I haven't used this blog in a loooooooooooong time, but why use pastebin when I have my own blogspot page?
Anyway, way back in 2009 I used to watch a lot of those Let's Play videos, and that really inspired me into doing them myself. But the experiment didn't work, at least at the time, because apparently I had a bad style of commentary or something, but in any case not many people liked them.
Then in 2012 livestreaming became a thing and that kinda killed the old Let's Play format, because people now would rather interact with the one playing live and not watch a pre recorded video. That's pretty much the reason why I stopped in 2013.
At the same time I was a big fan of the Angry Video Game Nerd (and somehow I can relate to his style of reviewing) and I noticed at the same time LPs died, many people who did it in the past switched to do reviews, podcasts, etc.
It looks like this is the only way to go on YouTube these days, and I could take advantage of that to improve my video editing skills. I would have to work very hard on that kind of videos though, I'd have to script anything, and that's where I suck the most. I could stare at my screen for 5 hours doing nothing. I'll test the waters with a few KH videos I wanted to do when I actually rant about game mechanics (including a certain superboss...).
In these 4 years I did those KH videos because I didn't want to leave my channel unactive. It worked pretty well when the HD ports came out and I uploaded clean footage of them.
And I also tried Twitch. Other than the fact I have 3rd world internet and streaming isn't easy, I couldn't get a single view by casual playing in the way I want. I tried the speedrunning route (because I'm good at KH2FM) but man I HATE it. That's the kind of stuff which makes you hate the game you love, I speedrun for 10 minutes and I need a month break from gaming, that's the problem. The amount of concentration you have to put to pull off perfect gameplay all in a row running against the time is ridiculous. I didn't expect it would have been this insane by looking at other people. And I can't imagine how it takes to people who speedrun over 12 hours a day and go for world records and such. That goes beyond my physical limits and I'm not sure if it can damage my health. I can try keep going for now, but I certainly can't put my whole heart in the game and get world records.
At least, now that you know I want to make quality content on YT, if anyone is interested in doing graphics and such let me know.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Thursday, May 19, 2016
The internet nightmare
So, if you noticed I started livestreaming more often a few months ago. I personally enjoy interacting with the chat much more than doing commentary offline like I used to.
But there's a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG F***ING PROBLEM.
So, for 11 years since I moved from my old apartment to my new house in the country side I had an abusive illegal telephone MT4 splitter which pretty much splits the signal 4 times to all my neighbors. They did that as a cost saving way to give phone to everyone. The problem with this is this was a 1980s (illegal) thing and I can't install internet here.
I seriously realized this now. After the first year of 19kbps, satellite ultra capped internet, a billion cell data deals, I ended up installing dish wireless in 2011.
It was the best solution, but unfortunately it's extremely unstable and my upload can't go higher than 0.5 Mbps, and it's never at that speed anyway.
My stream most of the times looks like this, and I've got many complaints:
So, I'll try next week opening a legal case about it and eventually have that fucking splitter removed. I can't guarantee anything.
If that won't work, I'll be forced to move in order to stream.
I'm in my early 20s, and to be honest going to live for my own won't be easy, especially if the ONLY reason why I would do it is to stream on Twitch.
But there's a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG F***ING PROBLEM.
So, for 11 years since I moved from my old apartment to my new house in the country side I had an abusive illegal telephone MT4 splitter which pretty much splits the signal 4 times to all my neighbors. They did that as a cost saving way to give phone to everyone. The problem with this is this was a 1980s (illegal) thing and I can't install internet here.
I seriously realized this now. After the first year of 19kbps, satellite ultra capped internet, a billion cell data deals, I ended up installing dish wireless in 2011.
It was the best solution, but unfortunately it's extremely unstable and my upload can't go higher than 0.5 Mbps, and it's never at that speed anyway.
My stream most of the times looks like this, and I've got many complaints:
So, I'll try next week opening a legal case about it and eventually have that fucking splitter removed. I can't guarantee anything.
If that won't work, I'll be forced to move in order to stream.
I'm in my early 20s, and to be honest going to live for my own won't be easy, especially if the ONLY reason why I would do it is to stream on Twitch.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
YouTube Red
NOTE: YouTube is NOT my job and it'll never be. I'm currently a college student and I use ad revenue just to buy some of the games and such. Just had to post this before somebody is going to say "get a job" and such.
