Upload Changes for Phase 2

I've been talking a lot lately about Phase 2 of my YouTube channel here and there, and I just wanted to go into a bit deeper detail about what all of that junk entails. So I'll go right ahead and tell you guys what my uploads are going to be like once Phase 2 begins!
First off, I'm going to do my best to have just one Let's Play going at any given time. I was doing two at the same time recently, and it was just eating up my upload schedule (Couples' Co-Op has Ibb & Obb going and I was working on Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects myself, if you were wondering). As of this week, the footage I had of MN has all been uploaded, so I'm going to finish uploading Ibb & Obb (WE ACTUALLY BEAT THE GAME!) and then I'll go back and finish off Marvel Nemesis. I'm not 100% sure what the next LP will be, but chances are I already have it written down somewhere. I'm going to concentrate on taking things relatively one step at a time. For Let's Plays though, I've decided that I'll be uploading them in the 11 o' clock timeslot on their respective days. The upload schedule itself will remain the same: 

• Sundays: Vlogs/rants/Unfair-Y Tales
• Tuesdays: General Gameplay
• Wednesday: Twitch highlight(s) every other week [Gonna stick to 2 at max]
• Saturday: Fighting games/beat-em-ups

The next Couples' Co-Op game we'll be going through will be Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. That much is certain. As for my own Let's Plays, I'm not too sure. Since we have time to work on something else, you can expect Couple's Competition and Couples' VERSUS to start up sometime soon! 
I will be getting back into finishing off my old series as well in Phase 2. I need to get back to my roots, and back to the reasons why people watched me in the first place. I'll definitely be going back and finishing off my GNT4 1v3s, since that's something I have been wanting to do for a long time. I'll also be cycling through new content and finishing off the requests that I still have. I really will get to them, regardless of people telling me they'll help me film and they don't actually.. As for the new stuff, I have a set of probably... 100 or so games that I want to film, sooner rather than later. I have a lot of data to go through and hopefully it will help me out in the future.
During Phase 2 I would also like to have one tutorial series going on at a time. When I played Rumble Fighter somewhat religiously, my goal was to make one adventure mode tutorial per month. That was a little hard to follow through with, but I tried. Since RF left OGPlanet, I haven't looked into it so I won't be doing the bm tutorials anymore, unless there's a huge clamoring for them (Which I highly doubt). Therefore, I'll be going back and finishing the DMTV movelist first, and then what I've decided to do next is work on path guides for Skylanders. As far as I know there's only one other person who does this and I find his series terribly unpleasant to watch. Even though his videos grate on my nerves he gets a metric butt-ton of views on them, and I know that I can do them better, with more insight than he provides. After I finish path guides for Skylanders, I'm not too certain what the next thing would be, but I've got ~70 skylanders, so the videos will probably take quite a while to get through anyway. I was considering making God breakdown videos for SMITE, but they started the Know Your Enemy series, and I do not think I can compete with the actual game doing the videos. 
Speaking of SMITE, I was thinking of making MMO videos a once-a-month kind of thing. I was strongly considering doing the victory/defeat animations things once a month,  but I think instead I'll just release them when I get a chance. 
That's what I've got so far, and I hope you're just as ready for Phase 2 to start as I am!

PARTY HARDY~!

My birthday is coming up, on Sept. 20th, and that's pretty much what I've been spending most of time doing lately, getting ready for an AWESOME party. My mom will be visiting the favorite child in Arizona, so I have the house almost to myself, since my aunt is still here. Barring being trapped in Shitopia, this is going to probably be the best party I've had in years. 
We ran into a couple of snags, but all of that should be out of the way by the time the 20th rolls around. You might be wondering why I'm writing about my birthday party here on my blog when generally speaking, my blog has been about my internet persona. Well, that's because I'm going to try doing something new at my birthday party this year! 
If all goes according to plan, I'll be streaming a PvP tournament of Skylanders during the party, so all of you guys that are too far away, have a chance to join in the fun too! It's not totally finalized yet, butttt... 

