The revolution is over. Homefront: The Revolution no more
Been a while since we've gotten to write one of those posts where we talk about the game being done with. But, that's exactly what this post is. The impossible has been achieved, and kuoushi has beaten Homefront: The Revolution, as well as its three DLCs which are just short missions. It's a game, it exists, and now we won't play it ever again. But, if you find yourself wanting to enjoy hopping in kuoushi's mind as he fumbles through the game, the archives are here to stay for all eternity. Or at least until all of my archives die out again. Hopefully, that doesn't happen.
Check out the Homefront: The Revolution archives here!
So, now comes the fun part. What game are we going to play for a year and a half next? I mean, the hope is that I'll be able to stream weekends way late at night for the foreseeable future, so games shouldn't last nearly as long, but is that something I can guarantee? Obviously not. Still, we get to choose a new game that will hopefully be just as entertaining (at the minimum) as Homefront: The Revolution.
Whatever I choose, you'll find out next weekend most likely!
What do now?
All of the archived recordings on my hard drives have been uploaded or otherwise made available. Honestly, I never would've expected to make it this far on the project. It's honestly been a little over a half a year since I started doing the Saturday streams, and an even longer time than that since I started getting up the regular long form streams. Pretty huge project, but I think the current state of the archive is worth it.
I still have a decent amount to do, though, before I can really consider the archive as complete, or as complete as it can be. I have to add in a few streams that are in my schedule but the recordings are gone. I have to recheck against the schedule to ensure the calendar dates for streams are accurate, though that should be mostly accurate at this point. I'd also like to grab old chat logs (of which I don't have any from before 2014 or so), then include those as subtitles on the appropriate videos. Plus, I'd like to eventually get the phone call segments up as their own little videos to show off what happened way back in the day when I allowed people to just call in. Lots to do, but I'll get there eventually.
And that's not at all including going back to streaming. I can vaguely see some time in my schedule opening up in the vaguely near future to stream again. I have Homefront 2 to finish (which is like, 1 or 2 streams depending on DLC), and then a whole ass list of other games I've started preparing. Things like a return to Deadly Premonition (this time with less crashes?), Demon's Souls, F.E.A.R., Thief 2, and a few oddball options like the private server for Hellgate: London. Will I get to all these? Chances are low, but I think I'm going to at least be able to stream a bit more in the future here.
Anyway, that's it from me for now. Hope to see you guys again sometime.
Saturday/Drunk stream archives are now complete
Several months ago I started on the journey of auditing through all of the drunk streams we'd done over the past decade+. Over 300 or so streams of varying lengths and qualities from all the way back in 2009 up to the present day. The average length of each of these streams was something like 4 hours, and some of them were even up to 8 hours or more in length. I watched through all of them in the background as I worked every night, making sure I don't say anything too out of line or play music that's copyright protected or whatever (this latter thing happened a lot). I got to basically relive my streaming history through all of that, and now you can too.
The entirety of my backlog of drunk/Saturday streams are now fully available (aside from the missing ones) for the first time in the archives. They're all nicely tagged, and if you're just looking for streams that feature you talking, for instance, you should be able to find them based on the tags. Or if you're a Highwang fan you can always check the Highwang tag to see some of his earlier forays into the streaming world. You know, fun stuff like that.
Anyway, it's just been a long time and I'm pretty pleased with the archive being this much closer to completion, so I thought I'd make a post about it. All that's left is getting the various specials and some other miscellaneous streams up, and then the archive will be as complete as it possibly can be.
Cool stuff, thanks for reading.
Another year, another still alive post

It's been a relatively quiet year around these parts once again. That isn't to say we haven't been doing anything, though. The site here has come a long way towards getting everything back to par with where it was long ago. Drunk and Saturday streams are making their way back into the archive at a good rate, with some that were never available before seeing the light of day again. For better or worse. We also wrapped up all the long form archives earlier this year so we have over a decade of content available in the archive. That's honestly pretty neat to think about.
We've also integrated Mastodon (and any other ActivityPub federated networks like Friendica, etc.) into the site entirely, which is a pretty neat because we can basically ignore Twitter and provide updates directly from the site. I'll be getting stream start notifications going through here at some point so if you do want that, then follow @kuoushi for those, plus notifications for whenever a blog entry is posted, or a new video archive is added, or even when I just feel like shooting off a quick note about something. It's a nice little feed of everything happening on the site, basically.
And last, but of course least, we did a few streams this year. Not too many, but also not the lowest year we've ever seen. Made it through some Homefront: The Revolution, fished a bit in Guild Wars 2 and raced a few skiffs, just some regular old kuoushi shit. Plus we started up a new stream frame with chat popups that I'm decently happy with. Gone is the handcam and massive frame, and back is the full screen video game like it should be. Handcam is still funny to me, though, so I might bring it back sometime.
But, that's about it for the year. Stuff's still happening here. I'm still planning to continue streaming as much as I'm able. Not planning on having anymore babies, so I might eventually get back into a regular schedule again. You never know.
Thanks for the years, here's hoping for more.
Been a while, hello again
So it's obviously been a number of months since kuoushi's last stream, as well as since the last time an update has been posted here on the old blog. Time to remedy that a bit with a small update!
Basically, had a second kid so that slowed everything down. Just think of Vin Diesel saying family a few times and you're on the same page.
With that news now out of the way, on to site related stuff!
Drunk Streams Returning to the Archive!
Ever since the fall of Viddler, drunk streams haven't been something we could go back and re-watch for a long time. I'm remedying that now, but I have to watch through each drunk stream before getting it into the archive and some of these are absolutely rough. They will be offensive, and they probably won't be that entertaining by my current lofty standards of comedy even. I mostly only suggest them as an educational look back into what awful people we were back in the day. Or at least me, I was pretty stupid.
Don't worry, though, the more modern drunk streams with a much higher standard of humor will come in eventually. I just chose to start at the beginning and work my way up from there. There are like 430 or so different drunk or Saturday streams, so it's a lot to get through. Aside from the RoboCop stream anyway. I put that one in the archive in its entirety with no cuts whatsoever. Still the most effort stream I've ever done, which is saying a lot about the quality of the rest of my streams.
After drunk streams, I'll move on to getting things like the various specials and birthday streams up, though I might make an exception and go through to get a number of the 24 hour streams up sooner rather than later for no real reason other than to put them up.
A Return to Streaming and Doing it Live?
Uncertain when at this point, but it's still a thing I'm wanting to do. I'd like to get a schedule back up and going, but with two kids that'll be a bit tough. It's on my radar, as always. Don't give up too much hope. Or do, I'm not your dad.