#PastebinMonday 09/04/2023 Brain Grain Edition

'Sup, doods!

How often does the question come up in your social circles during particularly sleepy times about fictional worlds that you would like to visit or live in? Personally, I would not entertain such small topics like that, but today I have a definitive answer to that question. I want—no, I NEED to visit the world of We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story. The way I have been feeling as of late has given me a gigantic hankering for some brain grain cereal to reactivate my mental state. I am creatively drained and infinitely glad that I was able to get this week away from my new job to be able to recharge.

But will I get that time to recharge? I have a lot to do this week to ready the broadcast of the Pokémon Puzzle League speedrun tournament on Saturday. I let my mental drain give me excuses to procrastinate on this. At least I continue to work on my physical state so that I can get back up from the mental drain earlier. I so need to see a doctor for this. Anyone got a good substitute for brain grain cereal?

Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals:

Goal #2: update the LPS Pokémon Puzzle League broadcast layout to be better automated like the Tetris Attack layout. I don't know how much of that will get done this week, but I will be able to present something on Saturday.
Goal #3: edit my personal best runs. This is more like #4 now because of how low priority my own projects are.
Goal #5: 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. This will probably need to be saved for after the tournament.
Goal #6: clean up my own stream layout. I am brainstorming how I want the final theming to be. I probably want to give people multiple options, maybe allow spending bits to change the look. I don't have anything written down yet. I don't expect to get to this anytime soon.
Goal #7: maybe make a universal LPS broadcast layout. I have a base, but perhaps I should stylize one for the LPS brand. Let's just say I have plans. Hopefully I wouldn't over-homogenize it like SpeedGaming did.
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:

(All broadcasts begin at 7pm CT unless otherwise stated)

Friday – Friday Night Salt Mines (community speedrun races) – !ppl2023 Starts Tomorrow, Doods!


That’s my life story for the week. Later, doods!

--Cards