that at least I was done talking.
Then on my way home on Deerfoot (one of our cross-city highways) I was driving, turn a corner and see a guy running up the right-hand lane in the dark with a pylon. I nearly have another heart attack because I thought he was running at me and I didn't want to hit him (the speed limit on that road is 100km/h). Then not even five seconds later I see someone riding a bicycle with no lights in the dark on Deerfoot.
Sigh.
I guess this is what happens when you officially reach level 27. Thankfully I'm not a famous musician, or I'd be screwed.
Okay here's some soundtracks:
Uncharted 3 - Finished this game last weekend. Was good, but Uncharted 2 was better. I didn't have to deal with an angry shot-gun wielding Russian though. Just had a confusing warping fist-fight with a British guy. Onto Uncharted 4 right now, which is supposed to be excellent. So far it's been pretty good and not nearly as frustrating on the hardest difficulty as 3 was.
Age of Mythology - I played this one quite a bit as a kid as well. I only remember snippets of the game currently, but I remember a lot about the underworld and the shades as well as the Norse Mythology units. I also remember that Ajax was my favourite character but I can't remember why. This game had some good variety for map clear conditions in the campaign. I'm likely going to play this one again soon (see last week's rant on RTS games).
Started playing Myst 4 and got a few hours in. I was stumped on a stupid rod/hammer (lol) puzzle...mainly because I had the wrong conceptions about how it was supposed to work. I showed Oliver the puzzle and he ended up solving it, mostly because it made him angry. He accidentally figured out I was wrong about how to solve it and it was actually a lot more simple than anticipated. Again I over complicate things. I saved it after he figured it out, but I'm going to go back and do it myself. I'll probably put both of our struggles into the final video.
5 pin balls regularly launch off the gutters there and fly into the back room. They bounce around a bit and dent walls and get chipped. They also sometimes bounce off the catwalk in front of the pins and smash into the black lights used to light up the pins when we do the glow bowling. I've seen that happen twice now where the black lights will get knocked out and fall, smashing all over the lane. Apparently there was some Russian guy in the bowling alley a few nights before that who got pissed that the scoring system didn't give him a spare and he ran down the lane, ducked under the board and kicked the pins over. He was removed. Also one of my coworkers has been spreading rumours about theft (multiple month old rumours actually) and now people are worried about being spied on by hidden cameras in the back room. Trust me guys, there's no cameras back there. We haven't been given the budget for it.
Then yesterday must have been a full moon or something because people were doing such stupid things. All the stupid. So downtown after I picked up Shauna to take her to her apartment walkthrough, there's this guy who just starts walking out into the middle of the road. I have a heart attack because I think I somehow missed a red light, but I looked up and it's green. The dude just crosses, staring at us like we personally offended him (I wonder if this is the same guy Kristy encountered...only this happened to me at 5pm and that happened to her at 12am). So I continue to drive and he just stands in the middle of the street. Meanwhile everyone behind me is confused and unsure of what to do cause he continues to cross after I've passed him.
I spend an hour taking pictures of Shauna's old place in case she needs them while she negotiates the moving out conditions and then we have to listen to the landlord go on and on and on about literally nothing. I have no idea what he was talking about the entire time. He was giving us some lecture on how some people like to clean a lot more than other people and then brought up some unrelated tenants and their cleaning habits. I had absolutely no patience for any of that so finally I just walked between him and Shauna, picked up my bag and just started opening the door. I think he finally got the idea at that point that at least I was done talking.
Then on my way home on Deerfoot (one of our cross-city highways) I was driving, turn a corner and see a guy running up the right-hand lane in the dark with a pylon. I nearly have another heart attack because I thought he was running at me and I didn't want to hit him (the speed limit on that road is 100km/h). Then not even five seconds later I see someone riding a bicycle with no lights in the dark on Deerfoot.
Sigh.
I guess this is what happens when you officially reach level 27. Thankfully I'm not a famous musician, or I'd be screwed.
