In today's article I will be following up on my previous article where I will be taking time off of YouTube to recharge myself.

Alright! So towards the near end of October, I started to feel unhappy about myself for reasons I will address.

Let's start with my rocky experiences with BaratusLive (My series of livestreams on YouTube), at first I was dealing with the rendering lag that OBS was throwing and had to spend plenty of time troubleshooting the cause of this, which turned out to be the desktop version of Discord being the cause. At first I tried switching to the browser version for voice chats, while it did manage to fix the rendering lag issue, it would cause another issue that ruined a livestream. I decided to say fuck it and move Discord to another PC to solve this issue. At first being one of my i5 PCs that I used to play games on stream but it later turned out that some games were stuttering, and I ended up having to have a total of three PCs to off-load resources. My main PC (i7-4790) would do the gaming stuff while my other two i5 PCs would handle the stream and Discord work.

On top of that, there have been a certain amount of failed streams this year. From technical difficulties to certain situations that led me to either lash out or have my mood killed off for the rest of the stream. The latter I need to work on.

And as a result of this (especially the latter) and after a failed Mageslayer stream, I decided it was for the better that I took another hiatus from streaming. It is currently unknown when I will be motiviated to stream again. "maybe when I finally get fiber-optic perhaps?" As for making content for my YouTube channel, that was one of the great things that happened this year starting with my Unreal Review video from June this year. I would try to push out more videos like these until July 3, 2023 with my review of Bad Toys 3D. The reason this stopped was because I dealt with a bad power outage that occured due to bad weather and considering the fact it was the summer season when this occured, it fucked me up. I was lucky that I didn't suffer a heat-stroke otherwise that Bad Toys video would've been my last video ever and I wouldn't be writing this article right now.

By the time the power came back on, my motiviation to make more videos slowed down heavily. Although I would release a few more videos which I would now call them video essays. The last being a follow up video on the Unreal video I did in June, where I took a look at Return to Na Pali.

I originally planned to make a video about Blood for October but didn't feel motivated enough to record a playthrough, and on top of that I would feel like shit due to an abrupt weather change (I originally thought it was a stomach virus at first) and the failed stream that month didn't help.

So you may wonder what my plans are for this month and December. I will be taking time off of streaming and I plan to push out one more video for this year. I aim to upload this sometime in December. After this video comes out. I will be taking time off of making content (with the exception of my side channel but that depends on my mood)

On my side channel, I toyed with making Lets Plays, but a day after I released my Part 1 video for Necrodome Shareware, I started to feel less motivated with content creation as well. However the main reason I still want to push out December's video is because I already have most of the footages recorded and only needed to record the narration and edit it all together.

Anyway, I will follow-up with another article at some point but for now that's pretty much all I wanted to say. Thanks for reading.

This is a follow-up article where I talked about how I went from a Live2D Dakki to a 3D Dakki.

Anyone remember the times, when you had a computer? (if you were lucky enough to afford one)

Well, if you had access to multiple computers and a LAN network, you could invite your friends to a LAN party and play those hot new titles with the likes of Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Command & Conquer, etc. Or if you had access to a dial-up modem and a subscription for a online-gaming service of choice. You could dial into the game service and play your favorite MS-DOS games on the internet. Or even if you don't have access to one, you could dial your friend's phone number to play a modem-to-modem 2-player game.

Man! Have times changed since then. Because nowadays with emulators such as DOSBox, you can play these multiplayer through IPXNET tunneling or DOSBox's built-in modem emulation feature.

Although while some games work well, *depending on the latency and location* there are certain games that are barely enjoyable due to the vile nature of the IPX protocol and some game having poor network code. It's also a blessing that people moved on to TCP/IP later on.

I do see the the niche is not for everyone either because some people would rather use a source-port of choice. Unless the game you wanted to play doesn't have one then your either stuck or couldn't play at all which is sad.

For some bit of history during the 2010s, back when YANG and Meltdown were a thing, it was one of the easy ways of getting BUILD Engine multiplayer games going despite the hurtle of port-forwarding. This is coming from somebody who has played on Meltdown since late 2011. I don't use these clients anymore because YANG felt like a ghost-town and Meltdown got exposed for blue screening people's computers and likely scaring people out of it. Only a few still use it last I checked.

So what do I use nowadays for DOSBox multiplayer? Well, there are currently two potential network guiders that I know of that can be useful today. You got CodeJunkie's Classic Gaming Arena which primarily focuses on MS-DOS multiplayer via DOSBox Staging. It comes with DOSBox and various fixes for some games built-in when installing CGA (like enabling autorun for Doom engine games and the BUILD Mouse Fix for Build Engine games) and you can run your own dedicated server if you wished. Not only you have that, it even has nice features like the ability to load mods easily by uploading custom content for various games into a addon database and even it people don't have it downloaded, it downloads the addon for clients before the game launches. The only downsides currently but may be fixed is it is for Windows users only! Although Linux and Mac versions are in the works, and even cooler for vintage computing users like myself, is that a version for Windows 9x is also in the works.

However if you are just here for source-ports or a best of both worlds type of client, you got aaBlueDragon's NukemNet. It currently has support for NBlood/NotBlood, NetDuke32, VoidSW, etc. Both are good guiders but they are not entirely ready for prime-time yet. As there are lack of certain features and has some bugs.

But I do hope that one day both of these clients can see see more form of recognition in the near-future.