>:O

So, you may remember that last year I got a new video recording device. Unfortunately, having (a year later, cough) gotten around to actually using the thing, I can't really recommend it. The recorder itself works great, but it has one single fatal flaw - the recorder puts out divx video. Guess what file format the fucking software bundled with the recorder can't handle? Yeah. Div fucking X. I was like (see image at left). So this means that if you want to edit the file at all - say, to remove the little bit of load screen that got captured because you had to hit Record early because the video recorder has some start-up lag and otherwise it misses the first couple seconds of video - well, you're shit out of luck; Off to Google to see if you can find a free DivX editor, sucker. Which is what I'm doing now, by the way - that's how much I love my fans; I'm wasting an afternoon fucking around with Video Pad Pro or whatever to cut out four seconds of loading. You may appreciate my sacrifice now.

So long story short, that Roxio devicewas a bust. Next up I got my eyes set on this - anyone who gets it for me gets a year's worth of requests.

Supremacy MMA is here, tonight!

Well, Supremacy MMA kept getting delayed, so imagine my surprise to find a copy of it on my doorstep Friday. Luckily the game has a simulation mode, so I recorded two CPU vs CPU matches. I'm debating doing an entire career mode; The problem with having your game only have two women and no create-a-fighter and making it so the women can only fight each other is that the career mode looks like this:

Whoever you picked: Las Vegas, a city built by bandits. I came out here to [our hero presses start]

(Fight whichever female fighter you didin't pick.)

Whoever you picked: After I beat up (whoever you didn't pick), I was ready to head back East. Imagine my surprise when my trainer called up and told me (whoever you didn't pick) wanted a rematch. I was going to say no until I heard that she said I had a big butt and my butt smelled and I liked to kiss my own butt.

(Fight whichever female fighter you didin't pick.)

Whoever you picked: After I beat (whoever you didn't pick) again, I thought I was ready to head back east, but...

Anyway, you can see where I'm going with this. What I'd really like to show off more than the story mode is the submission system, but the CPU doesn't seem to want to cooperate with this; I can slam the computer down and start punching and kneeing them, but actually getting a submission hold on is difficult; Even making the opponent a "second player" another controller where I never touch any buttons, the instructions for putting on submission holds doesn't seem to work, and in all the fights I've simmed, the fighters will slam each other on the mat once in a while, but they just elbow and knee each other. This might just be because the two female's fighting styles are kickboxing and muay thai, but I'll keep plugging away and see what I can come up with. In the mean time, enjoy this week's match, and uh, you may not want to watch next week's if you're squeamish.

What the what?

Here's what I logged in to see today:

The YouTube Community has flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed by the YouTube Team against our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following video(s) contain content in violation of these guidelines, and have been disabled:

• WAS 2 Beauty Ichigaya vs Chris Morgan - (RyonaKing)

YouTube is not the place for nudity, pornography or other sexually provocative content. YouTube makes limited exceptions for appropriate educational, documentary, artistic and scientific contexts, but only in limited circumstances where the purpose of posting is clear and any nudity it is not sexual in nature.

Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the permanent termination of your account.

For more information on YouTube's Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the help center.

For your reference, a copy of this message has also been emailed to the address associated with this account.

So, uh. I don't get it; I'm not really sure what community guideline this is apparently violating. Nudity? Is one-piece bathing suits nudity? Violence, because there's barely-animated wrestling moves? Is this a Chris Morgan hater who's mad that she lost? Well, if YouTube upholds this COMMUNITY STRIKE, I guess there's nothing to stop people from flagging all the other WAS and WAS2 videos, which should get my account terminated. Since they're, uh, against some guidelines? Needless to say I appealed this, but I don't really have much to go on since they don't actually tell you which one of the guidelines it violated, so I don't even know what horrid content it supposedly has; Hard to say more than "lol what does this violate" considering how vague the guidelines are and how little information I've been givn. Anyway, I don't have high hopes of the video getting reinstated, but we'll see. Stay tuned.

