Just got Vegas 5.0 (download) (fix) all installed and set up on my PC and after only about a half hour I managed to crop a video with it! It's definitely advanced. Movie Maker's user friendly, of course, but Vegas has tons of options.

I'm definitely just scratching the surface with it right now-- trying to figure out the basics with it before I begin work on more advanced options. Ooohh, and the ability to have two videos in the same frame. I've been wanting that.

Now if WMM simply had more advanced options for the text, more transitions, and if it was much less blatantly basic... that would be good. It's pretty good for simple cropping of videos. Too many of the videos seen on YouTube are made in movie maker. Mostly because people just don't have the software or the time to learn it. Hmmm, anyway. Tell me what you think!

P.S. Ever since the design 'update', every time I post a blog it says a topic with the title already exists, and when I go to see it's posted it TWICE. What's with that?

Almost a year ago I got my PSP Slim, or PSP 2000. Now Sony announced the THIRD version, PSP 3000, not even one year later, which features a built-in mic, brighter screen without glare outside, and skype built in. I don't care about the mic or Skype, but the screen? That's the only reason it's hard to play the PSP-- it's built for outside play and yet the screen has such crazy glare that you can't see a thing unless you're under a shadow. Now they're fixing that in a totally new model... Not cool, Sony. Not cool.

Today I finally edited together and captured the final pieces of my *Top 5* for favorite automatics from Crysis, Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament 3.

Watch it here:

Top 5 Favorite Videogame Machine Guns Countdown

Also new is an 'about me' description on my page:

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I am a human.
I breathe air.
I am from Earth.
I live in the US.
I go by 'DarCowAlways'.
I like to make videos of gameplay.
I need to talk less about myself.

P.S. I eat babies.

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...Don't ask. Kind of random. Since I never put anything... well... about me in about me's.

ALSO: Vote. I miiight upload another video in the form of an extended 'Don't put this on YouTube' song. It has much less repitition, a great ending, and... much... MUCH more. I created it the same night I uploaded the first video, but the content isn't different enough for me to upload it, without a vote :)

Who here wants an updated "Don't post this on YouTube! Song", without the beginning part and just a song? Guaranteed not to make you have a seizure! There's one new part in the new version that is guaranteed to make you laugh if you enjoyed the first one.

A long time ago my friend lost a bet and I recorded him... well... watch it. Totally safe for work, if you're wondering.

The "Don't Post this on YouTube!" Song

Well then, GameSpot Wide. Here it is.

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After what seemed like centuries, I finally got to Bionic Commando! Almost to level 30!

...Can't avoid that. It's... getting on my nerves. SAVE YOURSELF! IT'S TOO LATE FOR ME!

Ahem. Anyway, I'm finishing up Mass Effect... third day playing it. Can't there be a really good RPG that DOES last a few weeks like FF VII used to?

I also found some old PC games at a garage sale. So I bought Sim City 3000 for $1 and the same for Unreal Tournament 2003 for the same. This means I've finally completed my UNREAL collection.

Mass Effect has a lot of good choices in it. Saving party members, killing or not, saving hostages or killing the terrorists. And there's a romance sub-plot in there too. If you simply talk to the women in your squad over time they start cat-fights over you. That's a more... controversial part of Mass Effect, but it's no big deal. And in case you're wondering, I chose Ashe (the human girl) ;)

I do love that while it absolutely maintains its shooter gameplay, it still looks and plays just like an RPG of old. The environments and cities and little sub-missions that have you run around town all remind me of Final Fantasy VII, or XII for that matter. But then when it comes to combat you whip out an SMG and take down some alien... robot... cyborg... AI... renegades. If you like RPGs or shooters you'd like Mass Effect. It's a simple over-the-shoulder with all the RPG elements- EXP, levels, skills, equipment... it's all there.

