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Update #40 - Metal Arms was Surprisingly Hard
Afternoon!I've beaten Metal Arms Glitch in the System and I've started on getting the video files all cleaned up and named and begun the editing process. This was one that a lot of you had been recommending me over the years as a fairly forgotten console shooter, and now that I've beaten it I understand why.This game is hard. It's also cryptic at points.While the lack of story/char...
Update #39 - Finally a Proper Post Again
Afternoon everyone!I can't tell you how nice it feels to be able to write one of these from my desktop and not the laggy Patreon mobile app. It's hard to believe it's been near two months since I did this last.Anyways, I'll start with some of the Pathologic post-video news. First of all congratulations to Supreme Being Todd Howard for winning the giveaway copy of Pathologic 2. Whil...
Back at it
Brief post to let everyone know that my ears are doing better and I've created a Torture Throne™ that allows me to edit. I'm back to work on the video and it should be done soon!
Update #38 - What’s Going On
Good evening!Sorry for format and errors. Posting from phone and it types slow without marking errors.I’m not dead yet. The amount of people who were reaching out to me to give their well wishes have been overwhelming and incredibly humbling. At the same time I’ve had a lot of “please don’t die, get the surgery” etc and while I try to make a habit of keeping personal life stuff offline I...
Update #37 Pathologic 2 Copy Contest
Evening!Sorry for the rough formatting this has as I’m posting it from my phone. Long story short I got my spine injured so I’m stuck in bed for a few days. This means the video is going to be a few days behind since it’s not finished, but since I’m going to be pausing the Patreon I’m going to need to do the giveaway before the video is out in case the page is paused before, that way I c...
Update #36 - Editing and Next Video Questions
Afternoon!I've finally completed my second run of Pathologic 2, and now editing is in full swing. Luckily the patch adding difficulty sliders and some bugfixes came much earlier than expected, so I won't be having to wait on anything before uploading the video. When the video is completed, it'll be uploaded. Due to the, uh, nature of Pathologic 2 I have no idea when exactly the video w...
Update #35 - Future Patreon Restructuring, Discord, and Pathologic 2
Afternoon everyone!I'll get the bigger news out of the way first. The Discord server is shutting down, and the Patreon will be paused come July. The two are not related, but are convenient.So let's get into the details!To give the short version of why, it's basically too much for me to manage properly now. The launch of the Discord server was initially a much smaller userbase. While I ...
Update #34 - Pathologic 2
This will be a brief one!Alpha Centauri video is out, though it was a day behind the upload I wanted due to technical difficulties on YouTube's end, and I'm currently recording for Pathologic 2. The game has a patch coming out in two-three weeks that fixes up some bugs and adds difficulty settings (seriously) so while I'll do most of the recording now I'll be waiting until that'...
Update #33 - Next Video Questions, the Next Small Game, and More LOTR stuff
All is going to plan.I'm currently recording the Alpha Centauri expansion Alien Crossfire, and have begun some light editing work on the video itself. While I've usually tried to have videos up on a Friday/Saturday, sometimes holding it off until then, I'm going to try an approach of "uploading it and publishing it when it's done" since technical issues have caused a precis...
Update #32 - On To Sci-Fi
Evening everybody.The Return of the King video finally got out last week. When people asked me what the hardest video to work on was, the answer used to be Aurora 4x, now it's going to be the Lord of the Rings The Return of the King. I went through several versions trying to get just one to go through, and when it finally did YouTube added some slight distortion to the first few minutes of aud...
Update #31 - AHHHHH (what's going on)
Everything is off schedule!My worst fears realized, the original video dispute is still in dispute process being hit with the dreaded "blocked worldwide". I then made a recut of it shifting some things around, muting tracks here and there, using different clips, also no dice. I'm currently putting together the "extra safe version" to get past the current bots. I suspect that so...
Update #30 - Next Video Questions & Progress
Everything is on schedule!I've completed recording for Return of the King after playing through both the endgame PC content, and also giving the Xbox version a go as well. After going through a bit of a nightmare trying to get the PC version to detect triggers (using several controllers) I gave up since it at least accepted bumpers, which worked out perfectly fine though using the special abil...
Update #29 - The Medieval Game with Co-op
Space Rangers is done!I'm back to recording both for Elite Dangerous and the next game, though there will definitely still be a few videos until Elite is out. I ran a poll on both Twitter and Patreon to decide what the shorter video would be, and figured I'd weigh both against each other but......that was too close to call.So now I'm going by the poll on Patreon and working on Lord of ...
Poll for Next Video
Space Rangers will be out this week as planned!In the meanwhile, I had jury duty which I hoped would be a one day affair but unfortunately it's going to take up more of my time in the next while than I thought. While I'll still be recording for Elite, I'm not going to be able to go through Alpha Centauri in a chunk like I planned. So instead I'm taking a poll on a simpler game I co...
Update #28 - Space Rangers and Next Video Questions
With the project juggling over, I'm back on track!Congratulations to to Alice Cahill, Bodacious Bird, and Nataniel Koulikov for winning the giveaway!This is going to be one of the shorter posts. I'm actually nearly done recording Space Rangers so I'm taking questions for the next video credits. Space Rangers really is fascinating just for the blend of genres it tackles all at once (wit...