So, Google came out with a paid service, YouTube Red, which pretty much will let you watch the videos without having to watch ads while content creators (like me) still get revenue.
So, my point is, if Google is trying to fight Adblock with this like what I've heard, they're totally doing it in the WRONG way. Literally nobody is going to pay for that.
If they REALLY wanted to do something right, they could have just blocked the site to people who had the extension installed and let them load again the page with the extension disabled. Or put ads which play as videos and don't get blocked. That's the way they should have done it.
Let me say, blocking ads of content creators on YouTube, Twitch and other sites is much more wrong than piracy. It's just causing damage over free content, and you wouldn't even have the valid excuse you don't have money. It's just greediness over wasting 5 seconds of a life.
Then again, I'm not against blockers being used with spam ads or people who redirect you to 50 linkbucks loops and load your page with 9000 popups. There should be something called spam blocker, not ad blocker. I was forced to do it on a forum with that kind of spam which would even freeze my browser sometimes.
So, with that said, I'm not saying the single users are causing damage, but the owner of Adblock clearly is.
And to sites, make ads skippable after 5 seconds and put them in an enough low quality people with bad internet can view them. Then make them unblockable, that's the way to do it.
So, Google came out with a paid service, YouTube Red, which pretty much will let you watch the videos without having to watch ads while content creators (like me) still get revenue.
So, my point is, if Google is trying to fight Adblock with this like what I've heard, they're totally doing it in the WRONG way. Literally nobody is going to pay for that.
If they REALLY wanted to do something right, they could have just blocked the site to people who had the extension installed and let them load again the page with the extension disabled. Or put ads which play as videos and don't get blocked. That's the way they should have done it.
Let me say, blocking ads of content creators on YouTube, Twitch and other sites is much more wrong than piracy. It's just causing damage over free content, and you wouldn't even have the valid excuse you don't have money. It's just greediness over wasting 5 seconds of a life.
Then again, I'm not against blockers being used with spam ads or people who redirect you to 50 linkbucks loops and load your page with 9000 popups. There should be something called spam blocker, not ad blocker. I was forced to do it on a forum with that kind of spam which would even freeze my browser sometimes.
So, with that said, I'm not saying the single users are causing damage, but the owner of Adblock clearly is.
And to sites, make ads skippable after 5 seconds and put them in an enough low quality people with bad internet can view them. Then make them unblockable, that's the way to do it.
Friday, September 11, 2015
Bye Nintendo
It happened 2 days ago, Nintendo started taking down Mario hacks and videos done using emulators and such.
I really don't trust them anymore even for a short video, so sadly you won't see anything on my channel being Nintendo related. With that said I privated all my Nintendo 1st party games videos, especially SSBB music/texture hacks and NDS videos which were done on emulator only because I didn't know back then any way to record from a real NDS. I also trimmed all the Wii menus appearing from 3rd party games.
Fortunately my most viewed videos were all about Kingdom Hearts and old school games which were not by Nintendo. I'd say except a Kirby video and a DKC Tropical Freeze boss run which had many views, anything else has around 100/400 views and I'm not taking the risk.
It really upsets me only because of the fact I wanted my channel to not be a one game channel but to have an huge library of videogames. Nintendo made most of the very popular series and I'll have to live without them.
What I hate the most is how they did that coincidentally with the release of Mario Maker. Let me say if it wasn't for hacks, they'd never thought about making it. I'm not buying it for sure.
What's funny it's I got initially partnered with a network which specified in Pokemon hacks, and they called me only because I made ONE video, which is even deleted now.
I know this makes people mad, but these days I kinda need ad revenue from my videos, and I can't stand Nintendo throw 10 Content IDs on a video where I used a 1 second Mario jump sound as a joke.
By now I'll try focusing on Kingdom Hearts until I'm done with all I wanted to upload from 2FM/BBS 2.5, and then I'll move to old school games like I always did, they just won't be Nintendo games.
Remember this doesn't mean I won't do 3rd party games like Sonic on Nintendo consoles.
