I've moved over to another blog site HERE
(http://www.gear2.co.nr)
Cya there dudes.
Saturday, 12 April 2008
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Still here..
Still around dudes, i'm just busy with some irl stuff, as well as sorting some new video stuff and i'm changing blog location, so all that needs resetting up :p
i've also noticed the YT channel's background image needs redoing now cos of their layout updates.. if ya hadn't noticed, it was perfectly aligned to stuff (took like 2 days), and they've screwed it in under 2 months lol ;) it's a major reconstruction job as well, won't be easy, but i'll sort it soon enough.
So.. anything to report?
Hmm, not really.. i'm enjoying the more relaxed pace of video again thats for sure.
I did love the daily stuff, but unless I shut down the vast majority of everything else (even including editing the videos), I was struggling for time.
There was 3 things I learnt from the month of daily videos though.
1: Shout outs/mentions.. people do like em, it adds something extra to the videos. I like em as well, despite em being quite off putting to read when playing ;) Gonna probably break em off for this week and bring em back next week when i've resettled into sets.
2: Daily content.. this was a big thing for me. I want people to assume they can head over to the channel and see something new every day, regardless of how much or little it is.
Recently, I had that nailed, but for some reason, was pumping out too many videos, which I think was me trying to get games down within a week at most.
In reality, it could be like 2-6 parts a day, and still be considered daily content and worth checking the channel frequently. It doesn't need to be like 22-24 parts a day :p
3: Video amount.. linking into the previous point, 2 hours regular every day is too much. It isn't too much to play, but it's too much to process and upload every day. It also swarms the people that don't have time to watch em all.
So really, I was swamping 2 outta the 3 groups involved (myself, people without time to watch 2 hours a day and people with time to watch 2 hours a day). Kinda senseless when you step back and look at it.
An hourish a day is respectable, and more than the vast majority of what other people do. It's also very manageable and not very swarming.
Ok, so how are things gonna go down from now on (in theory, still needs testing).
1: Dual games. No more 1 game till it's done stuff. Why? Well, here's a rough time table explaining why 2 games at once works better.
Monday - Record first set of game A. Process game A footage, begin editing work.
Tuesday - Record first set of game B. Upload game A. Process game B footage, begin editing work.
Wednesday - Record second set of game A (using comments from last set that've had time to build). Upload game B. Process game A footage, begin editing work.
Thursday - Record second set of game B (using comments from last set that've had time to build). Upload game A. Process game B footage, begin editing work.
and so on and so on.. except for Sunday where I catch up anything I need to, and do the SSO video.
2: No schedule.. as i said earlier, the schedule is killer. I'm naturally rebellious to any kind of schedule, cos it's just not how I work. It killed me some days ONLY doing an hour or two when I wanted to do more.. and other days it was killing me because I had to do 2 hours, when i'd have enjoyed an hour of A game, then an hour or something of B game instead.
The sets will give me the freedom to do as much or as little as I want again, with no guilt over missing deadlines (even though I never did.. i was late like twice, but never outright missed a day, or not without doubling the video time for the next day).
3: Editing. Cuts, montages and captions will be back where and when needed/wanted. If people want uncuts, i'll be doing something like that in the future, but the YT versions will be cut IF (cant stress that enough) it's needed. In some games, nothing will change.. in others, the cuts will make a big difference to before.
All in all, it should be more interesting to watch, and easier on me :] Just bear with me a bit while I move all the pieces around into a picture I like.
i've also noticed the YT channel's background image needs redoing now cos of their layout updates.. if ya hadn't noticed, it was perfectly aligned to stuff (took like 2 days), and they've screwed it in under 2 months lol ;) it's a major reconstruction job as well, won't be easy, but i'll sort it soon enough.
So.. anything to report?
Hmm, not really.. i'm enjoying the more relaxed pace of video again thats for sure.
I did love the daily stuff, but unless I shut down the vast majority of everything else (even including editing the videos), I was struggling for time.
There was 3 things I learnt from the month of daily videos though.
1: Shout outs/mentions.. people do like em, it adds something extra to the videos. I like em as well, despite em being quite off putting to read when playing ;) Gonna probably break em off for this week and bring em back next week when i've resettled into sets.
2: Daily content.. this was a big thing for me. I want people to assume they can head over to the channel and see something new every day, regardless of how much or little it is.
Recently, I had that nailed, but for some reason, was pumping out too many videos, which I think was me trying to get games down within a week at most.
In reality, it could be like 2-6 parts a day, and still be considered daily content and worth checking the channel frequently. It doesn't need to be like 22-24 parts a day :p
3: Video amount.. linking into the previous point, 2 hours regular every day is too much. It isn't too much to play, but it's too much to process and upload every day. It also swarms the people that don't have time to watch em all.
So really, I was swamping 2 outta the 3 groups involved (myself, people without time to watch 2 hours a day and people with time to watch 2 hours a day). Kinda senseless when you step back and look at it.
An hourish a day is respectable, and more than the vast majority of what other people do. It's also very manageable and not very swarming.
Ok, so how are things gonna go down from now on (in theory, still needs testing).
1: Dual games. No more 1 game till it's done stuff. Why? Well, here's a rough time table explaining why 2 games at once works better.
Monday - Record first set of game A. Process game A footage, begin editing work.
Tuesday - Record first set of game B. Upload game A. Process game B footage, begin editing work.
Wednesday - Record second set of game A (using comments from last set that've had time to build). Upload game B. Process game A footage, begin editing work.
Thursday - Record second set of game B (using comments from last set that've had time to build). Upload game A. Process game B footage, begin editing work.
and so on and so on.. except for Sunday where I catch up anything I need to, and do the SSO video.
2: No schedule.. as i said earlier, the schedule is killer. I'm naturally rebellious to any kind of schedule, cos it's just not how I work. It killed me some days ONLY doing an hour or two when I wanted to do more.. and other days it was killing me because I had to do 2 hours, when i'd have enjoyed an hour of A game, then an hour or something of B game instead.
The sets will give me the freedom to do as much or as little as I want again, with no guilt over missing deadlines (even though I never did.. i was late like twice, but never outright missed a day, or not without doubling the video time for the next day).
3: Editing. Cuts, montages and captions will be back where and when needed/wanted. If people want uncuts, i'll be doing something like that in the future, but the YT versions will be cut IF (cant stress that enough) it's needed. In some games, nothing will change.. in others, the cuts will make a big difference to before.
