INJUSTICE 2: OMEGA EFFECT - TOMORROW!

OMEGA EFFECT

What is the Omega Effect? gameplay video of one on one random character select matches using Darkseid. 

When is it?  Being uploaded tomorrow!

Stay tuned! 

October 2018, countdown to 2019!

October 2018, Three Months to Go! 

Hey everyone.

It's usually around the first of the month that I do a what's coming up post, a quick informative post which basically points out what things are going to be on my channel this month or this week.

There isn't one for October, simply because apart from gameplay videos, I haven't got that many projects on the go at the moment. I haven't really had much spare time these past few weeks to spend working on YouTube projects, basically, in August this year I made a decision to leave my current job, and spent the following three weeks applying to jobs online, sending out my CV's round to places and just doing what I could to try and find a new and suitable job for me, I managed to find one but I lost it shortly after getting it. I'm now back to the drawing board of trying to find a job that will last me till at least Christmas. 

But I've also got projects coming up in my ordinary day to day life, for example, I start my rehearsals for Wizard of Oz soon, and I'll be starting trying to get the word out on my social media to get people to come and see it. I've got all the stuff I've been working towards with Radio Verulam with regards to working towards getting my own show and training with myriad and getting to know the software, it's a lot to take in and I've been putting time into practicing. 

Also driving practice, yes, I am learning to drive, or I have been learning to drive for the past three years. Still, haven't passed my test, but it is bloody hard! Revising for it can be a bit of pain too because there's so much information that takes a strain on your brain and for someone like me, who doesn't find these sorts of things in that test interesting, my attention span when it comes to revising is poor. And I'm making up excuses, I know it will only work if I'm committed to putting the time in and I'm just not. At least not right now, I'm hoping to start revising again in November to take my test in December, so hopefully, I can pass it and I'll be driving in January! You only have to pass the test once and your set for life... or should be.

It's slack, it's laziness, and it's being busy which are the reasons why I haven't really been doing much with YouTube. I'm very happy with the Doctor Who Audio Adventures Series 3 and thanks to everyone who have listened to that and followed me up whilst that was going on. I hope to keep that project going. 

Gameplay videos are probably the only consistent thing that will be coming out at the moment, simply because all I have to do is record and upload, I don't have to go to all the hassle or faff with filming, editing, or recording / sound recording. Because as great as those things are and it is or can be an enjoyable process it is also exceptionally time-consuming and I have other things I want to do, I'm just becoming more and more busy with my work life and my social life. So, therefore, other things like YouTube have to go on the back burner. 

We're now coming into the last three months of the year, and I can't see anything really changing much over this time. I just don't want to make any promises and then not be able to follow them through. I do have some exciting things coming up for Christmas though which I'm very excited to upload in the lead up to Christmas and New Year. The Advent calendar is back and they'll be one for 2018. Just as they'll be a Doctor Who Audio Adventures Christmas Special, rather unlike the other Christmas stories that I've done in the past. 

It's rather strange to believe that we're now going into the last three months of the year, this is it up until Christmas, and then it's New Year, and then we're in 2019. 2018 is coming as quickly as it going.

But do stay posted for any new announcements. Just encase. 

Who? Jodie Whittaker, that's Who!

The new series of Doctor Who starts on BBC One next Sunday, and it's about time.

We finally get to see Jodie Whittaker's doctor in action, and what I have literally no idea what is going to happen in Series 11, I've read interviews, I watched clips and from what I can gather there are a lot of changes that have been made with the best of intentions for the better. I don't really know much about the series or what's going to happen, all I know is that there are going to be ten hour-long episodes rather than twelve or thirteen forty-five minute episodes, no Daleks or Cybermen or any old monsters returning, it's all going to be fresh new ideas, it's looking to be the biggest reboot in the shows history since Series 5 in 2010.

Doctor Who is now going out on Sunday evenings instead of the usual Saturday prime time slot, which could prove to be a fairly good move. Moving the time around with having the show on a different day is not a new thing, it has been done before. In the early eighties when Peter Davison took over from Tom Baker, the fifth doctor era was three years of Doctor Who being on between Monday to Friday evenings, showing two episodes per week. The Sylvester McCoy era was on Monday's, but the traditional slot is Saturday nights. Saturday nights will always be Doctor Who's home, and maybe one day it will return to that slot. 

