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Friday, December 6, 2013

New computer!

Who got a new computer?? THIS GUY RIGHT HERE. I mean, it's nothing specifically powerful or robust to speak about, but it's certainly leagues ahead of what I had before. For the first time in my life, I've got a computer capable of running relatively new games at a decent pace and framerate. Oddly enough, the first game I chose to play was Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers, which isn't particularly graphically intense, but it is so far an altogether amazingly fun game. C'mon, you can't tell me you won't have fun playing a game where the primary antagonist is a midget that wears a pair of dirty underwear on his head that gives him telekinetic abilities and a penchant for kicking people in the ass!
What I really wanted to write this article about is probably nothing that anyone that keeps up with the PC master race hasn't heard before... and that's my feeling after 'upgrading' to a machine that runs Windows 8. First of all, before I even say anything, who at Microsoft thought that everyone that ran Windows wanted a touchscreen? That every consumer has a tablet and prefers it to their PC? About 1/4 of the preinstalled apps need an Xbox Live account to access... I've never even owned a console in the Xbox family. I absolutely despised the original Xbox, but I've come to terms with the Xbox 360 being an acceptable console (My hatred stems from the fact that when the Xbox came out, everyone was talking about graphical prowess. If you know anything about me, you know that I will play a game that looks like absolute shit if it is fun. I don't like gamers that will only play games that look good, they're missing out on the most important parts of the process of gaming...)  
Anyway, I've actually kind of grown to like the Start screen, though I actually don't use it very often. The apps sometimes don't close though, which is infuriating. For instance, I'll run the app for QQ and I'll close it by dragging it down off the page and I find it's still running... So I open it again and close it manually with Alt+f4, STILL getting updates as though it's running. ARG. I go to search for the third method of closing, which is to bring up your list of apps, and it's NOT EVEN THERE. Closing an app is something that definitely needs to be addressed properly before the next iteration, if Microsoft is indeed on a path towards making the tablet the primary machine, or at least, the emulation of the tablet.
Now, can I just ask why the Desktop, or.. the cheap facsimile of which is considered an app, and thus EVERYTHING that ran in the old way is part of it? That's just... not right. WHERE THE HELL IS MY START BUTTON!? There are so many programs that are NOT apps, so why is every single one of them relegated to being accessed through the same banner? I'm confused as to why the Windows Key + tab does something different than Alt + Tab (Besides Aero in Vista where Windows Key + tab showed a display of the windows, but it was still the same thing). I mean I understand that windows key + tab is 'apps' and alt + tab is programs, but I mean... aren't apps still considered programs? Any programmers out there want to clarify the nomenclature for me?! 
Speaking of clarification... I have Vista on my laptop, and I am no stranger to experiencing incompatibility issues with my programs, but I thought as further iterations of Windows were created they would fix these problems. It seems like the primary goal in subsequent iterations of Windows is to simply to forget about the foundation they were built on. I've got three webcams, they're all relatively old, but two of them won't even install on this machine. They can't be autodetected, and they say there are no drivers... Even if I manually install the drivers, the computer tells me they are incompatible. Thanks, two more pieces of plastic hanging around... 
Now, the part important to people that follow me about this post is coming up!
Having a new machine means that I should be able to do more than I did before. I am capable of running newer games, maybe fewer older games though... In any case, I haven't really had a chance to test filming or streaming, but trust me, with a much bigger hard drive, I should have a much easier time holding onto and editing video. [My laptop had a 160GB hard drive, while this monster has 2TB of memory, which I'm hoping I don't just immediately fill up with useless crap!] Now that my computer is capable of running stuff that's relatively recent (8GB of RAM and a 4GB Radeon card) you should expect to see me do more things on the PC besides MUGEN, and I'll probably actually get to play some of the many STEAM games I've gotten my hands on over the years. Here's to a new era of gaming for the Gray Kage of Okamigakure! For those of you that have been with me for ages, thanks for everything! For those of you that are new to the party, let's hope it's a great one from here on out! 
Oh, P.S. The ! or alert noise for Windows 8 is the same sound effect as the character select screen in Street Fighter III Third Strike. NICE ONE MICROSOFT.

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