#PastebinMonday 10/14/2024 Blue Screen of Death Edition

'Sup, doods!

I started writing this update on the first Sunday that I'm not streaming tournament things in a while. I am appreciating things starting to slow down so I can get to the things that I probably need to do to grow the channel. The tournament got a lot crazier on Saturday than I had bargained for. My PC blue-screened three times while playing in the Marathon Tournament. Editing that video certainly made things interesting, if nothing else. It put me in a bad mental place for Winners Finals. It was miracle I even got one good race out of it. I think it was my one of my audio devices that stopped granting access. I need to redo my entire audio situation. I don't think I'll be playing in the Spa Service tournament like I planned. There's no one else to provide commentary, anyway. I still have to get through a V-Hard round with Tayman and I should focus on that.

Not much else has changed from last week, doods. I'm just trying to get by and do my thing. I am noticing my brain completely rotting due to neither being able to focus on anything in the absence of noise nor being able to focus on anything in the presence of background noise. My attention span is cooked.

Now if you'll excuse me, doods, the post-tournament credits sequence needs clips and I need to retrieve them.


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: Overcoming My Achilles Heel Edition, Doods!
Saturday @2pm ET – Hosting PPL Tournament at PuzzleSpeedrun, Dood!
Sunday @2pm ET – Hosting PPL Tournament at PuzzleSpeedrun, Dood!


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

--Cards