Oh Deer

Obvious pun is obvious.

We have an injured deer living in our neighbourhood right now. It keeps sleeping in our flowerbed out front every night. Poor thing broke its leg, but the good news is it can still walk and it will get better. Had a guy from wildlife services come out and take a look at her and he said if the break had been higher in the leg, the deer wouldn't be able to heal properly. So thankfully it won't have to be put down. We just have to wait until it feels comfortable to leave. 

Meanwhile, I think I should name it. I've already had three suggestions...though so far they've all been "Venison." Thanks guys. You know who you are. Not sure how long she'll stay for, but one thing is for sure: it's kind of freaky at 6am when you look out the window and there's these beady little eyes staring back.

Blargh

Where did you put the feed YouTube? I can't flood people with completely useless updates anymore. How am I supposed to spam people now? I will have to be mildly displeased with you until you bring it back. Then again, this is like...the 500th time it's disappeared randomly. I shall stare eagerly at the screen until it returns. If I do not post again it's because I have starved to death. Please retrieve my body, place it on a wooden Viking ship (a SHIP not a boat), light it on fire and send me out to sea. There I can expect it to crash unceremoniously into a flock of seagulls and therefore have a flaming, squawking send-off to the underworld. That or Ragnerok will hit first. It is in a couple days after all. 

My arm is itchy. Clearly a sign of the apocalypse.  

Audio Issues

For the past couple of weeks I experienced a drop in mic audio quality that I did not pick up until recently (Mesk ended up pointing them out to me) and I've been working to fix it. We ran a couple tests and discovered Fraps was the culprit from what we could figure out. I adjusted some settings, which ended with me moving to a lower frequency. Which was weird, but it works now so I can't complain. Point overall for this is, the audio quality in the last 6 or so segments of Alice, in addition to some Left 4 Dead 2 content is lower than normal. For those who notice these levels of detail, I apologize. If you didn't notice, well now you'll be listening extra careful for it.


PS - I use a Blue Microphone - The Snowflake, in case anyone runs into the same issues

Soundtrack Thursday Number 5

I'm in the mood for video game soundtracks today.

Starting off with Dungeon Keeper 2 - Battle/combat music is one of my favourite game tracks of all time.

Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos - Never played too much of this game to be honest. Only played a couple random maps and a lot of DoTA back when that was new. Decent soundtrack though.

American McGee's Alice - Exceptionally strange. Version I listened to had dialogue and bits from the game. Was very strange writing content while someone was laughing maniacally in my ear. Might have been my favourite track to listen to today.

Alice: Madness Returns - Seemed fitting as I'm LPing this right now. A little more generic than American McGee's, but still nice music to work to.

Once again, excellent soundtracks...though today took a little bit of an ambient/strange turn. As soundtrack Thursday once again comes to a close, my general final thoughts have literally been: bored, tired, tired, tired, bored, email, tired, bored, bored, HOLY SHIT I FORGOT I HAD BROWNIES WITH ME.

I am now eating brownies and finishing off blog posts for work. The brownies have made me very happy.

PS - The brownies are inherently happy....not because they're "special" or anything...

Video Footage

In addition to Alice, which is close to being a finished LP, I have a ton of video footage on my hard drives that I have not yet released. These include Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns with Shauna, Michael, Oliver, Carlo, Nick and a couple of Michael's friends, a whole stack of Age of Empires 3 videos (some hilarious and others absolutely disgusting), Unreal Tournament 3 random games (meant to try the campaign, but it didn't want to work for us and we were too lazy to commit too much time to it...also where you see how god-awful I am at most FPS), a couple of Baldur's Gate videos (though I only played a small portion of it...I may pick this up again), Penumbra (one day it shall be released...), dozens of random Skyrim clips (compiled since the dawn of time apparently based on how much random crud was sitting there that I don't remember) and some incomplete LPs including Miasmata (dropped because we figured it wasn't going to be an overly engaging LP) and Haunted Memories (a free Indie game that was impossible to complete due to terrible graphics, horrible writing and awkward controls/movement). 

If you would like to see any of this on YouTube or have it released, let me know. Otherwise, I will be completing Alice and moving on to Dark Souls. I will probably LP something else like Dishonored at the same time as I expect I will need breaks from Dark Souls based off what I've heard.

Do not ask for the L4D2 Cold Stream Advanced campaign with Shauna and Nick, joined later by Michael unless you want to see one of the most miserable footage you'll ever watch in your life. I'll likely do a couple of clips to sum it up...but it's two days later and I'm still mad with how poorly I played. That campaign is awful. I was awful. Everything is awful. 

