Project Podcast

I've wanted to do a serialized story for a while. Jeff suggested I do a podcast. I like Jeff. I listen to Jeff. Jeff knows how to life correctly. So I'm going to do a podcast.

I now need a name for the podcast. More on that in a minute.

The purpose of said cast-pod is to do a serialized fiction story, one chapter a week. Easy to do. Guest writers would contribute a chapter and be promoted through the cast. Swag would most likely be involved because I love swag. Love it.

This really comes down to producing.

VOW - I will assist in the creation / coming to fruition of the dreams of my compatriots. Producing the work of artists and celebrating their talent and fabulous, delicious brains.

PS. I'm sitting across from a local writer who I went to college with who is amazing. Forgetting her name, but I am always elated when I see her on a website/promo. I usually catch her at Back Fence PDX. Probably should learn her name. She dated a friend of mine a while back. Not the point.

I have this tendency (because I'm fucking human and have a brain that is determined to explode of its own free will and obsession), this tendency to complicate my projects for myself -  think too hard. You know! You've been there. I think it's funny that when I think of simple projects like recording my voice and reading / giving opinion I make it seem like a state of the union address.
- SIDE NOTE: Can you imagine if I gave the state of the union address? Oh man. You think this country is ready for that many dick jokes and references to video games? I do!

Back to the naming. I need a name for this thing. Welcome to Night Vale pretty much wins.

I want something like that. Something iconic that sort of starts as a whisper of geeeeeeek and then morphs into a bellowing call GEEK! But still sounds legit. Help would be appreciated here. I've never been good at titling things. Not my strength. Just check youtube. I fail. Content good. Title bad. Single tear.

From the podcast I'd want... Starting this sentence over. I want to do a storytellers festival. The podcast can easily feed into this. Good. Better way to say what I wanted to say. Feeding one project into another. Good. That's what we call professional adulting.

I have no dismount for this post. I'm going to go work on the podcast.

Have the best day you've ever had!

PS. The girl, the writer from Back Fence that I am unashamedly eavesdropping on, is having a rather in-depth conversation about and analysis of Magic Mike XXL. No one has ever struggled so hard not to laugh and draw attention to their dropping of eaves as I am at this moment. Out.

PPS. I love Magic Mike. Proudly.

UGLY PROBLEMS, BEAUTIFUL NATURE | Firewatch

The title sucks but the video and especially the game is great! Seriously, I need to get my hands on some proper titles once in a while. Not what this is about.

I've waited for Firewatch for some time. A while, let's call it. And it's beautiful. And I identify with it.

I don't want to spoil the story, even the opening bits, but I highly suggest you watch the video. Even if you don't want my brand of commentary or the amazing voice acting or highly skilled storytelling, you can mute the damned thing and gawk at the gorgeous scenery. Gorgeous! I say again: Gorgeous!

A man runs from his problems, which are devastating. He finds himself as a member of the park ranger firewatch service, and then finds himself tangled in a mystery. 

I was going to go on and on about the merits of the game, of which there are many, but what this comes down to is a simple, well told story set in a stunning environment with characters who could actually exist. It's real.

Have the best day you've ever had.

FLYING VAGINA MONSTER | Kingdom EP 3

I like being thrown for a loop. I like challenges and the opportunity to overcome them. I like testing my limits with the inevitable uncertainties. 

I do not like airborne phantoms who resemble Satan's battered pussy swooping from the sky and snatching (pun intended) my villagers from my fiefdom.

Kingdom is a hell of a game. It's fair and tough and dickish and beautiful and frustrating and basically everything I like in a story. Yet it's a simple, very simple, game. Left. Right. Make it rain. That's it! And I love that.

The simple controls allow you to get lost in the beauty of the graphics and the soundtrack, which then let's you forget that you have to defend your people each and every night against a pick your flavor of demons. Imps? Not really sure what they are. The beauty of this game is that it's aesthetics, in a way, work against you! That's incredible! I don't remember another game like that!

I have no idea if this is intentional, nor do I care. I care a little. Wouldn't that be cool if that were the case? That Raw Fury intentionally made the game pretty for the specific purpose of you getting lost and screwing up your managerial tactics? Gold! Solid gold!

