He's Seriously Doing The Praise The Sun Thing, Though: Praise The Sun! I Mean.. The Father! - Far Cry 5 Part 1

Boy, am I excited for this game. It has all my favorite stuff in it:
Guns, games, Christianity, a Dark Souls reference, AAA franchise "quality" (note the clip at the beginning of the video), and lots of cutscenes to take up a full hour long episode just to start the game!

Only one of those was sarcastic, btw.

Anyways, this is what I'm proud to announce is the first episode of a full Summer of fun! Unlike last Summer, this time I actually have a full Summer's worth of episodes recorded and ready to edit! Here's how it'll basically work out:

Mon/Thurs - Game 1 (starting with Far Cry 5)
Tues/Fri - Game 2 (starting with Doki Doki Literature Club)
Saturday - Game 3 (starting with a casual S.T.A.L.K.E.R playthrough)
Wed - Up for grabs (most likely nothing, sometimes skits/streams)
All week - Occasional streams

This will hopefully go through August and into Fall if we're lucky, but no promises on that front. The Summer is definitely going to be jam-packed with exciting stuff though, so watch out world!

(Channel intro coming soon)

Pie By The Campfire: Pi Day Camp Songs!

This year I was super late making the Pi Day video (in fact, it was 12:42 AM the next day before I got it uploaded), but I'm super happy with the result!

I had all these ideas for silly edits and extras, but at the (very late) time I uploaded, it seemed like a better idea to keep it simple and just use what I had on-hand.

Besides that, if you want the lyrics for the songs to sing at your next campfire gathering of super nerds, here you go!

Song 1:

It’s pi day it’s pi day it’s piiii day

A wonderful way to pi, a wonderful way to pie

It’s pi day it’s pi day it’s piiii day

A wonderful way to pi, a wonderful way to die

Song 2:

We lost our tiiin, we lost our tiiin

We have no use, for your crust now (for your crust nooooow)

Booooooo

Song 3:

Have you ever seen a pie tin a pie tin a pie tin

Have you ever seen a pie tin well there’s one right now 
Bakes this way and that way and this way and that way

Have you ever seen a pie tin well there’s one right now

Song 4:

Row row row your boat gently down the stream

Throw your best friend overboard and eat their pie and ‘cream 

Song 2 (Reprise):

We found our tiiin, we found our tiiin

We have some use, for your crust now (for your crust nooooow)

Wooooooo

Yes, I Actually Ate It: Buying In Bulk (sparkypiii Miniskit 4)

Hey, may as well start adding sparkypiii miniskits here, why not?

So I bought a ream of 500 pieces of printer paper for $6.00 so I could start learning to draw, but then I thought to myself, "You know what you do that nobody else does? Eat paper. You should make a video on that." And I did. 

In case you're wondering, I don't make a habit of eating paper, but you know how if you tear out a notebook page, there's still the stuff stuck to the swirly part? That stuff bugs me, so I take it out, and since it'd be too annoying to stand up in class to throw it away, I eat it. 

Anyways, that's all besides the point, the point is you should start buying in bulk. It saves you tons of time and money, removing the need to go to the store every day for the tiniest thing. I recommend Sam's Club, they have some really good deals and some awesome exclusive items. Their notebook paper is to die for.

(Also, if you're wondering, I'm just too lazy and it's 2 in the morning, so I'm probably not going to make a thumbnail for this one)

What A Creep!: Soul Blast Of Doom! (Hollow Knight Part 2)

There's not much to say on this episode besides that I still really love Hollow Knight! Man, does this game rock.

I mean, there's plenty of stuff in the game, but these are made after editing is done, and occasionally (as in this case) several days after making it. So right now, I'm making this blog off of the memory of what that episode is like, and my memory is terrible XD. 

Looking through it quickly though, I do remember the little singing bug who mines in the caves (and a weird thing that happened in a personal playthrough), she was really cool. Singing is a great way to pass the time when doing work, and I really admire her attitude, too.

If you're wondering what the weird thing that happened in my personal playthrough was, here it is: In a completely separate game, haven't met her before, she gave me the dialogue she should give after talking to her about five times! Wtf, did it carry that info from my YouTube save or what? Anyways, that was just a weird and confusing thing that happened, and I don't know why.

Also, this guy is a total creep! He just lures me into his caves, locks me in his back room, and forces me to fight stuff while he watches! There have to be some sort of laws against this sort of thing, right?

This Game, I Like It... I'll Have Another! *Throws CD On Ground*: Soul Power, Activate! (Hollow Knight Part 1)

Hollow Knight is truly a gem. I'd love to say I can't stop playing it, but for the sake of YouTube, I'm going to have to. I can't go ruining the game too much. Sadly, though, as I say in the video, the first huge section was ruined because of a weird glitch. 

Well, I think it actually made for a slightly better intro (sans me complaining), because it takes a bit to master the controls and combat, so it's good I had the practice in before attempting a YouTube video.

Hope you enjoy it! There's sure to be more to come!

