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.

You Can Steak the Bus

One of the better typos of mine that I've come across. Took me a good amount of time to figure out what I meant, which is probably due to being tired rather than anything else. I am tired because it is hot. It is hot because the temperature outside has been ridiculous and my room traps heat. I also have a computer and a laptop, both of which are usually running. I have switched off my computer for the evening, so hopefully that helps. I just hope I don't burn out another fan motor.

Oh yeah and I hit 500 subscribers today. That's pretty cool. I do not have a video prepared yet, but I will post something...different...for the occasion. Not sure when it will be done, but I will be posting it soon.

Let's see...what can you expect out of the next few weeks...

-Half Life 2 Episode 1 is finished, so I will begin recording Episode 2 shortly.
-More Dishonored DLC. While it's not the most popular, it has been one of my favourite games that I've played over the past year, so I will be sharing those videos
-I will be making an attempt at Dark Souls once I get a controller hooked up. I will not be able to play on a keyboard. I took a look at the controls and it was...well disgusting to put it mildly. I hope to have some episodes up by next week
-More Neverwinter videos (montages and Schwa Can't MMO episodes). I will be posting two of the dungeons we completed (the ones I didn't have random crippling lag in) as we had a lot of fun playing them.
-I have Skyrim videos, so I will probably post those. It's not just clip shows either! It's an honest effort to try and LP some.

Dungeon Siege Forever

YouTube has a relatively new feature where I can look to see which of my playlists are getting the most views. It's kind of an interesting analytic to look at as I can see what videos are the most interesting for people visiting my channel (or videos overall). I've been diving into a lot of analytics at work for various communities, so I guess I got the bug or something. I've always loved numbers, even if I don't know what to do with them.

Anyway, top playlists are (no surprise really): Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege, Legends of Aranna, Broken World, Dungeon Siege 3, Diablo 1 and Dungeon Keeper 1&2. ("Music" was after Legends of Aranna, but it doesn't count as I am most likely single-handedly responsible for those views).

So consensus is people like Dungeon Siege. I'd say Dungeon Keeper doesn't count, but I made that playlist long after I produced the LP way back in...2009? Man...

So Dishonored continues to go up. I started recording more Brigmore Witches. It was disgusting. I hadn't played in about a month or two so I had no idea how to play any more. As a result, the first 20-30mins are just me faffing about confused and lost. I am on track now and am currently stuck on a fight (which is BAD because my first instinct is to just try to kill everything and I'm trying to go Low Chaos...plus I'm not really...equipped...to fight. I've been going the stealth route...).  Anyway, I'll figure that one out.

Oh and pro tip: Always wear your god damned seatbelt, even if you are in a parking lot.

So the good news first: my brother is graduating high school. Yay. This was his grad (or "prom" as Americans call it) and he was not in the vehicle.

The bad news: Car accident. Not so yay...I wasn't the driver, but I was in the back seat. With no seatbelt at the time because we had stopped and were about to get out before we decided to try and find a closer spot. Poor life choice. Both my father and the truck driver did not see each other. I didn't even see it coming. When it hit, all I could think was trying to catch my phone as it ejected out of my hand.

Some locked bumpers and one punctured tire later I kind of freaked out and plugged in my seatbelt again and realized how dumb that was. Anyway, I hit the seat in front of me, quite gracefully actually for someone wearing glasses and didn't get hurt at all. Point is, if I hadn't been sitting there, I would have hit the dashboard or been launched into the front seat. We were only going 15km/hr. The other guy was probably doing double that, but it was enough. I got lucky, but please WEAR YOUR GOD DAMN SEATBELT. The god damn Batman demands it.

PS - Don't worry my phone didn't brain anyone.

Return of the Shlong Brothers

Quick note to say that Shauna and I have recorded some Outlast: Whistleblower. The first parts will be going up shortly (expect them within the next 24 hours). Join us for the return of your favourite characters like Phil, the security guard, Billy, the moody capsule man and, a crowd favourite, the notorious Shlong Brothers!

EDIT: I have had...an extremely busy day. I will get home at 10 and then I have approx. 2 hours before I either play some games with South Africans or pass out to edit and encode video as well as prepare some things for tomorrow. I need to tack on like...another two or three days to my weekend. Balls.

Live Stream

So, I have a live stream account now on twitch.tv which I will probably use mostly for broadcasting Skyrim and other Elder Scrolls games. Essentially, anything that does not have a set beginning and an end, I will not be doing an LP for it. Instead, I'll do live streams of the games (that way I don't need to record them on my hard drive, which also frees up space for actual LPs).

DrSchwa

As for uploads, I've something special being uploaded tomorrow. Would have been today, only I'm an idiot and was trying to encode the video with the wrong settings. Anyway, keep an eye out for new videos.

11%

Is how much my free space my hard drives had IN TOTAL last night. Now, after the deletion of some raw video files that had been worked with already...I have a significant amount more. I am currently on my reading week which means I will probably be working late into the night and wake up late in the day (with the exception of some mornings). My plan is to get a significant amount of Broken World recording and videos uploaded, work on the third and final Left 4 Dead 2 Clip show, encode the last few full episodes of L4D2, organize all the random little clips I have on my hard drives and delete the ones I'm not going to use anymore, begin work on the larger video project I have going and prepare for recording Dungeon Siege 3, because that day is fast approaching.

This week I also hope to update this blog a little bit with screen shots from Dungeon Siege 2, because I haven't done that in a long while. Skyrim DLC is also out, which I purchased yesterday, so you can be sure that a lot of hours will be going into that. I also need to update my Dungeons and Dragons logs, do a little mid-winter cleaning, get some writing done...oh yeah and school work. I'm sure I have a little of that too.

In addition, I have posted it a few times on the YouTube page, but I've been starting to play a bit of Dungeon Siege multiplayer with some interested parties. If anyone is interested in trying it or joining, please send a message my YouTube account. That is all.