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Oct1 Blog GamersParadox or GuitarsParadox

I'm enjoying the challenge of streaming Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) and trying to get on the leaderboards.

I'm also enjoying recording ideas on guitar in Reaper (DAW). Doodling onstream has been enjoyable.  I kind of get lost in it. 

I streamed 9 hours yesterday, 10 hours day, and will be streaming tomorrow.  I've got to stream as much as possible.  I really have no other income, and have been too sick to work for so long, and get sick everytime I go play poker.

I want to plan on some "show" streams for guitar/music, a musical journey, if you will. 

I want to stick with writing and recording music on a regular basis.  Thinking about having one day a week where I write a whole song, both lyrically, and musically.  (probably on separate days)  I've always wanted to write songs for movies and such, so it would be cool to focus on that.

I also need to CREATE content for YouTube that will help both Guitar and Games.  Along those lines, I need to keep blogging more regularly.  All of it tied together should help the "brand" get off the ground and reach more people, and retain more people!  This is what is needed to support myself from home and being happy CREATING. 

It's time to schedule my "streaming programming" for what I watch during downtime, more music videos, more learning, less "tv" as it were.

It's late, and I have lots of work to do tomorrow, so I better get to bed.  Someone prompt me to write more on these blogs :P

~Sean aka Wookie

Logitech G series headphones not loud enough? Here is a fix!

     Is your PUBG not loud enough in your Logitech headphones?  Is your music not as loud as it used to be?  The problem likely comes from your software, not the hardware!

     Logitech made a poor business decision pissing off a lot of customers, when they decided to remove the preamp from the advanced EQ section of the Logitech Gaming Software, that you use with your G930 or G35 headphones.  I followed someone's advise and rolled back to 8.57 or something, where it SHOWS the preamp, but the button is grayed out and you cannot adjust it!  You can see it move a little if you change the EQ manually, but it only goes up or down a tiny bit and doesn't do what we are looking for.

     It started with version 8.45 and higher.  Something about complying with EU Standards of some kind.  Well, screw that.  I prefer my freedom to make myself go deaf if I want to! (Playing electric guitar in bands for years, I am fully aware of noise limits of the ear).

     Use version 8.40, or earlier, to get your preamp back! You can install it right over your more current version.  Go to EQ, click Advanced button (below the Bass and Treble old fashioned sliders) and on the left, you'll see the Preamp section is no longer grayed out!  Adjust to your tastes, even if you prefer to lower it to clean up your bass on the subwoofer in the surround sound.  Myself, I prefer to boost it, so I can turn the music as loud as I like, and hear wonderfully in games like PUBG with direction audio as part of the gameplay.

     Here is the link provided by Logitech, where you can find a variety of previous versions: ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/techsupport/gaming/
This is direct from Logitech.com.  In case they ever remove the files, I have uploaded the 32 and 64 bit version of 8.40 to my public dropbox.  Just post a comment if you need, and I will provide the link.

     Enjoy!

Draft Dec2014a - Publish Feb2015

It's time to investigate streaming for a living.  Games (which ones?), music (what kind), poker (what works for me), and what blend.  YouTube, marketing, donations, plan/schedule?.  Incorporate shrinking donation/easter egg hunt button,  with Tweedle DeeDum sound effect.  Find my niche.

Currently thinking, Poker, LoL, Minecraft, SolForge, HS, Heroes, and some kind of FPS similar to Quake.  Some game development would be nice as well.  We don't see much of that.  Unity and Unreal levels would likely be cool.

Editing videos needs to be standard for YouTube and Twitch highlights, etc.  Music without copyright problems would be ideal (twitch will mute replays otherwise).

Need webcam and better mic. Windows drive for laptop. Try HDD from desktop?  Get portable bay? Fix HDD from Jan

Floor Jansen & Metropole Orchestra - Sound of the Wind (from Final Fanta...

Some of the best music makes it into Video Games :)

Official Shadow of Mordor Story Trailer - Sauron's Servants

Memory upgrades? So many questions...

http://globalsp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/wp-sandy-bridge-ep-memory-performance-ww-en.pdf

White paper on memory channels re: UDIMMS, RDIMMS, etc.. 

Need this Grind Station...

For both Work and Play!

Time to branch another Blog for Music, before it takes over the Games!

I've got to do it.  It's time to branch off my music blog away from my gaming blog.  I will still post and blog about music here as well, but mostly with a video game focus.  There will be some cross posting between the 4 (now 5, one is a secret!) blogs, but only where it seems logical.  Well, maybe.  I should clarify ... so long as it seems logical to me, at the time!

Now then, where did I put that list of names I was thinking of using?  Do I really have to dig through Facebook to find that post?  I'll update this post with the name after I'm done.
Edit: Paradox Of Metal?  Paradox of Guitar?  Guitars Paradox?

At least I know what the first post will be, a lost guitar recording of Randy Rhoads giving a guitar lesson for Diary of a Madman...

Link Outpost 1 Mar 2014

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454959,00.asp

Video Gaming Economies

Video Gaming Economies



liberally borrowed from @Pokerati

Games & Tea: SolForge - The Making of "Nesh, Wind Giant" (Guest...

