The Future

Well things have slowed down the last couple weeks, so I wanted to a take a moment to address what’s going on and where it might lead.

First thing on the list is the videos – yeah, they’ve never materialized past the original few. It’s the one thing on this list I’m both most hopeful will success and most pessimistic about its chances. It’s a matter of work ethic at this point, and that’s something we’re not going to be able to change in any short order. Really the only people gung-ho behind this video idea besides me is Josh and Skye, the latter mildly hard to get in contact with. A distressing lack of interest from everyone else means it’s difficult to get a number of people together to do things. The camera has also been shifted back to Josh’s lonely abode and thus tends to be out of minds whenever we get together. Personally that leaves only the Ipad to me for vlogging purposes, something I’ve not yet managed the courage to use it for. Oh, I’ve made vlogs on it, but I’ve not posted any due to the lack of any real contend and overflowing embarrassment.

I am not without ideas however. I intend to introduce Trevor to the exciting world of fraps. I know he likes trying out a huge variety of games, even ones that don’t really do all that well and hence get ignored by the media. This isn’t exactly reflected in an equal vastness of genre, but the sheer amount of games means there’s potential for a sort of highlights real in there. Failing that, perhaps a ‘hidden gems’ series of some sort. Let Trevor play a game through once to get a feel for it, then let him pick out what makes it unique and record those bits with fraps. After we’ve whipped up a decent video piece we can give him the microphone to do a voice over – likely with the rest of us commenting in podcast style. Josh might be interested in trying a similar series, I’ll need to run this by both of them next meet up.

Which brings me to the next point – meet ups. Right now we run on a zillion different and weird schedules which makes getting together a very hectic and on the fly thing. I tend to just throw out phone calls and see who’s around. If everyone is I just grab people and we roll, which works great for doing random shit, but not so much for sitting down and doing work. Work really being what this stuff is. Fun work to be sure, but there’s still a hefty work component. We’re working to find times and dates that we can actually sit down with a different mind set; one in which we intend to get shit done.

It’s overcoming these pitfalls that’ll decide whether I just continue to blog here all alone, or we turn this into a real content-creating site.