Happy birthday blog!  I hope your life is filled with happiness, success and excitement.  However, since I'm your blogger, the odds for that are not in your favor.  Try not to feel too depressed though for, while I too am new to the bloggersphere, I will do my very best to keep things interesting around here.  Now, please excuse me while I go and blog......interestingly.





You ever have those days where something you hear slowly worms its way into the farthest reaches of your brain?  To the point where, though you claim to just have a new interest in said topic, you are utterly obsessed and unable to think of anything else?  That happens to me far more than I would like, most recently due to the announcement of the Nintendo Creators Program.  I won't bore you with the details, but in a nutshell it allows for program participants to post YouTube videos with game footage from a Nintendo game (must be on the approved list) and they then share in the profit made from ads on the video (percentages vary).  For more info on the program here is the official site: https://r.ncp.nintendo.net/guide/

The program really isn't the focus of my latest obsession but it was the catalyst for it.  It got me thinking about how I too could make and post YouTube videos about video games, now with far less legal risk than before should I choose to sign up for the program (a definite plus).  I love talking about games, and making YouTube videos would be a fun hobby that would let me do just that - while perhaps making some extra money on the side (yes, because I'm sure it's JUST that easy).  Anyway, once that idea set in I couldn't get it out of my head.  I spent hours looking at game capture equipment, looking for something that would fit my budget and still create a high quality product.  When that failed I moved on to researching how people enable their 3DS handhelds to capture game footage.  I soon found this was actually more expensive than the equipment I had looked at before.  Recording PC games is perhaps a bit more plausible but it would still require a higher initial investment than my budget allows, particularly because my budget for this type of stuff is zero.  I don't have that many PC games to begin with.

So, what do you do when your obsession is just too unrealistic?  What helps you get over it and move on?




..............No, seriously, I'm asking what you do.




So far, for me, repeatedly looking at price tags has helped.  But I've also found that substituting one obsession for a slightly more reasonable one, while not very healthy, is a pretty quick fix.  Look at me right now.  Started a blog and spent probably an hour and a half agonizing over my background image (which still didn't turn out the way I wanted).  And in all that time I didn't think to look at game capture equipment once.  So.....success?