| November 2025 | |
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| 11/30/2025 | November 2025 Update Thing. |
| October 2025 | |
| 10/21/2025 | I'll be taking a work vacation Halloween week (Oct 26-Nov 1), and like usual I probably won't record anything that week. Probably not even any World Link or Purple bonus eps either. Also, I'm really tired and was really busy with stuff today (Tuesday), so I won't be recording tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to Thursday instead. |
| 10/7/2025 | I've uploaded my Pokémon Emerald playthrough's 1st episode, which means all three of my new playthroughs have officially begun now (finally...). |
| 10/1/2025 | Never mind, I started Neptunia VII already. Hopefully I can start my other new playthrough this week, too. |
| September 2025 | |
| 9/29/2025 | I'll probably be taking a break for another week before I start recording/uploading again. Today (Monday) I was planning on starting recording my new stuff, but I still have to prepare a bit more for them (I've been kind of lazy) and I'm not feeling good today. If I'm up for recording Thursday night, I may record Air Ride then, otherwise I probably won't record again until next week. |
| 9/16/2025 | With Touhoumon Ordinary's extra episode uploaded, the playthrough's "super" officially over now. I'll probably be taking a break for the rest of this week and next week from recording/uploading stuff, then I'll finally start my new stuff (that's not Air Ride). |
| 9/16/2025 | Touhoumon Ordinary is officially "over", but I'll be uploading a "bonus" episode for it soon (I've already recorded it). |
| August 2025 | |
| 8/27/2025 | New playthrough: Kirby Air Ride. |
| 8/20/2025 | I probably should've made an update about this earlier, but oh well. Anyway, because of a combination of me wanting to relax during the rest of my vacation, and me being busy with a lot of stuff, I haven't recorded anything in a while. At this point, the only thing I'm planning on recording this week will be the bonus ep of World Link (on Thursday night probably, which I was originally planning on recording almost a week prior...), as I "promised" I'd do it. Which means another week of no Ordinary, but as it's my only current playthrough right now, I'll have plenty of time to record it later, so whatever. |
| 8/12/2025 | SMA2: Super Mario World's 15th episode was its final one, and Omori - Sunny Route's 25th episode was its final one. Touhoumon Ordinary will be my only ongoing playthrough from here on out until it's also finished. Then I'll start three brand new playthroughs. |
| July 2025 | |
| 7/29/2025 | I'm way too tired to record tonight (Tuesday), too... I had a hard time getting good sleep, probably because it's been really hot lately. This means, unless I'm somehow able to record on Friday, I'll most likely only do two recordings this week, then. I still need to finish editing the Omori episode I recorded last night anyway (it's taking a while because it's so long this time). The second one I record will either be Omori again or Mario World. |
| 7/11/2025 | I changed the "Old Info Pages" page to the "Other Pages" page, and moved the "Streams", "Playthrough Side Series & Old Playthroughs", "CS-Mania Stuff & Old Channel Videos", and "Miscellaneous Videos" page links from the main video page to that page. I also changed it (in the Other Pages page) from table style to just a normal list. I moved the "Other Finished Playthroughs" link into the "Other Stuff" section on the main video page. |
| 7/10/2025 | Damn, apparently it's been a while since I've posted anything here... Anyway, with the way things have been going, I might go back to recording/uploading three episodes a week again. Which would be nice, as I can focus more time on finishing my current playthroughs, so I can finally move on to doing more, new stuff I've been wanting to do for a while. Recording and editing has been a lot easier and less time-consuming lately, especially thanks to my new PC, so keeping up three a week shouldn't be very stressful for me (hopefully). |
| May 2025 | |
| 5/6/2025 | Since I won't really be following any sort of schedule for my videos anymore, I'll be changing the Video Schedule page to the "Video Calendar" page. I like the page enough that I don't want to retire it completely despite me not needing it to schedule stuff, so I'll just use it as a calendar to show what days I uploaded stuff on, I guess. The ones from the previous years will still be listed as "schedules" though, as that's what they were for at the time. |
| April 2025 | |
| 4/18/2025 | New playthrough videos are on hiatus until at least the middle of June. You can read more info about why here. |
| 4/15/2025 | I have no idea why the "Death Wish" image wasn't in the folder where the rest of Hat in Time's images are, but it's there now. In case you were wondering why it wasn't appearing at all in Hat in Time's video page, now you know. I have no idea how long it's been like that, but whatever. Also, I decided to record Omori's next ep before Ordinary's, just in case I'm not able to record again this week for whatever reason (I'm on vacation next week, and I really wanted to make sure Omori's next ep in particular was done before that). I'll just have Omori go before Ordinary in general now as a result of this, I guess. |
| 4/9/2025 | Considering how this week's been going so far, I should be able to record/upload three episodes this week, and I'd like to try to, so I'll change my Video Schedule to reflect this. While I'd like this to be a regular thing (again), I doubt I'll be able to do this next week, so I'm not sure about that in general, unfortunately... Also, I'll be taking a break from work & and normal recording the week of Apr 20-26. I have a really special thing planned for that week; hopefully things go as planned... |
| March 2025 | |
| 3/28/2025 | Episode 32 & 33 of Ordinary were re-uploaded to fix a border image mistake; Luize was shown to know Return instead of Dizzy Punch throughout both episodes. Considering when she learned Dizzy Punch, and how I was feeling during recording and editing episode 32, I'm not that surprised this oversight happened, although I'm a bit ashamed it took this long to notice and fix this. I noticed while editing its 34th episode, which almost suffered from this same oversight as well. Thankfully that won't be the case; I should hopefully be done editing that sometime tomorrow night. |
| 3/11/2025 | I've, uh... found a way to "fix" the lag issue with Omori, so I should be good to record it next week like originally planned. |
| 3/10/2025 | Omori was really laggy when I recorded it last, and I'm not sure how to fix it right now. If fixing this problem takes long enough, I might delay recording it again until it's fixed and have Mario World take its spot next week; I tested recording Mario World, and it seems to be fine (which means Ordinary should also be fine). Also, yeah I know, what a thing to have to happen when I start recording videos again, ugh... |
| February 2025 | |
| 2/20/2025 | I've been feeling very mentally stressed lately, and I think my recording and uploading stuff may be part of the reason why. I've been doing this for a long time after all, and the amount of time it takes for me to make all these videos (editing especially) has become incredibly draining. Even only doing it two times a week now, it still eats up a lot of my time. I didn't want to admit this before, but I've been in this bad mental state for a few days now, even before recording and uploading Ordinary's last episode. Honestly, I'm shocked I even had the motivation to record and edit that, considering...
