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Minecraft with Mabeanie Season 2

Hey guys,

so I've been thinking about recording another Minecraft series. I did a Friday Night Fun last week and I think I just want to do a Minecraft series instead. I don't have a lot of games to play that I can record, and Minecraft seems to be the only game that I can ramble and play effectively enough to make a decent series.

Back in 2011 I wanted to do a second series, but I wanted other people to want it too and so I ended up abandoning it because nobody voted in the poll that I made. That was years ago, I was an idiot, and now I'm excited about doing season 2. There's a lot that I want to say, but I'll leave it to episode one. Then will come logos and intros, and it should be an exciting time.

So yeah I think I'll record the first episode tomorrow and we'll see what happens from there.

Thanks!

See Ya!

Nice little update

Today is my 14-year anniversary of Supercars Mabeanie (formerly MrMabeanie), which was my first YouTube channel and main channel in terms of pride. The quality tends to be higher on that channel than the other two, and I am more conscious of what I do with it because of it being the first channel and also it being the most successful channel that I have. SAIM Industries is more successful, but it's a collab channel so I don't see it as equal to my solo efforts.

This blog was started on the 14th of April 2010, so it is now 14 years old as well. Of course, it doesn't get as much attention as it used to and that's probably because of my various outlets for writing. My magazine tends to be a better outlet because it looks better and I can talk about everything rather than filter it for the internet like I do here.

So here's how things are going on each YouTube channel that is mine alone:

Supercars Mabeanie

246 subscribers

62,109 video views

Envelope Edit Tool tutorial is my most viewed video with 12,897 views.

338 public videos

I gained a lot of subscribers from July 2023 to February 2024, when I decided not to push myself to post a new video every week. My last video was released on the 11th of March, 2024, and I haven't started the next video yet but have been thinking of a few ideas that might turn into finished videos.

Mabeanie Talks

23 subscribers

986 video views

Defending Jodie Whittaker's era in Doctor Who is my most viewed video with 114 views.

132 public videos

Posting vlogs since 2022, I've really enjoyed this channel but it won't get much focus from me until I move into my house. Uploads can be few and far between but recently I've had consistent videos and shorts coming out for the last month. 

Mabeanie Games

39 subscribers

6092 video views

Friday Night Fun Sydney SuperNight game is my most viewed video with 498 views.

316 public videos

I'm most active on this channel because I have YouTube Premium on it, but videos are even fewer and further between due to my lack of interest in games. Again, it should improve after I move into my house.

That's it, thanks for reading.

See Ya!

I tried to do a thing

 Hey guys!

Today I recorded a Friday Night Fun, but when I went to edit it a few minutes ago I realised that it was wildly out of sync. It wasn't a great recording. I'm not mentally or physically feeling 100% and it really shows. Normally I can ramble and have done so in the past on Minecraft Seedscribers, but I would have big gaps of time where I would say nothing because I couldn't mentally ramble and play the game at the same time. Now that might be normal for me, but I don't know anymore. 

Not only was the recording out of sync, and by that I mean the footage was out of sync. At least I think it was anyway. The audio might have been out of sync too, but it sounds right. Sometimes in Dawn of War 2 it messes up over the loading screens. My computer has also struggled sometimes with framerate when I'm playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 and listening to podcasts on YouTube. So yeah. I had a go, but it was bad. I guess I just wanted to point it out somewhere. I was going to do a community post on the Mabeanie Games channel, but I feel like that sort of thing is like a Twitter feed where it can just disappear. Here on the blog I know that you can go way back and find stuff from 10 years ago with no issue.

That's all that I have to say for now.

Bye!

Ford's awful 2023 Supercars season

It's been a long time since I last wrote on this blog, but I've now found a reason to come back to it. I want to publish my data on Ford's 2023 Supercars season. I keep thinking that it's not that bad, and that Ford are overreacting. Then I looked at how many top tens they scored, how many cars Ford have versus Chevrolet, which drivers scored the top tens, and then percentages to show how bad it really looks. 

