#PastebinMonday 10/21/2024 I'm Tired and Hurting Edition

'Sup, doods.

I keep staring at screens and making my eyes pay the price. I was locked in as I could be for my tournament match with Tayman in the V-Hard difficulty. It is an epic set that you really should go to the League of Puzzle Speedrunners YouTube channel to check out. Afterwards, my eyes were physically hurting so much that I needed to take a nap. As I compose this update, my eyes are not fully recovered. It makes me tired and hurting. I am remembering to wear my sunglasses to reduce the strain. I think it's a sign I need to touch more grass.

Doods, I am hoping to spend this weekend getting my personal best videos clipped so I don't fall any further behind in highlighting them and putting them on my profile. That said, I am hoping to put one more video onto the list before I truly bunker down. I still have two weeks left to go for it with the chutzpah I have been over the past few weeks. As much I would like to play Pokémon Puzzle League all day every day, I no longer have the physical drive to keep up the energy that I want to put into the game every time. I feel the need to keep branching out into other speedruns that I can more easily maintain. I would love to get back on that Falsebound Kingdom train. The Challenge mode progression was just getting to the good part, I think.

On a side note, I got motivated enough to get ahead of my YouTube shorts enough to not worry about them for a while. It's because I'm putting out a set of 16 related videos. If you remember what I did two months ago, you should have an idea of what you will get to re-live, dood.

Now if you'll excuse me, doods, I need another nap, but I'm about to leave for work so I'm not sure I'll be able to get one. At least the PPL tournament is on hold for a week. I can get some extra rest this weekend.


Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals (this won't be going down for a while, will it):

Goal #2: edit personal best videos in Tetris Attack Easy – V-Hard (post commentary recorded) and Normal (post commentary recorded)—and everything I did in Pokemon Puzzle Week—and that S-Hard PB.
Goal #5b: finalize the tournament layout once and for all in a way that I can adapt for the Pokemon Puzzle League tournament and every other game we might play. I might need Thanksgiving to start doing this.
Goal #6a: clean up my own stream layout. Most of the framework necessary for a semi-proper stream is done now thanks to streaming the process, though I'm not currently motivated to stream any other part of it at the moment. Next major objective is to make alerts. I have stream reaction clips to put in. Emotes, one or two alternate overlay themes, and alternate timer themes would come soon after, though I will put in any timer theme I can use from Pokémon Puzzle League upon request. As soon as I think of things to put in, I will add them to the list.
Goal #6b: catch up on video archives that I have yet to upload since I restarted streaming. I may put them on a separate channel.
Goal #7: script and record footage for my Puzzle League tutorial series. I have some scripts left to touch up before feeling comfortable with moving on to recording gameplay. Then I will need to record my talking points and edit it all together. Getting back to this will be easier once the workflow for the monthly tournaments is finalized.
Goal #8: release the Puzzle League tutorial series YouTube shorts once a day until they're all done. I really do think I need to time the release of the series with a ramping up of my streaming schedule so that I can take advantage of whatever there is to gain from releasing the shorts.

This week's schedule:

Tuesday @8pm – 9:30pm ET – Questing for PB - Pokémon Puzzle League V-Hard PB Attempts
Wednesday @8pm – 9:30pm ET – Questing for PB
Thursday @8pm – 9:30pm ET – Questing for PB
Friday @8pm – 10:30pm ET – Friday Night Salt Mines


That’s my life story for the week. Until next time, everyone, be decent to each other. Later, doods!

--Cards