One? Two? Three? Four? Five? Six? Seven? …..
Congrats, Ben on being Machinima’d. When you’re in LA getting a massage from Hutch and a pedicure from Sark, while Nannerman cooks you up something tasty based on chicken, don’t forget about us little people.
Peas and loaves
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Eight Thoughts sent me a link to IGN’s vid of Dead Space 2 from E3. I didn’t play Dead Space, although I think I played the demo and didn’t really get in to it (happens a lot to me). But anyway, the thing that interested me most on this was the gratuitous deacapamemberment that’s so prevalent in the game.
Zip to 2:37 of the vid for some awesome up close raw decapamemberment:
Decapamemberment, the new black.
And am I the only person who feels that anyone observing you watch an IGN vid is thinking that you’re only viewing it to check out Jessica Chodrot? Ah cynical marketing at its best.
Peas and loaves.
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One of my favourite YouTube commentors EightThoughts has taken the train to Technoville and got himself an Hauppauge HD PVR.
Originally his videos were standard definition recorded using a video camera, and to be honest….. I almost didn’t subscribe to him when I first came across his commentaries. But then I heard his commentary and it just cracked me up. At a time when everyone else was being a try hard his commentaries were like a breath of fresh air. Despite the pretty rubbish video quality, the commentary was just pure…..quality. So I subbed, and never regretted it – I would have stayed subbed even if he’d never gone HD as his videos are great.
I think the most appealing part of Eight’s vids are that he makes them for him rather than to be YouTube popular, or to appeal to a certain type of gamer. He just makes them, and if other people like them too then great, and if not then……. big fat hairy deal.
Keep up the good work Eight!
And here’s his first ever HD vid (not any talk on the gameplay, it’s more him discussing the recording and where he’s going from here on):
Check him out: http://www.youtube.com/user/EightThoughts
Peas and loaves.
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Three to Watch Week 6 is finally up, and has a slight change of format this week as it contains two Battlefield Bad Company 2 clips and only one Modern Warfare 2. The main reason for this is that a lot of commentators are switching to BFBC2, and those sticking with MW2 seem to have been injected with complain-o-matic.
This week we have StoneFaceLock who is producing some excellent guides to BFBC2. Erik52193 a newish Modern Warfare 2 commentator, and blackjester40 who produces a little bit of everything in his videos.
As usual, check them out – rate (or thumb up if you’re on the new layout), comment and subscribe and all that as the amount of activity on a person’s channel really does help.
You can check the previous editions here:
Peas and loaves.
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I got my first in video mention today from Eight Thoughts. Mainly because I’ve been bugging him to bring back his Chopper Gunner song but the nagging part isn’t really important…..
The video is below, but a word of warning – it’s not safe for work, or minors, or those easily offended, or if you are Tejb, or Tejb’s biggest stalker. Everyone else, have a look:
Thanks Eight. Don’t forget – Harvest Moon by Neil Young for the next vid…..
Peas and loaves.
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It’s Thursday, so it must be time for the Weekly-ish Update of what’s been going on with this blog, gaming and the YouTube channel.
YouTube
First – congratulations to sasbenjr (Geoff) for passing the four thousand subscriber mark. His success is down to his measured analytical approach to describing tactics in his videos for both Modern Warfare 2 and more recently Battle Field: Bad Company 2 and his interaction with his subscribers. Definitely worth a view if you haven’t already (and if you are a regular viewer of this blog then you’re probably already familiar with his work). Well done Geoff and all the best for a successful future.
***UPDATE – Pyrotoz has got his new PS3.***
Pyrotoz’s PS3 is still dead. He’s decided that the best option is to go for a new PS3 Slim instead of risking the same thing happening again to a repaired machine. Personally, I think that in the long run that’s probably the smart choice as the PS3 slim has not had the reported failures that the older fat models have. His most recent video explains his position.
***UPDATE – Pyrotoz has got his new PS3.***
My YouTube channel is now in to double figures for subscribers. That makes me more popular than Cannon and Ball, but not as popular as The Chuckle Brothers (joke). ‘Three to Watch’ is now in its fourth week and it’s always nice to receive the positive messages from those featured. The thing is, I don’t feel like I’m really doing anything – the people I feature are the ones doing all the work. So if you would be so kind, pop along to their channel and show them some love. And when I say “show them some love” I mean comment, rate and subscribe if you like what you see.
Those featured so far in order of appearance:
DuelistMaster9 – MisterFantasmo – sasbenjr – xBrZz – KCsCloud – DerekDandy – MrDazzyBee69 – IAMThevPReMoNiTioN – EightThoughts – iBashTV – kataztrophik – CriousGamers
My subscriptions list on YouTube now stands at 71. It would be more, but I unsubscribed from a couple of people as I really can’t stand listening to someone complaining constantly about something they choose to do. If you’d like to check out who I’m subscribed to then click on the YouTube logo:
The Hauppage Fund
Is still at the same place as it was last week. I’m fifty squids away from the price Play.com are asking.
