I’m thinking about making a Battlefield 1 video on YouTube, and have collected my thoughts here. Read on. The meta topic here is Battlefield 1 and my opinions of it and the franchise. Before we get into that, let me provide some background so that you can understand where I’m coming from. As of this post, I’ve just turned 44. …
Category: PC Gaming
Updates to Hardware Theft and Using FreeBSD to Stream
This is just a quick update to two of my previous entries. Hardware Theft In this entry I documented how a new 1TB Samsung 960 Pro SSD was stolen from me. Specifically the actual drive was removed from the Samsung box before the box was put into a shipping box and sent to me. This likely took place at the…
Using FreeBSD to Stream to YouTube and Twitch
[toc] Introduction In a previous entry I discussed the differences in streaming game play to YouTube vs Twitch, as well as the differences between using hardware versus software h.264 encoding. The conclusion that I came to was that I was going to continue streaming to my YouTube channel until I decide to buy and assemble another PC specifically for Twitch…
Hardware Theft
Nope, it’s not what you think. Nothing was stolen from my house, thankfully. Rather: it was stolen before it got to my house. First a little back-story… My gaming/editing rig’s operating system drive (C: in Windows-speak) is a Samsung SM951 M.2 AHCI drive. It’s 500GB in size and is quite quick in comparison to most SATA SSDs and HDDs. But…
Streaming to YouTube vs Twitch
[toc] I’m Back(?) It’s been almost a year since my last entry which would imply that this blog isn’t that important to me. I’d say more accurately, it’s less important to me than other things in my life. Those would be things like my job, raising my dogs, taking care of my house, enjoying my new Corvette, etc. It’s not…