Games & Tea: SolForge - The Making of "Nesh, Wind Giant" (Guest...: Crowd-funded projects (Kickstarter etc) are definitely on the rise at the moment, and are a great way for smaller games which may never nor...

Occulus RIFT loses brilliant VR mind of Andrew Scott Reisse

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=9122999

Apparently the victim of a gang running from police, he was struck as a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

GamersParadox Blog by TheWookieWay (Let The Wookie Win!)

I have decided to start another blog.  Tech/games/whatever.. I need another outlet that is not on my personal blog, nor my poker blog.  But where do I put it?  What accounts do I use?  I'll try to figure that out while catching up on my DVR'ed Big Bang Theory.
Let's start with what do I feel the need to blog about?  Having worked in the video games industry for most of my adult career, I think a gaming blog might be an ideal place to start.  I need a better computer arrangement in order to be livestreaming full time, as it overheats my laptop currently.  Perhaps I should figure out a way to pipe the video/audio from the gaming laptop over to another pc for xpslit or similar broadcasting like they have been doing over at www.GamingForGood.net ...   Xsplit has some handy features for quickly switching from one layout to another.  But initally starting it frequently crashes.  If I use this setup, it will lessen my ability to move laptop arounds the house for non livestreaming use.. or will it?
I might also later start a more tech/programming type blog.  But maybe now is not the time?  For now I can consolidate.  I'm not starting a 3rd blog is even a good idea right now.  It does seem to fit my personality more though, being able to switch gears and type about different things from time to time.  One of the things I think I can do, and would like to investigate is having a "roaming" IP, using one domain name, but several sub-domains, and being able to use that while traveling via Mobile phone or laptop, or other devices.  What is the optimal setup for doing this?  VPN to home machine?  Mutliple points of authentication for being able to blog on the go?  This deserves more investigating.  The more I think about it, the more I see a need for a Gaming blog and a Tech blog, but what do you, the reader, think about this?  Can a Gaming/Tech blog survive in this modern day niche world of "too many blogs"?  I don't see the two as mutually exclusive, and will see how it goes for now.
So what games?  How about ANY games I am playing or developing or testing or interested in?  In the past 2 years, that has been Rift, Diablo 3, and League Of Legends, for the most part.  And a whole lot of live poker.  Online poker has returned to Nevada this month, but I'll blog about that mostly over at Poker Paradox , which is my poker blog.   There may be some interesting posts about poker software on this blog, but most of the poker news will be over there.  Speaking of online poker, long ago I was trying to talk to PokerStars about livestreaming online poker so you SEE your opponents on cam while playing .. like a cam window for each chair at the table.  This adds in some of the live elements to playing online poker, such as poker tells, being able to converse, dig for info, and some of the "fun" of poker.  And it would appear, that Inifniti Poker has done just that!
I have also played Guild Wars 2, but not very much.  Everquest has some free features available, and I checked that out, but it's been SOOO long since I played Everquest.  I used to play it for 5 solid years as my main hobby around the time my son was born, but that was a long time ago.  He is now going to be 13 next month!  Diablo was sort of fun with their Real Money Auction House, but there was always a gap between those riding the current inflation wave, and those left behind.  It also got quite boring, something I related to "mowing the lawn to see what I can find today".  I would often watch TV while playing because it was so boring, or listen to music, and then worry I wouldn't hear or see the times I would get a special item drop.  It would be nice to have a nice immersive MMO of some kind.
What I really miss playing is a nice FPS like Doom or Quake or Unreal!  I miss building levels, and the amount of fun you can have in a short time, which I think is missing from a lot of games today.  I used to love games like Total Annihilation, where you can get involved a game that goes on for quite some time, giving the feel of an epic battle.  This is in contrast to a game like League of Legends, where a long game is almost an hour, but where you feel like you are losing the whole time with no chance to win, or a game where you are winning, but the enemy team surrenders in 20 minutes flat!
I'll stop here, and come back to speak at length about League of Legends by Riot, something I've been playing for over a year now, due to the fact that my employer, Alt Ego LLC, has two titles to use with this game, Champion Select (http://championselectbeta.appspot.com) (Browser and Android) and LOL Brain (Android only, currently).
Champion Select is a tool for sharing your match results via posters showing those results via Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram.  It also let's you post an image of certain champions with custom message currently, but that part of the app may be removed soon.  You can share your K/D/A results along with your teammates names and your enemy's names, or a specialty poster, like Highest Damage, or Killing Spree like Pentakills, or streaks like Godlike and Legendary.
LOL Brain is a stats comparison utility that shows much of the same type of info you can find on LOLKing, but let's you easily look up and compare stats vs all players, vs a specific player, or vs a certain range of players, such as "Mid" "Bronze" league players.  It's also much easier to read on your mobile device.  I'm not sure why LOLKing and MobaFire do now have mobile sites yet.  Seems a bit of an oversight on their part.

     I think I'll stop here, so I can get in a match before work, as I still have two more Quintessences to buy for my main builds in LOL.  I have a level 30 summoner (WookieAE for Alt Ego) with about 28 Champions on NA servers, and have just hit 30 on EUW servers (TheWookieWayEU), but still can't play ranked yet.. apparently I need to buy more champions!
     Well played, Riot. Well played.