#PastebinMonday 08/26/2024 A Valuable Week Away Edition

'Sup, doods!

This week was very valuable for me. If I'm going to make this hobby of mine a more permanent fixture of my life, I need to make more effort to use my free time better. Figuring out the workflow goes a long way towards that and getting out from under the clips I was making for the YouTube and TikTok shorts was vital to having that time on my hands.

By the way, TikTok is blocking my shorts from being pushed out to doods and, naturally, TikTok will not be specific with me as to why. Dood, saying that I violated the Community Guidelines without telling me WHICH guideline was violated and how forces me to blindly guess the appropriate corrective action to get back in your graces. Do you want me on this platform or not? Twitch pulls the same crap with as much frequency. All of the platforms don't seem to care if you use their platform or not. It can make you wonder why we're even doing all of this, dood.

At the end of the day, I just want to play games and let doods know that I'm playing these games. I have unique tastes that need to be shared with the world. I have unique perspectives on games that need to be shared with the world. I have unique problems that... probably don't need to be shared with the world. There's only so much transparency that doods can handle.

All that said, I am rearranging the schedule starting this week to make my downtime easier to manage. Shorter streams, but more streams, will be the order of the day. I am hoping that four days a week will make the stream easier to find. I'm still trying to convince myself that I don't need to do longer streams to build an audience. Maybe this will help build the mindset. I am off from work next week, however, and I might try to go slightly longer on those days depending on how much I can get ready for the tournament, dood.

Oh wait, the Pokémon Puzzle League tournament starts next weekend, huh?


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 scripted) and Normal—and everything I did in Pokemon Puzzle Week.
Goal #5b: finalize the tournament layout once and for all in a way that I can adapt for the Pokemon Puzzle League tournaments. At this point, I don't expect to be able to do this before the next Pokémon Puzzle League tournament.
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. 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 – The Quest for 16:XX (Pokémon Puzzle League S-Hard PB Attempts): A Years Overdue Grind Edition, Doods!
Wednesday @8pm – 9:30pm ET – The Quest for 16:XX
Thursday @8pm – 9:30pm ET – The Quest for 16:XX
Friday @8pm – 10:30pm ET – Friday Night Salt Mines: Racing and Major Qualifying Edition, Doods!


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

--Cards