Just one of those days

You ever have one of those days, where you wake up kind of early, and you don't feel sluggish, there's no haze about you, and you just... I don't know, feel good about the day? Today is one of those days for me, got up, got ready, didn't hit a single snag, and now I'm ready to deal with the day!
Well, the filming parties, though we didn't do everything on the schedule I had originally planned both went relatively swimmingly (Minus the whole GrimJak falling down the stairs and kneeing a hole in the wall... That's some Unfair-Y Tales stuff right there!), and I'm happy to announce that I'll most likely be making filming parties a regular thing. Okamigakure will live again, not in forum form, but in FUN form! HELL TO THE YES! 
In other words, I may be separated geographically from my clanmates and many of my friends, but that's a silly thing to stop us from getting together. It's high time I realized that. I used to have a phrase I would use with the international students at college and I don't know why I haven't applied "Distance can't separate friends" to my friends from home and elsewhere in the States. Seems kind of silly, doesn't it? 
I should have enough footage to tide me over, and I've learned enough about PowerDirector at this point, that I can officially start my next tutorial-type project. I'm really happy to announce a new series coming to my channel in the near future: Skylander Path Guides! 
For those of you that don't know, each skylander has a branching skill tree, so generally speaking, you need two of the same character if you want to have all of their moves at your disposal, without constantly resetting or with Series 2 skylanders on, switching trees. I haven't seen too many people actually do this, and I think that it's actually really important to know which path you want when you jump into working on your skylander! You might think one tree is really cool, and then absolutely hate it, and that ends up making you reset the skylander back to level 1... Nobody wants to do that, and I figure I know enough about all of the skylanders at this point to actually make these videos a reality.
I had a specific plan for skylanders that have been around since Spyro's Adventure, and I'm happy that I finally realized how to make it happen in the actual videos! I'm really excited to have something to do that can help a community that I'm part of now that Rumble Fighter is no longer in my life!
Don't forget that Unfair-Y Tales releases every other Sunday for the duration of Season 1, but... If I have enough footage from these two filming parties, I might even get to start up a third series too! Be on the lookout Tuesdays on my YouTube channel for Skylander Path Guides in the coming month and also for a surprise new series in the future too!

Filming Parties

So, I've got a lot of time on my hands lately, and I've had plenty of things sitting on the backburner just waiting to be completed for quite a while. I think it's high time I started getting to all those little notches in my work notebook, don't you think?
One of the things I have realized, or at least have been seeing more and more of over time, when it comes to gaming channels on YouTube (Like mine), they don't exist in isolation. For the most part, every major YouTuber has a community that they exist as part of, as well as collaborate with on a regular basis. While I do have great friends like Tethrinblaze, Kenbei and TheBurningPunch, I just don't do enough stuff with them. I do a lot of streaming over on twitch with the group, but certainly not enough stuff on the YouTubs for it to sustain.
THAT'S ALL ABOUT TO CHANGE! You can expect more videos of group plays on my channel in the near future! This started with the Superpowerful Bonanza party, where GrimJak made a very valid point: It's not necessary to have a holiday for us to party! I intend to take this to heart, so... There will be another Superpowerful Bonanza party in the near future, but you'll have to wait a bit to see the results, since... I'm still airing the original!

In addition to that, right after we have that filming party, I intend to have another filming party for another game that I have been meaning to film for years! With that video I'll be introducing you guys to someone new in the group, if all goes according to plan! I've been too lazy and/or scared to get a lot of this stuff done, but... not anymore! 

LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED! 

 

The next Let's Play

I know I had been telling you guys for a while that the next Let's Play was going to be Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, but since y'know, I'm not part of a couple anymore, it'd be pretty difficult to play Couples' Co-Op! Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects story will be over by the end of this month, so I would have been starting Brothers next month. With that being said, I have a few other ideas for what to do instead! 
There are a lot of other series I have been planning out for quite a while, so I think I'm going to spend some time getting a few of those off the ground, while getting requests done and giving a lot of games with very little footage some love. I'd like to have at least one video game series that I can come back to every now and then like I have with Unfair-Y Tales going right now. For far too long since I stopped playing MUGEN regularly, my channel has just been all over the place... I'd like to get at least something of a bread and butter kinda game/video in place.
You can certainly expect more tutorial/guide series/videos in the future cough Skylanders cough though, so you needn't worry about that. I may not be teaching in a classroom setting, but I still love to help people! I might even be starting up one of those new series pretty soon, so keep your eyes peeled! 

sneaky eBay, sneaky

Hey there guys and gals! I'm gonna make a really quick post today just about some eBay stuffs that I discovered. This is regarding store subscriptions and all that jazz, so if you're just a random-item buying feller on the eBays, this may not apply to you.
Anyway, I discovered today that eBay gives you your free listings per month on the 1st of the month. BUT! The billing cycle for subscriptions functions (at least for me), starts in the MIDDLE of the month (Like the 15th). This way, nobody ever starts or cancels a subscription on time and eBay can make out with even more of your money! Just be aware of your billing cycle should you want to snag a store subscription.
I feel like if I write this down it is also something that I will remember in the future as well!

