What a crazy 4 months it’s been. I’ve been on my gamer juice, as I like to call it, and I’m continually feeling better. Obviously, a good thing. Since I’ve been feeling better, I’ve been wanting to do things and I’ve started out in recording my game plays and figuring out if I’d like to do something like streaming. I got to admit, I’m completely into it. Not only that, I’m pretty decent at it too, but I just need more practice. So I’m really not sure how things are going to turn out, but I’m feeling better and that’s the most important thing.
Money. It’s a very touchy subject with everyone, but I realize that I need to start making it if I want what I want in life. That said, going to be thinking if I want to do recordings, streaming, skits, Japanese and mixing any of those together. So yeah, got a lot to figure out, but I think I want to make money in one of those ways.
So that’s about it. I’m feeling better, need more time, but in that time I’m going to experiment things and just try to do stuff and see if anything turns up. However, right now it’s more for practice and figuring out if I enjoy it. I always kinda knew I was going to do entertainment, but never really sure what kind. So, I hope to have this fleshed out within a month or so and so I can finally start getting my life together… However, I know for me to feel like my complete normal self, I’m looking at the very least another 6 months.
I’m feeling better, I feel like making stuff, I’m enjoying my gaming time and life a bit more. Hopefully things keep turning up and I can finally get out of this depression and anxiety after way too many years.
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Kat & Hueman: The Kat & Dog Food + Kat On The Moon
Before the end of this year, I’ll have 12 episodes of Kat & Hueman out and I’m happy with that. Sadly, this will probably be it for a bit until I can get some scripts written up. Kat & Hueman has no traffic going to it and I’m lucky to get one person to click on it; often seems like a misclick. Therefore, it’s obvious I can’t keep making more if I plan to get people to watch. Sure, maybe some will enjoy it, but I definitely have to try something new to draw in a crowd.
Dark Souls 1 is the Hardest Game Ever is up next on content. I’m really hoping this turns out better, but I really don’t know how I could do much worse. I can see it working out, but I’m going to have to do good on the humor and editing to pull it off. From what little I’ve done, I think it’s going to turn out great. However, will people click it? That’s the problem. I’m not looking for a ton, but I need more than nothing. If the same thing happens, I really don’t know what I’ll do, but I’ll have to give it a few episodes before I decide on that. I knew starting out was going to be hard, but damn.
Kat On The Moon is already done and is sitting to release on the 31st. Probably won’t hear from me until I get an episode done of Dark Souls. My plan is to focus entirely on it for a bit until I have it under control.
Kat & Hueman: KatTube
I’ve officially got 10 episodes of Kat & Hueman out. Sadly, having a bit of trouble writing new skits. However, there’s quite a bit going on with me and trying to get everything sorted out. That said, I think I’m going to get 2 more episodes out and then decide from there if I should take a break to try new things since it’s obvious what I’m currently doing isn’t working. It’ll give me time to get more of a backlog on Kat & Hueman as well as focus more on my Dark Souls 1 skit and see if that works out any better.
I’ve been so tired and still not feeling good lately. I’m also trying some sleeping cannabis and while it’s working really good when I go to sleep, I think I’m so sleep deprived my body/mind isn’t sure what to do. The cannabis may be the reason why I can’t write as good, but it’s hard to tell only after a few days… I mean, at the very least, I don’t have people waiting on me for new content, so that’s always a plus.
I just gotta keep moving forward, keep trying to improve and keep trying new things. I have to eventually start getting some viewers somehow and maybe the new skit will do it. However, gotta get my sleeping schedule set back to a reasonable time. Oh well, I’ll figure it all out.
Kat & Hueman: Kat Survival Guide
All in all, I think the new episode isn’t as bad as I like to think it is. But still, a good reminder on why I need to try and not get sick. The episode itself didn’t seem bad, but something seemed to be a bit off. However, I did try something new for Kat to do and overall I’m happy with it.
That being said, been hard to get much of any progress done on anything; nothing new when I get sick. So I can see my Dark Souls 1 skit coming out by the end of this month, but just gotta go with the flow. And as I was trying to write everything out, I realized that I can only do that for some of it or it won’t come out as natural. So it’s probably going to be like Kat & Hueman where it takes me far longer to decide how to do the 1st episode than it does any other episode. Still, I just need to remember to have fun with it and stop treating it like it’s work.
