I only got adblock a while ago because on my old computer it was really slow and it took about 15-20 mins for the whole maybe 30 minute video to load, so that would be about an hour there including the ad buffering, but now that Ive got a better one I feel guilty whenever I use an ad blocker. I understand why some people do, and dont.
With regards to the HDMI video recording issue look on Wikipedia for HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection). Using current gen consoles as an example you can record video games as they allow you to do so. You cannot record movies. PC capture cards are not licensed to handshake with HDCP signals. In theory a game publisher could insist that HDCP is activated while there product is being displayed. this would stop you recording game play. There are devices that strip the HDCP protection.
I didn't say it was illegal, but people usually pretend like the high ground is always to watch the ads, when there is an acceptable reason to not watch the ads as well.
I would LOVE to see pak on these podcast's more often, some guests are quite, but pak just dives in and is chatty as anything! and he is such a interesting guy! MORE PAKRATT!
I for one really appreciate when Pause talks about supporting gay rights. It's great that he's brave enough to stand up and be vocal about something so important. Thanks, Good Guy Pause.
Personally I only use adblock when watching things on BBC iPlayer and 4OD. I don't mind watching a 30 second ad on UA-cam to support the guys I like and allow them to keep producing content which I enjoy and will watch.
What's obvious for some isn't always obvious for others. Which is what makes us individuals, we're very similar as members of the same species, but different in the way we approach life and our understanding. Carl Sagan's opinion on dumb questions is one that I enjoy a lot.
I suppose you're right. If the ads hadn't been put in place it's likely that a lot of producers would have moved on from UA-cam a long time ago, but they stuck around to here to deliver semi-free content. Honestly it would be simpler if no one was paid by UA-cam, then it would all just be passionate individuals. Sure there might be less content, and probably fewer producers, but it would be simpler.
As far as the recording through hdmi, it wasn't going to be possible because sony was going to put a security system in the console that prevented you from recording gameplay. It's not the fact that you can't record through hdmi.
Thumbnails are important for me when I'm trying to find certain videos in a UA-camr's list. If I'm looking for a certain video or especially a series of videos, I look at the thumbnails to find them. If a UA-camr doesn't bother with thumbnails then it can be really difficult to find a specific video in amongst hundreds of others.
The hardware changes between the current and next gen consoles are significant. Darksouls has been in development for years probably. You can't just stop and port the game over without a large delay. PS3 is a crazy custom PowerPC based system with tiny little worker cpus that are hard to develop for, and the PS4 is simply a PC in disguise. AMD x86_64 cpu with a radeon GPU. Changes are somewhat similar for the xbox, the 360 is also a powerpc, but a triple core, and the xbone is a quad amd.
What do you think about phoneblock? It is a phone made up of different parts a normal phone has (baterry,camera etc.) except, the different parts are blocks you can easily take off and swap certain parts you don't use(camera) for another part you want to improve (battery life). You can also swap a broken part and not throw the whole phone away, which will help reduce e waste. It also looks good.
The games that are gonna be available to transfer to the new gen consoles are Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Call of Duty Ghosts, Battlefield 3 and one other game I can't remember on the spot, it won't be free to transfer them it's 10 dollars, 10 euros or 10 pounds for each game.
I have to use adblock because of youtube being buggy as hell. Ads freeze 90% of the time so I have to refresh like 10 or so times before I can watch the video. I also have very limited internet, meaning ads eat up valuable bandwidth, especially if I have to refresh 10 times on every single video. I'll upgrade to better internet as soon as the pay checks start rolling in though, meaning I can disable adblock.
In regards the intro songs, i've subscribed to entire channels just for their into's (I stayed or left based on the videos, but impressions are important)
I think what people were talking about, Guude, with not being able to record HDMI from PS3 is different for every capture card. A lot of us have HD PVR 2 capture cards, and you CANNOT record the PS3 from HDMI, only component. Other cards are different, it seems. *shrug*
No... iOS 7 was an update for Apple's OS. It was released on Sep. 18. I thought they would have talked about it considering the Apple discussions on previous podcasts.
As far a youtube commercials go. I mute my speakers and load 4 or 5 videos to watch throughout the day and let all the commercials run at the same time. Watch one video and minimize the rest for later.
I love Baj's little "ew" after Pakratt says how Attack on Titan is 'right up his alley'. It was so subtle that everyone missed it but it made me giggle.
My laptop cost 980€ and it can run any new game on Ultra. I keep noticing, that when I go to tweak a game's settings, then they're already on Ultra by recommended.
