Random Ramble 3

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Hello, hello, hello again, everybody. It's been a little- oh my god! Ugh.

Wow. I'm okay. I promise.

Anyways, it's been a little bit since the last, uh, random ramble. Sorry, I'm looking at- looking at the little notes on my phone. I tried to write down little, like, random ideas for these random rambles, uh, and I had two separate ones and one was just blank.

Anyways, yes, it's been a little bit. Probably a month? Over a month? Oh well.

Hello! How are you? I'm doing good, thanks.

Heh heh heh heh. Uh, shoot. I can't even remember if I have, like, some general intro to these things or not, or if I just let my brain misfire at will.

It's probably the latter, though. So, anyways, uh, fuck. I feel like- I don't know.

I feel like YouTubers always have some way that they kind of lead into their, uh, little talks. But, speaking of segues, so I was looking at TikTok the other day, and I don't know why. I guess, you know, okay.

Legitimate segue was, like, the very first random ramble that I made. I talked just very briefly about AI and stuff. Uh, and I think there are some very good uses for AI, and I think there are some ones that drive me fucking insane.

Like, on TikTok, the little shitty short videos that I keep getting recommended that are just Harry Potter, but jacked as fuck. And it's all AI generated. I think the voice, the art, the animation.

And it looks really uncanny valley. And also, it's just not amusing. Heh heh heh heh.

Sorry. If anybody actually likes those, you know, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. This is mine.

You can have yours. But I don't like them. And yet, every time I press and hold and I say, not interested, it comes up like three scrolls later or the next time I boot up the app.

It's really annoying. And I just- they upset me. I don't know why.

At this point, they upset me because I keep saying that I'm not interested. And TikTok has enough spyware on it to realize that those videos are identical and it should stop recommending me to them. Um, fuck.

But I- I also, I guess I just don't see what the appeal is. It's just a very muscular Harry Potter trying to make some joke and some pun with a very muscular Dumbledore about the gym. And that's really it.

And they get like millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes. And uh, it makes me feel really small in comparison. Anyways.

I thought I just had to put that out there. Because, good God, they uh- I don't know why my mind jumped to Peter Griffin there. But if you've seen Family Guy, they really grind my gears.

I don't even like Family Guy that much. It's okay. I'm not saying I dislike it, but I just- It's never like one of those shows that I watch by myself.

It's always one of the shows that I think in high school or college or something I would be watching because somebody else put it on and would just be like playing in the background. Kind of the same with- Well, to be honest, any show that is not like a- a drama or something. Any show that's just like an episodic comedy like The Office or Parks and Rec.

Kind of the same situation. I've never actually watched it myself, but I think because a couple of my roommates in college liked The Office so much, I've seen the entire show at this point. And maybe half Parks and Rec.

Anyways. I don't think people left any actual questions on my last random ramble, which was only number two. I feel like I've done like 20 of these.

Maybe I'm just getting mixed up with what I used to do. Is this really the last one? I feel like I commented on some of these.

You're so real. Thank you, Killer Shroom. I hope that's a compliment.

Is this actually- I actually feel like I did one more of these. Do I not have a random ramble three? Nope.

Just number two is the most recent. Your free releases! Yeah.

Let's see, where was it? I just had it. Let me open it back.

Seven comments. Thank you, guys. I'm glad you like these.

Aw, you enjoyed this chat too. I'm glad. Thank you.

The long version. Yes, I- Sorry, if this is like- What I'm saying makes no sense. I'm just speaking parts of the comments people left on my last one out loud.

Not the entire thing. But yes, Ethereal Raven. I am pretty incapable of being precise.

Unless- I'm not sure. Outside of like a very professional setting, I guess. I feel like I can send very concise professional emails slash messages.

But I also feel like when I do so, I tend to come off as a bit more, I don't know, curt? Abrupt? Maybe authoritarian? Maybe- No, whoa, God, what am I saying? There's a- Fuck me.

Bordering on. That was the phrase. Yes, authoritarian bordering on rude.

I was- I forgot the word bordering. Wow. Anyways, I'm such a good writer.

I promise, guys. Oh. Ah, you don't understand what I would do in order to be in a session you DM.

Well, thank you. Actually, that reminds me. I got further in that Curse of Strahd book and I have really slowed down in reading it because- Fuck.

So the first quarter was a lot of fun to read. It was very interesting. I really got into it.

And then the- From page 50 to page 100, 25 pages, the whole book is only like 200 pages long. But you have to consider this is a big D&D module. It's not like a- It's not a novel book size.

It's a module book size. So the pages are like the size of your computer monitor. It's fucking huge.

So if it was a real book, it'd probably be 300, maybe closer to 400 pages. Granted, a lot of it is art and maps and tables with encounters and like status effects and shit. But it's still- It's dense stuff.