I still do like making videos, but I realized that my love for making them has been slowly fading away over time. I'm sure I've mentioned this a couple of times, but when I first started doing this I never expected this to last forever, or even for this long honestly. I never made an "endgoal" for myself either, but I knew there'd be a point where I'd eventually stop. Knowing me, it'd probably happen while in the middle of my current playthroughs, and they'd unfortuantely be left unfinished. There have been certain points that I'd think to myself: "Is that time coming soon?" And now is, unfortunately, one of those stronger times. Since I'm feeling this way, for now, I think it's for the best that I take a break from recording/uploading videos for about two weeks. Give myself some time to clear my head and think about things. I wanted to at least wait to do this the following week so I could get another Omori and Mario World video up, but I really think I need to do this now. Who knows, maybe one week will be enough and I'll go back to uploading again the following week. Or maybe... it'll be longer than two weeks... I suppose I could technically go back to doing this again whenever I want, even if it takes me a couple months, so that's... kind of comforting I guess. Despite everything I said I still don't know if I want all this to die yet. Maybe I feel this way because I've doing this for so long, I don't know... And finding something to fill the hole it'll leave when I stop, I don't know what I'd do about that... This doesn't mean I won't be doing anything for the channel at all, though. I'll still be streaming (probably). Mostly because I think quitting all of this stuff cold turkey with my mental state the way it is would be a really bad idea... Who knows, maybe I'll change to just streams instead of making videos? I prefer making videos, but streams are a lot less work, and are a lot less stressful as a result. Switching from making videos to just streaming is something I never wanted to do, but then again, I used to think I'd never stream at all, so... Who knows what the future will hold for me and my channel from here on out. Hopefully that future isn't a dreary one... |
| 2/10/2025 | My "third playthrough game" will (finally) be starting next week. |
| January 2025 | |
| 1/28/2025 | I'm probably going to wait to start "the 3rd game" after I've done some stuff in Ordinary, mostly "the league" stuff. Which means I'll probably start it around mid-February... which was basically the original plan, lol. |
| 1/27/2025 | I'm considering starting the playthrough replacing Mario 64 Rando earlier than originally planned, even as early as next week. Obviously, this means my current schedule might not be 100% accurate as a result. I'll post another "news thing" here again if I end up changing the schedule to reflect this. |
| 1/26/2025 | I combined the stuff from the "Old Playthroughs" page into the "Playthrough Side Series" page. I "gave the yellow" from the Old Playthroughs page to the "Old Info Pages" page. |
| 1/24/2025 | I made a few changes to my site, mostly involving the main page. I combined the "Playthrough Series Info" and "Other Videos" sections into the "Other Stuff" section. I moved the "Episode # List" and "Episode Calendar" pages into the "Old Info Pages" page, as I don't feel like updating those anymore. I moved the "Old Channel Videos" lists into the "CS-Mania Stuff" page, and turned the Old Channel page into one for my Streams (I've been meaning to give them their own page for a while now). I changed the name of the "Misc." page to "Miscellaneous Videos", so it's more obvious what's in it. Lastly, I added direct links to both my main and second channel to the main page (I used to have them there before; I have no idea why I got rid of them...). |
| 1/24/2025 | This is probably not very surprising at this point, but I don't think I'm going to make any sort of "reaction" or watch video for World Link's 18th episode after all. I don't really have the time, especially because of me starting streaming recently, and to be honest, I don't really like making those kinds of videos anyway. |
| 1/13/2025 | Super Mario 64 Randomizer (Nonstop Mode)'s final episode is now up, meaning the playthrough is offically over now. The one that'll replace it will start either in mid February or early March, so I can focus on recording more episodes for Ordinary and Omori (Sunny Route). So it'll be just those two for a few weeks. |
| 1/5/2025 | I won't be recording M64 Rando Nonstop this week actually as I want to stream again on Thursday. It's probably for the best I wait a week to record that anyway as I'm planning on it be a pretty long episode. |
| December 2024 | |
| 12/30/2024 | Considering how the week of 1/5-11 (2025) will be for me work wise and other stuff, it may not be a bad week to try and record/upload three playthrough videos instead of just two. I'm a bit iffy on this as Omori's and M64 Rando's next episodes might be a bit longer than normal, but with how editing's been going for me lately I'll probably be fine... I hope. |
| 12/30/2024 | I decided to check the last video I recorded/uploaded last year, as I was curious if I talked about any "year-ending" stuff since I wanted to do that kind of thing for my last recording of this year as well. I realized that the last episode of 2023 was Paper Rando's 4th episode, which was actually an episode I re-uploaded later to fix some border image issue. I checked this via a link on my playthrough schedule page for 2023... and realized it still linked to the old version of that episode, instead of the re-uploaded one. Apparently I never fixed it... oops. It's fixed now, almost a whole year later, lol. The link in Paper Rando's video list page has been correct this whole time though, in case you didn't already know that. |
| 12/21/2024 | I added a "Featured Videos" section to the main page at the bottom. One of the three videos that are there right now will be World Link's 18th episode, as its a special episode to me and as of today it's been exactly five years since I've uploaded it. |
| 12/16/2024 | I changed my mind about having the ".5" playthroughs combined with their "original" counterparts, on both this site and in their YouTube playlists. I was starting to not like how they looked the way they were before, so they'll now have their own pages on this site, as well as their own playlists on YouTube. This of course means that Omori and SM64 Rando will count as "finished playthroughs" now, because... well, they are. In case you don't remember, Luigi's Mansion 64.5 actually had its own page and playlist at first, and now it will again. I never actually deleted those, in case I wanted to use them again, so I will... be using them again for it, lol. |
| 12/10/2024 | As the rest of December's going to be pretty busy for me, and I want to make sure I have time to record and edit at least a few more videos in the upcoming weeks, I most likely won't be streaming again until January. Also, I'm probably going to be streaming Thursday nights instead of Sunday nights from now on. |
| 12/10/2024 | I added links to my stream "videos" in the "Playthrough Side Series" section on my site. That's where they'll be from now on for now. |
| November 2024 | |
| 11/23/2024 | I decided to record and upload a video of me EV training "ABRA" in World Link. It took way longer to record and edit than I thought it would... |
| 11/18/2024 | Similarly to last year, as I feel like I've taken a good amount of playthrough breaks this year, I'd like to avoid taking a bunch during December if possible... However, the December holidays are going to be awkwardly in the middle of the weeks they fall on this year... I'd like to try and get at least one episode of something up during each of those weeks, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to. What's up on the schedule page right now is what I'd like to do going forward... |
