alexf0x

Been dicking about with the webcam and video editors.



It isn't good I will admit, but personally it's just me playing with some new toys.

I found some free video editing and capture stuff last night, so I am going to give up on the idea of live streaming for now (unless people really want to watch me draw, ink, or colour live) and just concentrate on making some video’s for you tube (where I already have an account). I am not going to allow comments there after last time I put stuff up there, mostly because the community there is just full of dickhead 15 year olds who’ve just found a few swear words.

Anyway, I am working at 100mph at the moment, and currently making notes for a vblog that I might make this weekend, on top of working, on top of the caffeine. On top of 1000 exciting ideas.

Also while I am putting this up on the net, and while I am talking about making video stuff, is there anything that any of my peps on my list want me to cover or do? Game reviews? Lets plays? Movie Riffing? Art related stuff? I am all ears for ideas currently.

Anyone know how well it works? What equipment or PC specs I need for best performance? And / or if it allows for record first and stream latter?

I would also love to know if it works with any emulators too.

No I am not reviewing it yet, but damm is this game responsible for my slight lack of sleep and general fuzzy headedness. Yes it's so easy to be absorbed by the thing that you easily forget how late it gets at night.

Seriously I am not giving a review yet as I would like to finish the game first and that is taking me time. However I will say now that it by far surpasses the first game, in terms of story line, characters, and gameplay.

....It's the current venue. Because after yesterday I really started to hate "the saint".

Reasons...

1. It's nearly £4 a pint!

2. for a reasonably sized place it's oddly really crowed.

3. It's badly laid out, god the draft from that door could freeze anyone, passed over 50% of the bar when the door was opened, which was a lot on a meet day.

4. It's nearly £4 a pint!

5. The staff are slightly unfriendly, and slightly crumby. One waitress gave up looking for me, and I wasn't the only one that didn't receive their food either. After waiting an age for some food that was said to have been 5 mins, I received it, cold. They didn't even keep it warm. considering that it was a sort of meal that I could of got at weatherspoons cheaper at the same quality as that is not good.*

6. Speaking of the staff again, warm glass for a cold drink = not happy. Yeah warm as in just from the glasswasher warm, I don't think they even dried it properly.

7. It's nearly £4 a pint!

8. The ambient lighting is poor, from what artistic skills I have I wouldn't want to do colouring in there, I just wouldn't be able to see just what the fuck I was doing. But even so it did make drawing hard late on in the day.

9. It's just so bloody noisy! Ok there was a lot of people there and that did cause a the noise level to spike, but did we need that crappy ambient music on top? I had trouble as it was hearing people.

10. Every time I go there, despite having exclusive use, non-furry members of the public still enter the bar, and this has happened on two separate visits. God I miss the days of function room use.

11. It's nearly 4 freaking quid a pint!

Ok, I've been to a lot of the other old LF venues, and to the saint at least on two other occasions, but seriously in the 9 years I've known LF meets the saint has to be the worst venue I've been to. Yes I did go to one at the therdore bullfrog (crappy but it at least had a function room).

Overall it was a good meet though I did some art, learnt a few new things, and met a few people (although oddly not the people I really came to meet) that I haven't seen in a while. Overall a good time, even if I was drained to the point of stupid last night!!


*And no don't say it was because the bar was busy or the staff aren't used to dealing with so many people, because with the former I've been to bigger busier bars that have got me food on time and that's warm, and with the latter, well how long have has LF been going to this place? About 2 years or so? They should be able to cope by now or not at all. Bottom line crappy service, don't ague with me about it.

American school bans the dictionary for mentioning oral sex.


The first question is where do I begin?

Ok first let me say that I don’t have anything against Christians, but by dog you lot need to sort yourselves out, as yet again this is the sort of stupid that only fundies could come up with. This time it’s not at the education system, but it’s in the education system.

Seriously banning the dictionary? Just because it mentions “Oral sex”? What the fuck man? Seriously! What the fuck! Who’s running that school? The psycho Jesus warrior bitch from wife swap? Are they that prude and so morally righteous that they have the firm belief that the kids brains will explode, or Satan will jump up and claim their souls if they learn of concepts and things like orgasms, penises, clitorises, masturbation and lordy lord homosexuality! That last one might just cause your child to burst into flame on the spot it’s that deviant.

And oh man could you imagine the sex ed classes in a place like this? What do you think they are teaching these kids? That a stork dropped them off with their parents direct from the baby factory? Don’t think about doing anything until you are married? If you have any funny or odd thoughts, like wondering “what the bathing suit area” of anther person looks like, consult your priest, more so if that “bathing suit area” is on someone of the same sex? Oh for crying out loud.