It's not easy to read and it's not easy to read quickly. So when I got to 25 pages that were only on- I want to call him Dracula, but it's Strahd. I just said that, but it's basically Dracula.

That's what he's based off of. But Dracula's Castle, it was so fucking specific and I was just sitting there each night grinding away through it, trying to read it. And when I got to the catacombs in the basement and there were 80 different tombs and it had a paragraph for each one, it killed me.

So I haven't gotten very far, but I think I have a group to play with, which makes me happy. Living for these rambles. Thank you, Travis.

Emily is as well. Thank you. Thank you, guys.

And I hope you guys like the Blackguard. Yeah, that's right. I forgot.

I haven't made a little ramble since the Blackguard came out. I think people liked it. 20 likes.

20 likes. Ooh, on both, really. I wonder if it's the same people.

That would be a rarity. Loved the lore. More Corrupt Night, please.

Well, he didn't die, so he'll be coming back. Ha ha ha ha ha. I'm glad you guys liked it.

I think. .. I.

.. I don't know. I think I had an easier time writing that.

Uh. .. Editing it took a lot longer than I was expecting.

Usually I always expect Space Boys to take the longest with the editing because with it being sci-fi, I feel like I can put in more little beeps and boops quite literally, and that takes a lot of time to try to time those because for some of them, I want them to, I don't know, not just be ambient background noise. I want to make it a little more immersive and have it make sense with what's going on. And then I always think with the medieval ones, I'm like, ah, just throw an ambient track on there, a few little sound effects here and there, and then we'll just get to the smutty bit.

But. .. I think what slowed me down so much with this one was the fucking armor noises that I made.

Like, if you listen to part one where he. .. I imagined him kind of like giving his big halberd kind of a shake with that sound effect, but I could not find a good sound effect for that, so I think that's four different noises that I kind of had to stack on top of each other and time them out.

And it was. .. it was all silly things.

I think one was somebody recording themselves, like, just banging two spoons together. Um. ..

Another one might have been a cheese grater. I can't remember what exactly they were. That's the beauty of free sound and Creative Commons Zero, which, whenever I upload my own sound effects, I haven't done it a lot, but I've done some, that's always how I upload, cause.

.. I gotta be honest, having to attribute a half a second clip long of somebody recording the sound of a little water droplet falling and being like, yeah, this was made by so-and-so on this website. Here's the link.

Uh. .. I would have, I would have like an essay bibliography for every one of my audios, which, nothing wrong with that if that's how they want it to be attributed.

I feel like, for people who haven't looked into this stuff, I'm just actually speaking gibberish right now. I hope not. Um, but Creative Commons Zero lets you not give any kind of attribution whatsoever.

It says you can just use this sound effect or this song or whatever it is, it's a creative thing, so it could be for artwork as well, although, please don't ever at least make people credit you for your artwork. Um, but with a little simple sound effects like that it's just so much nicer for people to do that so that I can just take it and plop it in where I want and forget about it. Give them a little like, little thumbs up on that sound effect.

Good job. This got used. Some people that make really weird sound effects have tons of comments like, a horse galloping and it's clearly two guys fucking clacking, two guys, probably just one person, clacking coconuts together like they're from Monty Python, and then 18 comments being like, this was it, here's my video, I used it, nice job.

Oh well. Yeah, so, I spent a little too long in the armor, and then him taking off his armor, I don't even know if that came across well, I really hope it did, but that was, I tried, ugh, sometimes I feel so extra. But I tried like, picturing him on the horse, and I'm like, okay, when he takes off the armor, you know, it makes a little chink because it's coming off, so I imagined like, alright, putting the sound effect, which was three sound effects, stacked on top of each other again to make the armor like, clink noise, and then I waited a little bit and I was like, okay, so he's on a horse, it's gotta take a little bit to fall, alright, and then there's the, the double dirt smacking sound effect because each one and it might have just sounded like shit in the end to you guys, I really don't know.

But, it took me a lot longer than I was expecting to do that. And then of course, after it was done, I started fucking around with the macros in Audacity, which always seemed intimidating to me at first, and so I found somebody that like, was selling their, I thought they were selling a plugin, so I clicked the little download button and instead all that got installed was a macro into Audacity, and it said, yeah, as long as you, you know, you select your whole audio file, you click apply macro and it'll make it sound better, and it didn't, it made it sound worse than how I usually edit, but, by fucking around with what I installed, I managed to actually like learn how to use macros, which was kind of cool. And, uh, wow, that was a really long way of saying, now I have my own little happy macro that skips a lot of the steps of editing for me, so I'm going to make it a little bit, because I put a noise gate in there.

