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Virtual Reality: Alien Makeout Simulator (Oculus Rift DK2)

Watch me smooch a couple of aliens on several of their ten mouths in Alien Makeout Simulator, a virtual reality experience for the Oculus Rift.

I am playing version 1.0.1 with an Oculus Rift DK2. You can download it here.

Virtual Reality Video Version (for viewing on your own VR headset)

Alien Makeout Simulator was created by Mike Mandel, Devon Newsom, Dawn Rivers, Ben Taylor, and Shawn Witt.

Alien Makeout Simulator's appearance on @midnight

tags: Alien Makeout Simulator, Oculus Rift, Virtual Reality: Videos, Video Games: Videos, 2015, Mike Mandel, Devon Newsom, Dawn Rivers, Ben Taylor, Shawn Witt, @midnight
categories: Virtual Reality, Video Games
Monday 10.26.15
Posted by Charles Alan Ratliff
 

#2: The Elusive Audio Cable

Join my search for a vital audio cable that allows me to finally use my PlayStation 3 again. Just in time to play through some Metal Gear Solid games before Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain comes out!

tags: Unboxing, PlayStation 3, GameStop, 2015, Video Log
categories: Life, Tech, Video Games
Saturday 08.29.15
Posted by Charles Alan Ratliff
 

NVIDIA ShadowPlay and OBS NVENC Comparison - Batman: Arkham Knight

I decided to finally test out NVIDIA's ShadowPlay recording feature as I've been looking for a solution for recording PC games at the same resolution (1080p) and framerate (30 - 60 FPS) as I am playing them with no perceptible drop in game performance and no choppiness in the video capture. I am very impressed with it. However, some games, such as Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death (which I just recently started), do not work with ShadowPlay, so I had to use Open Broadcaster Software's Nvidia NVENC encoder.

I wanted to see if there was much difference between recording with ShadowPlay or OBS + NVENC, so I recorded Batman: Arkham Knight using each. It's the most technically impressive game that I own. Currently, Arkham Knight does not officially support 60 FPS (though this can be edited in the game's files), so I played it at 30 FPS, with all settings maxed out/on. Until the game is patched, playing at 60 FPS could have resulted in framerate drops, and I wouldn't know if it was the game or my recording that caused it. I beat the game at 30 and had it stay fairly consistent.

Both recording solutions were set to 1080p, 60 FPS, with a bitrate of 50 Mbps. I do not see a perceptible difference between using ShadowPlay and using OBS + NVENC. Please note that YouTube's compression may degrade the quality of the recordings.

My PC at the time of this recording:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM)

tags: Batman: Arkham Knight, ShadowPlay, Open Broadcaster Software, PC, Video Games: Videos, 2015
categories: Tech, Video Games
Thursday 08.13.15
Posted by Charles Alan Ratliff
 

#1: It's Been a While

Hi! Long time no see. I've been pretty busy with non-Internet stuff lately, so I made a video to explain what I've been up to and what I am thinking about.

tags: Beard, Background Acting, Moving, Video Games, ADHD, Therapy, Rosetta Stone, Japanese, Battlefield 4, Google Fiber, Time Warner Cable, Logitech C920, Iraq, 2015, Video CoPilot, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Video Log
categories: Life, Acting, Health, Video Games
Saturday 08.01.15
Posted by Charles Alan Ratliff
 

Rest in Peace, Satoru Iwata

December 6, 1959 - July 11, 2015

December 6, 1959 - July 11, 2015

tags: Satoru Iwata, 2015
categories: Video Games
Sunday 07.12.15
Posted by Charles Alan Ratliff
 

Charles Plays Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (#10: Reclaim the Castle)

In part 10 of my Tenchu: Stealth Assassins playthrough, Rikimaru has to infiltrate one of Lord Gohda's castles to eradicate Onikage and his demonic minions.

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I am playing the original PlayStation version on my PlayStation 3 with English audio and English subtitles. 

tags: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, PlayStation, Video Games: Videos, 2015
categories: Video Games
Friday 05.15.15
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Charles Plays Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (#9: Cure the Princess)

In part 9 of my Tenchu: Stealth Assassins playthrough, Rikimaru must find and retrieve a magical herb that resides at the top of a mountain in order to cure the ailing Princess Kiku.

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tags: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, PlayStation, Video Games: Videos, 2015
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Thursday 05.14.15
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Charles Plays Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (#8: Destroy the Foreign Pirates)

In part 8 of my Tenchu: Stealth Assassins playthrough, Rikimaru has to stop a bunch of troublemaking Spaniards and their captain from wreaking havoc on a nearby town.

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tags: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, PlayStation, Video Games: Videos, 2015
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Wednesday 05.13.15
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Charles Plays Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (#7: Infiltrate the Manji Cult)

In part 7 of my Let's Play of Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Rikimaru has to investigate a statue that looks like a weird alien baby, only to discover that a rather large, hostile individual has hidden a stone he needs inside their own belly.

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tags: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, PlayStation, Video Games: Videos, 2015
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Saturday 04.25.15
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Charles Plays Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (#6: Execute the Corrupt Minister)

In part 6 of my Let's Play of Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Rikimaru is ordered to kill a finance minister who also happens to be the son-in-law of one of Matsunoshin Gohda's most trusted advisers. My memory of this game from 17 years ago thought this was actually the first level of the game, as it is what stood out to me the most.

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tags: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, PlayStation, Video Games: Videos, 2015
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Thursday 04.23.15
Posted by Charles Alan Ratliff
 
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