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Dare to Scare: Dementium II HD (Uncut)

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It's hard to believe I only played this for 48 minutes. It feels like this session was hours long. This is an astoundingly dumb game.

Sorry this took so long. The render for this finished at 6:30am yesterday right as I was going to bed, and it took most of today to upload. 

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Patreon Party People - October 2019

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It's been almost two months since our last podcast! That means this one is JAM PACKED with actual things to talk about. Almost too much stuff, really! After the usual rundown of all the plates I'm juggling, I go in a little bit deeper on my Crash Team Racing video from last month, we talk game design inspirations in the reade...

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Upcoming video preview: Finished Effect

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This looks simple, but nothing ever is. The main problem here is audio -- in the original scene, the close-up of the photo goes on nearly three times longer, because Doc actually uses his finger to point at the fact Marty's brother is disappearing and they both comment on it.

A lot of their comments don't make sense in ...

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Upcoming video preview: Soon?

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The transitional problems when the photo fades should probably look better in the final video. I'm still actually tweaking some things. 

The question now is... how soon? We just don't know.

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Dare to Scare: Daymare 1998 (Uncut)

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Here's the uncut video for Daymare 1998, which is releasing on Youtube tonight (in about 8 hours). 

This video should've been done days ago but I'm starting to think I have too much on my plate right now (four or five more Dare to Scare videos, two more text reviews, and I was hoping to have both my Sonic 3 and She...

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Dare to Scare: Blair Witch (Uncut)

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Here's the full, uncut, nearly 1-hour-and-20-minute Blair Witch video to go with tonight's edited version going up on Youtube. 

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Dare to Scare 2019 Spoilers

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Got a lot of video to edit down. Still haven't decided on the last game to round things out.

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Dare to Scare (Dry Run): Memory of a Broken Dimension

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This is a weird little game I saw many many years ago and was absolutely stunned by gifs and short videos because it looked so unique and weird. I'm not necessarily sure its meant to be scary, just weird and haunting. But that's still seasonally appropriate. 

Fun fact: as I was uploading this to Youtube la...

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Dare to Scare (Dry Run): Blood

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I'd originally written, "Gonna try to do Dare to Scare again this year" but let's be honest, there is no trying here. I already have a bunch of material recorded and I plan on recording at least two more games.

This is a pretty short video because it's mainly just me bouncing around different episodes in Blood just to g...

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Patreon Party People - August (?) 2019

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Who's up for a slightly cursed podcast? Technically slightly less cursed as you hear it, as I actually trimmed down some of the worst bits.

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Crash vs. Sonic (Phone Wallpaper)

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Just like with the desktop version, I tried to make these bigger than standard for those of you out there with nicer phones. Phones have lots of different aspect ratios, so hopefully this looks okay. 

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Crash vs. Sonic (Desktop Wallpaper)

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I tried to make these as big as my assets would support. They're bigger than 1080p but not quite 4K.

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Sonic X - No Voice Acting (Original Resolution)

Here's that file I promised. Confused? Maybe you should read this first.

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The Lost Youtube Video: Sonic X, minus voice acting

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I just completed a heist on my own Youtube channel.

Some backstory: before Youtube existed, I cut my teeth in video editing by simply sharing videos files with friends. This was a complicated headache, because it often meant your friends had to have the same video codecs installed on their system that you encoded the vi...

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Crash vs. Sonic Art Process Images

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Here's the art process for the thumbnail for the upcoming Crash Team Racing vs. Team Sonic Racing video (should be out in the next 48 hours). The artwork is obviously based on the concept of the cover art for Mario & Sonic at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with Crash standing in for Mario.

Tried a bit of a new proc...

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New BLTN Episode Preview

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This is why the podcast is (at least a week) late. 

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Early Access: The Nightmare of Steam Input

Click here to read this article, because even though Patreon has a "link" section for posts, it refuses to actually let me use this link.

