Thoughts and Ramblings of Dan Burridge

If someone told me — even last year — that in 2022 Microsoft was going to be buying Activision Blizzard or that Boris Johnson’s days as Prime Minister might, finally be over (wishful thinking) I would have probably have passed it off as wild speculation. However, here we are in a world where at the very least the former is happening for definite. I will not pretend to understand anything about Business, or politics for that matter, but I know that Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard for $69 (nice) billion is huge! I am interested to see how things change with the company as we lead up to next year when the deal is reported to close. I am sure Tom and Myself will be discussing this on episode 18 of our Podcast! NFTs have become a huge thing at the moment, and not only do I not understand why but I also really don’t like them. The damage they do to our environment being one of the big reasons for my dislike of them. The hexagonal avatars that Twitter introduced have made it easy to get ...

Oh my! It has been so long since I last looked upon this site. For a little while I forgot I had it. Reading over the old content again made me smile as I remembered a lot of fun times at EGX 2016. I have since had fun at EGX 2019 too, although that seems like a lifetime ago since that event happened. So what has been happening since I last posted here? A lot! First, I completed 2 more years of University however, during the COVID-19 pandemic I ended my studies after completing 1 foundation year course and 2 years of a Computer Science degree. COVID completely finished off any remaining energy I had to go on and complete the final year. I did still attain something for my time there though — a Diploma of Higher Education which I am still happy and proud to have achieved. Secondly, my computer specs remain largely unchanged — thanks chip shortage! My current specs are as follows: Intel i7–8700K @ 4.7 GHz Motherboard: MSI B365M PRO-VDH Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 RAM: Corsair ...

While going through my Google account and checking some things out in my Adsense panel I noticed that I had an unused Blogger blog. I realised that the domain pointing to it (blog.dburridge.com) is still something I own and can set up, so I have now done so, and the blog is back! I intend to make use of it more this time. Since my update, now over one year ago a lot has happened. The computer and its specs I mentioned in that post is no longer with us, it has been upgraded yet again! The specs for those interested are as follows: Intel i7–8700K @ 4.7 GHz Motherboard: Gigabyte z370P-D3 Graphics Card: GTX 1060 6GB RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4–2400 Power Supply: EVGA Supernova 1300W P2 Platinum Modular Power Supply SSD 1: 240 GB SanDisk SSD PLUS SSD 2: 60GB Kingston V300 HDD 1: 1TB Western Digital Blue HDD 2: 1TB Western Digital Blue It also has a new case now: NZXT S340 White/Purple Midi Tower Gaming Case. I intend on upgrading the GPU soon, along with replacing my 2 1TB mechanic...

Tomorrow the remaining components of my new computer, Phoenix, shall arrive. I shall now reveal the specs for this rig. CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X @ 3.4 GHz (Boost of 3.8 GHz) RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4–2133 Motherboard: Asus PRIME B350-PLUS CPU Cooler: Cooler Master TX3 EVO GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB The Ryzen CPU will make short work of streaming, recording, editing and rendering videos. I am very much looking forward to getting it built. Next Tuesday I have an exam but apart from that and work I have a pretty light week. Due to said light week I intend on streaming next Thursday, 8th of May (Once I’ve gone off and voted in the general election, of course) I am not sure of what game it’ll be yet (probably multiple) and I am also unsure on times but I suspect it’ll be for the majority of the day. I will post more information once I can plan out my day and get a better idea of what times and games I will stream.

So on Sunday I made a post about the busy year that I had upcoming between now and July 2017. One or two things I missed or have changed since then so I will point them out now in this post. First I mentioned that my YouTube channel would be taking a back seat during this time as I would focus more on this Blog and my Twitch channel. Well while this is still true I have been able to record some stuff which will be seen over the next couple of weeks hopefully. Secondly, I never made mention on when I was starting the schedule I posted in Part 1. I cannot give a 100% accurate date however I am hoping that I can officially start it around the 5th of December. This is only a rough estimated date but it gives me time to see how my workload is going to plan out. Finally, today I am sending off my UCAS application so I have begun my journey to University. If all goes well, which I am very much hoping they do I will be 24 when I go to University. Of course in this day and age going to Universi...

Well it’s been just over a week since I last made a post, sorry about that! So life is beginning to start getting very busy. I have my job to obviously go to 5 days a week. While I do not do much more than 23 hours a week I then have my coursework to deal with and attending college 3 days a week. I was discussing the idea on my stream the other night of going into streaming more than I do YouTube. This came about after my recording drive bit the dust so for now I have no footage to edit. I have a nice new SSD to record to before transferring to the 4TB drive that I used to record to. However because it has died in action I have no footage to use, nor anywhere to store newly recorded footage, which means I would have to edit as soon as I record which for the most part just wouldn’t be possible. If I were to stream once or twice a week I should be able to keep it consistent and not have to worry about editing any footage after. For the last week I have streamed 4 or 5 times which is a lo...

Image by freepik So I haven’t really been following VR much since its conception it just didn’t fully appeal to me as a wearer of glasses, let alone the fact I am so used to sitting at a desk, or in bed playing on my PC/Laptop/3DS/PS4 etc. Yesterday in one of my classes Human Computer Interfaces or HCI for short we were discussing Augmented Reality or AR for short and VR. I have never used VR so I couldn’t tell you my experiences with it but in some ways it excites me, yet also scares me a little. It excites me because I like the idea of being able to put on a headset, put my on headphones and head into a game world for true immersion. I like the idea of running around Skyrim, or Fallout either exploring things in more intricate and personal detail or simply to go hunting for bears or something. It sounds amazing, and I am totally down for that! Also it means exercising from the comfort of my own home without the problem of self-consciousness from people staring and judging. However I ...