Greetings one and all!
So, I've done something I haven't done in a while this week.
Livestream.
It's been.... far too long since I last did any, I think it was back in the first month or two of the year when I did.
Since then I've gotten a better microphone and acquired what I need to stream console games. I can say without a doubt after 2 streams of Splatoon that it works beautifully.
On the other plus side, I mostly had a good time! (technical glitches aside)
What does that mean for me?
Probably a lot more livestreaming, it's certainly worked out to be a heck of a lot easier than streaming PC games! The software I'm using is on the whole a lot easier for streaming that OBS is (once I FINALLY found the blasted button to press to make the stream go live). I can understand why OBS (Open Broadcast Software) can be complicated, it's catering to PC's which are notorious for being finickity and kinda complicated. Where as my console software is just 'here's the input, where do you want output, you want commentary too? Cool, press this button here and you're off.
My potentia-plan right now is to stream at least 1 hour once a week. It might not seem much, but for me that'll be a good starting point and if I want to do more then that's awesome. What game I'll stream, so far I'm not sure, or games. I'm also considering 2 streams in a week period and playing alternate games on those days, possibly playing through a whole game from scratch so that the views can enjoy the stream with me.
Will I upload the streams to youtube?
Possibly. I'm pretty sure I can get my software to record and stream at the same time however it won't include the chat from the stream unless I record that separately somehow.
Lots of possibilities but you know what? I'm hopeful and kinda happy with how my streaming has gone this week and by limiting it to about an hour (probably some over) I'll stop myself from burning out too quickly as I get used to a very public and very live at the time system.
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
Thursday 30 July 2015
Saturday 11 July 2015
My Favourite Moment From: The Avengers (Assemble)
Greetings one and all!
So, I've been, mulling this one for a little bit since re-watching The Avengers, or as us Brits know it Avengers Assemble (Because the modern public can't discern between the old British action flick The Avengers, and the modern Marvel superhero film).
Why have I been mulling it over?
Well, I wanted to work out how I was going to share with you one of my favourite moments. Now, when I first saw the film in the cinema I had some favourite moments then. Who can't argue the 'Puny God' and squeak that Loki gives out. Or the fight scene between Iron Man and Thor, with Captain America ending it. Oh! Or when Iron Man finishes the fight between Loki and Captain America in Germany.
Now, these moments are still really awesome to me but there's a line that stands out from Captain America that I find really sums up how WONDERFULLY written The Avengers is. How much attention there is to the little details that tell us SO much about a character whilst not actually telling us directly the fact.
Wanna know?
I hope so else I've written this for nothing!
It's when Captain America is getting himself geared up to chase after Thor who grabbed Loki from custody and Iron Man who shot off after them.
"There's only one God ma'am, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that"
When I first heard that line, it was a 'huh' moment.
Now to quickly give some context, I had not seen ANY of the Marvel Films that had been in the run up to this film. I was given only a couple of bits of information from my boyfriend (who had) which gave me a tiny bit of context, but not much. I'd asked what I needed to know and he'd provided a tidbit or two. I honestly forget what they were but they weren't much. Because he'd already seen the film, he knew in his fantastically geeky heart that I wouldn't need a lot.
I grew up at the end of the 80's and through the 90's, I knew the X-Men from the 90's cartoon, I knew who The Hulk was, I knew who Spiderman was. I didn't know who Captain America was (beyond 'he's a superhero representing America's values right?), Iron Man (I knew who played him and he'd been doing well for himself and fans liked him), I didn't know who Black Widow were or Hawkeye were. I knew of Thor (I like my mythologies and had seen posters) and knew of Nick Fury in a 'oh isn't Samuel L Jackson playing something badass in it?' but then again Samuel L Jackson doesn't often playing anything but a badass in stuff I've seen.
So I didn't walk in with loads of knowledge, enough that I wasn't a complete newb, but enough to get a bit of an outside perspective.
