Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-3547390-20191124210239

Yes, GameRanger was done in haste to get "something" to work. At the time we didn't have any answers for what did work, so it became "just jump to the first thing that might potentially work". Especially after the bad luck involving ZeroTier. And yes, it came by complete surprise and blindsided us.

The individual days move slow for me, yet ironically the distant stuff feels a lot closer than it is. 2014, insane to think just how long ago that was. I remember Raadec being around back then, him and you both sending messages because I would oversleep and miss a stream due to my terrible alarm clock. Back then I had my second Youtube channel, in fact that was the year I started getting a lot more involved with recording after learning about Dxtory and how to render things out in x264. Back then I would have been recording with my small soundcard microphone and using the new Elite 800s after my PX5s kept breaking apart.

2014 was a pretty crazy year for me. It was when I had just come back from my mother's. I started realizing that almost every person I talked to online would start out nice, only to become more hateful as time went on. I spent a lot of that year getting hurt by people. It is the year I started getting more powerful computers, the 4790k came out that year and that was the first high-end CPU I had, spurred by doing high end textures on Unreal at the end while getting massive lag and issues with VRAM. The Nvidia 770, specifically some custom end model, replaced the 640 I previously had and was the first one that was on the higher end. All of that ended up requiring a lot of new parts, such as a CX550 or something similar, and a Corsair 300R case.

To the right (since a pic is worth a thousand words since a bunch of descriptions probably doesn't work as well) is a good demonstration of the evolution my computer has undergone since I started on the Wikia (2011 I was recording videos on a laptop called the Compaq CQ61, which featured 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive, 1366x768, and onboard graphics from a AMD chip with 1 core at 2.1 GHZ... at least I had a separate mouse and some cheap corded earbuds); 2014 being the first year I got any serious components. Prior to that I had been using a hand-me-down from my father of old generic parts. I know the card was a 640, but other than that I have little to no recollection. Many parts between 2017 and 2019 have been the same for quite some time due to no real successor existing or at least one being worth the update for, and there was more of a gradual evolution around 2016-2017 as I know the case was originally worked on at the old place I worked at, before the grand move in 2017. 2016 was when I started working, so thus I jumped to the very high end when I could. 2014-2016 therefore is pretty much identical, while late 2016 is when I started getting parts before a big build in 2017. Most parts have been swapped out by 2019 due to just natural advancements in computing; most actually were done over the course of the last 2 years and have been this way for a while. The large case I had in 2017 has a front grill, if you notice, those pieces tend to pop off and drop right down to where the fans are. This is the main reason for swapping out cases. I also plan on making some changes next year, so we might be seeing a fourth era to this image. Speakers I never bother updating since I always use headphones between Let's Plays and needing to be quiet most of the time.

Run in the start menu just is the same as running the program, if I am right. From experience however, various programs that cannot run in 64-bit might potentially run under the command prompt. It is what I need to do when compiling out my Quake mods, the executable itself wouldn't work in 64-bit. So that suggests there must be some difference. I couldn't run the executable at all without command prompt.

Yes, it is quite intriguing to think that Dailymotion has survived this long. I know they have made a bunch of questionable choices over the years, last year they apparently killed the ability to comment on videos. You also can't organize playlists like you once could, plus a bunch of other stuff has been removed. So Dailymotion has definitely been going through a weird form of self-suicide. Back in 2014 it made sense to use Dailymotion, the site was a great alternative to Youtube and even included better rendering quality. Nowadays Youtube has caught up or passed it, while at the same time allowing for longer videos, and hasn't destroyed itself with laggy advertisements. So yeah, good choice in 2014, but absolutely horrible in 2019.