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Apr. 19th, 2022 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kjorteoIn this issue: Affiliate status! Our SoulSilver LP is actually finally coming back (I really hope penguinmayhem is still around)! The latest on that whole CD-i thing! Snakes! The writing backlog! And more! (Note: Maybe not more.)
So, first off, you may recall that we put out that appeal about how keeping our CD-i player not-broken just so we can keep streaming Lost Sheep and similar forgotten jank for you all was getting to be an expensive hobby. I mentioned that if you wanted to support it and us (and at the very least make us feel like it wasn't a thankless endeavor) then please go follow us on Twitch because we were just a few followers away from qualifying for Affiliate status. And if you wanted to, like, donate and make it easier for us to afford things like that and keep bringing this stuff to you (hi, I'm de facto disabled and don't really have any income right now) then please consider subscribing our stream once we were, you know, big enough to become Affiliates and thus someone for whom the option to subscribe exists.
Since we put that out, three things happened:
1) You all came through and we got the followers! We are now officially Twitch Affiliates! Thank you so much!
2) You all also came through in that we have a fair number of subscribers now! Holy wow you all are awesome ;o; I'll never feel like what we do is thankless again.
3) After shopping around, I believe we've finally found a place who can do the repairs needed on our CD-i, and the replacement parts that they'll need to install have been ordered and are now sitting on our desk. We're going housesitting again in a couple weeks, and we'll drop everything off at their shop as part of that venture. If all goes well, hopefully they'll repair everything successfully and we can pick it all up upon our return? So, you know, time, patience, etc. but at the very least we have not forgotten and we still intend to fix it as soon as we're able, and resume streaming things like Story of Jonah/Lost Sheep and the rest of our CD-i collection once it's fixed. Especially since I'm guessing at least a few of our final followers that put us over the finish line are here because they answered the call from that last post, and therefore they're here for the CD-i stuff, you know? We will get to that as soon this is all settled. Your support in the meantime helps a lot because, you know, hardware costs.
So what are we streaming over on Twitch in the meantime, if our CD-i is still currently broken as of this entry? Oh, you know, this and that. After a lot of Family Dog speedrunning early on, these days we seem to have settled into cozy chill mellow stuff (art streams, working on Kurt's castle in Dragon Quest Builders 2) and niche gaming, either old stuff (CD-i before it broke, Hansel and Gretel & the Enchanted Castle) or indie stuff (Cosmic Top Secret.) Kurt's been getting a lot of love, between DQB2 being in service of his castle and the art streams being in service of his new sona.
Kurt's a snake now, you see.
He, uh, may or may not be done being a falcon? We still haven't decided whether that's something he's going to switch between on a whim, or go fully into one and leave the other behind, or what, but we do know that he's been having pangs that left him feeling... well, like he just really wanted a snake form, like snakes spoke to him and were relatable to him and how he was feeling. I drew one up for him and he loves it and has been using it a lot. So at the very least, we know he's a snake, for sure. Whether he's also still a falcon, I guess we'll see.
Streamwise, we're thinking of showcasing Istaria at some point. Hey, it's old and has Family Dog appeal, you know? And this this may also be a good platform on which to finish our SoulSilver run. Just, you know, this and that, as long as it's a nice place to hang out.
Wait, what? Did they just say "SoulSilver run"? What? Could it be?? It's been 3,000 years....
Yes! For those who weren't here back then, something like four years ago we were doing a Let's Play of Pokemon: SoulSilver Version. I knew that I had bad luck with LPs just kind of... trailing off and not ever being finished, and I even gave my team a bunch of Neverending Story-themed names (our team leader was the Chikorita-like Empress, and we also had an Atreyu, a Falkor, etc.) because I related the sort of ennui that takes over and makes big writing projects like that die to The Nothing. The whole journey was that team's attempt to escape that fate and get their well-deserved closure, you know? Unfortunately, they didn't make it.
OR DID THEY.
