Monthly Archives: May 2015

How to Survive was horrible. We’re doing PayDay 2 instead!

Date: May 14th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: How to Survive (PC) PayDay 2 (PC)

I was pumped. I was ready, ready to play How to Survive. I was looking forward to starting out a brand new game. After 20 minutes of gameplay, my chat and I were not feeling it… at all.

I had to quickly change games so I decided on PayDay 2 to try out the lifestyle as a bank robber. Thing went in a different direction.

Personally I felt the stream went south due to unexpected bad games. Lessons to learn here, screen your games, even if you want to have a vanilla experience. Also, PayDay 2 is a great game. Lastly, be careful when brewing your coffee. I used a smaller mug which requires less water. Because of that, I downed my coffee too fast and had a coffee headache towards the end of the stream. Wasn’t feeling hot at all.

I was able to play some PayDay 2 with Cryptometric and we’re looking to plan for a dual stream sometime next week. Looking forward to that.

Streaming Tech

I really loved how PayDay 2 looked with the frame rate at 540p. I’m debating if my microphone audio is needs an increase in levels, not too sure yet.

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 38
Total Views: 465
Stream Time: 2 Hours 19 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 48FPS – 2000kbps Bitrate (Fast encoding)

Capcom running a sale on Steam!

Hey Guys,

Just a quick update that Capcom is running a sale this week on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/capcom2015/

 

 

I’m all ’bout that taco, ’bout that taco, no zombies! #2

Date: May 12th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (PC)

Tonight was the 2nd session of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. I had a lot of great Garden Warfare fans come into the chat and we’re looking to do some Co-op soon! Below was my highlight of the night. Plain and simple. No frills.

Streaming Tech

I notice some pixelation in the stream tonight. I suspect it may be the fast pace of the game. I will be tinkering with the encoding. No complaints on buffering, including a mobile user.

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 35
Total Views: 430
Stream Time: 2 Hours 5 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 48FPS – 2000kbps Bitrate (Fast encoding)

Great set of people again in the chat tonight. I will be in an Extra Life Gaming Charity meeting tomorrow, so no stream until Thursday where we try out for the first time, How to Survive. Try to survive until then! Take care.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Crepes

Got your attention? Good!

In Chat last night, Cryptometric was bragging (not really) about having Reese’s Peanut Butter crepes and was nice enough to share the very simple recipe in chat:

It’s pretty simple, buy some premade crepes from the grocery store. You can grab a jar of Reese’s spread as well. Coat skillet in in butter on med high heat. Place the crepe in the skillet, put the spread in a plastic bag and cut the corner off so you can squeeze out a right amount. Then cooke for about 30 second to a minute qrap the crepe up and serve.

I’m all ’bout that taco, ’bout that taco, no zombies!

Date: May 11th
Start time: 8pm CT
Game: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (PC)

Tonight’s stream transitioned over to Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare for PC. The stream consists of me getting my butt handed to, then I get some key pointers from my wonderful chat, I making progress, then stinking all over again.

Also, my teammates at Dinosaur Mustache dropped by to support the stream. Really glad to see us support one another. Huge kudos to them!

The chat went in a different direction tonight that cause a lot of laughter and understand of what a 13 foot something can and can not do. I intentionally did not post any highlights here, but feel free to watch the broadcast to see why, specifically 1:35:26

Streaming Tech

No changes here. I did get one piece of feedback about buffering. If you had these kind of issues during the stream. Let me know! Also, my music was a little louder than I wanted, oops!

Streaming Stats

Total Follows: 31
Total Views: 419
Stream Time: 1 Hours 59 Minutes
Streaming Quality: 540p @ 48FPS – 2000kbps Bitrate (Fast encoding)

I’m willing to say one of the more active streams thus far. Chat was great and rolled with the punches! Got quite a few followers, so thank you so much for the support and I hoped you enjoyed yourself. We will be doing session 2 of Garden Warfare tomorrow! See you then!