Category: General Blog Updates

Updates and information regarding the blog itself.

I Am Not Watching All In

For the three people wondering if I will be watching All In… the answer is no. Besides the fact that I’m just not feeling the build up to this point as well as not having any desire to watch a sequel show that isn’t as packed as last year’s show, I’m actually busy with some other stuff at the moment and won’t have time to give the show a proper watch.

Not sold on the replay, but I’ll tell you what… if they can somehow manage to get this man to appear on the show…

Then I will buy the replay and do the appropriate musings… hell, I’ll even buy All Out.

I think my wallet is safe in that regard. Don’t worry; we’ve got plenty of other fun stuff to do PPV Musings on next month.

As for the rest of you who don’t care for this otherwise insignificant piece of business… regular operations (such as it is) will resume in September.

Radio Silence…

I’ll be off for a couple weeks in terms of video content, which should resume on Labor Day weekend, coincidentally that’s when the next episode of the DTM-Cast will be up.

As far as regular postings go… PPV Musings will resume because those are in the can, but anything else that pops up… will actually pop up.

Enjoy the rest of summer… or something.

Later.

House Repair = Further Delay

Hey, kids. Hope all is well.

Here… eh, not so much.

Long story short… the home base is undergoing repair due to some water damage that occurred. Unfortunately, this affects my “base of operations” where I normally do all the video stuff. Good news is nothing has been lost save for some boxes and stuff, but there are drywalls needing to be replaced. So while I can do some blogging and record some video, when it comes to audio dubbing… yeah, that’s out of the question at the moment.

Needless to say, videos are going to be stalled for the foreseeable future. The only video close to being ready to go is Power Blade 2 and that still needs a bit of work before it’s ready to go. Fortunately, I’m going on a road trip this week where I should have a nice quiet place to set up shop for a couple days and do some quick audio. Who knows? We might make it into an adventure of sorts for the channel. Perhaps a audio program for the future?

Anyway, there’s other stuff coming up on the blog side of things, but the video stuff… we’ll see about getting that up to speed soon. It all depends on how repairs go around here.

Sorry about all this folks. I wish I had better news on this wonderful summer period. Hopefully, things will get better soon… maybe.

Taking A Week Off

Hey, folks. Just let you all know that I’m going to be taking the next week off of life and that means no videos during that time. It wouldn’t be a silent week as I’ve prepped several written posts that will be up during the week, including another PPV Musings and a fun little story that I’ve whipped up on a whim.

Today’s scheduled Power Blade 2 review will be pushed back to next Friday and the week after, all the TMNT-related reviews planned for the month will dumped out the week after a five-day marathon of sorts. And then hopefully after that, we’ll end July and kickstart August with the PC Engine Star Soldier games that have been lingering on the bucket list since the dawn of time. I’ll get around to updating the list on the State Of The Blog page when I have a good idea on where things are going video-wise, but that’ll be the plan for the moment.

This is time I needed to take for a while and although I’m not thrilled at dropping the video aspect of things for the time being, at the very least, the blog will see regular updates here and there. Trust me; this’ll be a good thing in the long run.

And yes… I still miss the old girl.

No Videos This Week – Next Week We Do Mega Man

Hello, folks.

Earlier today, I made a quick post regarding a postpone of today’s scheduled video upload to tomorrow due to an emergency at home. I won’t go into heavy detail here – I plan on doing a video update to inform the Tube crowd, but to make a long story short, I’ll have to postpone any video uploads until next week. For the record, no one is hurt. Everyone is fine. It’s just that I might be indisposed for a couple days and the next scheduled batch of videos – covering the Star Soldier games on PC Engine – need some final tweaks that I’m not going to have time to make. So sadly, the streak of uninterrupted video uploads continues to not surpass a month.

With that in mind, the last week of June is supposed to revisit the Mega Man games on Game Boy – with their being made available on NSO earlier this month – and that’s going to be the case, still. So next week, we’ll do the GB Mega Man games and then the week after will hopefully see those Star Soldier reviews up and running… at which point, please enjoy July’s worth of low-definition 480p reviews for the world to enjoy.

In the meantime, there’s some fun text stuff that I pulled up for your  reading pleasure. Stuff scheduled for later down the road, but considering the circumstances… no better time like the present. And this weekend will see another Sunday Gimmick Table uploaded, since that one’s been in the can for months.

Sorry about this, folks. Hopefully, things will be back to normal soon… whatever that actually may entail.

Later.

Quick Reshuffles And A Brief Break

So videos are once again going to be reshuffled this week.

