Tune in for a review of a L4D1 original custom campaign called Dead On Time! Where Tomala has a hard time even trying to make a single joke about it. It’s that perfect…
Early Morning Open Thread
New mp3 player arrived today. It’s a Sony Walkman with 8 gigs. It didn’t seem to like the front USB port but runs on all the others just fine. Been stress testing it and making sure it works so I can leave good feedback. So far it does everything I want. 🙂 It even has a built in speaker! Finally a new way to annoy people during break time…
Edit
I inserted a smiley face into this post? I must be tired…
Should probably update
Been so wrapped up in writing scripts, work and TF2 that I’ve neglected this blog again… Oh well, I’ll try tomorrow.
Why white people should never rap.
I have no words for how painful this is to watch. It was difficult for me to not grit my teeth while watching this and feeling my brain cells reach for the closest noose so that they may hang themselves to get away from the pain and sorrow this video has caused. Burned into my retinas… I think I’m going to have nightmares.
I’ve got my work cut out for me.
Played a campaign tonight for L4D1 called illogic city. Needless to say there is a mountain of material for me to make a good review…
You Can’t Do That On XBox! Crash Bandicoot Course
We watch another video from the past. past Tomala talks about Crash Bandicoot Course and a display of epic nostalgia and comedic adventure.
A day in the kitchen
Today’s scientific experiment was of the Thai variety. I made some chicken and brown rice soup with cilantro and crispy garlic, and a spicy peppery tuna salad in wheat pita bread. Both turned out very flavorful and filling. Didn’t have any fish sauce though, had to rely on some tamari (aged soy sauce) and lime juice instead. I think when I get back I’ll make a pepper sauce for future dishes, then tear right into some video production.
Windows XP still has better sound.
As soon as I get a hold of a couple drives for my Steam RAID array I will be doing a dual installation of XP and 7. Windows 7 does a wonderful job handling tasks and gaming. However, XP still offers more options for sound. I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that windows 7 does a great job neutering my X-FI elite pro. The PAX drivers I installed recover most of that via emulation, but when it comes to soundcard hardware control XP is still superior.
When I use FRAPS to record something I can just press a button and it selects what u hear by default. Pressing the same button turns off recording and puts me back to the device I was using before. Under windows 7 however, you have to set what u hear manually before gaming. Otherwise you will only get either your own mic or game sound recorded. Before anyone tells me that I may have an extremely dated card, let me tell you that I have a SoundBlaster X-FI elite pro. If I wanted to I COULD get a soundcard designed for Windows7/Vista. But then even the newer cards have lower DACs (digital-to-analog converters) than the one I currently have (and a must for voice recording). Thank you Mr Bill…
Of course I have no issue running two operating systems on one computer. It wouldn’t be the first time.
More win 7 prep work plus a stupid story.
One of the things I like about Win 7 is in gaming. Under XP I had an issue with the mic changing from Line 2 Mic 2, to standard microphone when playing any Source game. I just tested TF2 in Win 7 and it stayed on Line 2 mic 2. These PAX drivers are possibly better than the actual X-Fi drivers. I also got all of my adobe products running under 7. Tomorrow when I work on another episode I’ll do a test rendering on both operating systems.
On an unrelated note, apparently one of my dumb assed bosses thought I worked yesterday. He started panicking because I didn’t show up for work yesterday. It took me coming in today reading the schedule and pointing to him that I was marked as “off” to make him realize that I wasn’t “absent”. Everyone else thought he was an idiot, but that’s pretty normal around the store. I don’t think anyone takes him seriously.
Overlord Victorious!
Did some more experimenting under Win 7. Managed to find out there was somewhat of a fix for getting SourceSDK working under it between a gadget and a dll. Now with this fix I think I can fully move on from XP. That was pretty much the entire reason why I stuck with it up until now. That and I didn’t have much of another reason to go to 7. But with the desire to use adobe premiere pro and after effects with more RAM I think it’s time to move forward. XP has served me well since the last decade. Now that I can have everything that I want in win 7 working perfectly I can rest easy.