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.

Soundtrack Thur---I mean Friday

Yeah, so I forgot yesterday because I had a dental appointment. If it makes you feel any better, my gums are sore and my wallet is significantly lighter. Regardless, here are today's tracks:

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
(smAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUg)

Sovengarde Song (as an interlude of sorts...it's soundtrack related...)

Dishonored Song (wait for it...there's a clever segue here)

See?

Dishonored - the last song caught me by surprise. I can't decide if I like it...or if I'm creeped out by it. I think both. Still, I was happily writing emails when suddenly CREEPY CHILDREN. Okay I'm convinced I need to play this asap now. It's my level of creepy.

Bioshock Infinite - since we're playing it and all.

And after lunch....

We'll flip the tone on its head.

Frozen - good movie, good soundtrack. Still not fond of the snowman though. Also, I really wish we saw more of Elsa. She seems to have the most room for development.



HOLY CRAP. It's pi day. I must have pie to celebrate.

HAH "homail"

I figured out why my PSN account has been non-functional. So, on the PS3 I entered an email for my account, 4(ish) years ago. Either from the beginning, or when the PSN had that credit card issue and it was down for a month. I wasn't too upset because I don't go online much and I got some free games out of it (yay Infamous). Anyhow, my brother and I purchased a PS4 and I went to activate my PSN on there and it told me I had an invalid email. I was confused because it worked fine on the PS3 all this time, and it wouldn't accept my birthday to change the password...so I got mad about it and put off fixing it until later.

Yesterday I was on the PS3 and decided to look into it as my username and password are saved on there. I tried accessing the account options, which requires a password...so I did password recovery and sent it to my email. I didn't receive one, and after a few minutes I got fed up, and watched a movie. Afterwards, I tried it again and immediately I noticed a problem, which incidentally was also the reason I never got an email. I was using "homail" not "hotmail" for god knows how long. This is why the PS4 said I had an invalid email, only the PS3 ACCEPTED it. 

So I had no choice but to remember what password I used. I remember when I changed it I sat there saying to myself "hell I'm never going to remember this" and then promptly forgot to write it down. Hasn't been an issue because the PS3 had my password saved. So I tried a few combinations because I knew it was some combination of the same word phrase. I FINALLY got it, which actually was a lot more simple than I expected, and got in.

Point is, I have fixed my PSN, and if anyone would like to add that account, you may send a private message to me on YouTube or Google+ (or if I have you on Steam or something similar, just ask me there). 

ugh.

Busy Busy Busy

Half Life 1 LP is almost complete (finally). I have very little left to record, just need some time to sit down and be patient with the final chapters. There will probably be rage. I'm not the greatest at FPS. My aim is terrible and these levels get incredibly confusing, so I hope you enjoy my agony.

I have a lot of options for LPs after this, but frankly, I think I'm going to buy some time with some other random videos as I have really been focusing on my writing the past few days, plus I have work and other activities keeping me busy. The main reasons for wanting a little time off is to a) Play games I don't have to worry about LPing, and b) So I can allocate some real time to writing. The one LP I'll probably dabble into at least a little bit in this time will be Half Life 2.

In the near future I still want to do:
Dark Souls
Dishonored
F.E.A.R.
A bunch of other stuff that I referenced in other posts and am too lazy to go and find mainly because I need to go edit a document that I'm putting off because I'm tired.

Co-op:
Hunted: The Demon's Forge
Unreal Tournament 3

Magicka is close to being finished.

Soundtrack Thursday 8 ROBOT MOVIES

Yes, Robot Movies. Mainly just because I wanted to listen to Pacific Rim, that is the theme today. So I'm listening to tracks that look roboty and interesting to me, plus I'm taking suggestions from other people as to what's good. So...