Unfortunately, a family emergency came up (all is well, thankfully) and needed some attention. Not only that, but I had specific games intended for review that ended up… not working out, so I needed to come up with something else. Therefore, expect a video or two this weekend. And then there’ll be a brief pause of uploads until April 5th so I can catch up on some stuff. Though if I can bang out a couple quick Sacha home movies in the interim, I’ll probably get that out there. (I need to do more of these anyway.)

There’s actually more in the works than I’m letting and I might leak a few of those ideas on this weekend’s DTM-Cast – which is the Q&A episode – but needless to say that I’m working on more than getting some current content onto this space.

Things are a bit of a mess around here – try and act surprised – but hopefully, things will be up and about soon.

Going Forward… And Failing Miserably

First off, I want to say thank you for all the kind words on Tuesday’s post on the Youtube channel’s community post as well as some of the e-mail messages that I’ve received. They’re all greatly appreciated and for what it’s worth, I’ve read each and every one of them to Sacha before she had gone. Poor thing could barely see, but she heard every word said. And she went out knowing that people cared about her. Not just the immediate family and friends, but complete strangers who only knew her from the first five seconds that open almost every video I’ve posted in the past decade or so.
Every day is a struggle for the rest of us. Every day that passes without her is a burden… but knowing she’s in a better place – probably pissing on the pearly gates or humping a couple clouds along the way – brings a slight smile on my face… before it dissolves into tears once more. Every passing thought of the times we shared together brightens my day… before every passing moment under the realization that those days are long gone… and so is she.
I miss her very much… in ways that can never be properly put to words.
So what happens now? Well, obviously, I’m going to be laying low for a little bit… I’m not exactly in the mood to be doing much of anything at the moment. I have been gathering up whatever videos and photos that I’ve collected on Sacha over the years and am planning on putting together a little tribute video of sorts to celebrate her life. Folks who frequent this blog or the Youtube channel know her as sort of a mascot for my little corner of the web and she will continue to have a presence around these parts. But I want to share with folks the kind of friend that Sacha truly is and what she really means to those who loved and cared for her.
Sacha might have gone elsewhere, but she will always be around.

The Current Situation

A bit of a quick update and some full disclosure regarding reviews…

June 19th will see one review uploaded. The rest of the reviews between now and August is up in the air… but there’s a technical reason behind this.

So my old Omen that I bought back in 2017 recently decided that it was going to blow the fans really loud. The system still works, I can still play stuff on it, but it’s so loud that I can’t dub and quite frankly, having that thing blow for hours on end is a bit of a headache. I’m looking into getting the thing fixed; if it’s something like replacing the case fan or something minor, it’d be no problem. But if it’s a CPU thing, then I’ll need to take this to a shop and have it checked out by somebody who knows what the fuck they’re doing.

Naturally, this is going to impede my ability to make videos. At the moment, only one video is available for upload this Monday, but the rest are either still in various states of development or non-existent. So the scheduling is going to be slightly out of wack. Fortunately, things isn’t a total lost cause because I recently bought a mini-PC gaming that is supposedly designed with gaming in mind. It runs well enough that I can capture some decent footage with OBS and I have enough portable DVD readers to hook up and rip footage. So I can get some stuff going on.

It’s not the ideal set-up and for all intents and purposes, I do want to get my old tower up and running because it is a nice machine and I’d hate to see it go to waste. But for now, this is where we’re at with technology and stuff.

Will keep you all updated down the road.

Later.

Reshuffling Due To Family Issues

First off, I want to apologize for the lack of scheduled videos this week. Unfortunately, I’ve had my plate full as of late, dealing with some family issues that I don’t want to get into other than it relates to health concerns regarding a member of the family. As a result, I haven’t been in the right mindset to do dubs or edit any video stuff this week and a lot of the text blurbs that were posted recently were written a while ago with the intent to be published later down the road.

For what it’s worth, I recently sat down and finished the final touches on the Indy review and assuming nothing else pops up, I’m hoping to have the video up tomorrow. Above all else, the goal is to try and put together a bunch of smaller reviews so that I can clear the video plate to work on the last stretch of reviews before the big quadruple digits. This is the plan, though it is subject to change should the situation change.

Again, I’m sorry for the lack of video content, but things on the family front as well as my own sanity needs attention at the moment. Hopefully, things will return to some semblance of normalcy around these parts, but I’m expecting the worse. If anything else comes up, I will let you folks know.

Cody Pulled A Luger (Wallpaper And House Show Announcement)

So we’re gonna do a thing in a couple weeks. I don’t know what we’re gonna do, but we’re gonna do it. Have an AI Paint generated wallpaper to get you excited for the big day and then bitch about how that guy looks nothing like Cody, but he has the neck tattoo so it’s gotta be him!

I have not watched one bit of wrestling since Wrestlemania. Nor have I followed the news. The moratorium continues…