Update #27 - Metro Last Light DLC and Ongoing Projects
Afternoon!The Overlord video will be out this coming week like I suspected. As I mentioned in the last post I've stopped doing stuff with Elite for now since I'm trying to get that one out as soon as possible. However, there are still some long term things going on that I think it's time for you all to know about. I never expected to be hitting the maximum Patreon goal in the first wee...
Update #26 - Next Video Questions for Overlord
This will be a short one.The Metro video is done! On my end anyways since it was a ten minute segment out of a video I believe is around an hour long. There will be a lot more to talk about with that project when the guy making the full video on it is made public this week. I have a feeling it'll be making some waves.With that done, I'm now focused completely on getting the regular video o...
Update # 25 - Overlord & Metro
The guide video went over well!A lot more people ended up watching it than I expected. I figured it would have less than half the viewership it does now at this point. I did end up scrapping a lot of "you've made it on YouTube" stuff since that audience is both very small and hopefully has a lot figured out by then. Despite it being easier to edit than the other videos it was definitel...
Update #24 - Current Projects, Next Video Questions, and more YouTube Issues
There's a lot more to talk about this time contrary to last week.The guide video is coming along nicely. I've organized it into sections so that I'll be able to have a nice list of timestamps for people looking for relevant data. For example, if people have a YouTube channel already and already have the proper hardware and software for their purpose they can simply skip that section si...
Poll on Next Review Video
This will be the shortest post yet, since there's really not a lot to report. I expect the "making a video" guide will be out anywhere from 8-12 days from this post, as I believe it'll be done before the usual Friday upload. In the meanwhile, I'm taking feedback on what people want to see as the next video.Vote wisely! Thanks for your support.
Update #23 - YouTube Issues and Working Ahead
The Stronghold video was a god damn TRIAL to upload.It turns out there's currently a bug on YouTube where some videos are stuck at 360p forever. I had the first copy of the video uploaded and processing very early Friday morning, and when I went to check at about 3pm I realized it was still in 360p. That's how I got to find out about the bug.I ended up reuploading the video once which didn...
Update #22 - Stronghold HD and Next Video Questions
So my break didn't last as long as I thought.This post was scheduled in advance as I'm out of my place for a short while and I'm currently slightly sick, but I'm hoping that by the time I get back I'll have a voice clear enough to finish the audio and the video by the end of this week. If not, worst case scenario would be next week. I've actually finished the recording I ne...
2018 Year in Review and Plans Going Forward
Long post warning.TL;DR A lot happened this year, and I've got a framework for videos going forward at the bottom.I can safely say I didn't expect so much to change so quickly in a few months. Compared to this time last year I'm now living somewhere else with a very different schedule and very different priorities. I don't think I could've foreseen. Saying "I didn't see...
Next Video Questions
It completely slipped my mind in the last post to ask for the video questions.I'm hard at work on the Pathologic video, and a Friday release is looking very possible!So I'm going to collect credit questions to choose from in the comments below. Even if it doesn't make it into the video, I'll definitely be answering some of the FAQs in the big end of the year post.Thanks!
Update #21 - Pathologic
Evening!If you haven't checked it out already, the GOG Winter Sale is currently on. They're selling most of the games I've covered in videos pretty steeply discounted, along with a ton of other older games. In fact, Pathologic HD is a little over a dollar which is well worth it considering it can net you 60-70 hours of playtime if you go hard into it. It'll likely be going on sale ...
Update #20 - Pathologic & Preparation
Afternoon everybody, and congratulations to Pagan Butler, whose RNG was in his favor for the giveaway last week.Kreal, one of the channels I mentioned last year, uploaded a new video and I'm glad to have played a small part in its making. I've linked it here if you want to check it out. He makes great stuff.On the video front, I have very little to report since I'm entering the last th...
Update #19 - Computer Issues - Not Deadly Ones
Good morning!This post is a lot earlier in the day than usual, but I wanted to make sure everyone was updated as soon as I knew what the deal was. The video was already going to be over the weekend, as I realized the day before that Thanksgiving was nearly a week earlier than I'm used to so I wasn't going to be able to work on the video that day or part of Friday. Well my PC took vengeance...
Update #18 - Cultist Simulator, Pathologic, and New Year Schedule
Evening!This will be one of the longer posts. After dying in several playthroughs, this week I finally managed to figure out Cultist Simulator to the point I know how to win a few cult victories. I also grabbed the DLC and beat that story line as well. I can safely say that it's one of the most unique games I've played (for better and worse) and I've gotten started on the video which s...
Update #17 - Cultist Simulator Status/Upcoming Giveaway
Afternoon!While my last post was scheduled at the usual time on sunday, and was showing up for me on mobile, apparently it got eaten up by something. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but I wasn't covering too much anyways since I was just getting started. So here's what's going on.Cultist Simulator is weird. It's also massive. The sheer complexity of what you can do and how ...
Update #16 - Some Cut Cthulhu Stuff and Blood Omen Status
Afternoon!I saw a lot of comments in the CoC video mentioning Jack Walters' detective work in the game. Apparently a lot of people were expecting the video to open with "it's locked" or "it won't budge", since he's internally monologuing for just about every little thing. During the video making I started to put together a "supercut" of Jack pointing out mun...
