#PastebinMonday 12/16/2024 Adding to My Workload Edition

'Sup, doods!

All I am doing at this point with every stream is adding to my workload. It's not that I don't know what to do and I'm sitting here figuring it out. How long is that goal list? No, I'm sitting here looking at the goal list and a part of me is remarking that I don't want to do it and taking over. Even on the weekends, my brain feels like it's outside of my head from my sleep schedule being so out of whack. Oddly enough, as I compose this update, my head feels more fine than usual. I'm running on six hours of sleep. Clearly, it's the amount of natural light that helps me wake up easier in the morning.

Mind you, doods, I could be dealing with way worse. Life is good right now.

On Friday, I did add a new personal best to the backlog. I decided that I had a death wish and took a few hours to grind Tetris Attack's Easy level.  I was about two attempts from the final run of the night when it happened. I would've had the record had I gotten better stages at the end. The CPUs at the end move fast enough to be enough of a problem. Honestly, I'm not opposed to grinding that again in the next two weeks. I know I have a problem, doods, but I've had more than 20 years to work these games out of my system and I still have strong urges to play them. They're not going away any time soon.

In other news, I did cave on the Steam sales and buy the bundle of Balatro and Slay the Spire that I mentioned on Friday. I don't know how much time I will get next year to play them, doods, but I do plan to take that time. Would you like to see me play them?

Now if you'll excuse me, doods, I need to ride the good vibes I've got now to push through more videos.


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

Goal #1: get current on YouTube Shorts. I am going to schedule the rest of the uploads before I do anything else. I got through A LOT of them yesterday.
Goal #2: 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 #3: 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 have many weeks to get this part organized before the Tetris Attack championship starts up. Otherwise, I will have to postpone something yet again.
Goal #4: 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 #5: catch up on video archives that I have yet to upload since I restarted streaming. I may put them on a separate channel.
Goal #6: 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—and that V-Hard WR—and that Easy – S-Hard WR—and that TA Easy PB. Standalone archival videos are already attached to my speedrun profile. I'm hoping to make eye-catching productions from each speedrun. I'm considering it to be my personal test to be a YouTuber. I am failing miserably right now.
Goal #7: 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:

Friday @8pm – 11:30pm ET – Friday Night Salt Mines – Tetris Attack Open Practice
Saturday @2pm – 5pm ET – Gargantua Blargg Open at twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun

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

--Cards