These are the rules as they stand now

I wrote up the rules with Liz in tow so we could come up with the best wording and how to place them. I wrote them down on a sheet of my easycling Instant Whiteboard paper, so I can actually stick them right to the wall. As you can tell from the rules page, I'll actually be running 6 tournaments, SkyGem Master and SkyGoals in Spyro's Adventure and Giants, and Battle Arena and Ring Out in Swap Force. This is also the first time I'll be able to hand out prizes for the tournament! I've got tons of posters, skylanders, and even a few comics and a game or two to give away! However, most of what I have as prizes are also items that are available in my eBay Store, so if you happen to be looking for variant skylanders, or promo posters from NYCC, look no further than that link right there! I'm pretty affordable too! 

I'm trying to make sure that all of my skylanders are at least level 10 for the tournament, so they won't just get knocked out right away by someone with a level advantage, and if other participants want to bring their own army, they are more than welcome. I'm relatively certain that my friend Caitlin and even Tethrinblaze will be bringing their own. In order to facilitate this, I've been streaming a lot of Skylanders lately over on my Twitch channel, so you might wanna check me out there. That's also where the actual tournament will be streamed!
As many of you know, I'm a cheapskate, so rather than buy the first set of Cards Against Humanity Cards, I decided I would print them and laminate them myself, so that's been taking quite a bit of time out of my days as well. I've finished all the black cards and about half of the white ones so far, so that should be over and done with by the 20th. 

I've also outlined the first 20 episodes of Unfair-Y Tales, so once A Dramatic Reading of a Yearbook Signing debuts, expect more videos than you can shake a stick at! 

ALSO ALSO ALSO, on the topic of Phase 2, I just found out that I'm getting an HDTV from GrimJak, and that means that I may be moving up to an HD capture card waaaay ahead of schedule, so that's great news for all of you that enjoy my console content! 

Phase 2

I know I made a post a little while ago about stuff that was coming out soon, but I wanted to update that, so I decided I'd make a new entry. Also... sorry about not posting anything here for like... an entire month... It's been hard for me to come up with ideas about what to write.

Now that I've got something in mind, I'd love to be able to let you guys in on what's going to happen with Phase 2 of my YouTube channel, since a couple people have been saying "Why do you keep saying that?" Allow me to explain!

Calling it "phase 2" is just cooooool! Well, I mean, there's that, but that's not the only thing about it. A Dramatic Reading of a Yearbook Signing is going to preface Phase 2 of my channel, as well as be the opening to Unfair-Y Tales. With that started, I'll move on to a lot of things I've been wanting to get into! I'm done with all the lame tasks I had to do to get my channel up to snuff, so I finally have the time necessary to work on and get ready for new stuff!

A Dramatic Reading is going to come up around the time that Liz and I finish Ibb & Obb, so you can get a feel for the timeframe (There are 15 stages in Ibb & Obb and as of right now we're on 10 or 11). I've got time to work on more semi-scripted stuff, and also just plan out my next videos, so you can expect a lot more obscure game videos, and also plenty more Sunday uploads in the future! 

However, phase 2 isn't all about moving forward and changing stuff up. I also intend to go back and fix up what I'm lacking. I'm going to cycle through the requests I've still got too, but as Liz brought up a very valid point, there's not as much point in me filling out requests for people that don't exist on YouTube anymore, so I'm going to root out the ones that are superfluous as of now, while getting through the meat of them. I also plan on finishing off/continuing series that I used to work on way back when, while also making them even better! 

I will definitely be revisiting the Selected Genre Series, with help from you guys, of course! I ran into a snag with the third episode, as it was fighting games, and I planned on filming Aggressors of Dark Kombat, but couldn't... I will in the future though!  In addition to that, I'll be going back into my 1 vs 3 videos to finish off the rest of the cast, which is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I'll also finish the DMTV Movelist during Phase 2! I'm hoping to have at least one series going at a time that I can upload weekly, like I'm currently doing with Ibb & Obb. Me and Liz will also be branching out during Phase 2 with Couples' VERSUS and Couples' Competition once Ibb & Obb is finished.

