jaywalking.us :: cybermensch holocaustic

So I play WoW a bit, and lately I was trying to see if there was an audience for Pals For Life raids being streamed, and I hit a few major roadblocks:

1. Flash Media Live Encoder is a fucking monster. It EATS CPU. Wow is a pretty GFX light, CPU intensive game when you raid or basically any time shit is going on like hanging around in the Stormwind Trade district on a heavily populated area. But luckily my rig is pretty beastly so I don’t think that’s too much of a problem, except the fact that my CPU get’s pretty warm (50C ish).

2. Bandwidth. I’m on a 20/4 mbit ADSL2+ line but I’m so far away from the fibre that I only get 14/2 out of it, which translates to an upstream of about 1400KBps. Video below 1500 tends to be kinda shit quality, so it will either lag or look horrible.

So with that, my dreams of streaming shit on the interwebs is pretty much quelled. C’est la guerre.

Almost considered moving to an apartment closer to the fibre to get 50/50 but I don’t want to deal with the ridiculous noise levels around there in the weekends. Just drunk faggots shouting at each other or singing gay singalongs, and cars driving up and down with LaRoux blaring at full force until like 5am in the fucking morning.

I did however buy some upgrades I needed anyway for my computers, 2 sticks of 4gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz CL9 ram. My old sticks were running at 1067mhz CL10, so this was an incredibly huge upgrade, and increased my WoW FPS by 40. Just by getting $160 worth of new ram. Pretty sweet.

I also paid for a new monitor. 24″ Samsung 2494HS 16:9 monitor that supports up to 1920×1080 resolution. It was probably about time, since I’m currently on 2x 19″ 4:3 monitors and I’m probably the last guy outside of china who doesn’t have a widescreen PC monitor. Gonna be rad booting up WoW and Starcraft 2 with that, although I’ll have to redo my World of Warcraft User Interface once I get it since it seems to enjoy some moderate popularity among other Warlocks.

That’s about it I guess. Just waiting for the new GSL to start to get some regular gaming input, and hopefully watch something besides 3 races where 50% of all players play Terran because they are literally retarded and stimpushes with all their SCV’s is a shit easy way to get to 3400 Masters. Even if you lose all your SCV’s just dump 3 mules and you are literally suffering no loss at all. Game is perfectly balanced.