Sunday Mornin' Update

Okay, just a few brief notes before I gotta get ready for church.

1. Portal 2 streaming is on hold for a few weeks, still haven't gotten it to work and I know that the next two weekends are both not going to happen due to other reasons.  Until I can get the livestreaming to work right, I'm going to work on filming independently and putting them up on YouTube.  Lame, I know.

2. I saved Hyrule for the first time yesterday.  I feel like that much more of a man now.  Like my life wasn't complete without doing that at least once.  I admit to using maps to find everything, but I assure you that it didn't have that much impact on the difficulty of the combat.  Now that I know what everything does, I will attempt the second quest without any kind of walkthrough help.

3. Killer7 is bizarre as hell.  The sharp noise/screen transitions (like when someone dies) are actually somewhat hair-raising, and the control scheme makes combat a lot more difficult than I anticipated.  It's taking a good deal of practice, but I'm making progress, slow as it may be.

4. Put Katamari Damacy in to give that a little spin ... also quite bizarre, though I honestly think Killer7 has it topped in sheer unexplained-ness.  Also, tons and tons of unlockable stuff.

5. LIMBO is going to take me a very long time.  Primarily due to the fact that I have to minimize it every few seconds because it just creeps me out way too much.

6. Almost up to the One Piece timeskip.  Simply haven't watched as much of it as I would like ... still giving myself a month to finish it, we'll see what happens.

7. Read all of Parasyte a couple nights ago.  If you're not squeamish, I'd recommend it ... while the images are rather disturbing, the story can be surprisingly deep, what with monsters becoming more human and humans becoming monsters.

8. Halloween is approaching, and with it come haunted houses and decorations - particularly at theme parks, which tend to go all-out with the gruesome special effects.  Cue sleepless nights from me while I scare myself into awakeness by looking at some of this stuff ... can someone explain to me why I still insist on looking at these things out of curiosity when I know it's going to give me nightmares?

9. Two weeks to Comic Con!

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This lacked a title O_o

Sorry folks, I have a ton of stuff that still needs to get done and I haven't tested the lag yet >_<  Next week! I promise!  And at some point I'll try to make up the two episodes that I've missed by now...
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An actual for-real update for once!

Hey folks, I meant to do this yesterday, but the hours that I spent at the DMV kinda pushed it out of my mind.  Anyways, I've been formulating some plans for the next few months, basically between now and 2013, and setting some goals for myself on the nerdliness front.  Here is what I'd like to accomplish between now and 2013:
1. Complete 13 games by 2013 - probably my most ambitious goal, but one that I doubt I'll have much of an issue with.  Here is the list, in no particular order:
Legend of Zelda
Cave Story
Killer7
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Monkey Island 2
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Shadow of the Colossus
Hitman: Codename 47
Pac-Man World
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
LIMBO
Tomb Raider
Beyond Good and Evil
If I get through this, that's a pretty decent chunk of my existing backlog taken care of ... not all, but a very long shot, but still a pretty respectable goal.
2. Get caught up with One Piece by November and Fairy Tail by December... I was originally hoping to be caught up on One Piece back in MAY, but that didn't really happen, and I'm still about 50ish episodes out.  This is one of those things that I just really have to work on, but it's hard to watch anime and do other things at the same time...
3. Resume watching Doctor Who and get at least to Season 4 ... I stopped midway through Season 3 when I watched this before and just never got back into it.  That needs to change.
4. Get my cosplay ready for Comic Con in a couple weeks ... what am I playing? That'll be a surprise ... to you as much as to me.
5. Tie up loose ends ... there are at least four or five games that are still counted as "unfinished" that I'm very close to beating, but have yet to beat for whatever reason.  If I get the chance, I want to at least beat the main story, to at least improve my Backloggery statistics, even though I wouldn't be fully completing them until later.
6. Start the video reviews!  Seriously, I have a lot to talk about if I can only get around to talking about it!
Those are what I have for definite goals at this time, I will be keeping you all up to date.  I'll try to update the backlog today, there's a lot that needs to be added to it, especially since I got the PS2 a couple weeks ago.  Also, streaming Portal 2 tonight! 8PM EST as usual, hopefully this time I'll be able to resolve the lag issues and make some actually watchable material.
This is Gibbslap, and eekum bokum.

LA-MULANAAAAAAAAAAAA

La-Mulana hit WiiWare today ... there was much squealing to be had in the Gibbslap household!  Time to start playing :D
This is Gibbslap, and ... remind me why I'm looking forward to playing a new version of a game that hated me?

