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)