TGP-Gone?

 Hello friends!!

I want to break the silence since going dark a little while back.

Videos will be returning soon! I am actually in the process of moving, so as soon as life for me quiets down again, I will be able to start farting around in Minecraft and filling my pants in Subnautica again very soon. So fret not!

That's not to say that I haven't been working on the channel. I have been working on art, concepts, etc while I've been busy. Lots of back-end stuff, really - the stuff I do have time for!

When the channel does return to life, there will be a little extra oomph behind it. I fell off of it for a number of reasons, really. One of them was the lack of time and space to properly produce content, but another was simply discouragement. I am usually pretty good about shutting out what other content creators are doing, because I know myself and I know I will draw comparisons and discourage myself.

A big gaming channel I love recently put out a cinematic Bigfoot playthrough not too long after Figbuht dropped, which I am sure are two entirely unrelated events, but as you could imagine it left me feeling a bit discouraged.

They're a huge channel, and a huge community, with enormous production value, staff, and resources. I am one dude with half-rate equipment and a go-get'em attitude. That's apples to oranges, and I know that.

Doesn't stop my brain from eating itself. 

 Thankfully, I never began this project with aspirations of making it big or even modestly present. I put the time and work that I do into these videos because I find it fun. I couldn't care less what the algorithm thinks or wants. I don't need  or even want to get larger than maybe a few hundred of you. I'd love to just carve out a little slice of the internet for a small community and I. If I can achieve that, it'd be above and beyond my expectations. 

So, I'm going to keep plugging away. I hope that when this hiatus ends, you all enjoy spending time with me even more.

Until then, as always, take care of yourselves!

Modded Minecraft Made me Cry

 Hello friends!

Sad news I'm afraid. I pulled up my Modded Minecraft earlier today to get some recording done and found that I had apparently soft-locked myself. A mod (as Satan as my witness, I am clueless as to which one) has locked up trying to spawn an entity or something or other. Either way, it has locked me out of my game.

So, rather than get discouraged, I've taken the opportunity to move to a newer version of Minecraft. I'm moving to 1.19, and will still be utilizing an offensive number of mods.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Lycanites was the culprit, as it has been so far, but thankfully it isn't ready for the newer versions and I will be skipping it entirely. I felt like it was making getting a foothold difficult anyway.

So, with this new opportunity, I will be able to revamp the series and include newer content. Hopefully it turns into something worth watching.

That's it for now.

Take care of yourselves!

Gnomies in the Know - April '23 Edition

 Hello friends!

I took a break last week. It was sort of unplanned, in that time caught up to me way too quickly and I was not ready for it. It was also 100% necessary. Life has gotten a lot more interesting of late, and I've had to overcorrect a bit for a while. I'm back this week, and I want to introduce you to what I've been cooking!

SubGnautica

Mondays @ 8am EST

Coming back 4/10/23, SubGnautica will take a more story/narrative-driven approach. I'm realizing that making this any longer a series than it absolutely has to be will be equivalent to torture. I will not be rushing the series, merely honing my focus on progressing the story.

Pal-Heim

Occasional Wednesdays @ 8pm EST

This series will be taking over the Phasmophobia series for a bit, while I work on diversifying the content for that series. This is definitely the low-key, low-stakes 'non canon' series with myself, Breyarte, and Natilda as we screw around and shoot the shtuff. This one won't be released regularly, as it will be largely dependent on when we gather up. Freeing up my Wednesday slots for only intermittent episodes significantly releases a lot of pressure on my ever-shrinking schedule.

I also plan on dabbling a bit on using a face cam for some of these episodes. I don't have a good webcam (But I don't have a garbage one, either) and I don't have the setup for a green screen or anything like that yet, but I want to give it a shot and see how people respond!

Ark: Stupidity Involved

Every other Saturday @ 9am EST

The Ark series will take place on the custom map Fjordur and will be a series for as long as I can play it without rage-quitting.

Ark can be a frustrating game.

Hopefully, though, it will make great content! I'd love to play it through to fight a boss, especially as I've never gotten that far in this game before.

Modded Minecraft Survival: Season 1

Fridays @ 5pm EST

Not much to report on this one. Expect more actual progression and even more stupid deaths. Some of the mobs from the Lycanites mod have presented some unique problems - some keep generating super laggy structures over and over, for example - that have made half my job for this series 'config hunting'. While I don't mind it, I am thinking that season 2 will have significantly fewer mods.

Perhaps by force, as season 1 is currently operating on Minecraft version 1.16.5. There have been numerous large updates since then, and the modding community seems to be getting better at keeping pace with the version releases. Hopefully I can compile a mod list I am happy with for season 2!

That's more or less it for now! Take care of yourselves!