I've seen bits and pieces about the new Doctor Who in Doctor Who magazine and things trending online, it's all very interesting and exciting to come across new information, but the thing is it sort of relates to people wanting to know, but not wanting to know, Doctor Who is one of these programmes which has expanded and grown throughout and it's a show that's loved by millions. There's a community of people who watch it, I'm not just talking about the fans, but it's a special thing where you find that this is a show unlike any other and people care about what happens to it, I only want the scripts and the content to be good above all else, and for the last few years it's been hit and miss. I hope that with a new approach this will a series that will work better and have new twists and turns and actually surprise me. 

I'm starting to like Jodie Whittaker more, I wasn't keen on the idea of a female doctor, to begin with, a part of me still isn't happy by it, but I've accepted it and have moved forward since finding out about it. Over time I'm starting to like Jodie Whittaker more and more, I haven't thought much of her before she was announced as the Doctor and never really thought highly of her as an actress, but seeing her in interviews and clips of her as the Doctor has made me change my perspective of her slightly. I really want her to be good, and the chances are that she will. 

It seems like there's a fresh new approach which is happening in the show, one of which is very exciting to a lot of people and I'm looking forward to getting to seeing it when the first episode airs next Sunday. 

The problem with the Sixth Doctor!

The problem with The Sixth Doctor: 

22 March 1984 - 6 December 1986. 

The characterisation for this Doctor was unlike any other the most deliberately dislikable and acerbic from his very first story, designed to gradually become more likeable and more mellow as time went by. 

However, though in certain stories, Six was much less dislikable and more settled, his overall dynamic with his companion, Peri was alarmingly something like a real-life abusive relationship, his constant verbal abuse and mood outbursts being quite uncomfortable for viewers. 

Six would grow less unlikable and more approachable over the course of his initial season and into his second, however stories like Mindwarp would reset him temporarily to The Twin Dilemma-esque proportions of sheer toxicity. 

Overall, stories which helped his cause the most in terms of his character were Vengeance on Varos, The Mark of the Rani, The Mysterious Planet and Terror of the Vervoids. Despite being quite workable on story levels, The Two Doctors and Revelation of the Daleks still included ounces of the more reprehensible and nastier Six, cruelly and invalidly attacking Peri's weight for instance. 

Ultimately, the idea to create a Doctor so thoroughly hateful and with such a loud, obnoxious costume matched with a nihilistic, cynical Doctor Who that was all about death, grittiness, gore and destruction more so than actually wanting us to be attached to its hero has been proven an absolute disaster. 

It's no small wonder the reason Big Finish has been so successful with this Doctor is that it removed all the things which destroyed him on television, specifically the barbs to his personality and his terrible companion dynamics.

INJUSTICE 2: Deadly Predator - Cheetah Multiverse on my channel NOW!

CHEETAH MULTIVERSE

DEADLY PREDATOR ON MY CHANNEL NOW!

Check out the Cheetah multiverse live on my channel now. 

• Cheetah vs Vixen - https://youtu.be/8hcjO7y-okY
• Cheetah vs Wonder Woman - https://youtu.be/JHPErC8o9EY

Injustice 2: Manta Monday! Monday 1st October 2018

MANTA MONDAY

MONDAY 1st OCTOBER 2018

On Monday the 1st of October, a new video is being uploaded featuring Black Manta. I won't say too much about it, but it's going to be very interesting. More updates on this to be released upon request. 

2018: My year so far!

Hello everyone

I wanted to write this post because the past week, going into this week has been one that has been particularly frustrating for me, and I feel one of the best ways to express such feelings being of upset, frustration, and disheartened is to write about them, and for all I know, there could be loads of other people, some of which might come across this post and start reading it who are in the same situation or worse as me.

