ShadowReality

I am sure everybody here has been “rick-rolled” a few times in their life so I have decided to make an experiment. Every week for the next few weeks, I’ll be posting up a news item. With each post, there will be a link at the bottom. It will either be a “Never gonna give you up” video or just a regular site or video. Each post will just be named “The Rick Roll Experiment(Part 1, 2, etc)”. It is up to you to decide whether its real or not and up to you if you want to click on the link.

Remember, even if you think its not real the first time but you go back a second time, and click on the link and its the Rick Astley video, you are still getting rick-rolled. 1 week after i post, I will post up the answer and then you may comment on your own experiences. See You then.

Instead of giving another episode of my amazing “Journey For the Perfect Screen Recorder” series, I’d thought to give just the result of my success. The program that I have found is My Podcast Recorder by Deskshare. This video is a Counter Strike Source Custom Skin Tutorial. Now, instead of giving you the Youtube link(It still exists), I will try something new and give you the link to the Vimeo video as it is a much higher quality than the standard YouTube.

Hope you like it and I really hope this goes on Smokey’s refrigerator. Or on the right side under his Spray Tag Tutorial.

For the past few days, I have been annoyed by the constant bugs in screen recorders so I’m going to blog about my troubles. It isn’t that original but here it goes.

Day 1
Smokestorm recommended me to Hypercam. I’ve known it for quite some time but haven’t tried it until now. When I went to try it, it worked pretty well until I looked deeper into the video. It seemed like the audio had a liking to always go out of sync, usually 30 seconds off which is bad. I googled this situation in hopes of finding a solution to the problem but I didn’t find a solution however I did find another program that was called “Cam Studio,” so stay tuned!

As I make you wait for the next part of this amazing series to come here’s some more stuff to get you interested. What I was trying to do with Hypercam was pretty much make a whole series of videos.
Mostly recording flash games because you really can’t do much with Hypercam.

Some of the few games I was trying to do were:

• Fishy/Fishy Classic (http://www.xgenstudios.com)
• Generic Defense Game[Ultimate Defense, Ultimate Survival, Ninja Storm] (http://www.kongregate.com)

It turns out that “Generic Defense Game” worked pretty good in terms of Hypercam working with it. There were some synchronization problems with it in the middle but it all worked at the end. It sucks though because I never got around to uploading it and I recently deleted it from my computer. Once I do find a good screen recorder, I’ll be sure to get that going again. As for the Fishy video I was going to do. I found that I not only had problems with the audio and the video synchronizing but I sounded really nervous. Well, I can’t be mad about that. I still need to be open and more confident in talking to people through video.

Recently, I also tried to do a tutorial of sorts for CS:S (Also With a screen recorder). More on that after i get that to work also. I also hope to get that tutorial (once its done) to get on the right of the page under Smoky’s Spray Tag Tutorial. Well that’s it for me today wait till tomorrow to get the second part of my “Journey For The Perfect Screen Recorder”

Wanna Get Hypercam? - http://www.hypercam.com