I've Had Coffee

The coffee helped. I'm feeling a bit better and I've been listening to soundtracks anyway so here you go:

Legend of Korra - playlist. Beautiful music in this. I really need to watch seasons 3 and 4.
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Love the music in this. The series finale music is top-notch. Sad about the quality in this video though.

Editing update:
-I have one session of Gauntlet left (a few hours) to produce. Still recording.
-Sorting out Evil Within. Found out I had two copies of session 1, so a little miffed by that since I've been low on space. It exists on 4 different drives at the moment. Edited Chapter 11 first cause...reasons. I think I'm going to re-edit/encode that for higher resolution and to check the spelling of mannikin/mannequin/manikin. I have no idea which one I used but apparently all are correct.
-Saints Row 4 - Just...sitting there for a moment cause it's a little more time-intensive to edit.
-I swear I did something else...oh yes, Murdered. Slowly working away on that.

RPG Update:
-Zones and maps partially planned out. Written dialogue filtered into respective maps and zones.
-Map 1 zone planning started
-Green Triggers complete and tested
-Demo of Mesk's Captain Planet RPG for ideas/lulz
-Building assets: music, graphics, sounds

Writing Update:
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Results

Figured out what was causing the pain in my right side and it was the same thing that it always is. It's not life-threatening. I just get to sit around and wait for it to get better as always. Better than surgery. I can eat/exercise however I want again. Within reason. In a bad mood because of a fight with a family member. Because if it isn't the answer you wanted, it's obviously cancer.

Life is Strange video is prepared. It will be released this week.

Nick and I finished the base game of Trine 2. We're on to the DLC now.

Almost done editing all the original Gauntlet footage. We'll be continuing that soon unless Mesk and HKS want to drag me through more high level areas in Warframe full of death and despair and hilarity.

With holidays coming I'll likely have limited access to computers from the 23rd-26th. It's going to be busy. I will have uploads queued, however, if you're expecting videos.

I'm going to go grab a coffee and work on being less frustrated.

EDIT: Went for a walk at lunch and I'm in a bit better mood. However, mystery of the day...on our way back we counted 41 empty bread bags. Either a garbage bag full of them opened or someone was doing something crazy with a hell of a lot of bread. No matter what the story is...what does someone do with that much bread? Then Oliver suggested this.

Porcelain Arms

I've managed to catch a rather nasty head cold. I was coughing so hard that I believe it aggravated another problem I have, so I'm in varying amounts of discomfort. The good news is I have now caught up on a number of things as I've had the time to do so...that is when I'm not working from home, sleeping or waking up in the middle of the night thinking one of my arms turned into a ceramic object.

I'm not joking. Whatever they put in nighttime neocitran is some interesting stuff because I woke up last night and had the most lethargic freakout when I thought that my arm and hand had turned bright white and transformed into porcelain. Just the one though cause I remember taking my pulse in that arm just to make sure it wasn't actually pottery. At some point logic or sleepiness won and I passed out again until morning. I may forego the neocitran tonight.

Murdered Soul Suspect Episodes 1 and 2 are now uploaded. I am well into the next two segments of it. I managed to power through 4+ hours of Gauntlet and now have 3 more episodes ready to upload. Right now I'm trying to remember where I stuck all the Evil Within stuff and whether or not I still need to transfer the Evil Within off the old laptop. Either way, I'm out of space for Myst 3, which is probably good because I shouldn't be recording that with half a brain and when I'm coughing every 5 seconds. How annoying.

Um, yeah so Gauntlet episodes coming soon and...more Murdered. I had some other plans, but I'm still having trouble remembering what's what so, I'll give another update when I'm feeling better.

One More Marathon Week

Not that I made it through last week's marathon in one piece. I crashed pretty hard over the weekend. Not sure what I had, but it basically sucked every ounce of energy I had. I literally spent one entire day reading and watching movies/tv. On that note, Kingsmen wasn't half-bad, though it ended on a...uh...super classy note. Then I went and watched some Rick and Morty so I suppose there was a theme to the evening.

Shauna will be happy to hear that I finished Summer Knight too so there's that.

I will have regular work hours, 9-5 (more or less) weekdays now, which means my schedule will be more consistent and I won't come home every day feeling like I got hit by three trucks, died and had to crawl my way out of hell, racing five demons back to my body for another go at this "life" thing. That's the theory anyway. Chances are I'll just end up buried in the mountain of writing and video work I need to catch up on. So we're switching from crawling to digging more or less.

Anyhow, uploads have continued. Recording continues. I should like...do a full update or something so there's some kind of illusion that business continues as usual. Complete with a load of giggling and screaming internally.

Currently recording:
-SOMA
-Planet Alcatraz
-Gauntlet
-Dead Space 2 (thinking of finishing this on Saturday if I have the drive space)
-Testament of Sherlock Holmes

Currently editing:
-Testament of Sherlock Holmes
-Murdered: Soul Suspect
-Gauntlet
-Bioshock Infinite (hahahaha the never-ending project)
-Evil Within (might get Mesk to cast over some of these segments or "key" segments)
-Some....special, unexpected footage intended for a new trailer (it's a surprise)
-Dungeon Siege (cause I keep forgetting I have this)

Recently finished:
-Awesome Possum (about 4 more episodes to go up)
-Tera footage (likely more to come in the future)
-Saint's Row 3 - all uploaded to LAG (but not all released yet)

So at least something is happening.

