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Hi, everyone. Joe Schmoe here. And I've managed to take this game up again after not being able to for years (account issues). I first started this game back in the mid-2000s somewhere, and played for about 6 years, but got burnt out and went to play World of Warcraft (I think).

But fast forwarding to today, I'm a Twitch streamer who streams this game, and I'll be posting stream re-caps/blog posts on here. But I think it would be important to let you all know what kind of streamer I am/what to expect:

• I usually play vinyl records when I stream, as in-game music/sound effects gets repetitious after a while, and having never grown up listening to vinyl - I grew up listening to cassettes - I figured "Why not?". And my tastes run the gamut, from folk music and jazz, to rock and metal, and some avant-garde/experimental as well, so one should keep an open mind. I've played some real doozies.

• I eat/drink when streaming. Apparently it's a streamer taboo, but my lifestyle requires it. I do a sorta-kinda Warrior's Diet (one big meal per day, rather than several smaller ones), especially on my nights off when I fast, as it's more effective when there's fewer interruptions. And I stream every day, even on work nights, so I don't have time to set aside for just eating. I basically have to kill 2 birds with one stone.

• I also play Melvor (aka Runescape) Idle at the same time as well. In fact, this game is what got me back into OSRS! One of my Twitch regulars, named

white_wimmin

, suggested I try this game. And the rest is history. So if I'm talking about say, woodcutting, when I'm actually not woodcutting, that's why.

Well, that's all I can think of at the moment. Hope to be here a long time. Take care, and feel free to drop by.

08-Jun-2020 06:46:27 - Last edited on 08-Jun-2020 06:53:37 by J0e Schm0e

Sunday evening, 6/7/2020

Did a 22-hour fast, managing to lose the 3 pounds I gained yesterday (am now 146) and also lost a half-inch on my gut (back to 33in.). But then effectively ruining it by doing something I haven't done in a very long time: Eating at a restaurant (Burger King).

Did some cowhide farming, as well as getting all my combat skills to 20. After that, I started making bowstrings, figuring I'm going to need to train my fletching in the future. But after that, I decided to break off and do some more fishing, just wanting to relax some (I also needed to upgrade my food at some point, since my HP max is now 25, making lobsters obsolete).

And here's what my stats look like now:



And here's the vinyls I played this session:

Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
Bill Cosby - 200 M.P.H.
Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes - Tooth, Fang, and Claw
Herbie Hancock - Sextant

And I had started playing the Doom I & II Soundtracks, but like yesterday I started nodding off, so I just called it a session for today. Thanks for watching/reading, everyone, and have a good night/day.

08-Jun-2020 06:54:00 - Last edited on 08-Jun-2020 09:49:39 by J0e Schm0e

Monday, 6/8/2020

REALLY fell off the wagon this time, eating Burger King last night, something I haven't done in many years, as well as eating salad, grapes, and pulled chicken. . . . several times throughout the night. Then, since I had to buy more food from the grocery store, some turkey sliders (they didn't have my favorite tuna sliders this time) and a 3 Musketeers bar. Sheesh! Sooooo, back to 149# and 33.5in. again *sigh* and more fasting on the way it seems.

Super productive session today! I worked on farming for the first time, growing potatoes/onions, and barley/hammerstone hops. A lot of moving back and forth between Draynor and Lumbridge. Eventually I got my farming level to 13. Not bad. Also got my woodcutting to 46 and my firemaking to 45, so now I can pretty much move shop over to Catherby/Seer's Village now.



And I FINALLY got a white bead to complete the Imp Catcher quest!



That amulet of accuracy is going to see some heavy use for a long time.

And this is where I'm at now, stat-wise:



And here's the vinyls I played this session:

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Metallica - Live at the Playhouse Theatre, '86
Prince - For You

I also played the full Doom I and Doom 2 Soundtracks as well. Oh, nostalgia!

And okey dokey, that'll do 'er for today. Take care, everybody. And have a good night/day.

09-Jun-2020 04:48:07 - Last edited on 09-Jun-2020 06:47:33 by J0e Schm0e

Tuesday, 6/9/2020

This morning it was mostly Motherlode mining, trying to do this when it isn't so damn crowded. And eventually I managed to get the 2400 coal I needed - not counting the gold ore I got - to level my smithing to at least 49. So, mucho barmaking in this evening's session.

