Monday, March 12th, 2012 - Indefinite Hiatus

So, due to some problems in my life I am going to have to take a break from things such as YouTube, gaming, and blogging. I apologize for this inconvenience, and I will try to be back as soon as possible, but be warned that I have no idea when as soon as possible is. It may be a week, it may be a year, it may be never. I made a video about this on my YouTube and I explained some things in more detail.

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Sunday, March 11th, 2012 - New Mouse

So, in case you can't read the title but for some reason are able to read this, I got a new mouse today! I have been using a Razer Lachesis for the last 4 years, and although it has served me well and could probably go another 4 years (that thing is built to LAST) I decided to grab a new mouse. Now, you may not know this, but I'm kind of a Razer fan boy, and I've actually never bought or used a non-Razer mouse (not including stock mice or touch pads).  So, knowing that, it may come as a surprise that I decided to buy a Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7, but boy do I NOT regret that purchase. I am loving this thing, it's super responsive, surprisingly comfortable, and a sexy beast to boot. Here, have a picture.



In video news, I recorded some stuff, so there should definitely be videos tomorrow. I don't have more than tomorrow's recorded yet, but I'll probably do a large batch recording tomorrow since I get home s early and my parents get home so late.  Enough talk though, here are today's Mass Effect 2 videos:

Episode 3   ---   Episode 4

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Saturday, March 10th, 2012 - I'm Back!

What is up guys! I know it's been almost a week since my last post and I do apologize, but, I'm back now! I had a rather uneventful week filled primarily with studying and doing work. Like I mentioned last week some time, it's engineering prank month, so one day a guy came in playing the trumpet, stripped to his boxers, then ran away. It was pretty funny. Someone also made a giant penis out of like cloth or something and managed to stick it to the roof of the main cafeteria. Did I mention the ceiling is like 30 feet high? God, I love engineers. We're so obnoxious, it's awesome.

In video news, after having 4 tests this week and having my brain destroyed by science, I was finally able to start up Mass Effect 2. I did about an hour and a half of recording and got enough videos for today and tomorrow. I'll be doing some more tomorrow, so there should be videos every day this week if I manage to not procrastinate like a beast as usual.  Enough words though, here's Mass Effect 2!

Trailer   ---   Episode 1   ---   Episode 2

~Drew (devilwarier9)

New Side Bar Addon

So, last night I was messing around with some stuff for a while and decided to add a new box on the sidebar. It shows what games I am currently playing, both on and off camera, and I will try to keep it updated as much as possible, which isn't a hard task, but still requires more work than not doing it.  Anyway! That's it for this post, I just wanted to inform you of my new change.

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Thursday, March 1st, 2012 - Not February

I almost typed February in the title. Woops. I know I said I was going to try to get better at writing in a more interesting format, but unfortunately for both of us, I haven't. I don't even have anything to talk about. The most interesting thing I did today was plug capacitors into a bread board for an electrical physics lab. Yup, I am indeed boring.

In video news, like I said yesterday, I didn't get a chance to record anything today with my calculus exam tomorrow and all.  I still had 3 videos on my HDD and posted them. Here they are:

Episode 33   ---   Episode 34   ---   Episode 35

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 - Leap Day

Hello! And welcome to another exciting episode of.........  DREW'S BLOG (cheers from crowd). Today is February 29th, leap day. Did I do anything special for leap day like a lot of other people, you ask? Nope! I'm just super boring like that! If you can't tell by this point, I'm stalling and trying to make this paragraph as long as possible, without putting any content in it, because I didn't do anything today other than take notes in class and do crap loads of integration to prep for my test Friday. That; however, looks like enough words to fill an adequate amount of space.

Onto YouTube news! I was planning on recording a little tonight, but didn't get the time, so there may not be Friday videos, depends if I get a chance tomorrow.  I threw up 2 episodes of Mass Effect today as well, and YouTube is still fighting me over monetization settings, which doesn't really matter I guess when you're making $2 a month and you need $100 before you can get paid.  Whatever. I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you that, I din't really read the contract. Please don't ban me YouTube!

Episode 31   ---   Episode 32

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 - Forgot

Almost forgot, really late. Here's videos.

Episode 28   ---   Episode 29   ---   Episode 30

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Monday, February 27th, 2012 - I got my license!

