COMIC CON

It's that wonderful time of year again. It's like nerd's Christmas and I'm super excited. I'll be at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo all three days this year and I couldn't be more pleased about it. If any of you are in the area and are heading to the expo, keep an eye out for Tank Girl and Jet Girl on Saturday! I will be the one with the hats, not the one with giant torpedo boobs.

Live Stream

So, I have a live stream account now on twitch.tv which I will probably use mostly for broadcasting Skyrim and other Elder Scrolls games. Essentially, anything that does not have a set beginning and an end, I will not be doing an LP for it. Instead, I'll do live streams of the games (that way I don't need to record them on my hard drive, which also frees up space for actual LPs).

DrSchwa

As for uploads, I've something special being uploaded tomorrow. Would have been today, only I'm an idiot and was trying to encode the video with the wrong settings. Anyway, keep an eye out for new videos.

Minor Set-back

So I went to physio today to get my wrist and hand looked at. I have something called "de Quervain's Syndrome." All I know is that it's an inflammation of the "sheath" that my thumb's tendon moves in and that the name of what I have is impossible for me to pronounce without some difficulty. So, for the next while, I need to wear this when working on my computers:

This will...make playing and typing difficult, but I can manage. Regardless, Dungeon Siege 3 may be a bit slower in production. Still going ahead with it though.

Ironically enough, this condition is also nick-named "Gamer's Thumb." You can guess what helped injure it.

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.

11%

Is how much my free space my hard drives had IN TOTAL last night. Now, after the deletion of some raw video files that had been worked with already...I have a significant amount more. I am currently on my reading week which means I will probably be working late into the night and wake up late in the day (with the exception of some mornings). My plan is to get a significant amount of Broken World recording and videos uploaded, work on the third and final Left 4 Dead 2 Clip show, encode the last few full episodes of L4D2, organize all the random little clips I have on my hard drives and delete the ones I'm not going to use anymore, begin work on the larger video project I have going and prepare for recording Dungeon Siege 3, because that day is fast approaching.

This week I also hope to update this blog a little bit with screen shots from Dungeon Siege 2, because I haven't done that in a long while. Skyrim DLC is also out, which I purchased yesterday, so you can be sure that a lot of hours will be going into that. I also need to update my Dungeons and Dragons logs, do a little mid-winter cleaning, get some writing done...oh yeah and school work. I'm sure I have a little of that too.

In addition, I have posted it a few times on the YouTube page, but I've been starting to play a bit of Dungeon Siege multiplayer with some interested parties. If anyone is interested in trying it or joining, please send a message my YouTube account. That is all.

Snapshots of the Past

More pictures and old memories found on my hard drives. It's amazing how much has happened, and how much I've changed over the past few years. I have no regrets. I think everything that happened, good and bad, happened for a reason, and I've learned so much by trying things and meeting new people, even if those aspects of my life never worked out.

Back in the FFR days. "0 Members and growing!"

This is one of the only screen shots I have from before I got my own computer. There is very little in the way of pictures and documents that I transferred between the family computer and my laptop.

I loved this game back in high school and early university. It wasn't one I played constantly (that was saved for games like Age of Empires 2 and my consoles...and of course my multiplayer endeavours in Startcraft, DotA and Warcraft 3). Note the typo in "twelve"...which they still haven't noticed or fixed. It makes me lol.

And of course the good old YouTube days. Back when I did all my text LPs of Dungeon Keeper 2. To tell you the truth, I kind of miss the old YouTube layout. So nostalgic.

At least the uploader is somewhat functional now.

But...some things never change at all.

Back in high school I started to get an interest in LPs, video production and recording my games, but I never really got into it until I had my own personal computer in University. I learned a lot about video production and style from a friend of mine, which helped me to refine basic skills I was teaching myself. Looking back on it, my videos and productions now, while they are still on the crude side, are much more sophisticated than when I first started out (especially since the very first video I produced for YouTube was done with my VIDEO CAMERA).

Incidentally, that video was of Oblivion, a game which I had been interested in for a long, long time. These screen shots also gave me a short history of a lot of the games I've played in the past few years. For instance...

..."panting, gets off next to the wall."

NUMBERS.

And of course so many awkward Fire Emblem moments...oh Fire Emblem...

2007-2013

The search, the experience and the game continues.