After all this time, I now know two things that I didn't know then:
1) The Nothing I was fighting the whole time was probably just my undiagnosed/untreated ADHD, and
2) Streaming stuff on Twitch is a lot easier than going back and editing/polishing/turning play experiences into some sort of summation after the fact, it turns out!
And so, we are proud to announce that THE WOODLING SOULSILVER LP, THE JOURNEY OF EMPRESS AND HER TEAM, IS BACK. And because it has been a LONG TIME, I left a link to the tag to all the old entries to get caught up a couple paragraphs above up there, but here it is again:
https://kjorteo.dreamwidth.org/tag/pokemon+soulsilver
If you're interested, then we invite you to read through all of these (for the first time if you're new, or again to refresh yourself if you were around back then) just to get caught up to speed. We will begin streaming SoulSilver on our Twitch channel fairly soon, probably within the next couple days, and we will be picking up right where part 19 of the written LP left off, with the team getting ready to head off to Victory Road. God, it feels good to see them again. After all this time and everything they've been through, they deserve this.
Meanwhile, speaking of the fact that ADHD sucks and writing is hard, yeah I know we never did do the actual awards for last year's gameblogging (just the nominees) and we haven't done our usual writeups on the stuff we've played this year. I keep meaning to get around to getting caught up with those... at some point, and then not. The backlog is only growing at this rate. As far as stuff we've played and need to talk about at some point, I believe the current list is:
COMPLETE: Actraiser Renaissance
ABANDONED: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
SIDETRACKED FOR NOW(??? not... officially abandoned, I still keep feeling like I want to finish them someday and nothing really stopped us but ADHD, but the truth it's it's been a long time since we touched them and maybe it's finally time to admit that): SoulBlazer, Glory of Heracles IV, Woven, Fateful Lore, Dragon Quest III
COMPLETE: Live A Live (SNES fan translation and yes the timing on that is unreal; they announced the remake just like a week or two after we finished and believe me we are HYPE.)
COMPLETE: Cosmic Top Secret
COMPLETE: Cards of Change
COMPLETE: Stilstand
So yeah, uh... maybe... someday. I dunno.
Come see us on Twitch in the meantime. *blush, mumble*
penguinmayhem is still around)! The latest on that whole CD-i thing! Snakes! The writing backlog! And more! (Note: Maybe not more.)So, first off, you may recall that we put out that appeal about how keeping our CD-i player not-broken just so we can keep streaming Lost Sheep and similar forgotten jank for you all was getting to be an expensive hobby. I mentioned that if you wanted to support it and us (and at the very least make us feel like it wasn't a thankless endeavor) then please go follow us on Twitch because we were just a few followers away from qualifying for Affiliate status. And if you wanted to, like, donate and make it easier for us to afford things like that and keep bringing this stuff to you (hi, I'm de facto disabled and don't really have any income right now) then please consider subscribing our stream once we were, you know, big enough to become Affiliates and thus someone for whom the option to subscribe exists.
Since we put that out, three things happened:
1) You all came through and we got the followers! We are now officially Twitch Affiliates! Thank you so much!
2) You all also came through in that we have a fair number of subscribers now! Holy wow you all are awesome ;o; I'll never feel like what we do is thankless again.
3) After shopping around, I believe we've finally found a place who can do the repairs needed on our CD-i, and the replacement parts that they'll need to install have been ordered and are now sitting on our desk. We're going housesitting again in a couple weeks, and we'll drop everything off at their shop as part of that venture. If all goes well, hopefully they'll repair everything successfully and we can pick it all up upon our return? So, you know, time, patience, etc. but at the very least we have not forgotten and we still intend to fix it as soon as we're able, and resume streaming things like Story of Jonah/Lost Sheep and the rest of our CD-i collection once it's fixed. Especially since I'm guessing at least a few of our final followers that put us over the finish line are here because they answered the call from that last post, and therefore they're here for the CD-i stuff, you know? We will get to that as soon this is all settled. Your support in the meantime helps a lot because, you know, hardware costs.
