Slow Your Roll

2016 has wasted no time in killing people. I was completely blown away by the news, even though dead celebrities (as well as dead people in general) have become somewhat of the norm, especially at this time of year or over the summer. Maybe this will be the year I can change jobs, but I doubt it. I still like helping people, but some people and conditions make it very trying indeed. D&D has started off kinda slow this year, and on my end it keeps getting cancelled. When it's not cancelled, I'm tired from work. It's also come to the point where I feel that other people are controlling my character or at least the terms of the situation we're in.

I've finished preliminary voice recordings for my CinemaSins parody and am almost ready to put the whole thing together. Once I get every point in the right order and gather the appropriate audio and video (well, caps), it'll come together as soon as it can. As I pointed out last time, the process has been very affirming. I'm even going to put out videos about the Egyptian zodiac. The voice recordings for that are also complete. All that's left is to edit them together. Those will be easier and quicker to produce, so I'll be working on them at the same time as the CinemaSins video in increments.

Nostalgia Reaffirmed

I finished sinning the last two episodes of East Meets West. However, thanks to youtube copyright issues with random parts, I had to go to a different site to get footage, so the aspect ratio will be inconsistent when I make the video. It'll take a long time to record, and I don't know if I can find all the bits of audio I want to use for the end part. It'll be difficult enough just recording the audio from the show, as well as taking a while to record my readings. Rewatching these episodes made me appreciate the show more rather than tear it down. It was by no means perfect and not the best incarnation of the four canon Turtles, but Splinter was portrayed as a concerned parent (especially where Raph was concerned), and Venus is still an inspiration to me. I'd never want to go back to that part of my life, but this show was a big part of it. It gave me solace. Nothing is going to take that away from me. I wouldn't even call it a guilty pleasure because you can't make me feel guilty about it anymore. Watching it again, I feel like I'm home.

After listening to Razzbowski read the first four chapters of the Five Nights at Freddy's Book "The Silver Eyes," I have to admit that I stopped caring after the first chapter and only kept listening because he's such a good narrator, as many have pointed out. I just can't get emotionally invested in these characters if this story isn't canon. It'd be one thing if some random person just wrote the story with FNAF as a backdrop, but Scott put this out. He worked with a writer, not the other way around (or so I assume, otherwise he's tricked us again). Scott only allows people to read the first four chapters, and it supposedly picks up and gets good after chapter five, according to Razzbowski. I may decide to give it a look in the future or I may not.

I've been able to sleep, but I've had a lot of weird dreams. One was some random Dragon Ball Z tournament movie with made-up characters that were scraping the bottom of the barrel for design. In my dream last night, our D&D campaign got replacement members since in real life our games keep getting cancelled when people have to drop out at the last minute. Those replacement members were none other than Laura, Travis, Sam, and Ashley from Critical Role.