All in all, it should be more interesting to watch, and easier on me :] Just bear with me a bit while I move all the pieces around into a picture I like.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Morning.. and where was I yesterday?
In deep thought.. i'm considering a change in the format and regularity of the videos.
Recently, i've been wanting to bring the editing back a lot more in videos.. captions, montages outta nowhere, and cutting repeated footage out (such as Nemesis attempts).
Course I can't do that atm.. there ain't enough time.
So.. I think i'm gonna go back to doing sets. The videos will be slightly less frequent, but not so much so.
Whats the major difference between doing sets rather than day by day? There's no deadline for sets..
I'll get time to edit, caption and cut if I choose to.. if not, it gives me time to do other stuff so i'm not restricted in that I can ONLY do uncut/unedited HTSFs cos i'm needing 2 hours of it on YT every day.
Pretty much the easiest way to picture it, is about 4 x 2 hour sets a week, rather than the current 6 x 2 hours a week.
Though it could work out more time as well, purely depending on the game and how look I wanna play.. i've got a days gap between needing to upload now, so i'm free to do 4 hours in one shot then have the time to edit/upload it if i wanted.
Anyway, if I record anything today, i'm gonna only do a primary mention I think.. i've got some ideas I wanna try out and i'd rather focus on that today. Comments/shout outs aren't gone btw, just gonna be sparse atm while I change some stuff up. In the future i'll still do mentions of what people have said etc, but it'll be between sets rather than days.
Overall, i've clung to the 100% unedited videos rule, and because of no editing time (or little) of such on them, its made me go quantity over quality I think. The irony being I like editing and ain't that bad either.
I'm gonna be changing blog location soon as well.. once i'm done with the new one i'll let ya know.
The new blog has more bells, has a plentiful supply of whistles and has all the podcasting stuff. So it should be pretty sweet.
Later dudes.
Recently, i've been wanting to bring the editing back a lot more in videos.. captions, montages outta nowhere, and cutting repeated footage out (such as Nemesis attempts).
Course I can't do that atm.. there ain't enough time.
So.. I think i'm gonna go back to doing sets. The videos will be slightly less frequent, but not so much so.
Whats the major difference between doing sets rather than day by day? There's no deadline for sets..
I'll get time to edit, caption and cut if I choose to.. if not, it gives me time to do other stuff so i'm not restricted in that I can ONLY do uncut/unedited HTSFs cos i'm needing 2 hours of it on YT every day.
Pretty much the easiest way to picture it, is about 4 x 2 hour sets a week, rather than the current 6 x 2 hours a week.
Though it could work out more time as well, purely depending on the game and how look I wanna play.. i've got a days gap between needing to upload now, so i'm free to do 4 hours in one shot then have the time to edit/upload it if i wanted.
Anyway, if I record anything today, i'm gonna only do a primary mention I think.. i've got some ideas I wanna try out and i'd rather focus on that today. Comments/shout outs aren't gone btw, just gonna be sparse atm while I change some stuff up. In the future i'll still do mentions of what people have said etc, but it'll be between sets rather than days.
Overall, i've clung to the 100% unedited videos rule, and because of no editing time (or little) of such on them, its made me go quantity over quality I think. The irony being I like editing and ain't that bad either.
I'm gonna be changing blog location soon as well.. once i'm done with the new one i'll let ya know.
The new blog has more bells, has a plentiful supply of whistles and has all the podcasting stuff. So it should be pretty sweet.
Later dudes.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
G'Night..
Well YT has sabotaged my chain of videos once again.. whats with their maintenance recently?
Anyway, part 9 reported as being uploaded just before the maintenance hit, so hopefully, it'll have uploaded.. it's the last part that's pure Nemesis fighting, so as soon as I can upload again, it'll be into something new.
Not for long though ;) he comes back stupidly fast.
What's kinda lame is, I didn't even get half way through the amount of videos.. i'm gonna struggle to get every part uploaded before I wanna play again tomorrow, so i've got 2 options:
1: play on as normal while it uploads, but peoples comments will be a mile behind.
2: halt playing until Wednesday
I dunno which i'll chose atm.. i'm covered whatever I pick, because there's 2 days worth of footage anyway, so i've still done the 2 hours a day..
and if I choose to play, well that's fair game as well really, as there is enough comments to mention, and if I FORCE myself to not go above the 2 hours on Tuesday, then people will be able to catch up before Wednesday anyway, cos i'll mostly be locked in another Nemesis scrap tomorrow for the majority of it I bet.
Either option is fine I guess.. but I would like to power through RE3 due to the added task of taking down Nemesis, so I am leaning towards one more than the other.
We shall see anyway :]
Night.
Anyway, part 9 reported as being uploaded just before the maintenance hit, so hopefully, it'll have uploaded.. it's the last part that's pure Nemesis fighting, so as soon as I can upload again, it'll be into something new.
Not for long though ;) he comes back stupidly fast.
What's kinda lame is, I didn't even get half way through the amount of videos.. i'm gonna struggle to get every part uploaded before I wanna play again tomorrow, so i've got 2 options:
1: play on as normal while it uploads, but peoples comments will be a mile behind.
2: halt playing until Wednesday
I dunno which i'll chose atm.. i'm covered whatever I pick, because there's 2 days worth of footage anyway, so i've still done the 2 hours a day..
and if I choose to play, well that's fair game as well really, as there is enough comments to mention, and if I FORCE myself to not go above the 2 hours on Tuesday, then people will be able to catch up before Wednesday anyway, cos i'll mostly be locked in another Nemesis scrap tomorrow for the majority of it I bet.
Either option is fine I guess.. but I would like to power through RE3 due to the added task of taking down Nemesis, so I am leaning towards one more than the other.
We shall see anyway :]
Night.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Uproading..
Intentional typo there in honor of Mei Ling's saves.. I kinda miss hearing her, rather than just saving via some inanimate type writer ;)
Anyway, i'm uploading now, and I suspect it's gonna be a pretty heavy stream over the next 12-16 hours.
Anyway, i'm uploading now, and I suspect it's gonna be a pretty heavy stream over the next 12-16 hours.
Todays comment mentions..