By the way, if you want good guidance on prettifying Skyrim with lighting mods, etc., I would refer you to Gopher. He has very good videos comparing and explaining the different graphical enhancement mods.
In regards to ads. I support ad-sense, or whatever uses search history to determine interests. When I get some stupid ad I don't care about 4 TIMES IN A ROW (without break) on Twitch then they are getting blocked. Twitch needs to get the ads sorted out so I don't see stupid or repeating ads. Simple. Then you are supported. Similar with YT but not experience those issues nearly. Just mainly angry at twitch.
I love these, they always make me think about what I do/woul do in certain cases discussed here, and if that's good or bad. F.e.: I try not to comment on videos anymore, cause usually when I do I've only thought about what I said for a short time, which translates to a worthless comment because I acted on impuls and said things I didn't mean or believe or said something in such a way that it might be percieved differently. But mostly it's because I wanted to stop annoying people, good or bad.
the ps4 sounded like they're going to use new hdmi and that will "block" the signal from the console. Like on the xbox you cant record netflix because of the encoding. so you souldnt be able to record directly from the ps4. you can use workarounds but at launch their video encoding should be unreadable.
I think reality TV is so popular because it requires no thought to engage. It's very much "turn on and watch" which is how a lot of people use TV--after work, relaxing, mindless entertainment. I prefer more thoughtful/thinky-TV so most reality TV doesn't appeal. Survivor I think appeals to Guude because there is a thought-profess/game plan involved, but that's unusual for most reality TV.
I Think you guys really need to look into HDCP. It's DRM for HDMI.It's encrypted. But apparently it'll be optional, and up to the app or game to turn on. who wants to bet big game producers turn it on all the time? All devices in the hdmi chain need to support HDCP in order to decrypt the video. TVs, DVD players, etc all understand it, but your capture cards may not have the required decryption keys.
I have Adblock installed, but when I watch people's videos I like, I turn it off. If there's a weird ad like one time when I had a 2 hour, 14 minute ad without a skip option. I bet they've worked out kinks like that, though.
bypassing hdcp (the encoding of hdmi by blu ray players) to record is illegal period. if you are recording through hdmi on ps3 (and until they change it ps4) you are bypassing the hdcp which is why people record on component
They have asked people in the past to turn off adblocker, of course not personally. And still, the fact you like/favourite doesn't justify the fact you don't watch the ads. It's somewhat like pirateing. What you need to understand is that it's okay if you and you only don't watch ads, but you're no different from me or every other viewer, if all of us did what you do they wouldn't get any money and would have to stop. Turn dem adblocker off!
please elaborate...because i am on a custom built pc currently that can run any game ive played at ultra such as bf3 rome 2...not that you would even know what that is...sad
There seems to be two types of Reality Show: The game show variety where people are competing for a prize (Survivor) and the IRL variety that shows actual people doing their jobs (Deadliest Catch). I actually prefer the latter variety because it's actually real and not scripted.
hey pause if your looking for a kayak get one at the Costco in Victoria, their really well priced and good quality, i got one 2 years ago and its great
the reason your able to record ps3 via hdmi is because there is an hdcp (digital video encryption) stripper (witch is illegal) your vhs reference was incorrect because vhs are analog(much like conponent) and hdmi is digital
Alright. When first thinking of a new computer, the two most crucial bits of information are your price point and what you plan on doing with it. Also important is whether you want to build it yourself or not. If you're willing to disclose these to me, send a reply/PM my way and I might be able to help ;)
Hey Pause, Some of us left TV because of the ads. I don't even have cable, I chose to get all my content from producers like you. I came to the internet because I got tired of all the bullshit on TV, so when the bullshit starts leaking into the internet I'm gonna have a problem.
Bit of a mispell there. I meant to say that Minecraft would have ran like shit on Minecraft on the completely highest graphics. I had a 500 dollar computer and I had to run it at the medium settings. On the highest i got like 20-25 fps. And there is a huge gap in fps between High settings and Ultra on bf3.
i dont get why people hate ads. You watch 22 minutes of TV for 8 minutes of commercial. youtube is 15 seconds to 1 minute of ads for 30+ minutes of video and the content creators gets directly supported from it. 30 seconds wont kill you
It sounds like you got ripped off. But just to be fair, what are the system specs and what settings (resolution, render distance, etc.) are you running the game at?
As the podcast was wrapping up I was doing a few things at once and turned on my music, not thinking about it. I said to myself "wow, they got Daft Punk for the pod cast outro, how'd they pull that off?"- I am a moron.
