I accidentally deleted the video I was working on.
I’m pretty devastated considering it was an 80 minute recording for a video that was probably going to wind up being around 45 minutes long and I was over halfway through editing it, but I’m willing to move past this. Basically, those who’ve been following my Patreon, know I’ve been having hard drive troubles with my laptop I’ve been using to edit videos on for years no matter what I do to try to fix it and despite getting a new computer this year, I’ve been stubbornly sticking to editing on this laptop because I don’t want to take the time to switch to another editing software and relearn it, especially since I know that would risk causing my video quality to go downhill, but this situation has convinced me that at some point I’ll need to do that. Because this video contained over an hour of footage from 2 separate games, it took a toll on my hard drive and I was running out of space to keep editing the video and while I was clearing out space, trying to get rid of any old garbage files, I somehow managed to delete the entire video and all of its contents.
That’s right: I deleted the video in my attempt to salvage it.
I’m fairly good at preserving my stuff AFTER I’m done with it, but this was a case where I got unlucky. It is COMPLETELY gone and I didn’t even realize I did this until after I did it. This has never happened to me in my 2 1/2 years of doing this and I never thought it could.
Thankfully, I’ve managed to save the first 14 minutes, which can be viewed on Patreon, the game footage, and most of the script, so it wouldn’t be that hard to reconstruct it, but this experience has left a sour taste in my mouth and I’d rather just move on to something else. This is absolutely a video I still want to make at some point and have been wanting to do for almost a year with it always being pretty high up there on my passion project priority list, but I’m putting it off for now. I’ll do a few more less ambitious (read: not including nearly 3 hours worth of game footage) videos throughout the summer, and then I’ll probably take most of August and September off to learn a new editing software.
I’ll be taking a short break and come back with something different sometime in June. This isn’t even an attempt to shill my Patreon, as I don’t really care too much for doing that and already had it up there before all of this happened, but if you really want to see what the first 14 minutes of the video would’ve been like, I posted it there.
TLDR: I accidentally permanently deleted the video in an attempt to save it, and will have to redo over 2/3 of it and don’t feel like doing that now, so I’m going to move on to something different and less ambitious.
-Obscure stuff regarding a game series that’s well known, but still obscure, such as its “dark origins” that aren’t actually that dark, the fact that it has 2 first entries, the original game’s really weird “predecessor”, the forgotten mascot that seemingly inspired it, and the funniest translation of the 21st century.
-A game and franchise that you may not realize was once owned by a different company from the one who created it, yet this company, which is particularly infamous for doing nothing with their franchises, did practically nothing with this franchise for a decade and a half, other than license out a sequel (and a pseudo-sequel from the original developer with a name that makes it very difficult to search up) and loads of ports (only two of which came out in Japan), releasing related/similar games, and cancelling a game.
-Two games that use a commonly mocked title scheme, both of which are the last games in their trilogies and series as a whole, and both are very disappointing compared to the initial entires. Also, another game that uses this titling scheme that came out in between the other two that’s part of a really underrated series that’s actually connected to one of the other games and is often overlooked because of the circumstances of its release and the fact that it was followed up with what is generally considered the best game in this series. I’ve mentioned it a few times, but here, I really do a deep dive on it, and it’s the longest segment in the video and entire series.
It’s looking to be the longest and most ambitious Obscurities video yet (probably about 35 minutes). It should be out by the 21st depending on how things go!
-A familiar division of a company, a familiar uncredited developer, and a familiar obscure company who only made one game.
-The mysterious origins of one of the most iconic sounds in video games (that was first used 8 years earlier than most people realize).
-The mystery surrounding a cancelled game that may have never have been the game that it was actually announced as and what people have believed it to be for over 3 decades.
My next video contains segments about: -Someone who basically co-created one of the most popular gaming franchises yet never gets credit for it. -Cute Artwork -Engrish -Calendars and recently found media that wasn’t even known about beforehand -A song that’s used throughout a certain game series more often than you may think and why it was created
Can you guess what I’ll be talking about?
(Also, it’s gonna be the first video I work on with my new PC, so I can do a few things I couldn’t do before!)
The Sunshine Feeler
I never wanted to make a post like this but:
I accidentally deleted the video I was working on.
