Kelshmo's Channel - Week 1 (06/02/2014) Review

Damn, why so busy man? Can't even be bothered to update the blog. Sheesh.

I'll make these reviews every week, rounding up all of the videos for that week. Even know I'm two weeks behind now. The show must go on!

Real quick here, I want to make my channel schedule official: I'll be uploading a video every week day, and taking Saturday, and Sunday off. At least, I will try to do this. I'm not good at consistency, but as mentioned in my Channel Update video, it really is key to grow a YouTube channel. I love making these videos, and of course I want as many of you guys to enjoy them as well! With that said, lets get on with this week in review.

Channel Update: Summer 2014 (Plans for the Summer)

Sparking the rebirth of my channel, I blabber on about some ideas for the future, and what I'll be uploading for the moment. I'm glad I got every GTA poster in existence with that shot. Those weird egg carton things on my wall are there for sound deadening, I plan on making a timelapse video of me covering my whole wall with that stuff. I bought a folding room divider just to put those things on. Does it work? Kind of. Not as much as I'd like though, I think getting a whole bunch of them on the walls and ceiling will help. But that there is much of an echo here in the first place, but very little bit helps.

S1 Recap - Let's Stalk - Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

With this video, I start the new way I'm titling my videos. Since I started my Playthroughs of Stalker: SoC and Farcry 2 a year ago, I thought I'd make "recap" videos for the old episodes. This way, new people wouldn't have to watch the old ones if they didn't want to, and I could just start up the next episodes like nothing happened. I'm calling the old episodes "Season 1" and the new episodes "Season 2". I can tell you now that making these "recap" videos the way I make them takes a long ass time. I think this one took over 5 hours, and the yet to be released Farcry 2 Season 1 recap video took over 6 hours to finish. I love the way they both turned out though, and I think that they will prove to be useful, or at the very least, just fun to watch./////

"Das Keycard" - S1/E1 - Dead Island

And here is another playthrough! How am I going to manage that? Not very well probably. Once I throw in Farcry 2, I'll have quite a few games going up on my channel. Not sure any of this is a good idea, but I play what I enjoy, and I enjoy playing what I enjoy. I'm not making any videos because I feel like I have to. I love everything on my channel, even if some of the old stuff is terrible, I still know that I made those videos with the same mind set I have now; enjoy making videos, and the videos will be enjoyable. It's the secret sauce ladies and gentlemen. Not that anyone is yearning to learn about my secret sauce. But yeah, I love Dead Island, always have since I started playing on my ps3 from that rented copy due back to blockbuster in a week. That always went to damn quick. Anywho, my favorite thing about that game is definitely the melee combat physics. No game has ever made each swing of the baseball bat, each punch so meaty, and gruesome. Very visceral feeling. If they made a game like Skyrim with that kind of detail, I think I'd have my favorite game ever right there.

"Josh" - State of Decay

This is in between a one-off, and a playthrough style of video. I just wanted to record some of this game, because you can get into some really funny shenanigans, and I think it turned out alright. I particularly enjoy the beginning of the video, as the gimmicky nature of "You must play this game all the time, or else" is pretty dumb. I'm fine with some persistence in my open world adventure games, but don't make it annoying. And making someone have to come back to play your game in this kind of artificial, bullshit way is nothing but a detriment to an otherwise great game. I think I'll make some more random videos with this game, and maybe some in the sandboxy DLC for it once I've finished up the story. Or maybe I'll skip the story, as it sucks more than a brand new dyson.

"Borov's Key" - S2/E1 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

It's great to be back in the world of SoC, such an atmospheric game. Ive been watching some of FPSChazly's videos on Stalker: Lost Alpha. You should check him out, he is a veteran of the Stalker games, and Lost Alpha is fan recreation of SoC, quite a beautiful one at that. 

With this episode, I'm trying a new way to process my voice audio, using Adobe Premiere Pro, instead of Audacity. Normally I would record my voice with Audacity, and then use it's effects like Noise Removal, Compressor, Normalizer, and Equalizer. After that I'd import it into Premiere Pro, and start editing it with the video. But now I'm directly importing the raw, unprocessed audio into Premiere, and using it's own audio processing tools. It has a dynamic Audio Gate effect, which is similar to Audacity's Noise Removal, but works entirely different. I don't know if I like the way it sounds more than Audacity's Noise Removal, but I is a lot faster, so I'll use it for awhile until I either choose to keep using it, or go back to Audacity. You can hear a difference in my commentary if you watch any of my other videos (like the first episode of my Dead Island playthrough).

~~Well, that about wraps up my first weekly review. This was actually a lot of fun to write up, now I'm not dreading doing these every week! I'll see you guys next time, have a good one, and thanks for watching/reading!

Alright, break that champagne.

This is the first post for this version of the blog, and I'm renaming it to Carbonated Studios, which will now be a supplemental blog for my YouTube channel, as the description reads. For a moment in time, this was something of a diary for me, I didn't really write much on it, but still, "I Have A Blog, and I Must Type" is no more. Now it will be a blog focused on the videos I create for my channel, detailing the process of how they were created, and brainstorming ideas for future videos. 

I've been branding the "Carbonated Studios™" name on my videos since I started the channel, but I haven't really explained what that means. From the moment I thought of the name, it's only purpose has been to act as a kind of signature, showing that me, Kelsy Terry, was the one who produced the video. Basically it means I edited it, and occasionally shot and/or wrote it. The name itself has little relevance, I call it a studio in hopes that one day it won't just be me sitting down on my PC and recording gameplay, but something that encomapsses a team of producers, a real company of sorts. That isn't to say anything wrong with the way it is right now, I only mean to look optimistically into the future of what it could be. But for now, it just means I did/made it.

