Let's Get Down to Business

If you don't break into song after reading the title I will be very disappointed in you.

The moment I finished typing that line, a beetle fell into my lap and I had to resist every urge to eject my laptop, which is also in my lap, away from my body while I reached for a cup to catch it. Now I have a pet beetle for a moment. It shall reunite with its fellow beetles when I'm done writing. To be fair though, I thought it was a spider, in which case the outcome would have been much worse for everyone. Especially if my brother was involved as the last time I encountered a spider (in the shower...while I was taking a shower) he offered to turn the lights off for me. Whoever thought putting the light switch OUTSIDE the bathroom was a good idea needs to be shot.

 Anyway, I am writing to you today not to tell you of my crippling fear of spiders, but of what the heck I'm doing with my LPs in the next little while. My answer is: I have no clue.

I had work last week, and then the black hole of awesome that was comic con that absorbed my entire weekend, covering for my boss who is out of office this week (did this for one job...now the other...) and some medical stuff. The good news out of all this, other than feeling like crap most of the time, I am completely healthy! I actually would have preferred they found something because I would really love not to be tired and sore anymore. My doctor thinks it was a virus and anticipates another 2-3 weeks of recovery. Great.

So in my exhaustion last night I tried to figure out what I need to post, what I need to edit etc. Let's see...on my hard drives right now I have:

Bioshock Infinite
Half Life 2 Episode 2
War for the Overworld
Tera
Guild Wars 2
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Among the Sleep
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
Primal Carnage (mostly really poor quality clips as I never intended to do anything with this but then it ended up being hilarious)

All of the above are in various stages of being complete. All of the above aside from Fire Emblem, require a bit of editing.

On Shauna's hard drive I have:

Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Dreadout < to be edited by Shauna. She's starting video work. Yay!

And completed LPs I have:
Contrast
Bioschlock 2

And if I have any others I'm completely forgetting them at this time. I have a plan for a special video should I reach 1000 subscribers. I'm not going to ruin the surprise...mainly cause I haven't completely decided if this is what I want to do yet.

My idea is that I will edit up all this stuff, get that out of the way and THEN move on with other LPs. It's probably not going to go down that way, but still. I really want to do more Skyrim and play through Grim Fandango. And then I will, inevitably have to go through the pain that is Awesome Possum. Because I foolishly agreed to play it. That and Kristy is insisting that I play through Mass Effect, so that will be a thing too. Not sure if I'll record that one though...

Revised Video Schedule

Because I realized that I'd be flooding people's inboxes with videos they are probably not as interested in. Left 4 Dead Campaigns are going to essentially be filler as they take a long time to upload (especially when my computer decides to restart in the middle of the night). Expect Amnesia and Dungeon Siege 3 videos on the dates in between.

Left 4 Dead 2 - The Parish - Normal - March 21-22 

Amnesia Part 6 - ? - March 23

Left 4 Dead 2 - Clip Show 2 - March 24 (out of all the videos I've made, this is one of my favourites) 

Left 4 Dead 2 - No Mercy - Normal - March 27
Left 4 Dead 2 - Crash Course - Normal - March 30

First segments of Dungeon Siege 3 - March 31

Something completely different? - April 1

Left 4 Dead 2 - Death Toll - Normal - April 3
Left 4 Dead 2 - Dead Air - Normal - April 6
Left 4 Dead 2 - Blood Harvest - Normal - April 10

Left 4 Dead 2 - Clip Show 3 (not yet produced) - My plan is to work on this and have it  completed after my presentation and paper is complete. Tentative date: April 13

Left 4 Dead 2 - Cold Stream - Normal - April 17

Left 4 Dead 2 - Dead Centre - Advanced (with MaxGrief) - April 20
Left 4 Dead 2 - Hard Rain - Advanced - April 24
Left 4 Dead 2 - Cold Stream - Advanced - April 27
Left 4 Dead 2 - Crash Course - Advanced - May 1
Left 4 Dead 2 - Dead Air - Advanced - May 4
Left 4 Dead 2 - Blood Harvest - Partial Campaign Advanced (with Malkor/Iskatumesk) - May 8
Left 4 Dead 2 - The Passing - May 11
Left 4 Dead 2 - The Sacrifice - May 15

OHI MARCH

It's going to chew me up and spit me out.

I have a plan for March (wow when does that happen) to put out as many videos as I can that have been clogging up my drives for the past 6 months (and up to 3 or 4 years in some cases). This is my attempt to free up space and get as much semi-entertaining stuff out there as I can. I figure the more videos I can work on, the better my editing skills will get. So here is the line up for the next month (ish).

Left 4 Dead 2 - Dead Centre - Normal - March 5
Left 4 Dead 2 - Dark Carnival - Normal - March 7
Left 4 Dead 2 - Swamp Fever - Normal - March 7 (I'm gone for the weekend so I'll post two videos Thursday)
Left 4 Dead 2 - Hard Rain - Normal - March 11
Left 4 Dead 2 - The Parish - Normal - March 14 (One day later as I want to ensure I have a solid, quick connection as I have a paper due March 14 and I know I will need to use the internet.)

Left 4 Dead 2 - Clip Show 2 - March 16

Begin the Recording and Production of Dungeon Siege 3 (depends on Hard Drive Space and my exhaustion level after a really busy week)

Left 4 Dead 2 - No Mercy - Normal - March 18
Left 4 Dead 2 - Crash Course - Normal - March 20
Left 4 Dead 2 - Death Toll - Normal - March 22
Left 4 Dead 2 - Dead Air - Normal - March 24
Left 4 Dead 2 - Blood Harvest - Normal - March 26

Left 4 Dead 2 - Clip Show 3 (not yet produced) - My plan is to work on this and have it  completed after my presentation and paper is complete. Tentative date: March 28

Left 4 Dead 2 - Cold Stream - Normal - March 30

Something completely different? - April 1

Left 4 Dead 2 - Dead Centre - Advanced (with MaxGrief) - April 3
Left 4 Dead 2 - Hard Rain - Advanced - April 5
Left 4 Dead 2 - Cold Stream - Advanced - April 7
Left 4 Dead 2 - Crash Course - Advanced - April 9
Left 4 Dead 2 - Dead Air - Advanced - April 11
Left 4 Dead 2 - Blood Harvest - Partial Campaign Advanced (with Malkor/Iskatumesk) - April 13
Left 4 Dead 2 - The Passing - April 15
Left 4 Dead 2 - The Sacrifice - April 17

Hopefully, but April 20, I will have my larger video game blooper reel completed from the last 4-5 years of gameplay. Expect random Age of Empires 3 matches, Amnesia updates and any bits of Dungeon Siege 3 that I can get done on the days in between. This is a rough schedule subject to change, but there's lots coming up so stay tuned!

Also, I may do something special for Comic Con in Calgary on April 26-28 and I may try my hand at some reviews.