This is so, I, I'm sorry if this is too much jargon for some people. I guess I get lost in the sauce, and I don't know how much most people know about this stuff, so I don't know if I should over explain or under explain. Right, I don't want to be a mansplaining asshole, but I also don't want to just confuse you and get you lost and then you stop listening.

Uh, yeah, I put in a little noise gate, but I never set it too high, because it cuts out some of my breaths and stuff, and normally I want my breaths to be cut out, unless I'm making, making a little, a little moan for you. Uh, and then I don't want that to be cut out. Anyways, anyways, anyways, let me move on.

I'm, I'm working on an audio project as well. I got, I got hired for a little indie game that makes me happy, but, this is like the, the fifth time of going back and forth with the same person, like, hey, I recorded the introduction again, uh, tried to go off the feedback you gave me, I hope this sounds good, and then just get more feedback. Oh well.

Oh well. They want it to be perfect. I can keep, I can keep sending them more things as long as they want.

Let me see, what's the next thing on my list? Oh, my book, yeah. Uh, so, I haven't actually started writing the next script yet, so, I will, and I hope I will get it done before the end of the month.

I have some, some family visiting this month, so it'll be a little busy for me, and somehow it's already like the second week of the month, there's only two more full weeks and a kind of half incomplete week, I'll see. I want to be able to finish the audio in the month, because I want to be able to release one every month, but, I guess some months I just get a little monkey-brained and distracted, and I'm not happy. Um, but I've been told that I can't really talk about it too much, because, on the off chance that I decide to both go with traditional publishing and then actually get it looked at, I can't have spoiled much of the book.

Uh, but we'll see, I have the entire outline done, which is something I've never done before. I've, I've written like a whole book before, um, it's kind of like a, did I talk about this last time? I feel like I'm repeating myself.

But it was like a flow of consciousness story? Uh, and so at points I'd be like, oh shit, what happens next? Well, I don't know, I guess I'll make it up.

But, I think having the outline made it feel a lot better, and it's kind of silly that I haven't done something like that before, because I outline all of my audios before I actually go in and write the script, and I kind of ramble, ramble, I post about it a little bit on Twitter every now and then, just with like telemnym, people asking me questions. Did you know you could ask me anonymous questions on Twitter? Just FYI.

Oh, and then I got, I got another fucking addiction. Man, this is going to sound like, uh, like the disappointment ramble, because all you're hearing is about how Jasper is busy recording what he ought to be, sorry. But, I'd never played like Call of Duty Warzone ranked before, and I'd kind of been getting tired of the game, but, boy, the ranked mode really just brings back the little gamer sweat.

The metaphorical gamer sweat, just like there's metaphorical gamer juice, which is what my friends call it whenever somebody says something horribly which, if you're playing Call of Duty, is all the time. I thought a lot of the language that I'd heard in middle school and high school had died off with middle school and high school. Lo and behold, as soon as you, um, kill somebody in Call of Duty, you start hearing it again.

Wow. Ah. Man, I really did not have a lot to say, did I? I guess the last thing, which is a horrible one to follow up on, is that it doesn't make me sound like I'm actually just still in middle school and not the adult that I am.

But, I, I don't know why, it must have like come to me in a fucking dream or something. I can't remember what got my mind thinking about this. But I was thinking about this.

And, I think I decided that, like, axe body spray and shit like that actually isn't so bad. And hear me out, I didn't wear it because I was also one of the haters. But once upon a time, when everybody was back in middle school and high school, everybody would complain.

You were one of two people. You were either the one person that complained about how much axe the guys would wear, or you were one of the guys that was wearing too much axe. But the more I think about it, I think I'd rather have people smelling like, a little bit like overwhelming, not so great chemicals than overwhelming, ass.

And, and the kind of rank sweat that a teenage boy who is unaware of his own body can let off if they don't shower regularly and put on deodorant. And I don't know, I think I really did, like, must have had, wow, that was not a good sentence. I really did must have had.

Once again, I promise, I write my own scripts. This is why I don't do improv though. But it must have, like, come to me in a dream or something because I, something about just, like, the aesthetic, the shitty neon colors on the kind of, like, shiny tin foil cans.

God, I don't know, I both hope that I don't go back to that, but at the same time I'm, like, glad that it exists out there in the world. It's a weird duality. And I'm sure some of you are you need to go out and touch grass, man.

Fucking falling apart. Maybe I am. Maybe I do.

Maybe I will. Except my little favorite fish and chip shop is, uh, is closed for the whole week and so I don't actually have an excuse to go out and touch grass anymore. I'm sorry.

I lived and I will die for those fish and chips and they're gone. So, so actually this is my last random ramble. I'm gonna be gone too.

Can't live without those. I think, I don't think I missed any comments. I'm sorry.

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