| 11/16/2024 | Thanksgiving week won't be a very good recording week for me... Well, even more this year than previously, I think. So I'll be taking a break from recording stuff that week... although there's one special thing I'd like to squeeze in there, if possible... |
| 11/15/2024 | I've recorded Omori (Sunny Route)'s 1st episode at last! I wanted to finish editing it tonight as well, but I ran into some unexpected issues with its game/mic recordings. I've dealt with the more "time-consuming" stuff in editing, so finishing it tomorrow should be fine... even though it's a Friday... I hope. |
| 11/13/2024 | "Tuesday night me" here. I was considering recording Omori tonight, but I ultimately decided against it and will instead record it Thursday night. I feel like it's for the best as I'm pretty tired (again...) and I still haven't finished editing Ordinary's episode. It's a long one to be fair; I've already edited up to almost an hour of it as of me writing this. And if I record Omori tonight I'd most likely end up spending tomorrow (Wednesday) finishing editing Ordinary's episode, and as a result would have to edit Omori's on Thursday, which would only help the episode get uploaded around a day earlier, assuming I end up finishing editing Omori's episode on Friday. This leaves Wednesday as a "break day" for recording/editing stuff (assuming I get Ordinary's ep done tonight), which is good. |
| 11/12/2024 | I went out and bought another keyboard, which I used to type this. I haven't finished editing Ordinary's next episode though, as I was really tired today (Monday) for some reason. Hopefully I get it done before I record Omori Tuesday night. |
| 11/10/2024 | My poor, old keyboard, that I've had longer than even my PC, has sadly stopped working. I ordered another one online and was expecting to get it tonight, but its delivery was unfortunately delayed to Wednesday. I normally use my keyboard to help me start/stop recording, but I've come up with another method of recording without needing it. That being said, as I don't want to risk any issues occurring with Omori's 1st episode of the Sunny Route, I'll be putting off recording it until next week (unless I get my new keyboard earlier than Wednesday). This won't be reflected in my Video Schedule page (yet) because I can't really edit that without a keyboard. Even this news update I had to write all of using my phone, post it in a random YouTube comment in one of my unlisted videos, and then copy-paste it onto my site. |
| 11/1/2024 | I uploaded another bonus episode for Purple (+7), this time focusing on Contest stuff. |
| October 2024 | |
| 10/31/2024 | I uploaded bonus episode +6 of Touhoumon Purple. Er... just in time for Halloween? (The episode has nothing to do with Halloween, lol.) |
| 10/25/2024 | Well, I guess Omori's... Omori route is officially over now. That was probably the weirdest way I've ever ended a playthrough before... although I suppose it isn't over yet, in a sense. Just like with Mario 64 Rando Nonstop Mode, the "next playthrough" after Omori will be of the Sunny route, which will be in the same video page and YouTube playlist, and will be considered playthrough "24.5". |
| 10/22/2024 | I'm probably going to "stream" Omori again either Thursday this week, or sometime during my vacation next week. Hopefully not after that, as I'd like to do it again soon. |
| 10/15/2024 | At this point, I'll either record Ordinary Thursday night or nothing at all (more) this week. Hopefully I feel better next week, because I don't want to put off recording Omori's next episode for too long... |
| 10/14/2024 | I'm still not feeling good, so I'm going to postpone Omori's next episode to next week, as I have something big planned for it. If I end up recording anything (else) this week, it'll be Ordinary's next ep instead, I guess... |
| 10/9/2024 | I just now noticed that, in the descriptions of both ep +5 and +6 of World Link, the romhack link lead to Purple's page instead of World Link's. I'm assuming I must've copied some stuff over from Purple's note page onto World Link's or something and that's why that happened. My bad... It's been fixed now. |
| 10/9/2024 | I decided not to record tonight (Tuesday), and instead recorded this video. |
| September 2024 | |
| 9/30/2024 | I'll be taking a work/playthrough video break on the week of Oct 27-Nov 2. I might record/upload a bonus episode of Purple then, as it's been a while. |
| 9/20/2024 | While the Mario 64 Rando playthrough is technically over, in a sense, Super Mario 64 Randomizer - Nonstop Mode, playthrough #28.5's episodes will still be in Super Mario 64 Randomizer's video page and YouTube playlist. |
| August 2024 | |
| 8/11/2024 | As of the week of Aug 11-17, it's been about a year since I played Omori for the first time, during my August vacation last year. Because of that, it'd be a shame if I don't upload any Omori episodes this week... As such, I'm going to start this week with another Omori episode, and Mario 64 Rando will be the one that doesn't get an episode this week instead. This actually kind of works out as there's still some stuff I want to prepare for Ordinary's next episode that I haven't yet. The schedule will be my "normal one" after this, so this will technically mean this week's Omori episode will be an "extra" one. |
| 8/7/2024 | I combined Luigi's Mansion 64.5's episodes into Luigi's Mansion 64's video page on my site, as well as its playlist on YouTube. |
| July 2024 | |
| 7/28/2024 | By the way, funnily enough, this year's days of the week match up exactly to each day five years ago... in July, at least. Which means I recorded and uploaded Randomized Emerald's last episode on a Friday; damn. From what I remember, that week ended up being a really good recording week, though. Which is probably why I decided to finish the playthrough then. And I was apparently gung-ho to start World Link and Purple immediately after, holy shit. I definitely don't have that kind of energy anymore... I wonder if this is a sign that this playthrough stuff won't last forever. I mean, of course it won't; it has to end eventually but... Well, I suppose past me can at least have some comfort knowing that my desire to make videos on my new PC faaar exceeded just that one random vacation over five years ago... lol. |
| 7/28/2024 | 7/27/2019. The day I uploaded the final episode of my Randomized Emerald playthrough. It's been five years since then. I wanted to make some sort of special video celebrating this, preferably on the night of July 26th, as that's technically when I recorded Rando Em's final episode five years ago. However, that day (yesterday) I was busy with other stuff and didn't really have the energy to record anyway. Today was... basically the same thing. I celebrated my birthday with my friends today as I couldn't on my actual birthday, since I was on vacation. I normally work Saturday mornings though, so I probably wouldn't have had much motivation to record at night either way, though. At this point, the next time I'm probably going to be in the mood to record, Monday night, I'm going to want to use that time to record an actual playthrough episode (of Omori, most likely), so... I guess forget about the "special 5th anniversary" video then... I was originally planning on making some sort of reaction video to not only Rando Em's final episode, but also World Link's and Purple's 1st episodes as well, as those were uploaded shortly after, and as such it's been about 5 years since I've uploaded those too. But I don't have the energy to even react to just a part of Rando Em's video... Maybe some other time, because I still kind of want to do that. That's always been an episode I wanted to do some sort of reaction thing for, and I thought this would be the perfect time to do that... Oh well. I should've planned this out a bit better, maybe recorded this stuff earlier and maybe wait until their anniversaries to upload them or something, but with my big vacation that I just got back from... there's no way I would've had time for that, even if I'd thought of it beforehand. I wanted to do at least something though, so I figured I'd at least write about some stuff I wanted to talk about, I guess. So instead of hearing me ramble on about shit out loud, you'll get to see me do so in... either a random comment on Rando Em's final episode, or somewhere on my channel, or on my news page on my site or something... I'm writing all this on some random WordPad document currently, and am planning on copying it all over to... somewhere after this. I just thought of this idea to type everything out like this instead of saying it out loud just a few minutes ago (from my perspective), lol.
