BFTP #001 – My First CD
Hell gamers! Welcome to Blast From the Past #001 – My First CD! In this series I have a look at my closed full of old CD’s.
In this first episode I look at my first CD.
Hearts of Iron IV – Death or Dishonor Review
Hello gamers! Welcome to my Hearts of Iron IV – Death or Dishonor Review!
As some of you know I like history and I like to read about World War 2. I think it’s an important piece of history that didn’t happen “that long ago”. What I like about HoI4 is the fact that I can try to “change history”. Try something else and see what happens. In this particular game I think knowing about World War 2 is pretty important. Much more important than knowing history if you want to play the other Paradox games like Crusader Kings 2 & Europa Universalis 4. In those games you just… “go” and whatever. Here… you can go but you do need to know what happen in real life … at least a bit so you know what to expect and what you can alter. That’s why I made this video where I talk about some WW2 books & documentaries I recommend you to check out.
The first DLC game out in December 2016 and… while I always like DLC that expand the gameplay, that DLC called Together for Victory focused on some countries that were not really “in the middle of the action”. The countries that got a new national focus tree were Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Raj (India) and South Africa. Ok… great… but as I have said… they are pretty far away from the action, so for me that DLC wasn’t really that interesting.
However…
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Plants vs Zombies in Unity with FlowCanvas
In order to improve my programming & my logic skills I decided to do a really small clone of Plants vs. Zombies in Unity using FlowCanvas.
I first found out about a tutorial like this on “noobtuts”. He uses actually code but I decided to try to look at the code and try to make that code using FlowCanvas. That particular Plants vs. Zombies tutorial is “PRO” and requires a subscription, but it was enough to inspire me and make my own tasks.
In this written article I will try to show screenshots and briefly try to explain what I wanted to accomplish, I do however recommend you to watch the YouTube video below because I will go into more details about the challenges I encountered.
Those are the mechanics I wanted to implement:
Robert Parker – Crystal City & Nightcrawler – Metropolis
I’m very happy that my Robert Parker – Crystal City & Nightcrawler – Metropolis albums arrived yesterday 😀
I do have to say that Electronic Purification Records are doing a fantastic job with their packaging & with the look & feel of the vinyls & products themselves. They are really of high quality!
Normally I wanted to wait for my order until VHS Dreams album Trans AM was releasing (which I ordered and I will receive in July), however I saw a Facebook post from EPR saying that there are only 6 copies left of the Robert Parker album with the blue splatter, so I had to place my order in that moment 😀
I went with the “Die Hard” package that came with a metal pin & a T-Shirt. Another option was to get the 3D Cover (Lenticular Print) of Robert Parker’s album, however the price was basically the same (50€) and I wasn’t to fond of a 3D cover. However… in my order I also got 2 small 3D Prints with the Waveshaper – Station Nova & Robert Parker – Crystal City covers and they look simply amazing. The Waveshaper cover looks better and it looks to have more depth, but still, I’m happy with my choice. Now I have an extra T-Shirt to wear.
About the album themselves, they are really good … of course! I don’t buy stuff just because they are retro or because I want to “have a collection”. I gave them a good listen and if they sound ok, then I’m considering a purchase. Not sure which album I like more… maybe Metropolis because of the dystopian feel which in general I find fascinating. Robert Parker is also really good with a New Retro Wave vibe.
My favorite songs are:
Robert Parker – Crystal City: ’85 Again, Guilty Pleasure
Nightcrawler – Metropolis: Dystopia, The House of Pleasure, The Legacy, Metropolis, Broken Dreams
For Crystal City I got triggered on the song Guilty Pleasure which comes right after ’85 Again. That’s when I knew this is a good album.
For Metropolis it was The House of Pleasure.
UUuhhhh…. the little joys of life! Thanks for reading brotellos!
ModMic 5 Review
Welcome to my ModMic 5 Review! ModMic 5 is a modular microphone developed by Antlion Audio. It’s is the successor to the popular ModMic 4.
ModMic 5 comes to help people who want to have a microphone to their headphones, but they don’t want to purchase a headset. I also recently found out the differences. 🙂 Headphones are just speakers that you put on your head… Headsets are … a “set” that contain the speakers that you put on your head but also a microphone. Got it? 😀
The main problem with Headsets is their price. You might get good speakers in them, but the microphone will be crap. If you want both to be good you will have to pay a pretty good price.
I had the same problem in the past with my headsets. Right now I don’t even have a headset at home, which created a problem for me whenever I was playing games. I don’t want to sit with my studio microphone in my face when I’m playing games with my friends… so I had to use the Webcam Microphone which sucks ass and catches to many environment sounds.
So when I found out about ModMic 5 I got a little bit excited.
So let’s see what ModMic 5 is exactly.