That would be Save the Overtime For Me, by Gladys Knight.
No cats, just a bad map montage.
Music:
Stan Kenton - Also Sprach Zarathustra
A pianist turned band leader, Stan Kenton was renowned for putting together big bands with immense amounts of talent and producing very fun arrangements. He acted as a mentor to an immense number of talented musicians and put together some of the first jazz education programs through his jazz clinics. His touring bands were very popular and widely known for their bombastic brass sections, where enthusiasm was often prioritized over “being correct.” Most of the albums included a couple of covers in additional to the original arrangements. Maynard Ferguson was a frequent soloist for the band.
His entire library was donated to University of North Texas, the first university to have a full studio and jazz studies program in the US. I’ll cover that later.
The first ending!
Next Up: fifth cat???
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Sorry for the lack of updates recently, been busy. I’ll catch up this week. But hey, at least my jello came in:
do not attempt to cook at home like this
The rolls are really good and I had to give most of them to my neighbors so I didn’t eat the whole pan.
Next Up: non-filler episode
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I take the right path during the intro, get Pianist’s next quest, and meet worst cat.
h e l l p o r t a l s
Next Up: bad map bonanza
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Okay fifth cat genuinely caught me off guard there. Let’s see how this goes.
Fifth cat is creepy. We’re getting the bad end next, which is really terrible.
Next mp session will be Sunday 0900 (GMT+10) / Saturday 1800 (US Central)
Filler eps incoming, no cats, just weird maps and hell portals.
Nintendo port map bonanza.
Music:
Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca
Tiny Tim - Livin’ In the Sunlight, Lovin’ In the Moon Light
Dizzy Gillespie plays trumpet in a way that breaks pretty much every rule of how it’s traditionally taught, from his chin-down posture to his signature puffy cheeks. He perfected a technique called circular breathing, where you use your cheeks as a surge volume full of air so you can keep playing while you breath through your nose so you don’t have to pause to breath. It requires really strong cheek muscles! Dizzy was also known for his trumpets with bent horns, which provided two benefits: 1) increased backpressure, which helps with range and is better for cyircular breathing at the cost of a less open tonal quality, and 2) allows you to duck your chin while still projecting sound up and out instead of into the floor/crowd.
The Goldeneye Dam map again, protips and trolley tricks with Iamgoofball, and a map bad end. 
Lots of flashing lights from 2:00 to 2:08
Music:
UNT One O’Clock Lab Band feat. Sean Jones - Ray Noble - Cherokee
Gears of War 2 - Landown
Gears of War 2 - Finale
Hans Zimmer - Rangers Lead the Way [Victory Theme]
As previously mentioned, the University of North Texas was one of the first to have a studio and jazz musician program, and is still perhaps the most prestigious major university for jazz education. Remember that Stan Kenton donated his entire music library to them! The Lab Bands are big bands named after the time slot they occupy in the course schedule, with the One O’Clock being the most competitive to try out for. The later Lab Bands (Two O’Clock, Three O’Clock) are where everyone else is filtered in to, but they’re still incredibly talented. The tryouts are hard even by professional standards.
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Trying to get more quest stuff and our second to last meeting with fifth cat.
Music:
Charles Mingus - Moanin’
Charles Mingus was a huge angry man who was a double bass prodigy and lead incredibly talented bands. He is perhaps the best ensemble jazz composer and was influenced by the generation of band leaders before him, especially Duke Ellington. He suffered heavily from depression, but was more of the I’m going to smash this $20k bass on stage sort than sad. He’s one of the few people to get fired from Duke Ellington’s band (due to an onstage fight with their trombonist), would often try to fight band members and/or the audience, fired a shotgun off in his own apartment, and punched a guy in the face while they were working on a score.
Of course, he’s better known for leading some incredible bands and pushing the New Orleans style of collective improvisation!
PROP SURFING
So a brief explanation of what the whole standing on boxes and getting flung into the air thing was in that last video: it’s called prop surfing, and is a physics trick in the source engine. The basic idea is that you stand on top of something you can move, then move it towards yourself somehow. In gmod, the easiest way to achieve this is by standing on something, selecting it with the physics gun, and scrolling to drag the item closer to you. We did this to attempt to fly up and reach a shard that was out of jumping distance.
The source engine will try to push you away from the incoming object. However, you’re still holding the object and dragging it into yourself, so the object follows you and continues to push you away. Due to the way that collisions are resolved, this results in you being pushed up and/or away from the thing you’re surfing on, allowing you to effectively fly. You can also freely walk around on top of the object to steer it in different directions. However, this is generally not the most stable thing ever, and your chances of it ending in you getting crushed by your own prop or falling to your death are pretty high. Using a wide, flat object like a tin roofing panel will maximize your chances of success.
Youtube has a couple of guides on it (especially for doing it in game modes where you don’t have access to the phys gun) if you want to see more examples of it.
Card games with cats and a bad end.
Music:
Duke Ellington - Caravan
Duke Ellington was a jazz orchestra leader who got his start in the 20s and really helped popularize jazz around the world. He helped compose more standards than anyone else, toured around the world, and mentored many great musicians. He made his break in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance while playing in clubs and at house parties. His radio and record hits brought jazz into the mainstream in America during the 20s and 30s.
