29th of Thrimidge 2014

Well, you can tell by the stuff below what I did all day.  I watched Youtube while I did computer research.  I don't really have anything to put up here today.  Tomorrow I have a video game post to put up here, about a common standard idea I had.  I guess this weekend I gotta find a new series of stuff to do because I"m out of book posts that have been the cornerstone of the week for the past 3 weeks.  I do have the "this is all the stuff I decided to start with my media reboot" posts, but I really really want to beat God of War 2 before I go because I finished all my other stuff.  Anyway, sorry for the unentertaining wall of text, but here ya go.  Its free, don't complain.


29th of Thrimidge

New Youtube channel subscribed to.  Linus' tech channel.  I was introduced to him through Chris Pirillo over a year ago, but I had already got tired of watching Chris' tech based stuff, so I did not bother giving Linus a shot.  I now just watch Chris' Vlogs, which are entertaining.  Anyway, Linus Tech Tips is an awesome channel.  He makes tech very entertaining without being stupid, without being amateur, without being boring.  I like his "podcast" shows as well.  I don't know how he does it, but I'm having a blast watching him review stuff I'll never even consider owning.  I also now know who Pirillo has tried to emulate for his channel.  I'm glad Prillo can adapt and change because he's really not the person to be doing hardcore tech reviews.  He's more of a tech "in-betweener", and more of a "at the end of the day, forget specs, this is the experience" kind of reviewer.  Linus is a spec-head, an actual gamer, and tries to look through the bullshit,  the kind of stuff I like to know when I watch this stuff.

Sleeved cables are super mega expensive, holy crap.  I love Corsair, I love how they do the extra 10% that no one was doing and blows away everyone in quality... but charging 80-100 bucks for sleeved cables AND not including the main motherboard ATX cable is criminal.  I'm looking into sleeve kits for doing it myself, but I don't have a heat gun.  I'm going to look up alternatives that use low enough heat that a hair dryer will suffice, but I don't think that's viable.  I may end up just getting sleeved cable extenders from Silverstone or NZXT for the main 4 that would be visible in the window of the case.  I know it is not a performance upgrade, but my last super computer I built was so cluttered inside the case that I gave up on my "fun" ideas on how to add mods and stuff inside.  I want a clean case with neat things inside that I can be proud of.  Doing that last 10% and all that.

Will Strife of the Yogscast was the next Yogs I subscribed to that is "new" to the crew.  To tell the truth, he's a bit dry, but you know what?  I need to shut my damn mouth.  For years now I've complained that youtubers from the mainland U.S. have been "annoy the piss out of you because its funny" people.  People the subscribe to Ben Stiller and Wil Ferrel's brand of idiotic comedy.  I'm not looking forward to when I subscribe to Bebopvox in the Yogs list.  Will Strife's channel is informative, high quality recorded, and well made.  He hooked me by starting a Game Dev Tycoon series, if he had not then I probably would have said "good channel, but not something I want to keep subscribed to".  Does he fit Yogs?  I don't think so.  His show with Parv is excruciatingly unentertaining.  He would make a good strait man, but Parv is not funny enough to be the partner.  Strife is a real gamer, which is lacking in some of the Yogs commentary.  If they would not invariably team with him Parv in a Hunger Games team, then I would put money on him being in the top 3.