Alright, so today is day 1 of the "new" format, although, now it's just the official format, as I was using that (this?) format for a few days now.  Anyway, into stuff, today I did my last driving test I needed to do ever in my life and got my full license.  I was really nervous as I haven't driven "properly" (legally) since my G2 test, but was able to pretend to know the laws long enough to get my license, so that was good! Also, at my school, freshman do pranks to get into the upper year "Frosh Controller" program, which means they lead frosh week activities and have a shit load of fun, so today a bunch of people brought a couch to my calculus class and just chilled out in bath robes. It was comical.

Into video news: there are none. That's about it.  I did do some recording; however, nothing is processed yet and will probably take 1-2 hours in order to process, and I don't like starting uploads after 9pm (EST) as then I can't set my monetization settings until the morning.  There should be new videos tomorrow, though.  With that though, I said everything I wanted to, so, until tomorrow, stay classy, internet. (I'm just gonna steal catch phrases cause I'm too unoriginal to make up my own).

~Drew (devilwarier9)

An update on blog format

Alright, so I know I didn't really post anything yesterday, and I do apologize, but I was super tired after playing D&D until 3am on Saturday night (Sunday morning?). Anyway, this isn't a daily post, this is me talking about how I want the blog to look from now on, as I believe I finally have an idea of how I want this run, because, as you may have noticed, my formatting is all over the place.

Down to business now. I will continue to be making daily posts, or at least as daily as I'm capable of, given my massive ADD. The format of these posts will be similar to what it has been the last couple of days, meaning, I will write a short paragraph most likely on something funny or interesting I did or saw that day, but most likely not more than a paragraph, maybe two on a really busy or exciting day. After that, each post will have a list of any videos I may have put out that day. This seems to be the format that works best for me and the blog.

Another thing I want to do is add reviews. Basically, whenever I finish a game I will make a post about my thoughts and feelings of the game and how much I liked or disliked it. Obviously my reviews will be skewed to my opinion, as I have strong opinions on most developers and series, regardless if they change, my opinion rarely does, but I'll try to be fair. I will try to do reviews for any game I finish, recorded or not, but I may not do one for every unrecorded game, because I'm lazy, but EVERY recorded game WILL get a review, even if my review is terribly written. I might try to add a score system or something as well, we'll see how I feel after I write my first review.

I think that's about all I have to mention right now, hopefully things will look a bit nicer with consistent formatting and topics. Also, real quick, may not be videos today, didn't get a chance to record this weekend and I'm all out of recorded stuff. I'll record today, but it may be too late after editing to get something up, just an FYI.

I should stop writing now because I'm in a calculus lecture and I should probably pay attemtion otherwise I'm gonna fail. Also, sorry for any spelling mistakes in this, my phone doesn't have spell check. Bye now!

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Saturday, February 25th, 2012 - This Title is Good

Just kidding, that title isn't really good. in fact, it's really bad. Anyway, today was my first day back after Whistler, so I spent a majority of my time just doing laundry.  I'm going over to my friends place to play D&D in an hour, so I'm writing this a little earlier than usual.  It's been a long time since I played D&D and all my friends play way more seriously than me, so they might rage at me at some point, but it's all good in the neighbourhood.  Also, I got new t-shirts today, and that makes me really happy. Here's a couple pictures of them and me modelling one like a boss.

I need to put more words beside this picture to make the template of the blog look better, so here's some words or something.

This paragraph isn't really about anything, but it's going to make my site look better with words and pictures and things, so you don't really have to read it unless you just want to read me talking about nothing in particular and using extremely long run-on sentences. I think I have enough words now.


Alright, so, once you're done admiring how attractive I am, you can watch today's Mass Effect episodes, which I have no idea if they are showing up in sub boxes.

Episode 23   ---   Episode 24   ---   Episode 25

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Friday, February 24th, 2012 - Almost home

So, when you're reading this I'm probably just landing in Toronto (I'm writing this at 10am but not posting it till later to make sure I don't forget).  I know that doesn't really make sense, make a blog post about my day before my day has even started, but whatever, I don't really care, I barely talk about my day on these anymore because I suck at trying to put thoughts into words.  Especially interesting words.  Sometimes I have good days and am able to write a lot and have some interesting things to say, but not most days.  And that is why I basically turned my blog into a YouTube notification feed for my videos.