Anyway, I looked through Rando Em's last episode on my own a bit. I still have such fond memories of recording that episode, and the whole playthrough in general. Admittedly, at this point it's probably not my favorite playthrough or my most memorable one, even among my older playthroughs, but it probably has my favorite final episode. Especially because of its ending. I've tried to make "impactful" or "memorable" final episodes since then, especially for my more longer playthroughs, but I don't think anything has come close to matching how good Rando Em's final episode was. I don't know how much I've talked about this before, if I even have at all, but that episode not only symbolized what that playthrough truly meant to me in the end, but how I looked at my playthrough stuff going forward. When I first started my Randomized Emerald playthrough, I went into it actually really wanting to get views. Maybe not a shit ton of them; it's not like I ever thought I'd get like a million subs for doing this kind of thing, but I thought a few 100 or so views per video would be nice. I picked Randomized Emerald in particular with that in mind actually... One, it's a Pokémon game, Pokémon of course being a popular video game franchise. Two, Emerald is game I was very familiar with it and was a fairly long game, which means I could comfortably record a bunch of episodes of it without much issue. Three, and most importantly (to me), it was randomized, changing it from a normal playthrough and potentially offering all sorts of interesting surprises for both me and the viewers. Also, since it was my unique seed, the playthrough was truly unique to me and people would "have" to watch my videos to see what the seed I was playing truly had to offer. However, back then, I was recording on my old laptop, and as such I had a much harder time recording good "high quality" episodes. Editing also was quite a pain as well if I recall, a lot moreso than now actually (and that's saying something, lol). I also wasn't getting many views either, which is unsurprising considering what the videos are like, so my motivation to keep making them ended up slowly dying out... Until I got my new PC, and one day, during a random work vacation, the thought of trying recording something again with my new PC and other stuff randomly crossed my mind. This time, just for a bit; just a few videos, as I had just got into OoT Randomized and thought recording a few videos of me playing it would be fun. This time it wasn't for views; I just wanted to do it for the heck of it and didn't think my interest in making more would last very long, especially considering what had happened in the past. Considering what things are like now... it's pretty funny to look back on, lol. Anyway, not only did I decide to make more videos even after that vacation, but I decided to even go back to my Randomized Emerald playthrough and make more videos of that as well. Eventually, I set things up so my recording and uploading would be set to more of a schedule, to help my video making more consistent, which helped me actually finish the playthroughs I'd started... including Randomized Emerald. Which I did have the goal of one day finishing it when I first started it, as time went on that goal seemed more and more unrealistic... so it was pretty wild to me when the day to actually finish the playthrough came. And at that point... I knew I couldn't just end it "normally" anymore. It might be because the time between its first episode and its last was so long, but my thoughts about my Randomized Emerald playthrough changed drastically over time. First of all, my decision to "bring the playthrough back to life" when I made episode 19 wasn't done to "get views" like before. I did it for me, and me alone. Not only that... but, probably because of the fairly large amount of time I spent on the playthrough, I feel like I developed a bond with both my in-game team and the playthrough itself, one that I hadn't in a long time. One that I hadn't since I was really young, and in a way that I thought I never would again. In its last episode, I had "another me" stop me from just ending the playthrough after beating Steven. Ending the playthrough then would've made sense, but the "other me" didn't feel like that'd be satisfactory enough. Not... anymore, anyway. At that point, I'd come up with ideas for new playthroughs, that being for World Link and Purple, them being two of my most memorable playthroughs of all time. As such, a part of me was excited to finish Rando Emerald so I could start them. I'd been doing it for a while, so now was a good time to say goodbye... But was it really okay to "rush things" and end it just like that...? The "me" that just wanted to end the playthrough already, and the "me" that wanted to take my time and enjoy the rest of my adventure with my randomized Pokémon friends, seemed to be fighting internally within my mind at the time. Yes, friends... at that point, that's what they had become after all that time. I needed to give them a good send-off, I thought... The battle between the "two mes" after I'd fought Steven was meant to be a representation of what I'd felt about the playthrough at the end. This also gave me the opportunity to have my "extra" Pokémon appear in a battle one last time as well, which there happened to be exactly six of, funnily enough (if you count Entei, anyway). Interestingly enough though, while that was planned to be its finale for a while, there's a particular moment in the video that happens afterward that I probably think more fondly of than this. Mostly because it wasn't actually planned at all. After my fight with "my other self" was done, my plan at that point was to just look towards the ocean near Dewford "dramatically" (as a reference to a previous episode), and say my final goodbyes or something. At that point though, the reality that I was about to finish the playthrough really kicked in, and I felt I was almost going to choke up and cry right then and there. You can probably even here this in my voice while I'm giving my "speech". I honestly didn't expect to be as emotional as I was about it then. But what's even more surprising, especially looking back on it, is this particular thing I ended up saying: "All our stupid adventures together... I really will... miss." *pause* "But you know what? It's alright... You know why? Because this wasn't just a... regular playthrough of Emerald or even Randomized Emerald... It was an LP. So that means whenever I want, I can look back... on the videos I've made... if I ever want to see you guys again..." This seems like it was said for my own sake, rather than the viewer. Because... it was. None of that was scripted. I said that completely on the spot; not to sound dramatic for the viewer's sake or anything, but... for my own. It was like I was trying to find a way to comfort myself after feeling so sad at the realization that, yeah, this playthrough really is about to end. I don't think I've ever had a final episode be so emotional, even for playthroughs like World Link and Purple, and that's why there'll never be a final episode that compares to this one. Even after all this time. Even after five years. Because it wasn't just some Emerald playthrough. Not even just some randomized Emerald playthrough. It was my randomized Emerald playthrough. And since I recorded and uploaded it all, I can still look back on it whenever I want to see my old pals again, even after all this time... Randomized Emerald Forever. |
