Just working on my blog...

Pyongyang

Not sure if it is against forum rules to promote a personal blog is it? If so, mods please delete this post. No probs here.

So I've been working like a beaver (fnarr fnarr) on getting my dedicated (non-commercial!) shooting game blog/vlog sorted. Content is now where I'm concentrating my time.

If you feel like you want to check it out, it's available at http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk and also my YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/stuffiwrote

I've made some improvements to the reviews system over the past weeks, finally getting a good shortcode plugin installed and customizing it to work with my blog. Check it out on my Ibara review.

I'm working on video content too, I just finished creating an ident for tagging the opening of my videos. Here it is (best viewed in 720p), let me know what you think. Told you I was going to use my 3D Astro City drawing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH1TRA_Kbrs

Anyways, I hope folk find some use out of the site. With the design and backend sorted I'm now working on content as often as I can so it'll fill up soon!

Even if folks hate it, I'm enjoying writing about shooting games so nerr!

Gracias.

CiDeRmAn

Thats cool, site looks great too, very polished

Pyongyang

Thanks Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale.

I actually got an email from Gawker media yesterday asking to link to my site for an article. No idea what article it will be but yer man said he'd let me know when it's edited.

Quite an acheivement I think considering I've only posted two articles so far! :cool:

CiDeRmAn

Well done again!
A lot of us here would love to be games journos, or at least know out opinions were coherent enough to warrant outside interest.

Just don't forget us when you are famous and writing for Edge!

unky chop chop

good work lad.
astro look lovely in vid.
chrome coin slot...i likey.
can you throw up a a few vids of vga converter in action.
im interested to see how they look running on arcade monitor.
no issues with quality/ lag?

Pyongyang

Cheers lads. Talking of coin slots, I have a brand new one on the way to me as my current one is a bit manky so I figured a nice, new, official replacement part will make my cab a bit tidier.

As for the article. I haven't seen or heard anything yet, maybe they won't go with it. It'd be nice though and a real traffic booster. Means I need to pull my finger out and finish up some more content!

RE: Astro videos, I'm working on those, I'm planning on doing some videos on sticks though as I have a big project for the CP in the works. I'm no professional, I've no clue what I'm talking about. Hence the videos are geared for complete and utter newbies, like me, who haven't a breeze what their doing but want a helping hand to work out the simpler stuff on a cab. I.E. Replacing sticks and buttons, general maintenance, what cable does what, how to tate etc.

For the hardcore stuff there's folk out there who do it bigger, bolder, better and actually know what they are talking about. Best to leave it to them.

Pyongyang

Oh I forgot to add. The site is now fully mobile compatible with swipe response features. Meaning it'll auto-detect screen size and platform and has themes for both smartphones and tablets.

You can also swipe galleries and featured images on the home screen etc.

o1s1n

Fair play man, looking good so far. Great to see that fantastic domain name being put to good use!

Retr0gamer

Anyway to follow this on blogger?

Pyongyang

Cheers lads, there's still lots to do. Just trying to find the time!

I dunno if you can put it in a link roll on Blogger can you (if that's what you were thinking of doing)? Mine's a self-hosted WP theme/site. When I get a nicely structured links page sorted I'm going to add your blog on there Mr. 'tr0.

Retr0gamer

It's just that I'm lazy but if I can follow it on blogger then I'll definitely be able to keep track of it. Not sure you can do that with self hosted sites.

Pyongyang

Gotcha. Hmm, I'm not sure. The site will have a Feedburner RSS stream very soon so it can be implemented that way at least.

Retr0gamer

I tried using RSS stream before and well, I haven't checked it ever . Aw well, keep posting in the reviews thread so I can keep up if there's no way to follow.

Pyongyang

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I tried using RSS stream before and well, I haven't checked it ever . Aw well, keep posting in the reviews thread so I can keep up if there's no way to follow.

Will do! FWIW I use Google Reader and keep all my RSS feeds there. Far better than trawling the web.

Retr0gamer

I'll give it a try.

Pyongyang

RSS feeds should update now, I've just posted my review of DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou.

I'll add gameplay footage or pics or something tomorrow.

Here's the scoop:

http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/?p=165

Pyongyang

Another interview posted today, this time with the owner of Tokyo SHMUPS! online store.

http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/?p=314

Pyongyang

Another interview today, this time with Mike Walz, the one-man-band behind forthcoming XBOX Live Indie Games title, Snops Attack!

http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/?p=342

Pyongyang

This time, a spotlight on my Darius Laserdisc. Hope it's not too boring and fanboyish!

http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/?p=419

Pyongyang

A look at the Famitsu Weekly 'Nintendo Special'. Complete with some photography to drool over (snapped by yours truly).

