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Posted on May 15, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
I’m going to be starting up a couple of new streaming series. I ordered some components last night that will improve the streaming quality by strapping two computers together (in a way). In a nut shell, it takes some load off of my main computer (the one doing the rendering) and puts it onto another, which will be dedicated to streaming.
The first is one that I receive a lot of requests for. It is Banjo-Tooie. The first episode of that will air on Thursday at 5 PM PST. I haven’t finished the game, so parts of it will be blind. I will be doing a Q&A while I play the game.
The second series is a bit different. I will be streaming a play-through of the game “Alan Wake.” If you’ve never heard of it before, it is a game written as a horror story. The first episode of that will air on Saturday at 4 PM PST. Be sure to turn the lights off for this one.
Hope to see you there!
Posted on May 11, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
The host for this website and everything attached to it (Soku Lobby) went down unexpectedly this morning. While I was sleeping, I received a couple emails notifying me that there was an issue on the machine this host was on. My host provider rebooted the machine and brought it back up. They claimed the “state” it was in was restored, but that is not true. What they did was effectively the equivalent of pulling the power cable and putting it back in. When I found out this morning, all of the services were down. That includes this blog, the databases, and the lobby. Everything is back up now and appears to be running fine. Hopefully no data was lost and there is no corruption.
I’m finally going to have some free-time again this summer. In that free-time, I want to work on at least one project. I’ve already got some smaller projects and non-programming projects planned out. I would like to make at least one game during the summer. There are some ideas which I have thrown around. Whichever seems to have the most interest is what I’ll go with. To start off, I’ll discuss the smaller projects and save the bigger (and good stuff) for the end of this post. Most likely, I will write posts about each of these projects as they happen.
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Just a heads-up for anyone interested. I am now accepting requests for commissions. Really small projects are free. Larger projects will cost more, but the pricing is fair. If you have an idea or want to find out more, check the Commission page.
Posted on March 16, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
A lot happened at my job today, and I figured I would give an update. We found out some more information about the new policy for contract workers.
Posted on March 12, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
Just today I found out about a new policy put into place at the company I work for. I work for a company that was recently purchased by a much larger, and well-known, company. The bigger company has been pushing a lot of policies on us. I will leave both of their names anonymous. The new policy does not allow contract workers to work for the company for more than a year. I have worked for this company for almost three now.
Posted on January 11, 2012 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
Recently I bought a game called Sequence. At first I wasn’t sure how good it would be, since it was a PC rhythm game and it had 3 panels to hit arrows in. From my experience, PC rhythm games are just bad, made by some DDR fanatic that doesn’t fully understand the game mechanics or can’t write code. And the whole “3 panels” thing made it seem like the developers liked rhythm games a little too much. I read some reviews on the game, and they said it was good, funny, and had quite a bit of play-time. I figured I would give it a try, and it turned out to be quite a good game.
Posted on December 20, 2011 in Ramblings by dotMaiku
Over the next week or so, I will be migrating my blog from it’s old host to this new one. Due to my busy schedule this past semester, I wasn’t able to post much. I will be catching up on posts during the migration and hope to be able to keep it up. This blog will begin to fill up.
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