Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Feb 4, 2012, 12:39 pm
This will probably be a bit of a controversial blog – at least for me – but I’m going to talk about YouTube partnerships. As you might probably already know, my own YouTube account has the monetization feature enabled on it. I presume I got it  from some sort of automated system seeing as I ...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Oct 16, 2011, 6:40 pm
Well, I had tuned in hoping that Power would somehow manage to perform a miracle and win the race to hopefully win the championship instead of Dario “Francheaty” Franchitti, but I think I speak for everyone by saying I did not expect something like this to happen. I know I’d given stick about...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Sep 14, 2011, 3:21 pm
Alright, I know that this new functionality has only just been released, but it already has a bit of an impact when it comes to me and my usage of Facebook. As you probably know, I interact on Facebook through two primary methods: my own personal profile, and my Page. I initially made my page after...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Aug 17, 2011, 9:48 pm
So I’ve been playing around with Dxtory recently, testing it to see if it’s a good alternative for PC recording compared to what I currently use – FRAPS. Both programs do the job, but both of them also appear to have different wants and costs associated with them, as well as having a different...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jul 13, 2011, 11:42 am
So, I went off to the MyMeteor website to send a web text in reply to a text I just received on my mobile. Generally when I’m at home, or otherwise near an available computer, I send a web text to save myself the 12c that I may otherwise need at some point, and it also helps to extend the length o...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jun 27, 2011, 5:09 pm
So, much earlier this morning when I went to just randomly watch a stream over on NGame.tv, I was greeted with a very large and red error message: NGame, flagged...? When the bloody fuck did that happen? I had been watching the site without any problems 3 hours before that and got nothing in my wa...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jun 14, 2011, 8:31 am
Sometimes I do forget that I have a blog sitting around that I can update with goings-on. Problem is usually that there goings-on aren’t really very interesting or worth blogging about. Not much has really gone on over the past few weeks. I’m still making my YouTube videos, doing a lot of strea...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Apr 27, 2011, 11:00 am
So, I was on the train home today from a meeting in town with some of my fellow boards.ie Pokéforum nerds, when my mind managed to stumble around to Minecraft. I had begun to think why the Flint and Steel is made using Flint and an Iron Ingot? So that led me to think: why not add Steel to the game,...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Apr 19, 2011, 2:39 pm
So, this morning saw Portal 2 release at sometime about 5:30am – no thanks to all the people who played along with the whole Potato Sack thing and kept pushing the launch time back from mid-afternoon… –  to which I duly booted it up, slowly waited for the damn thing to decrypt the pre-loaded ...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Apr 12, 2011, 9:51 am
So, I’ve been playing F1 2010 recently, and I thought it might be an idea to maybe try write up a “racing report” style of article once I eventually finish up the first season. Now the results themselves may seem a little askew given the current difficulty settings I’m playing under (Amateur...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Mar 16, 2011, 5:41 pm
First, I shall give a brief lesson as to what an Emolga actually is: FUCKING EMOLGA Emolga (Japanese: エモンガ Emonga) is a dual-type Electric/Flying Pokémon introduced in Generation V. Emolga is a rodent-like Pokémon, primarily white in coloration, that most resembles a flying squirrel....
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Mar 8, 2011, 10:37 am
I should be able to still utilise the excuse that I’m paying too much attention to other stuff to realise that I have a blog that I really should keep updated…? Been spending most of my time working on more videos for my YouTube channel. Hopefully all this effort will pay off soon, as right now...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jan 9, 2011, 1:07 pm
After yesterday, I think I’m going to start echoing my fellow Commuting and Transport Boardsies in dubbing Dublin Bus’ restructuring of their routes and timetables as “Network They Wrecked“. While I thankfully haven’t had to rely much on the bus service since the train line opened – whi...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jan 1, 2011, 7:41 pm
So, to bring in the new year, and to try coincide with my recent shift of focus from the “normal blogger” to the “gamer and video editor”, I’ve slightly re-organised my site a bit to try and help that. I’ve basically reverted the previous change of putting the entire blog on the homepage...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Dec 22, 2010, 9:11 am
So I hear the bloggies are dated and coming up soon: Campaign for the bear for Best Newcomer…?
