3000 Follower Celebration Plans/Schedule

As some of you know by now, I hit over 3000 followers on TwitchTV a few weeks back during my Minecraft 1.0 Release party.  Before that my good friend SolidBeef told me of making an entire weekend devoted to playing multiplayer games with viewers, and so I decided I would do that for 3000 followers.  Next weekend (starting on Thursday, December 15th), I will be kicking off the weekend of my 3000 follower multiplayer extravaganza, lasting until Saturday, December 17th.

So what are the plans for these days?  Let's take a look day by day of what I'm planning for those days (schedule/times/games subject to change.)

Thursday, December 15th - Console Games(8PM EST - ~2AM EST)
Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360)
Battlefield 3 (Xbox 360)
Random XBLA Arcade Games (Castle Crashers, Splosion Man, etc)
Uncharted 3 Multiplayer (PS3)
Rock Band 3 (PS3/Xbox 360)
(AC: Revelations/Brotherhood, Red Dead Redemption if enough people/time) (Xbox 360)

Friday, December 16th - PC Games(5PM EST - ~12AM EST)
Team Fortress 2 
Portal 2 Co-Op Chambers (Chatia12 at 7PM EST, Mournless After, Need 3 more people)
Left 4 Dead 2
Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
(Monday Night Combat, Dungeon Defenders, Dead Island, Borderland if enough people/time)

Saturday, December 17th - Minecraft Open Server (1PM EST - ~1AM EST)
Minecraft Open Public Server

So there you have it, the tentative schedule for the marathon!  Obviously the PC night could be shorter or longer, same with console night, and we may go back and forth in some cases!  Regardless, it should be an EPIC time for sure!

Semi-Week in Review, Semi-Changes to the Cast

Since my last blog post, it's been a pretty awesome week of casting and streaming and having a great time.  Finally knocked God of War II out of the way, becoming better at IndustrialCraft/Buildcraft, and trolololing viewers with my 3500 follower "celebration."  If you missed it, here's a look:


Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on Justin.tv

With that out of the way, I'd like to talk about some changes I'm doing with the cast.  I already started by updating my rules a bit, making them clearer and hopefully easier to read and understand.  Here are a few other things:

Minecraft Mod Spotlight
As you all know, I'm a HUGE Minecraft nut, but up until recently I've only ever tried vanilla MC, that is to say I never installed any mods on it.  Now that I have tried IndustrialCraft2 and Buildcraft and have fallen in love with them, I'd like to do an extensive look at other mods in a weekly cast where I try out one or two new mods.  I will be starting this Thursday, and it will be done every Thursday until mid January, when I go back to school.  Once I figure out my schedule I'll figure out a new day and time to do it.  To get started for this week, simply send me a PM on JTV or TwitchTV with a link to the mod you want me to try out, and the most suggested one will be the one I try out first!

Moobot
This is still something I'm unsure of, and will discuss with my mods and trusted viewers about whether or not to implement it.  Having it would be a huge help though for certain casts/commands/links.

Rock Band Request Helpers
Similar in vein to the Minecraft Mod Spotlight, I will also be taking suggestions for what songs I should be playing on Rock Band.  Too many times I've had someone ask if I have a song in Rock Band that they enjoy on the game, but I don't have because I've overlooked it or never heard it.  Once I figure out a website suitable for suggestions, I will be posting that on my channel and perhaps have Moobot help with it.  If anyone is generous enough to donate points and then tell me what songs to buy with those points, I will also have a special thank you section for everyone that's donated towards it, such as Booooohjoke did back in March.

Miscellaneous
Because I am a TwitchTV partner now, I do earn ad revenue, and with that revenue I'd like to do things for the cast.  My vision is to do two things with it: buy something for the cast(new game/3D Intro/Cast Equipment); and do some sort of giveaway.  If there is a new game coming out and you guys want me to play it on cast on release day, I will use some of the revenue to do so.  Then whatever money is left in a month will be used for giveaways of games, whether that's Minecraft codes, soundtracks, or Steam games.  I also want to make my channel a bit cleaner, as I'm still not fully satisfied with it.  Hopefully with the ad revenue I can use that to commission an intro for the channel and for a song that Big Giant Circles will hopefully composed.

Yes a long blog post, but it's worth the read I assure you, and I will be spamming this in my stream for the next few days to make sure everyone catches up to speed.  I have to once again thank ALL of you for the support, without it I'd just be a guy playing games on my couch alone :P

Black Friday Savings + Week in Review!

Since I was lazy and TOTALLY forgot to write up a blog post this past Monday, I figured I would write this little textual seduction for you all.  Well, that's lies, you most likely won't get a boner from reading this, PLUS I didn't forget about the blog seeing as I'm lazy.

