I desire to make a music video to Muse's "Uprising", using footage from the Half Life series. I need a free screen capture program that can take (very) high quality video and has the option to record or disable sound. I've already downloaded and tried CamStudio, but the frame-rate is awful and it's way too pixelated, even with the highest settings. Well, I think they're the highest settings.

Any recommendations?

.. wow. Just.. wow.

110+ hours of my life (the + representing hours of finicky restarts)- not that that means much when you're unemployed and do most of your job-searching from home.. this time perhaps could have been put to better use, but served any craving for an epic and immaculately crafted tale, well.. almost perfectly.

To those of you who enjoy the story of the game, who love its characters and voices and depth above all else: buy it. Buy it and play it now. I can honestly compare it to a single game that captured me in a similar spirit, BioShock, and as a far longer and more involved gaming experience it feels more epic than BioShock or any other game I've played, in the most traditional sense of the word. The only problems I had with this game were the odd difficulty settings (fixed by a patch released 3 days ago) and the fact it started glitching oddly towards the end, giving me dialog it shouldn't have - an odd problem I doubt will repeat itself.

I was quite happy with my "ending", as it was, despite the fact I unintentionally and completely screwed the Dwarven kingdom over. Sorry guys. I also tarnished my experience a little by going to spoiled forums once or twice for help during my game - DON'T. For the love of all that is holy and unholy, don't do it. An experience like Origins should be something that takes time and is only guided when you have no where else to turn, not when you get marginally impatient.

Announced 2004, released 2009. Preorder pick-up on release day, November 3rd, and finished a little over 2 weeks later. BIOWARE PLEASE MAKE A SECOND GAME. I know where your door is, I'll just toss several sacks of cash your way.

ALSO: If anyone complains this game is unforgivingly linear, they've a brain of potatoes, are lacking any imagination or creativity beyond combat, and deserved to be strung up from their genitals somewhere unpleasant.

How do I buy something when there were only 350 of them and none are listed on eBay?

Okay, so I was browsing the Dragon Age forums and stumbled across some very tantalizing information.

Apparently I can have a foursome with my favourite characters. And guess what? I MISSED IT.

I am considering going back about 25 hours of game-play to get to the point where it's a possibility again. BECAUSE DAMN THAT WOULD BE A FUN SCENE.

Does that make me a bad person?

EDIT: Screw this, way too much effort for me right now. Damn you BioWare. I'll get this on another play-through, perhaps..

So I'm really hoping to hear back from ICI Paints, but with the schedule they told me about - meaning they wanted someone to fill out papers TODAY and start this weekend - I doubt I was the candidate they were most interested in. There's still tomorrow, and it'd be awesome, but I'm not going to keep my hopes up. I am going to phone in on Saturday if they haven't given me the courtesy of a call by then, though. I turned down a job, though it was a crappy one, it was still a job - because I'm expecting to hear back from them.

So, to those who know me personally - where the hell am I supposed to find a job that suits me? They're out there, I've interviewed for one. I'm scouring Job Bank every bloody day. Is there anywhere else I should check? Specific malls or websites that list postings for our area? There are many interesting / well paying / generally not crap jobs out there, that don't involve food, that don't involve super crap retail, but most of them are on the other bloody side of town.

In other news, I am looking forwards to owning my very own Vortigaunt plush sometime next week (if all goes well).