Jesus H. Christ, where do I start? Do I start with the dogs? Do I start with the cats? Do I start with the absolute shit storm going down in [insert part of the world that is missilling anyone else]? Do I dive into the cesspool of ultra-conservative bullshittery conspiracy theories? Do I continue with the anti-Semitic bullshit that's even surrounding Hurricane Helene? I just don't know where to start? So instead, let's briefly hard 180 to something else, like video games because I just can't with people's shit right now/ever.
Yeah, yeah, I know. We've been mentioning Keymailer so much over the last couple of months you'd think that this is a paid ad on a podcast. The truth is that I haven't been buying/leasing many games so this has been a source of acquiring games to play, share, and talk about. There have only been a few games that have been offered outright as opposed to me being the one who requested them, but I don't make the habit of requesting games I'm not already interested in. Sure, there've been some duds, but there've also been some bangers too, just like purchasing/owning games that you've never played, it can sometimes be a crapshoot. Something that I'm surprised about is that my YouTube channel has grown a bit with walkthrough/playthrough videos, but that's also because I've been making public my MIDI Week Single videos linked in each article; there are a few exceptions like when I already link from a composer's own YT video so that I don't redirect traffic away from their own video/music. Don't worry, I'm not going the route of a VTuber because that's just not me at all.
But speaking of YouTube videos, I've recently had a spat of hiccups with Steam's now built-in video recording functionality. Be it videos not being able to be exported for one reason or another, or videos not being able to be uploaded after being successfully exported, things are not great on that front. They're alright, and it's forcing me to find workarounds that I've kind of taken for granted these last couple of months. But right now, for instance, I have part 3 of a 50ish minute session with Ale & Tale Tavern uploaded to my laptop, and part 1 is being uploaded to YouTube because it won't upload to my Google Drive; so then I'll have to download it from YT and splice it together with parts 3 and 2 (assuming I can even get part 2 uploaded somewhere. And then in other issues, I'm just straight up unable to export a video file and Steam just tells me to "Try Again (2)" without any further explanation as to what I could possibly do differently or any hint as to what (2) means in terms of "Error #2?" maybe?
All the things I do in an attempt to further the growth of our site and YouTube channel, all in the name of looking attractive to publishers in the hopes that whoever is in charge of dishing out review keys, "Yeah, we like that site's chutzpah." But that is about where it stops. I do feel the pull of the masses when a video for one of our MIDI Week Singles gets a few thousand views in a month whereas another video might get fewer than 20. When I look at the analytics for articles and the site in general, I'll feel the pull to do something specifically for the clicks or the likes or the views, but I always come back to doing articles that I want to write and to share music that I want to share, and not another track from Skyrim; don't get me wrong though, I do love that soundtrack.
And speaking of Skyrim, I recently got back into The Elder Scrolls Online as it recently became closer to Steam Deck verified than it had been in the past. Something about the separate game loader having hiccups with the Steam OS had recently been ironed out so I thought it high time to revisit Tamriel in the second era. I had tried to get back into it by playing on my laptop back in March 2022 when I used my in-game Crowns currency (back from when I was paying month-to-month back in 2014) and purchased the Morrowind expansion. Only to have Morrowind become free less than a month later. Ah well.
That's just the way the kwarma egg cracks I guess.
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