The O’Blog

So I went through all the used game places in Madison a couple days ago. While at the new location for Video Game Xchange, there was a kid there with his dad who was probably my age and his kid about 7-9 or so. His dad is looking through the old Genesis and Master System [...]

Ok, there were only 3 things that I was looking forward to with the PS3. Gran Turismo 5, Metal Gear Solid 4, and WipEout HD. 2 of those have come to pass. WHD should be here by now, but it’s not and it was announced last week that it’s been delayed for technical glitches that [...]

Tags: ps3

So last night I was browsing around doing god-know's-what, and I had this urge to figure out how people were coming up with forum signatures that showed their WoW stats. They were really simplistic (name/server/level/race/class) and figured they were just scraping some page somewhere, perhaps even a service provided by someone so long as they [...]

Tags: scripting, WoW

I have often wondered if the world really is decaying into a cesspool of violent tendencies, non stop war and an ever increasing crime rate, or if for some sick reason that's all the news likes to report to us. I love listening to NPR/WPR, but damn if I can't predict what the news will [...]

So, during the many parties this weekend when it was revealed by Mr. Bass that he bought a psp finally, he claimed to be doing things I didn't know was possible. Namely ripping ps1 games and playing them on the psp. I thought at first he was talking about the handful of downloads on the [...]

Tags: psp

There's a new study that pretty much shatters anyone's notion of what a gamer is in this day and age. Over at Wired, they highlight some of the stats in it. One that didn't shock me was this: More importantly for those marketing types out there, the average age of the most frequent game purchaser [...]

In a word, ugh. The compiling all went well and it fired up on the first try (cli mind you), so I began ripping a chapter from a music dvd (Underworld – Everything, Everything) using x264 at constant quality 60, no resizing or anything. PS3: Encoding: task 1 of 1, 98.89 % (10.27 fps, avg [...]

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yep… That was a good diversion. All those penguins up there represent all the processors available. Compiling HandBrake now. Hopefully it all works out on the first go.

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I could not help but laugh at my feed again when I saw the tidbit about a “new” game for the iPod and iPhone. Pole Position Remix. Basically pole position, slightly new graphics, in game music from your iPod and billboards made out of your album art. The choice quote: This is a first for [...]

Back when I started in on all my media schooling at the UW, I wondered when it'd be that we'd see real time raytracing, or at least something that looked just like it whether it be in games or some other type of display mechanism. Well gadamn… we just skipped right over Toy Story and [...]

Tags: ps3