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Dec 14, 2010, 3:19 pm
So, despite the fact it’s barely even up a day, I’m already starting to get some flak over that new Facebook page I created for myself. As such, I’m going to explain the main reasons why. Over the past year or so, I’ve had two main personas that have manifested – my own: that is to say, m...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Dec 12, 2010, 8:12 pm
I suppose that as a gamer, I ought to write some more gaming and game-related posts; so, here’s something that I feel just a little bit vocal about – the upcoming large patch for Civ V in the next couple of days. Judging by the entire patch notes (which include a few changes already made in pre...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Oct 28, 2010, 3:33 pm
I don’t want very much really… Can I just have a social media program that has the power of TweetDeck, has user streams, uploads stuff to Twitpic properly – as in with the tweet as a caption, and what adds the image preview on the Facebook status – with Seesmic’s speed, fluidity, plugin f...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Oct 22, 2010, 11:03 am
Oh, how I fucking hate them. Particularly when it’s the kind of crash/hang/lockup/whatever that almost no-one else gets and there is no viable solution available online to fix the problem. Mainly this issue affects Source engine games, in particular Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2. It’s an is...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Oct 20, 2010, 8:28 pm
Well, I’ve got a lot that has happened over the past couple of weeks that I should write about. I really need to remind myself to write about it. Maybe in the morning, when I can think properly. I just need to remember to do so…If you're reading this post, and it's not on my site or on somewhere...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Sep 20, 2010, 2:06 am
I’ve just been a little distracted by watching a few fair videos of the past hour or two of old CART races and incidents. I almost wish that the way the IndyCar Series runs right now could possibly take a leaf or two out of the old books, throw in a fair few more races on some of the more classic ...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Sep 18, 2010, 9:52 pm
This is just a quick note I’m writing on the recent spate of supposed DMCA notices sent to several Pokémon fansites, including Pokébeach, Serebii and others. The major error that occurs in the letter that I can see is that the claimant claims to have sent a DMCA notice to their domain regis...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Sep 15, 2010, 11:45 pm
I don’t know what the hell it was with today, but ever just seemed to go completely fucking wrong. Shower cubicle leaking even more than before, now affecting downstairs. An Post apparently not even bothering to deliver a massively huge parcel containing two pictures, it being so big it wouldn’...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Sep 15, 2010, 12:20 am
To be honest, I’ve been thinking about where I want to go with this blog/site/whatever. Given all the general stuff lumped into separate pages as you see in the menu section, I was beginning to think maybe about turning my entire site into more of a lifestream, although there are two big things ag...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Sep 10, 2010, 8:00 pm
So within the past few hours, after finding out that the transitioning of Google Apps accounts to fully fledged Google Accounts was available for early adopters to opt into, I decided to jump the gun and go ahead with it, seeing as I just wanted to get everything finally together for once in one pla...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Sep 3, 2010, 7:25 pm
Well it’s been an interesting day, that’s for sure. Not much really happened, but there are two major things that really were the centre point of the day that I want to highlight. Love KFC The first was finding out of this odd promotion being run by KFC here in Ireland, known as Love KFC. In...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Aug 31, 2010, 11:06 am
So it has very recently come to my attention that someone in After Hours on boards wrote up something which grabbed the attention of the Redbrick crowd and others, and from which I managed to find it. I’m not going to post the link here, because the entire thing is purely fabricated, maybe for co...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Aug 26, 2010, 8:03 pm
The post that started it all is viewable on boards.ie here. So apparently the timetable for the new Dunboyne rail link has been posted by Irish Rail. Only the timetable shows that every single Dunboyne train serves Docklands and not Broombridge, Drumcondra or Connolly. This is fucking retarded. I...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Aug 16, 2010, 8:41 pm
An annoying thing that has been happening recently when I’ve been trying to watch streams on Justin.tv, is that the flash ad box on the top-right hand side of whoever’s channel page has been eating up CPU and thus causing the stream to lag to bits, as long as it is within the browser window. Fo...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Aug 9, 2010, 10:55 am
G’wan Monty!!! Enough said really. Monty dominated at Watkins Glen, almost like he did at Indy for the past two years, but unlike those times, he comes out with the long-overdue win I really just wish people who shut up about the fact his only two wins have been on the road courses. Have you not...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jul 25, 2010, 8:14 pm
Today is a really black day for motor racing. In each of the three races I watched, a driver had a mostly deserved win robbed from them. First in the F1, Massa had his win robbed by his team, forcing him to pull over and let Alonso through. Then in the NASCAR, Montoya had his win robbed from him w...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jul 17, 2010, 9:41 am
I know that I was starting to turn into a videophobe, firstly after the Let’s Plays, then getting FRAPS and making random PC gameplay videos – and now even more so after getting my Intensity Pro and now making 360 videos. Maybe amateur video editing is the way for me to go in the future (assumin...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jul 8, 2010, 1:47 pm