| 7/25/2024 | Never mind, I recorded Mario Rando Wednesday night. Although, funnily enough, had I actually recorded it Thursday night instead it would've been recorded exactly one month after the previous episode, lol. Also, on an unrelated note, I want to record a "special thing" Friday or Saturday night. Hopefully I'll be able to, as it's something I've been wanting to do for a while... |
| 7/23/2024 | I don't know if anyone noticed, but I actually re-uploaded Ordinary's 13th episode twice to fix a few things. I know it's been a while since I've made a video, but I really should look over my videos a bit more before deciding to upload them... Anyway, I'm really damn tired today for some reason, so I'll be recording Mario Rando Thursday night. |
| 7/21/2024 | I'm back from my vacation! Well, I got back on the 19th, but whatever, lol. I'm most likely going to be recording again Sunday night (an episode of Ordinary), as that should actually be a pretty good recording night. By the way, I've been considering cutting down my recording and uploads to two times per week instead of three, which will be reflected in my Video Schedule page. I'm not 100% sure if I'll actually stick with this change though, even during this week. We'll just see how things go for now... |
| June 2024 | |
| 6/30/2024 | Omori's 28th episode will be my last upload before my vacation. Which means my next upload won't be until after it, obviously. Until then, see you. |
| 6/23/2024 | Apparently the week of Jun 30-Jul 6 is going to be a much worse week for recording than I thought, to the point that I most likely won't end up uploading anything at all that week. Which means I'll actually be taking a three week break instead of just two... Oh well, I figured that week was going to be awkward for recording in some shape or form anyway. |
| 6/19/2024 | It took me until after I recorded its 2nd episode for me to add my current collected Stars to Super Mario 64 Randomizer's video page, lol. |
| 6/18/2024 | The "Episode List (by Episode #)" page's name has changed to "Episode # List", and the playthroughs on that list are now ordered based on when they started, rather than by how many episodes they have. |
| 6/18/2024 | Apparently, this whole time, the playlist link in Omori's video page led to XD's playlist instead of Omori's... Whoops. I guess I copied XD's page when making Omori's page, and forgot to change it after uploading Omori's first episode... I normally wouldn't mention something like this in this news page, as it's a small and easy fix, but I felt like doing it this time as it's been like that for so long, lol. Anyway, the link should be the correct one now; my bad... |
| 6/15/2024 | I've finished editing and have uploaded Omori's 25th episode. I'll edit its 26th episode later tonight. |
| 6/15/2024 | I ended up recording another episode of Omori tonight (Friday) instead of editing its 25th episode. If you're wondering why... well, you'll find out when those two eps end up getting uploaded. The recording session ended up tuckering me out more than expected, so I won't be editing and uploading Omori's 25th episode tonight and will do so tomorrow instead. Considering the nature of its 26th ep, I might have time to edit and upload that one tomorrow as well... maybe. We'll see. I'll just do it on Sunday if I don't have time for that one. |
| 6/12/2024 | Thankfully, it ended only taking an hour or two to resolve the issue with my computer. I ended up recording the 1st episode of my new playthrough without much issue. |
| 6/11/2024 | This is from the perspective of me around 11:30 pm, around the time I'd normally record something on Tuesday. I was planning on recording the first episode of my new playthrough tonight; I even spent some time a few hours ago getting some stuff prepared for it so I'd be ready for it on time. However, about an hour ago something ended up happening to my computer that I'm currently in the middle of dealing with. As I'm writing this, it's trying to fix some sort of data errors or something. I have no idea why or how this happened, so I may not have time to record tonight, or maybe not even for quite a while depending on how long it takes to fix. I had to get out a little old laptop of mine that I somehow got to work to even type this out and get on to my site. By the way, no, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to use it to record anything, lol; it's even less powerful than the laptop I used to use to record Rando Emerald's old episodes. Anyway, since I don't know how long it'll take to fix my computer I figured I would at least mention it here so you know why I haven't uploaded in a while on the off chance it takes a few days to resolve. Hopefully I can get through this okay, and quickly so I can finally start my new playthrough, because I'm really looking forward to doing that. |
| 6/11/2024 | I'll be recording the 1st episode of the playthrough replacing Amazing Mirror this week, instead of Ordinary. Ordinary's next episode I'll record sometime next week. |
| 6/7/2024 | Amazing Mirror's 9th episode will most likely be the final one of the playthrough. It'll probably be the next thing I record. |
| May 2024 | |
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| 5/22/2024 | I have a pretty good idea of how my recording and editing schedule is going to go this week, so I might as well mention it here: - Monday night: Record Omori's 23th ep (already did) - Tuesday night: Record Amazing Mirror's 7th ep (just did before writing this) - Wednesday afternoon or night: Edit and upload Omori's 23th ep - Thursday night: Record Ordinary's 9th ep - Friday night: Edit and upload Amazing Mirror's 7th ep - Saturday: Edit and upload Ordinary's 9th ep This gives me just enough time to finish up all the episodes I want to do before my playthrough break starts. I could potentially record and edit more than one thing on one day, like on Wednesday, but there's no reason I have to with the way my schedule is. If anything changes in regards to this I'll post another update here probably, but I doubt that will happen. |
| 5/17/2024 | I recorded an episode of Ordinary tonight instead of Omori. I still want to record Omori this week though, so I'll do that tomorrow instead... hopefully. As a result of me recording Omori tomorrow (Friday), this means that Omori's and even Ordinary's next episodes will probably end up being uploaded sometime next week instead of this week... but oh well. Hopefully I'll find time to edit both of their episodes without it interfering too much with my recording time later. Considering that I have a playthrough break coming up soon, despite me recording Ordinary's next episode "early", I'll still probably record another one next week, because otherwise it's going to be quite a long time until I record it next. |
| 5/9/2024 | I've got something to write here yet again.