Gaming
I’ve not been doing so well this week as my Game Results posts testify. But I’m not the only one. It seems that having a crappy time is catching. I suspect that all the average players are now on BFBC2 leaving all the 1337 kids on MW2 to mow down those of us who are older and slower. Damn you BFBC2…..damn your eyes *shakes fist*!
Another issue for me is perhaps my obsession with stealth in game making me ineffective in combat. Using Cold Blooded means not being able to use Stopping Power and I’ve found that I do a lot better with Stopping Power……
Blog Views and Template
When I started this blog I didn’t know what direction it would take, or even if anyone would read it. Many of the first posts are simple verbosity – just posting whatever rambles came in to my head regarding Modern Warfare 2. I was happy to see the stats showing that more than one person had visited per day, and then gradually it became the norm for at least 30 unique visitors per day coming here (whether they found what they’re looking for….I don’t know). Recently though the views have increased again with two major spikes – once when Geoff (sasbenjr) gave me a shout out on his channel, and then Tuesday when we almost broke the 100 views mark.
I’m not entirely sure what caused the spike on Tuesday, although it could have been related to my interaction with Paul Hearne’s blog as I created a new header for him:
Is this responsible for a spike in views?
And lastly, my favourite:
Search Terms
I love looking at the search terms that point people to this blog – I’m a geek like that. Some are to be expected – MW2, Tactical Knife, and other MW2-centric terms. The top searches are still for Wings of Redemption and all things related to him – especially his face….. Den Kirson has also been quite popular. But this week, the most amusing term has been…. “Commando Peas”
I kid you not. I even did my own search to find out what commando peas could possibly be, but there were no results other than this blog…. Maybe it’s going to be the new big title from one of the game publishing houses. Commando Peas – you heard it here first!
Peas and loaves.
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So here’s a quick update on what’s been happening in my game related existence:
YouTube
I’ve now subscribed to 70 YouTubers. Some popular, some YouTube famous and a lot of overlooked and new uploaders. If you’re interested, check my subscriptions list by clicking on the YouTube icon coming up. There’s a lot really good peeps on there, so have a look and show them some love.
Three to Watch
My little montage videos of YouTubers whose videos I particularly enjoy watching has reached week 3. I’m getting positive responses from those that are featured – in most cases the first they hear from me is when I send them a message letting them know. They’re not going to get masses of traffic from my teeny tiny channel but in most cases just that little bit of recognition is a boost for morale in a place as angry and negative as YouTube.
Those featured so far:
DuelistMaster9
MisterFantasmo
sasbenjr
xBrZz
KCsCloud
DerekDandy
MrDazzyBee69
IAMThevPReMoNiTioN
EightThoughts
Watch the three montages here.
Hauppage Fund
Slowly slowly catchy monkey – apparently. Except the monkey keeps getting bigger and my foot is nailed to the floor 😀 Damned monkeys!
My now ex-surfboard got to its destination so the Hauppage fund is looking a bit healthier:
The hump has been broken so it shouldn’t be long now…..
Search Terms
As I mentioned in a couple of previous posts, I take note of what searches bring people here and try to accomodate what they’re after as much as possible. Here’s the search terms for the past two days – the majority looking for WoR’s face!
I’ve outlined one search term in red to see if you guys have any thoughts on what it’s referring to. After a quick brain shake of the in games sounds I’m thinking that it might be referring to the Scavenger perk sound? What do you think? And how popular is WoR’s face!?
That’s it in a nutshell. I think that my resolution for the following week is play more and post less. This week I’ve been seriously side tracked by the goings on in the gaming community and its been a bit of a downer. I’ve felt as though some of my posts have been quite negative and I want to avoid that – who wants to be negative, or more importantly – who wants to read a load of negativity? It gets boring and spreads to other things so I’m chucking negativity out the window. Positivity rocks, and rolls – it should be the new rock n roll, or at least the new black.
Peas and loaves.
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It’s Wednesday….well it was when I started editing the video, it’s technically Thursday now, but I haven’t gone to bed yet so it still counts as Wednesday.
And Wednesday is Three to Watch Day (until I run out of people to pimp).
This week we have MrDazzybee69, IAmThevPReMoNiTioN, and EightThoughts.
Check them out, if you like what you see, then show them some love – comment, rate, subscribe. You know, the things that all the cool kids are doing.
As always if you know of something that you think should be included, then let me know!
Peas and loaves.
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Before you go any further this commentary is NSFW (Not Safe For Work) and contains many naughty words and references, so if you’re offended by that sort of thing then you need to click here to see a funny cat video.
You know what, if you’re still here, I’m not going to say anything about this – I’ll let it speak for itself:
If you liked that, go check him out, he really just plays for fun – EightThoughts
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