A Little Bit of a Mess

Is the state of my videos right now. My hard drives are very full, which means a lot of work for me and a lot of video for you to watch. I spent the majority of the day here freeing up space. I am happy to announce that I have finally, completely, dealt with Penumbra Black Plague, and the final episodes will be available this week. I made a mistake and uploaded the segments out of order, and only realized it today when I was attempting to update the tags.

Meanwhile, I have begun recording Unreal Tournament 3. It has been...an experience. I am not very good...and we are playing on the highest difficulty. I will need to heavily edit the first two missions as we had to attempt them multiple times. We get better as we go though, so the rest of the videos should be full videos unless we hit problems again.

Right now my priorities are: Neverwinter (need to get that under control), Guild Wars 2 (not sure what I'll do with this yet), Unreal Tournament 3 (because it's taking up a non trivial amount of space) and Adventures with Boxes....I mean Penumbra Requiem (because it's...been a year). Thankfully, Requiem is short and does not take up much space.

I am likely only going to commit to those 4 projects for the time being, but I am still taking requests and I will eventually move on to other titles. I will keep a running list of the LPs that have been requested, or that I plan on doing at the bottom of this blog.

Anyone Seen My Brain?

Cause it's either missing or completely fried. I was already tired last night, and then I only ended up sleeping an hour before my back began hurting and I had nerve pain shooting through my leg. So that's fun. Managed to fall asleep somewhere around 5am but then I had to be awake for work and...well here I am. I should be able to leave in an hour, but until then, I'm stuck staring at my grilled cheese trying to remember how long it's been sitting there. So I apologize for this post and its coherency. This is what happens when I get 3ish hours of sleep...with medication for my back...and I was already sleep deprived. 

Here is a list:

1) Unreal Tournament 3 has a tentative start date for recording. We will be playing September 1 (or very close to that depending on when the other three gentlemen are available to play) when I get back from going to my grandparent's cabin out in the boonies. 

2) I started another LP with GameVoyeur. We are playing resident Evil 5. I literally retyped "resident" four times and the shift key wouldn't register to capitalize it. So it is staying like that. That's what you get for defying me resident. Now everyone is going to stare at it and be uncomfortable. Anyway, that's started to go up here. I will post the playlist on my channel when a playlist exists.

3) Guild Wars and Neverwinter Nights look like other likely co-op LPs/videos in the future. I have no idea what the timeline on those would be though.

4) Uh...I didn't record any more Dark Souls. This weekend was a little rough on me unexpectedly and I ended up quite busy. I still plan on continuing it, but you may not get many more videos before I go off the grid. 

5)Fallen Earth stuff is up. I have another video for it, so I will be posting that before I leave.

K I keep seeing the little bit of paper at the end of the teabag in my drink move and it's freaking me out cause I keep thinking it's a bug.

6) You will be getting a lot of Neverwinter, Skyrim and Penumbra in the next few days. I can't remember if I have anything else prepared. It'll be a surprise for you if there is.

Today is Monday so....

Monday - Neverwinter Dungeon, The Pirate King Part 3, Fallen Earth Horse Video

Tuesday - Skyrim Part 12

Wednesday - Penumbra Black Plague Part 3, Neverwinter Dungeon the ice mountain one that I forget the name of Part 1

Thursday - Neverwinter Dungeon the ice mountain one that I forget the name of Part 2, Skyrim Part 13

Friday - Penumbra Black Plague Part 4

Saturday - Uh...something interesting I'm sure

Sunday - I will get back to you after I have a nap

Monday - I'm disappearing into the wilds of Manitoba to become one with nature, though I'll have videos queued up while I'm gone. 

Oh god this is a terrible cover of House of the Rising Sun. Please make it stop. I can't handle this. 

Huehuehue

My house is peaceful and empty again as all the relatives that have been staying with us over the past 2 and a half weeks are gone. They're all nice people, but I'm glad we don't have so many people here anymore. Gets a little claustrophobic and it's harder to explain all the inane gibberish I spew while LPing to guests.

Well, I caved and got a capture card. This means two things. One: I can finally do the Gamecube LPs that I want to do. I have three specific games in mind, which I will leave a surprise as I have no idea how well this is going to work. Two: Shauna and I may be able to do more horror LPs since she wants to get some for her PS3/PS4. For now, we're going to work on completing Bioshock Infinite. And I'm going to...uh...finish producing Penumbra...which is kind of maybe over 8 months old now. Heh.

