The #GreatNerfWar

Hey there guys n gals! I've got information on something a lil' bit different for y'all this time around. If you've been keeping up with my second YouTube channel, I've been posting a lot of Blaster Unboxings and Reviews and you might be wondering why. Well, the answer to that is that I'm trying to familiarize myself with all the weapons that will be available in my arsenal to myself and all the other participants at The #GreatNerfWar! 

I've been talking about it a lil' bit here and there, but we've decided on a date, August 19th, and so far it looks like we'll have at least 12 participants. I think that's pretty good for a first time event, don't you think? We intend to record in some way, shape or form, so there will definitely be at least SOME kind of footage available to you. I expect to have all my unboxings done by then and then we'll just jump into the fun. There will be some familiar faces out there on the field, but probably also a bunch of new people you've never seen before on either of my channels! I'm really excited for this to go down! We're looking at six different gametypes for our little war just to spruce things up, rather than just straight sudden death elimination

• Elimination (3-7)
• 3 lives, 7 second count back in
• If hit, count out loud 7 Mississippi with your gun raised in the air (You can look for ammo/reload as long as you continue counting aloud)
• Yell "CLEAR" when your time is up and you're coming back in
• Victory Condition: One team remaining OR last man standing (if FFA)

• Carpe Testiculum
• Get all of your opponent's balls into your team's bucket
• Two ball buckets, one in either team's base are filled with the same number of balls
• When in possession of a ball, it MUST remain in your hand(s), you CANNOT fire any blasters while holding the ball
• You can block enemy fire and tap enemy players with the ball to take them out however
• When hit, you must return to your team's spawn (infinite respawn)
• If holding a ball and hit, you must leave the ball EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE and then head back to your spawn
• Victory Condition: All the balls in one goal/More balls in one goal if game is called early

• Shooting Gallery
• Uses X Shot Cans
• Each can in a six stack is worth one point
• Fully assembled standing cans worth one point, two points if you can get them to break apart
• Will have a limited number of shots per player (lower number if played on teams)
• Victory Condition: Highest Point Total

• Team Freeze Tag
• Freeze opponents by shooting them
• Unfreeze teammates by physical touch
• Conga line rule is in effect, if you're touching someone while they are (re)frozen you are also frozen
• Victory Condition: Freeze enemy team

• Blob
• Every time you shoot another player, they join your blob (do your best to move as one)
• Free for All (NO TEAMS INITIALLY)
• Victory Condition: Consume all other players

• VIP
• Protect your team's VIP from the enemy team (VIPs have a crown to set them apart)
• VIP only allowed to carry Barrel Breaker TK-3 (3 shot revolver, but you must reset the barrel manually) - CANNOT RELOAD/CANNOT UPGRADE
• Shoot enemy team to knock them out, Non-VIPs have infinite respawn, but MUST travel back to spawn if hit
• Victory Condition: TAKE OUT THE ENEMY VIP

And that's all I've got for now on The #GreatNerfWar. After I'm done editing footage and other such stuff from it, I'm going to set about re-releasing Unfair-Y Tales Season 2 on my second channel. I'm thinking about finally releasing my patreon as well after that, but we'll see. It's actually for the most part complete, I just wanted to re-do all my art and branding and that never came about... 

It's update time again!

I totally apologize for not utilizing my blog all that often. I've even started to post semi-regularly over on tumblr (though admittedly, it's just reposts from my vlog channel on YouTube). 

Speaking of my second channel, instead of just reuploading Unfair-Y Tales there I took the channel in a bit of a new direction in preparation for the #GreatNerfWar that's looming on the horizon (DATE TBD). I've begun Unboxing and Reviewing Dart Blasters on that channel! If that's what you're into, feel free to come on over and hang out! I've got one uploading as I write this entry and I've got one more to do, unless I can snag myself a Zuru X Shot Turbo Advance. That's realistically the only other blaster I want to get my hands on at the moment. Maybe that will change in time. I also have a strong feeling that most people are gonna be like "Yeah, you can keep my blasters" after the war and I'm gonna have a buttload of blasters at the end that I never intended to buy for myself hahahaha. 

Anyway, now that you know what's been going down on my second channel, let's talk about my main channel! The let's play I've been working on most recently has been Dragonball FighterZ, but hopefully I'm nearing the end of that. After that's done I'll be moving on to the next Let's Play, which actually happens to be a request, and it's Psychonauts from my buddy Tethrinblaze. Many many people over the years have told me that I NEED to play Psychonauts, but I'm finally getting around to it now. I sincerely hope I have a better time with that than I have so far with DBFZ's Story Mode. The arcs have just been altogether too long for a fighting game and it's honestly made the game into a boring slog. On top of that the final arc has you stuck with just Android 16 + Android 18 for hours and hours and that honestly ruined any desire I had to play. In addition to the next Let's Play, I fully intend to work on more MUGEN Movelists (Spoiler alert, the final Capcom character I'll be doing is Gene from God Hand!), and I want to finish off my Why I love Titanfall 2 series. I still have enough footage for probably 2-3 more videos, and I'm planning on doing a bit of a giveaway during the last video, so stay tuned for that! I'll be putting a bit more work into finishing off older series (I plan on completing the rest of my Hardcore runs in Battleborn, now that I have another crew to play with) and then I'm going to make sure that I start some new ones up. I know I say this a lot, but I'd also really enjoy getting to jump into some more of the games I've gotten from keymailer. I might even get to jump on some more My Two (S)cents and/or On The Hunt videos!

Speaking of games from Keymailer... I've been playing a lot of ShellShock Live on my Twitch Channel lately and that's left an AWFUL taste in my mouth. It's the only game on Steam I've left a negative review for. I just can't recommend any game where the only way to win the campaign is purely by luck (Which as everyone knows, would be just about a Sisyphean task for me, I'm no Domino, I assure you). I started something tonight that I have been debating on doing for a while and I intend to continue. I've started a personal quest to platinum all of the Skylanders games! Inbetween full Let's Plays I figure it'd be great to take a break and just jump back into something that I know I'm going to enjoy (however frustrating it might end up being). Right now I have two trophies left to obtain before the platinum in the first game, Spyro's Adventure. I have to buy ALL the upgrades for one Skylander (I'm using my Series 2 Double Trouble for this, as I apparently had never upgraded him), and then I've got to defeat the final boss without switching Skylanders. I suspect that's going to take many many many tries but I'm DEFINITELY gonna do it. As most of you know the next Let's Play I've got planned for Twitch is Gundam 0079: Rise from the Ashes on the Dreamcast. I had previously streamed the game one time. This drew the biggest crowd I'd ever had on my channel simultaneously and then the power went out in my house. I haven't played since, but in that one night of playing I finally understood how the game works (It's quite different gameplay wise from the VS series or even Zeonic Front -- a game that I absolutely adore, by the way). I think that would be a great thing for me to finish off, both from a gameplay and audience standpoint. And then once I've beaten that I'll do my best to platinum Skylanders: Giants, which is most likely the most difficult Skylanders game of them all! If you want to tune in to either of those, I stream on Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 8 PM, and then I pick one day over the weekend to stream as well. You'll always know when I'm about to stream (or if I'm taking the day off!) if you follow me on Twitter!

So yeah, that's what's going on on my various channels! I hope that I've got content coming that people continue enjoying to watch, because I don't really see myself stopping any time soon!