Thursday, 24 May 2012

False flagging is annoying....

The following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines: Welcome To My Youtube Channel ! - (jay012345678912) Everyone hates spam. Misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails designed to increase views are not allowed. It's also not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments and private messages. Received: May 24, 2012 | Acknowledged: May 24, 2012 | Appealed Nice youtube, what a great system, you have..... all other 18 videos I appealed on have been rejected. so they have been taken down, I'd say I'm sorry but there is nothing more I can do, its fucking annoying though.... Why do I even bother? Be sure to subscribe to my videos on youtube!

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Hello again old friend, its been a while!

Well it has been a long time over due for a blog post, so here it is!

Just done recording 17 minutes of minecraft that is going to be part of a "season". I feel the opening part went pretty well. Going to be trialing a like system, that will hopefully be 10 seconds for every like the video receives in the first 24 hours, I'm not sure if to penalize people who dislike the video, as in the video at the end I ask for people to use the like/dislike function to show if they want more or not, but I guess the people who dislike and don't want more don't HAVE to watch the videos anyway and is unfair, but will be an indication to see what portion of my subs enjoy minecraft. If I'm been honest minecraft as of this minute probably is my fav game to lets play, especially with mods installed... speaking of which here is a long and random list of all the mods I have installed

modloader
audio mod
spawner gui
mod loader mp
mineforge
matmos
mo creatures
custom mob spawner
equiv exchange
sonmia
optifine
red power (all parts)
craft guide
crafting table 2
portal gun
millenaire
buildcraft
logistic pipes for bc
forestry for bc
industrial craft
adv machines for ic2
power cross over for ic2
100% wrench for ic2
rei minimap
conv inv
elemental creepers
codechickenloader
codechickencore
not enough items
red power for nei
wireless redstone
wireless redstone remote
guiapi
id resolver
timber

and choose not to install nature overhaul,moapi and tale of kingdom as it wasn't updated

I also have some 1.0 footage, 30 mins with mods, but its just me starting a new world, nothing exciting, but if you want, I will upload it.

On a sad note my old headset died today :( on a new note I have a new headset which I quite like, the bass on it is sick, even though it wasn't that expensive. the audio quality I'm not sure about but I guess we will see with my 1.1 minecraft lets play feedback

Think that is.... never mind just remembered something else...

I made an attempt to do some mod spotlights for minecraft, but I was a bit over my head trying to do it, I may have to try more simpler mods first as I tried with industrial craft, I know a fair bit about it but there is so much. I will get better with practice though hopefully,...

Right thats your blog fill for this week :) unless something else comes up

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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

FML!

So last night I decided as a bit of a treat to myself I'd attempt a quick hour-2 hours game that I could record.

Ended up deciding on peggle, and got literally 90% of the way through before raging at it. The commentary was meh aas there is only so much you can say about a game like peggle, and I was annoyed so mainly just venting. The game audio sounded good but maybe my intital test video I spoke louder in because you could hardly hear me so I deleted the 9 parts I had done for it.

In my deleting haste I accidently deleted parts 3, 4 and 5 of my terraria lets play where I ultimately died.

The only thing in my recycle bin is a few 3.95 gb files of raw footage. Pointless having a bin if it isn't going to save everything or at least notify you of losing something forever. It was totally my own fault and I'm just pissed off and a bit bummed by it. Going to have to force myself to record something now as I've nothing again. Not looking forward to it either if I'm been honest.... SIGH

rant over :/

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Friday, 2 December 2011

I'm back and the entire story! (LONG!)

Rightttttt, this is technically my 3rd attempt at an update video.
My first video was some test footage in minecraft that was terrible 360p quality as I had fraps set to half size recording - fail!
The 2nd attempt was a LoL game that I played so bad in and was quiet as I was just concentrating on the game so that sucked - fail!
This is the 3rd attempt and my plan is to write a blog post, then upload a video directing to here and probably tweet about it also.

So as most of you know I had been whining about minecraft lagging whilst I was recording it, I have always had a high end PC and my previous one is the longest I had gone without upgrading so for me it was very frustrating.
I ordered myself the following 4 parts (which I guess as I have time to write about them I will give them a quick review too maybe?).

