Author: Padraig Fahy

  • Google+ Comments System on YouTube

    If you have been living under a rock for the past week, YouTube has made a massive change to the site in ways that people now want to leave!

    They have now implemented the Google+ commenting system (which has been trialed and tested to be a great tool)…but when YouTubers got this new feature, everyone lost their mind!

    And I don’t mean a small portion…I mean, EVERYONE. From TotalBiscuit, Jonathan Paula, Boogie2988 and more, they have shared their displeasure with the new comments system that they have disabled comments on videos uploaded since the changeover.

    What is so bad you may ask? Well, for starters, everyone has pretty much accepted that everyone needs to link their YouTube account with a Google+ profile or page. No one wanted to do it, but for the ‘unification’ that Google is doing, it seems logical.

    While it will take away anonymity from people, that is something that people are going to have to accept. Times are changing at Google and they want everyone to be “Open and Free and something something”.

    People are afraid of using Google+…That’s the way it is, people are using Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr and thus they don’t want to use anything else. But something has occurred to me while writing this piece which may be true….

    Google would like people to try Google+ before dismissing it. Most people who have complained about the new system have never touched Google+ and Google would like those people to actually try out the service. Now you may be asking “Why would they do this? Why are they trying to force us to use it?”

    YouTube is owned by Google. Google can do whatever they want. It is their site and they have the rights to make this change. They obviously didn’t think this on a whim and say “Let’s implement it right now”…No. They took their time with this system. They announced  this system a long time ago and they were confident in their system.

    YouTube under-estimated what the community is capable of. They thought that YouTube was this place of awesome community discussions relating to the video and thus they wanted to centralise the whole “Community discussion”, but they never thought of the side effects from this.

    Unlimited character length. Who thought that would be a good move? Yes, it allows you to talk about the discussion on hand, but it also makes way for people to copy and paste movie scripts, books, and even ASCII penises and swastika’s.

    And also…External linking…Anything from viruses to screamers and…porn.

    While the system of Google+ comments on YouTube works, the content of which doesn’t and YouTube needs to fix that. I know what people may be thinking at this point. Changing the system back to the old YouTube commenting system. No. That is not how you fix stuff. If that was the way of doing things, then we would have the same version of YouTube that we had in 2005/6 and no real innovation from anyone and thus hold everything back from ever developing.

    So, YouTube will have to sit down and actually fix these issues I just talked about. Because at the moment, Big YouTubers such as TotalBiscuit and Boogie2988’s career is on thin ice. They could lose their job because of this.

    I think Boogie’s video sums it up well. I have done enough of talking about it.

    Great system…badly implemented!

  • Oh god…I love child themes!

    When I did the first iterations of PadraigFahy.com back in 2012, I just edited the default theme files and then re-apply the changes whenever WordPress would update the them.

    So, whenever TwentyThirteen came out, I decided to create a child theme and this makes it A LOT easier to do changes.

    Sooo….Version 1.2 of the “2013-padraig” theme is out and the one and only change is:

    • Changed main fonts to “Ubuntu”

    😀

  • Internet Explorer…chan?

    Yes, this is a thing.

    Internet Explorer anime created by Microsoft themselves.

    I would watch a whole series of this. No lie. Check it out.

  • Nope…Still can’t play…

    2 days and I still haven’t been able to launch the game. This is getting out of hand.

    No word from the devs or anything. @ATVIAssist doesn’t want to help PC players who payed good money for this game. No one seems to have tested this game other than Windows Vista to make sure that the game works.

    callofdutyghosts2

    Come on Activision/Infinity Ward. Sort your shit out.

    EDIT: It took a WHILE but I got it working and I decided to post the fix on PCGamingWiki. Link to fix.

  • Some recent Steam Recommendations that I made

    A couple of days ago, I took to Steam to “Recommend” a few games that you should check out.

    Papers, Please <– Click for the Store Page!
    Papers, Please is one of those games that you will go back for more. For a small game, there is a lot of content in there. Story lasts about 4hrs and continues with Endless mode which is a lot of fun. I would like to see more characters, different papers and just more of everything. Great indie title!

    Commander Keen Complete Pack
    Commander Keen was the first game that I played EVER! Simple platformer. One of id Software’s first games and just nostalgia all over the place. Runs in DOSBox so it works on Windows 8. Highly recommend.

    Euro Truck Simulator 2
    Lots of content (Even more now with the Going East DLC). Mod Support. Amazing fun. Well worth the money.

    Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
    From Deathmatch to Classic Competitive and everything in between. CSGO is one of the best shooters on PC. Obviously very popular in the eSports scene, but it’s a great game to chill out to.

    Worms: Armageddon
    By far the best Worms game that Team17 has ever made. Still one of my all time fav games.

  • Little things that annoy me in video games

    So tonight, I was playing Worms Revolution and of course, you have to go through the Training before you can start on the actual story for Worms.

    So, I decided to plow through it anyway. I could have done it in half the time if there WASN’T SO MANY CUT SCENES!

    Everytime that you were taught how to use a weapon, you were instructed to pick up the weapon..pause..cutscene…pause…play…then a another cutscene. Obviously this is to show new players how to play the game, but COME ON! A simple tutorial on how to use the Bazooka doesn’t need to take more than 2 minutes to figure out.

    While I do like the game, the slow pace of the game just hindered my enjoyment of the game. Hopefully there isn’t too much more of that in the actual story.