Not really feeling it this evening. Been feeling a bit yuck after getting home today, been mostly kicking back and taking it easy. Even thinking of gaming right now makes me dizzy. I might call it an early night to get some extra rest with the hope this all calms itself in the morning.
Open Thread.
I’ve been sorting through the Palworld footage that piled up recently, and I’m already getting some fun ideas. Last night I took some audio from the game recording and extracted it for use in Audacity. Now I’m doing a small bit of animating with it. Nothing big, but it will give anyone watching something too look at if they make it that far.
I know I pretty much say this after ANY upgrade I do, but so far this has been the best one! Working with video has been speedy. Fast enough that I haven’t needed to use proxy as much, and dragging/deleting things on the timelines in Shotcut has been met with little to no delay. I no longer have to remux my recordings from mkv to mp4, and can just export the final project without the bullshittery I had to do before to get it to work. 🙂
Played a bit of Horizon Forbidden West to unwind a little, and I was surprised to hear a familiar voice! Not from the previous game, but actually from a whole other game universe entirely.
When wandering into a settlement called Chainscrape, I met someone by the name of Javad The Willing. Listening to his voice was like a mixture of Barney Calhoun and GMan of the Half-Life series, and sometimes I get curious if the voice sounds familiar or similar to other characters. Sure enough, he’s voiced by Mike Shapiro. To make things funnier you talk more with him in the local tavern where he’s enjoying that beer he owes someone in another game universe.
That was pretty cool. 🙂
Today I spent it focusing on doing the things I like. Lazily waking up in bed and doing a little reading, making an awesome Japanese Curry breakfast, some video editing (which has been smooth on the new setup btw), chatting with a good friend and spending a little over an hour as a ninja while said friend did Dragon things in another game. There’s a mission in Aragami 2 that I’ve been putting it off, but tonight I finished it without killing anyone. I didn’t have much time to start another mission afterwards, so I practiced my murder skills in a different level that I already finished, mostly stabbing.
Typical therapeutic way to spend the last of my weekend. 😛
I’m happy to say this is my first game to beat in 2025! I spent last night grinding the final boss battle. It was intense, and I had to take breaks before grinding all my teeth to fine powder, but I persevered and laid claim to the final boss! I did miss one entry on the bestiary. Once I do that I’ll be able to uninstall it from my Steam Deck, and my 40TB Desktop…
It’s looking like 9 Years of Shadows will be the first game of 2025 to finish! I’ve collected all the maps, power ups, musicians and upgrades. Now all that remains is the final boss. I might actually try to complete it tomorrow! Would have tried it tonight but there isn’t enough time left for me to practice. I’ll save it for tomorrow night when I’ll have more energy, and an endless supply of tea.
If I’m successful I’ll leave this game a positive review! If I’m not… I’ll take a break and come back to it later. 😛
Didn’t have much time to play tonight, but I learned how to parry in Hi-Fi Rush! Probably would have made it further if I didn’t futz around with photo mode so much, but… it does add to the journey!
Today went by so fast. I usually wake up half an hour early before the alarm goes off because of the sun gracing me with its presence. But today I did a good job of cocooning myself in blankets while having psychotic dreams about two young boys running away from angry wheelbarrows and an old fat dude that may or may not have been in it with said wheelbarrow. It didn’t really matter after they ran down several basements worth of flooring only to enter an astral pocket dimension with one door, leading to the old man in a bathroom with enough ass crack showing off another dimension. To where? I don’t know. I finally knocked the blankets off of me in time to see that my alarm would be going off in two minutes. Amazing what drinking antihistamines and wine can do during a good night of sleep!
If only I had planned THREE weeks of vacation instead of just the two… then I might have unraveled this mystery that no one in their right mind would care about. Anyway… The rest of the day seemed fast paced. I got to work, it had its fast and slow moments, and then I got home and was immediately invited to go clown on some fun videos in Resonite. 🙂
Overall, today was a good day.
The other day when I decided to prep some videos for future release I happened upon the new “Inspiration” tab that you may have noticed if you use your Creator Dashboard. Like with most things Google does, I had to laugh to myself and wonder what YouTube would consider to be inspirational to their users and content creators? Then I clicked on Inspiration to see what Google thinks I need for inspiration.
If you guessed regurgitated AI bullshit then congratulations! You win! Your prize? Regurgitated AI bullshit! It basically takes videos that you’ve published, a mix of successful and recent videos, and it spits out “ideas” for what your next video should be along with an explanation for what the video should be about. As an added bonus (if you think even more AI bullshit is an added bonus) it will auto generate thumbnails for the video idea! I thought some of my thumbnails might have been on the lazy side… but using AI for a video thumbnail is an even lower form of lazydom.You can also type up ideas into the AI and have it come up with other “suggestions”.
I wish Creepy Uncle Google would allow us to disable, or opt out of their AI nonsense. Relying on a database scraper (which is pretty much what it is, there is no “intelligence” to these queries) look over my content and give me ideas for what I need to create next is the antithesis of inspiration. The only inspiration I got from discovering this feature was the urge to do a write up about how insufferably dull and unimaginative it is. I have no use for this feature for the type of content that I make (Game Videos & Hell Porn).
May their “Inspiration” go the way of the Dinosaur, or Google+.