Weekly Blog 8/13

It's been a mess of a week tbh so don't mind the mess of a blog. I really wish my weekends were more constructive considering I really need to catch up on my video backlog if I want to upload in September. But life has been getting in the way, at least there's little accomplishment here and there to look at.

Videos

I got a feeling it's going to be a busy Sunday, so here's the basic run down in case I don't make a blog for this week... So I think I should officially say that "causally" talking about Pikmin 4" video I occasionally tease is officially becoming a spoiler free review. I had too many thoughts not to script it, and that script has gotten way bigger than I was planning. At least for something that just focuses on the part of the game before the credits. I think I can get it out this month, but that takes me into the bad news...

This review has eaten up a ton of the time I'd put aside for video production, i spent 4 hours yesterday just finishing the script for the review. I have no idea how much time I've invested into it total so far, I lost count. I'm not sure how things are going to go in September. I definitely at least be taking the first week offmaybe I'll need even more time depending on how much I get done these next following weekends. Maybe I'll do something like last time and upload extra shorts to make the time off feel less barren. But I'll figure out exactly what I want to do with September videos by the end of the month.

Getting back into streaming has been a rough. I was at least able to get back into the Lost Age randomizer this weekend, if only for a little bit. But with the release of Pikmin 4, I want to do more Pikmin stuff on the channel, but I also missed celebrating the anniversary of Golden Sun 1 a few weeks back so I want to figure out something to do in Golden Sun 1 as well. I'm not too heartbroken by it, since I do so much with Golden Sun on Youtube, I'm basically already celebrating Golden Sun every day. :P But it would still be fun to do something to celebrate. I guess we'll leave it up to what I feel like streaming that weekend and go from there.

Oh speaking of Pikmin, I got to get better at plugging my own videos in these blogs. As earlier this week I premiered a new video series of revisiting Pikmin 1. TBH it's just the stream VODs edited down, but if you missed any of those streams, this is a good way to check that out.

Dawn of Djinn and other projects

Progress is being made with projects like Dawn of Djinn, but I don't have anything too interesting to share this week... That said, for those of you who started following me for my "fan game" projects, there's a F3 live stream happening later today that may interest you. It'll be featuring upcoming mods/ROM hacks, and I know there's at least one thing that Paper Mario fans will enjoy being released today. It's not my project, but I did make a video relating to it back when I was really into the Paper Mario scene. So go check them out.

Speaking of Golden Sun anniversary, that would be a perfect way to showcase some of the small patches I've made for Golden Sun 1 over the past couple months. But sadly I missed that window.

I've already shared them on Discord, and I would share them more publicly but there's a couple things making me delay that. For one, I wanted to also update the old Lost Age anniversary patch and secondly, I want to make a video trailer. I think I've about given up on the prior as the goal was to use Lost Age Randomizer code to make Retreat do fast travel instead of Teleport to prevent getting access to the optional end-game dungeons early. But for some reason every time I try to make edits to a Lost Age Randomizer seed, everything breaks. So I don't think I'm experienced enough to make the changes I want to that.

So for now, I'm holding off on that until I finish the Pikmin 4 review, as I don't want to take on an extra video project until I finish that. If you want to try out the Quailty of Life patches I made for GS 1 early though, they are available for free on my Discord.

Mis

Sadly, despite the progress on the Pikmin script, this weekend wasn't as productive as I would of liked. I rely on weekends to get most of my video progress done, since I work full time during the work week and while I can get some work done, usually my most productive days are on Saturday and Sunday.

But this weekend got eaten up by various other errands. There was the errands I had to run Saturday morning and then the afternoon/evening was used up between working on the Pikmin 4 script and streaming. And today was a mess, I spend the whole morning working on the yard and garden, followed up with cooking to prep the vegetables into meals to use through the work week.

By the time I was all done with that and ate, it was already time for Froakie community day. I was exhausted and it was hot and muggy but if I wanted to get the shiny Froakie, I had to go out at 2 PM, despite how much I would of rather gotten my walking done earlier that day. Community Day was a mess TBH, one of the worst ones I've had in a while. Not only was I feeling drained, but the place I went to walk was a mess, I forgot there was a festival going on there today so people and vehicle traffic was terrible. With everyone at the festival though at least the park was free....but I guess phone traffic was so clogged up, my cell reception barely even worked in the park and I had a stressful time even getting the game work to play.

I eventually gave up, I was going to go to a different town but at that point I was tired and drain and just gave up. I've already was getting annoyed at 2 PM community days and today has made me seriously reconsider if Community Days are worth arranging my entire day around anymore, which is saying a lot because it's kind of the last thing in Pokemon Go I actually still care about. If I give up on Community Days then I've basically given up on Pokemon Go all together, with it soely existing as a glorified pedometer.

It took all day from me to recover physically from all that so now it feels like my weekend was completely wasted. Basically, spent the rest of the night playing Pikmin and while I got a little extra gameplay footage as I was playing casually, just in case I could use it for this review, it was mostly just causal play that does nothing but makes everything I wrote in my review out dated. I want to go on but it's already real late and I got to get ready for work in the morning, so I'll wrap it up here. Sorry if this was all messy and ranty, that's how I feel at the moment so it probably shows. All I can do for now is hope next weekend goes better but there's still a few other "adulting" that I have to get done sooner rather than later. I just really need some time off that I don't immediately waste on a medical appointment or something. But don't mind me, I'm rambling.