** Update **

Gonna post this on Viddler as part of the sadly growing Too Hot for Youtube collection:

For fucks sake!

YouTube | Broadcast Yourself™

Regarding your account: RyonaKing

An image you selected for your YouTube channel has been disabled for violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines.

Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the termination of your account.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

Really? Really???

** Update **

Whoever photoshops a burqa onto Reiko here gets a month's worth of free requests. (Click to enlarge)

** Update 2 **

Okay, I guess that's kind of a silly idea. Gonna put up a poll where YOU, THE VIEWER, can choose what my next YT background that YT can moronically pull down in two months will be. Ugh.

Ripoff alert! Bwoop! Bwoop! Bwoop!

Do not - I repeat, do not - purchase this DL Site product. Don't make the same mistake I did. The author, for some reason, decided to ruin this black and white boxing comic by putting a big, colored, circular watermark in the middle of every fucking page. Suffice to say, this makes the whole thing unreadable and a total ripoff. This is what I get for actually purchasing products. Jesus christ. Well, buying anything from this guy is a mistake I won't be making again, and you shouldn't, either. This has been a public service message.

You excludin' your girl gender again, son?

In my eternal quest for games to turn into videos, I'm always monitoring my network of informants for new games coming out. Unforchies, they've really dried up over the years; I could go on all day listing the male-only series, but I have to admit that every time there's a new Fight Night or EA Sports MMA or Supremacy MMA or Lucha Libre game I always hope this will be the one to have some fucking women in it. But, of course, the death of many Bothans is always in vain as they're always sausage parties. You can probably already tell that the rest of this post isn't going to be good news, but WWE has annouced a new series of games. The short version of the news can be seen in the URL:

http://www.destructoid.com/don-t-expect-any-female-wrestlers-in-wwe-all-stars-192021.phtml

Here's the slightly longer version:

I checked out WWE All Stars last week, and noticed that there wasn't a single female fighter on the roster. So I asked Mike McTyre, one of the producers on the game, why we won't be seeing the lovely Divas of past and present.

"It was simply a matter of scope," Mike told me. "We really strive for quality of animation, you know, smoothness. Even though the moves are over-the-top, making them all believable, they all came from motion-capture to start with; nothing was hand-keyed. Then the animators had to smooth them out, amplify them and make them over-the-top. To do that would require a massive amount of additional tech and all-new motion capture on a female skeleton, as opposed to the male skeletons."

This is, in a word, bullshit. In the comments hidden between various HURP DURP I WOULD HAVE SEX WITH HER messages about the header image was a link to an article that sums up my feelings quite succiently - although it's talking about Brink, you could also apply it to Crackdown 1, Crackdown 2, and all the games listed above. I suggest you Read the Whole Thing (TM), but I'll quote the most important part here:

Now I can certainly understand the realities of operating under a budget and the drive to turn out the best product possible, but I have to admit that there's something very disturbing to me about having a choice between fifty different pieces of upper torso clothing or including an entire gender, and then deciding to go with the clothing. What does such a decision say about the attitude of Brink's developers, and the studio itself? What message will be taken away by female players who check out the game only to discover that they haven't been given any representation? Not including female avatar options might have seemed like nothing more than a practical choice to Splash Damage, but taking a look at the bigger societal picture and the changing face of today's gaming constituency, it's pretty clear to me that more that should've been taken into account.

Inclusion and respect, or outfits and haircuts? I'll take the former, thanks.

