Banjo-Tooie Let’s Play Continuing

Just letting y’all (?) know that my Let’s Play of Banjo-Tooie will be continuing once I finish uploading all the Final Fantasy XIV videos, which is taking much longer than it should. God damn, it’s so boring…

In total, there will be 46 parts to the Final Fantasy XIV series. I’m just now uploading the first “bloopa” for part 38. These things are over 200 gigabytes each…

Whatever. At least, the ninth part of the Banjo-Tooie playthrough will have an interesting minimap feature to it. It’s taking a while to animate, but it’s almost done. Only the third attempt remains to map to the minimap.

It’s Pi Day

And I have little to announce. My Final Fantasy XIV subscription expired. It has also been a year since I posted. Jesus.

And, yes, a Final Fantasy XIV series is coming up on my channel. It’s not very interesting.

Oh, well. Tau Day is better, anyway. Nerds rejoice, regardless.

I’ve been… folding, I guess.

Clearly, there have been no updates to my Let’s Play of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Special Edition) as of late, so I have decided to use my spare computing power to fold fucking proteins.

Long story short, my body will not allow me to play my games in peace; the specific details of this kinda-sorta self-imposed inability are not something I am willing to write publicly because it would ruin my fragile ego the Internet does not need more of my whining than it should minimally require.

My psychosomatic fragility and delinquent tendencies notwithstanding, my computer is now folding proteins on folding@home a full twenty-four hours of the day. Of course, this means that there is a hell of a lot more power being used up by my computer, but since it’s cold as shit thanks to the Arctic spewing its freezing hatred down south, the extra heat comes in handy, anyway, although I should be grateful I don’t live in fucking Texas, where they keep losing power because the Texan power grid is apparently equivalent to that of a fourth-world country’s.

My only complaint (aside from my corporeal woes) is that I wish I could get a 3000-series graphics card instead of having to stick with my aging 980ti, but it’s damn-near impossible to obtain any kind of graphics card without having to pay a premium. I mean: for fuck’s sake, there are years-old graphics cards being sold at release-date prices not only thanks to these fucking miners hopping onto the bandwagon to grow fat on that there new-fangled Ethereum currency, but it’s the scalpers that are the lowest of the low. I recommend watching this video for my precise opinion on these subhuman dregs of human civilization.

At least I can say that if it weren’t for these scalper cunts, there would be more scientific progress because I would have obtained a 3080 just to have it just sit there folding, anyway. And, no, I’m not getting a 3090; the performance increase going from a 3080 to a 3090 does not warrant a doubling of the price. I’d much rather save that money for getting a new chair that can replace the current backbreaker that is in my possession.

Too long; didn’t read: I’m a fragile shitrag who can’t play games because I’m gritwise diminutive, so I have my old 980ti folding fucking proteins because I refuse to pay scalpers a premium for an otherwise-obtainable graphics card.

Hiatus 2.0

Another hiatus has begun. Well, it actually began in May, but on the 28th last month, the last video for the Let’s Play of Skyrim got published. For the foreseeable future, there will be a lack of new videos being published or whatever. Let’s just put it that way.

That’s it. That’s the post. Maybe I’ll make a short announcement thing on YouTube again. Maybe. But it’s late now. Must do the schlafen.

I Guess Another Hiatus Is Coming

Due to bodily issues, I will probably be issuing another hiatus to the channel. We’ll see how things go. In any case, like I’ve mentioned before, there are still videos scheduled three times a week until sometime in October through September 28th.

Fuck absolutely everything.

What’s a Game?

I still haven’t been playing Skyrim. I wonder if I’ll get around to it by the time I run out of scheduled videos? If I haven’t been busy, I’ve simply not been feeling it.

Dumbass brain.

I’ll Play It Again Sometime

I guess I’ll just add that I haven’t been playing Skyrim lately because I’ve been feeling like shit. Don’t know why. I’ve just aged sufficiently, I suppose.

Anyway, there’s a new editor coming tomorrow in two days. I don’t get it. It’s got blocks. Great. Now, I can have even more whitespace between blocks of text and images.

Go 21st-century websites and their horrendously space-wasting layouts! Fucking douchebags.

It’s That Game Again

Today (in about 45 minutes as of posting), the first episode of Let’s Play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Special Edition) goes live. I already did a bit of exploration, but it wasn’t really that interesting, anyway, so who cares?

Currently, there are episodes scheduled all the way through the whole month of September; again, the episodes come out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Why Does This Always Happen?

Is there a reason every mod that does something with a game’s combat has to overdo it? Remember back when I tried to play Dekaron again? I also tried that one private server. There, they overdid the experience gain. I’m currently doing a playthrough of Skyrim, but, of course, the authors have to go way overboard and just screw everything up.

The mod I’m talking about is “Skyrim Revamped – Complete Enemy Overhaul,” which is about as fun as taking a thousand lashes to the dickhead. Check this: the mod author thought it was a good idea to put level 100 bosses in dungeons full of level-5 enemies. Great. Do you know why? Because the bosses are statically leveled. Great. Make the bosses statically leveled without balancing the dungeons around their levels. Fantastic. Just fucking amazing.

Next time, make a better mod or, better yet, split it up into parts so I can get the boons that this mod offers (e.g. mages with Apocalypse spells or just buffed enemies in general) without the crock of shit that is the boss level mongery.

The full story will become available to the public once part 34 of my Let’s Play of Skyrim goes public on July 31st. Mark it down in your calendars.

Update 2020/05/03: Starting from episode 38, the mod will be joining us once again after having been patched to make the bosses a tad less jarring and rage-inducing.

I should probably also include a link to the playlist. Here it is. The first video will go public on the 15th.

It Works, but Just Barely

I managed to render some test videos in 60 frames per second. It turns out that I need to open a new project and set it to 60 frames per second there instead of relying on the render preset’s framerate. Silly me for thinking that the information in the preset was enough for the renderer to work with.

On another note, I found a post that lets me put my SSE mods staging folder in the description of my Let’s Play videos. Credits go to Zanderat for summoning the wise rmm200, who blessed us with his wisdom and rained upon us his almighty command:

dir . /b > [FILENAME]

Run this command in the Windows command line after navigating to the staging folder of Vortex to output all the folder names to a file. Remember to replace [FILENAME] with whatever you want to call your file.

You’d think I’d have the foresight to try something like this myself after having been taught so much about computers, but no. Thankfully, there are less-retarded people out there who try out things for utter mongs such as myself.

Update 17th of April, 2020:

Actually, use this command:

dir . /b /AD > [FILENAME]

This command makes it so that only the folders and no miscellaneous files get added to the output.