Monday 5 May 2014

My Secret Obsession ;)

It has been far too long since my last post my faithful children,

I thank you for being faithful to me through these past months of starvation at my fickle hand,




However.

I have recently (yesterday) made an account on 'hummingbird.me' and have compiled my watched anime on my profile there 'http://hummingbird.me/users/Grand_Lord_Zol/', this I hope will serve as both sufficient compensation and explanation as to why I have been so inactive these past few months :)

Until Next Time,

~ As Always, Your Faithful Dungeon Master

Tuesday 18 March 2014

The End of a Journey

Upon the completion of my first outcome in the part one of the I.T. course I have come to a realization about the fundamentals of mainstream I.T. work, Its filled with a lot (and I mean a lot) of 'Data' and many hours of painstakingly going through the Data to work out all the errors and the kinks within. This coupled with my dis-taste for working in this  manor has completely removed all hope of me being a mainstream I.T. scrub who sits at a desk for endless hours being monumentally bored.

'A Typical Image of Boredom'

Soon after making this realization I set to work finding out how I could avoid this dreadful excuse for a life and I came to a marvelous solution!

'A Eureka Moment'
Become. A. Game. Developer.

Now, Mind you I have been on the side (with some friends) running a small game development company but work has ground to a halt due to the demands of a full education (we all know the feeling). We are working currently on an AMAZING role playing game in 'Cryengine' which is coming together slowly but surely. But that story is for another post, now back to the reason this post exists, I have included my finished Info-Graphic as the final image and It would make me happy if someone no, ANYONE! commented on this post with their feelings towards it (be very critical) and just as a side note it's about an evil company which activated a weather device that makes water evaporate!

Feel Free to Give any Form of Criticism, or nit-picking :)

~ As Always, Your Faithful Dungeon Master



Thursday 6 March 2014

Info-Graphics and You!

Salutations once again children of the night,

Today we are here to discuss the wonders of the humble 'Info-graphic' and how it can aid you in your many endeavors throughout your journey on this earth.

Firstly, an Info-Graphic is generally a visual representation of information and data in a way which is quite easy to grasp, most of the time Info-Graphics take complex and copious amounts of raw data and turn it into a visually pleasing soiree of ideas and persuasive graphs and information.

'Example of an infographic'

If you're going to make an amazing info-graphic your going to need to use some of these very valuable points which will help you to make a graphic worthy of your dungeon

"Graphical displays should:

  • show the data 
  • induce the viewer to think about the substance rather than about methodology, graphic design, the technology of graphic production or something else 
  • avoid distorting what the data have to say 
  • present many numbers in a small space 
  • make large data sets coherent 
  • encourage the eye to compare different pieces of data 
  • reveal the data at several levels of detail, from a broad overview to the fine structure. 
  • serve a reasonably clear purpose: description, exploration, tabulation or decoration. 
  • be closely integrated with the statistical and verbal descriptions of a data set.

(Bullet Points Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic)"

Any hew I believe that this will have wet your appetite as far as i'm concerned and many more juicy tid-bits of information are available at the above links.

For now I must bid thee farewell.

~ As always, Your Faithful Dungeon Master :)


Friday 28 February 2014

A Note on Lord Taylor

As some if not all of you are aware, my sensei lord Taylor (all hail) has been found to contain other things than knowledge, I am of course referring to a bubbly personality and a tendency to want to have fun.


Enjoy my children

~ Your Faithful Dungeon Master

Thursday 20 February 2014

A Quick Referral (Shameless of course)

The man who runs this blog is a legend even to the mighty Dungeon Master himself and as such shall be treated with the same level of adulation as myself (Hopefully).

http://pennnguinn.blogspot.com.au/

If it does not pose to much of an imposition I would ask that you check out this masterpiece of both web art and web literature for your own entertainment and personal enrichment.

As Always your Faithful Dungeon Master ;)

Lynda Excel Tutorials - Dungeon Review

Greetings once again children of the night, today we shall take a trip to the wonderful 'Lynda' tutorial system or more precisely the 'Excel Section' of the system. Firstly I have a small bone to pick with the people who run 'Lynda' for not allowing an unlimited membership use option in the payment plans available, the closest to this they have is an annual billing choice of a measly $250 dollars or a monthly option of $25 a month (not that bad as it costs less than a college course! 'Another Review' (and some could argue is more effective than). But all costing nit-picking aside 'Lynda' is a fairly solid learning tool that almost anyone (excluding people without a computer) can pickup and use to their hearts content while keeping a steady pace of expanding their knowledge in not only 'Excel' but in its huge library of other programs (They have enough to warrant an A-Z library).

Now to keep things simple for all you scrollers I shall make a dot point style 'Pros' and 'Cons' list just for you!



Pros:

  • Easy to pickup and use
  • Well developed Closed Captioning System
  • Clean interface (GUI) (Graphical User Interface)
  • Huge library of Software tutorials
Cons:
  • Could use a little less 'Dennis Taylor' and a little more 'Morgan Freeman'
  • May be a little better with a lump sum payment for unlimited use (for us, not them)
  • Benefits could arise from adding interactivity to tutorials such as those found at 'Codecademy'
  • Need good bandwidth speed to keep the videos consistent (don't feel bad, 'YouTube' has the same issue)

Anyhew, I hope you all found this to be interesting/eye opening and that you will all now approach 'Lynda' with a new view on what the best bits and the worst bits are, Now to avoid future rants on the subject please revisit this page to admire our lord and master Mr 'Dennis Taylor' at anytime in the future.

As always your faithful Dungeon Master :)

Monday 10 February 2014

A Quick Morsel!

Hello once again Ladies and Gentlemen, I made a little tech comparison chart to show the past, present and future of the technology we so know and love. This is purely my opinion and the sources behind some of the future segments cannot and will never be named (or will they....).


Anyhew, this is just a quick post before I must run to my secondary feeding chamber (Cata-Pauls got out again) but I just thought  that to keep things fresh I should post a couple of things each day.

For now I must bid thee Adeu 

~ Your Friendly Dungeon Master