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.
Evening Open Thread
Had enough energy today to clean up shop! I can see a floor now holding everything up.
On another note, today’s daily popular is pretty interesting. Fore.
Feeling better today
Haven’t been really doing much due to feeling under the weather. Which is a shame because I had so much planned. I’m JUST NOW starting to feel better. maybe later on I’ll record some more lines. Maybe even some more footage.
Allergic to mold and stupid.
Work felt extremely long today. I think all the old people marinated in perfume and cologne overnight before coming in this morning. All but one woman who is aptly named “cheese butt”. Who happens to smell like rotten cheese. I volunteered to take a product she was looking at (feminine pads/depends) and do a price check for her. She said that would be a good idea because she “isn’t much of a walker”. Well no shit, she’s probably doesn’t care for bathing either. In fact I’d say she probably can’t fit into a tub or a shower stall. Her ass was big enough to be a table.
It didn’t help that my allergies were getting on my nerves today, that and the lack of sleep. Hopefully it won’t be much of an issue tonight. I’m doped up on antihistamine. A shot or two of vodka will numb up my throat too.
Now I have another shot at a 3 day weekend. I think this time I’ll just hang back and focus on recovering from black mold.