Showing posts with label Brain Vomit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brain Vomit. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Good News Bad News

 Good News: My new laptop is in.


Bad News: I was unable to make further progress on FireRed before then.


Good News: There may be a way I can transfer the files so I can continue on the new computer.


Bad News: The old computer has not yet been able to turn on so that I can test my method, which still might not work even when it does.


Good News: Whether it works or not, I will still get to the other games at some point 


Bad News: It may or may not be in the Screenshot LP method.


Good News: Because I'm able to actually do some barebones streaming now. Watch here for erratically scheduled streams and VODs. Tentatively planning on starting Baldur's Gate 3 at some point tomorrow.

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

If Only There Was Someone Out There Who Loved You

As usual, people complaining constantly about a thing I always thought was just okay made me reevaluate it and come to the conclusion it's actually great 



Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Release Date

 The final chapters of Let's Play Pokémon FireRed will be ready to begin posting starting the week of March 5th. 


EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: I should know better than to make promises. The day after I posted this, my workload doubled. Every time I had the chance to really work on this, I was too burnt out to do anything. I'm sorry if I got everyone's hopes up. I'm still not abandoning the project, I just need to be in a better place.

Thursday, September 8, 2022

A Very Brief Thought About MCU Phase 4

I know I don't really do the movie reviews here the way I used to, but I do plan on sharing my personal ranking after Wakanda Forever comes out in November marking the end of the current Phase. And with all the talk that has gone on about things lately, I kind of wanted to give a preview to my thoughts on the matter and give out a few very hard truths

Ahem...


*pulls out megaphone*


MCU PHASE 4 IS EASILY THE BEST PHASE THE MARVEL MOVIES HAVE HAD SO FAR AND ALL OF YOU CALLING IT "DIRECTIONLESS" AND "TERRIBLE" NEED TO REMOVE YOUR HEADS FROM YOUR ASSES. AND IF YOU'RE THE KIND OF PERSON THAT CALLS IT "WOKE" UNIRONICALLY AS A NEGATIVE THEN YOU NEED TO SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP


Granted there is a little more nuance to my full take on the whole thing, but I just needed to get that out now. For now, I'm just going to lament that I have to wait another week to see what happens next in She-Hulk.

Friday, September 2, 2022

Further Delays

I am not dead nor have I given up. Some work on Episode 25 has happened since my last update, but things like an ever increasing lack of free time and frequent internet issues have been keeping me from getting back on schedule. I had hoped to get the series done well before my daughter's Wish Trip to Disney World in the first week of October, but that looks less and less possible now. 

I hate that this kind of thing is happening again, but I'm still proud I went six months of intensive weekly updates before this stuff happened, and it took The Virus (tm) to knock me off track completely.

Saturday, August 6, 2022

Quick Update

Recovered from Covid and moved back home albeit bringing kids and ex with me (long story, landlords are bad). Work on Episode 25 and beyond of Let's Play Pokémon FireRed will resume on August 15th after a limited theatre engagement next week, and should conclude at a decent pace from there.


My next big project for this blog will be heavily focused on Marvel United as I finally have all my boxes in from the Kickstarter, though I may pace myself wider to avoid burnout again (it will be less backend-intensive though, so we'll see). Other posts may be sprinkled in as the mood takes me.

As I said before, though, while my next Pokémon Let's Play won't be for a little while after, I do plan on doing many more. It will either be in the same style, or if I am able to stream by then I might change ut to video. Or maybe some kind of hybrid. It depends on what my situation is when the time finally comes. 

Friday, July 15, 2022

It Finally Got Me

After two and a half years of trying to keep my kids safe, everyone got Covid last weekend. The good news is that with my ex and I being fully vaxxed and the kids all having shot 1 of 3, it was not nearly as bad as it could have been. The bad news is it still knocked everyone on their butts and while the mend is in sight nobody is there yet.

It will still be at least a few days more before I feel up to continuing work on Episode 25, and even once I am it will be slow going as I'm going to have to work back up to being able to spend a lot of time on it. But there should only be a handful of Episodes left so the Let's Play will absolutely be done within the next 90 days.

And even once the Let's Play is done, even though I'm not starting the next one right away (there WILL be a next one, just not 100% sure when or in what form), I have a few thoughts I will likely want to share on the MCU, Marvil United, and Disney Villainous to round out the rest of the year.

In the meantime, stay safe and keep watching this space.

Saturday, November 20, 2021

What The World Needs Now

Well that certainly was a crazy 23 months, wasn't it?


