ShadowReality

This last weekend I finished up my custom gamercard code and it works very well, and I am now working on a central control panel where you can customise it further, and then i’ll be adding different sizes / designs too.

Here’s what the card currently looks like, very close to the concept.

The information refreshes every couple of minutes, and should convey the same information as the gamercard in my sidebar. I’ll be posting updates as I add more over the coming weeks.

Having been spending more time in irc on the noobtoob irc channel I happened upon another channel on slashnet, it had the most users in it on the whole server, but no one was speaking.

Upon further investigation the channel (#G7) was devoted to an irc iRPG. Well i know what the RPG stood for in that acronym but what about the I? Well apparently it’s an Idle Rpg, meaning the more you simple idle away and remain in that channel, the more you play the game, find items, battle other idlers and other strange things.

So I can play an idle rpg whilst talking in #noobtoob? Hell i signed up straight away. More info about this strange entity can be found at http://idlerpg.net/

So in addition to playing with Irc I have also decided to try and use twitter once more, previously I had only added a few “tweets” from twitter, and it lost my attention rather quickly…

• SmokestormX - Eating Doritos and Playing with Twitter for my website.
• SmokestormX - Found a firefox plugin for twitter.
• SmokestormX - Giving Twitter a break and gonna watch some TV

So this time I’m going to try and use it for a month or so, to see if I like twittering or tweeting from it or whatever the hell the cool kids are calling it (Such a stupid name). And if I can find a space I’ll add it on the site. So if anybody out there in Internet land uses twitter or wants to give it a go with me, sign up, find me, and follow my twitters and I shall follow yours. The fun in twitter seems to be in twittering together.

This is to be my second recommendation of some DS Homebrew that I stumbled upon. I was looking to stick an irc client back on my DS as I was going to be away from my computer for a bit, and when I checked to see if there was anything better out there than the Irc in DS ORGANISE I found this, quite frankly AMAZING piece of homebrew made by Cluster.

A bit dissapointed in other Irc clients on the DS he took it upon himself to code this amazing piece of homebrew, it is the most feature packed Irc program on the DS I have ever come across, it’s like having a handheld version of mIRC.

Homepage: http://clusterrr.com/
Current Version: v0.4b
Download: ClIRC-0.04-english.zip

Wow! On Tuesday I arranged for UPS to come and collect my Xbox 360, it was shipping of to Frankfurt in Germany for it’s repair, I believe it’s something to do with repair center queues. So this morning I check the Xbox.com support area to check up on my status and it was marked as arrived, so happy with that I continued my day.

Then this evening, mostly out of boredom or longing for Call of Duty 4 I checked the support site once more only to find they had updated the status again….

For the 2nd time, my Xbox 360 has broken…

Having been through the repair process once already last year (I even blogged about it) I know what to expect this time, and didn’t freak out as much at all. I was enjoying some great Call of Duty 4 with some friends when all of a sudden the textures had a wierd matrix effect on them, it looked pretty cool. Then upon rebooting I got an E 74 error which I hear is often referred to as “The black screen of death”, how original.

So it’s queued up for it’s repair already and since theres not many big games out for the Xbox360 at the moment I think I’m quite lucky and should have it back soon enough. I think i might even blog about my Xbox’s second adventure to the magical repair shop.

As discussed on the recent Noobtoob Community Podcast I have picked up a copy of Condemned and have contributed to Jam and Locke’s fantastic videos. Seeing as Jam started in the shopping mall I decided to flesh out the beginning of the story, and after this who knows which part I shall cover next (suggestions welcome). So turn down the lights, turn up the volume and enjoy.

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Part 2:

For the past few weeks now I’ve been co-hosting on the Noobtoob community podcast, myself and Shane (Gameshark) have been inviting guest speakers on and I’ve really been enjoying it. The past few days I’ve been working on getting the feed sorted out and today I finally got around to submitting it to iTunes, hurrah!

You can subscribe by clicking here

Next episode is due out at the weekend, until then here’s the last ep.

Last week I managed to meet a couple of close friends from the Noobtoob.com forums. Whilst HP1703 (John) was vacationing over here and visiting London we had the opportunity to meet up, so myself and Jam Enslaver (James) went down to London and great times were had by all.

I only took a few brief photos (And one video) as John had to catch a train back to his hotel later that evening, but it was well worth the trip to meet them and it makes me jealous of all those going to PAX this year as I know how much fun that is going to be judging by the few hours spent in this cosy London pub.

This week I have been doing battle with my Realtek HD Audio Input drivers. All of a sudden my microphone stopped working, at first i thought it was just another headset that has given up on me but it turns out its a problem with my drivers. It seems to have disabled my microphone input and replaced it with stereo mix and has locked up. I have been pretty much trying everything to solve this, there are various forums around the internet with people with similar problems and all their “solutions” are not working at all for me. So if I find my solution I’ll make a post about it here and on the tech forums in hope that i can help someone else with this as I am clearly not the only one. So after successfully trouble shooting my video card I get this, and I’m not impressed.. especially since I started recording podcasts recently.

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A few days ago, I had messed up my exe for starcraft and so I couldn’t get on b-net and play with Smoky and company. How did I do it? I installed a no-cd crack wrong and I pretty much fucked up my Starcraft. Now today, I went on a journey to find a cd-key grabber so I could get back my cd-key and re-install the game. So after about 3 hours of web searching. I found my redemption and now I can play Starcraft again. But this time, I’m not going to be stupid. In case of “mess up game by no-cd crack”, i have backed up all of my important files so that I don’t have to search for anything ever again.