Knuckle Pine Censored Boxing (Update: Mother FUCKER)

For a while I've been considering recording some more Windows games; Total Knockout Boxing was a big hit, even though the video quality wasn't the greatest. I've settled on doing Knuckle Pine boxing month, with a match each from Knuckle Pine and Knuckle Pine Dash, and one each from Turbo (which you can apparently play single-round style like the original Knuckle Pine, or three-round style like Dash). This involved a long saga I won't recount here about getting Hypercam 2 to actually record sound, and then getting to record sound that is, you know, synched. With those issues finally vanquished, I was able to records some videos. Knuckle Pine 1 went off without a hitch and I'll lead off the series with that. In Knuckle Pine 2, though, Pine lost her top two minutes into a six minute video, and then she loses her bottoms for good measure. Since YouTube doesn't allow DISGUSTING NIPPLES - clearly, the human body is gross and should be hidden from view - this presents something of a problem. I tried using Windows Movie Maker to censor Pine's protrusions, but that didn't work at all. I got a free program called VideoPad, which works, kinda, but it's very imprecise; you can't make a censor bar and put it wherever you want, you have to add text and add spaces, and it'll add a bar of empty space, like " ". But you can't drag around where this bar is, you have to futz with it by changing the font size, hitting spacebar to make the bar longer, and hitting Enter to double its size. So you get something like this:

Now that's bad but not terrible. What's taking so long is that you have to split the clip every time you want the bar size to change, which it does a lot, since hitting your most powerful attack on Pine send her and her bare boobs flying, and on top of that she starts dancing around the ring later. So the video is, I'm afraid, going to be kind of, uh, bizzare looking. But consarn it, I spent hours getting Hypercam to work with synched motherfucking audio, so I'm going to use it. However, since I can just post the raw uncensored movies on like Rapidshare or Megaupload, I'll put up a download link to the original, un-censored versions on here. Oof!

Anyways, I guess this is all a little premature since this won't be going up until the Rumble Roses XX Singles tournament is finished, and that's got a while to run (Round 1 wraps up on 11/20, and then there's still seven videos to go - a week short of two months). The upside is that gives me a lot of time to procrastinate; I've been trying to censor this six minute video all day and I'm maybe a third done. I need an intern.

** Update **

Never mind; VideoPad ate my quality:

What the fuck. Back to the drawing board, I guess. Arrrrggghhh

** Update 2 **

Well, let's see if I can make a purse of this pig's ear. See if you can enjoy this. May I present a destroyed by VideoPad six minute Knuckle Pine Dash match in which I somehow manage to exactly tie Pine at the end of three rounds, which I think is awarded to her, which is proof that white guys on the internet are the real oppressed minority. Also, inconsistent censoring. (Basically, the file name is totally accurate):

http://rapidshare.com/files/430464992/Knuckle_Pine_fucked_up_waste_of_time_destroyed_video.avi

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QZS6AV41

Friends list's closed

Well, here's a post I hate to make. My xbox live gamertag isn't much of a secret, and up until now I've been generally accepting friend requests from YouTube or other places. Unforchies, I'm gonna have to start turning these down unless I already know you, mostly thanks to the following goofy messages I got from someone who I think is mistaking me for someone else. Before I'd played any matches with this person, I got this:

I wrote back "???????????????" and got this back:

(Or maybe it's the other way around on the messages, I don't remember.) I'll admit that I turn notifications off so I don't have SO AND SO HAS SIGNED IN popping up while I'm recording videos, so I'm sure I did miss a match invite from this person, which, you'll agree, definitely calls for a unhinged message like this. (Also, you know who else missed match requests? ADOLF HITLER)

There's one more message that I wish I'd saved, but I think I accidentally deleted it when blocking this nut. It signed off with a great "FUCK YOU" and accused me of "only saying negative things" (maybe he hates question marks). The long and short is, I simply don't have time to deal with drama from butthurt weirdos like this. I'm sure 99% of you out there are great people, but all it takes is one guy pissing in the soup to convince me to close the friend requests, and here we are. Sry, but it's closed until further notice. I've also gone through the list and removed anyone I don't remember playing with recently; you know who to thank for that.

