Unsolicited Advice

For those who missed it, I'm trying to be entertaining while playing video games again. My original plan was to produce a Let's Play of Final Fantasy II (JPN, the one for the Famicom -- or, more likely, the one re-released in Dawn of Souls ) with running voice commentary. FF2j is an exceedingly boring game, but it's boring for interesting historical reasons, and provides some inoffensive background video for my usual ramble. I figured I'd hold forth on video game history and languages and all that while the damn thing devolved into Sim Travel Agent after the second or third town. Sadly, I have found that my TV is unsuitable for any gaming that involves real-time interactions. I inherited a 42" Philips from a previous roommate who didn't feel like moving it when they left that apartment, and I have now discovered why: This thing is absolutely lag-tastic.  I've gotten into the user menu and turned off every last bit of post-processing I can find, but there&#

So apparently, we have a hurricane coming? Lee is not supposed to hit directly my area directly, but over here slightly inland of Nantucket we're supposed to get a lot of rain and flooding and generally unpleasantly wet circumstances. I've once again landed in an apartment at the top of a hill, as I somehow always do, and I'm on the top floor. I'm not likely to get too soggy myself, or have to bail anything out, but I'm not really going to want to go outside for the next couple of days either.  Fortunately, I don't need to! I'm on Twitch . I've cast the augury bones -- by which I mean I looked at a website that scrapes Twitch metadata to tell me when my audience is likely to be online -- and apparently people are most in the mood for some Ace Attorney on Saturday mornings. Fine. I can think of worse ways to spend my weekend. So, assuming the power stays on, I'm going back to playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney on Twitch at 11am this Saturday, for h