It's not like I don't do anything interesting, I mean, not all my days are interesting, but even when I have a day that would be a good read, I am incapable of putting it into words.  I mean, I guess that's why I'm an engineer, we only have to write one paper over our entire four years, and it was only 2 pages double spaced.  I suck at English and creative writing, even though it interests me.  I wish I was a better creative writer.  I guess LP commentary is kind of like very unedited and messy creative writing if you think of it like that.

Anyway, I think I've bored you long enough with my woes and inability to write, so here are today's Mass Effect episodes.  Also, tomorrow I will be going back to posting at normal times, the videos have been late cause I've been on west coast time for a week.

Episode 20   ---   Episode 21   ---   Episode 22

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - Here's some stuff

Hey guys, sorry I didn't post yesterday, but I got home really late and was super tired after Snow Boarding all day and I don't know why I capitalized that  but it's too late to change it.  Anyway, I got home really late and was way to tired to write anything, I basically fell asleep immediately.  So, here's yesterday's and today's videos.  Enjoy!

Episode 12   ---   Episode 13   ---   Episode 14  ---   Episode 15   ---   Episode 16

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Friday, February 17th, 2012 - I hurt

I worked out more and now I hurt. Anyway, here's your Mass Effect videos for Friday. lol I thought it was Thursday for a long time there. I had to check. (Also EP7 is NOT up as of this post, but will be in like an hour and I'm not updating this.)

Episode 4    ---   Episode 5   ---   Episode 6   ---   Episode 7

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 - Videos!

Alright, so since I'm super lazy and writing words and stuff is hard or something like that, so I'm probably just gonna use this site to link to videos I've posted over the day, as I'm going to try to post at least 2-3 vids a day, until I go away to Whistler, at least.  Anyway, here's today's video (only one, was having issues):

--> Update on projects

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 - I'm Back!

So, sorry, I've been gone for a few days, I forgot on Thursday and then went to my friends place a couple hours away and hung out there for the weekend and did standard stupid college things.  I also didn't manage to upload anything while I was there, I had a few videos recorded, and should have set them to upload before I left, but didn't, which was dumb.  And by "a few videos" I mean 3 Saint's Row 3 vids.  I'll upload those probably tomorrow since the Mass Effect 3 demo just came out today and I nerdgasm'd all over the place and recorded that, and it's uploading right now.

Also, my AdSense account finally got approved, so I now now make money off my blog AND my YouTube page.  So go check out some of those obtrusive ads over there ------->

I think that's about all I have to say right now.  You'd think I'd have more to say after being gone for so long, but NOPE. I'm just lazy as fuck.

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 - Anyone there?

Seriously, I don't even know why I write these.  I guess I set some sort of personal achievement to post one every day in February and now I'm forcing myself to abide by it, even though that's almost completely pointless.  Whatever.  I just finished writing a test, and think I did fairly well, and I have about an hour of free time, so I'm going to try to record some stuff to post in the morning.  WEEEEEEEEEEEE. 

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 - Still Lazy

Well, here I am, typing up another blog post that maybe 2-3 people will read.  And I'm including myself there.  At some point, several years ago, I did these because I enjoyed them, even though no one read them, now I feel like I only enjoy writing if I know people are going to read.  My blog got 100+ hits the first day, and I have no idea why, but that's what really inspired me to try to do this, now I get like 5 hits a day. 

There's not even anything for me to talk about right now.  Wrote a test tonight, and have another tomorrow, so no recording till at least Thursday, which I do apologize for.  That's seriously all the material I have right now.  I thought of talking about current events at one point, but there's already so many sites about them, plus they bore me, so, for now, you get terrible, short writing. 

Monday, February 6th, 2012 - I don't even

Well, here I am, another day, another post.  At some point in my internet life I recall having interesting opinions and things to talk about on my blogs, but now I really can't think of any.  I tend to get stuck in talking about my day, which sometimes is interesting, but for the most part is pretty mundane.  I talked at one point about suggesting topics of discussion, but I still don't have enough users for that.

I really don't know what to talk about, as I didn't do anything today.  I went to 2 classes, barely payed attention, then got home at 11 and did nothing.  Oh, and I completely forgot to record, got busy doing some other things, sorry!  I'm really terrible at this whole being regular thing.  You think I'd get better at it now that I have incentive, but nope.