Okay here's some soundtracks:
Uncharted 3 - Finished this game last weekend. Was good, but Uncharted 2 was better. I didn't have to deal with an angry shot-gun wielding Russian though. Just had a confusing warping fist-fight with a British guy. Onto Uncharted 4 right now, which is supposed to be excellent. So far it's been pretty good and not nearly as frustrating on the hardest difficulty as 3 was.
Age of Mythology - I played this one quite a bit as a kid as well. I only remember snippets of the game currently, but I remember a lot about the underworld and the shades as well as the Norse Mythology units. I also remember that Ajax was my favourite character but I can't remember why. This game had some good variety for map clear conditions in the campaign. I'm likely going to play this one again soon (see last week's rant on RTS games).
Started playing Myst 4 and got a few hours in. I was stumped on a stupid rod/hammer (lol) puzzle...mainly because I had the wrong conceptions about how it was supposed to work. I showed Oliver the puzzle and he ended up solving it, mostly because it made him angry. He accidentally figured out I was wrong about how to solve it and it was actually a lot more simple than anticipated. Again I over complicate things. I saved it after he figured it out, but I'm going to go back and do it myself. I'll probably put both of our struggles into the final video.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Permission to Cry?
So yesterday I took my car in for servicing because I have a recall that's over a year old and as it turns out I don't want to take the chance that my airbag might not deploy if the worst should happen. Turns out my car isn't in great shape and I'm going to end up spending about 1/3 of my car's total value (don't freak out just yet, it's a 2003 Civic). And this is after I opted out of half the repairs they suggested in favour of taking it to a guy I know for a second opinion. Fixing the most vital stuff at the moment and hoping everything else will hold out until August/September ish. Budget is going to be pretty tight this summer as I replenish my savings.
Age of Empires 2 - This soundtrack is extremely nostalgic. This was one of my favourite games as a kid, and remains to this day one of my favourite games of all time. As Kathleen likes to say...I'M A MAN ON A HORSE.
Uncharted 2 - I really liked this soundtrack out of the three games the most. Maybe it's because some tracks reminded me of the Legend of Korra. I also think this game is the best of the series so far (I haven't played 4 yet, which is supposed to be really good). The entire series is delightfully ridiculous. - Mesk, you might really like a few of the tracks in both Uncharted 2 and 3.
Unreal Tournament - Always enjoyed this soundtrack.
Work has been slow lately as I've been struggling with finding the motivation to get things done. I've also been playing a lot of Uncharted 1-3 (currently near the end of the third one) because I get to sit on the couch, be lazy and occasionally scream obscenities at the game because I elected to play the third one on the highest difficulty possible and everything can kill me in essentially two hits. I promise I'll return to my current projects soon...I just need to get out of this funk first.
Had some new requests on one of my recent videos with Delta. Apparently I haven't been playing enough mainstream or "classic" games. I have to admit, the last couple months I've been playing a lot more obscure things, but I didn't think that bothered anyone really. Regardless, I'll be continuing those until I finish them. I also have all the Saints Row 4 and Myst series in reserve.
I think I've touched on why I don't generally LP RTS games. It's recently come up again, so I figure I can give you the run down. It's not that I don't like them. Warcraft 2, for instance, used to be my favourite game when I was 8 years old...before I discovered Dungeon Keeper 2 and Diablo. The problem is that I find micromanagement very difficult. I am terrible at focusing on multiple elements at a time. I can't remember order of operations easily, I constantly forget things like upgrades and I haven't taken the time and effort to learn when to build what and when to act. I am a lot better at strategy and game plan, but that doesn't matter when you can't make your units and buildings come together in a logical way to orchestrate that. One of the reasons I really like Dungeon Keeper 2 and War for the Overworld is that things kind of just...take care of themselves in the background and I can focus on crushing my enemies. Pro tip if you ever play against me though: I often get tunnel vision.
