Category: Random Musings

Just random musings on random stuff.

Restoration Process – 9 PerCent

Slowly getting there… still on reviews. Plenty of them left to go before I can start rendering other stuff… but at the rate I’m going… and provided nothing goes wrong… I might be able to sneak a commentary or two along the way… just to break the monotony.

Digging into the RAW Vegas files, I can add another casualty to the list… the Donkey Kong review for 2600. In this case, I must have “misplaced” the files and can’t find them. So this is one that I have to REDO somewhere down the line… all I have left is the original text review that I used for the dubbing…

Dang.

Restoration Process… 6 PerCent

Not much in terms of archive restoration; managed a couple reviews rendered back in one piece. Unfortunately, I’ve hit a bit of a snag when it came to rendering the Rebel Assault II review… the RAW Vegas file is incomplete. I honestly have no clue where the completed version is… if I even have it still. I did download a lower-quality MP4 file, but I really want a high-quality file on hand in case I ever need it.

It seems like my only option at the moment would be to restore the video, which will likely result in a brand-new edit. I’m debating whether it’d be worth it, though, since I really have no intention of revisiting the game in a reviewing format and any edits made would be fruitless since both DM and YT accounts have the review. I will give it a think.

Restoration Progress – 5 PerCent

Finished rendering a few more old reviews today. It’s still a long ways to go, but I think given the amount of time available to myself, I’m lucky to be getting any of this stuff redone at all. Of course, because of certain missing elements lost to the crash, I had to make some slight, minute edits to some of the older files – mostly a different opening panel. It’s a piss off that I’m even bothering with this, but it needs to be done… eventually.

Restoration Progress – 2 PerCent

Managed to re-render 25 older review of the archive, including a couple reviews for future postings. It should take me a couple more days to restore the review portion of the rendered archive, by which point, I’ll start on commentaries and later.

I’ll be posting regular updates on my progress regarding this archive restoration bit. While I will admit that these things won’t make for interesting reads long term, it is a way to get content (and post count) up. And if nothing else, it’ll be a nice gauge to progress how far I have to go before I can get back to making new content.

Skip if you like.

Weather talk… that sort of thing.

At the moment, it’s that kind of weather around these parts. The kind that is somewhat warm if not humid, but windy if not cool. It’s a near conflict of the senses, but not enough to be considered something terrible or anything. Perfect kind of weather for a student strike…

Fucking hell…
Yeah, so around these parts, students have been on strike due to rising tuition hikes. These strikes have resulted in the usual bullshit that I don’t want to get into, what with the proposed law and resulting riots, but here’s a convenient link to get you up to speed.
Back in my day, we didn’t have student strikes. We had drop-outs… that’s all I’m commenting on.

Random Thought Of The Day

The title might be a misnomer since this blog is comprised almost entirely of random thoughts, but I digress.

I just recently picked up a brand spanking new keyboard that isn’t mini… and suddenly I find myself having to relearn how to type, after months of being on a minikeyboard and netbook keyboard layout.

Not to mention a lot less space on the desk.

Definitely need to clean this top up.