Sorry about writing about so much stuff here this month, I've been really indecisive about how things have been going lately. Also, I've been noticing that I tend to like to spend a lot of time at the beginning of my videos talking about stuff that would be more appropriate to talk about here instead, and I'm trying to "fix" that.
Anyway, I mentioned before that I was considering changing to only doing two playthroughs at once instead of three; I'm already reconsidering this decision. Honestly, it's mostly because of Omori. If I decide to not play a new game in place of Amazing Mirror, I feel like I'm going to be playing just Ordinary and Omori for quite a long time (because of how long I think Omori is going to take to finish). There is something I've been wanting to play after Amazing Mirror as well, and I don't want to wait too much longer to play it. At the very least, I'd like to wait until Omori is over before I make the decision to change the amount of games I play at once. I feel like I can handle recording three games at once still if I don't make my episodes too long and I give myself breaks before editing when necessary. If stuff ends up falling on the following week as a result, oh well. In fact, considering how I'm feeling today I might not end up editing Omori's next episode tonight (I still want to record it though, at least). I know I said before that Friday isn't a great editing day, and it's not, but I'll... figure something out. Yeah... |
| 5/8/2024 | While I said before that I wouldn't change how the episodes of my current playthroughs that I uploaded before the "experiment" are listed in their respective playthrough pages, I've changed my mind about this. I've changed all of them to match the way it looks for my current episodes. I did this for even Omori's, even though that playthrough's been going on for a while. I'll leave my old playthrough pages alone though, as I don't really feel like there's much reason to change them still. I may change World Link's and Purple's bonus pages though, at some point (as I technically still upload episodes for them occasionally). I've also simplified some stuff in those pages in general if you haven't noticed, as I'm trying to make things easier for me when I edit them now and in the future. |
| 5/8/2024 | I know that this week isn't over yet (in fact, I still haven't recorded Omori), but I already have some thoughts regarding my "experiment". Upon taking some time to think about it, I don't think it's going to help me out as much as I thought it would. I felt like it was nice that I got to relax a bit more on Monday and Tuesday than I probably would have if I did things normally, but I don't think it's going to change much for the rest of the week. I have no idea why I didn't consider this before, but Fridays are actually really bad days for editing, and Saturdays aren't much better. Which means I'm going to have to record and edit Omori's next episode Thursday night if I want its episode to be done this week. Which isn't a big deal, as I've always done that on Thursdays anyway, but this means that I won't be giving myself an "editing break" for that like I did with the other two. I was assuming that there was a chance at least one of them would fall on the following week, as a result of this being the "first week of the experiment" (which I kind of already mention on this news page previously), but I don't really want that to happen if I can help it. By the way, yes, I know that I did technically edit almost all of Omori's last episode on Friday, but I have so little free time on Fridays that I didn't have time for literally anything else, and had to push a lot of stuff that I would normally do then to Saturday instead, so I don't want that to become a regular thing.
That being said, there's something else I've been thinking about doing in regards to my video stuff. At first, I was humoring a bit the idea of only uploading two videos a week instead of three, which would of course result in my video stuff eating up a lot less of my free time (especially because of editing). However, that would be very similar to how things were when I used to do four playthroughs at once, but still only did three a week (which resulted in a playthrough missing a week about every three weeks). From what I remember, that wasn't something I enjoyed very much, so it was an idea that I shot down pretty quickly. However, that made me realize something... why exactly do I need to be doing three playthroughs at once anyway? From what I remember, I first changed it from two to three when I started World Link and Purple. I did that so those two weren't the only games I was doing; if I wasn't doing a third one along with them I'd be making nothing but Touhoumon videos for... well, years, considering how long playing through them would take. But I'm no longer doing that; I'm only currently doing one, and I'll probably never do two at once like that again. While Ordinary's probably going to take a while, I should have plenty of time to play other games along with it even if I'm only playing one other game. Sure, one of the games right now is Omori, but I'm assuming it won't take that long to finish (I hope, lol). If I ever want to make a playthrough of a longer game that's not Touhoumon related (like Nep VII), I can just do that after Ordinary is finished. I don't need to be playing a Touhoumon game on my channel all the time, after all (that was already the case while I was playing XD, anyway). The more I thought about it, the more changing it back to only making two playthroughs sounded like a good idea. I kept wanting to play so many games at once in the past (I even did four at once even, as I mentioned before), because there were so many games I wanted to play, but that drive has slowly started to dwindle after doing this for so many years. I still want to keep making these videos of course (in fact, I feel like I've started to finally look forward to recording Ordinary's episodes in particular), but I feel like it's a really good idea to start slowing things down. I'm getting really tired of how much of my free time is being taken up by recording and editing videos every week; in fact I think that's partly why I've kept having random moments where I became very stressed out and felt the need to vent about it in my videos. I feel like this is a change I really need, and will do me a lot of good in the long run. This will even give me more freedom to give myself some time to take breaks inbetween recording and editing and still get them up on the same week, if that's something I still want to end up doing. That being said, since I'm still doing three playthroughs, this is obviously not something I can start doing right away (unless I just abandon one of my playthroughs all of a sudden, which I obviously don't want to do). Instead I'll continue to do things as I have been (recording and uploading three a week), and just wait for one of them to finish. After that, I just won't have anything replace that one (I'm assuming Amazing Mirror's going to end next), like what I did when Hat in Time ended. For all I know I may go back to doing three again someday, or I might not even go through with this idea at all, who knows. At the moment though, I do feel pretty strongly about this idea. Sorry that I've made so many long posts here this month. I've (clearly) been thinking about a lot things regarding my playthrough stuff recently, as there's been a lot of stuff related to it that's been stressing me out. I'd like to say this is finally the last time I make a post this long-winded (this month), but knowing me I'll probably find some reason to make a super long one again. I'm sure this definitely won't be the last thing I write about here this month in general, at least. In fact... |
| 5/8/2024 | I wasn't very much in the mood to record Omori tonight (partially because spring allergies were bugging me), so I ended up editing and uploading Ordinary's episode tonight instead. I was kind of wanting to do that "early" anyway. I'm assuming I'm going to record Omori Thursday night (again, lol) instead. |
| 5/7/2024 | I ended up going through with my "experiment" (or at least starting it). I recorded Ordinary's next episode Monday night, and then instead of editing it the same night, I recorded Amazing Mirror's next episode instead. Considering how it went that probably won't be a regular thing, but it might be something I'd consider doing at least occasionally. Also, this isn't something I mentioned before, because it's not something I realized last time; depending on how much time I decide to space out between recording and editing my episodes, some of my videos may end up getting uploaded the following week. I'll at least try my best to make sure every video isn't uploaded more than a week after I record them, and will still try and record three episodes a week. |
| 5/3-4/2024 | Sigh. Last night was ridiculous. I'm sorry for talking about this again, but I want to go into more detail about what exactly happened as it's been bugging me for some reason. Hopefully I'll be satisfied after this and won't bring it up again. Anyway...