Fancy pants technology!

Not sure if you've heard guys and gals, but I was the grateful recipient of a fancy-pants Samsung HMX-F90 Digital Camcorder the other day! I haven't had too much time to mess around with it, but this opens up a lot more creative outlets for me as a content creator for YouTube!
I've been using the same camera that was a hand-me-down from Tethrinblaze for quite a number of years, and it was about time I upgraded, don't you think? Now I've got HD quality video in a small package that I can easily take on the go! The first video I'll have used it for will be coming out this Sunday (2/22/15), Unfair-Y Tales #4 - The Favorite Child, so we'll see how that turns out. It certainly captures higher resolution video than my Vita, so that's great too. This also means I won't be stuck with the sound of people signing on or off the PSN/me receiving messages randomly throughout the video and confusing people. 
This camera will also make it easier for me to film things that I wouldn't be able to record normally! I should have a chance to record some games in NeoRageX that I've been trying to get a hold of for quite a while, as well as some older Genesis games (I've got the RF Modulator wire for the Genesis, not the now-standard SD RCA Cable type). You can expect some more old school fun in the vein of Mystic Defender. This also means I should be able to get the third episode of my Selected Genre Series that I intended on doing so many months ago but couldn't, up at some point as well! 
It'll be a while though, as I've pretty much got uploads scheduled up until the end of March already, so sorry if you've put in a request recently and it seems like I'm just ignoring you... I swear that's not actually the case, I've just got some nicely sized things planned for the near future, that's all! 

Stuff & Thangs

I was on such a good streak at the end of last month, wasn't I? I was posting so often! Well, all good things in moderation and all that, right?
I wanted to make a quick post today to tell you guys what I'm up to! I used to add in my signature on the old Okamigakure forums what I was up to, but since they're dead, blog posts might be the next best thing! 

I'm trying to complete the Victory/Defeat animations videos for SMITE series at the moment, so I've been grabbing as much footage as I could of the mages. I've already done the victory/defeats for all four of the other classes however (Which you can view right here). I was thinking of doing something a little different after that, and making victory/defeats for every 10 new Gods that came out after I made the videos for their classes, but we'll see about that! My buddy Tethrinblaze is going to start a SMITE series up in the near future that you guys and gals might be interested in too, so don't forget to check out his channel if you haven't already!
Remember me posting a while back about our play of Superpowerful Bonanza? Unfortunately there are even more problems with the video at this point... GrimJak's phone corrupted the video of the top-down view we had so we lost that too. It's gonna be a really long video from (mostly) just a terrible angle, but I mean, it'll still give you an idea of how the game plays! I'll be editing the footage we have of that in the near future, so you should be able to see it soon! 

Now that the DMTV movelist is complete, I think I'll be moving onto another tutorial/showcase series, but you guys will have to wait and find out what that is.

I think you'll enjoy in either case. Before I forget, thanks for everything guys and gals out there! I've been getting a steady stream of new subscribers on the YouTubs, and I really am grateful for that! 

eBay Store and other news

Even though I'm a fullscreen partner and I've got access to spreadshirt, I fear I'm just not artistically inclined enough to actually do much of anything with it. Should you happen to be interested however, here's a link to the store I've got. On the other hand, I've been trying to raise money through eBay on the side and I've finally gotten my own store subscription! PREPARE FOR TROUBLE, AND MAKE IT... I dunno, full of geeky goodness?
Without further ado, I introduce you guys to:

siessi62's Geeky Goodness

I've got games and skylanders and posters and a myriad of other wares for your perusal!

In other news...  I'm learning how to use my Elgato HD60, so you guys are in for an HD treat in the near future!  In addition to that, I've been working on the next Unfair-Y Tales and I think I can officially say that I'll be uploading them every other week. They'll be on the same schedule as my Twitch highlight uploads, if that helps you out at all with timing! I'm still waiting on Grim's video of SPB night, but I think I'll start editing the footage I have already into one coherent video as soon as I'm done working on Unfair-Y Tales #3. 

I've been on a really productive roll lately and I'm excited to be chugging along at a regular pace, something that's actually really uncommon for me!