Hey I'd really appreciate it if you watched this video for a bit. Just have a look and if it's not your kinda thing then that's cool. I enjoyed recording it and hopefully it makes for good watching. Sorry about the quality. If you really want, I can post a HD version for your viewing pleasure.
Cheers :)
Hey guys,
I just did a blog post talking about the upcoming Minecraft series on SAIM Industries on the respective blog, but I have a few things to say here.
I haven't played Minecraft since the 31st of December 2018, and so I want to go into the game as fresh as possible. I know that there was a new update called Caves and Cliffs or whatever, but I don't want to know anything about what it includes. I know there are lots of new blocks, items, and mobs, so I'm excited about being very upset with what the game has become, but at the end of the day I just cannot wait to play on a server with my buddies Akirasora and Ihasnotomato.
Not only has it been a few years since I last played Minecraft in any capacity, I haven't played survival mode seriously and built anything since the start of my Mine Craft Building Stuff: Colossal Conclusion series when I played survival in it. That was 7 years ago!
So it's going to be awesome and it can't come quickly enough!
See Ya!
Hello,
So continuing my story so far, I joined Espirit at the end of 2017, and after one race I fired Fournier because her hotheadedness was impeding my chances of keeping my job. I promoted the reserve driver Amy McCloud into Fournier's seat. We finished 10th in the constructors championship as expected, and the chairman was happy with that. What I didn't know was that we could lose our place in the World Motorsport Championship (WMC) by finishing 10th. The champion team of the Asia-Pacific Championship (APC) is invited to join the top tier, but they declined and so I realised that I had to finish higher than 10th to stay in WMC.
I spent $52 million on the 2018 car, but we struggled at first. Johnny Navarro scored an 8th place finish in a wet race, so we looked pretty good for a few races when realistically we were struggling to consistently finish in the top 15. Both Navarro and McCloud suffered neck injuries during the season, so for five races I ran the reserve driver Ellie Marsh, who was really popular but awful on tyres. Sometimes even if she wasn't in the event, fans would act as though she was the one to beat. The only points finish for most of the season was Navarro's 8th place. In the mid-to-late part of the season, my bank balance ran into the negatives by a few hundred thousand, so I didn't design and build any new parts for the cars. I had to concentrate a little more on the races because I knew that our cars were capable of scoring points, I just didn't know how to do it and still don't. Then, with a handful of races to go, we scored some points. Johnny is my best driver and so I'd been putting the best parts into his car. When he crashed on lap one I felt like the race was ruined. By the late point in the season, my typical strategy was to run Johnny flat out until he had a delta of 1 lap less fuel than he needed to finish the race, and then run him on normal engine power and mediate the tyre temperatures for the rest of the race, pitting when the tyres got to half way or if he was in good track position run him until they were at 30% or the rain was coming. McCloud's strategy was to run her at push or attack and with normal engine power with one lap less fuel so that she had a weight advantage and could therefore run at slightly faster lap times. I also ran her with one level harder compound tyres. So Johnny crashes, then we're under safety car after another driver crashes and then the race continues, I decide to hang on with McCloud and we get to the end of the race and finish 9th. It was a huge relief. I'd agonised over whether to pit her or not and decided that I would finish a few seconds or positions down if I pitted and that I would have a better chance of points if I kept her out for the rest of the race. After that we were 8th in the constructors championship, on target with our set goal.
Then came the final race of the year at Dubai. The last three races of the year I had access to my old setups from the previous year, so I had a good advantage with setup direction. Our cars were set up well for Dubai, but in the race Johnny was shocking. He couldn't get past many people and stayed in the back of the field, while McCloud hung on to finish 12th. I was pretty happy with that, and then I saw the constructors championship leaderboard and learned that I'd been knocked to 9th by Velan Racing. Grrr... So now I was familiar with the way the game worked and knew that my time at Espirit was at an end. I'd failed to achieve the objective, and the Chairwoman was not very happy with me. Now I'm at the first round of the 2019 championship and she still hasn't fired me, so I'm pretty sure I'm on thin ice. The 2019 car cost about $42 million, but the car is better than last year's so maybe we're in a better position. I'm not optimistic, but I am confident that we have some great setups sorted for the new year. I think I should also focus hard on making the best engine that I can. Speed let us down too often I feel. We didn't build a gearbox in 2018, so the full goal for 2019 in my eyes is to build things that make the car go fast.
