What's on your mind?

[Kain Nobel]

Taking time off to cool my head, but it's been hard temporarily disassociating myself with projects. Awaiting new computer before I continue doing or even discussing further work. Much needed break.

My computer has been running like crap. It's old. Single core. The additional RAM was taken from an XP machine probably manufactured pre-2000s.

The new one is coming, but I've been nursing the heck out of this one regardless. Running anti-virus and malware scans but only one thing ever popped up, a stupid PUP (potentially unwanted program), it's removed. I've ran HitmanPro, Malwarebytes, Webroot, Avast, McCafee and Trend Micro. Clean! Deleted 12.8 GB of junk files (temps, remnants of old programs, things like that.) Every day, the last two weeks, I've ran Defrag non-stop. Defrag finished? Run it again! Finished again? Run it three more times!

Tonight I stopped with the scanning and defragmenting nonsense and crawled through the registry, John McClane style. So many remnants left behind. It's apparent most software developers either neglect to write a good uninstaller or simply don't know how to. So much history, so many programs, SO MANY browsers; Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Chrome, Seamonkey, Netsurf, Internet Explorer and... I think that's it. I honestly don't even remember running Netsurf, but it's somehow left garbage in my registry. Trash has been taken out!

Currently learning Linux and OSX, quite a culture shock. In the back of my mind, I hate it all, but... that's no different from visiting a foreign country, right? You think in your head for so long "Oh I wanna go to Japan!" Then you go. Then you're like "I hate this place, I can't wait to get back to [home country]!" Not that Japan is bad, it's just overcrowded, the public transportation makes you feel uncomfortable, most of the people look the exactly alike, the drinking water tastes oddly metallic, everything is rice and seafood and... eww. I mean, at least they have McDonalds, right? But it's not the same...

And it'll probably be like that when I get my new Windows 7 machine, too. Not really looking forward to transferring everything over, reinstalling programs, etc. The programs thing is the biggest headache because I've got SO MANY and I use every single one of them. I might not have touched GraphicsGale, Photoshop or GIMP in three months, because I'm working on software, but best believe I use all three for very specific tasks, sometimes all for the same image. Same with everything else. I've listed 78 programs, 52 of them are on the high priority list because I use them. Heck, every time I compose and render music, each track has been edited with up to 6 different tools to ensure the highest quality, looping and playback I can possibly render.

The nice thing though is... OMG is this machine not running like crap anymore? o.o *Ahem*

What was I saying? Eh, it probably wasn't important.

But yeah, I'm a little excited. The old machine has had a bath, a haircut, new clothes and a makeover! Going to take the HDD out of it and probably run it as a slave to the new machine. My wife, the computer and I all enjoy a little BDSM from time to time. I've tried to instigate a three-some but the wife thinks it's a little odd. Maybe one of these days.

On that note, off to play some GTAV! It was fun talking to myselfyou guys.

[Ahzoh]

You are a perfect example of an overworked hamster. To the point that your brain is mush and jumbled.
My solution is... <knifed>

[Steel Beast 6Beets]

I've been wondering for a while if there's any actual advantage in switching from Windows to Linux/Unix. I ask this because I don't see the point in opting for a platform where less than a half of the most popular programs/utilities/software are available for.

[Kain Nobel]

Yeah, good question, I don't know either. I'm kind of hesitant to reinstall Linux, the last install was a nightmare, but supposedly it makes software development easier, somehow. o.o

Slowly bringing stuff from my old computer and putting it onto the new one. I *could* do an easy transfer, but I've just got SO MUCH to go through, what's trash and what's good.

I love how my backup device has old copies of previously lost relics which I'm glad to have come across, yet at the same goes out of it's way to be a pain in my ass. The program it comes with to retrieve backed up data just threatens to lose everything (seriously), so I'm stuck going through, folder by folder, file by file, trying my hardest to filter old data from new data. At the same time, I get to see how much graphical resources I've made have changed from one edit to the next, from crappy to "hey, not bad!"

In other news: The new RPG Maker XP RTP install changes the way the RTP is written to the registry. That might not mean much unless you're using a self-made custom RTP not related to Enterbrain's, like I am. The good thing is the uninstall registry has improved; the bad thing is the only trace of the RTP information appears to be under the uninstall section of the registry, so now I have to figure out a new way to set up MY "RTP" directory as I'm assuming the old methods are now obsolete.

[Kain Nobel]

Been running Linux the past few days. Currently setting up a proper development environment.

The five year mark of my sobriety date (2009-09-09) is just a few days away. Should be more excited, but I'm not. Quite frankly, I miss drunk Kain, he was a brilliant dude who always kept busy. Sober Kain just goes to work, comes home, sits on his ass at a computer and it makes me sick. Drunk Kain would put his mind to something, do it, and it'd be DONE. Sober Kain... not so much :/

I guess self hatred is part of the healing process. I wish I was still as productive as I used to be, but without the substance. Heck, I didn't even know what depression was until I got sober, now depression and I are BFFs.

My avatar? I think I was drunk when I took the reference picture. Sober Kain drew it out as pixel art since that is what he's good at. Drunk Kain, on the other hand, was more pragmatically inclined. There are things that he understood that my sober mind has trouble understanding. The only thing the two have in common is they both know how to compose music, but I'm not really sure which one is better at it than the other. I do know Drunk Kain was one hell of a guitar player though. Sweet Home Alabama, Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Child O Mine? He taught himself, custom tunings and all. Sober Kain tries to imitate but falls short of playing anything other people can enjoy, it's kind of pathetic.

Drunk Kain had a band and actually went out to play live a couple times. Everything was going great until Mr. Shitty Guitar Player, aka Sober Kain, came in and ruined it all!

Good times ^_^

[RosyPosy]

This is just musing but Im writing a set up to a game where you play the bad guy in rpgs.
every RPG has the crazed villian sure that their dreams are only possible with world domination.
So naturally I wanted to see What I could do with such a set up- these villians always have hordes of soldiers/ but never do we find where they come from. So thats what My set up is; A soldier whose fed up with the politics of her time decides to have a revolution, recrutes Members and takes over cities. Starting small by getting a few supporters and as she takes over hostile territories shell be greeted by both supporters and dissenters, who will protest- why not have a choice to assassinate or debate the naysayer? The choice mechanic in gaming has been either choices dont mean anything or they change dialog and plot features but are just an illusion of choice. I want like some choices are either directly right or wrong(consequence) or are just a matter of opinion or priority(Want the Band of Rebels or the resources?) that way theres never that problem of feeling like youre choosing things to get a certain ending. I just finished Mass effect, can you tell?

[greenraven]

Has anyone else been having problems with youtube lately? Seems like you can't even do a silly Lets Play video anymore without having to watch over your shoulder nervously for the censorship assassins. I feel like this whole copyright stuff is going a little too far these days.

[LilyKnight]

It is going too far these days. We need more people in the copyright reform movement

[greenraven]

At least the big names like TotalBiscuit and GameGrumps have lawyers to help them fight back. I'm a nobody, I have no lawyers, if youtube wants to silence me there's nothing I can do about it.

By the way interesting fact but TotalBiscuit is boycotting Sega by removing all Sega related videos from his channel and is refusing to review anything with the Sega logo.

[Ahzoh]

It's called "Police State", and it's spreading to the cyberworld.