It's been a while since I posted a blog post in here, and since Twitter has a character limit, thought this would be the best place to post.
I am having a hard time with depression right now. Not in the sense of that I feel sad and I'm super emotional, but more so in the sense that right now I'm not really interested or excited in anything, including video games and streaming. This is why I haven't streamed the past few days, and why I'm not going to stream for at least the next few days. I just don't think it's conducive for me to force myself to stream when I'm in a funk like this, as it's not enjoyable for the viewers or myself.
Don't worry, I'm sure I'll be back streaming sooner than later, and I'll still be around JTV/TTV lurking in your channels. Just need to take care of some issues before I head back full steam into streaming.
Love you all for the support and kindness you've shown me over this past year <3
Ed
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Follower Milestones and Celebrations
As I sit here watching the Gaming 4 A Cure marathon(which you can watch right now until Tuesday, February 21st at this link), I'm reminded of what a crazy almost year it's been on JTV/Twitch (a story for another time.) As I gear up for a "cast til I pass out" for 5K followers on March 2nd, I would take a look back on the follower celebrations of the past, near future, and beyond.
100 Followers - Beatles Rock Band Story Mode in One Sitting on Expert Guitar/Bass and Vocals
This was a pretty simple event, and also my first follower celebration of any sort. This was also the first cast I ever did a game-themed channel design. At the end of this accomplishment, I sang Blackbird while sick and with my first shitty mic.
Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on TwitchTV
250 Followers - Rock Band 2 Endless Setlist 2 in One Sitting on Expert Guitar
To date, this is probably still one of the TOUGHEST follower celebrations I've done. Not only was I playing this on Expert guitar, the setlist is roughly around 5-7 hours to play, and with some minor carpal tunnel my hands were almost dead by the end of it. To day this remains one of my proudest accomplishments on cast.
500 Followers - 40 Hour Merry-o Thon
When this cast started out, it was only meant to go 24 hours. What happened was a 40 hour marathon that included many great moments and is STILL my favorite cast to date. There were many awesome moments, and this is still one of my favorite highlights with what can only be described as a laugh orgy.
Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on TwitchTV
1000 Followers - Failed Attempt to Beat Dead Space/Dead Space 2 on Hardest Difficulties in One Sitting
I say failed attempt because the original goal was to beat both of these games back to back in one sitting, and mainly due to poor planning I had to give up on Dead Space 2 around Chapter 7. I eventually beat Dead Space 2 (and later one sat Dead Space 2 on Hardcore on it's own), but I want to eventually beat both in one sitting back to back...
1500 Followers - Portal 1 and 2 Back to Back in One Sitting
From a pure gameplay perspective, this was probably my favorite series to cast back to back for a follower celebration, the Portal games hold a very special place in my heart, and to play them both was simply amazing.
2000 Followers - Custom 50 Song Endless Setlist
This could probably be considered my second favorite appreciation cast, especially since everyone picked amazing songs and it was so great to play songs picked by people I hold dear to my heart on Twitch, and to explain why they mean so much to me.
2500 Followers - Dead Space 2 on Hardcore in One Sitting
Title explains it all. Moving on.
3000 Followers - Multiplayer Weekend Extravaganza
Although this didn't quite go exactly to plan, it was still fun to celebrate this milestone by playing video games with a lot of my viewers, including a hilarious co-op run with Chatia12. Despite getting people to join on console day, the rest of it was great and I had a wonderful time.
3500 Followers - EddiePwnNoobzRuckus
Ghetto cast, enough said XD
Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on TwitchTV
4000 Followers - Uncharted Trilogy in One Sitting
Although the Dead Space casts and Endless Setlist 2 were hard because of the difficulty, this is definitely up there as one of the hardest celebrations I've ever done. Up to this point whenever I did an impromptu marathon or a marathon over 16 hours, I usually had people on Skype to help me stay awake. This time however I forged on without anyone in my ear yelling and cheering me on, and somehow I was able to accomplish all of it in 25 hours. This ranks right up there with the Endless Setlist 2 as proudest accomplishments on cast go(not to mention my one sits.)
5K Followers - WhateverTheFuckIWannaPlayAThon
On March 2nd, I will be donning the marathon and celebration robes once again to ring in another milestone on JTV/TTV. This time I will be trying to break my own personal record of casting for 40 hours straight, playing whatever games I want and see fit. A few special things planned, and I cannot WAIT for it.
7500 Followers - Custom Setlist Extravaganza (75 songs)
Another version of the 2K follower cast, but this time with 75 songs. Should be fantastic :D
10,000 Followers - The Last Hurrah
This will be the final celebration milestone for followers on Twitch(maybe 25K, we'll see.) I will still do marathons and special events, this will just be the last one tied to follower count. Dead Space 1 and 2 in one sitting, possibly more.
100 Followers - Beatles Rock Band Story Mode in One Sitting on Expert Guitar/Bass and Vocals
This was a pretty simple event, and also my first follower celebration of any sort. This was also the first cast I ever did a game-themed channel design. At the end of this accomplishment, I sang Blackbird while sick and with my first shitty mic.
Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on TwitchTV
250 Followers - Rock Band 2 Endless Setlist 2 in One Sitting on Expert Guitar
To date, this is probably still one of the TOUGHEST follower celebrations I've done. Not only was I playing this on Expert guitar, the setlist is roughly around 5-7 hours to play, and with some minor carpal tunnel my hands were almost dead by the end of it. To day this remains one of my proudest accomplishments on cast.
