Penumbra Overture

Is finally completely uploaded. I explain this in the description and in the video, but there is a significantly large portion of the video near the end that was corrupted and unusable. Therefore, all I had to work with was the mic audio. I cut out about 5-7 minutes of this audio, only putting in bits I thought were important to note...or particularly silly. At any rate, I apologize for this once more, but there is little I can do to fix it. I could have re-recorded it, but it would have been a bit botched anyway, and I do not have easy access to the save files as it was played on Shauna's computer and not my own. Anyway, the most important piece of the video are still there, so hopefully it doesn't bother you much.

More Half Life 2 and Bioshock Infinite queued up for this week. That is if I can force myself to focus on it and not play inFamous Second Son or Dishonored the whole time. I am a little bit addicted...and may only have received four hours of sleep last night because of it...

The new inFamous is actually pretty fantastic. I like the new character...even if he's a little ridiculous sometimes. All the time. Every time.

Derp

As I mentioned a few times last week, I didn't get much video produced as I had lost a lot of sleep, and really wasn't up to spending the time and energy producing the high-maintenance LPs...which incidentally is all three of the ones I'm currently releasing. I am currently encoding the last segment of Dishonored, so that LP will be fully prepared for release after I get the other three in order. I seem to have prioritized these poorly. I am going to redouble my efforts this week.

Penumbra Overture will be finished by the middle of the week (though I don't know what to do about the corrupt portion near the end...I'm tempted to re-record it myself, but we'll see). I'm actually quite pissed at how corrupt and desynced this LP turned out. It may be tainting my overall opinion of Penumbra, and that's really not the game's fault. That said, I may have a few words about the games themselves once this is all over.

Two new episodes of Bioshock Infinite have been uploaded. Expect 2 - 3 more by the end of the week. Also another pain in the ass to produce because of the echo.

Half Life 2 is fairly easy to edit and produce, but I got halfway through editing the next segment before I felt like smashing my face into the keyboard (not related to the game, I just stopped functioning at that point). I will be recording more this week, hopefully finishing the game completely. Expect at least 2 more episodes of that this week.

So in summary, you should expect a minimum of 6 videos, and a maximum of *shrug*

Point is, I'm still here, and I thank those who are waiting for specific videos for their patience. Meanwhile, I took a few hours to make a VERY SERIOUS VIDEO, because I really needed a little silliness this week.

Stock Photos

For the past couple months I have been looking at the same type of stock photos for this one project I'm working on at...well work, and there are some really great caption opportunities. Stock photos have to be some of the most hilarious photos out there, but then you get creepy doctors with vials staring into webcams, or a group of business people that obviously get paid to do nothing all day as they sit around a table building towers out of solo cups. My favourite series of the day was this group of people all in suits in an empty concrete room sitting in a circle. It's like an AA meeting...only the pictures progress into two guys wrestling, and then having a pillow fight, and then one of the guys strangling the pillow, and then a woman with a red foam bat standing over an unconscious man...and I'm not exactly sure what's going on. I have to admit my favourite photo of the day is this. I can only assume this woman snapped from the pressures of the business world and decided to follow her dreams of world domination, taking this poor old man hostage. Just the sheer horror on the old man's face and the delight on the woman's face is just pure gold. (seriously, take a look at the tags and everything and tell me if you'd expect that based off what you see...I love how "communication" is one of them).  

Anyway, I'll take up the hobby of mocking stock photos another day. Penumbra and Bioshock Infinite are coming along slowly. Almost done Penumbra Overture...I have up to part 6 uploaded. Part 6 has some really good bits in it, especially since we didn't expect a few of the events. Bioshock Infinite is fairly good, though I've been fixing some problems with an echo picked up by the mic. I'm going to try and finish uploading Penumbra Overture by the weekend, and then I will (hopefully) bring you Half Life 2. 

Spring Schedule

All right, so I had a busy weekend. I got a lot of recording and video editing done, which surprised me. I'm not sure what my time is going to be like this week, but I'll have a lot to post to tide you over until my next recording session. I have completed and processed LP footage from:

Bioshock Infinite (an adventure in floating things and creepy religious overtones played with Shauna)
Penumbra Overture (an adventure in puppies and tunnels played with Shauna)
Left 4 Dead 2 (campaigns and mods played with various people)

I have recorded, but unprocessed footage from:
Half Life 2 (which may require a little bit of extra editing as the combination of Fraps and my computer results in catastrophic results...Fraps is a little unstable with HL2 for some reason)
Dishonored (which is a Blind playthrough. I am loving it, but am outrageously terrible at being sneaky)

I am debating whether to just stagger footage (ie alternate posting the videos from different games) or fully posting an LP before I start to post another. The advantage to the former is that I focus more on one game at a time. The advantage to the latter is you won't have to wait long for videos from a particular game you want to see. There hasn't been too much interest in the Left 4 Dead 2 material, so I'll probably hold that in reserve and focus on Bioshock Infinite and Half Life 2. That is my plan, if you have any comments or requests on posting, let me know.

With this in mind, you should start seeing new videos by tomorrow or Wednesday.

Dark Souls will probably be a summer LP at this rate.

ALSO: after like...3 months, Magicka has I think two chapters left. This is mostly my fault for the delay...heh.