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)

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)

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - I'm Bad at Titles

What is up guys? Today was my last day in Whistler and that makes me sad cause it was an awesome vacation. Snowboarding is fun. Writing is hard while watching YouTube videos because I keep getting distracted.  Anyway, here's today's Mass Effect videos in case they're not showing up in your sub boxes.

Episode 17   ---   Episode 18   ---   Episode 19

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)

Thursday, February 16th, 2012 - Mass Effect!

Alright, I uploaded a bunch of Mass Effect videos today, so here they are.  Also I worked out a lot and now I'm tired and have a blister :(

Episode 1   ---   Episode 2   ---   Episode 3

~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)

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. 

Friday, February 3rd, 2012 - It's Friday, Friday

10:00AM: Alright, since writing one post at the end of the day went so poorly yesterday, I think I'm gonna keep trying timeline format. I'm going to try to set my bare minimum goal to get a post out every day of February, and then just keep going as long as I can after that.  That sounds like a good plan, right?  Good.  I'm writing this in my physics lecture, extremely bored, as usual. I want to skip the rest of my classes, but I feel so bad when I do, plus I get super paranoid that my parents are gonna find out. Well, my mom at least. Dad probably wouldn't care, mom would flip a shit. And that is basically the only reason I go to class.

12:00PM:  Well, I didn't so much go to my calculus lecture because I'm  understanding everything in it right now, but I did go to my economics lecture which I am currently sitting it.  This class sucks, I hate economics.  I prefer working on things that are real or something that you can prove, like math and physics, subjects where there is a clear cut right and wrong, unlike economics which is almost all theory and "what-if" scenarios.  Not my kind of thing.

1:00PM:  I just spent the last 20m listening to Korean commentary of random games for no real reason.  I do very few things that make coherent sense.

5:00PM:  Just finished recording a little over an hour of BioShock, I'm gonna put a couple of those videos up now, as well as post this blog now, since all I plan on doing for the rest of the night is watching TV or doing a little more recording's, which doesn't make for very much to talk about on a blog.  

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 - Getting Started

8:00AM:  Alright guys, before I start I should explain some stuff.  My name is Drew, but online I go by devilwarier9. I mentioned sect4 in my last post which is my old website which most likely gives you some error, my friend ThePurplePixel over here was my sysadmin, but having started university he moved out and I think he took down the web server when he did, although it's not like it really matters, I barely used the site except for blog posts, which as you can guess I'm now moving here.  The way this will work is much like it did on my old site, I will most likely write the posts a couple paragraphs at a time throughout the day then publish it all at the end of the day.  When I do things this way I tend to have longer posts, if not nonsensical.  My goal is one post every weekday and one on weekends, some posts will be longer, some won't, you're gonna have to deal with it.

8:30AM:  A little background on me real quick is in order I guess, like I said my name is Drew, I am 18 and going to university for Computer Engineering and am currently in my freshman year.  I love physics and math which is very abnormal, but I don't give a fuck.  I'm also very profane, but I still don't give a fuck.  I love android and windows and hate everything Apple.  Love almost any meat, hate almost any vegetable.  I'm super underweight at 125lb's and 6'1" tall.  I live in Canada and it's fucking awesome.  I play a lot of video games and sometimes I record them over here.  I think that about does it for me, see you guys in a couple hours when I write the next bit!

9:00AM:  I really need to pay more attention in class.  My prof is talking about trigonometric integration and I'm really not in the mood to listen so I end up just not listening, although today Is probably one of the most important days to listen as I have a test in this class tonight.  Ugh, doing work is so much... work.

10:00AM:  Physics is boring. That's all I got. Also this is probably gonna be the longest post that will ever get posted. So, enjoy it, cause I won't be doing hourly updates every day, shit's a lot of work and I don't have that much to say.

11:00AM:   Drawing for engineers is a bullshit class.  When in life am I going to be forced to draw a perfectly straight and 100% accurate drawing without any rulers or tools? And more-so, if I am, I sure as hell won't be fired if it's not perfect, seriously, they expect so much perfection in freehand drawings.  Bullshit class is bullshit.

12:00PM:  MMMMMmmmmmmm chicken quesadilla and YouTube video's for lunch. I do enjoy this time of day if I do say so.  Also playing some Uplink based on a friends suggestion, it's a very fun game. 

1:00PM: Material sciences sucks. A lot. Never take it unless you have to (which I do). Not much else to say right now.

1:30PM: So, I'm done all my classes for the day.  Great, right?  Not today.  I have a test at 8:30 tonight and driving home takes way more effort than I'm willing to put in (live 30m from campus) so now I just get to sit in the library for the next 7 hours. Greeeeaaaatttt...  I probably won't make another update till after the test cause all I'll be doing for the next SEVEN HOURS will be studying and playing Uplink or watching YouTube videos.  See y'all then!

4:30PM:  SO FUCKING BORED!

5:00PM:  Just got an email from YouTube saying they want to start paying me!  Awesome!  Probably won't make very much as I get very few views, but it'll still be something, so that's pretty cool. Right now I only have the WoW videos ad supported as I have to do each one individually and I doubt anyone will watch my old series's.  I wonder if new videos get automatic ads?  That'd be nice, as I am almost guaranteed to not be at a PC when my video's go up cause I always set it to upload in class or overnight.  I guess we'll find out. 

5:30PM:  Ok, so I went and put monetization up on everything but Psychonauts cause it's a lot of parts, and 1 Borderlands video cause it just won't let me, the option for monetization just doen't show up, and only for that video.  It WOULD be my most popular video (by far), too.  Although I say that like it still gets views, which it doesn't, just has the highest views, and you only get paid for new views, so I guess it doesn't really matter.  If you want to go check out my YouTube RIGHT NOW.  You know, if you want...

8:00PM: I suck at Uplink. It's really fun, but the "file deleted on death" can be very rage inducing at times.

10:30PM:  Just got home after my calculus test.  My god that was a long day.  At least I have a website to vent about my day to now, so that's cool.  In future I'll probably just write a couple paragraphs at the end of the day, rather than this whole timeline thing.  It seems like a nice style, but I just don't do very much in an average day.

But, until tomorrow, <Insert catch phrase here>.

~Drew (devilwarier9)