School, Sanity & Songs

Having recently returned to school I find my sanity deteriorating rapidly. This tune does not help that.

Internet Browsing and Web Browsers in General

There is an off-chance that you're an idiot.
Now that I have gotten your attention, sorry, but the above is the honest truth.

Tell me - Have you ever put any thought into something as simple as your web browser? Why do you ask? Because in the internet-society that we live in, speed and performance are essentials.

You probably started off like (most) of the world, using Internet Explorer, ah good old IE, how you were adored. Internet Explorer has probably served you well over the years too! Nothing wrong with Internet Explorer, I like it, I use it and that's how its going to be.

WRONG!
You could not be more wrong. While Internet Explorer might served it's purpose for you, opening websites, watching YouTube videos, reading blogs and bookmarking websites it is no way near the best. Why on earth would prefer using something inferior, when you could with the click of your mousebutton get a browser that is roughly 6.9 times more efficient (Fun fact: 89.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot).


No, shut up.
I care very little for the fact that you have used Internet Explorer X for your entire life because it is time to move on. I attend classes regularly and it pains me to see my fellow classmates sitting with their laptops out, using Internet Explorer. I hate to impose, but I've caught myself muttering under my breath several times at the  inability of Internet Explorer to load websites at reasonable speeds, when my classmates has this new and supposedly hilarious video to show me.

Thanks for wasting 12 seconds of my life waiting for Internet Explorer to get off its ass.

Jeez
This is probably what you are thinking right now. Why would I get so worked up over something as petty as Internet browsing. It's true I admit, this topic makes my blood boil a little more than it should, but it annoys me like nothing else when people, nose sky-high, informing me after I've mentioned that I could get them a faster browser in literally 30 seconds, that "Internet Explorer suits me just fine thank you".

That's great. I'm really happy for you, but when you think about how much time you save by cutting (ca.) 3 seconds off of every page load, it certainly adds up over the years.

Well "Mister Smart Guy"
What browser should I use then? I am so glad you asked! So the most "out there" browsers right now are as follows

Internet Explorer (Fuck no)

Firefox (Better, but still subpar)

Opera (Can work, but you can get better)

Google Chrome (WINNER)

Google Chrome is credit to you.
Right, I am not going to go "deep" with why Google Chrome is the best browser in fucking existance, because that might very well change when new versions of the above browsers are released, but here you can have my immediate reaction to Google Chrome after messing around with it for 15 minutes.

Go on,
Try it out for yourself. Leave your favourite browser in the cold and pick up Google Chrome. Use it for a full day and tell me, take fucking videos and pictures, to show me that it does not outdo all the others. There is so much you can do with Google Chrome.

A: It's fast
B: The URL line links directly to Google so if you type in "What the fuck am I doing" in the URL bar, you will get Google search results. The lack of this gets insufferable on other browsers after you've gotten adjusted to Google Chrome.
C: You can pretty much tailor it to your needs, using Add-ons and skins which are as easy to install as clicking 3 buttons in a row.
D: It's fast.

These are the main reasons I use GC anyway.

Alright alright,
There are more things to take into consideration than what I've summed up here, more advanced users might prefer other browsers because of file-sharing functionalities (I am looking at you Opera!) but rest assured that an advanced user would not be reading this anyway and you, average web browser, WILL gain a lot from Google Chrome, if you are not already using it.

That would be all...

....

Okay okay okay okay!
I've not always had this view on things. Actually most of the stuff I post here for you guys to read I've discovered (Been told) as I've used the internet. I started out using Explorer too, but people smarter and more internet-savvy than me have made me realize my error as time continued and I hope this post will pursuade you to try out Google Chrome as well.

P.S. I've also used Firefox and Opera, actually I used Firefox for the longest time. I tried it out in it's latest update. Nothing beats Chrome. Nothing.

HAVE A KITTY

The making of: GamesByte

This is not summer!

Do not ask me why but for some reason the weather in my area is being absolutely horrendous, despite us being in the beginning of August. I mean you'd expect at least a tiny bit of sunshine?

Alas it is not meant to be, so I have to spend my time on something else. What is that "something else" I hear you asking? No? Don't be rude.

It's GamesByte(!) of course.

So in case you were not aware I am the co-owner of a YouTube channel called GamesByte. Essentially the channel is about all things gaming and I'd dare say that me and a very good friend of mine put a decent amount of effort into it  (Unlike certain other YouTubers).

How hard can it be? Well it can actually be quite taxing at times. We aim to put out 3 episodes per week and an episode takes pretty much an entire day. Yep, you heard me, an ENTIRE day. Now let me snap you out of your potential shock, because it doesn't actually take the entire day because my friend and I are smart.