I really don't have anything else, so this is gonna be a short post, so, until next time, keep on keeping on.

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Sunday, February 5th, 2012 - Superbowl!

What's up guys?  Oh, you can't answer cause this isn't a conversation?  Oh, well I guess that makes sense.  In other news, today was Sunday, so I did what I do every Sunday: wake up late, go snowboarding, catch up on homework, eat pizza, watch football.  It was a good day.

Like I said, I went snowboarding today.  I live just outside Toronto, so there aren't really any mountains really close by.  There's a few bigger resorts a couple hours away (think the nearest is 2h, with some nicer ones ~3h), but for those you have to make a day trip, whereas I just like to go for a few hours, so I head up to this little hill ~20m from home.  It's not great if you wanna ride, but it has a decent terrain park, which I spent a few hours in today.  Finished the day off wit a good ol' face plant after a failed 360 as well, so that was lovely. 

Came home and finished up the rest of the homework I was supposed to do yesterday but procrastinated.  I was planning on doing a little bit of recording as well but ran out of time.  Promise I'll do some tomorrow, as I get home at 11am on Mondays (best day).  So, that'll mean there should be vids late Monday next.

Super Bowl is currently on, ~9m left in the 3rd.  I sometimes watch football seriously, but only really with friends that are also into football.  When I'm alone I tend to just play it in the background while I do other stuff (like this).  Current score is 17-9 for the Pats, which makes me sad cause I'm going for the Giants, even though they beat out the Packers (my favourite team).  Dammit, blogger is telling me I spelled favourite wrong.  SCREW YOU I'M CANADIAN I PUT U'S IN WORDS!  Anyway...

I guess I can say something about the half time show as well.  It was a disgrace against music.  Seriously.  LMFAO and Nicki Minaj should not be considered musical artists, they are talentless losers who get other people to write shit for them and pay them millions to be the face of terrible music.  My god, they should not have been allowed into the Super Bowl.  Oh! Giants scored! Still down 17-12 though...  Back to complaining about music though, well, I guess that's it.  I don't really know much about Madonna so I can't really complain about her too much.

HOLY FUCK.  I just saw a commercial for Wrath of the Titans.  That shit looks sick, I want to see that immediately.  Wow, I am horrible at keeping a focus.  Whatever, I think I'm about out of words to say, so, until next time, <I should make a catch phrase sometime>.

~Drew (devilwarier9)

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 - Picture!

Another day gone by.  Another day closer to the end of the semester, that's all today really was.  Spent the whole day reading my textbooks to catch up for work I missed last week due to tests.  Put up another BioShock video here and I'll probably throw up one more right now (which should be posted in ~2-3h).  Didn't do any playing of BioShock today, was just too tired as I stayed up till 3am last night and woke up at 9am today.  Will do some tomorrow after I finish off the rest of my work, though.

I need to pick a topic for these things or something, rather than just talking about my day.  I mean, that shit seems kinda gay to begin with, and with the fact I do absolutely nothing interesting to read about during my day makes for some boring blog posts.  I need topics to discuss, but in order to find good topics I would need viewer suggestions, but in order to get more viewers to make suggestions I would need good topics.  Oh, the woes of an unpopular blogger.

I guess I can talk about the mangled printer beside me.  My dad broke his printer, and couldn't figure out what was wrong (it ended up being a gear that had come off it's axle) and gave it to me to dismantle, cause I have fun screwing with anything electronic.  I am a computer engineer, after all.  Took the whole thing apart, every single screw I could find and took out every single component.  That's a picture of it in it's broken up glory ---->

Hmm.  I like how that inline picture with words next to  it looks.  I need to add more pictures to these in future.  I wish the camera on my phone worked, but I screwed it up.  Put on custom firmware that didn't have camera drivers, and now there's an updated version WITH camera drivers, but for some reason my computer can't see my phone when I plug it in anymore.  If anyone has a Sony Ericson Xperia X10 and is using custom Gingerbread OS and knows why my PC can't see my phone, please help!

With that though, I think that is all for me today, I am super tired and probably going to sleep very soon.  So, until tomorrow, <I still don't have a catch phrase>. 

~Drew (devilwarier9)