Current plans

I haven't written an entry for a long time (business as usual, then) so I felt it was time for an update.

First of all, I'm still trying to figure out a sensible way to do the side-bar. I've also got a contact page set up, as some people have tried to contact me and ended up contacting other people on my host. People that are not me.

I'm also working on a page specifically for the videos I make, with a clear layout so that you will be able to select the exact video that you want (i.e. mp4, flv, html5? Long or multiple parts?) and see what other videos are planned.

This is still slightly confused by the fact that Blip will no longer let me upload different file formats for the same video.

Speaking of videos, why don't I do another one? I haven't finished writing the Death Note review, but why not Blood the Last Vampire in 5 seconds? Or maybe even commentary? Perhaps merely splitting the Dragonball review and joining the Blood one so that I have multi-part and long versions of both?

The answer to these questions is both simple and incredibly frustrating - my first generation sandy-bridge motherboard had an issue with the SATA connections, so I sent it in for repair.

I am still waiting to get it back.

Hopefully I will be contacted by the 28th of this month (which is happily enough 28 working days after I got the email telling me that I should be contacted in "3 to 5, or maybe 28 working days").

I'm currently doing everything on my laptop, however the dvd drive on it has stopped working since I installed Windows 8 Developer Preview (yay! /sarcasm)

This means that I have difficulty in installing things via the dvd drive - for example, the video editing software I have installed on my (motherboard-less) desktop.

After that I will be moving out, at which point I will hopefully have enough room to put up a simple green-screen and film my Death Note review (yes, a chromakey will be required).

Finally, I have a Con announcement: I'll be at Sunnycon! Not as a speaker, or anything (though I will quite possibly talk to someone at some point, at least to ask where the bathroom is) but as a normal person with a ticket and everything.

I will try to film it, and hopefully there will be enough interesting material to make a video. Don't expect any interviews, as I can't think of any questions right now, so in all probability I will just be gushing at them, and no-one wants to see that.

Zelda Takeover Day

Just in time for the release of Skyward Sword I've managed to put together a video about the Zelda-focused day from Gamecity 6.

Enjoy.

Oh, by the way - it's mp4 format. For some reason it won't let me attach the flv version as well, so I'm going to upload that separately, unfortunately.

FLV version:

(Awful) Anime Adaptations 2: Blood The Last Vampire: Part 4

Well, here it is:

The 4th and final of the second episode of (Awful) Anime Adaptations.

Now I can finally get to writing the others. Right after I finish Deus Ex, of course...

Gaiking

Admittedly I have not watched the original, but this has piqued my interest enough to get added onto my list.

EvE Mining Profit Calculator v1.0 - Release

I have written a mining calculator for EvE Online that the community could find useful - by entering the necessary values it will tell you in order of priority which ores to mine, what to do with said ore, and the amount of money the player can expect to make, assuming they have a full cargo-hold of the stuff.

Here is the public dropbox link for it: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33554381/EveMiningForProfit.zip

If I update it to be more complicated, then I think I can just update the zip file, so it will have the latest version in it.

(Awful) Anime Adaptations 2: Blood The Last Vampire: Part 3

Here is part 3 - a little short, but I decided to split the final section into 2, rather than try to trim it down. Blip's answer said that the videos just need to be under 15 minutes, so I don't need to retroactively edit part 2.

Video update

Well, this is confusing.

I am still working with the idea of distributing to youtube, either through blip or a separate youtube account (though I would of course prefer to manage it from one central account)

Youtube states that videos can be up to 15 minutes long, but blip.tv claims that they need to be less than 10. I am currently trying to find out if blip is, well, having a blip, or if their rules are valid.

If they are, it means that part 2 of the blood review is too long, and needs to be split into 2 parts.

The thing is, currently part 3 is about 16 minutes long, which would be too long anyway. But whether I just trim it, or if I also split that into 2, is dependent on the rules.

So, basically, I'm getting most of the work done, but I am unlikely to publish until I figure this out.

I also attempted to re-encode the Dragonball review using the desk bell sound rather than the bowl sound, which would make me feel better about enabling advertising on the episode (I'm thinking of splitting it into at least 2 parts, see the rules above)

However, I had to re-encode the resources I used, which was fine. Except that the film itself for some reason lost it's positioning markers, so each clip is just the Fox logo.

I also don't have any of the audio files anymore. As a result, that's not probably not going to work. At all.