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.

Lucky Ducky Turkey Lurkey

I spent all weekend in my computer chair and still didn't finish everything I wanted to do.

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Zombies made me late for work this morning

There I was minding my lvl 20 bank business, selling the massive spam in the gbank, when I was attacked by zombies. This was rather inconvenient. However, I personally don't mind the zombie invasion. It's cool to have a world event shake things up once in a while. I actually think I'm gonna go do that quest to get the argent tabard, put it on, and cleanse lowbie areas for fun. It fits in with Zully's character rather nicely.

In other news, the headless horseman is useless, IMO. Why doesn't he drop better stuff. Those rings are crap for any decently geared 70. This holiday is vastly inferior to the brewfest. I fished up over 100 fish in the search for Mr. Pinchy. No luck yet. And when am I going to get my stupid fishing hat already? Sigh.

I got to poke my nose into Mag's lair yesterday thanks to Val. OMG massive AOE damage. I did OK considering, but the raid leader was clueless so we had no chance at the boss. Zon brought his warrior along too, that helped me out tons, I'm used to healing him. He's definately my favorite tank, and good at what he does. I'll admit, I was nervous about going in there, especially with a PUG. Having someone who knew what was going on to explain it to me and tell me I'd do just fine was exactly what I needed. I know you won't read this, but thanks zon.