My On/Off Relationship With Dark Cloud 2

Pun Intended here, again!

Uberfantabuliciously Lazy Windows Maintenance

OMG ANOTHER ADOBE UPDATE

IF I SEE ONE MORE ADOBE OR JAVA UPDATE, I'M GOING TO START TYPING WITH CAPSLOCK ON ALL THE TIME!!!!ELEVENTYONE!!!111!!

Ok, maybe not.

So, have you been driven mad with updates?

Does it take far too much time/energy out of your life?

I have the solution for you! *victory theme music*

Today I discovered #3, Pandora Edition

Apparently, pandora doesn't do too well at album covers. I wasn't aware that kedollarsign-HA was an actress on the icarly tv show, so cool!

Adblock ate my website!

So, lots of bloggers out there have been hurt by adblock. What do we do about it? Typically we find ourselves financially starved, frustrated, and eventually we give up.  OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING, HOW CAN I PAY MY HOSTING BILL WAAAH?

Well guess what, I'm not going to give up just quite that easily. *Rocky montage*

Heart of the Swarm

Recently, I acquired starcraft II heart of the swarm as a birthday present (I'm old now, yay!)

If you intend on doing the same, I recommend checking out the the Tech Derp Game Shop, with coupon code DERP4U, to have it 2$ cheaper than Amazon. Blizzard charges more than amazon does.

I can't really give a multiplayer review as I haven't played it.

Steam key give-a-way #1

At techderp.net, there is going to be a raffle. Whichever of the following has the most followers in 2 weeks, will have 2 lucky users.


Techderp.net google+ page, techderp.net email subscribers,@techderp on twitter, techderp.tumblr.com, or facebook.com/techderp

One winning my favorite 2d game of all time(this will remain a mystery for the moment), and one winning Red Orchestra 1 and 2, both activated on steam, randomly chosen.

Random chosen will be based off of dice generators. No favoritism.

Academia further mystified #4

My class where I had an insane amount of homework, and a near impossible takehome exam, which I know for a fact I did less than 50% of the homework and had under 80% on the exam, both got perfect scores, just like everyone else in the class. Its 1/3rd my grade.

Anti botnet wordpress security practices

So, you got hit by the wordpress attack yesterday. I did, you did. We all did.

Freaked out yet? It was a huge botnet trying to crack your password

Anyone who doesn't know, a botnet is a large number (usually over 100,000) of computers all infected by some form of an attack, that can be remote controlled. The botnet yesterday was around 100,000.

Things you can do to protect yourself against it.

Academia Further Mystified #3

You may have noticed I haven't blogged as much as my usual OMG SO MANY POSTS amount this week.

I've been overwhelmed with school, along with my job. It's not that school is hard (well it is, but that's not the issue). It's that my teachers really are bad with scheduling.

New shop!

So, you may have been wondering why there is a shop button on my site now. It links to http://shop.techderp.net

Had, Have, and Will Review: Bioshock Infinite

Current Special: Check out shop.techderp.net for the lowest price on Bioshock Infinite



In recent history, games have moved away from their roots of character interaction and story, focusing more on better graphics, lots of explosions, a dearth of rather mindless first person shooters, and gameplay that is copy and pasted from a dozen other games like it.

Bioshock Infinite is not one of those games.

Pokemon Pikachu Special Edition 3DS XL

So you want to be a pokemon master? Do you see in 4d? Can you, I don't know, insert something funny here.

Why Twitter et al. will continue to fall to Google+

I know this post is not being posted to Twitter, but I couldn't fit it in Twitter's character limits.
STRIIIIKE ONE!

Now that thats out of the way, here is my official reasoning on why Google+  is the master race of all social networks and all that related blasphemy.

Warning labels on a humidifier

Sometimes the warning labels on things necessary horrify me. Do not pour any water into outlet. Lol what? Do we live in a society where someone thinks this is a good idea? This concept flat out terrifies me. Please make it stop waaaah. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Incase you're wondering, I got a new vicks 1 gallon pretty snazzy germ killing humidifier

It makes an interesting whirling noise.

2013 State of Hardware Affairs

[caption id="attachment_416" align="alignleft" width="300"] Naw, it's still good for a few more years[/caption]

So, your current computer is pretty old?

Are historical museums calling your phone off the hook? (Do phones still have hooks?)