Not really comments, as obviously with every starter day to a new game, there's no previous day comments to use.. but these were the 2 pms I received about RE3:
donkeysraliens -
Get the STARS card:
When you first encounter Nemesis outside the police station, choose to fight the monster. Then run to brad's body and search him for the card case. Check the item and you will get a STARS card. You can use that in the computer in the main hallway for the safe code
Grenade launcher:
Use the S.T.A.R.S Card in the computer in the main entrance of the Police Station. When you get the S.T.A.R.S Emblem Key, go to the S.T.A.R.S Office. When you are in the office, go to the big locker next to the out-of-commission message receiver. Open the locker and you will get a Grenade Launcher. you find the Magnum in the big locker. In this situation, the Grenade Launcher may be found in the Sub-Station.
Killing Nemesis:
If you can, try and kill(disable) Nemesis at every opportunity you get. Every time you manage to kill him, he will drop an item for you. The items he drops are as follows. 1st time :
Eagle part A
2nd time : Eagle part B
3rd time : 1st Aid Kit
4th time : M37 part A
5th time : M37 part B
6th time : 1st Aid Kit
7th time : Unlimited Ammo Kit
Get the Rocket Launcher:
To get the rocket launcher, you must first defeat nemesis in the garbage disposal area to get the card key, then take the facility key to the machine that is next to the place where you put in the water sample. Use the facility key in the ultraviolet ray machine and it will put codes on it. You can the return to the room with the steam coming out of the pipes and go on the elevator. Use the facility key at the door at the end and you will get the Rocket Launcher
SA8TER -
Here a rundown on the dodging system.
I think you know how to use the dodging system but here are some tips.
Press the aim button before the enemy attacks and you will dodge. If your already aiming press the shoot button right before the enemy attacks and it will do the same. Pistol and Knife are the best weapons to dodge with.
If you pick up all the files you get Jill's diary. One file is all the way at the beginning when you go back for some supples.
Also when you go back for supples you will get another crank. It is used in the back of bar were you first see Brad that little area before you enter the bar. In the supply closet there are granade rounds.
If your playing on Hard mode you want to kill Nemesis because he drops Gun parts (that can be combined into better weapons), F-aid packs, M16, and one other thing I cant think about right at the moment.
Here some info on Nemesis as well.
If you go to the restaurant first hide in the kitchen free knockdown of Nemesis
Heres diagram of the Gun powder mixing list. Notice that you can make enhanced ammo. Its very powerful but you can only use it in the normal weapons not the ones that Nemesis drops after he is defeated.
When you go to the gas station to get oil (if you are with Carlos...if you want to do that you need to go there right after you get the wrench) Don't go out after he fights the mob of Zombies and a funny thing will happen when you leave the gas station. Well its not really funny but it is to me.
When you first encounter Nemesis in the court yard choose to fight him and run over to Brad's body and pick up his card case and then you can skip a whole part of going and getting Jill's ID.
I hope this info helps OTG. Cant wait for the RE3 HTSF and the rest of Metal Gear Solid HTSF.
donkeysraliens -
Get the STARS card:
When you first encounter Nemesis outside the police station, choose to fight the monster. Then run to brad's body and search him for the card case. Check the item and you will get a STARS card. You can use that in the computer in the main hallway for the safe code
Grenade launcher:
Use the S.T.A.R.S Card in the computer in the main entrance of the Police Station. When you get the S.T.A.R.S Emblem Key, go to the S.T.A.R.S Office. When you are in the office, go to the big locker next to the out-of-commission message receiver. Open the locker and you will get a Grenade Launcher. you find the Magnum in the big locker. In this situation, the Grenade Launcher may be found in the Sub-Station.
Killing Nemesis:
If you can, try and kill(disable) Nemesis at every opportunity you get. Every time you manage to kill him, he will drop an item for you. The items he drops are as follows. 1st time :
Eagle part A
2nd time : Eagle part B
3rd time : 1st Aid Kit
4th time : M37 part A
5th time : M37 part B
6th time : 1st Aid Kit
7th time : Unlimited Ammo Kit
Get the Rocket Launcher:
To get the rocket launcher, you must first defeat nemesis in the garbage disposal area to get the card key, then take the facility key to the machine that is next to the place where you put in the water sample. Use the facility key in the ultraviolet ray machine and it will put codes on it. You can the return to the room with the steam coming out of the pipes and go on the elevator. Use the facility key at the door at the end and you will get the Rocket Launcher
SA8TER -
Here a rundown on the dodging system.
I think you know how to use the dodging system but here are some tips.
Press the aim button before the enemy attacks and you will dodge. If your already aiming press the shoot button right before the enemy attacks and it will do the same. Pistol and Knife are the best weapons to dodge with.
If you pick up all the files you get Jill's diary. One file is all the way at the beginning when you go back for some supples.
Also when you go back for supples you will get another crank. It is used in the back of bar were you first see Brad that little area before you enter the bar. In the supply closet there are granade rounds.
If your playing on Hard mode you want to kill Nemesis because he drops Gun parts (that can be combined into better weapons), F-aid packs, M16, and one other thing I cant think about right at the moment.
Here some info on Nemesis as well.
If you go to the restaurant first hide in the kitchen free knockdown of Nemesis
Heres diagram of the Gun powder mixing list. Notice that you can make enhanced ammo. Its very powerful but you can only use it in the normal weapons not the ones that Nemesis drops after he is defeated.
When you go to the gas station to get oil (if you are with Carlos...if you want to do that you need to go there right after you get the wrench) Don't go out after he fights the mob of Zombies and a funny thing will happen when you leave the gas station. Well its not really funny but it is to me.
When you first encounter Nemesis in the court yard choose to fight him and run over to Brad's body and pick up his card case and then you can skip a whole part of going and getting Jill's ID.
I hope this info helps OTG. Cant wait for the RE3 HTSF and the rest of Metal Gear Solid HTSF.
G'Night..
Not many updates to the old blog today, but as I said earlier, I had a lot of stuff going on, then the last part of the SSO video was being VERY awkward due to the graphic visualizer..
Seems simple doesn't it, but that insane amount of movement really does screw up renderers cos of fast and rapid/constant changes..
I was also trying to reply back to comments and pms (still didn't get em all, and I aint had time to video response link the day 6 mgs videos yet either).
Good news though, I got RE3 running perfect.. as in, every bit of fmv, cutscene and talking is 100% perfect, an improvement over the old RE videos (if you remember, the first introductions never had sound, it'd say one word then cut off)..