I'll just do a quick overview for what happened these last few days: played a LOT of Minecraft; had a crazy awesome MC marathon to celebrate the official release of 1.0 (including an Ender Dragon kill); reaching over 3K followers(and damn near close to 3500 now); beating Assassin's Creed Revelations; and casting the awesome Old Republic beta.  Not to mention I'm also a partner on TwitchTV as well, which is HELLA awesome.

Now the main reason of this blog, to brag about all the great savings I found to buy some Xmas gifts for my family, along with some stuff on the side for me.  From electric mixers to muk luks to video games to DVDs and Barbies and Transformers, Amazon Black Friday was the place to be.  All in all, I saved over $245.33 on amazing savings, spending just under 200.  Definitely worth all the money spent.

Short, to the point, that's all this blog was.  Insert penis joke here.

Week in Review: November 7th - November 14th, 2011

No cutesy intros this time around, straight to the action.  I like that initiative!

After the last two weeks of awesome, this past week was rather ho-hum, minus a few new release games.  Well ho-hum for my own cast, as I did help out with the GamingForHunger marathon that was put on by LookAtMyChicken.  Played some MW3 multiplayer and IndustrialCraft2/Buildcraft on Minecraft, was a really fun time.  Also rocked out on Sunday night to some Beatles tunes on Beatles: Rock Band, it's really fun to do that.

As for my own cast, it's been pretty ho-hum with some big name games, MW3 and Skyrim in particular.  Skyrim was a bit of a pain with gamesource in Xsplit, but in the end I figured it out.  That said, not sure about casting it all the time as I do enjoy to take a break and get some variety in my games.  Early Monday morning was nice as well as I casted the Release Candidate 2 for Minecraft, always a blast casting that game!

Speaking of MW3, finally had my first successful console multiplayer night!  When I do multiplayer nights, there is always an issues of party chats or not enough people showing up, but thankfully the 360 TTV viewers came out in force, and we won quite a few games as a team!  Will definitely be playing that again with some peeps.

Well that's it for now, but be on the lookout this week.  More Minecraft Release Candiate 2, Assassin's Creed Revelations on Tuesday(hopefully), and a celebration of the official release of Minecraft with a Minecraft Server Marathon!  Should be great!

Week in Review: October 29th, 2011 - November 6th, 2011

Just like that scare with that special women in your life when she's a bit late, we're a bit late with the week in review.  No worries though, no fear of pregnancy here in this blog, as we are ready to re-cap what's been going on.

Once again this past week has just been a jumbled mess of craziness and epic moments, whether it's because the feat itself was epic or the game itself was epic, there was a whole lot of epic.  Tired of me using epic to describe epic things?  Well too fucking epic, because we about to epic up this epic place inside your epic head.

When people call Minecraft by the name of Minecrack, they really aren't lying.  Just since October 29th, according to my video archives, I played Minecraft for a whopping 30 hours, including two casts that were around 12 hours each.

Thankfully I was able to break that up with what may become my Game of the Year for 2011: Uncharted 3.  Recently I've started a thing on cast recently where I will play a game in one sitting, the latest of which is Uncharted 3.

Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on Justin.tv
To say this game is epic is a gross understatement.  It takes what made the first two games awesome and expands upon it, and REALLY pushes it up to the next level.  There were many moments where I couldn't formulate any coherent thought because the game took my breath away, and not like Berlin asked us to.  I'll go more into detail about the game for my top Games of the Year of 2011 post, sometime in January.

Finally, the week ended with a bang as I celebrated reaching 2500 followers on TwitchTV.  Not only did I beat Dead Space 2 on Hardcore in one sitting, I did it after streaming Minecraft for 12 hours(after which I had been up 20 hours), slept two hours, and then streamed Dead Space 2 for 11 hours.  THAT my friends is a sure fire way to get yourself sick, so please don't follow my example.  I'm serious on that one, but NOTHING can take away from how much gaming elation I felt to finally beat DS2 on Hardcore in one sitting.

Well, that's it for this week, things to look forward to for this week include MORE Minecrack, Modern Warfare 3, helping a marathon over at Chicken's channel, and of course...on Thursday....SKYRIM!  Til next time....

Week in Review: October 22nd, 2011 - October 28th, 2011

It seems that with each passing blog, it become harder and harder for me to keep my blog both relevant and hilarious.  So let's start out today's entry on a high note, that way by the end of it you can always look back at this beginning paragraph with such profound nostalgia that it almost makes the worthless drivel that follows it not too bad as a whole.  Penis.