I will be recording more Dark Souls over the weekend as my brother is out of town and I can steal his gamepad for prolonged periods of time without him needing it. Lots of Skyrim videos are produced, so you can expect those for the rest of August. Looks like I will be starting another LP with Voyeur very soon as well (once we confirm what it is we are playing). Might also be adding to the MMO series with a new game "Fallen Earth," but I am unsure of whether I will be playing a whole lot. It feels a little stale and incomplete to me. Plus I got mad about the horse steering. Regardless, you can expect a video of that experience up within the week.

Coming up this week:
Skyrim - Likely two segments
Neverwinter Dungeon - The one from the Pirate Skyhold area. I'm too lazy at the moment to look it up
Dark Souls - One or two segments. We'll see
Fallen Earth - Another very silly video approacheth.
Penumbra Black Plague - Slowly but surely it will arrive.

End of the Con

So comic con is over. I managed to still get two Half Life 2 episodes out this weekend, which is two more than I thought I would produce. Horray for productivity.

My adventures from the con are (obviously) posted on this blog. I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I would this year, but I figured there was enough photos of the amazing cosplay floating around this year that you'll be able to find a ton of them online.

Expect another chapter of HL2 out this week. I believe the next chapter will be out in four parts. The first two are produced and I have two I may go through this evening. Also expect the last of the Bioshock Infinite videos I have recorded (Shauna is getting her computer looked at this week) and the introduction of Penumbra Black Plague (if I am not lazy/busy).

Dishonored should begin showing up in mid-May. It'll give me time to finish up HL2 and Black Plague.

Geiz! Geiz! (also soundtrack Thursday 15)

Iz Comic Con. Oh Emm Gee.

Woke up and spun around singing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." I'm sorry wallet. You will suffer this weekend.

Soundtrack Thursday is still a go. Seems like Thursdays are usually short days. I'll be leaving around 3 to go line up for my badge and wrist bands. I feel so official and that's really not the case. Oh man.

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - I really need to watch all these again. I love these movies.

Shit. So I agreed to help my coworker grow her Chia Pet. I misread the instructions and used two tablespoons instead of two teaspoons of seeds. So now I have this scoop of unused seeds sitting on my desk. I need to find something random to Chia.

PS - The Spongebob Chia is a little terrifying.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - There is also a compilation of all the Harry Potter Soundtracks on YouTube. It is over 9 hours long. I don't think I can handle that much Harry Potter.

Supernatural - In playlist form as it does not seem to exist as a compilation (yet). I love this show.

LP UPDATE:
-Shauna still cannot figure out what is happening with her hdmi
-More Half Life 2 IS recorded. You can all make fun of me for my poor handling of the rocket launcher.
-Penumbra Black Plague is sitting peacefully on my hard drive
-More videos likely to be uploaded Monday. This weekend is a write-off

Frozen Inside

Inside my work that is. It might actually be warmer outside right now. There is no heat to counteract the air conditioning that I think is stuck on. I wouldn't have a problem with it, only I didn't dress warm enough for this today. Spring is finally here, which means misery for my sinuses. I don't even know what it is I'm allergic to. It's just spring. I am allergic to spring.

Anyway, I didn't make a post to complain about temperature and nasal congestion, though it certainly gave me the opportunity. I have been working away all weekend whenever I have time, and have completed a lot of Half Life 2 videos. I posted three videos over the weekend (one was supposed to be posted last night, but the video didn't publish for some reason and I JUST noticed) and I expect to post three parts of Ravenholm in the next couple days. The gaming laptop I am using to record it (quite literally the only machine that I can use that CAN record it due to lag) is breaking video in all sorts of interesting ways. So far, I have been able to handle it.

What to expect this week:
-HL2: Ravenholm chapter
-The beginning of Penumbra: Black Plague
-A couple Bioshock Infinite videos (the LP is on hold otherwise)
-Just Cause 2 Multiplayer videos (as requested by my brother)

IMPORTANT: We are currently not recording Bioshock Infinite as Shauna has encountered a problem with her HDMI cable connecting her laptop to the TV. While we could play this on her laptop screen, it is a lot more difficult for two people to see and comment on it. In case someone out there can help us (or more specifically her as it is her machine), this is what's going on:
-HDMI previously connected to the television fine
-When it is connected now, the TV will not recognize the laptop, or the laptop's screen will flash on and off
-The laptop will connect on start-up (ie the Windows start-up logo and screen) but fails to work when it reaches the desktop
-She has not installed any new software aside from games (particularly Deus Ex)
-We have tested the resolution and that is not the issue
-I am unsure of whether she has tested the refresh rate
-The cable is not faulty as we tested this with other devices
-The TV is not faulty for the same reason

If anyone has a solution or has encountered this and fixed it, please leave a comment on this blog, or message me on YouTube/Google+. She would really like some answers.