That means we're all set for RE3 to start today (Monday).. which i'm sure will please a lot of people, including me.
RE3's my fav PSX RE, so i'm looking forward to it :]
Night dudes..
oh, as you can tell from this post time, my sleep patterns slipped back a few hours.. so i'll not give y'all an exact time for when videos will go up tomorrow, but expect it after 7pm+ my time (GMT) for sure.
Seems simple doesn't it, but that insane amount of movement really does screw up renderers cos of fast and rapid/constant changes..
I was also trying to reply back to comments and pms (still didn't get em all, and I aint had time to video response link the day 6 mgs videos yet either).
Good news though, I got RE3 running perfect.. as in, every bit of fmv, cutscene and talking is 100% perfect, an improvement over the old RE videos (if you remember, the first introductions never had sound, it'd say one word then cut off)..
That means we're all set for RE3 to start today (Monday).. which i'm sure will please a lot of people, including me.
RE3's my fav PSX RE, so i'm looking forward to it :]
Night dudes..
oh, as you can tell from this post time, my sleep patterns slipped back a few hours.. so i'll not give y'all an exact time for when videos will go up tomorrow, but expect it after 7pm+ my time (GMT) for sure.
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Uploading and OTG vs MGS
SSO #2's uploading now, shouldn't take long as they're quite small with being primarily static images.
donkeysraliens did the full OTG vs MGS video, check it out as it does indeed, rock the socks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erwwpJQsRu8
Also, apologies to PandaSquared.. I meant to give him a primary mention today.. I actually do give him the mention at the end, but it wasn't at the beginning as promised.
However, it did give me a good idea for those rare days when two people (I can't ever see there being more than that) need primary mentions.
See the video description on SSO #2 for a more detailed explanation..
donkeysraliens did the full OTG vs MGS video, check it out as it does indeed, rock the socks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erwwpJQsRu8
Also, apologies to PandaSquared.. I meant to give him a primary mention today.. I actually do give him the mention at the end, but it wasn't at the beginning as promised.
However, it did give me a good idea for those rare days when two people (I can't ever see there being more than that) need primary mentions.
See the video description on SSO #2 for a more detailed explanation..
Morning dudes? and SSO #2
It ain't really morning but what the hell ;) SSO #2s done, just needs splitting, rendering, and uploading.
Couple of hours at most dudes.
Couple of hours at most dudes.
G'Night dudes..
Time for some sleep m'thinks.. apologies about parts 12 and 15, even though it was neither intentional, nor my fault really :]
As I said in the comments, if part 15 isn't sorted when I wake up, i'll reupload it, which should fix it, albeit put my video chain outta whack which sucks, but ah well, better than it not being there at all.
Thanks YouTube, thanks ;)
Night.
As I said in the comments, if part 15 isn't sorted when I wake up, i'll reupload it, which should fix it, albeit put my video chain outta whack which sucks, but ah well, better than it not being there at all.
Thanks YouTube, thanks ;)
Night.
Saturday, 5 April 2008
MGS 1 day 6, you were an honorable foe...
Well, all the footage has been rendered, converted, and queued to upload.
Jesus, it took some effort though.. I enjoyed doing a double shift (4+ hours rather than 2) on Friday, but damn, the rendering/splitting work has seriously drained the hell outta me today.
Rendering is a weird process.. it's not like watching paint dry, or grass grow, but it does have an anesthetic like quality, in that if you spend a long time doing it, it does make you tired. That's down to the fact yer not concentrating on doing anything, yet you have to babysit and wait for the stuff to output so you can convert it, then queue it up (including descriptions).
Basically, for the past two weeks, i've gone from 1 hour a day, to about 1.5 hours, and then to 2 hours and beyond.. factor in other stuff, such as the blog and audio blog bits on top of the increased work load, and i've slowly had my reserves depleted away.
What's the best way to finish off 2 weeks of rapidly increasing work? Why, to more than double the playtime one day (not even factoring in the time I spent getting that second MGS disc going), and more than double the rendering time the following day ;)
It sounded like a good idea at the time :P
I do enjoy a good challenge though, and the final set of MGS videos was truly that, a titan of recording and editing.. the most i'd ever done before this, was about 3+ hours of IWBTG (the unreleased set y'all ain't seen yet), and even then, I didn't process all the footage straight away.
All in good fun though.. all in good fun.
Jesus, it took some effort though.. I enjoyed doing a double shift (4+ hours rather than 2) on Friday, but damn, the rendering/splitting work has seriously drained the hell outta me today.
Rendering is a weird process.. it's not like watching paint dry, or grass grow, but it does have an anesthetic like quality, in that if you spend a long time doing it, it does make you tired. That's down to the fact yer not concentrating on doing anything, yet you have to babysit and wait for the stuff to output so you can convert it, then queue it up (including descriptions).
Basically, for the past two weeks, i've gone from 1 hour a day, to about 1.5 hours, and then to 2 hours and beyond.. factor in other stuff, such as the blog and audio blog bits on top of the increased work load, and i've slowly had my reserves depleted away.
What's the best way to finish off 2 weeks of rapidly increasing work? Why, to more than double the playtime one day (not even factoring in the time I spent getting that second MGS disc going), and more than double the rendering time the following day ;)
It sounded like a good idea at the time :P
I do enjoy a good challenge though, and the final set of MGS videos was truly that, a titan of recording and editing.. the most i'd ever done before this, was about 3+ hours of IWBTG (the unreleased set y'all ain't seen yet), and even then, I didn't process all the footage straight away.
All in good fun though.. all in good fun.
Locked and loaded..
12 parts are either uploaded/uploading/queued, so i'm gonna nip out a couple of hours.. i'll be back before everythings finished uploading, so fear not, i'll pickup where I left off and the remaining parts will stream in behind the current ones without interruption..
I could've said nothing and nobody would've known, but as always, I like to inform people as to whats happening :]
I could've said nothing and nobody would've known, but as always, I like to inform people as to whats happening :]
Morning dudes and MGS day 6 uploading..
Well, it's not uploading yet, but it will be in like 10 minutes :p
Night dudes..
Topic says it all, i'm gonna go grab some sleep while this footage processes, then start parting and uploading it in the morning.