Rumble Roses pix from Live, Chapter VII

BIG packs this time, kids, since it's been half a year since the last one. 328 images, and no Sebastians (although I almost cracked and put a funny one in where Mistress Spencer is kicking him in the groin). Also, two bear pictures. If you're one of the kind souls still taking and uploading these pictures to Live, keep at it. And if you're uploading Sebastian pictures, I'm going to find you. You'll be coming home one day, turning the key in your front door, your mind far away from taking and uploading Sebastian pictures nobody want to see, and boom, before you know it, you will come to know the regret of of taking Sebastian pictures. That is all.

Download links!

Crapidshare:

http://rapidshare.com/files/417241219/RRXX_Vol_7.rar

Megabuttload:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VM582U7M

Arrrgghh

Well, guess whose hard drive went and fucking died with no warning? Yeah. The last time this happened, the drive started slowly dying, and I was able to copy everything off it. THIS time, it just went "lol im ded" and everything on it is gone.

You may also want to notice the time stamp on that last post: January 2010. It's now August 2010. You can figure out how long my piece of shit new external HD lasted. Fucking Seagate piece of shit. Thanks for the seven whole months you went without breaking. Don't buy Seagate, unless you want to end up like me, or the guy in that picture, or both of us. God damn it.

Anyway, so, new video recording's on hold while I re-download seven month's worth of dirty videos pirated games home movies and software that fell off the back of a truck. So that tournament mentioned one post down is probably going to be a while. Until then, there's still a lot of matches in the can for you to enjoy.

Jesus.

Almost forgot: For some reason, spammers were apparently very excited by that tournament announcement, so I'mma turn comment moderation on for a little while. Boof.

** Update **

Google apparently finally noticed that word verification wasn't stopping spam comments, so maybe I'll turn it back off. Either way, if you see your comment waiting for approval, don't flip.

E Thrizzle

You might remember me complaining earlier about how all the wrestling/boxing/MMA games coming out are all sausage-fests. Since it looks like UFC Undisputed is never going to have ladies and EA Sports MMA (great name, BTW) isn't going to have any this time around - and that's what was said about TNA Impact, too, and look how that turned out - I was feeling down, but, finally, here's some good news: A third MMA game! There can't be three MMA games dumb enough to be all sausagefests, right? I swear, that's all I want. I'm really hoping here, too, because the only other game on the horizon with even an outside chance is the AAA Lucha game and I'm not holding my breath for that one. The fact that I'm willing to learn how to play a MMA game, which I know nothing about, should show you how desperate I'm getting. Heck, what was the last non-Smackdown game with women in it? Facebreaker? I don't think I need to say anything more than that.

OKAY, YouTube...

I think it's been processing long enough. Fer chrissakes. Can we go back to when my channel wasn't hideous and uploading videos actually worked on the first try and they didn't process for eight hours and never show up for viewing?

** Update **

Well, it's been ten fucking hours, so I'm just gonna try re-uploading this. Christ on friday.

** Update 2 **

IT'S A MIRACLE Y'ALL



** Update 3**

Next time you see a new video with a discription like "Take three", you'll know what the deal is. Let's hope that isn't a too common occurance.

Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggh

Well, I hate to keep posting bad news all the time, but here's some more: My department at work, which is normally four full time people plus four part-time people, is right now down to one full time person. Guess who that is. (big Al Gore sigh)

So the long and the short is, video production is going to continue on pace (spyware infections nonwithstanding) - but you might notice a dropoff in anciliary activity like responding to comments, etc. All's I can say is, if someone out there wants to offer me $$$CASH MONEY$$$ for recording obscure/unpopular wrestling games, well, I'm all ears.

On the flipside, I've been messing around with the Rumble Roses body/muscle sliders - expect more info and hopefully a video (or two!) about this soon. And yes, I know, I'm WAY behind on the Smackdown vs Raw videos. Some advice for aspiring Smackdown vs Raw video directors: Don't make your wife your head-co-writer, then let her get addicted to Star Trek Online. She's promised we'll film another episode this weekend (malware attacks permitting), so we see. Horf!

