“For us, E3 is a console show and an Xbox show, and for us as Microsoft, Xbox is our gaming brand, and it’s the thing we can fill an arena like this, we get millions of people to watch us on TV and we show our games and it’s a brand that people care about,” he said.
C’mon Microsoft we get the picture. You have a console to sell and PC gaming gets in the way of your little walled garden. They’re making Linux sound better and better everytime they pull this crap.
I usually try to post at least once a day. I sure blew that one didn’t I? 😛
I’ve just been tired both mentally and physically. I’ve even started getting these strange headaches that only last for about a second. It’s very hard to describe but they happen mostly when I’m at work, and very rarely during my off time. It only happened once today, but if I’m at work it happens up to two or three times. I’ve been keeping track of it but also trying not to worry about it. Work has been pretty stressful though. As usual they’ve been finding ways to cut us shorter at night. If they have their way in a few years there will be one person running the entire store. But yeah, lately it’s mostly been two people doing everything after 7pm which leaves us with 4 hours of dealing with summer traffic. I’ll be taking some time off next Thursday though for about a week so hopefully I’ll get my shit together.
So during my offtime I’ve been just playing games, researching this and that. Like tonight when I decided to try out OBS, an open source alternative to video capture programs such as FRAPS. It’s free and has a ton of features, such as plugins, the ability to record different video formats, overlays and a bunch of other fun stuff. I like the idea that I can record full 1080 to an flv/mp4 file. That’ll make my recording drives keep more storage for projects. 😀
I said I’d make some kind of disasterpiece to celebrate my 100+ subs on youtube, and here it is:
I recently discovered that I had over 100 subscribers on YouTube. Which means at some point I should probably make some kind of milestone. I’m not sure what to do either since I never really expected to get above 7 subs. So I’ll have to give this some thought.
To those of you who read the blog and sub’d to my youtube, thank you it means alot! I’m not sure how you arrived on my planet or why but it’s still appreciated. 😀 And to those who don’t sub but still watch my videos, thank you for being really bored and putting up with me.
I found out that my Logitech F710 gamepad works under Linux with no additional drivers if I leave it in direct input mode. 😀 I tested a couple games with it and it recognizes that a controller is present.
The rest of my evening consisted of customizing KDE to my liking… Yeah I’m a nerd. I have a nice blue setup right now though. Downloaded a ton of schemes, themes and other stuff to make it look cool.
I think I’ll give Windows some love tomorrow though. Been a few days since I’ve been under there. 😛
With all the depressing crap lately it helps to watch something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZygpaAJjCA
Trigger warning: If you have a weak stomach you might want to stop reading right now. This is about a man who was boiled in prison by some prison guards, and while there are no pictures included it was hard enough for me to write this. But it’s too stupid for me to not rant about it:
Before heading to bed I usually take one more swoop of teh internetz to see if there is anything interesting before hitting the sack. Sort of like a bedtime story of sorts. What I found in my feeds didn’t have a happy ending for anyone.
MIAMI, FL — A torturous “punishment” session turned fatal for a mentally-ill prisoner, when prison guards forced him to stand in a tiny shower stall while being blasted by scalding hot water until his skin began to shrivel away from his body and he died. Fellow inmates say he begged for his life before collapsing in the shower.
He was in prison for possessing cocaine and he was accused of crapping on the prison floor… when did being mentally ill merit such a horrific punishment? I’m not trying to defend someone who ended up in prison for storing drugs, but at the same time these prison guards committed a murder as far as I’m concerned. Prisoner or not that was illegal and immoral. I wouldn’t wish that death on my worst enemy. Except maybe the people who would force someone to do this…
Rainey, who suffered from mental illness, was accused of defecating in his cell without cleaning it up. The Florida’s Department of Corrections often comes up with cruel and imaginative punishments for prisoners — allegedly ranging from starvation diets to forcing prisoners to fight so the guards could place bets.
I know some Pelican Bay prison guards (current and retired) who live around here, and there are at least two who would have the same personality traits as the guards in the news story. It makes me question what type of personality you would have to possess to want to do these things to people. If these people couldn’t become prison guards where would they end up? Would they be murders?
Of course this being America I wouldn’t be surprised if this became the new death penalty.
The first thing I did when I got home was… use the bathroom. Then I tore into reinstalling Fedora 19. I finished tweaking it to my liking under KDE and xfce which I have decided (a long time ago) are my two fave desktop environments. I even got my wireless controller working under there thanks to some open source drivers via rpm. 😀
Since I haven’t been into Windows for the last few days I figured tonight I would return to it. Played a bit of Portal 2 with a controller and it wasn’t too bad although it felt weird. Mostly had chats going otherwise. Just a bit ago I had a random system reboot and my logs seem to point to my current video drivers. I’m hoping this is a fluke. Luckily the warranty is still good though.