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I'm baaaaaaack!

So, after spending a day or two moving house and a mere week without internet... *grabs bottle of whiskey*   ...what did I miss?
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How to get Rock Raiders to work on VMWare Fusion

This is a quick (and hopefully simple) guide to getting Lego Rock Raiders to work properly on VMWare Fusion; - Go onto VMWare Fusion - Install LRR, but if you have ignore this step - Click on the Windows Start - Open up "All Programs" - Look in the "Games" folder - Open "Lego Rock RaidersTM" (DO NOT OPEN THE STANDARD OR ENCHANCED VERSIONS, AS THEY WILL NOT WORK) - A "Mode selection" window will pop up - Change the Device selection from "Direct3D HAL" to "RGB Emulation" - Cli
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Ben24x7

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How to excersize your creativity when you have nothing to do

Alright, let's say you are in some sort of situation or place and either feel you have nothing to do or are just bored, you can "excersize" your creativity. First of all, look for something that catches your eye. It could be furniture, architecture, etc. Now you've seen it, think of how you could recreate it in Lego Bricks, you don't really need a pile of bricks in front of you, just use your mind. It doesn't matter if you are thinking in terms of Minifig scale or real life scale, just as l
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How to become a gold member (the other way)

1. Create an account on RRU and make a few posts, leave your account for 1 year 2. A year later return and you might find yourself a Silver Member 3. Begin creating the 590 posts you need (also remember to attend one of RRU's anniversaries) 4. When you have 5 posts left to go, just spam and bump topics 5. You'll receive a warning (possibly several) from the mods, just continue spamming 6. Become a Gold member 7. Enjoy your five seconds of glory as a Gold member 8. Get banned from
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How to (momentarily) hate LEGO Worlds

1. Play LEGO Worlds on a computer not built with Gaming in mind (a Mac with VMWare Fusion will do) 2. Play and enjoy the game until June 3rd comes around 3. Realise there is a game update, ignore it 4. Go onto the game, take a couple of screenshots or explore or something 5. Try and see what the game is like with Motion Blur on 6. Restart the game 7. Encounter LARGE amounts of like (nearly One frame every Two seconds) 8. Adjust the Video and Effect settings to the lowest possible 9. Rest
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Ben24x7

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Film music+Game music and a special sneak peek

Hey everyone, I have some new music, some for the TUa Project, some for my Game project and an extra special piece for an upcoming video for YouTube. But I have something important to say first; I am sorry I posted this up again, especially since it is a pain to upload the music, but I really wanted to let you know that (like I have already mentioned in a Profile Feed post) I am working on something secret by myself. Of course you might be taking this in as a stupid excuse, if so then I defian
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Blogs up

This is possibly the first ever Post made using the possibly-new(?) additional Blog option in the newly updated Rock Raiders United.   I'm off to get a coffee...
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Ben24x7's Birthday Loot (26/07/2015)

I've noticed people do this before, wether it'd be their birthday, Christmas, or any other special occasion, so when my birthday passed yesterday (at time of writing) I thought I'd give it ago. Do note however I don't have pictures like others do, but I swear what I'm listing is true. Here goes;   Recived (physically); - Four cards (two containing money), Three received from family members from abroad (and by abroad I mean literally right beside Scotland) and one from a friend of my mother's.
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Ben24x7 tries out the Playstation VR, twice

So recently, a relative of mine spotted that my local GAME(TM) store was allowing people to try out the Playstation VR Headset for 10 or 30 minutes. Despite the CEX Vive tryout "fiasco" I underwent a month or two ago, I felt that now was the time to get my first taste of roomscale VR. So to pass the hour 'till my train left for home, I dished out fifteen quid and within three minutes I slipped on the sleek white goggles...   ...but I know some people don't have the time to read all of
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Ben24x7 attempts Time Travel using a Blog Entry

Cirevam, or was it Grapheme, previously posted a topic which came from years into the future. Whilst, as a member of RRU, no such ability exsists...   ...but I think I can do it in a Blog. If this works, welcome to the Blog Post From The Future(TM)... If this doesn't, damn it.   Eh, this is close enough;  
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Ben24x7

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Ben tries out the HTC Vive - (Finally!)