That line.
That line told me SO much about Captain America. It tells me in 1 line, 14 words, so much about him. Let me break it down.
First off, he calls the pilot/co-pilot Black Widow ma'am. A respectful term that doesn't presume anything about her, other than she's female. It doesn't presume she's married or not, got children or not, it presumes nothing but respect for her. He's not even knocking what she's said!
Secondly, and obviously the biggest, he believe in A God. A single God. So probably some form of Christianity, probably one of the major splits of the religion ( You know, after the big split of Protestant/Catholic) and yet he's not pressing that issue on the woman he's talking to. He's just stating his belief that there is a single God
Thirdly, that he's saying he's 'pretty sure' he doesn't dress like that. Yet I find myself thinking that once again he's not forcing the issue. He's just saying what his opinion is without making an issue of it. This is my belief ma'am and I'm gonna stand by it (now excuse me whilst I jump out of a flying plane)
So yeah, I'm gushing about the brilliance of a single line of dialogue in a film FILLED with awesome dialogue the doesn't everything it can to tell you ALL you need to know about the people who are in it, the characters, their dynamic, how their histories blend and that as a group they will do what they can to save the world. (obviously that last bit is once the attacks started) But I wanted to share with you all just how amazing I thought that one small line was and what it meant to me.
Now, if you'll excuse me, my Lego Loki looks like he wants to bust out of the display cabinet I've locked him away in.
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
So, I've been, mulling this one for a little bit since re-watching The Avengers, or as us Brits know it Avengers Assemble (Because the modern public can't discern between the old British action flick The Avengers, and the modern Marvel superhero film).
Why have I been mulling it over?
Well, I wanted to work out how I was going to share with you one of my favourite moments. Now, when I first saw the film in the cinema I had some favourite moments then. Who can't argue the 'Puny God' and squeak that Loki gives out. Or the fight scene between Iron Man and Thor, with Captain America ending it. Oh! Or when Iron Man finishes the fight between Loki and Captain America in Germany.
Now, these moments are still really awesome to me but there's a line that stands out from Captain America that I find really sums up how WONDERFULLY written The Avengers is. How much attention there is to the little details that tell us SO much about a character whilst not actually telling us directly the fact.
Wanna know?
I hope so else I've written this for nothing!
It's when Captain America is getting himself geared up to chase after Thor who grabbed Loki from custody and Iron Man who shot off after them.
"There's only one God ma'am, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that"
When I first heard that line, it was a 'huh' moment.
Now to quickly give some context, I had not seen ANY of the Marvel Films that had been in the run up to this film. I was given only a couple of bits of information from my boyfriend (who had) which gave me a tiny bit of context, but not much. I'd asked what I needed to know and he'd provided a tidbit or two. I honestly forget what they were but they weren't much. Because he'd already seen the film, he knew in his fantastically geeky heart that I wouldn't need a lot.
I grew up at the end of the 80's and through the 90's, I knew the X-Men from the 90's cartoon, I knew who The Hulk was, I knew who Spiderman was. I didn't know who Captain America was (beyond 'he's a superhero representing America's values right?), Iron Man (I knew who played him and he'd been doing well for himself and fans liked him), I didn't know who Black Widow were or Hawkeye were. I knew of Thor (I like my mythologies and had seen posters) and knew of Nick Fury in a 'oh isn't Samuel L Jackson playing something badass in it?' but then again Samuel L Jackson doesn't often playing anything but a badass in stuff I've seen.
So I didn't walk in with loads of knowledge, enough that I wasn't a complete newb, but enough to get a bit of an outside perspective.
That line.
That line told me SO much about Captain America. It tells me in 1 line, 14 words, so much about him. Let me break it down.
First off, he calls the pilot/co-pilot Black Widow ma'am. A respectful term that doesn't presume anything about her, other than she's female. It doesn't presume she's married or not, got children or not, it presumes nothing but respect for her. He's not even knocking what she's said!
