Random Rants by KC

To optimize audio quality of a PC recording, one of the things that was emphasized was the necesity of a "shock mount", which are ...

One of the best aspects of gaming on the PC is availability of mods, esp. if the developers of the game made the game mod-friendly, which al...

It is surprising how many people got the "true" origin of the verb "pwn" not quite right... even operators of "Have...

The free PC backup utility space used to be dominated by Macrium Reflect. Unfortunately, it is a bit TOO good, that most people just use the...

Sometimes, somethings are just too good of a bargain you can't pass it up. And when I saw a macroboard available for sale, it took me se...

It is now 2024, and the the latest CPUs have dedicated AI cores.  Unfortunately, the old adage "when in doubt, reboot" still appli...

A Macroboard is basically a small keyboard that one can program to to perform a whole series of functions (aka macros). However, there are a...

A while back, I'm not sure where, I picked up this macro keyboard that has 3 rotating encoders (knobs) and 11 keys. However, I can't...

PCs generally do not come with a webcam, though laptops do. Yet the ones come with laptop are... tiny and non-upgradable. Sure, you can BUY ...

 Let's see... been replaying some games... Actually, mostly one game: Hardspace Shipbreaker The game is actually pretty simple: you basi...

Played quite a bit of Battlevoid Sector Siege (RTS tower defense / ship attack) where you are surrounded by six different alien races all wa...

Plane Mechanic Simulator pretty much bored me, so I left it and didn't play it again.  Did try Everspace, and it was not bad. Some of th...

Wow, it's been two weeks since I've updated state of my games.  Finished Crying Suns, and tried multiple ships for the first two cha...

The Great Suspender was a good extension as it "suspends" the tabs you don't use so Chrome doesn't eat up so much memory...

 Finished Book of Demons (Diablo clone), review is on Steam.  Decided to try Zombie Army Trilogy, which is a recast of Sniper Elite V2 into ...

 What has happened in my gaming?  Have to give up on Vector Thrust (again). I was reminded why I didn't play the game that long: it won...

I would not say I am a tower defense game guru, but I can hold my own generally unless the game expects me to somehow figure out a tactic no...

 "Finished" Warstone TD, Treasure Hunter Simulator (all achievements), and started on Crying Suns and finished Chapter 1. You can ...

Treasure Hunter Simulator (THS) is supposed to be an archaeology game: go to different maps and try to locate historically significant artif...

Finished MarZ, as mentioned in a previous post.  Tried Greed Corp, a turn-based tactical combat game, decided while interesting, it didn...