Nice Pancreas

These last few weeks have been quite the adventure in gigantic swings of good and bad luck. Thankfully whenever something bad happens there seems to be good luck in those bad things. Device for music breaks catastrophically > decides to randomly function again. Forget the laundry on top of my car and drive away > return to see nothing got run over. Need to leave my car in a parking lot for two days due to a medical emergency > doesn't get towed or broken into. Need to wait a total of 10 hours in a hospital waiting room to find out why I have stabbing pains in my chest only to find out they can't find anything wrong > there's nothing wrong with me and, I quote, "have a very nice pancreas." 

I was even well enough to go to an adults only night at the science centre last night (despite lingering nausea), which was nice cause we got tickets to it over a month ago. Saw a show about Pluto that was apparently "too much science" for the guy next to us. Because I mean, who the hell wants to experience science in a science centre. It was entertaining to watch 18+ people playing with science displays intended for children (including full-grown adults climbing through the indoor playground...with a height limit of four feet), and flocking around a number of puppies and cats that one organization brought in. There were also snakes and spiders to pet (I passed...mostly cause the line for it was long) and a human-sized hungry hungry hippos. 

So I should be able to upload more videos again starting tonight. I was a little over-dramatic the other evening as I was sitting on the bathroom floor at the time waiting for nausea to pass. I got some Fire Emblem levels on my DS done though so I suppose there's that. That desert level was really killing me for awhile. I was probably complaining about this in my last post. 

Also, was really entertained by a dude who felt the need to tell me how I wasn't a very nice person on YouTube after I commented on a guy who was upset that I had the audacity to joke about Dungeon Siege instead of just playing it. I mean, I'm so lucky to have someone policing my niceness levels these days. I don't want to literally turn into Hitler. Maybe this fine moral guide will scroll down the page and scold the young gentlemen who called me a bitch and told me to "lick his butthole." I mean if he's so concerned about how nice I'm being, he should certainly be interested in telling this lovely individual to mind his language. That said, I suppose I got the brunt of it because I'm just a horrid little hellspawn. It's okay; we'll hug it out. Maybe it'll purge the meanness from me. 

Decembrrrrrrrrr

Weather has cooled off here quite considerably, which has been GREAT for my cough. Not actually great. On the upside, I can actually breath/speak without coughing every five seconds so that's a plus. On the downside I've passed on my cold to some other people so...I'm sorry. Humidifiers though, been the best tool out of this entire ordeal. When the humidity in the house naturally sits around 35-38% and the air outside usually doesn't go above 50% at any given time, it's quite useful.

Anyway, aside from still waking up late, having a drippy ambiguous water leak over my and my coworker's desk and accidentally spraying coffee all over the coffee table (lol irony) this morning, things are going a lot better (again, I'm so sorry).

December is fast approaching and I'm excitedddd. Steam has a Black Friday sale or something going on because most of everything on my wishlist is on sale. This is bad for my wallet considering I have some significant purchases coming up in the next couple weeks in addition to Christmas. And then there's living costs...gas, food, housing...BUT ASIDE FROM THAT, I'm excited about a lot of video and creative work going on. December 1 I'll be posting some special videos that hopefully YouTube won't censor and I'll be planning (hopefully) a decent upload schedule for December to make up for the lack of uploads during the summer and fall.

Oh yeah and it's soundtrack Thursday.

Star Wars Old Republic - Cause Star Wars is a thing right now.
Bastion - Cause it's really good
Life is Strange Episode 5 - It still hurts

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.

Zero Uploads

Hey, just wanted to write a post saying I'm still around and planning on resuming uploads soon. Checked the YouTube page today and realized I haven't uploaded anything since like...September 20. It's October 5 now. I completely forgot over the last week or so. Let me tell you what's been going on as far as I can remember.

Let's see...I quit my part time job. It was kind of a no-brainer as I only have one day off a week. I'm tired. I've been borderline sick for a week and a half cause I'm not resting enough to let my body recover. While I've enjoyed working there for the most part, I don't think that environment is for me. You have to work many hours to even have a chance at promotion, and even then you are competing with many other people across the city for those positions. At the same time, more hours aren't available as they'd rather just hire more part-timers and avoid full-timers whenever possible...probably for budget reasons. That or I'm just so used to other types of work that union work just baffles me. Regardless, I have some good stories from my three and a half months there. One of my favourites was the dude that walked up beside me, poked me on the shoulder and asked "are you real?" I told him "yeah," so he smiled and said "okay cool" and just wandered away. Took me about a minute to process that one.