500 Followers - 40 Hour Merry-o Thon
When this cast started out, it was only meant to go 24 hours. What happened was a 40 hour marathon that included many great moments and is STILL my favorite cast to date. There were many awesome moments, and this is still one of my favorite highlights with what can only be described as a laugh orgy.
Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on TwitchTV
1000 Followers - Failed Attempt to Beat Dead Space/Dead Space 2 on Hardest Difficulties in One Sitting
I say failed attempt because the original goal was to beat both of these games back to back in one sitting, and mainly due to poor planning I had to give up on Dead Space 2 around Chapter 7. I eventually beat Dead Space 2 (and later one sat Dead Space 2 on Hardcore on it's own), but I want to eventually beat both in one sitting back to back...
1500 Followers - Portal 1 and 2 Back to Back in One Sitting
From a pure gameplay perspective, this was probably my favorite series to cast back to back for a follower celebration, the Portal games hold a very special place in my heart, and to play them both was simply amazing.
2000 Followers - Custom 50 Song Endless Setlist
This could probably be considered my second favorite appreciation cast, especially since everyone picked amazing songs and it was so great to play songs picked by people I hold dear to my heart on Twitch, and to explain why they mean so much to me.
2500 Followers - Dead Space 2 on Hardcore in One Sitting
Title explains it all. Moving on.
3000 Followers - Multiplayer Weekend Extravaganza
Although this didn't quite go exactly to plan, it was still fun to celebrate this milestone by playing video games with a lot of my viewers, including a hilarious co-op run with Chatia12. Despite getting people to join on console day, the rest of it was great and I had a wonderful time.
3500 Followers - EddiePwnNoobzRuckus
Ghetto cast, enough said XD
Watch live video from Bringing the Ruckus! on TwitchTV
4000 Followers - Uncharted Trilogy in One Sitting
Although the Dead Space casts and Endless Setlist 2 were hard because of the difficulty, this is definitely up there as one of the hardest celebrations I've ever done. Up to this point whenever I did an impromptu marathon or a marathon over 16 hours, I usually had people on Skype to help me stay awake. This time however I forged on without anyone in my ear yelling and cheering me on, and somehow I was able to accomplish all of it in 25 hours. This ranks right up there with the Endless Setlist 2 as proudest accomplishments on cast go(not to mention my one sits.)
5K Followers - WhateverTheFuckIWannaPlayAThon
On March 2nd, I will be donning the marathon and celebration robes once again to ring in another milestone on JTV/TTV. This time I will be trying to break my own personal record of casting for 40 hours straight, playing whatever games I want and see fit. A few special things planned, and I cannot WAIT for it.
7500 Followers - Custom Setlist Extravaganza (75 songs)
Another version of the 2K follower cast, but this time with 75 songs. Should be fantastic :D
10,000 Followers - The Last Hurrah
This will be the final celebration milestone for followers on Twitch(maybe 25K, we'll see.) I will still do marathons and special events, this will just be the last one tied to follower count. Dead Space 1 and 2 in one sitting, possibly more.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Life Update
Well it's been a while since I posted in this blog, might as well make it interesting bringing it back from the dead.
So here's the deal: I'm getting sick of living in a small town, where the only friends I know are those type of friends who are content with staying home and never going out to do anything, like watch a movie or visit a larger town. There's only so much my friends from the net can provide me with in terms of social interaction(though I appreciate it a LOT), and so I've made a decision: I'm going back to school in Missoula.
I've gone to school at Missoula before, but at the main campus. I would probably go into the IT associate program and, if grades are well, transfer to a larger school to get my bachelor's in IT or something similar. However, since the PELL grant is limited in the amount of semesters you can use it, I am going to stay on the safe side and not go to school this semester(Spring 2012.) Obviously means more time for casting which is a bonus, but yeah, I wouldn't want to be in a situation where I only had one semester left of college in Missoula and I couldn't afford to pay for it due to not having a PELL payment(which would help not only with tuition, but room and food.)
So yeah, a little update on my life, hope you enjoyed the short read :P
So here's the deal: I'm getting sick of living in a small town, where the only friends I know are those type of friends who are content with staying home and never going out to do anything, like watch a movie or visit a larger town. There's only so much my friends from the net can provide me with in terms of social interaction(though I appreciate it a LOT), and so I've made a decision: I'm going back to school in Missoula.
I've gone to school at Missoula before, but at the main campus. I would probably go into the IT associate program and, if grades are well, transfer to a larger school to get my bachelor's in IT or something similar. However, since the PELL grant is limited in the amount of semesters you can use it, I am going to stay on the safe side and not go to school this semester(Spring 2012.) Obviously means more time for casting which is a bonus, but yeah, I wouldn't want to be in a situation where I only had one semester left of college in Missoula and I couldn't afford to pay for it due to not having a PELL payment(which would help not only with tuition, but room and food.)
So yeah, a little update on my life, hope you enjoyed the short read :P
Friday, December 9, 2011
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!
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!
Monday, December 5, 2011
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
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
Friday, November 25, 2011
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.
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.
Monday, November 14, 2011
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!
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!
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