Of course having to shack up with my ex in order to protect our immunocompromised children from a deadly virus would kill pretty much the last bit of drive to be creative for quite a long time.


While things are still crazy, two things have happened recently that means I'm finally going to do what I said I'd be doing for the last 3-4 years and start posting more again

1. I got a loaner laptop to use until I can afford something better.

2. I started seeing a therapist.


I will be starting next month with an all-new Listmas starting from scratch and sharing what my favorite things are for the first time in almost a decade. Some things have not changed much, but others have changed very much. It's my way of both easing back into regular updates and reintroducing my new self to anyone who may still be reading this outdated self-indulgent space.


After that, probably around January, I will start delving more deeply into some of my new obsessions and maybe updating you on thoughts of some of my old ones.


IF there is enough interest in it shown by March, I will consider trying to get a version of Geekdom Madness back off the ground, though there's a lot of variables with that one and life likes to find ways make me break my more ambitious promises.


In April I will finally do what I have been avoiding and putting off for years and return to the subject that most long-time readers know me for. I will finally watch and give fair judgement to the rest of Disney's Star Wars Expanded Universe films after having only ever watched Force Awakens (well, and the first season of Rebels as well as The Mandalorian up to date, but I'm talking just the movies right now). Why April? Because May is Star Wars month and I want to have that buffer to detox with my first rewatch of the Lucas 6 in years in case my opinions of Disney's EU run resoundingly negative. That said I maintain my vow that no matter what my opinion ends up being, I will never be so vicious or cruel as to berate fans of the films and I will be as fair as possible to the work.


Beyond that, we'll see how things go. I don't blame anyone for being skeptical given the last four or five times I said I'd be back on track life happened. But I hope you'll all see me finally put my money where my mouth is in the coming weeks.


Until then, for what little it may be worth given its controversy, Happy Thanksgiving.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

State of the Blog Address

Still on hiatus. Still planning on restarting when life is in a better place. Now is not it, but I'm working on it. Full storytimes still in future but thought folks should know the bare bones essentials after all this time.

1. My marriage ended. We are amicable co-parents so I don't want to get into details and rehash wounds, but I needed to leave for my health. I am also taking this space to officially "come out" in a sense as Polyamorous, but I am currently single and have been since I left.

2. My daughter was born with a congenital heart defect. She is doing fine right now, but it will be a lifelong hurdle. I also recently welcomed a son - he is loved and healthy.

3. The 2016 election shook me, and in trying to keep myself educated my politics have shifted even further leftwards then they already were. To the point that some views expressed here in the past would be argued very differently today (I still stand by 99% of my overall points, I would just pick some very different angles and take new-to-me information into account). And before you ask, there's nobody I like enough for 2020 but I'll vote for whoever wins the primary anyway because even a Basic Campfire is a better option than He-Who-Makes-Almost-Anything-Look-Better-In-Comparison.

4. Taking a break from Blizzard games for a wide variety of personal reasons. Indefinite, but not permanent. Currently playing FFXIV via PS4, so if you're on the Diabolos server say Hi (Sindra Zasztragosa)

5. Still with STE trying to make that a thing. Please support us.

Happy Winter Solstace Holiday Of Your Choice.

Friday, May 24, 2019

Maintenence

Over a year has passed. I still haven't been able to afford a new Laptop, nor do I have enough reliable access to one to post regularly (it's really tough to do my usual big long screeds just on my phone).

I know I've been keeping folks in the dark for a long time. I'm hoping things work out that I can do more here in the near-ish future. I've lost a lot of the drive to post the way I used to since losing the means, but I don't necessarily want to lose this platform.

I will say anyone in the Southern New England area can come see me perform in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in August in Providence, RI with my new theatre company, the Spectrum Theatre Ensemble.

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Up....date?

Here is a tentative schedule. TENTATIVE. Things are still very much in flux, and delays may still happen. But I am ready to begin to try and get down to having a presence again in the near-ish future.

1. May-ish: Geekdom Madness 2018 begins. Yes, it's way past the March Madness parody date, but it is closer to the blog's anniversary so if it has to be late, there's the perfect time. I will post the bracket about a week before I'm ready to start, as I may make some last-minute alterations.

2. Sometime between May and August: I will finally break my silence as to what the hell has been going on with me in the better part of a year. There's a lot of delicate things that are still unresolved and I have to figure out a way to talk about it honestly without making things worse.