Over the past week, I attended a course for Animation/Visual Effects, expecting to... well... make an animated project. And while that did happen, something else occurred during that week that took me off guard:   The appearance of the Vive wasn't hinted at or briefly mentioned beforehand, so you can imagine my surprise. And luckily, they set up the headset for people to use whenever they needed/wanted a break, which of course meant I tried it out whenever I could (approximately t
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Ben24x7

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Ben reviews 'Ratchet & Clank' - The movie, not the game

In recent times, a family member encouraged me to use the last of our free cinema tickets before they expired. After some consideration, I took the opportunity to watch 'Ratchet & Clank', in order to see what the movie industry could do with recreating a single game, rather than a movie about games overall...   Before I begin, I ought to clarify something important: I've never played or experienced a Ratchet & Clank game. You are probably thinking "Ben, seriously? You are
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Ben realises an insignificant link between the Infomaniac and a YTP of Michael Rosen

As unfortunate as it is, I've gotten back into Michael Rosen, mainly YTPs of him as usual, and I found one named "Michael Rosen stops celebrating 25 years of seizures". Its just a stupid fiesta of random out-bursts of song, insignificant amounts of sentence mixing, and so forth. But the reason why I bring this up, is that I couldn't help noticing the bit at 1:21, where Michael shuts an "invisible door" only to crash while emitting a *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*; https://youtu.be/1uhwh8
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Ben24x7

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Aaaaaaand we're back!

Huzzah! RRU is back (but not quite, but hey its back, yet not entirely). So yeah, its nice to be back. I'm currently drafting a blog post containing most of the fun stuff I've made during RRU's absence, but I decided this little gem deserves it own blog (actually, I'm just posting it because that's one less thing to post for the next blog). So tell me, fellow Rock Raider...     What is Rock? Landslides don't hurt me... ...don't hurt me... ...no more..
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Ben24x7

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A simple mistake in creating game levels

In this blog, I'll be listing a problem in game design and how to (possibly) fix it. So, without further ado, let's begin; Areas the player gets stuck in By "player gets stuck" I don't mean a hard or complicated puzzle, I mean areas where the player can't get out of. These can come in simple forms like, for example, an empty pit with no way out, unless your players remember you included a 'Restart' button, which breaks the feeling of immersion. To find out if your game has any
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Ben24x7

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A little notification for future blogs

Well, I am back with a new motto; "Aye up! Heads up!" (Meaning 'keep a look out for strange things in the near future). Anyway, I have just received a physical PC/Mac edition of Valve's highly astounding (to me) Portal 2, a physics game originally used to show the usage of portals. I had a look over YouTube to see if anyone had made any reviews of Portal 2 and I found out about Zero Punctuation at the time. I watched Zero Punctuation's review on Portal 2, expecting it to be all about Portal 2,
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Ben24x7

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A deep talk to CleverBot

In a fit of boredom, I went and had a conversation to CleverBot and, as a joke, asked her to say 'Cake'. It listed random jargon the internet had been feeding it, but when I asked it about the internet feeding it junk, the conversation became deep,and it felt like a movie script;  
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Ben24x7

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[PICTURE HEAVY (sorta)] "Zilch Raiders" - Catch-up blog

Hullo again.   So, a few years back, I tried to make a Rock Raiders comic series (named "Rock Raiders know zilch", a title which was explained using the smallest Calvin & Hobbes strip available on the internet) in an attempt to one-up Arthuriel's excellent "Insane Raiders" series (which, due to my minimal sense of humour, didn't work well). Considering the fact I've only made 2 blog posts about "Rock Raiders know zilch" so far, it's pretty clear that I haven't followed up on m
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"Behind the Virtual camera" - The shenangians beyond my renders

Hullo all,   Over the past couple of months, I've been looking at my past LEGO Source Filmmaker renders and discovering how untidy or buggy it has become over the past year. So today I thought I'd put together a collection of pictures/screenshots, all based on strange behind-the-scenes stuff and bugs that have plagued my past renders. So here we go!   "Blended Minifigures" Everytime @Xiron updates his pack of SFM/GMod minifigs (even if the model's rig isn't edited),
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