Accursed Farms

New Dead Game News! I was not planning on making this at all! This news emerged yesterday and bugged me so much I decided to slap together a video on it as soon as I could. Hopefully more like this are not needed! Freeman's Mind still coming and work will be resuming on Halloween stuff!

October videochat with fans. This went on way too long again, I'll have to cull more questions in the future. Freeman's Mind coming soon + Halloween stuff later in the month! Also streaming dates in the Youtube description.

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on October 4th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Right now it's a 50-50 chance if the next Freeman's Mind is out before the videochat, some aspects of it are beyond my control. In addition to more FM, there will be stuff coming for Halloween!

New Game Dungeon! This took way, way longer than it was supposed to. The original plan was to have this be under 20 minutes released last month. Instead, the game hit me pretty hard so I just didn't want to leave so much out. Anyway, it's finally done and I'm pretty happy with it, though I'm really going to have to go back to shorter episodes for a while. I think I figured out the source of some of my problems in the game since I made it, but not all of them. On another note, I discovered a bug in Premiere hours ago, where it simply interpreted FRAPS footage improperly. It actually caused stalled frames and the timing to change. This came as a bit of a shock as I didn't notice it until very late in the process. Re-encoding into another lossless codec solved the problem, but I wasn't going to do that for 1.5TB of footage (the gameplay was recorded losslessly) without delaying the video another day at least. I solved the most egregious problems, but it's possible there are some small problems left in there that I missed. I can release one of the problematic clips for testing if people are interested, though I should see if I can chop it without re-encoding as it's about 30GB on its own. For anyone critical of fraps, feel free to recommend software for recording DirectX 5-8 content with hardware antialiasing enabled (it may not behave how you think). Freeman's Mind next! Should come much faster!

September videochat with fans, I tried to go more quickly through the questions this time, but it didn't seem to change anything! Lots of rambling again, also a GOG giveaway at the end. Details on the giveaway here. More Freeman's Mind and Game Dungeon coming!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on September 6th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Running behind again, but FM + RGD are both partially done, don't know which will be completed first, but they're coming ASAP!

August videochat with fans. More rambling, I don't remember any one topic dominating, but it's kind of a blur.

The third Game Dungeon Follow-up! This ended up taking about as much time to make as I thought it would, though it's a little deceptive, since I did an overkill amount and had to shelf a lot of what I was going to say for a future follow-up episode. I tried to limit it to what I thought most needed a response instead. More videos planned for this month, "Coming soon!"

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on August 8th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Everything's running behind, but I'm hellbent on getting the next Game Dungeon out before the chat!

I'm having some minor setbacks with recording for the video, I decided to talk about it on the spot. The videos are still getting made!

Here's the July videochat. This went on longer than I meant for it to. I remember discussing EA, Game box covers, corporations, Trackmania, and more games. Game Dungeon follow-up episode will be next in line!

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Ross plays An American Werewolf in L.A for the 4th of July. Pretty solid small game!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on July 5th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. More Game Dungeon and Freeman's Mind (I think) coming!

My mouse is starting to die on me and that made me frustrated trying to find a new one. I ended up making a graphic of a mouse I'm pretty sure no one besides me wants, but some of you might find some individual parts of it appealing. I wasted time making this, but it felt cathartic.

I went through all the games in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality on itch.io and picked out ones I liked. It was a rapid-fire process, but that was the only sane way for me to deal with this many games. I missed a couple, I updated them in the pinned comment. 4:01:47 - (mostly) final results You can see other games that pass my filter here: https://accursedfarms.com/games

Itch.io had a gigantic game pack for sale a week or so ago, that ended up coming to 1700+ games. The majority of this stuff looked like games I wasn't interested in, but there were some promising ones. I was going to attempt to filter through these on a livestream to see which ones I was interested in, and which I would pass on if people are interested. This will of course be to my own tastes (you can see those in my games list video), but I'll explain my rationale. In any event, some people may want to check the video afterwards at the end and see what I whittled down the list to. I originally thought I would be able to do this in one sitting, but that was back when it was "only" 700 games. I'll just go at it for a few hours and see how many I get through. If you're interested, it will be at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast at 5PM UTC on June 20th.

If you ever wanted to know all my thoughts on the GUI, here you are! This has honestly been brewing in my mind for decades and while this video took way too long to make, it's an accomplishment for me that I was able to put this into something coherent. I'm really hoping this leads to somebody bestowing GUI enlightenment upon us, though I'm not betting on it. This post also doubles as a thread for people to post any helpful information regarding my GUI quest at the end of the video. Thanks in advance for anyone who finds some answers!