Pacific Rim - This soundtrack makes me so happy. The main theme especially. I replayed that twice before moving on. (Thx ME)

RoboCop - Never seen the movie. Soundtrack was pretty decent, but wow that synthesizer.  (Thx Sean)

Speaking of synthesizers...Transformers 1986 - Short, sweet and 80s. (Thx Matt)

Moving away from the 80's...Real Steel (it's in Playlist form though because no compilation appears to exist yet). Tracks are more down the action-inspirational road...which isn't surprising for Rocky with Robots. Some parts actually remind me of Bastion (Thx ME)

Not sure if this really qualifies, but it's an awesome soundtrack and it was suggested to me so...Tron Legacy is the next one up. Screw the rules, I have Daft Punk. (Thx Vince)

And because Rachel is trolling me: Iridescent. Transformers 3 made me weep. They were the tears of disappointment. Not in the movie...oh no I expected that to be awful. This is disappointment with Linkin Park. The song choice was just so...wrong. Nearly ruined the song for me. I'm still mad about it. I am however, still, a Linkin Park fan. Even if they do sell out. THX RACHEL.

Also, quotes of the week:

"I've had two cups of coffee, I feel so..."
"Wingaly dingaly ding."
"Yes, that."
Apparently the wingaly dingaly ding was part of the "Row row row your boat" tune already in progress inside Michael's brain. Whatever. All in the timing.

"Know each other for two weeks, get married, have llamas."
Meanwhile Cherry cola shoots out of Chris' nose. Yeah, you don't get context on this one. Do with it what you will.

WAT DAFUQ IS THIS?

So I searched my name because I was trying to figure out what I used as my login for a site (haven't used it in like...a year) and THIS showed up:

What. The. Hell. Seriously? Is this for real? A) What the fuck. B) Who added me on here? C) What the fuck. Also, I like how there's a "Stalk" option. Do I need to start checking my bushes for creatures other than injured deer now? I'm hoping that whatever this site is just snagged my name off of my facebook or something.

Oh internet...you scary.

Home Again

I never mentioned it but there were no uploads over the weekend because I was not in the country. I went down with some people to Montana IN AMERICA, to ski for the weekend. Quite a memorable weekend. Here are the highlights/main events:

-Got a total of 4 Tim Horton's cups and won nothing out of the 8 roll-up rims (2 per cup for 50th anniversary)
-Saw two golden eagles within a kilometre (or a mile as we were IN AMERICA) of each other feasting on the carcasses of two deer
-I tried "Cheez-its." At first I was like "meh," then suddenly an entire box was gone. Not sure what happened
-Counted 11 sightings of the ten commandments (which some people decided to turn into a drinking game)
-Encountered -40C weather without windchill. Decided skiing that day was a poor life choice. Pipes burst in 5 places in our building. Water was pouring from the garage area. We had no water for a day. The condo was very smelly.
-I only used my face to stop twice...less than 3 minutes apart. Hilariously enough it's also the same run I slid 1/3 of the way down on my back last year. I fell back on my skis and couldn't stand up, so I was just sliding and giggling the whole way, bouncing over moguls. Too bad that one wasn't on camera...
-Canadian Stage Charades was invented as we arrived at a pub, commandeered the entire second floor which happened to have a stage (they opened it as our group was 14 people), and someone suggested we play stage charades. Random people came upstairs to watch including the bar tender from downstairs who randomly decided to don a temporary mustache tattoo. The server also ended up participating. We weren't sure if the staff was amused or terrified
-A drunk man investigating the noise upstairs invited us to feel his jacket. He insisted it was silk. It was actually corduroy.
-We broke something nearly every day. A glass bowl nearly met its untimely end on the last day
-"RELEASE THE FARTS" is screamed and suddenly Mike and Ikes are launched from a bowl across the room (I'm not even sure of the context on this one...I walked in at the last second)
-The farts were released
-Apparently ice sculptures were constructed on the balcony after I went to sleep
-AMAZING POWDER AAAAAAA
-Holy crap you Americans have a lot of flavours of pop. Our group's main purchase in the U S of A may or may not have included Cherry and Vanilla coke. Because we don't get that here. Not cheap at least.
-Grapes were on sale, so I bought a bag of them for the weekend. I then forgot about them until we left and I remembered that fruits and vegetables at the boarder are not so great to have. So I ate an entire bag of grapes in an hour so they wouldn't be wasted. Never again. My colon is still refusing to forgive me.