Basically, I finished writing this article at 9pm Saturday night, and told...

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Delay on the next video

If you listened to this month's podcast, you'd know that the next video on the docket is a kinda-sorta video review for both Crash Team Racing and Team Sonic Racing. I was hoping to have it done by now, but stress from various sources and othe...

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Patreon Party People - July 2019

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It was my birthday! But why are there suddenly so many games I have to write about? And what's the deal with the new Switch? What's a SolSeraph? All this and more in this podcast. Also: you might get kind of sad! But there's a happy ending. Well, happy-ish.

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From My Cutting Room Floor: The Sonic GT Demo 2 Video

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Here's the original version of last night's Sonic GT demo 2 video. As you'll notice, it's almost 100% different.

The thing is, I'd captured and edited an entire video before realizing it was kind of dry. I wanted to show everything that ...

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Patreon Party People - June 2019

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How the heck did this podcast end up so long? I guess it's because I talk at length about going back to Skyrim after Breath of the Wild, how not enough people are focusing on how little consumers actually want game streaming, Shenmue, and upcoming plans to revamp this Patreon. 

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Patreon Party People - May 2019

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Despite this podcast coming out even later than usual, I really think it turned out well for the most part. On tap: writing my first pre-release review, a listener submitted question, Sea of Thieves new story mode, and incoherent yelling about spoilers and Avengers Endgame (but no Endgame spoilers, surprisingly enough). ...

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I Don't Remember Recording This - 1up.com's "Games, Dammit!" Resident Evil Clip?

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Six years ago doesn't feel like that long ago (2013), but that's apparently when this was recorded. I found it lying around an old, unused Soundcloud account I had that's been collecting dust. Its tag implies it was for a 1up.com podcast called "Games, Dammit!"

I only have the faintest, vaguest memories of producing thi...

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Special Podcast Contact

Since there was some interest in people asking questions for me to answer on the podcast, I've created an email address specifically for that. It's very easy to remember!

podcast@bltn.net

This will be exclusive only to patrons (of all tiers). So if you have something you want to ask me, send it to that ...

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Patreon Party People - April 2019

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It didn't feel like a busy month, but I guess it kind of was. Also, kind of weird? Should I be talking about the stuff I talk about in this episode? I guess you'll just have to listen and see. Plus: my pick for what 40 games I'd like to see on the Genesis Mini and a screed about old racing games.

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Patreon Party People - March 2019

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It's a sick-cast! Or a bed-cast, depending on how you look at it. Anyway, I'm sick! So apologies for the stuffy nose, the sniffles, and the low energy. Though, honestly, the sickness actually made this a really compact podcast. I cover a lot of ground in not a lot of time. I talk about getting my music up on Bandcamp, the pot...

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Early Access: The Definitive Way to Play Sonic R

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It feels nice to be able to put a video out after only working on it for a week and a half instead of months and months of slaving over it. 

This video is around 90% complete. I'm a little fuzzy on some of the release dates, given there's conflicting information out there on when Sonic R released. According to Soni...

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A Lost Game From 2004

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This came up recently with a friend, so I captured a quick video to show him what it was. Realizing this would make good Patreon bonus content, here we are.

Waffle X was a web comic series by a friend I had at the time, and he was banking on it kick starting his career in comics. We were all also amateur game developers...

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How Do You Feel About Bandcamp?

So, as you may have heard on the podcast (or seen me tweet about it), I've run out of upload time on Soundcloud and to get more I either have to manually delete old songs or buy in to their ridiculously expensive Pro plans.

It was floated by a former patron to look in to uploading them to Bandcamp. Bandcamp essentially ...

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Patreon Party People Podcast - February 2019

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You ever feel like you're trapped in a funk and can get any traction? That's a sufficient explanation for what's going on this podcast. I also talk about the opening of the Evening Star studio, spoil a lot of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, among the other usual barely coherent mumblings you either do or do not listen to.

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