My Little Cousin Brother Plays Portal

Whoever's reading this, go watch them NOW

Here's the Playlist

Oh P.S. I've made a page just for this. Go check that out as well.

Bye :)

9 & a half year old kid + Portal = Insane Awesomeness

Have you ever asked yourself what happens when a 9 & a half year old kid is challenged to Think With Portals?

Well guess what, now you get to find out ;)

Watch my little Cousin Brother (Bhai) play Portal for the first time. Watch how logical thinking, mad reflexes & extreme frustration create the ultimate Portal experience :)

So what are you waiting for?

GO WATCH IT NOW....

My Brain Just Imploded

Let's welcome the New Year with LOTS of News :)

Hey everyone, Anistuffs here wishing you all a Happy New Year & a belated greetings for whichever holiday you celebrate.

So let's start off this MASSIVE blog post with a TON of updates.

0. I finished my Portal (First Time) Playthrough with a whopping 7 episodes ready to be uploaded.

1. My uncle & his family came over from Bangalore on the 24th of December for a week. I was very happy to say the least because I got to see my little cousin brother who's about 11 years younger than me.

2. Bhai (my little brother) learnt of the game Portal from yours truly & decided to check it out.
And he LOVED it :)

3. I went on a short 3 day trip (25th to 27th of December) with them to my aunt's native village (where there isn't even any running water). It was AWESOME :)

3.5. At the village we played with a lot of people, mostly with our one year old toddler cousin, Mishu, who's just learning how to walk & can barely talk. She was epic to say the least.

4. We returned from said village & Bhai played more Portals & he (at 9 & a half years old) was better at it then me (naturally). Again, Awesomeness.

5. Me & Bhai & our cousin sister (who's 8 months younger than Bhai) watched How To Train Your Dragon & Despicable Me. It was the best fun I've had watching a movie.

6. The 3 of us played Beyblades on a Carrom-board. It was ..... you know what I'm gonna say ;)

7. Bhai played more Portals & managed to finish upto Level 15 in 4 sittings, all of which are recorded & ready to be edited & uploaded ;)

8. Bhai left in the wee hours of this morning (2 Jan, 2011) at 4:30am to catch the 6 o'clock flight to Bangalore & I am finally able to return to my normal life (which sucks, in case you're curious) of writing blog posts that no one ever reads, making videos that very few people watch & in general being very depressed all the time. Yay :'(

Anyways, my Portal Endgame is being uploaded as of writing & should be public by the end of the week thanks to my Internet connection & I'll be making (& uploading) Bhai's Portal videos soon.

See you later, my non-existent blog-readers :|

My Mother Plays Portal

Yes, she does.

Okay, granted she was coerced into playing it by yours truly but let's not go into the details shall we? ;)

Anyways here's the link to the video. Enjoy.
My Mother Plays Portal

P.S. Props to anyone who recognises the language ;D

P.P.S. Sorry about the camera angles.

P.P.P.S. (really!) Subtitles are a hyperton of work. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.

I just forced my mother to play Portal. It's as sad as it sounds :(

This was the first time my mother played a 3d computer game. All her previous gaming was mostly Solitaire, Spider Solitaire & the likes. So suffice to say this was an experience in frustration.

I was yelling at her every half second & she was confused as hell. She moderately understood the whole Portal mechanic. The thing that confused her was the 3d perception. She just couldn't grasp the concept of depth in games like these & the fact that Chell doesn't have legs was also a downer.

I recorded her playing with my Digital camera. I didn't use Fraps as I don't have any harddrive space to keep the huge files.

I will upload the footage of me yelling & screaming & her being frustrated & confused & fumbling with the controls probably on my alternate account where I upload my vlogs (VERY infrequently) & other non-gaming related stuffs. I'll post a link to that soon. Till then, bye...

First Proper Fail at Recording Gameplay Footage :'(

So I uploaded 3 more videos in my Portal (First Time Playing) Series which has me playing through Levels 16 & 17.

Today I started recording Level 18 & a little bit in, I Alt+Tabbed out to compress the Fraps footage as otherwise my Hard-drive will get full.

Then midway through the compression, Portal crashed making me lose my progress & also messing up the Blind Run. Then VirtualDub, the software I use to compress the large Fraps recordings, also started messing up & the compression time estimate increased from 5 minutes to 30+ & still went on increasing. So, I got very upset & deleted all the footage I had recorded.

Yeah.....

Not a good day. Not at all.

I guess I had this coming for a while now. So, here's a toast to my First Proper Fail at Recording Gameplay Footage.

...........(sigh)...........

I'll probably get back to recording once I'm not upset. Yes I know I'm acting like a child but what can I say.
My PC cabinet's a total mess & is now open with all the live wires less than a foot away from me since my SMPS fan got corrupted & makes this awful noise unless the lid is open. So I have to unscrew my cabinet & the SMPS lid everytime I want to use my computer which takes about 5 minutes & then after I shut down the computer I have to reattach all the pieces back, taking another 5 minutes.
That is VERY annoying. You might think that it's not too much of a problem but it actually is. So nowadays, I'm kinda getting quick-tempered & I doubt I'll get better (mentally) before I get the SMPS fan fixed.

I guess this is sort of a rant blog. Good thing no one reads these :)