I get the feeling i'll wanna play something tomorrow (or today even), but I think it'd be best to leave it on Saturday, allowing people time to catch up if they want to, and fire up RE3 on Sunday instead.
Night!
I get the feeling i'll wanna play something tomorrow (or today even), but I think it'd be best to leave it on Saturday, allowing people time to catch up if they want to, and fire up RE3 on Sunday instead.
Night!
Friday, 4 April 2008
MGS completion/G'Night?
As some of ya may have seen from the YT channel (apologies for not saying so here), I had a change of plan from the post below.
I could smell the end, and I couldn't let it go.. so I finished the game there and then ;)
So, i've now got 4.5 hours worth of MGS' finale, which i'm processing as I type this.. it's gonna take a while though guys.. probably like 3-4 hours.
As ya mighta guessed, that means no videos tonight, but it does mean there's actually more videos than usual across Friday/Saturday, so I think that's fair enough really.
Soon as the videos are able to be split, and uploaded, they will be. So expect them to start streaming in early Saturday morning and pretty constantly throughout the entirety of Saturday.
Depending how well that goes, I may start RE3 on Saturday too.. no promises though. If I don't start it Saturday, I will start it Sunday though, along with the Sunday Shout Out video.
There's also a couple of Portal videos coming as well.
As ya can see, I was hesitant to finish MGS all in one shot today, but not only does the extra time make up for it, chances are, there'll be a helluva lot more videos over the space of the weekend than there would be normally, so any guilt I had about attacking the end of the game right there, with no help from people, was pretty much instantly relieved :]
Well guys, i'm gonna go eat and take a well earned break.. i'm gonna need it with all the work that's ahead of me.
Think i'll grab some sleep while I wait for the footage to be usable as well, so I guess it's good night, cya early Saturday.
I could smell the end, and I couldn't let it go.. so I finished the game there and then ;)
So, i've now got 4.5 hours worth of MGS' finale, which i'm processing as I type this.. it's gonna take a while though guys.. probably like 3-4 hours.
As ya mighta guessed, that means no videos tonight, but it does mean there's actually more videos than usual across Friday/Saturday, so I think that's fair enough really.
Soon as the videos are able to be split, and uploaded, they will be. So expect them to start streaming in early Saturday morning and pretty constantly throughout the entirety of Saturday.
Depending how well that goes, I may start RE3 on Saturday too.. no promises though. If I don't start it Saturday, I will start it Sunday though, along with the Sunday Shout Out video.
There's also a couple of Portal videos coming as well.
As ya can see, I was hesitant to finish MGS all in one shot today, but not only does the extra time make up for it, chances are, there'll be a helluva lot more videos over the space of the weekend than there would be normally, so any guilt I had about attacking the end of the game right there, with no help from people, was pretty much instantly relieved :]
Well guys, i'm gonna go eat and take a well earned break.. i'm gonna need it with all the work that's ahead of me.
Think i'll grab some sleep while I wait for the footage to be usable as well, so I guess it's good night, cya early Saturday.
MGS day 6 comment mentions..
weirdnamemike - primary mention, figured the audio quality was better.. just beat out link by like 30 minutes
weirdnamemike - I think I was the one who said crawling gets you claymores, but whatever.
Billybobjr - wrong way :P, you need to go back to the broken evelator, the stairway to the right is clear after the otacon cutscene.
SpiffyDresser - not a dude, sorry!
finalfuu - liquid snake sounds like one of the blood elvs from World of warcraft.
lulzorking - She's not really Russian. She's Kurdish.
SkittlesShott - your good at mashing buttons but i'm better! lol i just altered a starfox quote XD
SkittlesShott - kenyan guards eh? XD
Termin - Don't feel bad about the monologue form Ocelot, it seems that every MGS character has to give out there life story at one point or another....
raptor - god damn your cliffhangers, you got a bomb on you and you end it, damn you
SavageHoax - ahhhh, I see what you did wrong there. you cant use the ketchup while the guard is watching you or he knows its not real blood, but if you use it while he's out of the room, or asleep like he is there now, its all good.
Pinkfurryone - *psycho mantis* You must beat Sonic 2....
lionheart - OTG, make sure u keep body armour on in most of ur battles, its well worth it. Plus uve gotta battle with wolf again soon, u can either use psg1, or nikita launcher, the latter being easier to kill her
Osaka - Hmm...wonder if that's the same rope that Barry promised to bring all the way back in RE 1
splank - i love watchiong your vids OTG. i litrally click refreash to see if another part has uploaded lol.
SavageHoax - use mines on Raven 2nd fight
lucas - On the snowey sniper battle, head for the bottom right corner behind a small hill, then use your nikita missiles to punish Sniper Wolf, and when your directing the missiles, hold the 1st person view and have a quick look around to see where she is. =D
SkittlesShott - ah ok heres the secret it may/may not work with some vids but if you add a &fmt=18 at the end of a video link it'll add higher quality to it example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQIlD3N9Gc&fmt=18
darthtenchi / wam / LukeDShadow - wanted a shoutout
weirdnamemike - I think I was the one who said crawling gets you claymores, but whatever.
Billybobjr - wrong way :P, you need to go back to the broken evelator, the stairway to the right is clear after the otacon cutscene.
SpiffyDresser - not a dude, sorry!
finalfuu - liquid snake sounds like one of the blood elvs from World of warcraft.
lulzorking - She's not really Russian. She's Kurdish.
SkittlesShott - your good at mashing buttons but i'm better! lol i just altered a starfox quote XD
SkittlesShott - kenyan guards eh? XD
Termin - Don't feel bad about the monologue form Ocelot, it seems that every MGS character has to give out there life story at one point or another....
raptor - god damn your cliffhangers, you got a bomb on you and you end it, damn you
SavageHoax - ahhhh, I see what you did wrong there. you cant use the ketchup while the guard is watching you or he knows its not real blood, but if you use it while he's out of the room, or asleep like he is there now, its all good.
Pinkfurryone - *psycho mantis* You must beat Sonic 2....
lionheart - OTG, make sure u keep body armour on in most of ur battles, its well worth it. Plus uve gotta battle with wolf again soon, u can either use psg1, or nikita launcher, the latter being easier to kill her
Osaka - Hmm...wonder if that's the same rope that Barry promised to bring all the way back in RE 1
splank - i love watchiong your vids OTG. i litrally click refreash to see if another part has uploaded lol.
