A few interesting observations I've made using YouTube's Insight feature:

(Note: The Hot Spots feature displays a graph showing what portions of a video are being watched the most)

The Hot Spots graph for Memorable Lines and Moments from SQ6 shows a dramatic peak right before the clip where the narrator says, "Wow! This makes my nipples hard!", then steadily slopes downwards until the end of the video. Conversely, the graph for Part 2 bounces up and down but doesn't reach its highest point until near the very end.

The highest peak on Memorable Lines and Moments from SQ4 is when the clip where the player is smelling and tasting the Monolith Burger condiments (and getting responses from them) begins.

The Hot Spots graph for my Woodruff and the Schnibble montage trends gently downward for the first half of the video, then spikes at the point where Woodruff is escaping his padded cell.

The KQ7 Intro Storyboard's highest Hot Spots point is at the beginning of Rosella's solo, but it peters out shortly after the last line of the missing verse ends.

The first noticeable peak in the FPFP Outtakes video is right at the beginning of the sword fighting outtake, while the most dramatic dip is near the end of the same outtake. The highest peak is shortly afterward, around the time when Antonio growls, "Thatsa what I theenk of your lousy ants!"

Also, most of my Sierra videos have views primarily from the USA, but for some strange reason, most of the viewers of my Woodruff and the Schnibble video are from Spain, most of the viewers of my KQ7 Intro Storyboard video are from Germany and most of the viewers of my trailer for Adventure: The Inside Job are from Norway.


One more (somewhat related) thing: Death Gate is a damn good adventure game, and I'm not saying that just because I was able to complete it without any external hints whatsoever. It's not nearly as morbid as the title would suggest, and it has to be one of the most original fantasy adventures I've played. The puzzles are equally refreshing and original, and the various worlds of the game are wildly imaginative. This game was based on a series of books, but I'm a bit hesitant to read them, since whenever I've tried reading a book series that a game was based on, I've been somewhat disappointed, and I'm not sure if this third try will have the same result or not.

One of my High School English teachers said that Walt Disney has become this generation's prime storyteller. For many children (in the USA, at least), their first exposure to classic fairy tales like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast is through the Disney adaptations of the stories, which are often considerably different than the original tales.

On a topic directly related to (although not at all influenced by) this, I think that a YouTube video series comparing the Disney adaptations of pre-existing stories to the stories themselves would be a great idea (if such a thing doesn't exist already). Though a lot of the stories like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella are pretty well-known and have been around for centuries, ones like 101 Dalmatians and The Sword in the Stone are based on more recent books, which are pretty obscure.

I just think it would be a nice way to educate folks who have never read the stories that Disney mangled somewhat in their movies. It may not be the most interesting subject for everyone, but I was interested to find out that Perdita had brown spots and wasn't Pongo's mate, Sleeping Beauty's mother-in-law plotted to eat Beauty's children after Beauty and the prince were married, there were two genies in the story of Aladdin, and Arthur and Merlin confront a giant at one point in their adventures.

Using screenshots or footage from Disney's movies would undoubtedly get the videos taken down due to violation of copyright, so the video would probably have to be made up of original drawings or animations, which doesn't seem like that big a sacrifice.

Just an idea I had.

My "'Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist' Outtakes" video on YouTube got spammed by a user named "canadianpharmacyshop", advertising cheap Canadian prescription drugs.

Good golly gosh, spam that doesn't seem all that out of place! Amazing.

...what the game my current icon comes from looks like...

You need wonder no longer.

Is it just me, or do the various noises that Woodruff sometimes makes sound a little like Wall-E's vocalizations?

I found out the hard way that recording old cassettes in PlusDeck is a risky game, because 30-year-old tape has a habit of breaking and getting slurped up by PlusDeck's spooling mechanism. Twice now I've ejected a cassette from PlusDeck and found 60 minutes' worth of tape happily coiled inside. Fortunately, I've been able to pull the tape out with very few injuries to it on both occaisions and was able to fix and transplant the tape easily. I also discovered a cassette that was 60 minutes long on each side, nearly twice as long as the standard CD. Pretty impressive (I thought).

Over the past few months I've been writing fanfic again. After posting those potential sequel ideas to KQ9:IT⁴ almost a year ago, I've finally given in and started writing. The odd thing is, not only am I writing both sequels at the same time, but I started work on the second sequel first, and it's still closer to being finished than the first sequel (I've completed 32 pages of Sequel #1 and 57 pages of Sequel #2). This means I'll probably have to reread Sequel #2 and squeeze in references to Sequel #1 whenever they are appropriate. For now, I'm just making vague allusions to Sequel #1 and hoping that I don't decide to give Sequel #1 a massive plot overhaul in the near future.

I wish I could get these stories done faster, but once again, my inflamed wrists are impeding my efforts. However, I'm doing everything I an not to overexert them (for instance, I'm typing this with my fingers upside down in the hopes of stretching their muscles in the opposite direction). Sure, all this time and effort might have been better spent writing a massive Anime-LoTR-PoTC-slash-crossover fic, which would certainly be much more popular, but popularity and me never have really gotten along.

And lastly, I was listening to this unused sound clip of Roger Wilco from Space Quest 6, and suddenly realized that there were voices in the background. Slightly creepy.

(And speaking of SQ6 - Memorable Moments and Lines from SQ6, Part II. Also, a similar compilation of SQ4 clips and the dang cool intro from Lighthouse: The Dark Being.)

Yes, I really am typing this with my palms facing up. Try it, it's neat.

Well, I finally caved in and started uploading media I didn't personally create to YouTube. Hopefully I won't be banned immediately. And I suddenly realised that the rules on the Upload page said not to upload TV shows, music videos, music concerts, or commercials you didn't create yourself...but they didn't say not to upload video captures from computer games. Heh...heh...don't hurt me.

Memorable Moments and Lines from Space Quest 6

Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist Outtakes