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cmdConfig alpha 1.0

Had to get my appendix removed this past Saturday because of acute appendicitis. Bad news: I can't cough without putting myself into great pain, my belly hurts, and I won't be able to do a whole heck of a lot off my computer for a while. Good news: at least it wasn't an ugly appendicitis. Even better news: the lack of ability to be physically active helped me finally finish a project I started a while ago. I present to you:

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cmdConfig, a program inspired by SteamCMD and written in C, is focused towards being a useful utility for game creators to ship with their games. What it is, really, is a main menu that can launch other "modules" (executable files). These modules in conjunction with cmdConfig will allow game settings to be modified without having to actually launch the game or manually modify the config file. This utility would be great if the user either changed a setting that caused the game to not launch, or if they simply wanted the game to boot up the first time in their monitor's native resolution.

Included in the archive is, of course, the cmdConfig.exe, its source code, sample config.cfg file, LICENCE.txt and README.txt files (which include some more information than what I am writing down here), and a sample module with its source code. The sample module doesn't do much, and really isn't the best example I could have come up with, but oh well. I will likely include better examples with later releases, but for now I am just happy to finally have something to show for how much time I have put into learning the C language. Please leave any feedback you have so I can continue to improve this program.

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The right poem in the wrong place can made all the difference in the world

So, my sister Deb finished Half-Life 2 for the first time yesterday, and after watching her complete it I started to come up with a poem:

There once was a man named Gordon Who people all called the last free man But when he reached the reactor He forgot to factor the destruction that would ensue

When all seemed fine the reactor blew Gordon, the G-Man appeared to subdue leaving Alyx to die

I admit it probably isn't the best poem ever made and the way I recite the first part in my head I feel comes from some other poem, but I just can't think of it. And I also admit that the first two lines don't rhyme as well as they could, but I just couldn't find anything that rhymed well with Gordon. Still, hope you enjoyed this rather random post.

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Mistakes have been made

So, I decided this morning that I was going to record some more footage for my Minecraft Alpha Let's Play, and I was having fun so I continued to play for two hours. After that, I decided to drop the files into Sony Vegas, and to my dismay I saw that PlayClaw, the program I typically use to record my games didn't record my voice. Now, a few days ago the USB port I had my microphone plugged into broke. Somehow my headset fell on the USB cord causing the port to become malformed. The port below it I was able to salvage, though, so I just plugged it into that.

The problem is that for some reason, my computer thinks my microphone is a new device whenever I plug it into different ports, and I didn't think to change PlayClaws settings. I assumed that it would still recognize my microphone. In a perfect world, it would, and unfortunately I don't think I have anyone to blame but myself.

Not all is lost, though. I'm deciding to still use the footage, just speed it up a lot and set it to music, but its not much of a video. I guess the real upside is that I didn't do a whole lot in the video, only at the end did I really start a project, and I was mostly just stumbling around trying to tell stories of the last few days. Still, to have to pretty much scrap two hours of footage is incredibly annoying.

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Faith in humanity restored and chivalry

So my sister, Deb, recently got fed up with how whenever she talks in Team Fortress 2 whatever she said is ignored and instead people greet her with "are you a girl", as if that makes some huge difference, and so she started a discussion about it on the Steam Community and to our pleasant surprise, the majority of the people who responded were really nice and said that they didn't care whether someone in a game is a male or female. It was really nice to see, as I have seen a fair amount of hate toward girl gamers.

However I still don't get the people who do hate girl gamers and the people my sister is running into that are so surprised to find out that a girl is playing the same game as them. You know that "faith in humanity" you gained from that last paragraph? well if you want to lose it again, look up "chivalry" in Urban Dictionary. Seriously, all men should dress, talk, and act to impress women. I would like to expand on this thought below:

Dress I know this doesn't pertain to interacting with people online unless you are video chatting, but it is still a very important aspect. Now, by this I don't mean you have to wear your fanciest clothes every day, although you had better wear your fanciest clothes if you are going out on a date or are going somewhere fancy, but you should still look presentable. Personally, what I typically wear are work boots (sandals in the summer), blue jeans (carpenter shorts in the summer) with a belt to keep it up, and a tucked in tee shirt, which typically has horizontal stripes with a sweater in the winter.

Talk This goes hand-in-hand with the next one, act, but essentially just don't be rude. Men are no better than women and I would even say that in some aspects women are better than men so there is no reason to be rude.

Act For, I believe, years now I have been opening doors for girls and letting girls cut in front of me in lines. I've heard that, apparently, some girls take offense at this, but I encourage you to not let that discourage you, as I know that there are plenty of women who appreciate it. Basically just take to heart, like I did, the phrase "women first". Even if you already have your heart set on one specific woman, you should still do these things for all women because they deserve it.

And please note that through this entire post I've been using the words "woman" and "girl" interchangeably. You can take it to mean grown women or little girls or teenage girls depending upon what your situation is. No matter what age, though, you should be kind to all women.

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Greetings

I have been thinking of making a blog for a while now, and today I just figured "Heck, may as well just start it". So I guess this is the obligatory introducing myself post.

My name is Peter M. Gill, I'm currently 17 and my favorite pastime is playing videogames, primarily on PC. I'm currently learning how to program in C and have an A+ Certification. Past the mildly interesting things about me, I'm just someone who likes having fun.

So come, everyone, and join in on this blog of nothing and everything! Seriously, I honestly don't have any clue of what I'll typically be talking about, so this is probably going to be a home for a lot of random rants about random things.