Thursday, February 28, 2013

Thursday Thoughts, Edition 004; February 28th , 2013




I’m not going to lie, you happy lot, but this week has been surprisingly taxing in regards to YouTube.  I honestly thought that bulk recording videos would make things easier as far as preparing content… but wow.  Two words: Video Rendering.  Editing might be tedious, cats and kittens, but rendering videos is just plain time consuming.  It can take anywhere from 9 to 18 hours on my box for one HQ video to render… and even then, there’s a chance for the video’s audio to de-synch or flat out just stop making noise.  If that happens, we have to do the whole post-processing shtick all over again.

All part of the learning process, I suppose.

It’ll be a while before I can churn out content at the pace I want to with the quality I’d love to provide you guys with, most of that while will be related to the acquisition of hardware.  Until then, I’ll have to live with these tedious inconveniences for your sakes. :3 … and that alone is worth it.

Stream-wise, I haven’t given up on ‘the game that should not be named’.  At the moment, though, times are tight and with all the stuff in life I’m currently pursuing and sorting out, I don’t quite have the time I used to… not even for dailies. Sadface.  I don’t know how it’ll affect my Wednesday streams; it’s looking like I might have to give the Wednesday hangout streams the axe, but I don’t want to go that far.  This last Wednesday stream I winged it and played a few flash games just to see where that would take us. I can tell you happy lot this: there are some nice little flash game gems out there, and I’m thinking it might be a good idea to play a few gems until things smooth over for me in reality.

Anyways, I’m looking forward to doing another Role-Played adventure map series. I’ve found a couple good maps to do so with, and I have a few ideas in the way of spicing things up a bit.  However, after I’ve chewed through those two maps, I’m going to need suggestions for other maps to RP through. Feel free to think up and suggest good “RP-able” maps for me to play with in the future.

(Note:  From my limited experience, a good “RP-able” map should be easily resettable at any point. It’s really not fun having to reload the map and play through from the beginning just to record a re-take at a certain point in the map’s story … especially if the map is designed to be about 2 and a half hours long or longer. Eugh.)

As for LoaPOB, I’m looking for challenges, or at least a few goals to fill out before I can call the series complete.  Feel free to suggest a few. I’ll choose about 10 or 15 to tackle before taking on the Enderdragon and ending the series.  Beyond LoaPOB, I have a couple more ideas for series(es), but they may need to wait until I have the resources and people power to pull them off.

And again, I leave you happy lot with a wall of text. Thanks for reading this far, guys. :3

Until next time, cats and kittens; Have fun, be safe, and be awesome.

-Lioness

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