streaming Yet Another Ultimate Guide on Managing and Improving your Streaming/Recording Audio Look, I get it. You just want to hit stream or record and start playing and for your audio to just work. Audio can be hard and you don't have all day to tinker around until it's just right. But if you want to make a good first impression for new viewers, the best way is with good sounding audio.
streaming Playing (and displaying) music during streams If you want to play music during your stream, you probably want to share with your audience what you're listening to! There are a bunch of solutions out there. I recommend Snip.
streaming Setting up your audio the better way in OBS There are two ways to manage your audio tracks in OBS. The first and default is under Settings > Audio. The second is to add your audio device as a source. This second way gives you a lot more freedom and control!
streaming Using VoiceMeeter to manage your audio during streaming The default audio setup in OBS has all audio that plays through your speakers—game audio, voice calls, etc—grouped into the same input device. In an ideal world, we would be able to have independent control of your . We can do all of this using VoiceMeeter!
streaming Processing your voice for streaming in real-time Unless you have a high-end microphone and a studio-quality recording room, your mic audio probably isn't great. The solution is to process your voice through an equalizer and other goodies, and you can do this all within OBS!
Science Some thoughts on Randomness, Determinism, and Dan Barker's "Free Will Explained" Dan Barker sees the problem of free will vs determinism a bit differently, and he details this in his recent book "Free Will Explained". One claim in particular caught my eye, that "free will gains nothing from randomness", and I wanted to untangle that a bit with reference to my own field of study.
gaming Bethesda and their Creation Engine Much of the discussion and criticism of Bethesda has focused on their continued use of this aging game engine dating back to 2011. But I wonder if it should be part of the discussion at all.
game review How To Enjoy Final Fantasy XIII Final Fantasy XIII is not a great game. But for some reason, I really love it. I think there is a great game here. Whether you agree or not, the core part of the game that I think alone makes Final Fantasy 13 worth some of your time. The combat system.
littlegadget LittleGadget Update Dec 2017 I take a look back at the progress for my channel over the last year.
littlegadget What is Cohesion in Video Games? What is cohesion in a video game? Is this a meaningless, contrived term? Or does it capture some deeper design points of video games that 'graphics' and 'level design' do not?
programming 502 Gateway Error running Flask/uWSGI/NGINX on Ubuntu 16.04 If you followed the DigitalOcean guide on Flask/uWSGI/nginx on Ubuntu, you might be getting a 502 error. Here is what worked for me...
game theory My Problems With Game Theory (or why you really need to cite your sources) Ok, this is going to be an ongoing document as I gather research on the topic. For those who don't know, Game Theory (not to be confused with economics or animal behaviour models)
littlegadget LittleGadget Update Feb 2017 Well, it's been half a year. Figure I might as well reflect on how things have been going. What's been going on? Here is my Youtube video count score of new content in
littlegadget Why is my two year old video on Metal Gear still viewed? On August 16, 2015, I released a video about Metal Gear. Since then it has become my most viewed video, currently with 35k views, ~200 comments, and ~400 likes (and ~90 dislikes). It
Zelda Breath of the Wild DLC The ongoing saga of Season Passes continues. Nintendo announced today (Feb 14) that they plan to offer what they call an Expansion Pass at launch for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the
Nintendo Nintendo Switch Toronto Preview Tour On January 28th, I got a chance to check out the Nintendo Switch at the Preview Tour event in Toronto. It was a fantastic time, and while most of my pictures unfortunately didn't
Science The Digits Behind Touch: NSERC Science, Action! 2017 contest NSERC, a major funding agency in Canada, is holding a video contest—and I entered! It's called Science, Action! and we had to create a short 1-minute video about our research. Now I
littlegadget Dark Souls and Social Interaction - Behind the Scenes Part 2 Part 1 | Conception, Research, Writing Part 2 | Voice Over and Planning Part 3 | Video Editing (coming soon) Well, It's been quite a while since the last behind-the-scenes. Three months, actually—I did that
Science Berenstein-Mandela Effect Explained from the AVGN video So the 2016 Angry Video Game Nerd Halloween episode just came out, and it was one of my favourite yet! I wasn't that big a fan of the Beavis and Butt-Head episode, but
white whale A Brief Flash of Whales Of course, just as I begin to think that the whole Whale thing was a summer-only event, in comes a new pod of whales and quotes. I still think that we won't be
ember.js Markdown in an ember.js app last updated Sept 22/16 I'm trying to build a web app for creating and organizing "cue cards" for research articles. You can find the github repo of my project here:
programming A Web App for managing research paper notes Note Apps seem to have become the "Hello World" for web app tutorials. Not sure how long it's been this way, but I think it's a good place to start for
McMaster The Last of the White Whales Things seemed to slow down, and then stop. edit: just kidding they're back. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Unfortunately I was off campus most of August and so probably missed a bunch
programming Piano in CSS and HTML When I first started working on the Digitizing Bach app, my first task was to create a Piano menu. It's been a while, but I remember this being tricky to get down. Especially
littlegadget Dark Souls and Social Interaction - Behind the Scenes Part 1 This project has actually been a long time coming. Part 1 | Conception, Research, Writing Part 2 | Voice Over and Planning Part 3 | Video Editing (coming soon) The idea for a Dark Souls video
