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Rifle through my records
My Creations
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Robotman’s recent ravings
- From E-Waste to Emulation
- Fembot Manips — May 2025
- Eagles
- Fembot Manips — April 2025
- Fembot Manips — March 2025
- Fembot Manips — February 2025
- About Those Cheap Retro Handhelds
- Fembot Manips — January 2025
- The Second Fembot Crisis
- Fembot Manips II — December 2024
- Robotman’s Sexy Robot Manip Calendar 2025
- Fembot Manips — December 2024
- Pomplain Forst in Outer Spave 1.2
- Fembot Manips — November 2024
- Fembot Manips II — October 2024
- Fembot Manips — October 2024
- Beyond Futureworld 1.1
- Fembot Manips — September 2024
- Fembot Manips II — August 2024
- AI-Generated Music
- Fembot Manips — August 2024
- Fembot Manips II — July 2024
- Fembot Manips — July 2024
- Fembot Manips — June 2024
- Pomplain Forst in Outer Spave 1.1
- Fembot Manips II — May 2024
- Beyond Futureworld
- Fembot Manips — May 2024
- The Fembot Crisis 1.1
- Fembot Manips — April 2024
The Golfyssey
- The Golfyssey
- Golfyssey 01 — Atari 2600
- Golfyssey 02 — Odyssey²
- Golfyssey 03 — Intellivision
- Golfyssey 04 — Apple II
- Golfyssey 05 — Atari 5200
- Golfyssey 06 — Commodore 64
- Golfyssey 07 — Sega SG-1000
- Golfyssey 08 — Commodore 16 & Plusâ„4
- Golfyssey 09 — Nintendo Entertainment System
- Golfyssey 10 — Sega Master System
- Golfyssey 11 — Amiga
- Golfyssey 12 — Atari 7800
- Golfyssey 13 — Sega Genesis (part 1)
- Golfyssey 14 — Sega Genesis (part 2)
- Golfyssey 15 — Nintendo Game Boy
- Golfyssey 16 — TurboGrafx-16
- Golfyssey 17 — Neo Geo
- Golfyssey 18 — Super Nintendo
- Golfyssey 19 — Sega CD
- Golfyssey 20 — Sega 32X
- Golfyssey 21 — Sega Saturn
- Golfyssey 22 — Nintendo 64
- Golfyssey 23 — PC
- Golfyssey 24 — Game Boy Color
- Golfyssey 25 — Game Boy Advance
- Golfyssey 26 — The 19th hole
- Golfyssey 27 — Robotman’s Front 9
Video Carnage
- Video Carnage!
- Video Carnage 01 — Odyssey
- Video Carnage 02 — Channel F
- Video Carnage 03 — Atari 2600
- Video Carnage 04 — Apple II
- Video Carnage 05 — Odyssey²
- Video Carnage 06 — Intellivision
- Video Carnage 07 — Arcadia 2001
- Video Carnage 08 — ColecoVision
- Video Carnage 09 — Vectrex
- Video Carnage 10 — Atari 5200
- Video Carnage 11 — Commodore 64
- Video Carnage 12 — Sega SG-1000
- Video Carnage 13 — Commodore 16 & Plusâ„4
- Video Carnage 14 — NES
- Video Carnage 15 — Sega Master System
- Video Carnage 16 — Amiga
- Video Carnage 17 — Atari 7800
- Video Carnage 18 — TurboGrafx-16
- Video Carnage 19 — Sega Genesis
- Video Carnage 20 — Nintendo Game Boy
- Video Carnage 21 — Neo Geo
- Video Carnage 22 — Super Nintendo
- Video Carnage 23 — Sega CD
- Video Carnage 24 — Atari Jaguar
- Video Carnage 25 — Sega 32X
- Video Carnage 26 — Sega Saturn
- Video Carnage 27 — Sony PlayStation
- Video Carnage 28 — Nintendo 64
- Video Carnage 29 — Game Boy Color
- Video Carnage 30 — Sega Dreamcast
- Video Carnage 31 — PlayStation 2
- Video Carnage 32 — Game Boy Advance
- Video Carnage 33 — Xbox
- Video Carnage 34 — Road Rash (Part 1)
- Video Carnage 35 — Road Rash (Part 2)
- Video Carnage 36 — The Checkered Flag
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Game over and format fiddling
Another day, another load of time spent playing Civ II. That game is addicting. I kicked everyone’s ass and won the game, of course. I read more about ancient Chinese history too. I’m such a geek.
I just updated FembotWiki, and now it’s time to get to bed. But not before I bitch about Windows software for a while.
I was trying to make an iPod-format video for someone. He had bought Paul McCartney’s new live one recently, and it came with a free download of the video on iTunes. When he plays that video (a full concert) on his iPod, it always crashes at one spot, and he has to re-load the video (after rebooting the iPod) and scroll forward to past the point where it crashes. And THAT’S an official release.
I need a drink…
Mmmmm… sweet water. Not sweet actually. Not sweet lemonade either… yeah, sweet lemonade sweet sweet lemonade.
So I managed to get an xvid video for him… but that’s not exactly iPod size, so I needed to convert. For some reason, Video Converter (WinFF) in Linux wasn’t up to the task. I kept getting an error that no such directory exists. Since I’ve never used that application for anything… I thought I’d try a windows application.
I had read about some video converters on LifeHacker not long ago, so I found that page again and downloaded the one voted to be the best of 5. I also downloaded the 2nd best… and another…. until I downloaded MediaCoder iPod. The reason I tried three fucking programs before I got one to work is that they need the Microsoft .NET framework to work. Who the fuck uses .NET for programs? What, are you fucking crippled and retarded? Lazy fucktards.
Since my “music” computer, the one with the actual Windows XP has no internet connection, and since I don’t want shit like .NET polluting it, I needed to find something else. MediaCoder iPod worked… but it only encodes in 4:3 aspect ratio. That means the video I will return to the guy who made the request for me to get him a new iPod version will look all stretchy and like everyone is real tall and skinny.
Meh.
I will have to give that live performance a listen though, from me jumping and scanning through the avi file, it looks like a good one. I hope I can have that level of energy when I’m 67.