It’s a very nice late Christmas early birthday present. :v
Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
Finally… I’ll work later today and have a good two days off to rest. Last Saturday really kicked everyone in the arse, Sunday I came home from work and pretty much passed out in bed and went “screw it I’ll eat later”, and yesterday I started to show signs of feeling better. It’s amazing what 12 hours of sleep will do… In fact I spent most of tonight in bed playing some sidescrollers. It feels nice to do that.
In fact for my weekend I don’t think I’ll do anything but relax. I’ve been pretty high strung as of late. And with the latest cold snap that’s rolled in I have a feeling I’ll be hibernating a bit with the computer on, listening to people influence my sleeping brain. :v
PS: THis post was written from bed, because I can.
Lilies… my only weakness.
I only had one day off this week, but the bright side is I got overtime pay to look forward to. 😀 They offered me more overtime for next week but I ended up declining since I’ve been sick. I’m not sure if it’s a bug going around, or the Easter lilies we’ve been selling. They’re so potent that they dry out my throat, make my nose water and burn my eyes. We’ve had people complain about them causing headaches too. In fact it becomes difficult for me to speak, not to mention my lungs start to burn. And when you’re in this type of environment for as much as 9 hours it kinda gets to you after awhile… I’ll have to talk to them tomorrow if this continues, although my hopes aren’t too high as other people have complained in the past.
The solution? Get a doctors note… What a waste of time and resources. It wouldn’t take much effort to move these damn things outside to a ventilated area, but noooo you have to take time out of your life and a doctors life to get some fucking note for why you can’t work…
Spitballing a giant wall of text
I’ve been having some ideas kick around in my head for awhile regarding future videos. So far this year I’ve only published gmod adventures with my friends. Which is fine and everything, but I want to get back into the stuff that I did before. I haven’t been able to do any You Can’t Do That On XBox videos because honestly, I haven’t really done anything that I could review. When I’m reviewing maps for L4D2 or TF2 etc there is normally some kind of objective, or a discussion of it’s design and it’s flaws. With gmod maps you can’t really do that.
I can’t really review community addons either. Like props, dupes, playermodels etc. Because it all comes down to personal preference. Although I guess I could do videos about particular gamemodes. There’s quite a few people I know who don’t really know how to venture outside the sandbox to see what amazing/messed up creations await them. So I guess that’s one idea.
Another idea is something I haven’t done before, tutorials for certain kinds of things. I get questions from time to time regarding video/audio recording or once in awhile gaming under linux questions. Of course the requirement for me doing a tutorial would be me being a certain amount of drunk to go about it. I’ve setup Linux drunk a couple times… I don’t recommend it. 😛
I also want to get back into recreating my dreams in Source Filmmaker, unfortunately the dreams I’ve been having lately wouldn’t really make sense. Not that anything I’ve ever released makes any lick of sense… It’s just that I have a certain self standard for my own outlandish craziness.
One suggestion I’ve had from people (and by people I mean like two or three) is to do reviews of games in my entire collection. I’m on the fence about this because this is the internet, everyone and their house cat has made videos talking about how great/horrible a game is. Granted lots of other people review custom game mods/maps too, but not to the degree of games since your general run of the mill games are across consoles/PC’s with the occasional exclusive which will have been beaten to hell by the time I find time to voice my thoughts on it. Although, I have thought about making videos about games I like to play during my lunch breaks. Maybe something in the style of posts I’ve made about what I “had for lunch”? I don’t know.
Another thing I wanted to get back to is recording my friends and I talking and animate the funny parts of the conversation. That and I also have some machinima ideas bouncing around in my head.
That’s my problem. I have all these thoughts and ideas but not enough time to execute them. Especially lately because of work. When I get home I either want to sleep, BS with friends, or play something. Oh well. I’ll have plenty of time to think about it further, and when I finally get around to doing something I’ll hopefully be ready. Until then I’ll sleep on it, which is what I need. Sleep.
Not much to talk about, but have a post anyway.
I thought I would post something to let people know that yes, I am still around. I haven’t had much to write about let alone much time lately. In fact some of my online friends thought I had taken ill. And that is kind of true, but that only started last night. A cold has been going around and it looks like I finally got it. So for my one and only day off I decided to spend it not doing much.
Although I did do some tidying up and got rid of some things that I no longer need like clothes, hair accessories, etc. With all the upcoming changes I thought I would lighten things up a bit in my collection of stuff.
Well, we couldn’t buy Twitch… So lets make our own!
I had to laugh when I heard about this the other day. Google/YouTube wanted to buy Twitch, and it didn’t go through. So they basically just said screw it, lets make our own. Who saw that coming? Pretty much everyone…
YouTube is preparing to relaunch its livestreaming platform with a renewed focus on live gaming and esports specifically, according to sources within the streaming industry.
I don’t know if I’ll use it. I have a Twitch account but haven’t gotten around to streaming. The only streaming I’ve done so far is through Steam. Where my friends got to watch me kill guards with Big Boss’s ass.
***Edited to change have to haven’t. One word can make a big difference. 😛 ***
Criminals + Social Media = LOL
Anyone who knows me knows very well that I’m not one for social networks, but I’ve found there is a positive side to them! In some cases it makes it easier for the police to find you. 😛
FAIRFIELD, Maine (March 24, 2015) — A Maine man who’d been wanted by police for several weeks made a couple of critical mistakes that led to his capture — he sent out social media messages pinpointing his location.
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office had been looking for Christopher Wallace, of Fairfield, in connection with a burglary in January.
Police tell the Morning Sentinel that on Sunday night they received tips from people who said Wallace had posted on Snapchat that he had returned to his Fairfield home.
So, police went to the house.
While they were searching with permission of the resident, they were tipped off that Wallace had posted a new Snapchat message saying police were in the house looking for him and he was hiding in a cabinet. He was found in the cabinet.
I really don’t know what to say… I mean, this is a joke in itself! How could anyone be so stupid as to write where they are while they know damn for well where the fuck they are?
Fun fact: If you drive and text you’re a friggin’ moran
You know, it’s pretty sad that research had to be conducted to show that driving while texting isn’t such a good idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDWmwxQ_NnY
Researchers analyzed the six seconds leading up to a crash in nearly 1,700 videos of teen drivers taken from in-vehicle event recorders. The results showed that distraction was a factor in 58 percent of all crashes studied, including 89 percent of road-departure crashes and 76 percent of rear-end crashes. NHTSA previously has estimated that distraction is a factor in only 14 percent of all teen driver crashes.
Of course I’m glad they decided to take the time to point this out, because we live in a world where you practically have to have warning signs on everything.
Oh Gaben, you’re such a tease.
Gabe Newell decided to troll about Half Life 3/Half Life 2 Episode 3 or whatever the hell it’s being called at this point.
“But you know if you want to do another Half-Life game and you want to ignore everything we’ve learned in shipping Portal 2 and in shipping all the updates on the multiplayer side, that seems like a bad choice,” Newell continued. “So we’ll keep moving forward. But that doesn’t necessarily always mean what people are worried that it might mean.”
Make of that what you will. It could either mean that the franchise is gone due to no multiplayer, or the next Half Life will be multiplayer specific. Who knows? The Gaben works in mysterious ways and for the most part, many gamers have benefited from what Valve has done thus far.
Either way until then, HL3 unconfirmed.
Things might happen today
I finally have a job interview of some kind later this evening. I’m not too confident that I will get the position but I figured it’s worth a shot. Hopefully since it’s St Patrick’s Day the luck o the Irish will be on my side. Oh well, if I get it or not I’ll be having many drinks this evening. 😛