Soundtrack Thursday 4

Well, I had Thursday off last week, and this week I was sick, so I've extended Soundtrack Thursday to Soundtrack Thursday/Friday. I was listening to music a bit when I was at home yesterday, but it was broken up by fits of napping, work and watching Brood War replays. So I have continued to listen to music today.

List of Tracks:
-Fairy Tail Volume 4 (fantastic soundtrack...not sure about the anime yet...only two episodes into first season)
-Warcraft 2 Soundtrack (heard it in those Brood War replays and had a sudden desire for nostalgia. Not a bad soundtrack...especially for 1995)
-Assassin's Creed 4 (giving myself a preview as I have it but haven't played it yet. Might be a contender for best Assassin's Creed soundtrack, but I do love the AC2 one).
-Halo 4 (always a delightful listen)

Also, a note about Alice:
I'll probably end up finishing recording the game this weekend, but I'm unsure exactly how much I have left. We'll have to see. I think I have an entire other area to complete, but I am almost done the third section of the game. If I had to recommend anything, I'd watch these recent segments: 19 - 26 (when they are all uploaded...some are encoding as I type). Segment 19 and 20 contain just under an hour of fighting a colossal ruin (yes...I know that's bad), but it has some of the most hilarious bugs I've seen in the game so far. After that, I feel as though I get a hang of the game a little bit more. There are plenty of other broken or silly instances as well.

Another Milestone

More like a stepping stone as it's really not that big a deal, but I hit 300 subscribers on YouTube today. It's kind of neat having people interested in the videos I make, both on my own and with friends. One thing I realized while making this video was I really am pretty awful at games...and I find that hilarious. I've had a lot of fun the past 3 ish years making LPs (including the LPs on my old channel) and I plan on continuing my video recording and producing, hopefully getting better at it as I go.

The video I will be uploading today contains about 80% new footage (in that I haven't uploaded it to YouTube). Some of these video clips are part of longer LP videos already on the channel, but a lot of the material has been sitting on my drives collecting dust, and I figured I should remedy that. The video is over an hour long, so I'll be posting markers to each segment of it if you'd like to skip over some of the parts. This is (mostly) footage from 2013, so I might make a 2014 edition next year should I encounter enough silly things to make it. Which is likely.

Also, I have the first Penumbra video encoded. Hooray.

I'll have those going up fairly soon. I also need to start recording Alice again because I, uh, ran out of videos of it. Heh. I'll have my drives cleansed over the weekend so I can start that next week. Maybe.


EDITOR'S NOTES FOR DR.SCHWA'S 10 FAVOURITE WTF MOMENTS

Penumbra - Currently the only footage (aside from the 16 second dog video where I sound like Mr. Hanky) from Penumbra released. As mentioned above, I am working on that. That entire dream sequence section was really messed up. We were both incredibly confused. Also, Tommy Wiseau makes an appearance.

Skyrim/Oblivion - I had a lot of random footage from the game on here. I basically start recording when I find silly things, or there is a potential for silly things. And yes, I really did start choking on bread when I was trying to make a joke at the end there.

Left 4 Dead 2 - I had so much unused footage and unreleased mods/campaigns of this game. The first section was the fun little random clips from more recent runs of the game.The second was when we managed to break the game and tanks just continued to spawn. I apologize for the poor audio balancing and blurry quality. These were processed ages ago. The third instance of L4D2 in this video is basically me failing horribly. That and being tormented by my friends. The usual.

Outlast - Barely had to do anything editing-wise. It was inane on its own. I was the one at the controls in all the clips shown there, so no surprise that it's ridiculous(ly bad).

Overlord 2 - I still have no words for this. I can't comprehend, even watching it multiple times. I truly love the last little clip I added though.

Garry's Mod - Little to clarify. My terrible Prop Hunt skills speak for themselves. BUT I need to defend myself in the video where I killed myself. Both me and my brother had no idea how that grenade missed, Oliver had tossed the barrel down the stairs, Michael nudged the barrel into standing position when he said "is this you Oliver?" and when I shot the barrel, Michael screamed "oh god" so I thought it was him. I cannot justify the orange clip.

Haunted Memories - Horrible, horrible indie game. Granted it was free and made by a handful of people. Still, that's barely an excuse.

Just Cause 2 - The clip with the race car and the plane makes me laugh every single time.