Episode 3 is posted above. Check it out and then go and thank Raw Fury for putting their game out there.

Have the best day you've ever had!

BASICALLY RICK GRIMES | Deadlight

This game opens up a great chance to write about how back-asswards silly it can be to port a game from console to PC...that's pretty much it. 

The controls are jacked when playing with a keyboard, even when you remap the keys. It's just flat jacked and caddywompus.

The game itself is basically The Walking Dead circa 1986. 

To be clear: I like it and it's fun. It's not an original story and is a pretty standard platformer with a darker feel. It's still good! It's just not original. But fun is the key here so a big fat who cares that I've seen, heard and played this game before when it's been other games, movies and comics and so forth.

All I got.

Have the best day you've ever had!

MISUNDERSTOOD | Dropsy

I'm a dick, according to the snap judgement that I made not seconds after starting this game. Full truth: I've been very against, not reluctant, to playing this at all, let alone doing a let's play of it. Why? Because I'm scared of clowns and generally hate them on the standard level. Not classic clowning, mind you, but big top annoying, dick-bag lemme get in your personal space and embarrass you while giving you everlasting blackened shit-dreams from the middle-distance of your childhood traumas. Hate em.

That is what we like to call a personal bias or good old fashioned prejudice, which is a something that I am vocally against. Thus I become the hypocrite for refusing to play this game.

I have a friend, Jenny (aka Kimchica), who has raved about this game as a positive (which it is), uplifting (which it is) and high-quality (yup, that too) experience. Even with her word, it took me an age to load Dropsy. I'm so glad I did.

Watch the video. It almost immediately hooks me (save for the opening bit and nightmare sequence which...well, see above for my thoughts on clowns). 

At the risk of sounding further preachy: Don't judge folk based on a previous experience. They may, and most likely will, surprise you. 

Have the best day you've ever had.

VAULT OF DISEASE AND SWAG | Fallout 4 EP 6

Youtube has become a funny thing for me. It's a hobby of mine and a few insane compatriots who have more talent and gifts than they do time.



I'll do a whole thing on let's plays and the phenomenon of social media popularity at another time. It's a truly odd beast. For real, that shit is crazy. I mean...would someone explain vine to me? No. Don't...don't explain vine to me. Please don't.



The point is, I love hearing myself speak - love it. Love the sound of my own voice and I love playing video games. Marrying the two? Delicious.



On todays episode of Fallout Friday: Our hero, William, finds his first Vault! Ready to ransack the place like a proper wasteland pirate, we find a tiny hangup and then some dumbass child gets bitten by a viral rodent! Happy Birthday, Austin! (pretty sure it wasn't his birthday)

Big Boy Pants

Some call it adulting. I thought big boy pants was funnier.

The website is live! Which means I have taken that appropriate step into actual entrepreneur-hood. I've grown some form of testicles, be they made of flesh or synthetic things, and have declared to the world and, more importantly, myself that I am ready to work harder than I ever had before. I say this knowing that said work could blow up in my face, which it has numerous times. But, like all things learning related - especially hardships - if we crash and burn I will come out the other side a stronger professional.

All the same, I am terrified. Excited too, but I may have wet myself this fine afternoon when my fingers clicked purchase and the domain became a reality. Feels good though, so I think I'll keep on truckin'.

Truth time: I've only recently become proficient in selling myself, my brand, my skills, as it were. I wanted to say in this day and age but the fact is that the most successful people have always been those entrepreneurs who would not let anyone else define their success, be they client or peer and so on. Today I grow up (Big boy pants. See! I imagine them as shark-skin slacks).

Welcome to our new home. www.andrewslac.com

The website is what you'd expect for a personal professional site. I've got links to my various things that I do - writing, our youtube channel, dance, acting - there's even a way to shoot me an email to do such fine things as hire my qualified ass! I highly recommend doing the latter! As I say on the youtube tab, it helps me afford things such as food! Also a roof over my head which, turns out, I've become quite accustomed to!

So peruse the site, take a gander and a glance and maybe even drop me a line.

Most importantly: Have the best day you've ever had.