From Guude's twitter, for all who's wondering: @GuudeLP Where are the Mindcrack podcasts? @QuintonChristle dunno, I am no longer a part of that, they needed to change schedule.
because too many people would abandon them and find something else that does not have adds. they key with adds is to not make them forced or too in your face... this turns people off. that's why so many people are turning away from TV stations and watching shows either on DVR or on the internet.
I need more podcast!
I really liked having packratt on. He contributed alot to the conversations.
Here in Finland we had 30 min ad at one time. And what it was for? The car tax and related stuff!
thanks for yet another great podcast mindcrack crew :)
i miss this.
I only got adblock a while ago because on my old computer it was really slow and it took about 15-20 mins for the whole maybe 30 minute video to load, so that would be about an hour there including the ad buffering, but now that Ive got a better one I feel guilty whenever I use an ad blocker. I understand why some people do, and dont.
With regards to the HDMI video recording issue look on Wikipedia for HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection). Using current gen consoles as an example you can record video games as they allow you to do so. You cannot record movies. PC capture cards are not licensed to handshake with HDCP signals. In theory a game publisher could insist that HDCP is activated while there product is being displayed. this would stop you recording game play. There are devices that strip the HDCP protection.
I didn't say it was illegal, but people usually pretend like the high ground is always to watch the ads, when there is an acceptable reason to not watch the ads as well.
I would LOVE to see pak on these podcast's more often, some guests are quite, but pak just dives in and is chatty as anything! and he is such a interesting guy!
MORE PAKRATT!
I for one really appreciate when Pause talks about supporting gay rights. It's great that he's brave enough to stand up and be vocal about something so important. Thanks, Good Guy Pause.
Personally I only use adblock when watching things on BBC iPlayer and 4OD. I don't mind watching a 30 second ad on UA-cam to support the guys I like and allow them to keep producing content which I enjoy and will watch.
Pakratt watches Attack on Titan?!
I can die happy. BROFIST DUDE.
He's right, my PC was from back in 2010 and it cost me $300, it still runs most recent titles on medium to high quality.
Lol baj was really hilarious in this podcast. Especially near the end. Thank you guys so much for the podcast ^.^
What's obvious for some isn't always obvious for others. Which is what makes us individuals, we're very similar as members of the same species, but different in the way we approach life and our understanding. Carl Sagan's opinion on dumb questions is one that I enjoy a lot.
I suppose you're right. If the ads hadn't been put in place it's likely that a lot of producers would have moved on from UA-cam a long time ago, but they stuck around to here to deliver semi-free content. Honestly it would be simpler if no one was paid by UA-cam, then it would all just be passionate individuals. Sure there might be less content, and probably fewer producers, but it would be simpler.
just refreshed and podcast appeared. hot off the presses!
As far as the recording through hdmi, it wasn't going to be possible because sony was going to put a security system in the console that prevented you from recording gameplay. It's not the fact that you can't record through hdmi.
They had old man Willakers on episode 43 and lorgon111 on episode 50, and those are just the ones I remember.
I will watch the ads before videos but the ad I got before a video yesterday was 19:30. There is no way I would sit through that...
Pause made me watch Garden State, and it's surprisingly good. Not the best, but still really good.
Thumbnails are important for me when I'm trying to find certain videos in a UA-camr's list. If I'm looking for a certain video or especially a series of videos, I look at the thumbnails to find them. If a UA-camr doesn't bother with thumbnails then it can be really difficult to find a specific video in amongst hundreds of others.
The hardware changes between the current and next gen consoles are significant. Darksouls has been in development for years probably. You can't just stop and port the game over without a large delay. PS3 is a crazy custom PowerPC based system with tiny little worker cpus that are hard to develop for, and the PS4 is simply a PC in disguise. AMD x86_64 cpu with a radeon GPU. Changes are somewhat similar for the xbox, the 360 is also a powerpc, but a triple core, and the xbone is a quad amd.
oh god I'm crying. that intro.
I've actually gotten a 32 minute ad on a 3 and a half minute video. I skipped that one, but I usually sit through and watch them.
still waiting for a podcast >.
What do you think about phoneblock? It is a phone made up of different parts a normal phone has (baterry,camera etc.) except, the different parts are blocks you can easily take off and swap certain parts you don't use(camera) for another part you want to improve (battery life). You can also swap a broken part and not throw the whole phone away, which will help reduce e waste. It also looks good.
The games that are gonna be available to transfer to the new gen consoles are Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Call of Duty Ghosts, Battlefield 3 and one other game I can't remember on the spot, it won't be free to transfer them it's 10 dollars, 10 euros or 10 pounds for each game.