Secondly, and obviously the biggest, he believe in A God. A single God. So probably some form of Christianity, probably one of the major splits of the religion ( You know, after the big split of Protestant/Catholic) and yet he's not pressing that issue on the woman he's talking to. He's just stating his belief that there is a single God
Thirdly, that he's saying he's 'pretty sure' he doesn't dress like that. Yet I find myself thinking that once again he's not forcing the issue. He's just saying what his opinion is without making an issue of it. This is my belief ma'am and I'm gonna stand by it (now excuse me whilst I jump out of a flying plane)
So yeah, I'm gushing about the brilliance of a single line of dialogue in a film FILLED with awesome dialogue the doesn't everything it can to tell you ALL you need to know about the people who are in it, the characters, their dynamic, how their histories blend and that as a group they will do what they can to save the world. (obviously that last bit is once the attacks started) But I wanted to share with you all just how amazing I thought that one small line was and what it meant to me.
Now, if you'll excuse me, my Lego Loki looks like he wants to bust out of the display cabinet I've locked him away in.
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
Thursday 9 July 2015
Thoughts Followup: Splatoon
Greetings one and all!
So last time I wrote, I blogged about how I'd kinda fallen in a strange kind of love with Splatoon.
I've pumped a fair few more hours into the game now
One moment
20 hours and 59 minutes I'm up to now.
Considering the kind of game that Splatoon is, this really surprises me in some ways and really doesn't surprise me in others.
Seeing as I bought the game a week after release I really expected to already be behind when it came to the online multiplayer and yet there were always people with a lower level than myself. So far you start at level 1 and can get up to level 20. The first couple of levels progress very quickly so that you can unlock a few more weapons rather than just the basic shooter. Then things start to slow down some and as of the moment I think I'm about level 14ish? (I'm not gonna check, sorry)
Which means all the level 20 people I was playing with and against when I was level 7 had been playing FAR more Splatoon than I had and yet back then I was kicking some ass. Not so much in the multiplayer.
I participated in the recent Splatfest! Here in the UK (or possibly whole of Europe, I've no idea how they decided they were gonna break up the world into chunks with different questions) we got the choice of supporting wither 'Rock' or 'Pop'. I went for Rock, I like both (not so much modern Pop but a fair chunk of 80's pop was AWESOME) and in the grand scheme of things after the inky dust settled it turned out more people had gone for Rock anyway.
Considering quite a few matches I was in my team had to face another team of Rock supporters because there wasn't enough Pop ones at the time. It was a bit of a no-brainer.
Funnily enough speaking of that, there was a bit of mis-matching going on with the Splatfest.
Some poor person, whoever they were, ended up against 3 of us Rockers. YUP the matchmaking failed so badly that it was a 1 vs 3 match. I went in with the thought that I wouldn't go in and try and knock them off cos it was so unfair, I'd just potter around inking the place up and go for as much cover as possible. They decided to try and wipe me out, I defended myself, then continued inking up. At one point they were holding out really well. Unfortunately for them we were better.
That said, the amount of matches where someone just stood still and did nothing really got on my nerves.
OH! what's worse? The people who walk around slowly inking as many walls as possible. Inking walls does nothing unless you need to climb said walls, this one person though was inking every wall they could get ink to stick on which really effected the whole team.
Grr, moan moan.
Rather more pleasantly I finished off the Single Player and found that the final boss took me a fair few goes. I never completely ran out of lives on the thing but it was tough! The premise was simple enough once I worked THAT out, but the fact you had to get your timing just right amongst chaos made it quite the challenge. I enjoyed it!
1 more slight niggle. I know that one of my good friends would really dig playing this game. The nutiness and neat art style are totally their thing. However they probably won't be able to play the game due to a nerve problem in their hand. I'm planning to record myself playing through the bosses in the next few days and will upload that for your and their delight. So keep an eye out for that!