Other than that bit of news, I've been working on some personal stuff, been sick, been recording and, oh yes, had to go to court as a witness. Oliver and I witnessed a bad car accident a couple months ago coming back from the new Mad Max movie. Dude decided to plead "not guilty" to reckless driving at first, but after the first hour and talking to the witnesses (i.e. me, Oliver and some other dude), he changed his plea to "guilty" and we could all go home. I get trying to get a better deal, but when you're going fast enough to nearly light your tires on fire and literally the only thing that saved you from rolling over and killing yourselves was a lamp post, I'd say that there was some speed involved. Either way, the guy is lucky to be alive. He was about one foot away from getting seriously hurt or killed. Anyhow, it was significantly better than my last visit to court as a witness. We'll leave it at that.

Started recording Planet Alcatraz. Yeah. It's...I...um...potatoes. Yes. Everything is potatoes and bad voice acting. It's really quite amazing. I am so confused. Meanwhile Mesk is just giggling in the background. Other than that, Shauna and I are starting SOMA today. I'll let you know how that goes. It's been a long time since we've played a genuinely scary game (for the right reasons), so this should be interesting.

Long Week

Cue jokes surrounding the word "long."

My boss was away in Italy this week dealing with family business, so I have been working every day this week. It hasn't been too excruciating as it's been pretty quiet here aside from random groups of noisy children and legions of dudebros who leave the lingering scent of Axe. Regardless, I have not been home much this week. Any time I have been, I have either been busy (plans for D&D etc.) or too tired to do anything useful. On one hand, due to people's graphics cards being toasted (not that it's a good or anything cause...money) and me currently not having any running projects besides Fire Emblem (Life is Strange doesn't count because that was a 2 and a half hour one-shot) I haven't been behind on any recordings. I finished encoding Hunted, and I'm SO CLOSE with Tera and Alien Isolation. On the other hand...

I should have had a lot more productive week. I managed to get through work (one more shift tomorrow then I get to break on Sunday...perhaps literally XD). Problem is I literally have had no energy this week, and that's not because I've been busy. I am sick, again, but this time it's...really weird. I have extreme fatigue (I actually don't know how I made it through Wednesday), I've been waking up exhausted every day (yes I've been getting at least 7 or 8 hours of sleep every night...frankly I'm too tired to stay up later; I just pass out), I've been having trouble...concentrating (more than usual...yeah I know that's kinda hard to imagine), and the weirdest thing is I've been experiencing pain in my joints. Like...not just a couple of them. Every. Single. Joint. I have the usual lower back and knee pain that flares up at annoying times, but this is different. My hips, knees, elbows, shoulders, back, hands, wrists, ankles, all ache or have this burning sensation. My toes currently have a "hot" or burning sensation (I used to get this in university and I thought it was stress related). I can still type and use the mouse, but my fingers feel swollen and brittle (they are not swollen and are in fact, quite solid). It doesn't keep me up at night or anything, but I feel it immediately when I wake up in the morning. I thought this was a flu at first, because I get really achy when I get the flu, but I literally do not feel sick otherwise. I have no other flu symptoms and they started last Saturday evening. They have only marginally got better some days this week. Still eating normal amounts of food for me. Eating fairly healthy etc. Pain meds sort of help. Takes the edge off but it doesn't actually go away. I just don't understand what's happening.

Good news is I have an appointment to see a doctor on Monday morning. I am hoping I feel better by then and this just gets dismissed as a bad flu. I will be happy with that. That said, I almost wonder if there's something else wrong. I may be okay with that too because then I might actually know why I get sick so much. I don't WANT something to be wrong, but maybe I can finally take some steps to be healthier. And if we don't find anything, at least I'll know it's just me and I got to get my shit together for once.

Anyway, just typed that all out here because I'm actually kind of freaked out. Going to keep going on as normal as I can in the meantime (don't have time for this shit man!). I will keep you updated.

All five-ish of you.

Sick Again

I have been fighting off this cold or flu or whatever it is for over two weeks now...and it's finally taken over. I can't do this to myself anymore. I keep doing too much, I don't say no to anyone who asks for help or asks if I can do something, and I'm not eating or sleeping well enough. So I have decided to finish outstanding projects and back off from a few things for awhile until I can get myself well again.

Thankfully I have a reserve of videos to post, so releases shouldn't slow down, but I'm going to limit myself to what I produce for the next two months. I am not stopping my videos. I will still be doing LPs. I am however limiting myself to what I do.