Last night, pretty much right after I got out of work, I decided to immediately start recording something I wanted to mention at the start of Omori's next episode. I want to do it as soon as possible while it was still as fresh in my mind as it was, and this way I wouldn't have to worry about having to do it later on when recording (the rest of) the episode around 11. However, I had a hard time remembering everything I wanted to say, and I kept stopping myself and looking back at what I'd recorded to make sure I wouldn't repeat stuff I'd already said. It eventually became annoying and time-consuming, and it began to frustrate me as what I wanted to talk about was supposed to be rather simple and I didn't think would take as long as it was. I ultimately decided to just scrap everything and start over again, and hoped I could try and simplify what I wanted to talk about to make things easier for me. I then thought it might be easier to just write it all in my news page instead, so I put my mic away and decided to just do that instead. This way I could also turn my AC on while doing so as it was really muggy in my room then, and that really wasn't helping my mood at the time. However, even when writing I made things too long-winded for my liking, and eventually ended up scrapping that, too. I figured I probably just wasn't in a good enough mood to be doing that then, as I was still tired from work and didn't give myself some time to chill out a bit first. At the time it was already 10:30, so I figured I would "take a break" from that for about an hour, and would just talk about it briefly when I actually started recording Omori at 11:30. I had actually bought food before coming home, and it was starting to get cold, so that would give me some time to eat it beforehand as well, which I figured would help me feel better. However, it was on my mind so much that I decided to start recording a couple minutes before that... which in hindsight might've been a mistake. While beginning to record Omori, I noticed myself having a hard time talking about what I wanted to say again, and began to once more become stressed out. And I scrapped what I'd recorded... again. Honestly, while I was constantly scrapping things to try and make things easier for me, I think, looking back, it was having the opposite effect and making things worse. I think I was getting annoyed that I had to try and talk about something over and over again, and was becoming frustrated with taking so much time to explain something that really shouldn't have been taking long at all. I was wondering if it was even worth it to talk about it in the first place, if it was wasting so much of my time, but at the same time I felt like I had to now because it had wasted so much of my time. I was struggling to make a decision on this, while becoming more and more stressed out once I realized midnight was fast approaching, and I hadn't even technically started recording Omori yet. I ended up just sitting there, not being able to decide what to do, as my recording time slowly began dwindling away. At that point, I thought the only thing I could think of to calm me down was to just give up on recording Omori entirely that night, so I could relax and devote the rest of the night to find a way to properly talk about what I wanted to say, whether in text form or out loud. Eventually, I did, which ended up as all of that blue text below. It ended up being kind of long-winded anyway, but it was almost 2 am at the time and I just wanted to be done with it, so after that I was like "Whatever, this is good enough." And all I really wanted to say was that I'd been stressed out because there've been some minor issues with my videos that I've been worried about, which honestly aren't even that big of a deal, really. I have thought of a way to "fix" the problem though, which I hope goes well in the long run. I'm aware that I've most likely repeated information in this news page numerous times, but I don't feel like looking over the blue text below again and deleting/changing stuff I wrote, so whatever. Anyway, this isn't actually all I wanted to mention, though. I've been thinking about some stuff that could help make things less stressful for me in regards to making my playthrough videos. And I've come up with an "experiment" I'd like to try doing next week. As you're probably aware, I normally always like to edit my videos as soon as I can after I'm done recording them. Part of the reason I do this is because I want the upload date to be as close as possible to the date I record them on. However, thinking about it, it really isn't that big of a deal as I note down when I recorded each video in their respective descriptions anyway. Also, I have had a few videos end up being uploaded a few days after I recorded them on, although that's normally for the longer ones. However, I've never purposefully waited a few days inbetween recording and editing my videos. I feel like a big reason why I never want to wait to do so is because I'm so used to doing things the way I do now, in fact the idea of even thinking about not doing things like this would probably seem incredibly blasphemous to my past self. I feel like the only way I can "change my ways" at this point is to intentionally wait at least a day or two inbetween recording and editing a video, which is what I'll be trying out next week. I used to be nervous about the idea of waiting to edit a video like this because I thought I might get lazy and take forever to do so, but I feel like if I properly "schedule" my editing time I'll be okay. I've technically never had to schedule that before necessarily, because my editing time would always be "as soon as possible after recording is done". But since I've been able to properly schedule my recordings, scheduling my editing as well should be fine. If this goes well I think it'll help me feel better about whenever I need to edit a really long episode or if I ever have to re-upload an episode to fix something. What's also nice about this is that it actually gives me more freedom to record at times I normally wouldn't be able to. For example, on Sunday or Monday night, I could record Ordinary at 11 pm, and instead of editing it immediately after, I could take a break for a few hours and then record Amazing Mirror before going to bed. And then a day or two later, I could find time to edit both recorded episodes. While my time for recording is pretty limited, that's not really the case for editing, so I can do that pretty much whenever I want. Recording something at around 2 am or so isn't completely out of the question as I recorded Omori around that time yesterday, and things went surprisingly okay. I don't think I'll be able to do that all the time, but it might be possible at least occasionally. So if I give myself enough time to rest, recording two videos in one day may not be out of the question, so I might try doing that next week, in case this kind of thing becomes