Weekly Update: It wasn't con flu, but it was an inconvenience (Patreon)

This lil dummy thought he was slick by going behind the couch to try and ambush my wife and I. he got his claws stuck in the fabric and we had to move the couch away form the wall to free him.

Hey Saucy Ones,

That little tickle in my throat got worse.

So yeah, like the day after I prepped that post last Tuesday, that cold I got ended up getting way worse. I think it was less to do with MAGFest since I felt relatively fine a couple days after getting home, but more to do with the fact that were were a lot of NYRs (a term that refers to the swarm of inexperienced newcomers that appear every January as a part of New Year's resolutions for those who haven't heard NYR before) in my gym that were visibly sick and hacking out a lung on all the gym equipment without even bothering to pretend to cover their mouths, let alone do the responsible thing and go home until they're better. I was pretty much out of commission until Sunday.

It wasn't all just laying around with a box of tissues at my side though, I did some low energy stuff while I was recovering. I did some personal stuff like organize and print out my own NYRs, got the outline of the Abiotic Factor video done, and played some of the FNV DLC run on my own which ended up with me getting carried away and doing all of Old World Blues in one night. I really underestimated just how much you start snowballing in OWB once you get over the hump of getting ambushed every time you leave the sink.

I'm all better now though.

So far this week i've started on writing the script for Abiotic Factor as well as making the call to outline as I go with FNV round 2 as that way I get the ideas onto an outline while they're still fresh in my head and if something better comes along like a new idea for a through line for the whole video I can just change it later.

I'll also be back to streaming today as you're reading this since if it's one thing I've grown to miss since my post FNV CA Compliance break and being sick, it's just having chill little stream with ya'll. We're gonna keep at FNV's DLCs.

On the note of streaming and what I'm gonna be streaming. After FNV's DLCs I think I'm gonna try zomboid again on my own and then once I can figure out who is down and available to do it with my during my stream times, Sons of the Forest. This is not just for the inevitable videos of these games but more in service of the other games I'm going to be making videos about. I've found through reflecting on last year that streaming while playing can be good for certain subject matters, I have to pick two out of playing the game, taking notes, and interacting with you guys in chat. I like streaming and rather than sacrifice the quality(?) of the stream by ignoring you all and taking notes I think it'd be better to separate subject matters for videos into the categories of "this is good for streaming/interacting with chat" and "this is a game that requires more note taking for videos and I should play it on my own.

This shakes out to most of the Halloween in July games in the latter categories and I'll be playing those on my own. It works out well because between Zomboid and Sons of the Forest those are both MP-centric games that I'd be better served interacting with my teammates and chat. Plus those two are a lot of streams worth of game.

Not much else going on right about now as January is always a slow month. I gotta do more things before I can tell you about them

Stay Saucy!