Now a dictionary is a useful thing to have, even this day and age of spell checkers and interwebs, and having one about is really useful when you are growing up you know for schooling. So to ban it on any grounds, particularly moral grounds, and more so if those grounds is over naughty words and concepts that the kids will work out anyway.

As with everything pointless and really stupid.

"Oh and yes I have read the comments to that blog, and no I still find it stupid as even at age 9-12 in school we had access to a full dictionary like that (along with the smaller ones) so yeah it still doesn’t rub. So don’t whine about that to me."

Right, I am having some thoughts on what to do for my birthday. I may organize a meet in Cambridge on the 6th of march (the weekend after my birthday on the 4th), from midday’ish to late with the starting place being either the Castle (the pub near the council offices, not the one near the regal) or the bird in hand (Cambridge’s gay bar, if it still is the gay bar). Things might turn into a furry pub or tea shop crawl (seeing how I probably can’t get drunk) and may end in a trip to the cinema or bowling, maybe if we are feeling rich, both.

The trip is open not just to the local Cambridge furry community but also to anyone on my list (and can practically make it). Those needing coming over and who need a place to crash can contact me and I might be able to provide some space*, but do bare in mind that I do live a little way out from Cambridge, so furs traveling from a distance (or who are really poor) get to call dibs over anyone else.

Oh and yes as I said this is, or will be my 10th year as a fur (the marking point being next month), so that makes me one of the old boys now. Yes I will be doing some other things to mark this as well, don’t know what yet, but I might do some art and/or attend a few national meets or a con. I keep you lot posted as to what’s going on fairly shortly.

Oh and if you get a feeling of Déjà vu, Yes I will repost this due to some people on my list being away currently.

*Maybe for up to three people.

So far so good, a good little furry social network site but it's not to say that I've found a few problems along the way.

1. It's flash heavy for a site where browsing should be quick and easy, having a big flashy 3D rotunda wheel displaying users who are online isn't good for those who have slow connection, and even if we have good connections the pregnant pauses it causes are somewhat frustrating.

2. Oh please for the love of god stop saying shit like "furiends", this talk from furrys was lame ten years back, and time as they say hasn't improved things. Christ just use some English like grown ups would you.

3. It makes me feel like an old man, the average age of furrys on the thing is 18 to 22, even quite a few kiddies from 13 to 16. It's also kina disturbing with that in mind that people have furry porn backgrounds to their pages on this site (even though they are not allowed to or so I believe).

4. The navigation is shitty, user details are to one side then in the middle of the page, things are slow, and commenting is less than clear cut (there are times when I don't know if I am commenting back to a post or just commenting to myself).

5. I've started to take a notice of all the gay singles, and this is just yet another sign that I've slid down a few more notches on the bisexual slider from straight to gay. Darn, someone give me some tities quick.

.....I now haz it, and all is good.

Because people do retarded stuff like this....



Oh I so whish I could of found something like that at work, although I've seen some howlers that have come fairly close.

£285...

Four new brakepads (two had to be replaced that were only just over a year old, not good), full service, Plus they changed the pollen filter that had never ever been done (despite being told that it had been).

I know the local garage was small and they can't do everything, they still have done a good job as the car now feels smoothe, and is a lot quieter. Oh and it's nice to know the air con works again if I want to use it.

Full service + new front pads and disks for my car. Then next month MOT and timing belt change.

I knew that I was dreading Jan and Febuary, at least on the bright side the car is fully mine from the end of next month. I am just glad that I have enough in the bank to cover all of this too.

I heard about how annoying and increasingly widespread use of bullshit corporate jargon the radio today, now personally I've never known anyone to use this shit, but frankly I think it's hilarious. So I did a little scoring of the net and found some bit's of office jargon, and I am giving out my meanings to this crap.

1. Natural tea break - Something you are not supposed to do on our time, we will be installing the catheters soon to prevent this.

2. Downsizing - we fucked up and are firing you for our mistakes.

3. Outsourcing - you're too expensive to employ any more, there’s a hell hole in Mumbai where it will be done for less.

4. wrinkle - A shriveled and diseased bell end.

5. SMART (Specific Measurable Agreed Realistic Time-bound) - We want it done cheap and fucking quick.

6. Walk The Talk - To strut round looking important and talking utter bollocks.

7. Networking - Getting pissed at the pub and brown nosing like a twat.

8. Contact Centre - A hell hole in Mumbai full of poorly paid chimps who can barley speak English contracted out to deal with customers in the UK, mostly to deal with banking or computer support AKA. a call center.

9. Helicopter View - Someone who has their head so far up in the clouds they have no fucking clue what is going on below, see also "Brown tunnel vision" for someone who has their head firmly up their arse.

10. Work-Life balance - The reasons given as to why you should be here more, and see your estranged partner, kids, family less. Work is your life dammit!