Next Up: quest objectives in multiplayer, more cats
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I get my Kleiner out of the ng++ intro, then Don Corleone, Mac Tonight, and Pepsiman go on a mission from god to destroy all spooky maps (their shipping name is pepsimac)
Music:
Chet Baker - Autumn Leaves
Chet Baker was a trumpeter and vocalist known for his soft, laid back sound. Many compared his voice to Frank Sinatra’s. He struggled with drugs his whole life, eventually dying from a fall from a hotel after speedballing heroin and cocaine. At one point he got all of his teeth knocked out after getting jumped during what most people presume was a drug deal, and he had to relearn his embouchure (basically had to relearn the lips part of the trumpet) with his dentures on.
Next Up: pepsimac, maybe more cats
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HACKING GOGGLES
In the next video you’ll see a few times where I switch to an item that causes a bunch of yellow boxes, text, and green lines to show up on the screen. Those are the hacking goggles, which visualize the map’s triggers, which are a type of brush that you normally can’t see. Most of the triggers are trigger_once, trigger_multiple, trigger_look, and trigger_proximity, which are used to help program the map for various things. You can use the hacking goggles to figure out how to progress in a map that’s heavily constrained by triggers, such as a story map, puzzle map, or spooky map.
You’ll see a few jumpscares/spookums in these maps that are trigger_look (it spawns something and plays a sound when you turn around, etc.) and other things that have delayed timing. Triggers that rely on each other are connected by green lines, and you can see a box travel along it and the green line will light up when one trigger is signaling the next. Some of these are delayed, hence the slow moving boxes.
Don Corleon, Pepsiman, and Mac Tonight stumble though a series of spooky “puzzle” maps and try not to crash.
Music:
Jimmy Smith - Portuguese Soul
Pianist puts on a recorder concerto, and it’s bad movie night.
Next Up: Cellist’s last cutscene, more quests
Sorry for the slowed update scheduled, work is slowly killing me.
Cellist’s last scene and naming dolls with Singer.
Next Up: QUESTS~
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Serious character development? In my comedy game?! It’s more likely than you think.
Also, -sharp intake of breath- I may not be a drug addict and a jerk about it but man do I relate to the feeling worthless and having the fear that everyone will one day realize that and leave me. Geezus, that hit hard.
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It’s based on a lot of the writer’s old friends. Cellist’s writer was really worried that the scene would come off as a cheap blow or too heavy handed out of nowhere. Luckily its been pretty well received.
Also sorry, work’s been killer with all the typhoons blowing through here, but the schedule should be better from now on, except for the part where I’m on travel until the 10th so no updates then either. I’ll probably start only showing interesting maps or ones where I get the super rare stuff (Alyx) because I need to get through a lot of chaff to finish up these quests.
We steal a t-rex, and get Singer’s radiators:
Music:
Woody Herman - Giant Steps
Woody Herman was a clarinetist turned big band leader. He started off with a blues band but eventually moved into jazz and stayed there, and would be famous for including non-traditional instruments into his bands (i.e. bassoons (lol) and oboes) and including rock elements into his compositions. Like many from his time, he made the classic mistake of never paying taxes, resulting in owing millions to the IRS! This somehow never stopped him from performing though.
Next Up: hiatus, vending machines, ALYX
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I’m back!
Thanks, ph_storagerooms.
Music:
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Lee Morgan often played trumpet for Art Blakely and other Blue Note Label players. Sidewinder was one of his own records and was a big hit at the time it came out, topping both Jazz and R&B charts. He was shot in a bar by his wife after an argument in between sets early into his career.
I’m ready to die on this hill.
Next Up: The last round of quests and the hunt for Alyx.
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Got my washers!
Music:
Cutting Edge - Caravan
Bad news, a new typhoon is ruining my life again so it might take a bit longer on the next update unless I get super lucky with quest objectives.
Next Up: Typhoon Yutu work break!
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About 80 people have taken over for my job so I’m back. We’re in the home stretch now!
Cory gets back in the house and Pianist gets her groove back.
YOU THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DRIVE INTO THE TOWER BUT I DIDN’T, GOT YOU GOOD
Music:
Stan Kenton - Pegasus
Dethklok - Burn the Earth
Next Up: i dont have a backlog anymore so i dont actually know
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Hi! Welcome to my Let’s Play of Half-Life 2, an immersive story-driven first person shooter by Valve. We start off playing as Gordon Freeman meeting up with his old coworkers after a relaxing day on the river.
Music:
Stan Kenton - Live and Let Die
Now that we’ve got the local interdimensional teleporter technology from Dr. Eli, we can call in trolleys as weapons while we try to bust the original Dr. Kleiner out of jail (please ignore the other kleiners)
Music:
Stan Kenton - The Peanut Vendor
Next Up: Our most precious cat’s final experiment
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I’m not going to go through the 20+ boring prop hunt maps I did to try and find radios before giving up and farming the trolley, but here’s Singer’s last quest.
Music:
Art Blakey - The Drum Thunder Suite
Remember this song? It’s from the Jazztronauts intro sequence, so we’re full circle now. Art Blakey grew up as a pianist, but became a drummer and a band leader, getting his break in the 40s and then forming his famous Jazz Messengers in the 50s. His band helped developed other famous artists such as Lee Morgan, Curtis Fullard, and Wynton Marsalis. Art had an aggressive style and was very influential in bebop drumming.
Next Up: Hell cube rush and the final ending
Rushing for 10 or 11 or whatever number Hellcubes was not as fast as expected.
Music:
45 '10 aka Swingo - Que Chevere!
The power of fluffy boys shines within you. You get the true ending! thanks cats. thats.
It’s done. Thanks for watching! Good luck and happy trash hunting to anyone who bought gmod and/or subscribed to the mod.
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Didn’t expect to get so emotionally involved with a game about inter-dimensional cats and stealing stuff from source maps. That was awesome, thank you for sharing this! 