More and more I realize that I’m not in a good position to get my voices done and I feel like that’s what’s really hurting me. The last few episodes, my mom has been around, so it feels awkward to do my voices and I feel like it hurts the voice acting part. Then I only have so much time to do voices without disturbing other family members; somedays that’s impossible to do. So my only guess is to get up around 4-5am and that gives me at least 2-3 hours before someone gets up.
Apparently Nintendo has been wild with the ban-hammer with their music. I’ve been paranoid about using any video game music and seems it was the right move. In fact, kinda surprised The Kat Walk hasn’t been taken down since I used like 20-25 seconds of Pokemon music. However, I do think I need to use a lot more video game sound effects.
Kat & Hueman is still lacking from exposure as a whole. It reaches like 10 people. So hopefully a new skit will help. As of right now, I’m worried about getting enough content out there and at a consistency.
Kat & Hueman: The Kat & The Box
Another good episode released, I think. Sadly, I have gotten sick with a sinus infection and California is on fire again. So yeah, my voice, common sense and being somewhat efficient are gone. As I see it, if I can keep uploading through this, I should be able to make it through just about anything, but I got my voices done before writing this and they are quite lacking to the point I’m honestly thinking about redoing them, but if I want an episode out each week, I just have to move on… But there’s also that high probability I’m being too hard on myself.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on the Dark Souls skit and I think I have it about where I want it. The problem I have is that I don’t want to make it too hard where I can’t go anywhere. (I had an idea of using the start 2 damage sword till the end, but 2 hours of perfect gameplay on one boss doesn’t seem practical). But I typically make games harder for myself by doing Warren things; I typically make people laugh by doing Warren things, so might as well be myself as I do it. Who knows, maybe this series is what will get me some subscribers.
That said, I probably shouldn’t keep neglecting my Japanese so hard as that is my back-up plan if things never take off. And even if they take off, I can keep translating my skits; hopefully with much increased speed and accuracy.
Kat & Hueman: Kat & Katboodle
Well, I was able to get Kat & Hueman done in a week. It didn’t feel too rushed, nor too slow, so I’m going to probably and stick with the once a week post on Friday at 12pm (Eastern Time). I do notice that sometimes I just hit a wall and it takes me forever to feel like I’m going anywhere. That said…
One really important tip that I read is that a creator starting out should work on content, rather than highest quality. Not to say that I’m putting a ton of quality into Kat & Hueman, but instead of spending too much time deciding where the perfect place should be I should do a scene, I should just go. Same with my voices, I keep redoing voices when they sound just fine, but the perfection in me keeps wanting to redo it and so that I really need to fix. I just gotta learn how to do good enough instead of perfect.
I’ve decided on what my next content will be: Darksouls 1 is the hardest game ever! For some reason people think Darksouls is the hardest game out of every game in existence and what better way to make fun of it? It did start off as “A fanboy who plays the game”, but now I’m thinking I want to do more of a “Let’s play” with my personality really showing off. Of course it will have a lot of editing and humor, but I think I’m going to enjoy it. The biggest thing right now is deciding how exactly I want it to play out.
For some reason, The Kat Walk episode had 1,200 people it showed off to on YouTube, but didn’t have a good thumbnail at the time. Then I realized all my other stuff is too niche and has like a total of 10 people who seen it, but 0 people who clicked on it… So yeah… I gotta just keep making content and trying new things until something sticks… Fun.
Kat & Hueman: False Katusations
Right now, I just uploaded the newest Kat & Hueman: False Katusations. However, I’ve decided to put it on a schedule for Friday; sorry all current 0 viewers. Apparently, there’s a lot more to uploading and doing videos than I ever imagined and it’s a lot to learn.
It takes me a good 20 hours to get an episode of Kat & Hueman done. Being a NEET, that means I “Could” get 2 episodes out a week and it would be like a regular job, without being paid. However, taking care of mother, chores, Japanese review and Japanese learning eat up a bit of time.
There was a lot of stress trying to get a Kat & Hueman episode done as quick as I could, but figured out I can get one out about every 4 days, assuming the script is already done. However, a lot of this stress was the result of me coming off all my medications… As I see it, all I need is success to solve all my problems. Hopefully I can still meet my 1 episode a week quota because I know I wouldn’t be content with 1 every 2 weeks, but I’ll have to see how it goes.
I really hope that this new episode starts bringing in some viewers and would be really happy with some subscribers. I’ve looked up a lot of YouTube techniques and tips and I really should start getting some people. If not, I guess after I finish my episode of Kat & Hueman for the week, I’ll use the rest of the time to start one of my many new projects because something eventually has to start catching people’s attention.
