Radio Silence

My biggest apologies for the lack of posts and streams recently. I'm currently taking a summer course which will have me pretty busy until about August 15. What was I thinking taking a summer course for grad school while working full time in a retail setting where I often get out of work around eight or nine? Well my first thought was I'll finish a semester early, my second thought was it's only a month, and sleep is highly over-rated. As a result of this decision most of my side projects are going to be put on a kind of hiatus during this time, not that I was having a hugely prodigious output on the blog side of things anyway.

I do have a couple drafts in the works that are either half done or more and I may get into writing mode and finish them up, but I'm guessing the chances are pretty slim. I had been doing a better job at keeping the Twitch and YouTube channels active than I have been doing with this blog. It's a lot easier for me to just jump on and play a game and talk to a chat room or camera than it is to come up with coherent prose, but it does take me a little bit of time to get into the right mindset to do it, and even those hours that I would stream during seem like they will be precious. If I do stream I'll tweet it out but I'm not really sure if that will happen either or if it does there is a high likelihood that it will happen off the schedule I was trying to develop.

To end this I'll give you all a lit of games I want to stream/write about and you can comment suggestions. This is what we'll try to hit when I get back.

Spintires
Next Car Game
More Star Citizen
Town of Salem
Finish writing Watch Dogs article (at this point I'm not sure why)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Divinity: Original Sin

Again, if you have any suggestions put them in the comments, I'll be updating the list and adding ones I think of.

Don't cross the streams.

So, I haven't posted in a little while. There are a few strings in life that have been tugging me in different directions. I've been working on a write-up for Watch_Dogs for a little while now and while doing so trying to amp up my production values on this little blog. That makes my writing time take a bit longer as may become more obvious when I eventually publish the article well after the game has past from the zeitgeist.

In any case I've been trying to get onto some sort of regular broadcasting cycle with my Twitch streaming. Which is at http://www.twitch.tv/thepiltdownman if you want to go old school. The regular cycle that I had been trying to get on was late Thursday nights, basically after I get off work, work out, shower, eat, then streaming time! The last couple weeks work has changed up a bit and I have an extra day of it plus maybe 8-15 hours of that work. The last couple weeks I've been too bushed to broadcast. The driving factor for me doing this is some weird idea that my having fun can have some sort of larger function. That is that my silly hobby of playing games can inform other people on their decisions on which games to play? Maybe that I can be part of a larger intellectual discussion on games as art and the dissection thereof? I don't know but as with any hobby I take up now I seem to be trying to workify it. I start giving myself deadlines on silly things that don't really matter. So in order to not inundate my streams with Watch_Dogs and not just go completely dark on the streaming front I've been streaming some other stuff in order to keep things alive. In short blah, blah, blah, no one cares about the written word anymore, I've tried to create more silly videos.

Teleglitch:

So of all the current Rouge like like like like likes this one seems the most Rougeish to me, or maybe most Nethackish to me. I don't know yet if there is any amulet of Yendor or any other artifact at the endgame that is someone's first name spelled backward. In any case it seems a very fun game that I've had a little fun with a few times. My play here does show how far I've ever gotten in the game.

Crimsonland:

This is a game that I've known for quite a while and was super excited when it got re-released to Steam. This is one of the shareware classics of yesterday that does translate quite well to gameplay today. Unfortunately I'm guessing that it will be passed over if it doesn't get pushed to One or PS4.

It's really freaking awesome though. It will show up in a future stream. This is a timeless game.

The Forest:

I saw this when Giantbomb.com did a recent Unprofessional Friday where they played this, and the weird looking dudes (I'm not sure if aboriginal is a PC term I'm sure if anyone knows if it is I'll get some comments) killed them. I tried to create a scary environ to stream with so I could get freaked out knowing the premise, the freaking out worked for the first time I died then on subsequent plays I know they are going to be around and that I'm probably going to die. Along with Crimsonland this one will return. I'll try to figure some things out and learn how to get further in the game. There has to be some sort of sleep until morning or something to keep the monsters at bay right? That is how these things work?

In any case hopefully I can get some work on the website done to keep everyone interested before my summer class begins and have sporadic installations during that time to keep everyone tuning back in.