We divide and conquer!

It's Simple
Really, it is. We meet up via Skype every episode day at around noon. Here we exchange information (Various news worthy articles/videos we've found since the last episode was released) and together we sift through all of our content, dismissing the less important articles for the "worthy" ones, essentially creating a skeletal structure of that days episode.

From there, I take the reigns (For a while). You see I am the resident scriptwriter of our little business, I read through every single article we've decided to include and watch every single video we are going talk about, one by one.

Once that is done, it's a matter of writing. Writing and writing and writing. We usually have 5 sections within our scripts, each dedicated to different topics. On a good day, the scripting will take roughly two hours, start to finish, including proof-reading. On bad days it's taken way longer though, but that is a story for another blog post.

So once I am done writing I send the script to my buddy. Together we go through it and make revisions, if that one sentence sounds a bit odd, we discuss it and change it.

The script for today ended up being this long

Now comes the recording part.

The glorious sound of your own voice
gets a little bit tiring after listening to yourself repeating the same sentence over and over and over in attempt to cut out bits you'd rather not want.

Also having to re-read that one sentence time and again because you just can't say "months" without sounding like a complete spas gets on your nerves after a bit. Let me tell you though, getting it done properly and listening to yourself sounding like a pro in the final product is rewarding like nothing else.

Audacity, I kinda love you and I kinda hate your guts.

That is essentially it for me, compiling news, scripting, discussing and recording.

However,
the wheels do not stop churning here - This is the part where my skilled buddy takes the reigns and starts editing together a video. Which I can promise you is a lot harder than it might sound (I speak from experience, but that is another story all-together).

To do this he uses

SONY VEGAS PRO 10

There, now you all know what I am talking about, right? Right?... What do you mean no?

Alright I'll explain, jeez.

So Sony Vegas is a program that allows you to cut and paste your video into teeny tiny bits and essentially create one large video from all the bits, placing them where you want them. There is so much stuff to explain about this program that I won't even bother explaining (I don't know half of it myself). Just know that this is the program we use.

Take note however, this program at times seem to have a mind of its own and will do everything technically possible to piss you off. Have some quotes from todays editing session as proof!

"GOD SONY VEGAS WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?"

See what I mean? Essentially, if you've ever worked with a word document that kept going weird on you, imagine that times 10 and you've got Sony Vegas (Sometimes, most of the time it functions flawlessly).

So after my friend does all of this, he has to sync up sound, overlays, segment transitions and the rest of those fancy technical words. So it's quite the process.

I'll be completely honest,
My friend is the guy responsible for most of the awesomeness that is our episodes, because even though I write and formulate everything we say and we both attempt to gather news, GamesByte videos would not look as awesome as they do without him.

TL;DR (Too long, didn't read for those of you unfamiliar with Internet lingo).

GamesByte is a pretty intense process that leaves the entire team behind it (two guys) both exhausted and satisfied once it's done. Considering that the total amount of work hours behind each episode easily tallies up to 6-8 hours depending on length and that we do 3 times per week, it gets pretty hectic at times.

So that's the creation process in a nutshell, i've yet to even touch on web distribution, feedback recollection and statistics counting, which are all essential parts of making GamesByte better and well-known, but those are stories for different times, I will leave you with a picture of the Danish GamesByte office.

Why? Because I can.

Here, have a Beluga Whale being Serenated for god-knows what reason.

First Blog Post? Time to make, "DE MAGIKS"

Finally!

I am on Blogger. I don't actually know why I said that I am finally on Blogger as no one is going to be reading these anyway, which was another point I wanted to address.

Dear imaginary reader, I cannot guarantee constant updates to this blog as it has just been created as a place for me to share my opinion on various subjects and these subjects tend to pop up irregularly.

You've been warned!

I like messing around with the text size. I figured the my first blog post should probably be something about myself, which would require pictures wouldn't it? Well worry not, because with my uncanny ability to operate various different electronic assets, such as cameras I should be able to have pictures up relatively soon.

Anyway,

This little post is just essentially to get things started. Not much of a point creating a blog only to leave it empty, no?

So just to make sure we're clear, if you have any interest what-so-ever in the opinion of a guy who's been playing video hames since the age of 4 along with some insight as to what I do, this is the place to be! If you want to stalk me, I guess this is also the place to be. If you're expecting groundbreaking news and sophisticated debates with various celebrities within the gaming world along with pictures of the world wonders and a fucking audience with god, you're in the wrong place.

With all that said, I welcome you to my blog, because as we all know, blogging is serious business (You were expecting me to make a pun there, weren't you?).