I also plan to stream a bit more often than I do now. I'm finally getting a community going, and they're helping me to advance with the games I'm playing, so I've been really excited about streaming for probably.. The first time ever. You can expect plenty more Skylanders streams in the future! 

There's a bunch coming up, so don't forget to tune in! 

MUGEN, I missed you

I've got a lot of games, that much is certain. There's not a lot of them that I actually go back to once I stop playing them, there has to be some crazy urge or pull towards them if I'm going to go back. However, there's only one real engine that I work with, and that's MUGEN. I guess with infinite possibilities, there's always something new to come back to, though I haven't really thought about anything regarding it in a while.
I had a bunch of characters waiting to be tested and I've been compiling a collection of stages to try out, for basically years. I finally went back in and put all the new characters in and playtested them, and now I'm working on adding the stages, which is a lengthy process for me. Actually adding them isn't really a problem, it's finding themes and characters to go on them. For every stage in my MUGEN, I've got a base theme, and then two characters that will appear on that stage in arcade mode and they have their own themes, and it takes me literal hours to find the right themes for most of these guys. All that work, but when it just feels right... That feeling is amazing. I think you could only get that kind of feeling with an engine that you can work with, it's not the same as customizing a character in an already complete game. 
Anyway, I'm actually getting through a lot of the stages in the folder, and I'm ready to jump back in to MUGEN on the regular as well, so you can expect quite a few new matches up on my channel in the near future. I realized recently that I started my channel basically as a MUGEN-only channel, and once I got my first EasyCap, I kinda just stopped caring about MUGEN. 
I've still got a ton of requests, and also tons more stuff since I last had a video up. A lot has changed in my life since I first started YouTube, but I still do play MUGEN, and I intend to go back to it. I have been playing faaaaaaaaaaaaaar too many shooters lately, and I would love to get back into fighting games. What better way to head back into fighters than to play one with everything I love?

Stuff on the horizon

Hey guys! It's been a bit since I posted a blog, and so I figured I'd let you guys in on what's gonna be goin' on, especially regarding my Twitch channel!
Yesterday I decided I would hop on Twitch with some more Swap Force so I had a chance to unbox my new Hyper Beam Prism Break and Phantom Cynder and also so I could try and grab as many stars as I could. Unintential consequences of this happened to be a really great stream and lots of audience participation. I realized afterwards that Skylanders just might be the kind of stream I'm looking for, since I have a purpose (*TO BECOME THE GREATEST PORTAL MASTER EVER!*), to finish off the rest of the challenges in the game, and also the audience can participate by telling me what Skylanders I should be playing! This is great for me, because it also fuels me in completing the game as well! I figure I can still stream Swap Force for a bit, and if need be, I can go back to Spyro's Adventure or Giants, because there's still a few things missing here or there that I can still grab. I also found I have friends that would be willing to join me in playing should they be around and the time is right for a stream, and for that I am grateful.
I was talking it over with my friends about what we could do to share my birthday party fun with everyone, and we decided I could stream a tournament, and the game I figured everyone would have a bit of interest in/could easily learn would be Skylanders, so streaming Skylanders a little more regularly will help me get all the Skylanders I own up to at least level 10 and get most of their abilities, so they'll be battle ready, and no one will be severely outclassed during the tournament, should someone decide to play them in a match!
I've also been working hard on Unfair-Y Tales, which will be prefaced with A Dramatic Reading of a Yearbook Signing. I'm not exactly scripting what's gonna go down with that, but I am outlining it. The next problem with it will be figuring out a time to record it, since I need my family to not be around to fuck it up, and I'll need someone else to be holding my Vita for the actual recording as well. The second part of that isn't as troublesome as the first though, so hopefully it will be soon. Once that begins, Phase 2 of my YouTube channel will commence.
In regards to what's already set to go up my channel, you can expect more SMITE, Dynasty Warriors, Skylanders and Marvel Nemesis in the near future, as well as a return to MUGEN! From Twitch highlights, there'll be more Saints Row the Third and some Ogre Battle up too! 

