Sunday, 31 January 2016

Far Lands or Bust! #468

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7TLh9bip-E

Current distance from Kurt: 88 episodes. No change!

We join Kurt as he hears zombie footsteps, but they seem to be away underground. He grabs Wolfie and heads WEST!

Kurt shares a weird dream he had about being back in high school. I've had those kinds of dreams before too. Nothing really happened in them except thinking about homework and whatever else.

Now for donor questions! Names in big until donation goal is met!

Donor Anonymous asks "What is your favourite dinosaur?".

Kurt says it's the t-rex or ankylosaurus. He talks about the dinosaur craze of the mid-90s. I remember that craze too :) Dublin Zoo had animatronic dinosaurs!

Donor YahWeasel asks "Comic Sans: Bad from the day it was designed, or chronically misused so that it became a parody of itself? What are your favourite fonts and font advice for the aesthetically impaired?"

Kurt remembers being corrected on the term "font" and that it's actually "typeface". He says Comic Sans was just a default font that was all over the place at one point. He shares a fun story from his web design days! He also talks about various fonts he's used and what he likes.

Donor Ref asks "Have you ever been to a roller derby match? They're quite exciting!"

Kurt says he's never been.

Donor Paul R. asks "You mentioned you can now have a grill. If so, what will you grill first? Steak? Ribs? mmmmm... riiiibs *Homer Simpson drool*"

Kurt says he's done so already! The first thing he grilled was a thanksgiving turkey breast. Ew :( I prefer Paul's suggestions! He mentions a couple of other foods. Chicken breast too (ew again) but no burgers! What gives, Kurt! At least he did some steaks. As for me, I don't like chicken or turkey meat at all.

Donor James asks "Have you ever thought about doing a livestream fundraiser where you walk a minute for every dollar donated? I believe it would be a good way for the donations to pick up!"

Kurt talks about thinking of ways to keep things interesting and says this is an interesting idea.

Donor Anonymous asks "What is the most interesting conversation you ever had?"

Kurt has trouble coming up with something. For the most interesting, I suppose it wouldn't come to you straight away.

Kurt takes a screenshot of a cool looking natural arch.

Donor Shook50(sp?) asks "Since you raised money for Child's Play charity, have you ever seen the Child's Play movies?"

Kurt has seen bits of them but he's not that big into horror movies. Nice play on words though!

(2/2) FLoB 4-Year Livestream Part 1

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WEKq9q9NF8

Kurt tries sleeping without a door in the hidey hole near the 292202 monument and gets a rude awakening from a skeleton! It's a good thing he continues to keep it covered in the main series!

He loads up the Combat Canyon for the first time in a long long time and it lives up to its name! Mobs spawn all over the place and he nearly doesn't make it home to his base! He's not going to come back to this regularly, but he gives some interesting history about this world.

Some weird connection thing happens and so, the livestreaming has to continue the next day.

He gets in trouble near the nether portal and flees, finding an old house he built. He didn't remember it! I don't remember the house either but I do remember when he built the nether portal. He was doing it all efficient like and I think he had help, or learned how to do it from someone. It was an alternative to mining obsidian. He could just generate it instead of mining it.

He then discovers a stairwell he made but forgot about. He feels the game is so similar and yet so different to the way it is now. He can't quite put his finger on how it is though. He gets an intense feeling of déjà vu. I'm not getting this feeling... I don't remember this stairwell at all...

He heads back to the base and ends this part of the livestream.

(1/2) FLoB 4-Year Livestream Part 1

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WEKq9q9NF8

Kurt welcomes us, not to FLoBathon, but to a livestream special celebrating the 4 year anniversary of this long running series. No beard cam here unfortunately. It's a Twitch exclusive this time.

He jumps into the Canyon of Woah save. Wolfie's here too. Afterwards, he looks at the 292202 save. He says he left Easter Eggs in the world saves he released to everyone. He shows the hidden Wolfie one under some pumpkins!

Saturday, 30 January 2016

SpeedRunners with MindCrack #49

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPP8FNCxSdw

Kurt, Avidya, Millbee and MCGamer SpeedRun some more!

First is Reverse SpeedRunners at the Zoo stage. Millbee sweeps a victory.

Second is Reverse SpeedRunners at the Library stage. Kurt and Avidya get destroyed at one stage when they both get turned into blocks of ice and fall down a hole. Devastating!

Third is Reverse SpeedRunners at the Nightclub stage. Kurt wins this :)

Minecraft Wayward Wonders CTM 11

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btpAeWvFQ5s

Dr Brian Lorgon111 welcomes us back in a muddled and funny way! Kurt and him reset their spawn by the pyramid in preparation to investigate.

They break a few spawners and find a big long ladder that goes up over the clouds. There's a bridge and some platforms up here. They wave to each other from different high points. Nice sense of adventure here. :)

Kurt shares a couple of pictures he took of that time he went on top of the pyramid at Chichen Itza(the real life one) and looked down through The Rusty Gate. It looks pretty eerie!

They get messages from Magmus, the boss in this area when they enter deep into the pyramid. A big magma cube is here, so they have fun fighting this boss that splits into smaller ones. They head back out via a teleport button. Kurt excavates some graves here first and finds beds underneath. Strange!

They find an underground network of tunnels with treasures and baby zombie villager spawners. When they come back up, they're put on high alert by two creepers that welcome them!

Afterwards, Brian asks Kurt about his trip to Chichen Itza and he talks about it for a while. It sounds pretty cool.

They find a cool spot with skeleton heads, representing something else at the real Chichen Itza. They go in and collect them. There are also other mob heads here. Pretty cool lookin' place. The real world equivalent looks pretty neat too.

(2/2) MindCrack Server: Quit While Ahead - Livestream Archive

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db58JnSEHMw

After sneezing, Kurt comes up with a concept for an action movie about a guy with hay fever. Sounds pretty funny :)

He continues caving. He makes a reference to the Tiny Toons movie "How I Spent My Vacation" with the quote "The audience is now deaf". OMG that's one of my all time favourite movies! I still have the VHS tape because there hasn't been a DVD release over here.

Kurt has a bit of trouble with his feverish nose and apologises for it. With livestreaming, there's no editing, so it's kinda tough going! He can't even do the snoring noises with it.

He talks about Top Gear for a while and finds a Sphinx like natural formation of gravel. Kinda cool!

He finds some red sheep, of all colours. Pretty unusual.

Towards the end of the video, he fights a load of mobs outside in the daytime on a mountain waterfall.

Friday, 29 January 2016

(1/2) MindCrack Server: Quit While Ahead - Livestream Archive

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db58JnSEHMw

Kurt goes caving. It looks dangerous, so he says he'll be leaving, but he continues! What is it about caves that pull you in, even if you don't particularly want to be pulled in?

He comes across a big cluster of mobs and says they should drop what they're holding when they're defeated. I agree with him. They totally should!

I like the part where he says "they're in my hair!" when he takes on a spider spawner. That was pretty funny :)

PauseUnpause joins the server. He's another rare visitor whereas Kurt is Medium-Rare. Might as well say it now: I prefer my steak to be well done and tender.

Kurt finds two blocks of diamond between two lava falls. He blocks the falls off successfully before collecting the diamond.