#PastebinMonday 10/23/2023 Not the Right Grind Edition

Not the Right Grind Edition

'Sup, doods!

I have a confession to make. I did not engage in the right kind of grind this week. I wanted to work on rearranging my streaming desk. Instead, I got myself latched onto a game that has consumed a lot of people in the livestreaming space in recent weeks. In doing so, I lost SO MUCH sleep and almost as much control of my life as Stu Pickles. My vision was starting to go blurry by the end of it, doods. Please DON'T try that at home. It was not all bad, though. I got treated to some crazy good karaoke sessions and a Yu-Gi-Oh! YCS tournament that saw not only a past tournament champion lose to Exodia, but also a prominent YugiTuber reach top 4. I'm still in the mood to consume content instead of create it. I guess I have not learned much after all these years.

My current plan is to record post-commentary for the results of this week's grind because 1. it seems very trendy to put out content for the game right now; and 2. I need to give myself some sort of closure to overcome this addiction. I expect the trend to pass soon so I better not put it at the back of my video queue.

Next week, I will probably be in a better position to rearrange my stuff. I found an apparatus to clamp my PC to one of the legs of my adjustable desk. This will allow the PC to adjust with my legs so I can actually make use of the adjustable part of my desk and free up room underneath it for storage as I originally planned when I bought this desk. I'm thinking of getting a smaller apparatus to house my consoles to fit that under my desk at its lowest level, but I'm already starting to tap into emergency funds to purchase improvements to my stream setup so I better stop now before I need to get into a different type of grind to stay financially secure. I said next week for all of these adjustments because the desk mount I ordered  will not ship for a few days. That probably means I can get to my PB videos in the meantime, huh?

Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals:

Goal #4: edit my personal best runs. I've lost count of how many runs I have to highlight.
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