11. Event Management - Organizing piss up sessions.

12. B2B - Business only, Because the public are penniless cunts.

13. Seamless - So easy it flows like a river of bricks and raw shit.

14. SME (Small matter Expert) - Someone who’s sucked up to the boss so often they know exactly how big his dick actually is, after all he's opened up his fly on them enough times already, they should know.

15. Multi-tasking - A way of saying to someone that you are the perfect worker ant.

16. Grow the brand - Looking at ways to sell garbage to mugs, like the public.

17. Touching base - The art of bringing a female to orgasm with your fingers or tongue. Protip! : you need to find the thing known as the "clit".

18. Escalate - Sucking off your boss to get some other twat fired.

19. blamestorming - Finding a scapegoat for your own failings then going to your boss to "Escalate" about them.

20. boss-spasming - Walking in on your boss while he is engaged in watching nasty Russian bestiality videos on the internet, or while he's in the middle of an "Escalating" meeting.

For those that can't read it (I know I couldn't):“Note: Just to let you it is not that we don’t believe in things like that, it is just misleading when you talk about it being billions of years old, when we all know that the world is only about 6,000 years old. So why would I pay so that you can misslead my children, your world is just a revolving(?), ours has a start and an end. God created the world. He created animals and man all in the same week. It was also Adam who named all the animals, they will do the essay ‘Rock and Minerals’ but it might not be 5 pages long, and about billions of years, it will be according to the Bible.”

It's so easy to notice how christianity and stupid go together so very well.

Nearest the door, the TV stand and AV area.



One 42" rear projection TV, that will not be there for too long I hope, I am currently looking at getting a HD replacement (anyone want this for free in a few months time?), and all my gaming stuff. Oh and yes that is an Xrocker chair, and yes it is something that I wouldn't normally touch it was an Xmass presant this year.

My desk, and computer area.



My compy Sparta, my laptop, one artist's/craft desk from ikea and yes that is a £3 stool with some pillows, I still have to invest in a new decent chair. Oh and yeah I wall mounted the LCD so I could raise the table with out having to disconect half my PC should I want to do so.

The username is sorvall_sergal so if anyone wants to add or whatever you can.

I am not using this as a shift from LJ though, this will still be my main blog as such and will still be the main place for postings. Why? Well its twitters inherent nature. I can't post using more than 150 characters so I can't really put over my thoughts on stuff, or post cool things about writing or art, in fact some of my twitter postings will probably link back to here so I can talk about stuff in depth, something I can't do on twitter.

I think of twitter as a newsfeed and not a blog, and I am going to treat it as such.

Happy new year to all the readers of my livejournal. May it be a good year for you all.

Half Life 2 - PC (latter Xbox 360)

Without a shadow of a doubt. It was a game that lived up to the hype, played extremely well, had a epic story, characters that grew on you and you cared about, epic battles, ran well on moderately speced PC's at the time, featured technology that changed games for the better, and most importantly is so much fun I keep coming back to it on a very regular basis (the only other games like that are sonic 1+2 and maybe the original super mario games, but more so sonic I was a SEGA kiddie after all).

I know there was a delay in it's release (by one whole year) and the spec edition didn't arrive on the day that it came out (and I wasn't ready to wait an extra 2 weeks at the time), oh and they cut a lot of cool stuff from the final product (yeah what happened to the water tentacle thing?). But at the end of the day it was and is a influential product.

I know that there are some people that disagree with me, but fuck it this is my opinion and frankly they can eat some shit.

This summed up my feelings about the film (yes there are spoilers in this so be warned). Oh and I saw it on Xmas eve, but I put this off because so few people were going to be online yesterday and on Thursday evening.



Ok daft as that was some of the statements are quite true, the movie is eyeball sex, the effects are amazing and it's even more impressive in 3D, if you're up for eye candy then you can't go wrong.

The plot is all right, it gells together nicely and there isn't or hardly any holes, but it falls down from having drawn story elements from other films too heavily, notably dances with wolves and *gack* ferngully. Oh and as it drags on it gets more and more predictable, to the point where you know what exactly is going to happen by bloody numbers.

Final moan goes to the villains who are horrid 2D cardboard cut outs. One soulless corporate executive who's happy to commit genocide so long as the monthly corporate statement looks good, and a slab of military meat who's happy just kill stuff just because, well he's got lots of guns and can kill stuff. You can hate them for the soulless bastards that they are, but they arn't exactly memorable or likeable.

Oh and I saw you nicking stuff from "dragonriders of pern" too Cameron, more originality points off.

Overall worth a see while it's still playing for the eye candy and the 3D stuff (which is amazing), but it not even close to the classic Cameron films Aliens and Terminator 1 + 2.

Verdict (if you want a rating)

4 sumfycats out of 5