I thought that making an intimate, personal blog was a good idea at the time when I created this, but I much like the idea of writing about my videos more than that. Not to mention that things can get weird if you put a bit too much info of yourself on the internet, you know, small world and all. I was hoping it would lead to a kind of journey blog, for when I (hopefully) start traveling around the world, something I want to do very much. But college must come first, so it will be a a good 5 or so years until that starts, so for the moment, or more specifically, for this summer, I will focus this blog on an ongoing look at video production for my channel.

That all being said, I will still etch some personal notes on this wall from time to time, but keeping it professional (to certain degree) is important to me. There are lots of things I want to do this summer as far as creating videos go, and, again, I plan on making video production related posts for as long as I make videos.

I should really start uploading though, I haven't put up a video in over 10 months. Good lordy, thats a long time. Thats like several thousand years in internet time. 

Well, thanks for reading, and I hope to have a fun and productive summer ahead of me!

Tired High...Tigh

Wow, so a month and a half since the last post already? I guess once a week is a bit too much for me to handle. Dribbling words onto the internet is harder than I thought. I do think about this blog just about every day, and yet I seldom find the energy, or passion to write a post. Which is sad, due to how little effort I'm putting into this thing. Makes me glad no reads it. Yet. And holy shit, actually typing with this keyboard show how thinly spaced apart the keys are from each other. With my fat, clumsy fingers, that gets aggravating very fast. Italics emphasize. Like the repeat-shouting the fat one did in Drake and Josh.

Any way, lets dribble.

And the more I move onto other topics cleanly allows for me to double gap single lines with only a few words, like the one above, and unlike this sentence.

But like this one.

Tonight I am tired, a fun kind of tired. Have you heard of that? A tired, that's fun? Yes, after (at least one of) the busiest day I have ever worked, I've been elevated to an interesting feeling, a tiresome high of some kind. And it happened while I was still working. Things become stupidly amusing, and smiling at customers gets easier than it had the rest of the day. Unless I was actually glad to see the person, or we genuinely laughed. But once I get to this special kind of tired, smiling and asking the automated questions become easier, and at times some customers look at me funny for how long I'm taking at a various task. Believe me, I'm fast when I want to be, like fasted in the west, and careful and precise. I'm the whole damn package. When I want to be. But when I get to this slightly-still-caffeinated-from-fourish-hours-ago, kind over the whole doing-a-job-thing after working so hard, hitting-my-second-wind, ready-to-leave, I reach a certain place in my mind that's sort of like auto-pilot, but without anyone actually at the wheel. Instead, the driver is off staring at honey bees as the vehicle speeds at excess towards a veterinary clinic. That's the sort of mindset I hold while finishing up those last, long hours of the day. Which is perfectly acceptable in our lovely culture. Right?

Holy chipolte, Game of Thrones is rediculously good. I'm glad something can take the place of Breaking Bad for an amazing, high-production value, well-written television drama. Now I must ask how you type that spanish e that chipotle ends with to make it squigly or something...

The Everlasting Begining of a Blog

Enough with the pirate speak, let's get to the "brass tax" (one of many things i'm going to look up on google when writing this). Hmmm. So it turns out it's actually "Let's get down to Brass Tacks", like, actual tacks, made out of brass. Huh.

Yeah, no, this isn't going to be focused for awhile. If ever. But I think that's why i'm writing this right now, why I created this blog, why I've been wanting to make this for months now. I just want a blank piece of the internet to write on. To carve my thoughts on, no matter how meaningless, or random they might. Not for anyone's pity or anything like that, I just want to dribble. Let it all flow, you know what I mean? It'l be nice to share what I'm thinking, when I want to share it. And I guess it will work as a kind of time capsule, for my ever more cool and interesting future-self to laugh and cringe at. What a dick that guy was can be is will be.

Aww screw it, lists...everybody likes lists right? I like lists, their useful, their organized, and they look nice.

Lets do a list.

A (Brief) List of Reasons why I made this Blog;

1. To write my thoughts, to the extent I want to.

2. To get better at writing e.g. grammar, spelling, typing, structure of sentences etc.

3. To type on my amazing Das Keyboard, which I totally under-utilize.

So yeah, that about sums it up. I just wanna write man, you know? Writin'. It's fun. People read it. But only after you write it. Otherwise, they'ye either time travelers, or your just that slow. I also misspelt write about five times when writing that last sentence. It's amazing to have spell-check built into these websites. 

I also now know the difference between i.e. and e.g., because I looked it up, and lo and behold, "The Oatmeal" web-comic site..thing made a...thing about it. Which is awesome, because now when people who know the difference read the e.g. up there on the list, they won't judge me, and I'll be able to sleep at night. And that's always a good thing.

And so ends my initial post, bed time is calling, as did my manager from work today. Work, that's the reason I wont be updating this blog as much as I'd like, but that's ok, mo money, right? I'll try for at least once a week, as Iv'e already shown just how loose I'm writing this, I cant imagine it'l be that difficult.

Good night, lovely people, sleep tight.

and don't let the bed bugs bite.                                                                                  *ow*

This be but a test post ere'

Arr, indeed, this be but a small piece, in an interlocking chain of idears, thou shant come about easily of course, but with enough time and practice, even the most scurvy crew shall prevail these high seas! Seriously though, what the fuck I be talking about? Well, I suppose this be a good nuff test me laddies. And another thought while I be thinkn', this damned keyboard's keys are spaced much too close together, I'm constantly having to retype me words I be fat-fingerin'. Whats up with that, ye?

AAAAAnd, after much ponderin', I do believe this be publish worthy, and so I'll set sail upon ye sea, old dog! Wow, typing like a pirate is surprisingly fun. I think my vocabulary is larger in pirate speak than in regular english. ARR.

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