#PastebinMonday 11/13/2023 Still Consuming Edition

'Sup, doods!

With remodeling out of the way, I can finally get to the personal best videos I've been meaning to churn out. My goal was to get through four videos every week, but with the distractions I ran into—this weekend's Dr. Mario Versus Championship, especially—I could only get through three videos this week. Mind you, I'm not doing a ton of editing on these videos. These are meant to be my archival copies of my PB vids so the gameplay needs to be intact. I should be getting through them faster, but I keep succumbing to cases of being “head empty.” I'm still consuming, doods.

What probably doesn't help is that I have let my job completely mentally exhaust me during the week. Or maybe, I'm not certain how to let it NOT exhaust me considering that being out of my comfort zone simply from being out of the house and being physically near people fills me with stress that goes straight to my face. That kind of energy drains me for, like, half of my waking hours every week, leaving me with little reserves to do anything else.  I guess I'm consuming content in a constant cycle of recovery. Fortunately, so as to stop burying the lead, I will enjoy the week of Thanksgiving next week away from the work obligation. Perhaps it will allow me to charge my batteries enough to focus. I may use it to move up goal #7 ahead of the minor tournament for Super Puzzle Fighter. In any case, I will definitely be consuming.

Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals:

Goal #4: edit my personal best runs. I'm trying to focus on one video at a time and have a goal of going through four of them a week.
Goal #5: 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. This is the big thing I hope to get done before the next tournament.
Goal #6: clean up my own stream layout. I am brainstorming how I want the final theming to be. I probably want to give people multiple options, maybe allow spending bits to change the look. I don't have anything written down yet. I don't expect to get to this anytime soon.
Goal #7: maybe make a universal LPS broadcast layout. I have a base, but perhaps I should stylize one for the LPS brand. Let's just say I have plans. Hopefully I wouldn't over-homogenize it like SpeedGaming did.
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.

Streams are on hold until I accomplish these goals. Anything I decide to do will be of the guerilla variety and have very little notice. There would probably have to be community races of some sort in order to get this to happen.


That’s my life story for the week. Later, doods!

--Cards