Anyway my water is boiling.
Hey guys,
So I've recently bought Motorsport Manager and have been enjoying it a lot. Once I worked out how to play it, I started turning out more hours and getting further into the game. Here's my story.
I started with a European Racing Series deal with Octane Racing where I secured podiums with the two drivers that you start with, Marchetta and Dreyfuss. The first season was rough at first because I didn't know what I was doing, but then in the second half I scored two podiums with Dreyfuss. I got one with Marchetta in the first race. I finished 6th in the teams championship, on target with the goal that I set myself.
Then in the second season the car was very unreliable. Finishing a race was an achievement, let alone scoring good results. But the podium wasn't a realistic goal. So I dumped Mary, the designer, and signed Theo Hornton (I think that's his name) and then we started getting more performance and reliability. We started shining in practice and led races again, but still couldn't get those strong finishes. Then Dreyfuss got a hurt neck, so I subbed in Adrian Earle, who started on pole position in the three races that he ran and was very competitive. Then Dreyfuss came back with one week left on her neck and so I moved Earle into Marchetta's inferior car. I was putting the better performance and reliability parts in Dreyfuss' car because she was a better driver. Earle was faster, but Dreyfuss was overall better and got the better results. Earle scored pole position twice in Marchetta's car because he got a hurt neck.
Then I got issued an ultimatum by the chairman, score 10th or better in the next race or I'm fired. That race was very anxiety-inducing, but I still tuned the fastest two cars in practice and both cars started in the top five in qualifying. Dreyfuss led the first stint from 5th and was a sure shot at the race win in intermediate tyres. Marchetta fell off the track on soft tyres. That was my mistake. It was wet and I didn't realise he was on softs. So from the outset we were running with one driver who had a shot, but still you don't give up until the last sector of the last lap. The big blunder that I made was not realising that there was a blip where the track dried for a lap and a half and then got so wet that we needed the wet tyres. So I'd brought Dreyfuss in for softs, run her up the front with them, and then put her on inters when it got wet again. Again it was a massive mistake. I should have invested in better weather predictions, but I wasn't going to gamble money or a race win away just because the track was changing conditions. I was going to change with it and follow the conditions because I couldn't see far ahead to the very wet track in a few laps time. Dreyfuss finished the race in inters, while Marchetta pitted for wets and ended up passing her in a car with an engine that was at 20% reliability, at neutral performance, and Marchetta at neutral aggression. Dreyfuss was running in overtake and attack, but the inters were useless until the last lap but even with 20 seconds better pace she couldn't pass anyone to get into the top ten and secure my job for the next race, so I was fired.
That was pretty frustrating, but then I saw that you could keep playing and so I sent applications to teams in all three levels: ERS, World Championship, and Endurance. The first and third choices were for better teams than what I could realistically expect to run, but the World Championship team Espirit signed me. They are dead last and it's their first year. I've set the target of 10th for the constructors championship because I don't know what I'm doing and there's two races left. I will also focus on keeping the non-hothead drivers because I don't need a pain in the arse challenging my future with the team. I haven't run my first round with them yet, but I'm about to. I will also write down the setups that I use because I want to make this stint with Espirit work.
Hopefully all goes well.
See Ya!
Hey guys,
So I didn't do a review thing for the SuperLite video, and that's because I get lost in my own head and have had a lot of things to do in a creative sense.
But yes I did get the 2021 predictions video done as well as the SuperLite video, so I'm happy with Supercars Mabeanie for the time being. I do intend to make some more Supercars videos later this year, but not theory videos. I'm going to do simpler, fun videos that may end up being harder to make than coming up with theories or expanding on ones that I already have.
This year start off really exciting and then sharply declined from mid-January until the last week or so. The recent upturn is largely because I've been pushing hard to make sure that I'm happy. A big part of that is writing a to-do list with priorities and back-burner ideas. It's made a big difference to how I've been feeling lately, which has also cleared my mind and is possibly the reason for me coming up with more ideas for fun projects in the future.