First of all, I agree with the idea that Supercars should be a technical parity sport rather than outcome parity. It is possible that most of the Ford drivers aren't good enough and neither are their teams, but that may not be the case.

The first thing to surprise me was that Newcastle really wasn't that competitive for Ford. Only 4 drivers scored a third of the top tens. All 4 were in the ten on Saturday, but Courtney crashed in the shootout on Sunday and Waters crashed during the race that day. This is also remembering that Reynolds was on pole on Sunday too.

The next thing is that Sydney Motorsport Park was a shocking round for Ford. A score of 25% of possible top tens for half of the field is pretty poor. Then you see that only 3 drivers scored those top tens. So everybody else was struggling all weekend. Mostert and De Pasquale scored podiums, so it looked good in terms of trophy return, but Mostert didn't seem happy about the overall performance and Waters was pretty fired up on the radio too. 

Perth wasn't a surprising result to me. I call it a point and shoot track, where almost every corner is slow and there are 3 straights to go full beans on. So Reynolds and Courtney walked away with some trophies, WAU were typically crap at Perth so got a few top tens, and surprisingly Blanchard Racing Team with Hazelwood were strong but got worse over the course of the weekend. 

The one that is interesting is the strongest weekend. The Bend is usually a strong track for Fords, but it's hard to say why now that the cars are supposed to be the same. Last generation you could have said that the Fords were good in a straight line, but much of The Bend is long winding turns like a sideways rollercoaster. There were also some rapidly-made aerodynamic changes on the cars in between Darwin and Townsville because Darwin was the most miserable result of the year for Ford. Townsville was okay, De Pasquale was the first driver to legitimately win in a Ford (Waters' Newcastle result counts as a win, but only because Triple Eight was disqualified), and Mostert got a podium that weekend too. Maybe the Bend went well for Ford because the long winding turns wear the tyres out badly on every car like how Perth is in constant need of resurfacing. Then the massive drop in downforce across the field for the new gen cars mean that they slide around a lot more. That would explain why Albert Park was such a mixed bag.

The next round is the Sandown 500, and then the Bathurst 1000. For the sake of the series, I hope that we see a Ford on the podium and a reasonable handful in the top ten.

Also because I did a Chevy version of all of this, the two most disappointing teams of 2023 are Blanchard Racing Team and PremiAir Racing (Chevy). No idea what went wrong for those guys, but damn.

Cheers!

Attending Supercars events and doing videos on them

Hey guys,

I attended the OTR Supersprint at The Bend Motorsport Park on the 31st of July. I decided to film a bunch of it to show off and talk about the experience. I want to make this a regular thing, and will attend the VALO Adelaide 500 in December as well. 

The video comes out tomorrow, so maybe I will slap it here tomorrow as well. 

I made a bunch of different thumbnails before settling on one that maybe best represents what the video is like.

The first one may look more appealing, but it's far closer to the car than I ever got, so I didn't want to misrepresent the video. The final one was a modification of the third one. Obviously it was important to show a Supercar, the track, and an honest view of the event. As a fan you never get that close to the cars when they're on track and moving. The word "Attending" was a thought of what the series might be called, but I thought that it was unnecessary when you can see that the image isn't a professional shot. I added "The Bend" because the logo for the event was small and hard to read from a distance. It also sets a good template for the Adelaide 500 and hopefully other events that I will probably have to fly to.

I had fun making the video, and I'm sure that there's a lot to improve on for the next one.

See Ya!

Motorsport Manager - My short-lived 2027 season

 The off-season between 2026 and 2027 was big in my Motorsport Manager journey. Cindi Stefanowski was obviously not interested in signing for my team again. So I needed a new reserve driver. What shocked me was that Nassor Lorensen, who I had moved up to be a main driver after I demoted Stef late-season, had a patience level of 1. If I didn't offer him a dream deal, he wouldn't talk to me again. And that was my big mistake. I offered him a good amount, but not what he wanted, and so he left. Then I couldn't find a driver for the second car, 2025 champion Nick Chu being my car 1 driver. I was sure that Nassor would stay, and he didn't. So I had no backups and ended up signing a driver just before the first round. I really didn't want to run a pay driver of no talent in the second car next to a series champion. So I luckily found Josh Bourne at the eleventh hour. He was talented and while not huge in potential he would do a solid job for the team. The new face of Archer BMR was found. After that, I only had to find a better reserve driver and make sure that they were happy.