Or rather, woo 21! Well, maybe not so much – I’m feeling really damn old now. Anyway, last weekend was bloody epic, especially the absolute chock-filled Saturday with friends during the day and family in the evening. After a very quiet Friday (which was the actual day itself), with just a trip...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jun 20, 2010, 10:19 pm
Is not something I usually celebrate or bother with at all, primarily because of the fact my biological father left me and my mother when I was only 3 or 4 years old. Despite the fact that my sister’s father kind of fills the father role (despite not having to), I still wouldn’t consider himIf y...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jun 5, 2010, 6:43 am
Maybe I should set up one of those gaming blogs  along the lines of Donncha, especially if this ends up becoming a regular occurrence… So, after buying Modern Warfare 2 yesterday evening in GAME in Blanch for €35 (not the €25 I definitely remember it being a little while ago – but at leas...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Jun 4, 2010, 4:58 pm
Stumbled across this somewhere. 40 video game scenes rendered completely out of Lego. It would have been nothing all too fancy to post here, except for the fact that they specifically said they wouldn’t post the game titles to make it more fun. As such, cue the impromptu ”here’s...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - May 31, 2010, 7:55 pm
There is one very accurate comic out there which goes on about how what your e-mail address is, tells people about the type of computer user and the computer skills you have. Found on The Oatmeal. Thankfully, I upgraded from my first e-mail, which was a Hotmail account back in 2007, to my own doma...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - May 30, 2010, 5:29 pm
This really isn’t something I’d usually put up here on my blog, but it is probably something that I wouldn’t mind getting some feedback from a wide variety of people, rather than just otaku friends. So my plan for Eirtakon in October this year is to go as Sora from Kingdom Hearts ...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - May 20, 2010, 7:16 pm
I’m still a sucker for fan art of Ruby and Sapphire from Pokémon Special. I happened to come across this piece on deviantArt earlier (after another one of those “was linked to a picture there and ended up wasting an hour looking at more similar pictures” sort of thing happened), a...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - May 19, 2010, 6:54 am
Did I mention I hated exams? No. All right then. I hate exams. While most of my friends and family would consider me to be an intelligent person, I am absolutely horrendous when it comes to doing exams. Why? Well, whatever the subject matter is, I tend to learn better by actively doing it and g...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - May 8, 2010, 8:55 am
So, I took part in the UKCS map test on Thursday night, and as is my usual course of action when in one of these things, I FRAPS’d it all and rendered it into videos to put on YouTube for all to see. Sounds like a breeze right? Wrong. Now I really hate the annoying YouTube “10 minute...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - May 2, 2010, 8:16 pm
Well, I just had one of the more random things happen to me. It’s not the longest of stories, so I’ll try keep it short. So it started off with Major Nelson doing another one of his free code giveaway puzzle things, which in this instance was a code disguised in the form of Xbox 360 lig...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Apr 25, 2010, 8:11 pm
Been a little bit too busy recently for anything proper to write… Although after watching the NASCAR race today, I have found something epic to write about! You may call be a Jimmie Johnson hater or something like that, but I was absolutely thrilled to see him crash out live as it happened. Why? ...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Apr 21, 2010, 9:07 pm
I really haven’t had much time to try and get anything done recently. What started off as an annoying cold about a week ago seems to have developed into a real coughing fit. I almost seem to have constant chesty coughs every few minutes, and my throat always seems to feel very gunked up. Usua...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Apr 16, 2010, 12:46 pm
This is probably something that I originally thought of a few months ago, but never really got around to popping up for… reasons unknown. So, one of the things that keeps me on my toes, in a way, is the fact that I almost seem to be constantly changing my site around, be it a brief quick edit...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Apr 12, 2010, 7:24 pm
Sorry, been busy and stuff, and other things like that. Will probably write something soon, especially as I found a bunch of pictures on my old camera’s memory stick that I never took off of it and looked at. Also really need to do that “A Bear Mind” I told myself I would. Argh, II...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Mar 31, 2010, 7:36 pm
Y’know, seeing as how I can be practically the polar opposite of Elly and George when it comes to junk food, I should probably set up a site like that. Then again we also have This Is Why You’re Fat for our triple-X rated food porn needs. So for my first entry in this mini-one-off-never-...
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Mar 29, 2010, 6:28 pm
I think the comic itself gets the point across. New “A Bear Mind” coming soon!If you're reading this post, and it's not on my site or on somewhere that is obviously related to me, then it was copied without my permission by scraping my RSS feed. Let me know!
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Mar 29, 2010, 11:20 am
Me! Yays! Go become my fan and stuffs! Seriously, mush. I’ll pop up some pictures and things, and some of them might even show up there before Crispy even gets up off his ass and puts them up on the stuff pages!
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Chris D. posted an article on TheChrisD - Rant Central - Mar 24, 2010, 4:09 pm
So, on Monday while hanging around college, after contemplating it over the weekend, I finally decided to move my e-mail hosting from Windows Live Admin Center to Google Apps. And I must say it was the best fucking decision I ever made. Google Apps is so much easier to use and manage than Windows L...
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