#Blaugust2016

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TSW Stream – Lumie Alt in Savage Coast

Posted by Gryph on August 15, 2016

Posted in: Gryph Streams, Livestreams, Secret World Legends. Tagged: #Blaugust2016, #The Secret World, #TSW. Leave a comment

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Finally getting the last livestream posted here. New mic is working and hugely better than I had before, but go fig I forgot to adjust the UI on my alt. Ah, well… the Twitch chat overlay was also working this time so I’ll just call it a double win. We ran The Rec Center Cannot Hold, Carter Unleashed, Tier 10 of Dawning of an Endless Night, and a few missions from the Overlook and Sam Krieg. I also highlighted a section if anyone wants to see my dog’s cameo. Thanks again to everyone who popped in, it was a fun night. 🙂

My job gets in the way of any sort of regular streaming schedule, but I do at least try to post on Twitter (@darkgryphon42) as soon as I know I can run that night.

Curious about #Blaugust? Visit the Blaugust Initiative page, and then head over to the Nook to see what everyone else is up to. Or check out #Blaugust2016 on social media.

Many Miles Away, Blaugust Crawls From the Slime

Posted by Gryph on August 11, 2016

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Blaugust2016

Nope, legitimately no idea why the song’s in my head. I hope I didn’t already use that title last year…but it’s possible I did. >_>

Just a quick update post – no, I haven’t thrown in the Blaugust towel. I initially decided not to promise any specific post frequency and suspect I was right to do so. We’ve been short at work for one reason or another, for most of the last week. Combine that with having some pretty important things I either need or want to spend time on, and I chose to step back for a while. (Some of it’s unexpected awesome, and some not-awesome. As it goes.)

Let this be one of those reminder posts – it’s okay to step back, and then come back when you can.

On the plus side, my original goal was to do *something* related to blogging or livestreaming each day, and THAT is something I’ve managed to do. It’s not as obvious or public as daily posts, but with some help I’ve gotten my new mic setup running and tested. Also with help, I’m looking into options that should help the video quality of my streams. It’s rather awesome for a number of reasons, not least of which is I’d been meaning to get to some of this stuff for a while. Also for other reasons. 🙂

I prepped a post about CONvergence last week, so that’ll go up as soon as I get a chance to regather my thoughts. If I’m awake at all later tonight, I’ll be livestreaming – and if not, I should be doing more Soon™. Beyond the Veil will be back from our summer break next Thursday, and I’ll get back in the habit of posting links to the show here.

In closing, have a pic of Loki soon after his bath the other day. Because puppers.

Loki bath

Curious about #Blaugust? Visit the Blaugust Initiative page, and then head over to the Nook to see what everyone else is up to. Or check out #Blaugust2016 on social media.

TSW Dev Stream 8/5/2016

Posted by Gryph on August 5, 2016

Posted in: Livestreams, Secret World Legends. Tagged: #Blaugust2016, #The Secret World, #TSW. Leave a comment

dev stream 8.5.2016

I missed watching live since I was at work, but Secret World players got another dev stream today – the Twitch recording can be found here, and I’m guessing it’ll go up on Youtube eventually as well.

Normally I’d save my commentary for Beyond the Veil, but we’re on summer break until the 18th. This will not be full coverage of everything discussed on the stream, just a few parts that jumped out at me.

Before the news bits, I was glad to see them play through The Black House mission. I love both playing and watching people play that one. It’s one of my favorite missions in the game, both for atmosphere and for the story of Carrie Killian. I’d run it on stream more often if not for the very act of streaming serving to kill off some of the mood. (I also possibly forgot about what happens when you try to enter the house in anima – or “dead” – form. I do so love some of those anima form surprises in TSW.) Continue Reading

Continuing Livestream Adventures

Posted by Gryph on August 4, 2016

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Welcome to the true spirit of Blaugust! I didn’t get any real sleep last night, just dozed for a few hours. And had to open the store early this morning. But, even though I didn’t technically sign up for daily posts…I don’t want to lose the streak I have going. So let’s do a post while running on caffeine and exhaustion, what could possibly go wrong?

I’m going to ramble more about where I’m at with getting back into livestreaming.

I managed to stream last night despite being tired and vaguely headachy. There’s that Blaugust nudge working again (at least partly). It’s like my dog when he’s reminding me I haven’t fed him since his last meal…both persistent and insistent. 😉 Continue Reading

TSW Stream – I Walk Into Empty Tyler Freeborn. Or something.

Posted by Gryph on August 3, 2016

Posted in: Gryph Streams, Livestreams, Secret World Legends. Tagged: #Blaugust2016, #The Secret World, #TSW. 1 Comment

Calling the actual stream last night Day 3 of Blaugust, and adjusting the post time here accordingly. Possible thoughts on it after work today, if I’m coherent at all after not being able to sleep.

Curious about #Blaugust? Visit the Blaugust Initiative page, and then head over to the Nook to see what everyone else is up to. Or check out #Blaugust2016 on social media.

Livestreaming, Blogging, and Being Less Than Perfect

Posted by Gryph on August 2, 2016

Posted in: Gryph Streams, Livestreams, Secret World Legends. Tagged: #Blaugust2016, #The Secret World, #TSW. 4 Comments

I’ve been on break from streaming (other than Beyond the Veil) for at least as long as I’ve been on break from the blog. A couple days ago, I finally got around to running a short test stream. I put off adding it to the blog partly because I’m slightly annoyed by it. Not the stops and starts – that was expected for a test stream. But the other things I noted while watching it later. My headset really is dying and not helping the sound quality, settings need tweaking, some UI in game should have been moved…I had weird camera placement since I forgot I slouch like mad when I’m tired. It was also laggy, and I hate that.

Thing is, all of that is part of what made it hard to get back in at all. I’m probably not as picky as some, but I spent a good chunk of hours adjusting things in my preview window before I went live. Trying to make sure everything looked right. Like blogging, if I’m going to stream I want it to be the best quality I can manage. I don’t like looking at it later and seeing something I missed.

#Blaugust2016 – Day One of…Many?

Posted by Gryph on August 1, 2016

Posted in: Blog News, Communities, Creating. Tagged: #Blaugust2016. 2 Comments

Blaugust2016

Wow, it’s really been a whole year since last Blaugust.

Blaugust, for those who don’t know, is an August blogging initiative started by Belghast over at Tales of the Aggronaut. While the big goal has previously been to post a substantive post (or vlog) for each day of August, this year it’s focused on what the point of it all was supposed to be. Building community, and the benefits of regularly posting content on some sort of schedule. You can read his thoughts in more detail on his recent post, A Chill Blaugust.

I participated and…I hate to say “won.” I *completed* my Blaugust 2015 goal of posting each day. Those posts can be found here, under the #Blaugust2015 tag. I’m still rather proud of some of them. Continue Reading