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).

Strange is Life

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

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

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

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

Foggy

I keep forgetting that I have the Contrast LP that I can post in case I run out of solo LP stuff. My memory in general is really bad lately as I've got a lot to remember. Allergies/inner ear issues isn't helping the matter. So if I forget about something, I apologize. I'm doing it, but it's not on purpose. Usually I remember something important in time...at the last second...and then fly into a frenzy trying to recover the situation.

I need a full day to just work on video. It's the only way I'm going to catch up at this rate. That or just an hour each day, uninterrupted to work on this stuff. It hasn't been easy this past week with my aunt staying with us to visit my grandpa as well as work and other chores I've had to handle. My car still needs an oil change and that glass chip fixed...

Lost Kingdoms is officially finished. I may post my other failed attempts at the final level on the public drive at some point, but to save you all time, I only posted my first and last tries on YouTube. You miss a lot of anger and exasperation. If you screw up and die in this level at any point you have to do the entire level over again...and it's not short. Even rushing through the level (not even the boss portions) is a good 15-20 minutes with the mobs that jump you. Then there's two bosses to get through (annoying vampire dude and the final boss with an arena-wide AOE attack that takes your health down to 1...unless you hug the very edges). This is actually one of my all-time favourite bosses...but it'd be better if it took you to a save point at the beginning of the boss.

GeneralDelta seems to be taking this video channel thing to the next level with a website and contests and such. I think I'll remain a bit-player in this for now. I'll join in their games from time to time (right now Dead Island...much to Mesk's amusement), but for now I have no time to do more, especially when I have other video projects I want to do. Like Guild Wars 1 with Mesk and HKs (since we've been trying to do this stuff for ages...and really at this point they're waiting on me...heh).

Also poor Voyeur. We were trying to FINALLY finish RE5. Little did we know that Window Live finally got toasted and Steam took over hosting. Somewhere in the process all the save files were lost. We were literally on the final boss and it me so long to get my shit together that we lost all our progress that close to the end. So after waiting 2 hours for the game to update (i.e. redownload), we found this out, tried to restart and then experienced a string of crashes and disconnects. So we aren't finishing that LP. Consider it complete and off my list of things to do.

Broken

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

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

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

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

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

You already heard all about War for the Overworld.

I need to finish up my Tera stuff.

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

I need to finish a lot of stuff.