Now, I'm wishing any bad feeling upon anyone or anything by writing this, and in no way what so ever am I writing this in an attempt to gain sympathy or empathy from anyone, because I'm not that kind of person, I'm merely pointing out my feelings of frustration and disappointment with the way I think 2018 has gone for me so far in the best way I can, writing a blog post up on my blog. I'm fully aware and understand that I could simply just write it down in a notepad or express myself in such a way that doesn't involve posting on social media for everyone to see, I am fully aware of that.

I just feel in myself that this year so far for me has been a bumpy road. Now I'm not saying I'm worse off than anyone else, everyone has problems, we all have our problems and always will. However, for me, I just feel down about the fact that I've not had much good luck come my way this year or I have not made any good or right choices in my life.

It all started back in January where I had to leave my current job at the time because it was deemed too stressful, I was overworked, under pressure, hadn't had much sleep and the environment that I was in wasn't a very nice or healthy atmosphere for me that it became so unbearable that I just wanted to get out, after leaving that job, I had my piece of mind back and I felt like I could get back to being myself again, but at the same time, I was out of a job, I didn't have anything else to fall back on and I was unemployed for a considerable number of weeks. I had other things to keep me going, however, theatre projects on the go and I was seeing and catching up with friends whom I hadn't seen for a long time.

I was working on a theatre project however that didn't turn out to be a very good experience for me, I could tell that I wasn't enjoying it and actually by the end of it, it ended up being one of the worst experiences of my time working in theatre, that's down I believe to poor management, poor timekeeping and just a certain person not really sorting out her priorities and looking after her cast very well. But I was too involved in the project to back out and say "No, I don't want to do this anymore" because that certainly wouldn't have done me any favors if I left. It just didn't end up being the insight or what I was told it was going to be like, I thought that I was signing up for something creatively initiative and something very different and outside the box, because that's what makes theatre brilliant, it's the idea of taking something and doing something so mad and wonderful and fantastic with it that you invite an audience into your world to tell a story and provide a broad escapism. It's the magic of entertainment that makes good business. As I didn't get that, not only did I feel upset and disappointed by this, but I also felt cheated, unappreciated and just didn't feel like part of the team and no one actually bothered to help me feel better about that.

I also felt very agitated and worried over where I stood with certain friends or a friend. I just felt as if I had done something wrong or the relationship had changed slightly and I misinterpreted that as being something it wasn't. I do make things more harder than myself, however, by allowing yourself to over think situations you get caught up and confused with what you believe to be true and what is actually true and I do have regrets about the way I have gone about certain things. And I know that those things can only get me down or eat me up if I let them. I try not to let things worry or concern me, but I'm quite a sensitive person in the best and worst of times.

Over this year I have struggled to find a permanent job that I can stay in, I've spent the majority of this year falling in and out of working, having a valuable source of income and then not having any income at all, that in itself became very hard because I would run out of money and not know when my next source of income would be. I've signed up for things which I thought may take off and be really good for me, if it were to go in the right direction, and it was a big if, when those things didn't work out, I would find that I needed to go back to the drawing without having any clear understanding of what it was that I wanted to do, what made it harder for me was not feeling like I was getting any support, I felt like I was just getting moaned at and shouted at all the time no matter how hard I tried to find work.

I've managed to find a job last week, and now it's been a week later and I'm now jobless again. I feel as if I've not been having a very lucky year or things just haven't quite gone my way at all. I feel like I'm letting myself down and that I'm letting my family down.

But it's not been all bad, I have had some really good things that have happened to me this year. I've made some excellent progress in pursuing a passion for working in radio and gaining experience with that, so far, I've worked on three very unique and very different radio programmes both on air and behind the scenes, I've been going out and socialising with friends and building on my relationships with people and genuinely I feel like the relationship I have with friends is very good. I went to my friend's wedding and it was one of the best days of my life. I've been on a couple of dates this year, I've rediscovered or got back into doing hobbies I haven't done for ages and remember or remind myself why I love doing those things so much.

We are now going into October, three months of the year left to go, I sincerely hope that things pick up and get much better for me up to Christmas.

If you have come across this and are reading this, I hope you'll understand my story and where I'm getting my point across. I just felt by typing this up and getting it out there, that might help to get it off my chest to help me going into the rest of this year. It can only get better.