I'm ready for action, and I hope you guys are too! 

What kind of Let's Play do you prefer?

Hey everyone that reads this! I decided I'd write what I hope will be somewhat of a quick entry today when the thought popped into my head. So, just like the title says, what kind of Let's Play do you prefer? 
Hah, I bet you thought it would be just as short as that! I gotta explain what I mean at least! To me, there are two kinds of Let's Plays. I'm gonna use my series, Couples' Co-Op as an example for the 'every second of play' kind of LP, and pretty much anything the King of Sweden, Robbaz does nowadays as the example for the other kind of Let's Play, where the audience gets to see basically only the parts that the creator deemed fit to show.
I ask because I've come to find that every second LPs like Couples' Co-Op with Ibb & Obb can sometimes be incredibly long, even when the goal is right in front of our faces, and I've begun to start speeding up slower parts (I actually got the idea from another friend of mine, GravityWon). I feel like if we want you guys to share in the experience, I want to give you a glimpse of everything that goes on.
On the other hand, there are LPs where the creator cuts things up to the point that they only show footage that they themselves find interesting. Sometimes it can be a little confusing because you've missed something that led up to what you're seeing, but at least there is very little, let's call it "down time," in each video. 
So I'd like to pose a question! In your opinions, which kind of LP do you find to be more enjoyable to watch?

Schedules

I'm pretty big into organization, which could be a pro or a con depending on how you look at it. My entire life basically revolves around lists and schedules, and I hadn't realized until my aunt came to live with us again, just how much having someone constantly in the way can interfere with my daily goings-on. 
My basic schedule for life at this point is focused on an every-other-day schedule, let's go with As and Bs for now, since that's simple. On A days, I work on YouTube and Twitch stuff all day long, and on B days, I do everything else, but usually this involves eBay maintenance and errands and editing/tutoring if I've got any of that to do. The only thing that basically never changes is that I have an hour every night set aside to talk to Liz, though something usually comes up and gets in the way on most nights, and after that I end up playing Late Night Smite over on Teth's Twitch channel (We usually start around 11 PM, if you're interested! Come join us!). 
I am not really a morning person, so I generally don't get up THAT early, but my aunt has been making my mornings miserable for the most part because she lives in the room next to me, and is always on the phone SCREAMING because she can't hear anything. I end up going to sleep at 3 AM or (usually) later 'cuz of Late Night SMITE and that means I hope to get some restful sleep until it's time to get up, but that usually doesn't happen. If she's not screaming into her phone, she's in the kitchen with the tv at max volume and screaming over it into her phone. I usually end up waking up with a splitting headache, and I just lay in bed uncomfortable until it subsides.
It's not unusual for my family to get in the way, but at least my immediate family surprises me. Though, it's not really a surprise if you know us, if I have something to do, they're certainly going to get in the way. Really, I'm writing this blog to vent, and maybe offer some kind of excuse as to why I don't really take care of what I should be doing on the internet all the time, but especially when it comes to Twitch. I never really planned on streaming as a regular thing, but 80% of the time I do set aside some time to stream, my family ends up getting in the way. 
I know that I said that I wanted to keep this blog related more to my online exploits, and therefore it would reflect Kage_Okami more than Scott, the person behind the keyboard/controller, but I feel that once I start up Unfair-Y Tales, this will probably also start to become more of a personal blog. I've never really been afraid of opening up to people (except for my family, of course), and I think that some topics are too hard to make seem comedic, so I might just reserve the blog entries for other things I'd like to talk about. 
Don't worry, I've outgrown my xanga phase.