No videos this week

Work's exploding (not literally), as it's down to, literally, just me by myself staffing my entire department at work. So nothing on Saturday (the 15th), and nothing on Wednesday (the 19th). I'll see if I have a nice bonus to post on here in the meantime to tide everyone over.

What to do about WAS 2

So as you may have heard, Tryfirst took down all the webpages about Wrestle Angel Survivor 2, including the crucial page that I use to actually look up the wrestlers so I can select them in the game. It's been long enough now that I don't think the page is coming back up, unfortunatly, and recording WAS 2 videos without it is going to be a major pain in the ass, if it's even possible. I haven't recorded any videos since the site went down, and my cache of in the can matches is winding down, so I'm thinking about what to do, and I'd like to hear from YOU, the viewer (upon whom, by the way, any possible blame is placed). Here's the options:

- Continue on as before: Use the translated Wiki page and keep recording matches and posting them every Wednesday.

- Continue at a slower pace: Use the translated Wiki page but record less matches, and slip WAS 2 matches into the rotation of videos uploaded on Saturdays along with SvR, Rumble Roses, etc.

- Go back to WAS 1: The original Wrestle Angel Survivor page is still open, so I can still record these.

- End recording WAS 2 matches: Annouce a end date to get your final requests in, record and post these, and call it a day for WAS 2.

- Just stop recording WAS 2 matches and post what's left in the can.

There's your options. Vote up:

So what's the deal?
	Just go on as before
	Keep recording videos, but put them in the saturday rotation
	Go back to WAS 1
	Annouce a end date, record all the last requests, and be done
	Stop recording and just post whatever you have left
pollcode.com free polls

If you want to explain your thinking, leave a comment; I want to hear from you guys on this one.

** Update **

The world's greatest hero has provided me with a document that translates everyone's names; after printing this, it's even easier to select the wrestlers than it was using the original TryFirst webpage. So bear that in mind with the poll. I'm going to leave it up anyway just to see if people are getting sick of WAS 2 any time soon. (I'm tending to think yes since there's no comments on the last WAS 2 video posted!)

** Update 2 **

"Go on as before" is the winner, wih 60% of the votes. So on we go. I'm actually running short on requests, and if I run out, I'm going to start trying out the less-used girls. Should be interesting.

Disaster (not averted)

Well, more bad news, hooray: The XP laptop I use to record video's got a horrible Vundo infection. I'm throwing everything I can at this fucking thing - Malwarebytes, Spybot, HijackThis, Combofix, Vundofix, manually going into the registry and deleting the keys, killing the processes... I can't get that shit OFF. Motherfucker just replicates itself endlessly, no matter how many times I kill the process and delete the keys. Needless to say, it's also hard to record videos with popup ads for mayo getting spammed nonstop. So we'll see what happens. I guess I can always reinstall XP. Thanks a lot, BILL GATE$. (Smug Mac users and Linux fans who tell me that I LOL SHOULD'VE USED UBUNTU will be banned)

I've still got a fair amount of videos in the can, so I don't think this should effect the schedule, just how pissy I am. Don't come asking why your video's taking too long this week, hoo boy.

** Update **

Think I finally got it. Whoever created ComboFix, you are my hero!

** Update 2 **

Spoke too soon - as soon as I start any browser, it's back. God fucking damn it. I'm just gonna reinstall Windows.

Barf II

God and baby Jesus, just when I thought Youtube couldn't get any uglier or more counter-intuitive to use. I guess ruining everyone's channel wasn't enough, so now they're ruining how it looks when you play a video. I guess the only upside here is they got rid of star ratings on videos, so that's one less thing for people to have drama about on the internet. Is that worth how bugfuck this redesign is, though? Where the fuck did it move my playlists? Arrrgghh. Maybe this is an early april fool's joke. Sigh.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

So this is kinda related to the last post - apparently the Ultimate Warrior has found
one of my videos and hoo boy, he is not pleased. (as you know, queering don't make the world work!). Let's hear now his words of wisdom:

