Triple O

"Out of Office" for the next week. I will be travelling to Murica to partake of the many flavoured Oreos and Cherry Cola. I will return next weekend. I will have internet access for the entire week, but there shall be no recording (which is not necessarily a bad thing as I am low on hard drive space for the 1000th time due to Tera recordings) and I will either be bringing a hard drive with me, or pre-uploading my videos for the week. So there should be no interruptions in video releases unless I forget to make them public.

At least one of you will be pleased to learn that I am almost done editing Alien Isolation. It has been difficult finding a good chunk of time to do this as I have work, people I have promised to game with, other chores and appointments. Also turns out I need this "sleep" thing I keep hearing about. I thought I could just not sleep, but I tend to pass out periodically and it's really annoying. Sometimes when I'm playing a game. Yes, I recently had two microsleeps while recording Neverwinter with GeneralDelta. Oops.

Lord of the Rings: Third Age will be finished this week. I have 4 more episodes. May also add custom title cards as GeneralDelta was so kind to make them for me. Dead Space will continue as well. I REALLY need to finish recording it soon or I will completely forget how to play, and it's not a good time to forget about it. I've just been putting it off due to space constrictions and because I've been a little stressed out (and it is kind of a stressful game).

Meanwhile I've been streaming a bit as it does not require any hard drive space from me. I may be streaming some Left 4 Dead 2 with Shauna and Nick tonight. I'll see if they're up for a stream or not. Usually it's only one or two people watching anyway. http://www.twitch.tv/drschwa


SEE Y'ALL IN A WEEK.

I Forgot a Title

I just realized I had an opportunity to do a soundtrack Thursday today...and totally didn't think of it. Oh well. Here, have a Life is Strange Episode 1 Soundtrack. It is very mellow.

Yeah so about Life is Strange. I think I will be LPing the rest of the episodes when they come out. This will be a slow LP as the next episode will be released in March. I've had enough positive feedback to continue however. It's interesting how many mixed reviews I have received about it. Seems as though the general consensus is: love the main character, like the character development, dislike the cliched (and unrealistic dialogue) and there was nothing that was really HATED. My opinion?

Character development: good
Voice acting: Some good, some awful
Dialogue and Writing: Some good, some awful, some unrealistic
Interactions between characters: Mostly believable if not a little cliche, but some motivations and actions really confused me. I couldn't understand the reasoning behind Max not contacting her best friend for five years for instance...
Setting: A little bland, but the characters are the focus
Style: Meh. Don't love, don't hate. I like the little details. I like the small funny bits. Some of the models and art looked...weird to me, but other parts were quite beautiful. I loved Chloe's design. Max has this perpetual look of exhaustion about her, which is fine because she's a stressed out student.
Mechanics: Kind of hilarious at times, especially when I couldn't get the football part right and the girl kept getting smoked in the head. Again, a little cliche with the time control.
Music and sound: Suits the game. I enjoyed the soundtrack. Hopefully that won't result in copyright issues on YouTube.
Additional notes: All the boys in the game all seem either creepy, scary or high. The exception is the teacher (who is like built up to be the best human being ever in Max's eyes) and the principal who just wants money. Also I think I have an irrational hatred of Brooke. She was kind of an asshole. I expected so much more from you Brooke.

I am interested in continuing this myself. I want to know what the consequences of my actions will be, and how much it changes the story (I plan to play through again without recording and try different options).

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age will be finished by the weekend. Sanitarium should start next week. I plan on finishing the recording of Dead Space this weekend. Mesk and I will finish Hunted shortly. Shauna and I will continue Murdered: Soul Suspect (of which I actually think we're almost done). And Alien Isolation continues to clog up my drives as I slowly sift through the CONFIRMED 34 crashes that we experienced during the series.

Change in Plans

I was supposed to upload more Alien Isolation...but I haven't edited to it yet. I'd say I didn't have time, but that's a lie. I mostly didn't want to edit it because the files I have to deal with now are a heaping mess because of the constant crashes we experienced. Instead I played Hunted, Left 4 Dead and...another game I really didn't expect to play today.

I will be uploading this LP in place of Alien. I believe I will be uploading the entire LP later today. It is not a long LP, and is the first episode of five episodes. I have not done an LP like this before. If it sucks, please tell me because I will likely do the other 4 episodes unless it really sucks. Or youtube removes it because of copyright bru-ha-ha or something similarly silly.

With that said. Sleep.