Well it's 1:11AM over here on the West (A.K.A. BEST) Coast and this whole WHY SO SERIOUS fad is getting to my head :P Goodnight, Gotham city.

SLEEP TIGHT

Today someone asked me for the first time if I would babysit for them in the future. Which is really cool for me, I love being around kids and entertaining them. I could even bring over my laptop and some controllers and play some SNES or N64 games with them. As long as I don't have to change a diaper or something, I'm good :P

O.O inspiration's been coming at me extra hard for no apparant reason today, and as a result not one, not two but three new YouTube videos have been uploaded by me in one 24-hour period. It's a personal best.

Massacre - Unreal Tournament 3

Here I played back an ordinary demo of myself playing UT3 and edited it down to all the battles and kills. I never died once and I got 38 kills, meaning I got GOD-LIKE and then MASSACRE. I had it all done and ready yesterday, but it was the entire match, and a lot of it was meaninglessly following me around while I searched for blues. I re-edited it this (or shall I say last) morning to include only the battles. It was an idea I had and I just rolled with it. It also allowed me to put all the footage under one song. That's one thing that bothers me with my videos; it's a full gameplay scene; there's no room for editing to make songs fit. I've had to resort to having two or more songs in some of my videos.

TF2 - Build Faster by Wrenching Buildings

Well the name pretty much says it all - I set out to prove... again... that hitting your buildings with a wrench while setting them up makes them go up faster. I've done a lot of runs of this test with Lone Soldier, but the old demos didn't play in updated Team Fortress 2 for some reason! As a result, I had to re-record it today. I love how precise the timing was in both tests.

Crysis - Superman Chicken! [Glitch]

I started recording myself in Crysis (pre-video card upgrade) to just get it on camera how fun a battle where you throw chickens at the KPA is. It's the most random thing, and it represents freedom in games. Where else can you pick up a chicken off the ground and throw it at a soldier? While invisible? And then use your customized weapon against them? Nowhere, says I. Anyway, quite literally after the dust has been settled and my chickens throroughly thrown, I discovered something so random the randomitor unit on my PC almost broke. Or something close to that at least. Well it turned out that chicken I threw floated in the air throughout my gun fight, and when I turned to it, it was gliding upward at a slow, steady rate. I caught quite a lot of footage on it before I decided to gun it down. How would it eat up there in the sky? The mind boggles. So I shot it a few times. Nothing. There it stood (ok, flew), totally undamaged. After a little sequence of me shooting it with everything I have, I give up to watch it fade into the distance. What was indeed ironic was that it flew, flew away into the sunset. I also discovered one other YouTube video featuring the same glitch, so I made my video a response to that one. I had no idea about that glitch before it happened... totally took me by surprise, and by the look on that chicken's face, it must've been just as taken as I was.

UPDATE:

Top 5 Greatest SNES Games Countdown

I created this today. I've been wanting to do this, even though there are too many of these already. It is exactly 10:00 long and features my top 5 most nostalgia-inducing SNES titles. The countdown features all five games and their respective gameplay footage which I recorded this morning. I won't spoil which games made the cut, so go see for yourself!

Yeeeeah... so Giant Bomb...

Actually a really fun website. I've submitted something like 100 pictures for games like Star Fox, Super Mario World, Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis... It's fun getting points. I'm aiming for 1000 points like pretty much everyone else on the site, because it marks the point where you can add content to pages without having to wait for someone to come along and read through it. After 1000 points there isn't much to gain from submitting more stuff, though...

I have over 200 points on the site so far, and it grows whenever I submit pictures. But here's the thing about Giant Bomb, I would've submitted infinitely more to the site if people hadn't beaten me to it! I've had to resort to secret parts of games people haven't found/submitted for games like Star Fox.

Oh, and another thing, right now I'm rated something like #1000 on the site. It's hard to tell because the number doesn't update very often.

Anyway, I hope to see you over at Giant Bomb soon!

Oh, and check out my new UT3 YouTube video!