Kat & Hueman
I’ve finally made a few episodes on my newest skit: Kat & Hueman. It answers the question of, “what if cats could talk?”. So far, I’ve enjoyed making them and see myself making a lot more of them. I want to release one every week, however, it will probably be every 2 weeks until I get myself fully set up on everything. That said…
Promotion. I have to figure out a way to get my stuff promoted. It’s obvious that posting my videos is going no where. I ask friends to share it and nothing happens. So, I’ve recently added some really nice thumbnails to catch the eye of people. However, I think I’m going to have to start posting it on a few sharing sites and probably some other method I need to think about. After I get some people, it’s just going to be a matter of getting an episode out every week and the extra time going into another video game related project or continuing on my Japanese.
Posting. I think I’m going to start posting everytime I upload something so I can share my thoughts and feelings on how everything is going. I mean, I have this dusty old website that is just sitting here.
So yeah, I’m a little worried that Kat & Hueman starts off a little too slow, but you also have to build the story. So I really don’t know how this is all going to work out in terms of success. However, I just need to stay consistent, keep posting, stop worrying about being perfect (Or just worrying in general) and somehow start bringing in viewers.
New Projects
So, I’ve tried promoting Bender.exe’s trailer in a few places, but it really got me realizing that Bender.exe is in a really weird place and doesn’t really belong in one genre; that and it doesn’t help trollpastas are stupidly unpopular and have yet to seen one that isn’t written in half an hour. So yeah… my dreams of fame will have to be postponed, again.
That said, my cousin gave me a really good idea to start making 5-10 minute videos, so I’ve been starting on that. I have plenty of skits that I want to do, but really unsure how I wanted to do them and how they should be done. I’ve decided to do my Kat & Hueman skit that I’ve been wanting to do for a long while and try to keep the episodes short, sweet and coming out at a steady pace. I really wanted to do Kat & Hueman with a puppet cat and myself in real life, but it would be impossible to get it done that way. Despite that, it’s looking very funny and relatable. Who knows, maybe it will turn out much better than being in real life. And I don’t know if I should be calling a skit, when it’ll be more like a show; a parody one, of course!
Due to many reasons, Bender.exe 2 is slogging along in the writing and I’m thinking more and more, I just need to tough it up and just spend more time in it. I mean, that’s how Bender.exe 1 was done.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a good pie day! I hope to be back next month with some new material out!
Bender.exe Trailer is Out!
It’s been 3 years since my last post and a little over 4 years since Bender.exe was released and you know what, it’s great to be back! (More on this in later paragraphs)
So I’m officially trying to break out of my shy shell to finally start advertising Bender.exe and see if there is a demand for my comedy. I don’t expect a big boom of popularity, but do hope the people I do get enjoy the story.
I’m also trying out streaming on Twitch and seeing if it is something I can enjoy. After all, I do understand streaming games is a lot different than just playing games. And anyone who’s seen Bender.exe already knows I love video games.
Progress. Something everyone is probably wondering about for Bender.exe 2. I mean, it’s been years since the other one, right? Sadly, my depression, anxiety and, more or less, insomnia have gotten way too bad and haven’t really gotten much progress on it; what I have wrote in the script, seems just as good as the first. Do not worry loyal player! I have started seeing a psychiatrist and she told me that I am indeed crazy… Since I’m the first person who has declined sexytime with her; to be fair, I was the first she has asked.
But what does this all mean? I’m starting to very slowly feel better; and assuming the psychiatrist keeps prescribing the correct crazy pills. I want to keep pursuing my comedy career, more Bender.exe, streaming and most importantly: provide good quality content for the people who enjoy it!
On a side note, I make $0 a year and too prideful to do disability for my chronic mental illnesses, which I think qualifies me as a loser. So, I was going to be using Streamlabs, or something, for my stream, but really wasn’t sure what I should use for my comedy that I post on YouTube; that way I can see what market is better for me or just keep doing both. Of course, maybe I’m thinking too far ahead, greedily or shooting my ducks before they appear on screen, but I also know I can’t be a loser forever… Or should I say, I don’t want to be one anymore.
So if any of you have any suggestions for my comedy donations, they would be much appreciated as I usually like to follow word of mouth first; and I don’t want to start the comedy one until I at least get the Bender.exe 2 script done. I know there is Patreon, but no idea what other ones are out there.
Anyway, thank you for stopping by my site and I hope you enjoyed Bender.exe! I’ll be trying to post at least once a month, trying my best to continue on Bender.exe 2 and trying not to get my website hacked.