June videochat with fans. Topics seemed to swing back and forth between gaming and the state of humanity. Apologies there's no new real video yet, hope to have a big one ASAP, hopefully tomorrow!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on June 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'm embarrassed I don't have a new video yet, but it's coming ASAP; I really hope to have it out before the videochat. It's going to be about 75-80 minutes long, has a massive amount of editing this time. More Game Dungeon / Freeman's Mind afterwards!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on June 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'm embarrassed I don't have a new video yet, but it's coming ASAP; I really hope to have it out before the videochat. It's going to be about 75-80 minutes long, has a massive amount of editing this time. More Game Dungeon / Freeman's Mind afterwards!

Here's the longest videochat with fans so far. The sound quality isn't great since I'm still setting up in my new apartment and haven't dampened it yet. There's nothing too important here, I advise against watching this unless you're really bored, which you might be if you're stuck at home. More real videos coming!

The region I'm living in has declared a pseudo-quarantine and are discouraging people from going out more than necessary. This actually won't affect the videos too much, but may delay my move. I'm also going to suspend FM2 Episode 14, since I should probably cut back on constant shouting since a lot of people will be at home in the apartments around me now. Episode 13 is still due out ASAP and I'll be working on the upcoming side video / Game Dungeon / movie instead.

March chat with fans. Mostly rambling as usual. More videos coming ASAP, also I'm moving. Lots going on!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on March 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Apologies for not having more videos, LOTS of things been going on, will have updates. FM2 Episode 13 is done except for sound effects, been working on FM2 Episode 14 + movie + big side video. Also, there's a chance that the chat may have to get pushed to the 8th, but I'll make an announcement if so.

February chat with fans. I somehow screwed up and turned off video recording 3 minutes in, so this was pulled from the twitch stream instead. I felt like this one made a little more sense than usual, but maybe it didn't.

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on February 1st at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Been working on multiple things!

Here's the latest Freeman's Mind! This was delayed MUCH more than I planned. There were actually some good excuses related to the delay, but not enough for it to be delayed this much. Expect 13 out faster!

January chat with fans. It felt like it made sense while I was doing it, but then I started feeling more crazy immediately afterwards. Freeman's Mind coming soon!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on January 5th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Freeman's Mind will either be shortly before or after this, don't know yet!

In a rush, have to head out and am posting video before Youtube's processed it, should appear before too long. Have a good Christmas!

GOG recently reached out to me to offer to give some games away on a stream as a way to promote their winter sale. I usually try to give you guys free games when convenient, so I accepted. As for the stream, I thought I would use this an excuse to attempt a "stunt stream" where I'll see if I can beat the last level of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter on serious difficulty using only one life. At the end of it, I'll giveaway games to people in the stream. There will be 20 games total (10 game, 2 copies each). They gave me a list to pick some out from, so I tried to guess and pick the ones I thought fans would most want to play. This will be happening at 5PM UTC on December 26th on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. If you only want to show up for the games, I don't know when that will be, but it will probably take me at least an hour to get through the level, if I can do it. Christmas episode will be out before then!

I meant to post this a couple days ago, Youtuber The Great Berate reached out to me wanting to interview me about various topics. It's largely stuff I've covered in the other videos before, so there's no secret info in this or anything (that I remember), but I'm posting it here if anyone's interested. This was recorded before I got sick, still going in and out of that, but Christmas video is coming!

Here's the December videochat. I talk about COPPA and Half-Life Alyx towards the beginning. I was right at the beginning of being sick when I made this, I'm more sick at the moment now, in a half-stupor. The rest of this was sort of a blur to me, though I remember talking about things. Freeman's Mind and Christmas episode coming this month!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on December 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'll talk about Half-Life Alyx and COPPA then also. Freeman's Mind still coming!

Happy Thanksgiving! This is the first Thanksgiving video I've made. This is honestly an episode I thought would be shorter than it was, since there's not a lot to the game, but it mystified me, so here it is. Freeman's Mind still coming!

November chat with fans, the first one with the chat viewable! This one I felt like I rambled extra hard, so nothing too important in here. I did this still recovering a bit from the Halloween crunch, so it was a bit of a mess. Ended up getting triggered by Linux towards the end.

Enjoy the 2nd half of the Halloween episodes! This one is age restricted for pretty much every reason you can think of, there was no avoiding it. This turned into the longest RGD episode I've made, but I feel like few games are as worthy of the show as this one and is one I wanted to cover ever since I started the series. Feel free to spread the link to it, since because of the age restriction, it's inevitable it won't get as much traffic as a normal Youtube video, so I'll have to rely on word of mouth more. I almost didn't make it in time, again! Have a happy Halloween!

This is much more last minute than I intended, but ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on November 3rd at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Should be another Halloween video out before then! Also, there will be another Castlevania streaming the day before on November 2nd at the same time.

Here's the main Halloween episode, though there's one coming up right behind it! I still have a lot of editing left on that one, so no time to say more. For now, enjoy!

October rambling! Going to have stuff for Halloween + hopefully more FM2 this month! Also Castlevania streaming. Discussed games + world collapsing a little bit in the chat.