Was Zum Teufel?: That Was Interesting (Camera Glitch) (Fallout 4)

This was a fun little thing to film. My brother (who is learning German, which is why Fallout is in German) was playing Fallout 4, and at one point he discovered an interesting camera glitch. He decided to Steam stream it so I could see, then agreed to try to replicate it for YouTube to enjoy. It took several tries, and I'm not sure we could replicate it again, so I hope you enjoy it!

"What? You're trying to talk to him? Nonsense, keep looking at me! My research is much more interesting!"

Mwah! My favorite video so far, by far: Storm Ruler Dance

This was definitely a passion project of mine. One day I was going around helping people fight Yorhm when at some point I got stuck outside the battle area with a guy named Praise The Sun. Together, in the long period of time we were glitch-stuck out of the battle, without even talking or communicating other than our actions, we developed a dance called the Storm Ruler Dance. It can only be properly done with the Storm Ruler because of the wind effect and the unique dipping action with which you go into stance which also propels you forward if you don't go fully into stance. I managed to only record a little bit with him, the rest of the video done without him, and only a little bit of what I recorded with him was usable for this video, sadly, but please help me thank Praise The Sun for making this video possible.

Once we developed the dance, I kept thinking of tunes I could put it to, and the only one that fit the bill was the Can-Can. For the parts where we aren't doing the Storm Ruler Dance, I found other clips from the recording and put them strategically in the video. Half through editing and half through luck, each scene either has a very distinct meaning or fits the music.

Some examples of the genious (both intentional and not) behind this video:
* In the beginning part, you can see that this video is clearly trying to mix both serious gameplay and boss battles with a little silliness and spinning around, before you even get to the first Storm Ruler Dance part. It's important that this is established in the beginning, in my opinion.
* My roll at the beginning matches with the violin, and then we go through the wall at the same time, and the flute plays exactly over that bit.
* 0:03 The creepy crispy hand waving at you.
* 0:00 to 0:10 is prep-time and then after that we go into battle, then the music intensifies.
*At 0:15, I had to edit that to make it fit the music.
*At various times throughout the video (especially at the back and forth part at 0:22), the video is sped up so I could fit a whole scene in a short period so I could time it with the music better.
* At 0:22, you wouldn't believe how many of the Storm Ruler smashes I had cut, and I could only use 4 of them XD.
* Also, you'll notice a back and forth between Yhorm and I at 0:22. This kind of continues through the whole video, actually, up until the end where Yhorm just beats me up for the last 4 scenes.
* 0:33 The suspense! Haha, this scene is just cool because we're both raising our weapons at the same time, him a giant and me a normal human. It's dramatic.
* Between 0:45 and 0:56, I somehow luckily got the transitions so well it seems like my character is doing that thing in videos where the main focus stays stationary but everything else around it changes. That's pretty cool, I think, though admittedly not intentional.
* Also, while we're doing the Storm Ruler Dance parts, it's funny when we go up to people and do the dance into them because half of them or more are completely still and non-reactive, so we're just rubbing up against this guy who's standing like a stone thinking, "Ugh, what is with these weirdos" XD.
* Also, you may notice that most of the video is jump-cut to both fit the music but also bring variety, but at parts like 1:00 I left them whole. I apologize if this throws off the rhythm a bit, but at those parts I just wanted to show how well we were thrashing Yhorm.
* 1:36 kind of matches the beat somehow, and in fact I swing exactly when the cymbals start and again when they end too. I did not record it with that intention but hey, it works.
* 1:42 Tee hee.
* Man, we totally thrashed him at 1:47.
* At 1:50 on it's supposed to seem like Yhorm is finally getting the best of us, and it ends on a suspenseful note where you see his blade come down but you don't see me. But then when the music break ends, it's supposed to reveal us being victorious after all of that struggle, just sitting down to have a drink to celebrate the triumph.

You know, through the whole video it's like the parts that we aren't doing the Storm Ruler Dance it goes from serious in the beginning, then we do the dance, then it's kind of silly in the middle, then we dance again, and it ends up crazy at the end. The dancing parts also get progressively better and funnier as the video progresses, it goes from serious at the start to silly at the end, and the quality of our battles get better too. In the beginning I start out getting thrashed, then in the middle Yhorm starts getting beat up a little, then at 1:47 we just clobber him. It's like the dance is there to remind us to have a little fun with our games, and that a little bit of fun can improve all aspects of our lives. Suddenly this video has a deep meaning revolving around tedium and how it can ruin our lives, and how a little bit of fun can change the world. Or maybe it's just a fun video XD. It's like the phrase, "No pun intended," but it's, "No deep meaning intended."

Sorry about the green border, that must have been an error when I was trying to enhance the video so it was easier on the eyes. Guess I did the opposite :/.

How to perform the Storm Ruler Dance:
1. Equip Storm Ruler
2. One-hand Storm Ruler
3. Charge by holding LT, then release
4. Press LT, then quickly release
5. Repeat 4 & 5
6. Do not press the control stick forward. It may increase speed, but it is not necessary and takes away from the natural swing of just letting the dance go as it does by just doing 3 and 4.