I’m pretty devastated considering it was an 80 minute recording for a video that was probably going to wind up being around 45 minutes long and I was over halfway through editing it, but I’m willing to move past this. Basically, those who’ve been following my Patreon, know I’ve been having hard drive troubles with my laptop I’ve been using to edit videos on for years no matter what I do to try to fix it and despite getting a new computer this year, I’ve been stubbornly sticking to editing on this laptop because I don’t want to take the time to switch to another editing software and relearn it, especially since I know that would risk causing my video quality to go downhill, but this situation has convinced me that at some point I’ll need to do that. Because this video contained over an hour of footage from 2 separate games, it took a toll on my hard drive and I was running out of space to keep editing the video and while I was clearing out space, trying to get rid of any old garbage files, I somehow managed to delete the entire video and all of its contents.
That’s right: I deleted the video in my attempt to salvage it.
I’m fairly good at preserving my stuff AFTER I’m done with it, but this was a case where I got unlucky. It is COMPLETELY gone and I didn’t even realize I did this until after I did it. This has never happened to me in my 2 1/2 years of doing this and I never thought it could.
Thankfully, I’ve managed to save the first 14 minutes, which can be viewed on Patreon, the game footage, and most of the script, so it wouldn’t be that hard to reconstruct it, but this experience has left a sour taste in my mouth and I’d rather just move on to something else. This is absolutely a video I still want to make at some point and have been wanting to do for almost a year with it always being pretty high up there on my passion project priority list, but I’m putting it off for now. I’ll do a few more less ambitious (read: not including nearly 3 hours worth of game footage) videos throughout the summer, and then I’ll probably take most of August and September off to learn a new editing software.
I’ll be taking a short break and come back with something different sometime in June. This isn’t even an attempt to shill my Patreon, as I don’t really care too much for doing that and already had it up there before all of this happened, but if you really want to see what the first 14 minutes of the video would’ve been like, I posted it there.
TLDR: I accidentally permanently deleted the video in an attempt to save it, and will have to redo over 2/3 of it and don’t feel like doing that now, so I’m going to move on to something different and less ambitious.
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The Sunshine Feeler
Thank you for the response to my last video!
In my next video, I’ll be discussing:
-Obscure stuff regarding a game series that’s well known, but still obscure, such as its “dark origins” that aren’t actually that dark, the fact that it has 2 first entries, the original game’s really weird “predecessor”, the forgotten mascot that seemingly inspired it, and the funniest translation of the 21st century.
-A game and franchise that you may not realize was once owned by a different company from the one who created it, yet this company, which is particularly infamous for doing nothing with their franchises, did practically nothing with this franchise for a decade and a half, other than license out a sequel (and a pseudo-sequel from the original developer with a name that makes it very difficult to search up) and loads of ports (only two of which came out in Japan), releasing related/similar games, and cancelling a game.
-Two games that use a commonly mocked title scheme, both of which are the last games in their trilogies and series as a whole, and both are very disappointing compared to the initial entires. Also, another game that uses this titling scheme that came out in between the other two that’s part of a really underrated series that’s actually connected to one of the other games and is often overlooked because of the circumstances of its release and the fact that it was followed up with what is generally considered the best game in this series. I’ve mentioned it a few times, but here, I really do a deep dive on it, and it’s the longest segment in the video and entire series.
It’s looking to be the longest and most ambitious Obscurities video yet (probably about 35 minutes). It should be out by the 21st depending on how things go!
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In my next video, I’ll be discussing:
-A familiar division of a company, a familiar uncredited developer, and a familiar obscure company who only made one game.
-The mysterious origins of one of the most iconic sounds in video games (that was first used 8 years earlier than most people realize).
-The mystery surrounding a cancelled game that may have never have been the game that it was actually announced as and what people have believed it to be for over 3 decades.
It’ll be out by the 8th!
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What video do you want to see the most from me?
I’m already working on the next Mysteries video, by the way. The main Mysteries series is no longer just a trilogy!
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What’s a video game genre that you think got BETTER when it transitioned to 3D?
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Check out my stream in case you missed it! youtube.com/live/zPm_-wt-VaU?si=EinRrkeXEjtv8ycq
Also, let me know what you would like to see me stream next!
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Stream starts in 30 minutes!
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My next video contains segments about:
-Someone who basically co-created one of the most popular gaming franchises yet never gets credit for it.
-Cute Artwork
-Engrish
-Calendars and recently found media that wasn’t even known about beforehand
-A song that’s used throughout a certain game series more often than you may think and why it was created
Can you guess what I’ll be talking about?
(Also, it’s gonna be the first video I work on with my new PC, so I can do a few things I couldn’t do before!)
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Which game is better?
https://youtu.be/S1KiXJv7guI?si=H1eJK...
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