Quick update for those interested and for those who noticed on the Shorts.

They've been quiet for a bit. On purpose, definitely not me slacking.

I'm building my own way of posting them instead of paying someone else which I couldn't really afford anymore. Give me a bit to get it up and running and they'll be back, hopefully even better than before.

Long form keeps rolling in the meantime of course!

Hi everyone, some of you may have noticed the lag, the stutters, the occasional full-on crash, the general technical difficulties. Aaaand you're definitely not imagining it.

This has followed me around on and off since my earliest series. Same trusty laptop, ever since I moved off the old PC that is.

I've "fixed" it before. NVIDIA settings. A performance mod here and there. The two weeks I spent shuffling everything between the old PC and the laptop. And the time the culprit turned out to be me overloading the poor thing's USB power, which honestly still remains an issue, but eh I've only got so many ports.

Then there's the drive. The SSD's been part of it too seems. Faulty firmware I never knew about. I still need to properly check whether it's still degrading, but if it is, I'm looking at a new SSD in the next 8 or 9 months. Which isn't cheap.

Some fixes held for a bit. Some didn't. Some never will. So I've cast Repairo again. Feels good right now, runs fine so far. Whether that spell holds, we'll see... In the meantime I'm diagnosing a memory leak, that I assume I'll also fix in a few days. I already have a suspect.

Regarding Halo 2, I'm not sure if Portmaster had anything to do with it. At the time, that seemed logical. So if you encounter any issues that might be worth disabling temporarily, but yesterday I also found that ClockSkew in appdata had a 11 minute offset delay which prevented me from logging into Halo The Masterchief Collection. Two separate issues yet nice to know if you do encounter them.

Now if a video still has a rough patch (which I'll highly doubt at this point but I remain skeptical), now you know why in greater detail. Per usual I'll edit out the worst of it where I can. Thanks for riding it out while I sort it properly though.

Join our harmless not a cult for more updates! And if you’d like to support the continued survival of my increasingly distressed hardware, Patreon and Ko-Fi are there too.

There were a few recent uploads where (including those from the next 2 weeks), if I'm being honest, I wasn't feeling a 100%. Some of those sessions were recorded during a time when I was feeling a bit off, low energy, a little sad, just not quite myself. It wasn't anything major, just one of those dips we all go through sometimes.

Gaming is something I love, and creating content for you means the world to me. When things feel different behind the scenes, it’s hard not to mention. I still gave it my all, even if my energy was a little quieter than usual. I usually choose not to record or say anything at all but I can't nor want to continue doing that.

I really hope it doesn't take away from the fun or your enjoyment. Thank you so much for being here, and for supporting me through the ups and downs. You’re seriously the best.

Just wanted to be transparent about it with you. Thanks for understanding. Looking forward to sharing more games with you soon.

Oh by the way, I usually share these updates on our Discord server, not all of them will probably be posted here. So if you would like to see these more frequently be sure to join our Discord server!