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Now it's time for us to keep everyone updated about with what's happening in the world of kuoushi.
We finished a few games, which is always nice. First up was the big one, Jrago: The Demon Hunter. That was game, to be sure. We even had the dev coming into the stream and hear kuoushi complain live. Only the best tester for a dev, trust me. The game is a family affair, more than a solo dev thing. Definitely fun to see that. After, we played one of the worst games I've had the pleasure of playing, NEURO. Is it the gameplay that is bad, that you ask? No. It just took a minute or more for every save or load. It was excruciating. 10/10. Wanted something different that wasn't a bargain bin game, so we played TEOCIDA. Weird, probably something my stroke brain wasn't ready to play, but I did it anyway. Glad I had my spectrogram at handy. Not joking. We needed a break after that, so we played a better (relatively) game. Command & Conquer: Renegade. This game was a lot of fun until it wasn't. Right about when the difficulty just kept getting hard. That's normal for me, I guess. Still, we were a renegade once at least. Also a lot of tank fun.
Anyway, here are all the streams from those.
Jrago: The Demon Hunter
NEURO
Aliens: Redacted
TEOCIDA
Command & Conquer: Renegade
Since some of these were in the Bargain Bin, I posted some reviews as well. Jrago and NEURO. Like and comment on Steam.
What's next, you might ask? We're going to play Clock Tower 2: Struggle time. I've heard it's not great, so that's the one we'll play.
Not bad, honestly. Keeping to a schedule, streaming more, being myself again. It's nice.
Not Too Shabby
Since our last stream, we've been doing pretty well as far as getting games done and working on our site. Aside from the chats on the site itself, but I'm still kind of working on that. But enough of that, let's go over what we're working on lately.
Games! We've beaten some! Were they short? Yes. Do I care? No.
The first we finished up with FREAKHUNTER, and that game beat my shit up. That game was way too hard for someone like me. We still did it, though. While working on that, we also had four new games we beat. you feel normal, Unveiling, Lair of Anubis, and ASTRA. They were all on the weird spectrum, and certainly on the weird spectrum of quality. I enjoyed them them in one way or another, so who cares. Oh, and the last one I game was Vomitoreum. Despite its rather bad name, it's a new Scumhead game and very nice. Same dev as Franzen, in fact. I didn't find every easter egg, but I did do quite a bit. Vomitoreum was sadly not an Bargain Bin game, so it doesn't have any reviews or anything.
So let's drop some links to each of these games for you to go check the streams out.
FREAKHUNTER
you feel normal
Unveiling
Lair of Anubis
ASTRA
Vomitoreum
That's a lot, and it's pretty nice to see it all up there.
Now that that's past, let's talk about the current game I'm working on. It's called Jrago The Demon Hunter, and it's going to be a long set of streams. It's jank as fuck, and it's also hard. Not always the greatest combo, but I will be do it all the same. Will I ever finish the end of this game? You'll have to watch out for fun. I guess we didn't talk much about Unspoken, but we'll be a while before we play that one again so not much else to say there.
On the side of the work, I've been started working on the archives again. The problem in PeerTube that was blocking our progress is now gone, and it means we're getting things moved in there well again. Still a lot of transcoding to do here, but it's moving and that's what matters. All in all, a good place for the site.
I guess I've also started working through highlights again, but that's going to be a while before I get those going. They're moving, but you might not be seeing much movement on it there yet.
We've been doing well. Hope you're doing well. I'll see you guys next time.
I live, kind of
As I mentioned by my last stream, I had a stroke. I'm alive, I'm okay, I'm getting better. That's about the main thing I'll stop talking about this from here.
So on that note, I've done a stream. Went back to our old shit and played an anime one that comes with waifus and everything. The game is called Twilight Town, and you are a character who really wants his waifu to be a real girl. I know the old people used to say they only want anime girls to be real, but nowadays people want the opposite. Times of the times, I guess. But anyway, it's a short game that's pretty fun and writing a review for all the few of you looking for it.
Complete Archives
Twilight Town
We also had reviews on for this one as well, so go check it out.
Beyond that, we've also started our next game going: FREAKHUNTER. It's kind of neat, and I hope you guys playing it as we get further into it. Once I play this game, maybe another or so after that, and I might go back to being more of Axe Cop. I still want to finish that game up, but I have to make sure I can get all of my timeslots set again. Right now it's just whenever I have beyond rehab and everything, which isn't a lot yet.
Oh, and here's our Twitch Recap for this year. Hopefully more next year's.
But, thanks for listening and see you all more again here.
No Streams for a Time
So about a month and two ago, kuoushi had the fun of timing a stroke. Sadly, not the fun one. I've been spending a lot of time working on getting my brains to work close to what they used to. You can imagine this will take a bit before I can give a time to go really streaming again yet. Plus, you know, my streams themselves won't be the same quality you've all been used to all of these years, so yeah no streams.
For a bit, anyway.
I'll do a bit more on some stuff working getting the other stuffs on the stream archives in the now. Will keep you know on the streams parts again later.
See you all again next time then.
New PeerTube version! (…so stuff will go wrong for a bit)
You may be wondering to yourself, "kuoushi, why do you need to make a full-blown news post for a new version of your self-hosted video archive stuff?" Well, let me tell you. The new version of PeerTube fixes an issue that we were apparently having with audio desync in basically every single video that I didn't notice because it only affected Chromium and Webkit browsers (which is the entire rest of the internet aside from Firefox users which explains how I didn't notice it earlier on). This is good news, right? It is.
The bad news, however, is that to fix it in all of my archives, I have to re-transcode every single video on my archive currently. That is going to take a while, and some archives will go up or down until that process completes. The positive, though, aside from everything being fixed, is that after that's all done, I'll go back to working on the archive and getting the rest of the missing streams off of YouTube and into there.
Basically, if you click an archive and it doesn't play, that's probably what's going on now.
Back on the topic of games, I've been slowly building out things on the site and deciding where things go. Things like The Bargain Bin stuff I've been working on. I've tossed all the complete archives for those streams into that category, and I'm also now including my Steam reviews of each game there. In the same vein, I've also resurrected the Steam Group's Curator page so that I can put all of this stuff in there too. Like and subscribe and all that other stuff people say. Honestly, it's just amusing for me to use all these things, even if no one pays much attention to them.
On the other good side of things, we've been finishing games! First up after we finished Gunman Chronicles, we moved on to a little free JRPG-inspired game by Scumhead known as Franzen. Longer than expected, and not without its rubbing points, but still a solid experience overall. You can read more from the review on the Complete Archive page, but I had fun per the usual.
We also (barely) finished playing through Ilum. It is an experience, I'll say that. Whether it's a good experience or not, well, that's up to you. Check the review out for that one on the Complete Archive page so you can see more about my thoughts on it. It's probably more fun to watch someone else suffer through, though. And, what an ending!
I guess I've also been making highlights again, but haven't decided how I want to include them on the site just yet. For now, they're only on Twitch.
But anyway, that's all I've got for today. We're currently going through Axe Cop, which is a lot of dumb fun so far. Tune in late nights on weekends to catch more of that, but we're likely in for a pretty long haul on that one. Maybe not as long as False Skies, but still a full-length JRPG kind of game.
Thanks for sticking around.