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PC Build 2011: Day 2

Welcome back to PC Build 2011; today is where things can get Hairy. I will be installing the CPU, cooling unit, mobo, and RAM, any of which may be DOA or become very dead in the process. It’s like a very suspenseful (days-long) game, where it all comes down...

PC Build 2011: Day 1

Welcome to PC Build 2011, which I keep typing as 2001 because I’m old! Today, I will begin the construction of another custom, non-(barf)-Dell PC, using the components seen in the image above and some parts scavenged from said (barf) Dell. Also, because I am lazy, I will not...

Please Go Read this Comic

…if you’ve played Team Fortress 2 in the past few months. It’s true, it’s all true. I’ve pretty much stopped playing after the update that added 50 bajillion new weapons, with exception of playing against bots. There is just no way for me to devise a strategy on-the-fly against...

Emetophobics Beware!

…or “Screwing Around Again in L4D2, part 251.” This is 54 gigabytes of raw footage edited into four minutes of short clips for today’s attention-deficit netizens, myself included.

Creating a Custom Minecraft GUI Texture Pack

It’s actually very simple. Things you will need:The original Minecraft GUI image files are located in C:\Users\\AppData*\Roaming\.minecraft\bin. Open minecraft.jar with your archive program. Double-click the gui folder, then drag-and-drop gui.png and icons.png onto your desktop. These two files contain the GUI and main menu images. Edit those new pngs...

Geek Soft: Vegas Movie Studio HD 9

As seen from the previous posts, we’ve been churning out videos like crazy. The editing tool that lets us do this is Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 9. At $44, I’ve found that it is the affordable AND intuitive alternative to: Windows Movie Maker, which is free but overly...

Happy Thanksgiving and Let’s Blow Stuff Up! (part 2)

We promise this will be the last TNT video in Minecraft Alpha. For a while. I think I enjoyed making this one the best; slow motion isn’t the only effect that makes things cool.

Let’s Blow Stuff Up! (part 1)

Our continued adventures with TNT. This video captures the entire half an hour process, sped up into a happy five minutes. Stay tuned for more.