I will be:
-Producing only one solo LP per month, which means some requests will not be granted until later this year. I will finish up Dead Space 1 and then choose ONE game to do afterwards. The exception will be Life is Strange Episode 2, mainly because that will only take 3 ish hours to complete. I have no idea when it will be released even.
-Doing a Borderlands 2 LP with GeneralDelta. This is my sole commitment to the new channel he set up for the time being. I will post other, shorter, one-shot videos. This will likely change in the summer.
-Continuing LPs with Shauna. I need to work my way through the multiple LPs that we have already finished recording before we start anything else. I will be suggesting a break from new content for awhile while I finish this.
-Continuing LPs with Mesk (and HKS). I will be finishing Hunted, producing some Tera and most likely take on Scourge:Outbreak with them.

I will not be doing any other collaborative work at this time. If you ask me to do a co-op or tag-team LP with you, I will say no. This is not personal, I just can't handle anymore work or commitments. Talk to me again in June.

I will take requests, but know that they will likely not be done until later this year. Expect some livestreams (Transistor and Left 4 Dead 2 or anything else I don't want to record).

Well Then

I have a sore throat and I have no idea what it means. I JUST got over a 24 hour flu like less than a week ago, and before that I had a head cold that my whole household got. I don't want to be sick any more. The ones effecting my throat are the worst too cause I can't do any voice recordings (or I can't do them for long).

I have been super lazy with my preview video. It's half done. It's currently sitting in the template I'm using for Left 4 Dead videos. I don't know why they are there.

I am almost done an LP that I can't announce yet because...VIDEO. I need to make another couple edits (somehow) on another LP that will be announce. Bioschock 2 is currently gathering dust in my hard drive, but it's ready to go. And I also started a new Gamecube LP (which might have been what destroyed my throat completely yesterday).

So a lot of vagueness. I promise lots of video soon. Lots of new stuff. Meanwhile, I'm not even half done uploading LOTR: TTA yet. I'll let you take that in. Hunted will continue. I shouldn't run out of those videos before we start recording yet.

Also I may or may not be playing Neverwinter again...heh.


EDIT: Dunno I did...but I somehow managed to corrupt the file I was working out of. So now I need to start again. From scratch. Perhaps I was working with too much on there...

EDIT EDIT: I FOUND A BACKUP COPY. BRILLIANCE =D

TRIPLE EDIT: It's my one external hard drive that's causing it. I think it's malfunctioning because I had it plugged into a multi-USB port and it made the other devices attached to it malfunction as well. So I gave it its own port. Now it randomly malfunctions on its own. disconnects, reconnects, and by the time that's done, Vegas has become upset. and if I try to interact with the program at all (even just to close it), it gives my computer a kick in the nads and I get a BSOD. My work-around when this happens is to kill the process. I'm going to get my files off there and do some tests. The only problem is I need to encode things first because I have no hard drive space (which is why I'm using that drive). I need to slow down on the recordings for awhile to get through all the content. Top priority to rescue off that drive is the Alien Isolation material. That cannot be replaced. Not easily anyway.

MAH FACE

Yeah still no better. Voice has managed to survive...mostly, but this cold is taking a lot out of me. I keep thinking it'll get better the next day and it just gets worse, no matter how much I try to sleep. It's probably cause I don't have time to rest. My extra shifts at work are almost over (today's the last day). Haven't been able to call in because NO ONE is available to work it. Yesterday I had to stay longer cause the one person who was supposed to come in called in sick. And then I had to go brush off a foot of snow from my car in -22 degree Celsius weather (plus windchill) and drive at half the speed limit on icy roads. At least traffic was low so it only took me an hour (the drive is usually 25-30 mins). Anyway, I have to work again today, so I'll just continue to upload. I forgot to publish some Skyrim stuff so I'll get to that today. Meanwhile you should check out the poll I made and vote:

Poll

Tell me what you want me to play. I think I got a request for a couple co-op/multiplayer options, but this poll is strictly for a solo LP that I'd do when I don't sound like my throat is trying to crawl up my nose.

Voice is Toasted

Again.

There has been laryngitis going around and it seems I may be getting it. I haven't COMPLETELY lost my voice yet, but I am preparing for it. I managed to record more Bioshock 2. It has become extremely entertaining...but not for the reasons the devs probably wanted it to be. I unintentionally broke a lot of stuff today. Ironically when I TRIED to break things, it didn't work as planned.

So my recording will likely come to a grinding halt. I'll either play things I don't plan on recording or just....write/edit. I'm thinking of what I will solo LP next. It will likely be one of the following:

Deux Ex
Dead Space 1
Thief 1
FEAR 1

I may put up a poll on G+ and let whoever is interested decide for me.