Horray for the Internet!

Forum fights and trolls are hilarious until you're the one who has to deal with them. Such is my experience so far as a moderator. For the past two weeks, all I have been dealing with is contacting people about prizes they won and running around putting out fires because everyone can't get along. And I need to wait on the rest of the support team and how they want to handle these situations, which means people get more angry in the meantime. My boss yesterday was like "yeah it was so quiet for a long time and then it just blew up the last few weeks."

I just feel like I'm playing The Wolf Among Us every time I need to step in to intervene.

"_____ will remember that"

Only I can't punch anyone.


In other news, I have a rough upload schedule prepared until the middle of February.

Here's what the next week looks like:

January

Jan 28 – Alien 31, 32

Jan 29 – Dead Space Chapter 3 finish, Alien 33

Jan 30 – LOTR 34, 35, 36

Jan 31 – Hunted Chapter 3, Part 3 and 4

February

Feb 1 – Alien 34, 35

Feb 2 – Dead Space Chapter 4 Part 1, part 2

Feb 3 – LOTR 37, 38, 39

Feb 4 – Hunted Chapter 3 Part 5, Part 6

Feb 5 – Alien 36, 37

Feb 6 – Dead Space Chapter 4 finish, Alien 38

Now if you'll excuse me...I'm going to go lie down in the corner and curl into a ball. Not sure about the weeping yet. I will get back to you.


EDIT: Ignore that schedule. I don't know what happened, but suddenly it's Feb. 1 and I don't know what's happening anymore. Help.

Guess What?

I have nothing exciting to report!

Okay that's not completely true. My ear has been itchy the past few days....

Just kidding. I have been busier than I would like over the past weekend. I am WAY behind on a lot of things including:

-Damned video that I promised two people I'd post

-Alien Isolation edits and uploads

-Regularly scheduled uploads (I will upload them and forget to publish them because I haven't been home enough, and when I am I have other things I need to do)

-Cleaning my house

-Research for a volunteer thing

-Regular work

-Sleeping

-Eating

My mind is essentially a mess right now. Spent my whole day yesterday basically dealing with things slowly, one, at, a, time, because I was working on 2 hours of sleep, compounded with the 4-5 hours of sleep I got the night before. I don't really remember most of it to be honest and I had to work 12 hours. 

So that is why videos have not been regular over the past few days (over the past week really). I will be finished with this volunteer business soon, which will help because that's one less thing to worry about. Um, work will hopefully not finish because I like having money to work with and...OH YEAH my computer might be a little more boned than I thought it was. 

Remember how I said that a malfunctioning hard drive was mixing with a bad installation of Sony Vegas and I was getting BSODs left right and centre? And then I thought it was just Vegas being Vegas and giving me BSODs left right and centre? Well now Vegas isn't even running and a got another BSOD last night with a SHINY NEW ERROR.

Yeah looks like it's a memory issue. So that's fun.

I may be reaching the capacity of things my brain can process/remember/deal with. I'm starting to have my own memory issues.

Coffee

Apparently coffee after 7pm is great if I want to be wide awake at 2am despite being exhausted. Well it would be great if I was playing Hunted or something, but all I can do at the moment is wait for encodes and try and convince myself to do something useful. Like those papers for my bank that I meant to fill out two hours ago. What happened?

My hard drives are full of Neverwinter and Alien Isolation. One is malfunctioning and I still haven't looked into it because it is full of video that I need to remove. It also has all my laptop's back up files, which might be good to actually transfer right now. Yes. That is what I will do right now. It can work while I sleep. If I sleep. Excellent.

Let's see...what's coming up this week?
Today - Dead Space Chapter 2, Alien Isolation part 28 (if I get to editing it...suppose I could be doing that too)
Tomorrow - Hunted (more segments of chapter 2)
Friday - Lord of the Rings Parts 25, 26 ,27
Weekend - Videos from Neverwinter, Damned, Left 4 Dead and more Alien
Monday - Dead Space more Chapter 2
Tuesday - Hunted (last of Chapter 2)

Also, T-minus 7 days until I have no money. Paying off some debts. Good thing I stocked up on games during the Steam sale. Laptop is still functional (scare over the weekend as it wouldn't turn on and I got all mopey, accepting my laptop's fate...then I realized the outlet was dead and my laptop was just out of batteries). Car is in good shape. I need new boots. The sole has a hole and I'm kind of on a roll with the rhymes and I lol.

I'm done.

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.