SavageHoax - use mines on Raven 2nd fight
lucas - On the snowey sniper battle, head for the bottom right corner behind a small hill, then use your nikita missiles to punish Sniper Wolf, and when your directing the missiles, hold the 1st person view and have a quick look around to see where she is. =D
SkittlesShott - ah ok heres the secret it may/may not work with some vids but if you add a &fmt=18 at the end of a video link it'll add higher quality to it example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQIlD3N9Gc&fmt=18
darthtenchi / wam / LukeDShadow - wanted a shoutout
MGS day 6 delay..
Today's videos are gonna be up a bit later than usual guys.. the second cd switch caused me some trouble, but I got it fixed.
I'm puzzled as to why there isn't a lot of people complaining about this.. i've got the newest epsxe, and everything runs fine, so why isn't there more people running into the cd swap problems like me?
Personally, I get the feeling a lot of people give up getting MGS to run on a psx emulator, because it did take me quite a while to get it running, and even then, the FMV is still screwed as you guys saw.. it's notorious for being a swine :p
Either way, it's sorted, and bar the chipmunk FMVs, we should be good to go for the gold.
I'm puzzled as to why there isn't a lot of people complaining about this.. i've got the newest epsxe, and everything runs fine, so why isn't there more people running into the cd swap problems like me?
Personally, I get the feeling a lot of people give up getting MGS to run on a psx emulator, because it did take me quite a while to get it running, and even then, the FMV is still screwed as you guys saw.. it's notorious for being a swine :p
Either way, it's sorted, and bar the chipmunk FMVs, we should be good to go for the gold.
G'night dudes..
Time for some sleep.. no huge ass ramble tonight, i've left it a bit late for that ;)
Surprisingly, i've seen every video upload tonight.. combination of being up later, and uploading a bit earlier.. which is strange because I actually could've started uploading about 2 hours earlier if I hadn't fallen asleep earlier.
More MGS tomorrow, and then on Saturday, I may do what I proposed last week, as I think I was onto something..
To give both myself, and people a break, I may devote Saturdays just to any old random game I feel.. could be Doom, Mario Kart, an old adventure game, anything.
The only problem is, I fore see people liking that game, and wanting me to finish it, leaving loadsa different HTSFs in limbo, as I had a month or so ago.
Now, I can, and with exception of IWBTG, did, finish em.. but it's a serious juggling act, and it's much cleaner, and more controlled, to do it the way i've been doing recently, ie, 1 game at a time.
So I dunno.. I might call it selfish saturday, and either play the game i've been playing all week, or play something totally random that I fancy :]
Just an idea anyway, we shall see.
Night dudes.
Surprisingly, i've seen every video upload tonight.. combination of being up later, and uploading a bit earlier.. which is strange because I actually could've started uploading about 2 hours earlier if I hadn't fallen asleep earlier.
More MGS tomorrow, and then on Saturday, I may do what I proposed last week, as I think I was onto something..
To give both myself, and people a break, I may devote Saturdays just to any old random game I feel.. could be Doom, Mario Kart, an old adventure game, anything.
The only problem is, I fore see people liking that game, and wanting me to finish it, leaving loadsa different HTSFs in limbo, as I had a month or so ago.
Now, I can, and with exception of IWBTG, did, finish em.. but it's a serious juggling act, and it's much cleaner, and more controlled, to do it the way i've been doing recently, ie, 1 game at a time.
So I dunno.. I might call it selfish saturday, and either play the game i've been playing all week, or play something totally random that I fancy :]
Just an idea anyway, we shall see.
Night dudes.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Queued..
Part 6 has about 25% left to go, and all the remaining 6 parts are queued up now..
MGS was pretty damn varied today, from sniping, to torture, to a spiraling tower of massacre and even some HIND avoidance/rappelling :p
Definitely enjoying MGS, if i'd known the story, and even the gameplay itself was as awesome as it was, i'd have finished all of em much much sooner.
Ah well, at least it's been something new to play :] there's certainly been a shortage of good, new PC games of late.. granted it's not a PC game, but i'm playing it on the pc, so it counts ;)
My only gripe is also it's best point.. the length of the story told via the codec. The codec really is great, but it's also very long winded at times.. personally if I was playing and not recording, I wouldn't have a bad thing to say, because it certainly beats RE's file system.. but as far as commentary/recording goes, it certainly does ramble on sometimes ;)
Looking forward to another couple of hours tomorrow, and hopefully that second disc, so I ain't fearing some 3 week long epic.
Time for a break.. got a sandwich with my name on it, and some Sharpe.
MGS was pretty damn varied today, from sniping, to torture, to a spiraling tower of massacre and even some HIND avoidance/rappelling :p
Definitely enjoying MGS, if i'd known the story, and even the gameplay itself was as awesome as it was, i'd have finished all of em much much sooner.
Ah well, at least it's been something new to play :] there's certainly been a shortage of good, new PC games of late.. granted it's not a PC game, but i'm playing it on the pc, so it counts ;)
My only gripe is also it's best point.. the length of the story told via the codec. The codec really is great, but it's also very long winded at times.. personally if I was playing and not recording, I wouldn't have a bad thing to say, because it certainly beats RE's file system.. but as far as commentary/recording goes, it certainly does ramble on sometimes ;)
Looking forward to another couple of hours tomorrow, and hopefully that second disc, so I ain't fearing some 3 week long epic.
Time for a break.. got a sandwich with my name on it, and some Sharpe.
Todays comment mentions..
Here we go, today's comment mentions.. there wasn't an awful lot today, obviously due to YT's maintenance disabling anyone commenting (even removing some comments as it has to some of mine), as well as stopping parts 11/12 from being uploaded :P
No worries though, there's still plenty of MGS time left it seems.. STILL ain't on that god forsaken second disc yet!
fitzybhoy - your mei ling impressions are classic.
link - Guys i have a group in my groups section!
Its for OTG, and his fans!
ForwardMcburn - she wearin trousers allready? in my version (that im playin parralel to u in) she ent?!?!!
SkittlesShott - you gotta do the painkiller series it's kinda survival horror
SkittlesShott - also you should post your game collection
daskraut - deepthroat as a name, yeah, next time they call him bukkake or what?
monkeymac - Lol Who would you rather do- Ada or Mei Ling?
KyoFoxfire - I gotta add you on Steam, so we can play some TF2 sometime, mate.
