Archive of ‘computer gaming’ category

26
May
2022

My Internet is working better… I mean, I hope.

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 276 words

We had severe storming the night before last, which resulted in damage that our ISP had to fix (not actual damage to our modem, router, or lines… other damage, and I don’t claim to be an expert on any of these things). Because of that, I dropped a lot of frames when I attempted to stream Chrono Trigger as planned last night, but things are looking better now than they were! I think I’m going to stream Chrono Trigger tonight to make up for it instead of Alice: Madness Returns like I had been planning, but sometimes concessions just have to be made. Meanwhile I have some completely awesome friends who are attempting to bring some retro programs that a lot of us used in the nineties and early millenia, and I think they’re going to be successful at it — I’ll write more about it here as time goes on, but I’m an alpha tester for one, and I’ve mainly delegated myself to quality of life issues and things like “well, how much can I click on to see if any errors come up that I can report?”. Or… however else you would word “come up”, because migraines are fun.

When I can talk about one of (okay, probably the primary) the passion projects that is going on right now that some programmers — and some of my friends, to include the overlap that are some of my friends who are also programmers, “there ain’t no gettin’ off of this train ride we’re on” — I may post screenshots, but only with permission. This is amazing. This is great. This is definitely extremely nostalgic. I just love this.

24
May
2022

So I’ve tentatively been streaming wirelessly!

categories: computer gaming; word count: 186 words

I’ve been streaming wirelessly on Twitch, and I’m gearing up to become an affiliate once I meet all of the criteria. When that will be, though, I’m not quite sure — I just have to meet the requirement of average concurrent views (I have no problem nailing the rest of them), and mine are all over the place. I have been meeting some awesome people through networking my Twitch account though, and that has been awesome! At some point I do intend on having the gaming PC hardwired into the modem so we don’t have to worry about dropped frames or anything like that, and I’ve been looking into what I’ll need to have here at the house to make that happen. I was also given the recommendation to post about Twitch on TikTok (10/4, can do) because Twitch makes it hard for people to discover people that they would like to watch on Twitch. Most, if not all, of people’s discoverability comes from outside sources, and I’ve been posting about my streams on Facebook and Twitter. I do honestly wish that Twitch had better native, on-board discoverability.

23
Apr
2022

I have surprisingly made a lot of progress here!

categories: computer gaming; word count: 179 words

I’ve managed to get past all of the problems that this computer has presented me with so far!

I figured out that the monitor needed a DVI-D cable to DVI-D cable to connect to the desktop, so I went ahead and got one of those since the person who sold me the monitor only sent a VGA cable along with it, and… almost. I mean, they tried. At any rate, I got everything hooked up via USB that needs to be hooked up, and all peripherals appear to be functional. Twitch Studio continues to give me a bit of shit “testing” streaming out, but when I look at the raw stats from the GPU encoder and the computer’s equivalent of an encoder I’m liking what I’m seeing a lot more than I was on the All-in-One computer that we admirably tried to get to stream. (And by that I simultaneously mean “failed miserably to”, especially if you were watching.)

Now all I have to do is reauthenticate ownership of these games we own and I should be almost done!

22
Apr
2022

If it’s not one thing around here, it’s another…

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 143 words

I seem to oscillate between people thinking I am “not severely disabled” and can hold down a conventional job to people thinking that I am so disabled I can’t work at all, and I’ve seen this oscillation happen between a day or two at the least. It’s almost like whiplash. And it’s almost always from able-bodied people, too.

In other news, the cord that I needed to set the gaming computer up has arrived and is functional! I just need to get the Wi-fi adapter that came with the computer to work because it is not working for some reason… all I have to do is get this oe thing fixed and I can begin loading the new computer (which will take some time, and will probably cause no shortage of migraines). That said, I’m getting back to work on loading this thing.

21
Apr
2022

I mean, this is only taking forever but yeah.

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 410 words

This time, I’ve been in the process of getting a lawyer to help me get disability benefits. So far it’s basically been a game of phone tag getting my pain management clinic and psychiatrist’s office to fax things to this lawyer’s office so that they can go over them and see if my case is a good fit for them. I don’t even mind the idea of a lawyer taking backpay from any settlement that I am awarded because that means that I will have won and will finally start getting disability benefits that I have been owed for years. With my migraines, Social Security has refused to equal it to the closest epilepsy listing for years, even when I have pointed out that this is the proper protocol with them. They just refuse to do it. The ALJ that I have gotten twice over the years is racially biased, as she treated me a lot better when she thought I was Black (and my full first name seems to be more common amongst African-American girls and women, although I thought that my voice made it clear that I am white over the conference call for the hearing… I digress). But now Social Security is going to have to deal with reports regarding anxiety and depression from my psychiatrist, which is another listing that I may be able to get if not equal. I’m finally having that worked up and being put on better, stronger medication to attempt to ameliorate symptoms of it. My psychiatrist is open to other medications as well, concurrent ones, so I am thinking about asking for a medication just for anxiety in addition to Lexapro.

If I can, though, I’d like to make something out of streaming. It can be something that I… do, especially when I feel well. It’s something that I would love to do and make a thing, although I am also aware that it tends to take years to get noticed enough to where it is self-sufficient. Tomorrow the cord needed for the gaming desktop should be here, I should be able to start it up (why didn’t the person selling us the monitor just give that one cord to us?! they said that they were sending everything with it, but I… sigh), I can begin to install things and move around the USBs a little bit. This ought to be fun! And take me a little while. I’m not worried.

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