Announcements (9/25/13)! TLDR version at bottom

First off, I'm sure a lot of you guys are wondering what the situation with me not doing Tooie runs. The good news? The controller issue wasn't as bad as I first complained about. With some grinding I was able to get the stomping plains ice wall shot semi consistently. Unfortunately, there's something else I need to say: don't expect me do another full run for a good month or so at least. Maybe not even until Winter Break. Why? 3 reasons:

1) Biggest reason: I simply don't have the time to spend grinding runs right now. The weekend I got that "PB" (I barely wanna even call it that because of all the time loss in ice wall) I spent both Saturday and Sunday grinding runs for 8 hours each night. There's no way I can keep doing that, and I refuse to keep doing that during the school year. I might have only 2 classes but I really need to start focusing on my animation career and put speedrunning on the side for now to focus on it, especially since I'm graduating in the Spring of next year and don't even have a job at the moment.

2) Next month is seeing the release of 3 games I've been looking forward to for a long time: Pokemon X and Y, Sonic Lost World, and Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney - Duel Destinies, and I at least plan on buying the first two I mentioned as soon as they come out. So expect a long period of streamlessness in October unless I decide to stream Sonic (debating it, would probably be fun to watch just because of how unnecessarily giddy I get whenever I play a new Sonic)

3) I wanna focus on learning/routing Nuts and Bolts. And I'm not sure if you haven't noticed, but... routing this game is a chore on it's own, to be honest I've been putting it off a tad because of how fucking time consuming it is. I'm hoping to at least get sub 3 hours in this game before Pokemon X and Y come out. I’m gonna try to route it out by the end of this week and do a run on Saturday/Sunday by the way.

So yeah.... sorry to break it to you. I'm not gonna let myself get rusty though, I've picked up doing any% segmented practice runs in Tooie again. Earlier this week I even got my first sub 19 in Mayahem 1. I may or may not stream my segmented attempts, depends how I feel. The thing I fear about streaming segmented attempts though is that my chat will be filled with people whining and trying to peer pressuring me into doing runs again. Seriously, DON'T try to convince me otherwise, it won't work.

Lastly, I'm gonna try a type of stream I haven't done since before learning Tooie: Challenge runs. Probably won't call them runs though because then people will think I'm talking about speedrunning. That’s an idea I had for a long while, and I even did a 3-heart challenge on Wind Waker for the Gamecube before I decided I wanted to run Tooie. I never finished it though because I really didn’t feel like doing the triforce segment. Also the game isn’t that hard so it wasn’t really a “Challenge” They won’t get in the way of my speedrunning, think of it more of a side thing. Who knows, maybe my channel will be half challenge runs half speedruns someday. Or I might ditch this idea because I get bored of it. Either way I’m not gonna stop speedrunning, it’s too much fun and I still haven’t got the wr in Tooie any% yet =3 I wanna see if it’s a good idea for streams though so I wanna at least try it again now that I have a larger following than 30 people.
I should mention though: I will not usually try to finish these challenges in one session. That would be painful and take forever.
So what better way to start the challenge runs up again than with Wind Waker HD? I’m gonna start doing a 3 Heart challenge on Hero mode, because it’s supposed to be harder. I guess it might not be much since speedrunners are gonna be likely to do three hearts once they start doing runs on hd (not sure if on hero mode though), but… I just got a Wii U and I wanna play it, so whatever shut up I’ll show you it’ll be cool! Anyways I’m actually gonna start it up tonight (as of 9/25/13) so… you should check check check it out now the funk soul brother (I’m sorry)
Remember though: THIS WON’T BE COMPLETED IN ONE STREAM.
So yeah. Hope you aren’t too mad at me! Hope to see you!
Also no I do not plan on speedrunning Wind Waker.
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TLDR:

No Tooie runs for a month at least because of animation work and finding a job, Nuts and Bolts routing/running, and shitload of games coming out in October I wanna play instead of Tooie.

Expect me to not stream during October much because of Pokemon X and Y, Sonic Lost World, and Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney - Duel Destinies all being released around the same time.

Gonna try to do another Nuts and Bolts run this weekend (weekend of 9/25/13)

Gonna try to sub 3 Nuts and Bolts before Pokemon X and Y come out.

Been doing Tooie any% segmented attempts though, might stream them not sure.

Bringing back an old idea for streams: Challenge runs. (not the same speedrunning) Will NOT be done in one go.

First challenge run will be Wind Waker HD Hero mode 3 heart challenge.

Gonna start it tonight (9/25/13)

Doesn’t mean I plan on speedrunning Wind Waker ever, because I don’t.