#PastebinMonday 03/03/2025 Challenging Myself Badly Edition

Challenging Myself Badly Edition

'Sup, doods!

I'm trying something a little different this time. If anything can be gathered from the years I've spent speedrunning games, it's that I have a penchant for challenging myself. Maybe I haven't been as creative at challenging myself in recent years, but if there's something interesting I want out of life, I will do whatever I can to get it, even if it's not the best way for me. I set that up to say this about what I'm doing:

As I am writing this update, doods, I am walking on a treadmill.

(And next I'm gonna try recording the video while walking on it. Good luck.)

I picked up a walking pad I can slide under my bed that I can walk on whenever I feel the need to sit down and work on stuff. I still hover around 280 lbs on a regular basis. I can't afford to keep sitting down. I want to see how consistently I can commit to an extra 30 minutes of walking per day and how I feel afterwards. I'll probably try to write the rest of these updates while walking.

Now what was I going to talk about, doods? Oh yeah, challenging myself. The thing I'm currently challenging myself to do is finding time to record for the tutorial series around my video editing requirements for the tournament. It probably won't be so bad if I only have one or two matches per day to manage, but I had three matches yesterday due to Internet issues and editing those cut a lot into my potential recording time. I'm really hopeful for Saturdays being good for recording as opposed to Sundays. At the moment, I can't find any time to get into a state of mind to record. Perhaps it'll get better as the weekly workflow is figured out. Who knows?

Now if you'll excuse me, doods, I REALLY need to get back to my Shorts—and maybe look at some butterflies.


Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals:

Goal #1: record footage for my Puzzle League tutorial series. The scripts are done! I am now challenging myself to find time amidst my tournament duties to work on recording the gameplay. I would then need voice-over on top of that. In a perfect world, I would be done with all of that by the end of next month. Maybe I do members only streams to get this done?
Goal #2: 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. I have come to realize that if I am going to make my target date, I need to put this above everything else because I don't have as much time or motivation during the week as I thought I would.
Goal #3: 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. As soon as I think of things to put in, I will add them to the list. NEW: I added a list of reactions I want to add in my Discord server. If you have any time to kill and want to contribute, check out my Discord.
Goal #4: catch up on video archives that I have yet to upload since I restarted streaming. I may put them on a separate channel.
Goal #5: 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—and another Easy – V-Hard PB (twice). 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 #6: finalize the tournament layout once and for all in a way that I can adapt for every game we might play. Until someone volunteers to help broadcast the matches in my stead, this is not actually a top priority. I feel like making this happen will encourage others to help out, not the other way around. There has been virtually no interest so far.


This week's schedule:

Friday @8pm-12am ET – Friday Night Salt Mines – Adding to the PB Backlog Edition, Doods
Saturday @2pm-4pm ET – twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun – TA2025 Round 2 Day 1
Sunday @2pm-4pm ET – twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun – TA2025 Round 2 Day 2


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

--Cards