SavageHoax - OTG, your definitely getting better at this, thus far not one claim that it didn't count, and nearly taking mantis first go.
link - the way you said puppy warmed my heart.
donkeysraliens - i tell ya, unless you put your foot down, you may not get this done this week, but i have the feeling you wont stand for that!
denzi - mad sniping skilz
hellsing - You bastard, I told you about the box/truck thing! Unless you already knew about it...
SpiffyDresser - It's Cam Clarke, who did voice Leonardo and Rocksteady in Turtles,
Kratos Aurion in Tales of Symphonia,
Ryudo in Grandia 2
Will Raynard in Tales of Legendia,
This 'Miller' dude and Liquid Snake,
Also the male belf in WoW.
No worries though, there's still plenty of MGS time left it seems.. STILL ain't on that god forsaken second disc yet!
fitzybhoy - your mei ling impressions are classic.
link - Guys i have a group in my groups section!
Its for OTG, and his fans!
ForwardMcburn - she wearin trousers allready? in my version (that im playin parralel to u in) she ent?!?!!
SkittlesShott - you gotta do the painkiller series it's kinda survival horror
SkittlesShott - also you should post your game collection
daskraut - deepthroat as a name, yeah, next time they call him bukkake or what?
monkeymac - Lol Who would you rather do- Ada or Mei Ling?
KyoFoxfire - I gotta add you on Steam, so we can play some TF2 sometime, mate.
SavageHoax - OTG, your definitely getting better at this, thus far not one claim that it didn't count, and nearly taking mantis first go.
link - the way you said puppy warmed my heart.
donkeysraliens - i tell ya, unless you put your foot down, you may not get this done this week, but i have the feeling you wont stand for that!
denzi - mad sniping skilz
hellsing - You bastard, I told you about the box/truck thing! Unless you already knew about it...
SpiffyDresser - It's Cam Clarke, who did voice Leonardo and Rocksteady in Turtles,
Kratos Aurion in Tales of Symphonia,
Ryudo in Grandia 2
Will Raynard in Tales of Legendia,
This 'Miller' dude and Liquid Snake,
Also the male belf in WoW.
Morning dudes and MGS day 4 parts 11/12
Both parts 11/12 are uploaded now, blame YT for the delay cos both parts did register as being uploaded, but didn't show up..
I'd like to propose a minutes silence for our fallen comrades, part 11 and 12, which were lost in battle, never to be found.
I'd like to propose a minutes silence for our fallen comrades, part 11 and 12, which were lost in battle, never to be found.
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
G'Night? Not quite yet..
My sleep pattern's slipped a little due to the mobile phone being an hour backwards :P so i'm shitload more awake than I would be normally.. it's the last blog entry for tonight though.
Speaking of which, i've REALLY missed the text blog entries.. the audio is great, and it does make things different, but it's a proper whore to update the text once you've submitted yer audio/description.. if I wanna add/update text, i'd have to delete the audio entry here, edit the text on Hipcast, and resubmit it here, meaning any comments would be lost..
Anyway, what i'll be doing from now on is, all text comments that i've used in that day's videos will get their own separate post like I was doing last week (but forgot this week, oops), the audio logs will be as they've been, and the 'G'Night' posts will be where I do my major text rambles.
I mean, if i'm really gonna go into detail on something, i'll probably just do it in text form, because it's easier for people to understand (such as the process of making the videos post I did last week).. but otherwise, as you've seen today, it'll be audio logs with minimal text, a post full of the days mentions, and a post like this at the end rambling on.. and on.. and on ;)
So, wanna know how today went?
Fucking flawless.. no joke, the recording went fine, with once again, 0 dropped frames (resulting in no desync, booyah), everything rendered perfect first time (huffy has given me a bit of trouble recently, it'll render fine, but once I try convert it to divx, it'll error, requiring me to rerender that part again) and I got everything done before midnight!
In the future, i'm gonna seriously try and get times that the first part of a day hits much, MUCH sooner than like 7/8pm UK time, as it's fine for the US etc guys, but even though i've had zero complaints from Europe dudes, I do highly suspect it's far too late, especially if they wanted to watch the entire set that night.. they'd be up till about 3am at least ;)
That's where some more cash comes in.. it'll fuel a better connection and a better pc (in combination with some of my own cash obviously) eventually, both of which will increase the speed of delivery 10 fold at least imo.
Firstly, the connection. As I said in yesterdays video, i'll be able to upload 10 parts in the time i'd usually upload 1.. so when you'd see that first part at the moment, you'll see another 9 parts along side it at the same time near enough.. shit hot or what?
and the PC.. this is gonna require some saving by myself for sure, because the main part I need is the CPU.. it's gotta be a quad core.. why quad core? because rendering is PURELY down to the CPU, nothing else really, and that quad core will DESTROY the HTSF videos.. it'll chew em up, and spit em out like a factory production line.. what takes me 15 minutes to render/convert, will take like 3 minutes at best, a 5 fold speed increase..
Combine these two together, and damn, we got ourselves a war on gaming commentary.. i'd be sure to accept any challenge from anyone to compete for quality, speed, and regularity that's for sure ;)
But alas, that's a few months away yet.. i'll get the connection either at the end of this month of next, which is without a doubt the main priority atm.. I can live with the render times atm, but that's because I can't upload faster than I can render. I highly suspect once I get that juicy ass upload, i'll be thirsting for the PC to match it.
Shouldn't take too long though, between the blog, some other ideas and some poker savings i've been putting aside, I think we can get it in the space of a few months comfortably.. after all, I don't need more HDD space, monitors, or equipment etc.. it's just that CPU, and -maybe- a half decent graphics so that I can keep this average one in here. Doesn't need to be anything special really, a sub 100 pound affair would be overkill. Only reason i'd pay 100 or at MOST 200, is purely so I could play any new PC games that present themselves while recording and not losing frames.. it's certainly bottom of the priority list anyway.
Onto a totally unrelated subject, donkeysraliens made a video for me today. It was both funny and surreal to me at the same time.
It's the first video that i've seen involving me, but not by me. Even though obviously it was my voice, for the first time with my work, I got to see it almost from a third person view, and it made me laugh, which I rarely do at my own videos.. that's not because they aren't funny, but i've known myself 25 years, so obviously the novelty wears off after a while ;)
Seeing a video i'd done, presented and repackaged in a different form, then shown back at me, did change that though, and it was most certainly a refreshing change.. cheers dude.
