Weekly blog 6/25/23

Starting things off, I decided to do things a bit differently for July's Game N Chill. It's been quite a few weeks since I last did a stream but I had to record Game N Chill this weekend so I could edit the recording down over the work week. So I decided to do an experiment and live stream a Game N Chill recording session. I'll talk more about that in the video/stream section but if you want to see that now, you can watch the VOD here:

Otherwise I'll edit it down to the usual Game N Chill video that you'll be able to watch next weekend. Though as it stands, I think the back half of the stream will be stream VOD exclusive so I don't have to edit down the ENTIRE 2 hours into a video. We'll see, it'll partly depend on how big the video is after I edit down the first half. As for everything else....

Videos and Streams

July is going to be a weird month for gaming videos and stream, for lack of better way to describe it, as I try to find a balance between taking a break, keeping the channel alive, all while trying to make room for a new type of video to try and create. TBH I still don't have the entire month's schedule planned yet, so I'll probably be winging it. With uploads fluctuating depending on what I have edit and ready to share. Already planning on taking this week and the following week off so hopefully by the back half of the month I'll have had some time to try out some new ideas and see how they fit in with my usual uploads.

Been kind of off with streaming too. Past few weeks have just had a large combination of lack of time and not having the mindset or energy to stream. Transitioning from streaming from both Twitch and Youtube to just Youtube hasn't been as easy as I thought it would be either. (For some reason now that I actually want to remove it, I'm unable to remove it due to the way I set-up mutistreaming in the first place and had to resort to changing my password just to remove it's permissions from OBS, so for now I don't think I could go back to streaming both even if I wanted to.)

This week was probably the most energy I've had in the evening for a few weeks, but I needed to record Game N Chill. That was where the whole "why not do both at once" idea came from. It was basically just me in the chat so it wasn't any different from a Game and Chill recording, but at the cost of audio quality. So because of that I don't think I'll do that again, but I'm glad I did it this week if only to get rid of some of the streaming dust I've been building up. I'll do what I can to alleviate that in editing but since it's all one audio file, there's only so much I can do. So sorry in advance. If I'm up to it, we'll resume streaming Pikmin next week, but I'm just not going to make any promises for now with streams, they're kind of a lower priority right now with everything else going on.

I haven't even talked about my current major project in progress. So even though it'll be way to late to be relevant, I'm making an editorial on the Nintendo Direct that happened Wednesday. I thought it would be a simple way to start making editorials, with needing some more time before I'm done with the scripting for my first "official" editorial... and that's when I learned just how much more effort and time they were from the usual types of videos I made. This Nintendo Direct editorial doesn't even have a full script, just notes, but just recording the voice over for that took several hours, and it's been taking me a very long time to finishing editing that voice over and adding in the script. There's been times I've consider just giving up out of fear that by the time it's done "no one will care about the Nintendo Direct anymore", but I think I'm at a point where I've put so much into it already that it would be a waste to abandon it. So... we'll see how all that goes.

Fan Game and Similar updates

Don't really have anything new or exciting to talk about with Dawn of Djinn this week. As I've barely worked on it with so much focus going into this new video I want to get out sooner rather than later.

Lately in playtesting there was a couple classes I wasn't too happy with, so I've decided to tweek them a bit so that the learnable spells felt more on character and so healing would be more available between those two classes. I'm a little concern that easier healing might break the balance between all the classes but that's for future JackitK to figure out and decide in playtesting.

Mis

If I didn't already have enough on my plate, it's starting to get to that time of the year the garden is coming in. So helping out with that via weeding and other care for the plants is becoming a thing, and I want to help with it because I like having fresh vegetables to eat. ...so I don't know. I think I can afford to share a small pic without it being too revealing. Even though my dad is a big part of why we have a garden in the first place, I'm pretty proud of the time I am able to contribute to it. Can't see it too well in this picture, but the Zuchnni plants are already starting to produce Zuchnni, that'll be fun to have....

This is the perk, of not having Youtube being my job, as much as it bothers me that I can't be consistent at it and how I would rather work on videos than do my current job; At least it doesn't have to be my highest priority. And the job isn't even that bad in the grand scheme of things. I'm not going to starve if I miss a week of uploads or want to try something new.

Speaking of new hobbies. Looking forward to eventually getting out and seeing how much all my extra Pokemon cards are worth. Spent a chunk of time yesterday organizing the cards so that all my sellable duplicates are in one binder so I don't have to bring my entire collection with me to one place. Also doing a bit of extra sorting like getting a binder just for old Yu-Gi-oh and Digimon cards. I was going to take the duplicates to sell yesterday. But yesterday was a complete mess so by the time I was done sorting, I was way too flustered over time to want to drive out far enough to make it to a card shop. This weekend has a whole has kind of been a mess as I've been not getting enough sleep at night and sleeping in enough to throw my routine enough, but not long enough to make-up the sleep I missed. Hopefully next weekend will go better, I have hopes. That said, that new set of cards they announced looked real nice. Got a little over hyped because it was trending on Twitter and everyone was showing off the super rare cards, but said cards still look neat. It'll probably be the set I look to pick up when I get tired of trying to complete my collection of Hissuian cards or of the Pokemon Go set. Still got to figure out how I'm going to complete the Pokemon Go set though since I still don't think I want to go back to opening packs with only cards I've already own. :/

I'm just gonna include a link to one of their tweets and you can see for yourself. They're pretty hype and definitely take a shot right at the nostalgia.

https://twitter.com/PokemonTCG/status/1670506758400364546?s=20

Also quick note. I just spent like an hour or so watching various clips of people playing Pikmin with the new Switch ports released and I have to say, that's probably the most fun I've had with Twitter in years.

https://twitter.com/pikmin_facts/status/1672610178477305858

Oh shoot! I forgot I've done some art. Mostly just sketches so I don't have much prep to share but I wanta at least share a concept that's been in my head for a while that I got a chance to draw last week. It's a first draft so some of the designs I still feel I want to take another stab at it at some point, but for now, enjoy. It's a regional form of Shinx that's a fire/electric type (probably gaining it's electric subtype after it evolves). Oh by the way, it's "Unovian?" because I'm still trying to figure out what sort of regional it would be. With me currently leaning towards an ancient Unoiva kind of like how Hissui is an ancient Sinnoh. I was also considering a Kalos for, being the ancient ancestor of both Shinx and Litten, but I'm not sure if I want to go that route with it already being a bit weird that the lion Pokemon Litten is native to Kalos in the first place. At least if you look at it from the angle of Kalos being the Pokemon equivalent of France.