I really don't trust them anymore even for a short video, so sadly you won't see anything on my channel being Nintendo related. With that said I privated all my Nintendo 1st party games videos, especially SSBB music/texture hacks and NDS videos which were done on emulator only because I didn't know back then any way to record from a real NDS. I also trimmed all the Wii menus appearing from 3rd party games.
Fortunately my most viewed videos were all about Kingdom Hearts and old school games which were not by Nintendo. I'd say except a Kirby video and a DKC Tropical Freeze boss run which had many views, anything else has around 100/400 views and I'm not taking the risk.
It really upsets me only because of the fact I wanted my channel to not be a one game channel but to have an huge library of videogames. Nintendo made most of the very popular series and I'll have to live without them.
What I hate the most is how they did that coincidentally with the release of Mario Maker. Let me say if it wasn't for hacks, they'd never thought about making it. I'm not buying it for sure.
What's funny it's I got initially partnered with a network which specified in Pokemon hacks, and they called me only because I made ONE video, which is even deleted now.
I know this makes people mad, but these days I kinda need ad revenue from my videos, and I can't stand Nintendo throw 10 Content IDs on a video where I used a 1 second Mario jump sound as a joke.
By now I'll try focusing on Kingdom Hearts until I'm done with all I wanted to upload from 2FM/BBS 2.5, and then I'll move to old school games like I always did, they just won't be Nintendo games.
Remember this doesn't mean I won't do 3rd party games like Sonic on Nintendo consoles.
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Google+Tube Does it Again
One big problem with YouTube now is the fact if you block somebody he can still comment your videos which is absolutely stupid, why the fuck there's a block button then.
I actually rarely block people, but somebody lately is really asking for it. And this time I wasn't even "feeding" the troll, somebody else always does it, and I also really HATE being bootlicked like this (I'll talk about this privately to people who want to know about this).
Anyway, this is the conversation. The douchebag was spamming all my videos in the same day, and while I replied only once, he also spammed one of my videos by replying to an old comment.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LightVoidGamer/posts/haFW2CQNto3
Now this prick comments every 10 hours or something, like he has nothing better to do in his life, and he can even once I blocked him.
I actually rarely block people, but somebody lately is really asking for it. And this time I wasn't even "feeding" the troll, somebody else always does it, and I also really HATE being bootlicked like this (I'll talk about this privately to people who want to know about this).
Anyway, this is the conversation. The douchebag was spamming all my videos in the same day, and while I replied only once, he also spammed one of my videos by replying to an old comment.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LightVoidGamer/posts/haFW2CQNto3
Now this prick comments every 10 hours or something, like he has nothing better to do in his life, and he can even once I blocked him.
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Re: You're not a nice guy
First of all, I do have a life and I do have friends, and if I get kicked from a TS server because somebody thinks I need to learn how to be a "better human being" I easily don't give a shit.
But anyway, all the times I tried to be the nice guy it was then an hard time, and nobody asked me to do it, or better...
Those were the times when I was getting the worst mid school kids I've ever got, and I had to do anything they said.
I have 4 playthroughs which are about 200 videos I have which I had to do because of kids pestering me to to them. And by that I mean A LOT, around 5 messages a day and they weren't even the only ones.
I had people telling me to change something in a video every time, people asking me to upload more, and I always did.
One of the worst people was that kid who almost harassed me to play Crash TWOC and he pretended a perfect walkthrough with world record times. I spent TWO WEEKS at home doing it, it was one of the hardest times I had with videos, and what was the result? He told me I sucked and unsubscribed. Then of course some of my long time subscribers were telling me all the time to stop listening to him.
The result of me doing all this? Easy. Less people coming to my videos because I was being a fucking tool to anyone abusing of the fact I'd do anything people told me to do.
And not only, I've got even people saying my videos were fake and such, or people who couldn't even do something in the video and sending me 9000 PMs a day and crying on the camera, like a kid did for an hack video on KH I did a long ago which he couldn't do because he did it wrong.
After that I decided to stop making videos for a while, until I got back.
Then when I got unexpectedly 50K+ views on my KH videos, I started to get that kind of people all over again. And this time I decided to NOT be a nice guy because I'd rather kill myself than doing that to 300 people trying to explain while getting cheat accusations and insults, or impossible requests.