I have some initial thoughts on SOMA (we're about 3-4 hours in), but I may save those for another post as this one is already pretty long. In short, it's good, it's a lot like Amnesia games only...less terrifying and more sci-fi world-buildy computer apocalypse like. Yeah. The graphics are pretty neat and you can faff about with tons of physics objects (which have GREAT potential for silliness...but Shauna's keeping my SCIENCE in check, no worries).

Life is Strange Episode 5 next week. I'm not ready.

Turn the Crank

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

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

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

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

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

In the Boonies

I will be away for the week with limited access to internet, so you may see me around and you may not. I can access many things from my phone, but I anticipate a lot of sleeping and reading for the next 7 days.

I have...very little prepared for video this week. I am going to start post video from the Gauntlet run I did with Nick on normal difficulty. You can use this as a comparison for when I post the Gauntlet footage with Mesk, HKS and Wibod later on on the hardest difficulty.

Awesome Possum videos are prepared, so I decided to throw those up earlier than I anticipated. I am still not finished the game. I'm still stuck. In the arctic. I hate that abomination of nature.

I'll try to have more Testament of Sherlock Holmes ready for this week as well. In the meantime, I have some more beautiful screenshots for you. Game of the year 10/10.

This time the theme is broken particles and effects and some disturbing guards. What do I mean by this? WELL LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

Some of these are just random in the game...and some are in CUTSCENES.

Now here's some nightmare fuel for you:

My favourites are always Watson though.

And of course the dead-eyed stares of some of the characters and Sherlock, who isn't taking any of your shit. 

Last but not least, I'll leave you all with a creepy-ass smile.

HAPPY SLEEPING =D

Less Angry and Exhausted

Yeah I'm actually not angry about anything this week. All is well now that I have finished those edits and I can't remember what else I was angry about. In other news, my memory is still terrible. I keep saying that will get better when I'm less busy, but either I'm never less busy or my memory is just permanently awful. Okay it's all right in some respects. Sure I can't remember my appointments or meetings, but I can remember every line of Arrogant Worm's History is Made by Stupid People and silly flash videos I watched ten years ago. TOTALLY USEFUL.

I can't even remember why I started this post. God.

Updates I suppose. Bioshock 2 and Far Cry 3 co-op are almost complete. I have a handful of video left for both of them. The Far Cry 3 stuff is particularly aggravating as Michael and I spent a long time suffering at the hands of that final mission. Bioshock 2 is equally aggravating and amusing. I would highly recommend watching the last couple of videos I posted (Suddenly We're in Doom) as there is some really messed up stuff in it. Dead Space 2 will continue for awhile (especially since I haven't even finished recording it yet). Life is Strange Episode 4 is supposed to be out soon-ish. I thought it was actually out this past week. I might do something with Banished as I have been playing that quite a bit the last few days.

I think Delta has slowly been posting the Saint's Row 3 stuff I gave him, but it's going to run out fairly soon. I think more Tera is in order in the near future as well. Guild Wars 1 is going to sit around awhile longer. I ran Gauntlet on Normal with Nick. Not sure if/when I'll post those recordings, though there was a lot of silliness (mostly involving me getting him killed). We'll be running Trine 2 in the near future. Murdered Soul Suspect and Bioshock Infinite are on the queue for LPs with Shauna, but I'm likely to produce more Sherlock video first.

Also got to love the music some company arbitrarily decided to block a video with music from Assassin's Creed 4 in my country after having it sitting there for at least two years with no ramifications. Took me about five seconds to find another version (extended which is even better). Nah nah.

Nothing like telling someone they can't have something. Only makes them want it more.

I still can't get over how much this bothers me. Companies fighting over sound or visual content in my LPs, which is fair use at this point in time, for SCRAPS. Apparently a few cents a month at most is worth fighting for. And I'm the kind of person who will openly admit to using other people's music or content in my videos and accept those claims on my videos...if it's something that was under my control. If it's built into a game and I have no control over what plays when, then I don't think you should be filing claims on my content. Don't give me the line "oh well you can turn the music off in game then." No. Just no. Keep fighting over that petty cash gentlemen.

Angry and Exhausted

And hot and bothered.

These past two weeks haven't been bad really, but I've been struggling a lot with my mood, the heat, trying to manage three jobs (four if you count the editing I've been trying to do periodically) and moving. I have had little time for personal projects, which is unfortunate because I really need them to stay relaxed/sane. So I will tell you what I've been telling everyone the last month: I'm really sorry, but I've been insanely busy.

I've been postponing and putting off all co-op things and have been cancelling on a lot of people. The only games I've been playing with anyone is trying out Gauntlet on an easier level with Nick just to try it, and that has mainly just been stress relief. It mostly consists of me trying to get Nick killed and ending up killing myself in the process. That and stealing all the gold cause I'm certainly not winning in kills.

Dead Space 2 is the other recording I've been doing, but I haven't had the time, energy or willpower to tackle anything else. So I am truly sorry for that (mainly apologizing to Voyeur, Shauna, Mesk, HKS and Delta here). Things should hopefully stabilize next week (though I said that about this week).

Um yeah I'd also love to get back into my reading, writing and trying to learn how to code. That would be great.

This is where my brain is at.

You're welcome.