It was a solid start for the new look team. Josh impressed to qualify 10th at Black Sea. Nick was 14th. Now I didn't have huge expectations for Josh. Heck, if he stayed with the team I was happy. Nevertheless, I was excited by his solid stats and hoped that at some stage he would start to deliver points. In the race, which was dry, Nick moved up to 6th, and Josh dropped back to 12th. I think he was held up in the pits, so it might not have been all his fault.Anyway, the old veteran of Nick scored for us like always, and the young charger had an okay start to his career. The reserve driver was a pay driver with no talent, and who I had no interest in using in practice sessions. 

At Munich, Josh showed himself to be something of a qualifying star. He was 5th, ahead of Nick way down in 15th. Both drivers did a great job in the race, and Josh finished 7th, with Nick 10th. Again, Josh's race pace wasn't flash but I was happy that he was showing something from his talents. You can see in the screenshot above that his cornering was shocking, but for a 19 year old his improvement was rapid and so I was more than happy to wait patiently.

Anyway, when at Munich I rocked up with our new reserve driver, who I was extremely excited about! Joelle Mellor was even younger than Josh, but was ultra talented. My driver lineup was now complete. I had the old 29 year old legend Nick Chu (the champion!), with 19 year old cowboy Josh Bourne learning the ropes in car 2, and 5 star protege Joelle Mellor on a big money deal. Even if Nick peaked out and faded away, I'd just drop him into the reserve role and wave goodbye, then launch the new-look sexy Archer BMR team with their young chargers full of enthusiasm and talent!

Milan was nothing to get excited about. Nick qualified 14th, and Josh 16th. Nick was amazing as always, moving up to 5th in the race, and Josh shuffled up to 12th in another solid performance. I forgot to mention or even check, and you can see that the chairman's expectations dropped down after 2026 and now I could enjoy myself so long as we did better than 7th in the teams championship.

Tondela was fun. Qualifying sucked with Nick 16th and Josh 20th. But Josh showed the critics what he's made of in the race and finished 8th, with Nick just behind in 10th. 

Then we went to Ardennes. We lucked out again with half wet qualifying, putting Nick 2nd and Josh 3rd. It was a wet-dry-wet race, and of course Nick smashed them all and won the race. 🏆 Josh did a good job finishing 7th.

I also took a screenshot of the Asia Pacific Cup standings after Espirit GP (my old team) scored a double podium with Johnny Navarro (my old star) leading the way in 2nd.

We returned to Munich, where Josh started 16th and Nick 19th. Nick charged up to 7th, and Josh moved up to 15th. Archer faced critics from all angles, but I think that things were very positive for all involved.

Then we went to Vancouver, where it was all kinds of wet and dry. The half wet qualifying session saw us stick Nick in 2nd and Josh in 3rd again. Then it was a dry race and our pace was solid. Nick finished 4th and Josh 10th. Oh well. Can't say we're surprised. Then Nick got bumped up to 3rd and scored his second trophy of the year when one of the Team Kirov cars was penalised. 🏆

Then we went back to Tondela. Practice was fine, Josh being run on softs and I assume something similar for Nick, and then we went out for qualifying. The pictures shows that Nick Chu is in the car, but then the information on the bottom shows that L Holtz is in BOTH cars. I've never used that guy ever, and it's glitched out. I tried restarting the game, the computer, and I couldn't find anybody else with my problem online. So unfortunately I will have to start over again in Motorsport Manager. At least I think that's what I'll have to do. It has been almost a year since I played, after all.

Nevertheless, the Motorsport Manager experience perhaps puts me in good stead for F1 Manager 2022, which I have pre-ordered and expect to play heaps of when it comes out at the end of August.