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Log In Sign Up and Get Started Blogging! JoeUser is completely free to use! By Signing Up on JoeUser, you can create your own blog and participate on the blogs of others! Popular Channels Let’s see your political memes In Politics Let’s start a New Jammin Thread! In Everything Else Obtaining and Installing Moment 5 In Personal Computing 2024 Promotions In WinCustomize News Why Can’t I Post Comments Here? In Blogging The Video Game Machine = The Game that makes games In PC Gaming A day in the Life of Oddities... In Current Events Elemental: Fallen Enchantress - Legendary Heroes 3.0 Release In Elemental Dev Journals Featured Articles Stardock Holi-daze 2022! December 17, 2022 by Tatiora on tatiora The holidays are in full swing here at Stardock, and we’ve had ourselves quite the busy week! Although most of us are local to Michigan, some of our colleagues work remotely with us from elsewhere. For the last couple of years, Stardock has made sure to fly them out for the festivities so that we can spend some time with them in person, and believe me we made the most of it this year! We kicked our week off with one of our patented game nights in the studio’s cafe. We wa... In Stardock Blog 10 Comments Read More AI Art Thread: 2022 December 16, 2022 by Frogboy on Brad Wardell - Skinning the frog Show off your AI generated art! Not surprisingly, I will start with these: Frog of the year.. In Artificial Intelligence 173 Comments Read More Today in Science is Wild: researchers transfer twice the global internet traffic in a single second December 14, 2022 by Tatiora on tatiora It’s easy to take a lot of things for granted when they are part of our everyday lives - like the Internet, for example! Although I do remember a time before the Internet was in my home, it wasn’t a huge period; I definitely had online access as early as middle or high school. I don’t often stop to think about what an amazing thing it is, but on the occasions where I do it’s definitely one of those "whoa" moments. Recently, a team from the Technical University of Denmark and Sweden’s Chalmers... In Personal Computing 2 Comments Read More Ever consider an "immersive gaming pod" for your home office? December 7, 2022 by Tatiora on tatiora The Orb X is a multi-purpose computing pod that will let you shut out pesky distractions to focus more deeply on gaming or work. It looks like something out of a futuristic Jetsons-era catalogue, but it’s a lot more real than you’d think: Cooler Master is already taking pre-orders for their creation. Climbing inside the Orb X will wrap you in speakers, screens, and overall comfort as you immerse yourself completely in the experience. Although the device isn’t completely enclosed, a dome w... In Life, the Universe and Everything 7 Comments Read More An Englishman’s Home Is His Castle...His Computer? Not So Much November 28, 2022 by DrJBHL on drjbhl Not paranoia...the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), with a subject’s consent (lol), will be scanning computers for vulnerabilities...all in the interest of security, of course. This sort of thing generated our Fourth Amendment. "The scan is the work of the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It says its looking for zero-day vulnerabilities, meaning security holes that hackers are actively exploiting before a fix is available." - John Lister How ... In Personal Computing 1 Comment Read More My Last News Post for WinCustomize.... December 27, 2021 by Island Dog on ID’s place to speak I’ve been a member of WinCustomize since about 2003. I mostly lurked the forums and downloaded skins for a while, and then started to participate in a community which I viewed as awesome (and still is). I really enjoyed downloading all the various skins and watching how the community worked. It was all just fun and that got me inspired to start creating some things, which just furthered my enjoyment of the site and community. After a few years I was asked to be a mod and eventually tha... In WinCustomize News 36 Comments Read More Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! December 25, 2021 by Island Dog on ID’s place to speak Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to our amazing community! We hope you have a great holiday season and a wonderful new year! Thank you for being part of our great community! In WinCustomize News 9 Comments Read More GalCiv IV Dev Journal #14 – Pacing Comparisons December 23, 2021 by Frogboy on Brad Wardell - Skinning the frog Pacing in 4X strategy games is crucial. So I decided to look at GalCiv II, GalCiv III and the GalCiv IV alpha to take a look at how fast things move along. T urn GalCiv II (Twilight of the Arnor) GalCiv III (Retribution) GalCiv IV [Alpha] 1 · Researched New Propulsion Techniques [7 turns] · Planet Project: Innovation Complex [16 weeks] · Music: Haunting · Startport: Rush bought Co... In GalCiv IV Dev Journals 13 Comments Read More When Real World Science Meets Gaming December 23, 2021 by Tatiora on tatiora The mosaic (left) and geographic (right) maps of Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede. Image courtesy of NASA. In case you haven’t figured it out by now, we love space here at Stardock. While the premises for our games tend to be fictional, we do our best in many cases to try and adhere to real-world science, and that includes referencing and showcasing planets that actually exist in our solar system. In Star Control: Origins, for example, you start in our solar system. All of the planets... In Stardock Blog 1 Comment Read More Hades is the first video game to ever win a Hugo Award December 22, 2021 by Tatiora on tatiora Supergiant’s Hades made history earlier this week by becoming the first video game to ever win a Hugo Award. Awarded annually, the Hugo Award is a prestigious literary award presented to the best science fiction or fantasy works for the previous year. Typically, this is reserved for works like novels or short stories, but a newly added video game category for 2021 gave Hades an opportunity for recognition. The game was up against others in the science fiction and fan... In Movies & TV & Books 2 Comments Read More GalCiv IV Dev Journal #13 - The Vault December 20, 2021 by Frogboy on Brad Wardell - Skinning the frog The Galactic Civilizations games are known for their ship design features. But ship design occurs before the ship is made. What about after? Galactic Civilizations IV will be introducing a new feature for upcoming Beta version (this Winter) called The Vault”. The Vault is a set of special items the player either produces or, more commonly scavenges across the galaxy. Destroying the monster ships, pirates, enemy fleets, etc. will result in scavenging th... In GalCiv IV Dev Journals 15 Comments Read More Congrats to WC’s Newest Journeyman Members! December 18, 2021 by Island Dog on ID’s place to speak It’s been quite a while since we’ve mentioned promotions here in the forums, though a few people have been quietly promoted over the years. As some of you may know (more on this in another post soon), this will be my last month at WinCustomize so I wanted to get a few members promoted to Journeyman. These members deserve recognition for their time to create and upload skins and themes here, and for their contributions to the forums and community. Let’s say a big congrats to the following mem... In WinCustomize News 27 Comments Read More Tutorials in Video Games: Love ’em or hate ’em? December 16, 2021 by Tatiora on tatiora When it comes to teaching a person how to play a video game, there have been two extremes over time that have been prevalent in gaming: too much hand-holding”, and throw you to the wolves and see how many times you get shredded alive.” Earlier video games - long before gaming became a mainstream hobby for millions of people - typically skewed toward the latter category. Old school NES games would drop you right into a situation with no explanation of how to play -... In Stardock Blog 1 Comment Read More This joy from our...