Dec 30
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 in
Gaming, Geeky ShitI’ve recorded a lot of footage since my last update, roughly 250gb of hard drive space. I’ll come clean, though: about 249gb of that is me dying.
I’ve started working on the graphic intros and transitions, and shit, it’s hard. Way more complicated and time consuming than any project I’ve ever had before.
I spend about 30 minutes on groups of 3 or 4 frames. If somebody streams this shit, I will bitch slap them. I can’t imagine how much it sucks for video publishers to work so hard on something, and have their viewers look at it in a tiny, compressed box.
Bastards!
Dec 2
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 in
Geeky ShitI’ve been waiting for WordPress 2.7 for a while now and release candidate 1 finally came out today. I upgraded, migrated the WicketPixie theme, and found out that the new comment system is ugly. Well, not so much the system itself. But the code it outputs is hideous and ridiculously hard to style. See the monstrosity in action here.
The default avatar to the right of the post is your Gravatar. However, if you don’t have a Gravatar, it will use your Visiglyph instead.
I’ll work on it later!
Nov 15
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Saturday, November 15, 2008 in
Geeky ShitWhen somebody mentions recording game footage, you probably think of Fraps. Fraps is a good choice, definitely, but as of some patch I couldn’t tell you (its probably been there a while, I’m only just realizing it) Xfire can record your footage in a way very similar to Fraps. Here’s a quick run-down of how to do this.
Open up the options menu.
Choose the Video tab.
Fuck around with this stuff.
I recommend you capture at 30fps, but it can be whatever you want. You can record at half-size or full-size, and you’ll probably want to go with full-size. I use half size because I run at 1680×1050, and recording at half resolution allows me to play more seamlessly without a major decrease in quality. If you record at anything less, you’ll definitely want to go with full-size.
I recommend you do not capture your cursor, because it helps to hide target clicking, which is more clutter in your UI. If you use your cursor for ability clicking, don’t make a video. 
And that’s about it.
