#PastebinMonday 03/18/2024 Two Week, More Like Too Weak Edition

'Sup, doods!

I am so tired. My brain is drained from trying to do tournament stuff while focusing on my own stuff. I can't even think straight as I write this update. I write these updates the night before to give myself time to compose all of my thoughts. As I sit here thinking of what to write about, part of me is like, 'I need a nap to get motivated to edit video', whereas another part of me is like, 'If I nap, I'm out for the night and won't get to the video.' I've been in this funk all weekend and I was unable to handle it enough to play well in my match. I need to prepare better. I need to do a lot of things better to get what I want from this little hobby.

Forget it, I cannot focus on anything productive. When I get this kind of tired, I take an hour-long nap to recharge. See you on the other side, doods...

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Whew, that helped a fair bit. Now that I'm not motivated to sleep, I am motivated again to focus on videos, something I have been falling behind on for both the tournament and my own clips. Half of that was dealing with rendering issues on my editing software that required a premium purchase to get around. The other half was trying to streamline the clip export process from Twitch to TikTok, a process that both Twitch and TikTok over-complicate. I just want to export clips from Twitch and schedule them in TikTok, dang it. It's just not possible. In any case, with the bulk of the tournament behind us, I can now focus on this and maybe pump some stuff out the door.

It's been two weeks, doods, but I've just felt too weak to properly execute... in more ways than one.

Addendum: of course I get an itch to do a couple of Hard runs before bed and rattle off two sub-7s. My mindset is broken right now.


Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals (actual priority is in constant flux):

Goal #1: lots of editing. Balance cutting up the videos for LPS YouTube and my own shorts. Haven't decided when the LPS videos will go up. Haven't had time to clip my own videos.
Goal #6: 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 will need to wait until after the Tetris Attack tournament winds down—top 6, maybe?
Goal #7: clean up my own stream layout. Most of the framework necessary for a semi-proper stream is done now thanks to streaming the process. Next objective is to make transitions and alerts.
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:

(IF THERE IS NO MATCH SCHEDULED) Friday @ 9pm-1am EST – Friday Night Salt Mines – Must Keep Up With The Training, Doods!
Saturdays and Sundays will have matches throughout March and April for the duration of the tournament. I will be streaming to Twitch during my own matches. Go watch at twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun!


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

--Cards