necessary in the future. Maybe. We'll see. I'll probably pick to record Kirby as the "second game" over Omori as that's the more chill of the two and I want to test recording it at 60fps anyway. Speaking of Omori, I'm still planning on editing it tonight despite everything I've mentioned here, as I said I would last time. By the way, I'm planning on changing up how some stuff looks on my Video Schedule page and my current playthrough pages (this page as well, which I'm assuming you've noticed by now). In place of listing the month and day of the week a video was uploaded, I'll list the record date alongside the upload date from here on out, on every current playthrough page. Which might look kind of weird compared to how it'll look for the videos I've already uploaded, as I'll leave those alone, but whatever. This'll be the case for Omori's next episode (20) as well, even though I recorded that before I made this decision. Anyway, sorry for another super long news post. I've got to start editing Omori's episode finally (it's already well past midnight now from my perspective), so see ya. |
| 5/3/2024 | I lied, I recorded Omori "tonight" after all, lol. I'll edit and upload it tomorrow (I'm assuming). |
| 5/3/2024 | After work today, I decided to immediately start recording me talking about something I wanted to add to the start of Omori's next episode (20). I wanted to do it early enough that it would save me time for when I had to record the episode later. However, I had a really hard time explaining everything without making it too long-winded, and ended up re-recording myself a couple times. I even tried to write about it here instead once before as well. In the end, I decided to just scrap it all, and ended up wasting over two hours of time for nothing. As of me writing this, it's already well past midnight and I haven't even started recording Omori yet. I've ended up frustrating myself because of all this, which is ironic considering what I wanted to talk about in the first place. With the state I'm currently in, I think it's for the best I don't record Omori tonight. Which I'm not happy about, but it can't be helped; I don't want to record while I'm feeling pissed off about this. I still don't want to alter next week's schedule, which I guess means I'm technically "skipping" Omori for a week, but oh well. Anyway, let me try and explain what I wanted to talk about here, and hopefully make it brief...
In Ordinary's last episode (5), I believe I mentioned that I haven't been too happy with the way my more recent episodes have been going, mostly due to lag issues I've had with my recordings (which I've already brought up in this news page last time). Despite this, I was actually in a pretty good mood when editing that video, which is actually unusual for me when editing Ordinary (especially considering it was Tuesday night). However, seeing the episode with those previously mentioned lag issues after I uploaded it made me feel upset all over again. At that point, I felt I needed to stop and think about things. I don't know if I've mentioned this already, but I try to be pretty "casual" about making my videos as to not frustrate myself too much with making them, as I had a hobby in the past that I basically killed because I "took it too seriously". However, I also don't like it when my videos end up with unforeseen issues, as they're important to me, even the ones I made a couple years ago, and not just because it takes a decent amount of time to edit all of them. That being said, I told myself that I need to accept that sometimes my videos won't always turn out as great as I'd hoped. Dealing with issues regarding to how my videos turn out sometimes is something I've had to deal with numerous times in the past anyway. That being said, I figured I should probably do something to try and deal with the lag issues. As mentioned previously, I tried to record them all at 60fps instead of 30, and that seemed to help at least a bit, which lifted my spirits. And, honestly, looking back at Ordinary's 5th episode now, the lag isn't that bad. At least, I don't believe I'll think too badly about that episode whenever I look back on it in the future, which I'm sure I will as that's the episode I caught shiny Luize in. Anyway, I'll probably think more positively about my future recordings from here on out. At least, I sure hope so... I'm looking forward to recording Ordinary's next episode, in fact (I've had some fun thinking about what I want to do with the shiny I caught, lol). If I ever have any issues again, I'll try my best to get through them and deal with those issues, just as I always have. Because I know I tend to get frustrated when I overthink things too much or take them too seriously... like with me trying to talk about all this, I guess. Honestly, this kind of thing is why I hate having to explain shit sometimes, because it always ends up being a lot harder for me to do than I first think for some reason and I end up talking about things for too long. I ended up struggling with what I wanted to talk about here and what I wanted to leave out that I figured wasn't important enough to add, but in the end I still made this quite long-winded, huh? Sorry about that. I guess it was going to end up that way no matter what, then... I'm definitely not scrapping this again, lol. Honestly, this took waaay more time to write than it had any right to. Anyways, if I have any issues with my videos again, hopefully it isn't at least for a good while. After all this time, making videos is still very important to me, and I don't want this hobby to die, especially for a reason like this. Omori was supposed to be the first playthrough I started recording episodes of in 60fps, which would've been good as it's the one I'm the least worried about not going well. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to record it tomorrow? I can try... If not, I guess the next thing I record will be Ordinary next Sunday or Monday. Sorry I couldn't record Omori tonight... |
| 5/1/2024 | I've noticed that my past few videos (especially Ordinary's) have had some lag issues for some reason, which seemed to be caused by OBS. I figured I could try recording each game at 60fps instead of 30 and see if that helps, and after some testing it seemed to be at least somewhat beneficial to each game. So as a result I'll be recording them all at 60fps from now on. (Honestly, this is something I wished I'd done a long time ago...) I uploaded a "comparison video" on my second channel in regards to this, if you're curious... |
| 5/1/2024 | I decided to record Ordinary instead of Omori tonight at the last minute because of a... certain reason. I'll record Omori Thursday night instead. As I don't want to wait too long to play Ordinary again, I'll still (probably) be leaving the schedule as is next week even though I recorded Ordinary this week after all, which means it's going to have an extra episode over Amazing Mirror, but whatever. |