A LAZBEIN WHEN GIRL LIKE A GIRL AND YOU WATCHING TWO HOT GIRLS WRESTLE SO THAT MAKE YOU A LAZBEIN

Can't argue with that :o

Upcoming schedule 3/2010

:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Well, let me start with the question nobody asked: Where's the rest of the SvR 10 episode? It's almost done, sry. Next time I think I'm going to record the entire story arc at once; Going a whole month (even if it is short-ass February) without Episode 2 following the first episode is, um, not good. I'm gonna record Episode 2 (and possibly 3) this weekend, unless I can't pry the controller away from my wife playing Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age, so look forward to that. Remember, the yahoo group's where you can go if you want to effect the upcoming episodes, whenever that is.

Other than that, the schedule! I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about WAS 2 ; It looks like that list of wrestlers might never be coming back up, and good christ, it's going to take a billion years to get the matches set up without it. On the comments for the original post about the matter, a helpful reader suggested using the Google-translated wiki, which is better than nothing, but, oof. (And consider that your official pat on the ass, BTW.) So we'll see. Someone suggested closing the season on WAS 2; I'd rather not, but we'll see how it goes. Might be safer to get those requests in now.

On Saturdays, there's still a ton of Rumble Roses material that'll probably be around forever. In terms of other games, I have to say I really enjoyed Hideous Playstation Boxing Game Month (KEEP YOUR GUARD UP!!!!!). Of course, after it was over, a viewer cued me into a boxing game with women I'd missed (Agetec's oh so imaginitavely named "BOXING") - would have been nice to put up on that fifth Saturday. Well, this is what I get for keeping the games I'm going to use a surprise, huh? Anyways, I got BOXING (WATCH THOSE FEET!!!!!!) off half.com for like $6, so I'll record a match from that and bill it as THE LOST CHAPTER OF HIDEOUS PLAYSTATION BOXING MONTH MOTHER FUCKER. And after that - well, heheh.

I'm thinking of doing something like a GBA Boxing Game Fortnight - as far as I can tell, there's only two games on all the handhelds (aside from Animal Boxing) that have women in them, and these are Wade Hixon's Counter Punch and Boxing Fever. I also heard they ported Ready 2 Rumble (both original and 2) to the GBC/GBA, but I don't know if that actually has any wimmins in it. Investigation pending.

The trouble with these is that I'm always looking for a CPU vs CPU mode, and I doubt any of them have it. You've probably noticed in Hideous Playstation Boxing Game Month, I always pick CPU vs CPU if I can, for a few reasons:

- I like being surprised at the match and who's going to win.

- It's usually a squash if I play against the CPU. (See the Contender 2 videos where the CPU gets pretty much destroyed)

- It's a time saver. I don't want to spend a week practicing, say, Wade Hixon's Counter Punch just to record a single good video with it. CPU vs CPU is a huge timesaver.

So we'll see. I'm not going to leave any games out for this reason, but it does kind of cool my enthusiasm. Maybe I'll just ban anybody who complains about it. (mustache twirl)

I'm still in the planning stages on this, so, please, if you know any handheld/NES/SNES/Genesis/etc. whatever games with female boxers in them I've missed, drop me a line. I'm going to leave Animal Boxing out for now; One because I don't know how well you can emulate/record DS games, and two because beating the fudge out of furries probably deserves an entire month. Holla!

** Update **

Who'da thunk it? Both Ready 2 Rumble one and two have chicks in them. Well, there goes my clever use of "fortnight"...

** Update 2 **

Aw, this pushed the WAS Picture Pack Post off the front page. Don't forget to show that one some love.

Disaster averted (for once)

If you're wondering why today's video was posted so late, YouTube was giving me some guff: Every time I went to the video upload page and entered the information, the progress bar would fill up instantly, then it would pretend to process the video for a few hours, and then tell me "lol aborted" when I went to check the video status.

Turns out the problem was AVG's LinkScanner - weird, right? A quicko Google search turned that up, so thanks, internet person. End transmission.