Finally I will say that with near enough 21 hours plugged into the game I still find it quite fun. I've yet to do any of the Ranked Battles but that's because I know I'm not THAT good at this game. But whilst Nintendo still have the friendly battles I'll still play some multiplayer from time to time, and probably next time I play it'll be time to try out a new weapon. Whilst the base roller USED to be an awesome powerhouse people have been working out the balance and can now come back and kick my ass in ways that seem quite unfair (Though I'm pretty sure they're not, those people are just better than me)
So yes, I'd say it's still worth a blast and good for a giggle!
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
So last time I wrote, I blogged about how I'd kinda fallen in a strange kind of love with Splatoon.
I've pumped a fair few more hours into the game now
One moment
20 hours and 59 minutes I'm up to now.
Considering the kind of game that Splatoon is, this really surprises me in some ways and really doesn't surprise me in others.
Seeing as I bought the game a week after release I really expected to already be behind when it came to the online multiplayer and yet there were always people with a lower level than myself. So far you start at level 1 and can get up to level 20. The first couple of levels progress very quickly so that you can unlock a few more weapons rather than just the basic shooter. Then things start to slow down some and as of the moment I think I'm about level 14ish? (I'm not gonna check, sorry)
Which means all the level 20 people I was playing with and against when I was level 7 had been playing FAR more Splatoon than I had and yet back then I was kicking some ass. Not so much in the multiplayer.
I participated in the recent Splatfest! Here in the UK (or possibly whole of Europe, I've no idea how they decided they were gonna break up the world into chunks with different questions) we got the choice of supporting wither 'Rock' or 'Pop'. I went for Rock, I like both (not so much modern Pop but a fair chunk of 80's pop was AWESOME) and in the grand scheme of things after the inky dust settled it turned out more people had gone for Rock anyway.
Considering quite a few matches I was in my team had to face another team of Rock supporters because there wasn't enough Pop ones at the time. It was a bit of a no-brainer.
Funnily enough speaking of that, there was a bit of mis-matching going on with the Splatfest.
Some poor person, whoever they were, ended up against 3 of us Rockers. YUP the matchmaking failed so badly that it was a 1 vs 3 match. I went in with the thought that I wouldn't go in and try and knock them off cos it was so unfair, I'd just potter around inking the place up and go for as much cover as possible. They decided to try and wipe me out, I defended myself, then continued inking up. At one point they were holding out really well. Unfortunately for them we were better.
That said, the amount of matches where someone just stood still and did nothing really got on my nerves.
OH! what's worse? The people who walk around slowly inking as many walls as possible. Inking walls does nothing unless you need to climb said walls, this one person though was inking every wall they could get ink to stick on which really effected the whole team.
Grr, moan moan.
Rather more pleasantly I finished off the Single Player and found that the final boss took me a fair few goes. I never completely ran out of lives on the thing but it was tough! The premise was simple enough once I worked THAT out, but the fact you had to get your timing just right amongst chaos made it quite the challenge. I enjoyed it!
1 more slight niggle. I know that one of my good friends would really dig playing this game. The nutiness and neat art style are totally their thing. However they probably won't be able to play the game due to a nerve problem in their hand. I'm planning to record myself playing through the bosses in the next few days and will upload that for your and their delight. So keep an eye out for that!
Finally I will say that with near enough 21 hours plugged into the game I still find it quite fun. I've yet to do any of the Ranked Battles but that's because I know I'm not THAT good at this game. But whilst Nintendo still have the friendly battles I'll still play some multiplayer from time to time, and probably next time I play it'll be time to try out a new weapon. Whilst the base roller USED to be an awesome powerhouse people have been working out the balance and can now come back and kick my ass in ways that seem quite unfair (Though I'm pretty sure they're not, those people are just better than me)
So yes, I'd say it's still worth a blast and good for a giggle!
That's all for now.
Have a lovely evening!
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