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My strange brain breakfast

I'm not trying to pass this off as some amazing secret or something but I thought I would share my morning diet/supplement routine that I've done for years- ----------------- Wake up: Drink 3 cups of water Take the following supplements 1- 5 htp- helps increase production of serotonin so it makes you happier 1- Acetyl L-Carnitine + Alpha Lipoic Acid- helps with memory, energy levels 1- GABA- makes you less anxious/mood stabilizer so helps you sit still and work longer 1- N- Acetyl Tyrosine- helps you stay focused/alert 1- Ginkgo Biloba- helps with memory Make 1 cup plain/unflavored oatmeal with 1 scoop unflavored whey protein-nothing else added After eating the oatmeal Have 1.5 cups of fresh ground coffee with 1tsp coconut oil + 1tsp grass-fed unsalted butter After finishing the coffee Drink 1.5 liters water ---------------------- This is how I start my 10-15 hour brain taxing work days- In the middle/later in the day if I feel I need an extra boost of

Cowardice-Commenting-Criticizing-Creating?

*This is just like my opinion maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan It seems there are many more commenters and critics these days than there are creators of original material- has it always been that way? Do any children dream of one day talking about or talking over someone else's work? When I grow up I want to play other peoples video games and talk over them while making funny faces for money- When I grow up I want to sit around and complain about other peoples work for money- Is that what you dreamt about being or doing? Sure it makes a lot of people a lot of money for sitting around and making youtube videos but what does it add to the world? Besides extremely self referential entertainment that provides instant gratification based on pop culture and flavor of the minute memes- Its all one-off throwaway type stuff- you had to be there stuff- is anyone in 20 years going to be watching this stuff? I know the status quo says you're not supposed to consider anything thats not hap

How to prepare your films audio files for a mixer

I mixed two indie feature films in the past few months and I've mixed my own three feature films so I've had some practice editing a film then sending the audio files out to be mixed in a DAW- This is the easy way to do it- I'm going to use Premiere Pro for my examples but this is the same process for Final Cut Pro or any other NLE- When you are editing it is good practice to separate your audio tracks into dialogue, fx, music, and ambience tracks like this You can have multiple dialog, fx, music and ambient sound tracks but its good practice to keep them separate- you don't want to say.... have dialog, music and fx on the same track- keep all those things separate- It makes it easier for you and the mixer is going to have to separate them anyway- so if you do it for them you'll save money and make the mixer's job faster- Looking at the example-What you would want to do is export one track for Dialogue01, one for Dialogue02, one for Fx01 etc- so fr

How to waste your mind and life with mobile devices and social networking sites

This post is just me thinking out loud about something I find disturbing that has become a normal part of human behavior in the U.S. that I think is robbing people of their true potential- but this is just like.... my opinion maaaaaaaaaan.  Outsourcing consciousness? When you’re in a car with someone who is not paying attention to the road and/or the road signs- when they are not using the power of their own mind to find their way but instead they are led by the hand step by step by a mobile device- it makes me wonder what the persons consciousness is being used for at that time. When someone is walking down the street with mobile device in hand looking for a particular destination or person which they may actually be standing in front of but they never notice because their eyes are glued to their mobile device waiting for instructions- it makes me wonder what they are using their consciousness for at that time other than follow instructions from their mobile device. W

POWERLESS post mortem thang

So I just released the demo of my newest game POWERLESS You can download the game for PC for free here- Donations help my future game dev ^ ^ You can view the trailer for the game here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXKOu8AFGA My goal with this game is to scare you- to create a creepy environment and give you a strange, terrifying experience in which you never know what might happen. Most of the game takes place in first person but you do play as a ping pong ball in third person at one point so you can douse yourself in gasoline 0_0 The reason that its PC only at this time is that I'm using DirectX features in the game and DirectX is not supported on the Mac- sorry about that- I MIGHT be creating a version of POWERLESS for the Occulus Rift- I have to see how difficult it is to do so- if its relatively easy AND the game is light enough to keep 60fps or whatever the Rift needs I'll do it- I know very little of the process so I have to learn a lot about it-