Lets start with the motherboard:
Motherboard!
Really nice design, plenty of USB ports and great LED features on the board telling you what is happening, also has a cool start button for easy testing of your system.

Then the CPU:
CPU!
So far it seems more than capable of handling anything I can throw at it, went with more cores than an i7 system as it suits my needs better for recording

Then we have the RAM:
RAM!
Not sure what to say about this, just that it does the job and I'd recommend it!

Lastly the GFX card:
GFX Card!
My most expensive part and seems incredible so far, haven't really found anything to stress it out yet, which is always a good sign!

But there you go thats my system now and wow is it fast :)
HOWEVER things didn't exactly go smoothly.....

I will just sort of let my fingers say what my mind is thinking for this, luckily I have the power to edit bits I forget at the time back in hence why I didn't just do a video as I know I'd forget something.

So it all started the day my parts came, I had paid a bit extra for next day delivery which to ebuyers credit managed within very short notice (maybe 15-17 hours from ordering it was at my door) so excited I get my "new" PSU I have had since 2010 but never got around to fitting as I hate the rewiring process.
I take all my parts downstairs and headed into the dining room.
I undo my old PC and pretty much strip it to the core as I needed my heatsink from it as it is a big beefy zalman heatsink (literally rips your hands to shreds it you catch your hand on it)

So once I had my heatsink from my old PC I stupidly rebuilt the entire system of my new PC without trouble shooting/testing anything first. First put my new power supply in which didnt screw fully in but its held in place and is safe so its fine.
I won't go into mega tech details but there is several power calbes from a power supply, a 24 pin one which goes into the main board and other another one which is a 8pin or 4pin one, the power supply was shit! all the cables were too short and seemed like there wasn't enough (last time I ever get non modular power supplies!)
Anyway after building the system I test it and it boots for a second and powers off which I know is a wiring problem. So I take everything apart and rebuild it and this time leave out a 4 pin main power thingy for the board and this time it boots up and stays on but wouldn't boot to BIOS or anything.

My old CRT monitor was in our shed so I was blind as to what was wrong. After a bit of manual reading I see that the board has some fancy LED's that shows what the error is, it checks for problems during the boot sequence in this order - CPU, RAM, GFX card and then HDD.

The CPU LED was showing something wasn't right, so I remove it and bear in mind everytime I remove it, I remove all thermal paste from both the fan and CPU itself and then reapply a smooth layer to it. It still didn't work so at this point I'm thinking I have a faulty CPU as all the signs point to it. I request a return for it on Thursday (think it was thanks giving) and didn't hear anything Friday which I was dissappointed about but gave them credit, then I worked all weekend and came home monday to check and nothing still! So I give them a call as I HATE _HATE_ not having a PC as its boring as fuck!

(EDIT 1 - I tried putting my old system back together a few days after having no PC and now that wouldn't boot so I had no idea what the hell I was doing wrong!)

They give me a returns number after some smart ass comments about board compatability which I think is designed to scare PC novices away.
so I work it out in my head, 1 day to send it off, they get it a day later, take 3-5 days to test it, then to ship me a new one it was looking bad!

So I decide to "spend" an extra day and give a friend of mine a call to come up and have a look at it incase I missed anything (remember edit 1 part here). we first of all tried to get my new system up and working and I pretty uch left him to it to see if he would see and do what I had failed to do, however it still didn't work and was still showing a CPU error. :(

We then decided to rebuild my old system but still use the new power supply that took hours but we finally got it working only to my horror that I didn't realise was my PC wouldn't boot without reinstalling windows!
I han't a clue if I had got a disk for it, and all the things I hadn't backed up as I didn't realise I had to reformat!

Lost quite a bit of things for youtube so I apologise to you all for that it wasn't my intention but I will have to assess the damage done as I come to need the whatever only to find it isn't there :(

So after reinstalling windows 7 on my old PC system which was a trial version of the beta! only thing I could find lol I accepted the fate of requiring a new CPU to get my system work. The following day I head into town to the post office for a box to email my motherboard back and my CPU, they said I could mail my board back in case that was faulty too they would look at it for me.