I have to use adblock because of youtube being buggy as hell. Ads freeze 90% of the time so I have to refresh like 10 or so times before I can watch the video. I also have very limited internet, meaning ads eat up valuable bandwidth, especially if I have to refresh 10 times on every single video. I'll upgrade to better internet as soon as the pay checks start rolling in though, meaning I can disable adblock.
Please it's been over a month we need another podcast please the fans beg of you
In regards the intro songs, i've subscribed to entire channels just for their into's (I stayed or left based on the videos, but impressions are important)
I think what people were talking about, Guude, with not being able to record HDMI from PS3 is different for every capture card. A lot of us have HD PVR 2 capture cards, and you CANNOT record the PS3 from HDMI, only component. Other cards are different, it seems. *shrug*
No... iOS 7 was an update for Apple's OS. It was released on Sep. 18. I thought they would have talked about it considering the Apple discussions on previous podcasts.
As far a youtube commercials go. I mute my speakers and load 4 or 5 videos to watch throughout the day and let all the commercials run at the same time. Watch one video and minimize the rest for later.
I always thought AnderZEL had an awesome intro, it always got me pumped for the episode.
Thanks for the podcast :) I enjoyed it! And it's interesting to hear your opinions on questions like the youtube comments :o
I am forced to re-listen to the podcast...please upload the next one
I love Baj's little "ew" after Pakratt says how Attack on Titan is 'right up his alley'. It was so subtle that everyone missed it but it made me giggle.
My laptop cost 980€ and it can run any new game on Ultra. I keep noticing, that when I go to tweak a game's settings, then they're already on Ultra by recommended.
Steambox is a Steam console that's in the works by Valve! And it runs GNU Linux for its OS =)
By the way, if you want good guidance on prettifying Skyrim with lighting mods, etc., I would refer you to Gopher. He has very good videos comparing and explaining the different graphical enhancement mods.
love these new intros...robs awesome
Seriously these intros are amazing.
It's been a while since this podcast, hope the upload one soon
Great show as always.
In regards to ads. I support ad-sense, or whatever uses search history to determine interests. When I get some stupid ad I don't care about 4 TIMES IN A ROW (without break) on Twitch then they are getting blocked. Twitch needs to get the ads sorted out so I don't see stupid or repeating ads. Simple. Then you are supported. Similar with YT but not experience those issues nearly. Just mainly angry at twitch.
That intro haha, that was brilliant.
I love these, they always make me think about what I do/woul do in certain cases discussed here, and if that's good or bad.
F.e.: I try not to comment on videos anymore, cause usually when I do I've only thought about what I said for a short time, which translates to a worthless comment because I acted on impuls and said things I didn't mean or believe or said something in such a way that it might be percieved differently.
But mostly it's because I wanted to stop annoying people, good or bad.
the ps4 sounded like they're going to use new hdmi and that will "block" the signal from the console. Like on the xbox you cant record netflix because of the encoding. so you souldnt be able to record directly from the ps4. you can use workarounds but at launch their video encoding should be unreadable.
I mined a stack of diamonds and farmed three wither sculls last night listening through these. ;)
Portable steam device, Razor Edge gaming tablet. Expensive but cannot think of alternatives
I actually really like thumbnails as they attract you more to the video, however I'd still just as happily watch a video without one
Yes, but if you skip the ad, the creator doesn't get the ad "hit" when I do get those long ass ads, I refresh so I get a decent ad.
I agree with Guude on the topic of thumbnails; as a viewer it greatly impacts the likelihood I will watch a video a long with the title.
is adblock the same as skipping the video ads? i don't think so
I think reality TV is so popular because it requires no thought to engage. It's very much "turn on and watch" which is how a lot of people use TV--after work, relaxing, mindless entertainment. I prefer more thoughtful/thinky-TV so most reality TV doesn't appeal. Survivor I think appeals to Guude because there is a thought-profess/game plan involved, but that's unusual for most reality TV.
Good thing about nintendo; The games are usually backwards compatibility for the last gen games :3
You should make make a download link to the podcast so people with bad internet can listen to it in mp3 format.
I Think you guys really need to look into HDCP. It's DRM for HDMI.It's encrypted. But apparently it'll be optional, and up to the app or game to turn on. who wants to bet big game producers turn it on all the time? All devices in the hdmi chain need to support HDCP in order to decrypt the video. TVs, DVD players, etc all understand it, but your capture cards may not have the required decryption keys.
