{"id":8527,"date":"2020-10-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:35:51","slug":"what-a-wonderful-night-to-have-a-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8527","title":{"rendered":"What a Wonderful Night to Have a Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really should be a little more prompt in writing posts for the VODs of my Twitch streams, but the fact of the matter is that said VODs don&#8217;t often go live for about a week after the stream anyway. When I just use the raw footage from Twitch, it&#8217;s not so bad, but sometimes I need to cut it a little, which takes time. Also I&#8217;m very stubborn about making sure that no video goes live on my YouTube channel without a thumbnail, and those&#8230; they take even longer. Because Photoshop is&#8230; well, it&#8217;s not hard. But I&#8217;m <em>very <\/em>lazy. Also, I don&#8217;t have an editing team to do all that admin stuff for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, and very specifically to this case, my PC decided to up and die after I ended the stream embedded below. <strong>Sophie&#8217;s Curse<\/strong> was <em>so<\/em> scary that the power supply straight up ceased functioning. Or something. Or maybe <strong>Vernon&#8217;s Legacy<\/strong> was so boring that the computer just couldn&#8217;t go on. That was the game I was streaming before Sophie, and I cut it out of the VOD because <em>holy crap<\/em> was it ever boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Friday Night Spooker Stream! - Sophie&#039;s Curse\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJwNtQNzWGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow, Sophie&#8217;s Curse was a lot of fun! I&#8217;m glad it ended up being something that I enjoyed. It&#8217;s a frantic game of ghost cat-and-mouse, and it&#8217;s absolutely terrifying. It had never really occurred to me before, but good sound design is like 90% of creating an effective spooky atmosphere, and Sophie&#8217;s Curse has it in spades. From the unrelenting pitter-patter of the rain outside, to disembodied screams and demonic breathing that comes out of nowhere, your ears are constantly under assault by a cavalcade of spooky sounds. It then becomes a guessing game as to which sounds are there to let you know you&#8217;re about to die, and which are there just to give you the jibblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also very surprised that I managed to beat it. Or, I guess it was more accurate that I was concerned that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to finish it. It seemed like one of those games where you can get a handle on it, but the difficulty just ramps up so high that you&#8217;re almost dependent on good RNG to succeed. Fortunately, the normal mode was a lot more lenient than I expected, and though Sophie did provide a good amount of pushback, I was able to come out on top in the end. Hooray! I have no intention of ever giving the &#8220;Nightmare&#8221; mode a real try, though. I think that &#8220;Curse&#8221; difficulty was juuuuust right for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any hey, if you&#8217;re reading this on the day it&#8217;s posted&#8230; I&#8217;ll be doing another Twitch stream tonight. Seems like it&#8217;s going to be a Friday night staple, at least for a little while. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitch.tv\/theryands\/profile\">Why don&#8217;t you drop in for a while?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really should be a little more prompt in writing posts for the VODs of my Twitch streams, but the fact of the matter is that said VODs don&#8217;t often go live for about a week after the stream anyway. When I just use the raw footage from Twitch, it&#8217;s not so bad, but sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a Wonderful Night to Have a Curse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,82,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spooky","category-streaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}