So yeah that's the update.
See Ya!
Hey welcome to 2021,
2020 was a pretty crummy year for me. Personally, on YouTube, and in almost every way really. I haven't got around to going through the YouTube data yet because I've been working on some Supercars stuff. It's not a video, at least not yet! But it might not go on YouTube. I'm just recording footage from the website and also from the Supercars YouTube channel.Anyway, I'm back to work tomorrow, so who knows how things are going to pan out. I'm planning better. I'm going to be more focused on making comics, games, and YouTube videos than I was last year. Here's how:
1. Comics
I'm going to focus on each character in Hale Kane #18 and beyond, drawing scenes that are relevant to each character and make it so that the world of Hale Kane feels dynamic and fleshed out. This means that I will be able to put #18 together better and will actually enjoy making the thing. It will probably end up piecing #19 and #20 together in process, too. My goal for 2021 is to make all three comics, then I will commission artists to draw pictures of KJ. That was my idea for a reward a while back, and I'm still kinda interested to going with it.
2. Games
I had to rush to finish my goal at the end of 2020. I made three games in one day, and they were pretty disappointing, especially as I tried to go outside the confines of the guide book that I was using. The goal this year, like with Hale Kane, is to go bigger and better. I will try to make 15 games, they will have more purpose, be designed better, and will hopefully make it easier for me to learn how to program just by doing it.
3. YouTube videos
So I have 5 different channels and all of them posted something in 2020. Let's start with Supercars Mabeanie.
I did not post or even make the SuperLite video. So that will be my first goal for YouTube as far as my personal channels are concerned. I also want to do some sort of series that will allow me to make more Supercars videos for a bit. I'm thinking spotlight videos on certain drivers. I've also done some thinking about how to make my Supercars videos better so that people watch them longer. I have already come up with some ideas on what to do differently.
Mabeanie Games is a bit different. I posted Friday Night Fun, and bits of my separate V8 Supercars championships. For 2021 Friday Night Fun, I am going to have every video have different games. I will not make multiple videos with the same game. I have lots of games that I enjoy, but a small handful that I think make good content and that I specifically prefer to play on a regular basis. I'm not super keen on the Holdens Only and 2001 championships, but I think that they will make good content anyway. I do like to go back to my V8 videos occasionally and watch a whole race. The goal will be do commit and successfully execute the Friday Night Fun plan. It should be pretty easy. Just don't do the same game again.
Mabeanie Talks has a bunch of stuff recorded for more Mab and Tom, but I haven't worked on it in a while. The Christmas video got me a bit pumped for it, so more could come in the first half of this year. Apart from that I'm not fussed. There is also the 10 years anniversary series, but I've done very little since May or something. I have five or six individual years to go through, and there's heaps of content to think about when it comes to reflecting deeply on my YouTube career. Who knows if I'll get it done this year, but really I should get it done to keep it relevant. The goal for Talks will be to finish making and post all of the current Mab and Tom content.
Okay now to my collab channels. SAIM Industries did pretty well. We did manage to make content, and we chose not to get back to IM stuff because I felt that doing AM was of good value for the channel as a whole rather than in terms of views or the amount of videos made. We will probably get back to the IM stuff on Australia Day, as we have done from time to time. Still, there is another session of AM to be edited and another to be recorded, so we have our work cut out for us. As a specific goal, I would like to focus on drawing attention to our 10 years celebrations. I want to do a podcast, order celebratory shirts, hoodies, and hats, do at least one skit, and at least one series with all of us in it.
Pickle-Shaped Peanuts has a tendency to get neglected, but we are looking to be in a position to be performing better than ever in 2021. There is a little bit of V8 Supercars stuff to come out, and after that we may return to Crash Bandicoot, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 4, or start something new. They guys are probably not excited about doing more V8s, but it has been something like two years since we did it so maybe they don't mind. As a specific goal, I want to do two recording sessions, so we should get talking about that soon.
Okay that's everything for now. Shame I didn't get Hale Kane #18 done, but I am taking it very seriously and so I'm being careful with it.
See Ya!