I have Adblock installed, but when I watch people's videos I like, I turn it off. If there's a weird ad like one time when I had a 2 hour, 14 minute ad without a skip option. I bet they've worked out kinks like that, though.
Here's how it goes... It's not stealing to not buy the product after watching the commercial, as it used YOUR time, not the companies.
Got that PODCAST
I need to find something to do when listening to these podcasts or I'll just be staring at this screen listening.
are games that you can trade in for the xbox one versions
Ah, the good times when people in etho's first minecraft videos were flaming about the clay he refused to dig up .... brings a tear to your eye.
bypassing hdcp (the encoding of hdmi by blu ray players) to record is illegal period. if you are recording through hdmi on ps3 (and until they change it ps4) you are bypassing the hdcp which is why people record on component
They have asked people in the past to turn off adblocker, of course not personally. And still, the fact you like/favourite doesn't justify the fact you don't watch the ads. It's somewhat like pirateing. What you need to understand is that it's okay if you and you only don't watch ads, but you're no different from me or every other viewer, if all of us did what you do they wouldn't get any money and would have to stop. Turn dem adblocker off!
so confused. I dont get ads, yet I removed ad block!! so confused. Still see them on my phone though
Grey line? It isn't illegal in any way or form to use AdBlock.
Why can't UA-cam and Twitch make it so that if you're not watching the ad you can't watch the vid following?
please elaborate...because i am on a custom built pc currently that can run any game ive played at ultra such as bf3 rome 2...not that you would even know what that is...sad
Lol. *gives Pakratt the Troll King crown* ;) You're my hero, man.
They had the Shaft guys on a while back aswell
I wish this was on iTunes
I think the idea of donating to you guys is a great idea. If there was a way to donate to you guys I would definitely donate.
Why is this podcast not on itunes?
What was the song in the beginning
What time will this weeks podcast be up?
There seems to be two types of Reality Show: The game show variety where people are competing for a prize (Survivor) and the IRL variety that shows actual people doing their jobs (Deadliest Catch). I actually prefer the latter variety because it's actually real and not scripted.
hey pause if your looking for a kayak get one at the Costco in Victoria, their really well priced and good quality, i got one 2 years ago and its great
the reason your able to record ps3 via hdmi is because there is an hdcp (digital video encryption) stripper (witch is illegal)
your vhs reference was incorrect because vhs are analog(much like conponent) and hdmi is digital
Alright. When first thinking of a new computer, the two most crucial bits of information are your price point and what you plan on doing with it. Also important is whether you want to build it yourself or not. If you're willing to disclose these to me, send a reply/PM my way and I might be able to help ;)
Pakratt's Cache is awesome!
i like how they got old man willakers to do their intros they are always funny
Hey Pause,
Some of us left TV because of the ads. I don't even have cable, I chose to get all my content from producers like you. I came to the internet because I got tired of all the bullshit on TV, so when the bullshit starts leaking into the internet I'm gonna have a problem.
When is the next podcast coming out
Bit of a mispell there. I meant to say that Minecraft would have ran like shit on Minecraft on the completely highest graphics. I had a 500 dollar computer and I had to run it at the medium settings. On the highest i got like 20-25 fps. And there is a huge gap in fps between High settings and Ultra on bf3.
i dont get why people hate ads. You watch 22 minutes of TV for 8 minutes of commercial. youtube is 15 seconds to 1 minute of ads for 30+ minutes of video and the content creators gets directly supported from it. 30 seconds wont kill you
i really miss the old podcast intro!
It sounds like you got ripped off. But just to be fair, what are the system specs and what settings (resolution, render distance, etc.) are you running the game at?
As the podcast was wrapping up I was doing a few things at once and turned on my music, not thinking about it. I said to myself "wow, they got Daft Punk for the pod cast outro, how'd they pull that off?"- I am a moron.
I need another podcast please :( i get your busy but even just 2 of you and a guest will do, and it doesnt need to be long, or that thought out.
From Guude's twitter, for all who's wondering:
@GuudeLP Where are the Mindcrack podcasts?
@QuintonChristle dunno, I am no longer a part of that, they needed to change schedule.
Rob has the best intro voice
It'll probably hype back up once the map resets
because too many people would abandon them and find something else that does not have adds. they key with adds is to not make them forced or too in your face... this turns people off. that's why so many people are turning away from TV stations and watching shows either on DVR or on the internet.
I really want this on Itunes or MP3
I hope for Halloween each mindcracker change their skin to another mindcracker
"So, this one time, there were waves, and I drove over them."
It's a podcast. You aren't supposed to watch the picture, just tab away, and listen.