And like before I played some of my old cassettes and CDs, which were:

Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven (CD)
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Winterland (cassette)
Henry Rollins - Big Ugly Mouth (CD) - Got too offensive (For lack of a better word. I only listened to this one only once or twice many many years ago, so I didn't know what I or any of my viewers was in for)
Metallica - ...And Justice for all (cassette)
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (CD)

This evening's stream went very well. I smithed most of my steel and gold bars, eventually getting level 51ish smithing and 43 crafting (I think). And I'm now anticipating a lot of cowhide farming, probably at the Draynor cowpen, since there's a farming allotment right there next to it, and/or a lot of bowstring making as well, since I need to get my fletching to 45 so I can make mith arrows. We'll see how it goes.

Definitely the most money I've ever had since playing HC ironman, via gold amulets.



FINALLY got smithing to level 49 so I can now make:



One thing that FF XIV has over this game: If your combat class/level is 20, then the gear you can equip ALSO requires a level of 20 to make, and not . . . . 68 (for the full gear set).

And this is where I'm at now, stat-wise:



And here's the records I played this evening:

The Cure - Disintigration
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Ivan Rebroff (Russian opera music)
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

Okay, time to call it a night. Hoping to stream some Pinball tomorrow morning. Take care.

10-Jun-2020 03:26:25

Wednesday, 6/10/2020

This morning's Pinball session, with the exception of me beating one high score, sucked. FX3 had it's near-routine connection issues, so I had to switch to Pinball Arcade, where I had the aim of a stormtrooper 90% of the time, other than.....



In today's session, I finished up smithing all my steel bars, which eventually got me 10k steel arrowheads, then smithed and sold a bunch of steel platebodies, which got me enough money to buy ~9k feathers and (eventually) a rune pick. And after making about 10k steel arrows I got 49 fletching. Yes! So now I THINK I can move everything over to Seer's Village, where the maples and more hops and allotment plots are.

And my stats are now:



The LP vinyls that I played today were:

Sonny Rollins - Standards
The Dubliners - More of the Hard Stuff
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity
The Golden Era of Dixieland Jazz, 1887-1937

Okay, time to get ready for work. Thanks for reading/watching, peeps, and have yourselves a nice day/night.

11-Jun-2020 01:10:10

Thursday, 6/11/2020

Shorter than normal stream, due to bad sleep (sinus issues, dream/nightmare-filled sleep as well). Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Otherwise I just worked on farming, fletching, and fishing today. I also bought some pineapple (makes supercompost) and crafting mats (via buying out all the seaweed, sand, and soda ash from the charter vendors at the south Catherby docks, then world hopping) as well.

And my stats are now:



And here's the records I played today:

The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
John F. Kennedy, The Memorial Album
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (most of it)

Alright, gotta get a nap in, then get ready for work. Thanks for reading/watching, guys. And have a great day/night.

12-Jun-2020 00:15:44

Friday, 6/12/2020

ALMOST did a 22-hour fast . . . . on a work day! Like last time, my gut was wrenching on the latter half of my shift, as well as me feeling like a zombie, due to low energy. I ended up eating something (a jalapeno cheese croissant roll, a new item they got in, as well as some pulled rotisserie chicken) here and there for the rest of the day, as opposed to just chowing down, like I did last time.

Pretty drab session today, as it was mostly fishing/cooking and farming. Really low-key stuff. And like yesterday I must've had some bad sleep or something, even though I slept a good solid 5.5-6 hours today. And only one person showed up for a hot minute, which further exasperated things. Needless to say, this was a short session (2hrs.) this time around.

Skills didn't change much, my fishing and cooking both hit 49, and my farming hit level 20, but that's about it.

The LP vinyls I spun this evening were:

Devo - New Traditionalists
Funkadelic - One Nation, Under a Groove
Billy Joel - Piano Man

Okey dokey, guys. Nap time once again, and then I have to start getting ready for work. Thanks for dropping by, and have a nice weekend.

13-Jun-2020 00:02:06

Saturday, 6/13/2020

Played piggy last night/this morning at work. But this time it was worth it, as they had some good food today. They had chicken sliders after not having them for a couple of weeks. And chocolate donuts that don't leave a yucky film in the roof of your mouth. Surprisingly my gut only went up a quarter-inch (33.25in.) after all this.

Another meh session leveling fishing/cooking and fletching, like yesterday. And this time I started fishing swordfish, since it heals more than lobster, my max HP now being 25 and all. Got about 50 or so and called it good and started working on fletching.

But in all 3 of these skills I didn't level up much, getting 51-52 in fishing and/or cooking and still at 49 in fletching. So, guess I'll have to keep working on it tomorrow.

And here's the records I played today:

The Black Watch (Scottish bagpipe & marching band music)
The Residents - Third Reich n' Roll
Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Okay, everyone. Gotta start getting ready for work now. Take care and have a good night/day.

14-Jun-2020 01:14:49