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE!

By the way, there's a few surprises coming for the blog soon. Stay tuned...

#PinkBullets

Pyongyang

Another interview today, this one is quite an exclusive too! A chat with Nathan Fouts of Mommy's Best Games.

Nathan worked on Postal 2 and Ratchet & Clank to name but a few.

http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/nathan-fouts-mommys-best-games/

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Another interview today, this one is quite an exclusive too! A chat with Nathan Fouts of Mommy's Best Games.

Nathan worked on Postal 2 and Ratchet & Clank to name but a few.

http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/nathan-fouts-mommys-best-games/

Getting an error:
"Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /blogs/nathan-fouts-mommys-best-games/.

Reason: Error reading from remote server"

And its not just me:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/nathan-fouts-mommys-best-games/

.

Pyongyang

Yeah it's my host. I need a new host. That poxy proxy error has been happening a lot lately.

I'm open to suggestions for migrating the site.

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Yeah it's my host. I need a new host. That poxy proxy error has been happening a lot lately.

I'm open to suggestions for migrating the site.

Are you looking to host it in Ireland?

I use Letshost.ie and they seem decent(I've used Blacknight in the past and they were ok). The have real 24 hour support as well so if you have an issue at 3am they can help you out.
They have a lot of hosting packages as well so if your just hosting a small site you don't have to pay crazy money for it. But if you have a lot of sites and high bandwidth needs they will sort you out as well.(for a price).



.

Pyongyang

Pyongyang

Site is back up now. Nightmare! Definitely moving host.

Andrew76

Pyongyang wrote: »

Site is back up now. Nightmare! Definitely moving host.

Good article about Mommy's Best Games. Cho Aniki even got a mention! :eek:

Is that XBLIG available to us folk over hear yet?

Pyongyang

Andrew76 wrote: »

Good article about Mommy's Best Games. Cho Aniki even got a mention! :eek:

Is that XBLIG available to us folk over hear yet?

Cheers chief.

XBLIG is available in UK but not IE unfortunately.

Andrew76

Thought that was the case, feckin MS. :mad:

Some positives re: Windows Phone 7, I bet you're even more tempted to get one.

Pyongyang

I actually got to try out a Lumia 800 today. Ridiculously impressive phone.

My contract expires tomorrow so Friday I need to jump ship. But to what? I was going to go to Three but was told by them today (on boards.ie and in their Henry Street store) that as of 1.1.12 new customers are NOT allowed to tether. AT ALL.

So that's Three struck off my list.

Which leaves staying with O2 (no thanks) or Vodafone (recession? what recession?). Meteor and eMobile are not even on my consideration list.

Anyway, I might end up with a Lumia 800 and contract remorse by Friday, I dunno... :rolleyes:

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Cheers chief.

XBLIG is available in UK but not IE unfortunately.

The indie games work fine in Ireland. Just create another account(US/UK etc) and download them that way. Sign back in with your normal Irish account and play away.

That's the way it was 5 months or so ago when I last checked it out(and before the recent dash update).

.

Pyongyang

Is that crowd of hosting folk any use Stefan? I'm keen to migrate after last nights debacle. My Pingdom app was driving my iPhone crazy last night.

Those issues like you saw last night have been happening more frequently recently. Problem is, if I migrate my data I need to point my domain name servers to the new host, meaning more downtime as DNS follows the sun (not that it matters considering the visit count to my tiny little site haha!).

I can't be bothered paying to transfer my domain with that crowd. Is there anyone decent that allows free domain transfers with hosting packages?

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Is that crowd of hosting folk any use Stefan? I'm keen to migrate after last nights debacle. My Pingdom app was driving my iPhone crazy last night.

Those issues like you saw last night have been happening more frequently recently. Problem is, if I migrate my data I need to point my domain name servers to the new host, meaning more downtime as DNS follows the sun (not that it matters considering the visit count to my tiny little site haha!).

I can't be bothered paying to transfer my domain with that crowd. Is there anyone decent that allows free domain transfers with hosting packages?

I was on to letshost this morning for another issue and asked about transferring a .co.uk domain. Its not free with them but seems like a decent deal.

A quick snippet from my chat

The cost is €9.99 + VAT for the .co.uk transfer, and this will renew the domain for 2 years

The cost to register a .co.uk domain is €9.99 + VAT for 2 years as well, so there is no 'extra' charge to transfer it

So its not free but you are getting 2 years registration for free with the transfer.