3. Once Geekdom Madness Ends: I will try...TRY...to get back in the habit of posting at least once a week. If anyone still reads this, I am open to suggestions of things to check out and write about, just know that I don't have access to funds for current movies right now and I don't know when that may change.

I will try to get myself to sit down and finally watch Rogue One and The Last Jedi to give my two cents on it. I still love George Lucas' Star Wars more than any franchise, more than ever, but I'm burnt out on talking about it with the state of the Disney EU (and I will never not think of Disney as EU - though I don't knock anyone else for enjoying it wholesale and I've made no secret that even I enjoy several parts of it, there's still a lot of people running it that don't quite get Star Wars and take too much of the George out of it to fit neatly enough, so I lump it in with all EU: Keep what you like, discard what you don't, I-VI are the true canon). I want to talk more about other things for a while, though I'll still put some thoughts out once in a while on my precious babies.

In the meantime, I wish all of you the best, and watch this space!


Monday, September 25, 2017

Every Time I Come In, They Pull Me Back Out

Just when I was getting back on track, my life began to upend itself. Some in good ways, mostly not. I still don't feel comfortable telling the story until it is fully resolved, which may not be for several more months.

For anyone that still cares at this point that I am alive, I have not given up. It may take some more time before I find my voice here again, but sooner or later it will happen.

Until then, wish me luck.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Friday, March 24, 2017

This Is Technically A Non-GM Post This Week So I've Kept My Promise, Right?

Playstyles will be juuuuust a few days late because the time I had set aside to write it got eaten up by an unexpected scouring of our apartment.

I wonder if I should mention time management has never been a strongsuit of mine?

Regardless, I know longtime readers have absolutely no reason to trust me on this, but I SWEAR by all that can be considered holy to any and everyone that this is NOT indicative of yet another long lapse in posts. I'm done with that, that part of my life is over.

So after Playstyles wraps up whenever it does, I actually wanted to give a few belated words on Doctor Strange and Fantastic Beasts which I saw both last fall, LEGO Batman which I saw a few weeks ago, and the Beauty and the Beast remake which I am seeing this weekend as part of my gift to my wife on our 5-year (?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?) Wedding anniversary. In addition, I really did want to finish that Undertale series I did like one shot of last year, do some Nilbog Watches posts regarding a number of shows I've watched in the last year (speaking of, I really need to get back on Classic Who - I only just started Four last time), and - yes - celebrate the 40th anniversary of New Hope in May like any self-respecting Star Wars fan (and any non-self-respecting one too, I'm sure).

Of course, I am always open to subject suggestions from my readers and in fact am usually better at responding to prompts than coming up with something wholesale. So while this is not a formal "Ask Nilbog" post like we've done before, I would be honored and obliged if anyone has a question/topic they'd like my personal perspective on that I can address at a later date.

Sunday, October 30, 2016

After Over a Month of Nothing, Hey! Post-A-Day!

Yes yes, like I always do after not having anything to say for a month, I try and go for a week of one post per day before going off into obscurity again for a while. So I'm here to announce that.

What I won't have this year is a standard Halloween entry, since due to budget and time concerns I'm just pulling my Vader suit out, and it's like - who hasn't seen that?

I'll also be stepping outside my comfort zone a bit this week, so be prepared.

Lastly, this December I'm bringing back my Listmas thing from my early days, to simply update based on new material and changing opinions.

Watch this space.

Monday, August 8, 2016

Dry August

Just a heads up:

My hard drive on my laptop is dying. While I can post from my phone (in fact, that's what I'm doing right now), I DON'T LIKE IT. Therefore, posts will probably be scarce until I get a new hard drive installed (which is being worked on as we speak).

The rest of the posts I promised for the remainder of summer and beyond will still come, just slightly later than anticipated. This post is just to say: I didn't forget, and I didn't give up, and worst case scenario I have ways of bringing you all what I said I would.

Enjoy the disgusting, disgusting heat.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Reflections on 30

30 years old today.

I've been on this planet for three decades.

What.

I speak to adults who say they grew up with things that didn't exist until I was in my teens.

I'm the new adult generation.

I'm only a "young man" in the technical sense with lifespans ever expanding. Just a few centuries ago, I'd be middle-aged.

I'm already flabbergasted by "kids these days".

And the worst part?

It doesn't really feel any different from my late 20s.

I've learned so much in the last six years, that I am in many ways a different person than I was in college, but that's not tied to any specific number.

I thought I would have more insight, but frankly I don't know how I feel on this milestone of a day.

...

...I'm going to go play some WoW....