Hurrah! It appears decent weather awaits our second foray into the world of SCA. The showers due for Saturday came early and have left nothing but sun scheduled. We're all going out to the event, bar Trevor if his house collapses on him, and I'm quite eager to see what's in store for us. I'll make sure to bring the video camera with me this time, and inevitably the contents will show up on our channel at some point.
Speaking of which, I intend to upload the second part of our shogun 2 first impressions series tonight to tide things over until we get the SCA video edited or we get around to tackling the next Difficult to find Minerals. It's due to be on Republic Commando, a star wars game that received critical acclaim, but never got a sequel. Since Lucas Arts exists solely to dredge as much money out of everything as they can, I suspect this is due to a lack of sales - suspicions reinforced by them never releasing sales figures. It's a marvelous game, and I feel one of the best Star Wars ones to date. The real difficulty will come in planning what I say about it so I don't derail into a prolonged rage filled rant against the rest of Star Wars.
Anyways, the point is stuff is due to arrive on the you tube channel, and if it actually gets there I'll be thrilled.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
The Frequency of Content
The act of creating itself is a magnificent thing. It can be profoundly satisfying and a source of endless pride. The pursuit of simply making things we could definitively call our own was one of the goals of this place when I first opened it up to the others. I've spoken a great many times about the ideas I believed to be lurking within the minds of my friends, just waiting for a chance to shine. It isn't empty flattery; no one reads this blog, there would be no point. I genuinely believe it, but I must admit we've failed in proving it.
It's common, shockingly common to find YouTubers who manage to throw up a video or three a week. No, I don't mean the massive channels that run weekly shows that've replaced their day jobs, I mean the small time people, with barely any subscribers. The videos aren't good, but viewing enough of them invariably shows the individual improving in their technique as time goes on. The influence it had on my previous declaration that we'd make tons of videos regardless of quality should be clear; sucking was almost the goal, assuming you remembered that we would continue on in the face of sucking. It appears our usual apathy is making us forget that.
I intend to fix this, alone if need be. I'm intended to start a vlog series on YouTube to compliment this blog, it'll pertain solely to what's up and coming instead of my personal life, but it'll still work as a convenient video whenever I find myself strapped for immediately-doable-ideas. Along with it I intend to run an enormous amount of Let's Play videos. I'm going to try and rope people into these as much as possible but even if I can't find people I'm going to try and make them myself. I tried to apply my blogging approach to my group of friends and it hasn't succeeded, so now we'll see if I can do it on my own.
It's my latest vain hope that if I continue to make videos it'll inspire them to contribute, and it may very well succeed in that. I'm just going to have to ignore the likelihood of it 'succeeding' just like the blog.
It's common, shockingly common to find YouTubers who manage to throw up a video or three a week. No, I don't mean the massive channels that run weekly shows that've replaced their day jobs, I mean the small time people, with barely any subscribers. The videos aren't good, but viewing enough of them invariably shows the individual improving in their technique as time goes on. The influence it had on my previous declaration that we'd make tons of videos regardless of quality should be clear; sucking was almost the goal, assuming you remembered that we would continue on in the face of sucking. It appears our usual apathy is making us forget that.
I intend to fix this, alone if need be. I'm intended to start a vlog series on YouTube to compliment this blog, it'll pertain solely to what's up and coming instead of my personal life, but it'll still work as a convenient video whenever I find myself strapped for immediately-doable-ideas. Along with it I intend to run an enormous amount of Let's Play videos. I'm going to try and rope people into these as much as possible but even if I can't find people I'm going to try and make them myself. I tried to apply my blogging approach to my group of friends and it hasn't succeeded, so now we'll see if I can do it on my own.
It's my latest vain hope that if I continue to make videos it'll inspire them to contribute, and it may very well succeed in that. I'm just going to have to ignore the likelihood of it 'succeeding' just like the blog.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Canada Day
Well God Damn. I didn't manage to make a post on the Them Canadian Guys Blog on Canada Day.
I might actually get kicked out of the country for this.
I'd like to say I failed in the post-making because I was busy doing a thousand awesome activities with the rest of the guys, but everyone actually ended up doing separate things. Thus I have to regrettably inform you that not only do I have no July 1st post, but I have nothing to show for it. I am truly, terribly ashamed.
In other news, I made a new you-tube video! Hurrah, right?
Yay?
Well I'm excited, so there.
It's about Minecraft, which absolutely none of my friends will be surprised to hear. I, like a rather large chunk of the internet, play that game for unhealthy amounts of time. So I've decided to take that time and try to produce something for you all with it; namely a Let's Play series - or a suppose a highlight reel of a Let's Play series. My friends and I tend to spend as much time burning our shit down as we do making stuff, so I'm intending to cut out the middle creating part and just showing updates as the town we're building slowly expands.
The updates on contingent on us doing or making something I think is funny or interesting enough to show, so the schedule for this series will be even more unpredictable then our already wildly fluctuating ones for the blog and other videos.
Still, if I get into the habit of using fraps on various games I suspect it'll expand the number of videos we do enormously. We'll finally actually have continuous content in a form other than inane blog posts; and that's always something to be happy about. Check the side bar to see the first episode!
I might actually get kicked out of the country for this.
I'd like to say I failed in the post-making because I was busy doing a thousand awesome activities with the rest of the guys, but everyone actually ended up doing separate things. Thus I have to regrettably inform you that not only do I have no July 1st post, but I have nothing to show for it. I am truly, terribly ashamed.
In other news, I made a new you-tube video! Hurrah, right?
Yay?
Well I'm excited, so there.
It's about Minecraft, which absolutely none of my friends will be surprised to hear. I, like a rather large chunk of the internet, play that game for unhealthy amounts of time. So I've decided to take that time and try to produce something for you all with it; namely a Let's Play series - or a suppose a highlight reel of a Let's Play series. My friends and I tend to spend as much time burning our shit down as we do making stuff, so I'm intending to cut out the middle creating part and just showing updates as the town we're building slowly expands.
The updates on contingent on us doing or making something I think is funny or interesting enough to show, so the schedule for this series will be even more unpredictable then our already wildly fluctuating ones for the blog and other videos.
Still, if I get into the habit of using fraps on various games I suspect it'll expand the number of videos we do enormously. We'll finally actually have continuous content in a form other than inane blog posts; and that's always something to be happy about. Check the side bar to see the first episode!
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