DO YOU OWN THIS?

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Here is the guide for you, oh soon to be computer upgrading person.

Css Errors

[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="480"] From Family Guy[/caption]

These are my thoughts on CSS.
For those who don't know, CSS on Wikipedia, or W3 Schools

Making Wordpress Fast, Quickly

So, you decided to take the plunge and made a Wordpress site, then you loaded it up, and were like... holy crap this thing is slow! Y u no wordpress fast? MAKE IT FASTER RIGHT NOW!

Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster: Why X and not VII

Howdy y'all. I, Pun Intended, will be your guest writer today (and hopefully on other days as well!). So, as most of you probably know by now, Square Enix is releasing a remastered version of Final Fantasy X and X-2. But wait! There's more!

Gun deaths caused by tangerines

I often argue with people on the internet (*gasp*, who would have guessed)

For example, lets look at the gun death statistical evidence, in many states, gun violence increases with gun ownership, while in other states, gun violence decreases with gun ownership.

Windows 8 isn't bad, you're just using it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WTYet-qf1jo

Watch the video, and read along as you go. This is a commentary on it.

Cthulhu Public Service Announcement

[caption id="attachment_188" align="aligncenter" width="489"] Cthulhu the online predator[/caption]

Are you aware of the dangers of elder gods on the internet? It's a real threat.

One out of 97 young girls have nearly been abducted by an elder god. They may come back alive, but they do not come back sane. It's a life long damaging problem that we need to increase awareness of. Talk to your children. Every child told about the problem can be saved from the problem. To properly train against these situations, please consult Realm Of The Mad God

The only way to cure eldergod insanity involves a tri flux capacitor and some very suspicious people in a mall parking lot.
The best method to deal with an elder god is to avoid the elder god in the first place. Think of the children please, just think of the children.

Things I discovered #2

I just discovered, steam has a game called "drop that beat like an ugly baby" and another one called "drunken robot pornography"

This is quite odd to me, but it's kinda cool

Network from hell

This post might be a bit technical, so if you're boring, don't bother reading it.

Gender Dyscodia: Interactions of gender in the tech field

It's interesting to document the differences of how women and men are treated in the programming society. Guys are "just another programmer", while women are "bleeding edge" (bad pun, I know).

A guy asks for help, and it's like "uhh, you did something wrong with (blarg), should should fix it"

A person who lacks a y chromosome asks for help. "Oh, let me help you! Uh, hi, uhm, you're cute (atleast your screen name is cute), uhm, your code needs a new tri flux capacitor, let me code you a library for one, and change the compiler to accept time travel."

Ocarinas

Songbird Ocarina is a fantastic ocarina company

So, you've played Zelda Ocarina Of Time. You've memorized every note on every song by heart.

Heck, you've played every Zelda game ever made, and were annoyed when the instrument used to be called "Flute"

Did you know, it's a real instrument? And not just one for children!

Making it fast with ramdisks

Let's start. I love Ramdisks and Ramdisk Accessories.

So, here we are, on the computer. Lets say, you have a crazy system, i7, fast hard drive (or even for moar speed, SSD), 16 to 64GB of ram, and you're like "how do I make this thing faster"

InMotionHosting: A review for those who don't INTERNETZ

This Wordpress blog is hosted by InMotionHosting, So, when I switched from blogger to word press (I switched back later)(which is why my posts older than this have some derps), I did some investigation. Wordpress.com seemed ok, but the price on damn near everything was way too expensive. Wordpress.org is nice, but you have to host your own page.

I decided to take the learning approach and purchased a shared host. I searched the internets, blog after blog, forum after forum. Some people say some say hostgator, some say bluehost , some say some other random esortic smalltime hosts.

Disney Princess Derps

This falls completely under the derp category. Seriously, hardcore.

I'm really sick of disney princessification btw. You know mulan? TOTALLY NOT A PRINCESS

Building a blog

So, I oftened wondered "Hey, there are all these blog websites, how do they not float away?"

That was before I got my own domain, created a blog, and learned that the internet is not actually made out of tubes (despite what some politicians may feel)

So I investigated

Blogging wizardry

So I had an idea for the most convoluted blog setup ever.

I like blogger, it's a nice platform, has google+ integration, is easily customizable, etc.

I dislike tumblr, but there is a massive storm of traffic there.

So here's the idea.