On Gaming Video and Streaming

I've been trying to record videos during my play sessions.  It's a lot harder than those crazy kids on YouTube make it seem.  Talking to yourself for two hours while playing is pretty taxing.  I'm mostly trying to get enough content to do some editing and come up with something watchable.  One of those projects is pretty ambitious, I'm doing candy buckets without audio and my plan is to edit it down to just the pickup from all the innkeepers and put some funny music or something behind it. I got some footage of me doing silly things in the costumes they put on you too. But that requires me to do alllllll the buckets. I mean technically I don't have to, but that's my aim.  That also gets me enough candy for some prizes I don't have. I did Kalimdor last weekend, that netted me around 130 candies and took me around 2 hours, so I figure I have 4 more hours to go, and hopefully will snag 300 more candies to get this year's pet, the horse butt from last year, and something else.

The main thing I'm on the fence about is the camera broadcast.  That seems to be an integral part of what you see in gaming now, but I don't really have a good setup for it, and apparently I have a bad habit of touching my nose all the time. I'd have to think about what to wear, what's in the background, posture, messing with my cats and texting while on screen, things like that.  It's stage presence.  But it's not a bad skill to learn, so maybe I'll give it a shot.

Holy WoW it's been a long time

So I was going through some old emails having a good old reminisce about the past session and what the heck?  I 100% forgot this blog was a thing, and 1000% forgot how many posts I wrote on here.  I'm actually surprised Blogger still exists 8ish years later, most internet things I've participated in since then have gone goodbye in a lot shorter period of time.  That aside, since I'm playing again I guess I should go ahead and start posting again.  I know all the cool kids are streaming now, but the few videos I've recorded aren't very good.  Maybe using little snippets in a blog is more my speed.

It's too daunting to cover everything that's happened since my goodbye post back in 2011, so I'll give the timeline for now and draft up a few posts to cover the more interesting parts when I'm in the mood.  Even though I'm inspired to do this, I do want to have some actual game time tonight.

I had to look at my account history to get the dates right.  I apparently bought Pandaland and renewed my subscription in September 2012, then transferred Zully and Yokanolu from Alterac Mountains to Fenris in Feb 2013.  This would have been a move with what was left of the Eye for an Eye crew.  I don't remember if the guild itself moved or not.  I'm still in the "i4ni" Diablo III guild, and Conn's thing is streaming PUBG.  So it still exists, in a way. I do remember spending a lot of time out in the world then, I have full reps and a lot of mounts and achievements.

I must have stopped playing again around April 2013 when DIII came out.  I bought WoD in December between Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry.  I feel like I played WoD sporadically for a few months then unsubbed again, Blizz doesn't keep monthly fee tracking older than 2017 apparently, just other purchases.  So I'm going to say I played WoD for a little bit, got bored having no-one to play with, and didn't come back until well into Legion.  I really don't remember much from then, and Zully was my only max level character from that era.  So really, from Apr 2013 - Apr 2017 if I was subbed at all, I played very little.  But then, as these things go, my IRL friend was in a raiding guild with some of his other IRL friends so a few of us from our friend group joined up again.  Most of them quit again within about 6 weeks.  I've been playing steadily ever since.

I'll pick up in following posts with my escapades in Legion, stuff about that raiding guild that has come and gone, some wacky adventures with my Canadian friend, and how things are coming along in BfA.  I'm actually a little disappointed hindsight that I didn't think to start this blog up again while I was raiding last year.  I'm actually really happy I wrote down all the things I did, it's been fun reading it.