Humble Indie Bundle 6!

http://www.humblebundle.com/
DO IT NOW PEOPLES
I mean seriously ... charity + cheap games.  What's not to love?
This is Gibbslap, and I did a good deed today.

Plans moving forward (that's opposite of backward)

So, for any of you who care (which, I believe the two of you who might, were there at the time) the stream on Sunday night was a complete bust.  20min in one test chamber with no luck, then another one in 10min, with the lag getting progressively worse.  So I gave up at that point ... full episode will be attempted this upcoming weekend.

IN THE MEANWHILE, I've been working on some goals for myself for the next few months, of what I want to accomplish in my Path to Nerddom (c).  Oh! And I have a PS2 now!  Actually have had for a couple weeks, not sure if I ever posted it here, but I haven't set it up yet anyways ^^;;  Already have a total of at least ten games lined up, with two in my possession now, four in the mail, and at least four more coming from a friend of mine from work.  Sweetness!  I'll be updating my Backloggery and giving you all my plans as soon as everything gets here!  In the meanwhile,

This is Gibbslap, and draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.

Streaming in 10! (that's in minutes, by the way)

Okay, got everything straightened out ... long call from mother, go figure.  Streaming Portal 2 in ten minutes!  Be there! (here: http://www.twitch.tv/mcgibbslap)
This is Gibbslap, and it's time to get this party started!

Slight Delays, Please Stand By

Hi guys, sorry for the slight delay, but due to a longer-than-expected Descent session earlier, I'm still pulling things together.  I'll stream soon though! I promise!  See you in a bit!
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Postponing Streaming

Frick, I knew I was forgetting something! I have a dance class at 7 tonight!  Sorry guys XD  Postponing the stream until 8PM EST tomorrow, apologies for the short notice!
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Streaming More Portal 2 Tonight!

Hey y'all, sorry for the lack of updates this week, had a ton to get done at work.  Anyways, I'm going to aim for some more Portal 2 PTI streaming tonight, I think I'll aim for 7PM EST this time.  In the meanwhile, I might make another post or two today about my goals and plans for the next couple months ... cya tonight!
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The Results Are In!

The video from earlier's streaming session is now up on YouTube! View the playlist here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvYM1xZhdsn9mthTt1vK7cxPByKANDaXy

This is Gibbslap, and it's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

On In 10!

Streaming in ten minutes! Link is here: http://www.twitch.tv/mcgibbslap
This is Gibbslap, and there's no time to lose!

New Project Tonight!

Surprise!  So at 8PM EST tonight, I'm going to be streaming some more, this time it's going to be some test chambers from the Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative.  I hope to make this a regular series so here's hoping I can do a good strong job of it tonight.  Link is here!

http://www.twitch.tv/mcgibbslap

See you tonight!

This is Gibbslap, and now I only want you gone there.

Planses...

I have an interesting plan that I'm going to look into, you all will hear about it this weekend :P  It will likely be quite more interesting than what I was trying to do this past weekend, and will hopefully be worth watching :D  However, my goal is to finish Thief: Dark Project first, hopefully only a couple more nights for that...
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Technical Difficulties...

AAARGH
So, after wasting the past three hours getting nowhere, I'm afraid I have to give up on the plans to stream tonight >_<  The game simply won't run on my laptop.  I'm going to look into ways to run older games on a newer machine, but in the meanwhile, the stream is postponed.  I'll try to make it up to you guys soon, terribly sorry :(
This is Gibbslap, and please stand by.

Live Playthrough TONIGHT - Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers (PC)

Hey folks!  Giving all three of you who pretend to care an advance notice, that, barring difficulties technical or otherwise, I will be streaming live gameplay at exactly 6:02PM-ish EST.  The game is an old favorite of mine from my childhood (see post title).  Chosen for my first complete video playthrough due to being able to complete it quite easily within a couple of hours (and thus less chance of me royally screwing up XD).  Upon completion I will attempt to upload the resulting footage to YouTube as well.  Hope you can join in!
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Motivational

In all seriousness ... I don't care who you are ... I don't care how much it feels like life is always a bundle of problems ... you can do it. You can last. You can win. I don't care who you are ... but I like you. I mean that. This is Gibbslap, and yes, you too Chris, you too.

Ba-de-ah-de-ah-de-ah...

Happy September folks!  Sorry again for all the delays, I was under the weather for a few days there.  Anyways!  Hopefully I'll be not-lazy enough to update this a little more often in the days ahead ... been making slow progress on a few things though.  Going to try a video test tomorrow and maybe at some point stream some gameplay for something.  Talk to ya's soon!
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