I'm also, historically, an extremely defensive player. As a kid, I always built up my base and army exactly how I wanted because the AI allowed me to do so. I got into a lot of bad habits doing this (and I was really gutless in a lot of ways). I had to learn (and am still learning) how to be aggressive. Playing against real people really screwed me up, because I got used to losing every single game and the constant humiliation because of it. I learned an extremely valuable lesson about people during those years. Let's just say that I'm still friends with the people who were patient with me and never made me feel like shit no matter how bad I was.
That said, a) I don't think I would be good enough to be entertaining (I would just frustrate people who have taken the time and effort to get good at the genre), b) I don't think I can handle the criticism that would result as well as I could with any other LP type (as I'm already criticising myself constantly). The only RTS games I would probably do in the foreseeable future would be the Age of Empires series, Age of Mythology or Warcraft 2 (which I've already done a little dabbling in).
Don't get me wrong, I'm still pretty awful at virtually every other game, but I have patience with both those games and myself...to an extent. Evil Within is always the exception. God that game was awful.
Age of Empires 2 - This soundtrack is extremely nostalgic. This was one of my favourite games as a kid, and remains to this day one of my favourite games of all time. As Kathleen likes to say...I'M A MAN ON A HORSE.
Uncharted 2 - I really liked this soundtrack out of the three games the most. Maybe it's because some tracks reminded me of the Legend of Korra. I also think this game is the best of the series so far (I haven't played 4 yet, which is supposed to be really good). The entire series is delightfully ridiculous. - Mesk, you might really like a few of the tracks in both Uncharted 2 and 3.
Unreal Tournament - Always enjoyed this soundtrack.
Work has been slow lately as I've been struggling with finding the motivation to get things done. I've also been playing a lot of Uncharted 1-3 (currently near the end of the third one) because I get to sit on the couch, be lazy and occasionally scream obscenities at the game because I elected to play the third one on the highest difficulty possible and everything can kill me in essentially two hits. I promise I'll return to my current projects soon...I just need to get out of this funk first.
Had some new requests on one of my recent videos with Delta. Apparently I haven't been playing enough mainstream or "classic" games. I have to admit, the last couple months I've been playing a lot more obscure things, but I didn't think that bothered anyone really. Regardless, I'll be continuing those until I finish them. I also have all the Saints Row 4 and Myst series in reserve.
I think I've touched on why I don't generally LP RTS games. It's recently come up again, so I figure I can give you the run down. It's not that I don't like them. Warcraft 2, for instance, used to be my favourite game when I was 8 years old...before I discovered Dungeon Keeper 2 and Diablo. The problem is that I find micromanagement very difficult. I am terrible at focusing on multiple elements at a time. I can't remember order of operations easily, I constantly forget things like upgrades and I haven't taken the time and effort to learn when to build what and when to act. I am a lot better at strategy and game plan, but that doesn't matter when you can't make your units and buildings come together in a logical way to orchestrate that. One of the reasons I really like Dungeon Keeper 2 and War for the Overworld is that things kind of just...take care of themselves in the background and I can focus on crushing my enemies. Pro tip if you ever play against me though: I often get tunnel vision.
I'm also, historically, an extremely defensive player. As a kid, I always built up my base and army exactly how I wanted because the AI allowed me to do so. I got into a lot of bad habits doing this (and I was really gutless in a lot of ways). I had to learn (and am still learning) how to be aggressive. Playing against real people really screwed me up, because I got used to losing every single game and the constant humiliation because of it. I learned an extremely valuable lesson about people during those years. Let's just say that I'm still friends with the people who were patient with me and never made me feel like shit no matter how bad I was.
That said, a) I don't think I would be good enough to be entertaining (I would just frustrate people who have taken the time and effort to get good at the genre), b) I don't think I can handle the criticism that would result as well as I could with any other LP type (as I'm already criticising myself constantly). The only RTS games I would probably do in the foreseeable future would be the Age of Empires series, Age of Mythology or Warcraft 2 (which I've already done a little dabbling in).
Don't get me wrong, I'm still pretty awful at virtually every other game, but I have patience with both those games and myself...to an extent. Evil Within is always the exception. God that game was awful.
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