So what are we streaming over on Twitch in the meantime, if our CD-i is still currently broken as of this entry? Oh, you know, this and that. After a lot of Family Dog speedrunning early on, these days we seem to have settled into cozy chill mellow stuff (art streams, working on Kurt's castle in Dragon Quest Builders 2) and niche gaming, either old stuff (CD-i before it broke, Hansel and Gretel & the Enchanted Castle) or indie stuff (Cosmic Top Secret.) Kurt's been getting a lot of love, between DQB2 being in service of his castle and the art streams being in service of his new sona.
Kurt's a snake now, you see.
He, uh, may or may not be done being a falcon? We still haven't decided whether that's something he's going to switch between on a whim, or go fully into one and leave the other behind, or what, but we do know that he's been having pangs that left him feeling... well, like he just really wanted a snake form, like snakes spoke to him and were relatable to him and how he was feeling. I drew one up for him and he loves it and has been using it a lot. So at the very least, we know he's a snake, for sure. Whether he's also still a falcon, I guess we'll see.
Streamwise, we're thinking of showcasing Istaria at some point. Hey, it's old and has Family Dog appeal, you know? And this this may also be a good platform on which to finish our SoulSilver run. Just, you know, this and that, as long as it's a nice place to hang out.
Wait, what? Did they just say "SoulSilver run"? What? Could it be?? It's been 3,000 years....
Yes! For those who weren't here back then, something like four years ago we were doing a Let's Play of Pokemon: SoulSilver Version. I knew that I had bad luck with LPs just kind of... trailing off and not ever being finished, and I even gave my team a bunch of Neverending Story-themed names (our team leader was the Chikorita-like Empress, and we also had an Atreyu, a Falkor, etc.) because I related the sort of ennui that takes over and makes big writing projects like that die to The Nothing. The whole journey was that team's attempt to escape that fate and get their well-deserved closure, you know? Unfortunately, they didn't make it.
OR DID THEY.
After all this time, I now know two things that I didn't know then:
1) The Nothing I was fighting the whole time was probably just my undiagnosed/untreated ADHD, and
2) Streaming stuff on Twitch is a lot easier than going back and editing/polishing/turning play experiences into some sort of summation after the fact, it turns out!
And so, we are proud to announce that THE WOODLING SOULSILVER LP, THE JOURNEY OF EMPRESS AND HER TEAM, IS BACK. And because it has been a LONG TIME, I left a link to the tag to all the old entries to get caught up a couple paragraphs above up there, but here it is again:
https://kjorteo.dreamwidth.org/tag/pokemon+soulsilver
If you're interested, then we invite you to read through all of these (for the first time if you're new, or again to refresh yourself if you were around back then) just to get caught up to speed. We will begin streaming SoulSilver on our Twitch channel fairly soon, probably within the next couple days, and we will be picking up right where part 19 of the written LP left off, with the team getting ready to head off to Victory Road. God, it feels good to see them again. After all this time and everything they've been through, they deserve this.
Meanwhile, speaking of the fact that ADHD sucks and writing is hard, yeah I know we never did do the actual awards for last year's gameblogging (just the nominees) and we haven't done our usual writeups on the stuff we've played this year. I keep meaning to get around to getting caught up with those... at some point, and then not. The backlog is only growing at this rate. As far as stuff we've played and need to talk about at some point, I believe the current list is:
COMPLETE: Actraiser Renaissance
ABANDONED: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
SIDETRACKED FOR NOW(??? not... officially abandoned, I still keep feeling like I want to finish them someday and nothing really stopped us but ADHD, but the truth it's it's been a long time since we touched them and maybe it's finally time to admit that): SoulBlazer, Glory of Heracles IV, Woven, Fateful Lore, Dragon Quest III
COMPLETE: Live A Live (SNES fan translation and yes the timing on that is unreal; they announced the remake just like a week or two after we finished and believe me we are HYPE.)
COMPLETE: Cosmic Top Secret
COMPLETE: Cards of Change
COMPLETE: Stilstand
So yeah, uh... maybe... someday. I dunno.
Come see us on Twitch in the meantime. *blush, mumble*