.

Pyongyang

Steve SI wrote: »

So its not free but you are getting 2 years registration for free with the transfer.

So in essence, if my domain were to expire in 2017, by transferring it to that crowd I'd have my domain transferred and it would expire in 2019?

If it doesn't work like that with those lads then I may as well just re-point the name servers. Cheers for looking in to it for me though, appreciate it.

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

So in essence, if my domain were to expire in 2017, by transferring it to that crowd I'd have my domain transferred and it would expire in 2019?

If it doesn't work like that with those lads then I may as well just re-point the name servers. Cheers for looking in to it for me though, appreciate it.

No prob.

Contact them and find out about it. I'm sure it would go to 2019 as otherwise its just silly to offer the 2 years.

.

Pyongyang

I did a bit of research on Blacknight and found the following:

http://www.carlowpeople.ie/news/carlow-tax-defaulters-appear-on-revenue-commissioners-list-2881702.html

https://twitter.com/#!/bkenny/status/162525581244764160

Don't think I'll be going near them, especially after customer details were leaked online today.

That crowd you recommended look sound. Problem is, my hosting with 123-reg is not up until July. I guess I could always use it as storage.

We'll see, maybe the issues will disappear. Whatever happens, I'll look elsewhere in July, if not before if it becomes unbearable.

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

I did a bit of research on Blacknight and found the following:

http://www.carlowpeople.ie/news/carlow-tax-defaulters-appear-on-revenue-commissioners-list-2881702.html

https://twitter.com/#!/bkenny/status/162525581244764160

Don't think I'll be going near them, especially after customer details were leaked online today.

That crowd you recommended look sound. Problem is, my hosting with 123-reg is not up until July. I guess I could always use it as storage.

We'll see, maybe the issues will disappear. Whatever happens, I'll look elsewhere in July, if not before if it becomes unbearable.

Yeah, I left Blacknight a few years ago as I wasn't really happy with the service and I run a few important things through my web hosting and they didn't like fixing stuff at 4am and wouldn't give me access to the server to fix it myself. And when I say important stuff I don't mean the sites and blogs in my signature :rolleyes:

To be honest with you Pyongy, your blog is your baby and our view into your crazy shmuppy mind(which I believe works as below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NioLf8y8F94

Buy one less shmup this month and move your blog over to a better host. You'll be happier in the long run

.

Pyongyang

HAH! Thanks for the off the wall video! Nice choice of game.

I'll take a closer look at that crowd for hosting. Gracias!

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

HAH! Thanks for the off the wall video! Nice choice of game.

I'll take a closer look at that crowd for hosting. Gracias!

No prob.
Any excuse to brush up my rusty video editing skills

.

Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

Yeah, I left Blacknight a few years ago as I wasn't really happy with the service and I run a few important things through my web hosting and they didn't like fixing stuff at 4am and wouldn't give me access to the server to fix it myself. And when I say important stuff I don't mean the sites and blogs in my signature :rolleyes:

To be honest with you Pyongy, your blog is your baby and our view into your crazy shmuppy mind(which I believe works as below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NioLf8y8F94

Buy one less shmup this month and move your blog over to a better host. You'll be happier in the long run

.

Expect a wave of racist abuse by North Koreans for calling that video Pyongs Mind on Teh Tube







Ok so they don't even know what youtube is, but still

Pyongyang

Kim Jong Un is quite the gamer apparently. I wonder if he's ever played a Darius game?

Might be for the best if their military propaganda is anything to go by. They might end up actually building a 1:1 replica of King Fossil!

Actually, remember the life size Gundam that was built a couple of years ago? The same folk should do a King Fossil 1:1 build for a Darius anniversary in 2016. 4 years is long enough to build it if they start now!

Pyongyang

Latest review I just posted. This time it's for Ketsui Extra on the XBOX 360.

Hope you like it.

http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/ketsui-extra-review/

Pyongyang

Somehow (Lord knows how or why) I've hit the 100 subscribers milestone on my YouTube channel that I set up to compliment my blog.

Here's a little invitation I've put together to mark the occasion. Hope to see some interaction from any YouTube users here for this video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQe8a4vBCz4

Pyongyang

Gotta love it when you discover that Wil Overton reads your blog.

https://twitter.com/Kosmikat/status/239001616521498624


...oh and then finding out Wil Overton follows you on Twitter!

safetyboy

Pyongyang

I've admired Mr. Overton's artwork long before his days at Super Play.

That was my reaction too.