Part 5 of todays 12 just finished uploading.. well, it finished a while ago I think cos part 6 is now on 60% ;) but y'know what I mean.. all the other parts are in line behind it, and i've got the taste for a good old sandwich while watching some Sharpe in mind, so i'll wrap this up.
Night dudes, enjoy the videos..
oh, you'll notice i've changed '1+ hours each day' on the description to an epic 2+ hours now.. I figure it wise because I can handle it, people seem to want it, and it stops me constantly whining i've run over the hour so badly, when it seems there's a 75%+ chance i'm ALWAYS going to ;)
(Sharpe's a UK drama with Sean Bean (the LOTR dude, Boromir I think) during the Napoleon war times.. awesome shit, i've always loved the series, and I bought the box set years ago.. it cost 100 quid, but it was worth it)
Speaking of which, i've REALLY missed the text blog entries.. the audio is great, and it does make things different, but it's a proper whore to update the text once you've submitted yer audio/description.. if I wanna add/update text, i'd have to delete the audio entry here, edit the text on Hipcast, and resubmit it here, meaning any comments would be lost..
Anyway, what i'll be doing from now on is, all text comments that i've used in that day's videos will get their own separate post like I was doing last week (but forgot this week, oops), the audio logs will be as they've been, and the 'G'Night' posts will be where I do my major text rambles.
I mean, if i'm really gonna go into detail on something, i'll probably just do it in text form, because it's easier for people to understand (such as the process of making the videos post I did last week).. but otherwise, as you've seen today, it'll be audio logs with minimal text, a post full of the days mentions, and a post like this at the end rambling on.. and on.. and on ;)
So, wanna know how today went?
Fucking flawless.. no joke, the recording went fine, with once again, 0 dropped frames (resulting in no desync, booyah), everything rendered perfect first time (huffy has given me a bit of trouble recently, it'll render fine, but once I try convert it to divx, it'll error, requiring me to rerender that part again) and I got everything done before midnight!
In the future, i'm gonna seriously try and get times that the first part of a day hits much, MUCH sooner than like 7/8pm UK time, as it's fine for the US etc guys, but even though i've had zero complaints from Europe dudes, I do highly suspect it's far too late, especially if they wanted to watch the entire set that night.. they'd be up till about 3am at least ;)
That's where some more cash comes in.. it'll fuel a better connection and a better pc (in combination with some of my own cash obviously) eventually, both of which will increase the speed of delivery 10 fold at least imo.
Firstly, the connection. As I said in yesterdays video, i'll be able to upload 10 parts in the time i'd usually upload 1.. so when you'd see that first part at the moment, you'll see another 9 parts along side it at the same time near enough.. shit hot or what?
and the PC.. this is gonna require some saving by myself for sure, because the main part I need is the CPU.. it's gotta be a quad core.. why quad core? because rendering is PURELY down to the CPU, nothing else really, and that quad core will DESTROY the HTSF videos.. it'll chew em up, and spit em out like a factory production line.. what takes me 15 minutes to render/convert, will take like 3 minutes at best, a 5 fold speed increase..
Combine these two together, and damn, we got ourselves a war on gaming commentary.. i'd be sure to accept any challenge from anyone to compete for quality, speed, and regularity that's for sure ;)
But alas, that's a few months away yet.. i'll get the connection either at the end of this month of next, which is without a doubt the main priority atm.. I can live with the render times atm, but that's because I can't upload faster than I can render. I highly suspect once I get that juicy ass upload, i'll be thirsting for the PC to match it.
Shouldn't take too long though, between the blog, some other ideas and some poker savings i've been putting aside, I think we can get it in the space of a few months comfortably.. after all, I don't need more HDD space, monitors, or equipment etc.. it's just that CPU, and -maybe- a half decent graphics so that I can keep this average one in here. Doesn't need to be anything special really, a sub 100 pound affair would be overkill. Only reason i'd pay 100 or at MOST 200, is purely so I could play any new PC games that present themselves while recording and not losing frames.. it's certainly bottom of the priority list anyway.
Onto a totally unrelated subject, donkeysraliens made a video for me today. It was both funny and surreal to me at the same time.
It's the first video that i've seen involving me, but not by me. Even though obviously it was my voice, for the first time with my work, I got to see it almost from a third person view, and it made me laugh, which I rarely do at my own videos.. that's not because they aren't funny, but i've known myself 25 years, so obviously the novelty wears off after a while ;)
Seeing a video i'd done, presented and repackaged in a different form, then shown back at me, did change that though, and it was most certainly a refreshing change.. cheers dude.
Part 5 of todays 12 just finished uploading.. well, it finished a while ago I think cos part 6 is now on 60% ;) but y'know what I mean.. all the other parts are in line behind it, and i've got the taste for a good old sandwich while watching some Sharpe in mind, so i'll wrap this up.
Night dudes, enjoy the videos..
oh, you'll notice i've changed '1+ hours each day' on the description to an epic 2+ hours now.. I figure it wise because I can handle it, people seem to want it, and it stops me constantly whining i've run over the hour so badly, when it seems there's a 75%+ chance i'm ALWAYS going to ;)
(Sharpe's a UK drama with Sean Bean (the LOTR dude, Boromir I think) during the Napoleon war times.. awesome shit, i've always loved the series, and I bought the box set years ago.. it cost 100 quid, but it was worth it)
Uploading and HTSF MGS trailer..
great video trailer by donkeysraliens at: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fe8Lnc5Eg9Q
check it out :]
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check it out :]
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Tuesday, 1 April 2008
G'Night..
8 parts are viewable and the last 6 are queued/uploading.. the last 2 are a bit shorter than usual though, it was just how the splitting went.
you'll notice theres no audio for this one, it'll be the same with every 'G'Night' blog entry, cos obviously it's late at night and i'm too knackered to be recording a decent audio for the post really ;)
plus as i've said before, my voice can raise the dead sometimes, so i'll not harass the neighbors with it at 1:24am ;)
you'll notice theres no audio for this one, it'll be the same with every 'G'Night' blog entry, cos obviously it's late at night and i'm too knackered to be recording a decent audio for the post really ;)
plus as i've said before, my voice can raise the dead sometimes, so i'll not harass the neighbors with it at 1:24am ;)
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