I do not "treat like shit" people who are nice with me and such. And if you think I'd say the same things in real life, I can only tell you I never met somebody so stupid in my life.
You get it Tackify now?
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Channel updates
I haven't used this blog in 2 years. Good thing it's tied with my YouTube account or I probably wouldn't even know how to access it.
It probably won't even get much attention like it used to thanks to YouTube and their stupid current channel design which makes your description very unnoticeable.
I had to make a new post because you probably have no idea what's going on on my channel, especially if you've been watching me for a long time.
First of all, YouTube changed these years many times. I know it's not all about views, but if you upload videos you worked on you want them. Back when I started it was very easy to get views, even though I initially didn't know how to grab people's attention, but no ad revenue at all.
From mid 2010 it became A LOT worse, generic gameplay videos wouldn't get viewed at all because YouTube's search was taking you to old videos, so people started to make commentary videos and making their channels a lot more unique and I started doing the same. It was also the time people started getting partnered. At first it was fun, but then I realized there were too many people doing it, and I should have started before if I wanted to do that. Some of my Let's Plays were pretty popular, but most people were always there to watch the gameplay because I didn't have an interesting style, and the fact some of the videos would get under 50 views made my commentary even worse.
Then things changed again... it may be worse or not. People who managed to break the 60K sub barrier grew even more because they appeared on the main YT page. Other people completely disappeared, popular Let's Players get like 20 times less the views they get now.
Meanwhile YouTube's search system tends to show more recent videos and not the most popular one which tends to lead people to watch old videos, so doing generic videos like boss runs and such is now an option again.
It also happened though Content ID and copyrights started to get a big problem, especially with Nintendo who claims revenue even on 20+ year old games, and considering how I get revenue from my videos, if I can avoid playing a Nintendo game I do.
So with that said, I probably won't be doing commentary playthroughs for a long time, without Nintendo it's not a good idea. I still want to finish Ratchet & Clank 3 but after that I have nothing in mind for LPs.
Many people liked my Kingdom Hearts videos, so I'll keep it up while uploading some other games I feel like to play as well.
Lastly, I remind you I'm having health problems which take away all my gaming mood, my internet is shit at uploading now and it takes me hours to upload videos, and I'm also a bit busy, so sometimes I'll be a lot inactive.
It probably won't even get much attention like it used to thanks to YouTube and their stupid current channel design which makes your description very unnoticeable.
I had to make a new post because you probably have no idea what's going on on my channel, especially if you've been watching me for a long time.
First of all, YouTube changed these years many times. I know it's not all about views, but if you upload videos you worked on you want them. Back when I started it was very easy to get views, even though I initially didn't know how to grab people's attention, but no ad revenue at all.
From mid 2010 it became A LOT worse, generic gameplay videos wouldn't get viewed at all because YouTube's search was taking you to old videos, so people started to make commentary videos and making their channels a lot more unique and I started doing the same. It was also the time people started getting partnered. At first it was fun, but then I realized there were too many people doing it, and I should have started before if I wanted to do that. Some of my Let's Plays were pretty popular, but most people were always there to watch the gameplay because I didn't have an interesting style, and the fact some of the videos would get under 50 views made my commentary even worse.
Then things changed again... it may be worse or not. People who managed to break the 60K sub barrier grew even more because they appeared on the main YT page. Other people completely disappeared, popular Let's Players get like 20 times less the views they get now.
Meanwhile YouTube's search system tends to show more recent videos and not the most popular one which tends to lead people to watch old videos, so doing generic videos like boss runs and such is now an option again.
It also happened though Content ID and copyrights started to get a big problem, especially with Nintendo who claims revenue even on 20+ year old games, and considering how I get revenue from my videos, if I can avoid playing a Nintendo game I do.
So with that said, I probably won't be doing commentary playthroughs for a long time, without Nintendo it's not a good idea. I still want to finish Ratchet & Clank 3 but after that I have nothing in mind for LPs.
Many people liked my Kingdom Hearts videos, so I'll keep it up while uploading some other games I feel like to play as well.
Lastly, I remind you I'm having health problems which take away all my gaming mood, my internet is shit at uploading now and it takes me hours to upload videos, and I'm also a bit busy, so sometimes I'll be a lot inactive.
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