As I'm building the box and testing the size I put my motherboard in and get a sudden brainwave of trying my board one last time with my old PSU and just the cpu.
So I wire it up, leave the heatsink off as it was a quick boot test and wasn't going to be on for long and in previous tests the CPU had remained stone cold when I had tried it so wasn't hoping for much, but wait what's that!?!?! the CPU LED is off?!? so stupidly I test it to see it is on by touching it. DUMB idea is DUMB! burnt my finger badly lol still hurts days after, there isn't any skin damage but the nerves on my left index finger inside it are really sore now!

I didn't care though as it worked!!!!!! my CPU wasn't faulty! What I had done with my old power supply was attach an extra 8 pin as well as the 24 pin to the board.
So I call my friend again and ask him if he was free again that night after the previous days failure to try and get it working after this discovery!

So I assumed I hadn't wired up the power supply to the board correctly and there wasn't enough for the CPU to run, however on my first test when I had it would'nt boot. I was puzzled but excited! I headed into town for some extra cables for my power supply to extend them and make the job easier and to try and get a 4-8 pin adapter which I couldn't :( The 4 pin I got for the board though barely fit and was a really bad strech through vital parts of my PC and I didn't like it so just got a 4 pin extension.

so with my new cables and few other bits (Also had a look at some capture cards but they only had SD ones which "were fine for smaller youtube channels" as they said but they obviously didn't know me lol :P but I passed for now but might loom into it some other day. £35 down on cables, thermal paste and cleaning fluid I head back home awaiting my friend that night!

So when he came I explained what I had done and we got to work. Slowly and piece by piece checking everything booted on my bed (yes, just my motherboard on my bed with parts on it attached to the power! lol). To our, well mainly my joy everything seemed to work, CPU fine! RAM went in and was fine! Then put the board into my case after taking apart my old PC system again and then put in my GFX card and worked fine! Things were looking good!

Came to reinstall windows only to notice my old IDE DVD RW didn't have an IDE connection on my new board! it was all SATA now! :( noooooooooo
luckily my friend had a SATA drive which he kindly lent me and I still currently have until my own arrives so I could installed windows after a quick trip to his house. (small note I forgot to mention but I had downloaded myself a newer windows copy ith my old system and burned it to a DVD)

After a few days of updating and a few reformats later from updates freezing as I think I had too many at once.(I had to redownload service pack 1 and install it 3 times!) I finally have a working speedy fast PC with very little on it but my game collection is slowly expanding

so far:
Minecraft 1.0
Terraria 1.1
Skyrim
LoL
Civ 5
Dungeons of Dredmor
and currently downloading Borderlands again

as for programs I have skype, steam and thats pretty much it lol

anyway sorry this has been long, I am back and will post a video shortly but it will just direct you to this, hopefully my writing skills kept you here til the end!

final note? its good to be back!

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Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Minecraft part 10

Finally uploaded - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7_EzFhv6g

1 hour and 40 mins long! hope you enjoy it :)

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Sunday, 30 October 2011

Still alive

Very quick update, probably will have to JLOG about it but I really want my next video to be part 10 of minecraft, just need enough time to record it though :/

Just in the process of changing jobs and now will be working fulltime up to christmas so _SHOULD_ be nice and wealthy for the christmas period _HOPEFULLY_

Still working at the same place just a different role and different hours but I'll go into more detail as always though my blog followers get the "exclusives" (I use that term very loosely as you can tell lol) expect minecraft part 10 on monday night or tuesday morning though

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Thursday, 20 October 2011

Release dates!

Short blog but loving the ability to upload and set the release date of a video! anyway

Lets Play Minecraft (with some mods) - Part 8 - The "mining operation"
out on the 22nd at 10am GMT+1

and

Lets Play Minecraft (with some mods) - Part 9 - The "crafting goodness"
out on 26th at 10am GMT+1

Anything I upload in advance will go on here so stay tuned!

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