Anyway, another crazy week in casting.  On Saturday before I went shopping I decided to play some Minecraft for a few hours until I had a vehicle, and wound up having 188 viewers at one point.  Madness I say, madness.  And no, this is not sparta, this is a fucking blog, go to Sparta and kick someone in a pit if you want to make that joke.

Carrying on, I also started the God of War HD Collection on cast on Monday, which has been rage-inducing but oh so fun at the same time.  The first game was finished on Wednesday, and on Friday I started the second one.  This was offset however by the other new game I started this week: Pokemon.  Yes, you read that right, started playing Pokemon on stream, and I have to say, it's pretty fun.  This lead to my first ever drunk cast on Wednesday night, where I not only played pokemon drunk, I also modded 148 people in my chat and thusly had to unmod them the morning after.  Fantastic time though, and here's a highlight from the non-drunk cast:

Other quick hits from this week: new power supply and graphics card, which makes my games AMAZING; undefeated in fantasy football week; hopefully getting Uncharted 3 for release date cast.

PS: Follow the new Kidd on the block, KiddXFresh.  Puns for the motherfucking win.

Top 25 Movies Warm-Up

So after being HEAVILY inspired by one sexy stud named Michael Ryne, who is currently going through his own top 100 movies of all time list here, I have decided to do my own Top *Insert Number Here* list of my personal favorite movies, shamelessly stealing it just like "Jabberjaw and The Neptunes" stole Mochi Mochi from Shoyu Weenie. If you get that reference I will totally love you forever, HA-HA dangly parts.

Now before we analyze the first sentence of this blog and see how horrendously put together it is, let's stay on focus here and talk about the main core to this blog: a top movie list. Since I feel personally that I have not seen enough movies to warrant a top 100 list(though to be honest it's just laziness), I am shortening it down for everyone's sake(once again, I'm just lazy.) So here is a list of 34 movies that I will be trimming down and then re-arranging for the next few days, and hopefully by this weekend I'll have the first set up.

Please let me know if you have a movie, through the comments or twitter or via smoke signals, that you think is a top movie that I may have forgotten, as I am sure I will be revising this list once I remember more movies I have watched.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Robocop

The Deer Hunter

Clerks

Inception

Lion King

Pulp Fiction

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Shawshank Redemption

Matrix

Matrix Revolutions

Terminator 2

Wall-E

Fiddler on the Roof

The Dark Knight

Kill Bill Vol. 1

A Beautiful Mind

Monsters Inc

Fantasia

Amelie

Smoke Signals

Young Frankenstein

The Producers

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

Back to the Future

The Goonies

The Italian Job

Dan in Real Life

Temple of Doom

The Great Mouse Detective

Shaun of the Dead

28 Days Later

Starship Troopers

Musa: The Warrior

Week in Review - October 16th through October 21st, 2011

So I figured I'd start throwing these together once a week if possible, encapsulating the week that was for one Mr. Eddie Ruckus. And yes, Eddie talks about himself in third person at times just because Eddie can.

In the biggest news for my blog, after swearing off not applying for partner again until 2012, I decided I will try one more time once the 4 weeks since I last applied is over. The main reason is that since October 6th I've been keeping track of my page views, as one of the requirements is at least 25K views a month or 500 average concurrent viewers. Since October 6th, in 15 days, I've already amassed over 28K views, and I'm sure that if I get near 50K by the time it's 30 days I'll have a really good chance at being partner. So keep your fingers crossed if you support me, but if you don't then obviously pray to the weather gods that they cut out my connection (you really don't need to pray, as it's bound to happen a good 20 times this winter.)

This past week has also been the source of frustration, which in turn led to some GREAT moments in my casting career. Obviously the story about UPS fucking up with my delivery with Arkham City was a lowpoint, but that didn't matter as on Wednesday night I casted for 9 and a half hours to beat the main story mode of Arkham City in one sitting. Just from it's story alone it's already at the top of my GOTY list, which by the way will be a blog post sometime in the near future. Not only did I defeat Batman Arkham City in one sitting, I also managed to beat Uncharted 2 on Normal in one sitting on Tuesday night, and beasted the last 6 hours I needed to finish the story on Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Lotta casting this week, but it's been worth it.

And other than that, I really don't have anything of note, I'll try getting together a top 25 personal favorite movies of all time list next week, and of course any other random times I feel like rambling.

First Post So It's Not Empty

Alrighty, so, here I am on blogspot/blogger after 7 loyal months to wordpress. It was an interesting battle for the rights to my blog, even had myspace blogs wanting me back, but in the end blogspot offered the best deal.

I had a hilarious post about the time I lost all my saves, but I decided that could wait until the 2 year anniversary of one of the most tragic moments in gaming history to happen ever in the entire world-to a man named Eddie Ruckus. Until then, take care blog-o-verse.