A special original audio mix by yours truly. Only funny if you know about Street Fighter 4.
EDIT: Becuase of the warm critical reception at SRK, I have made an extended, remastered director’s cut of the song.
Sabin ft. Gootecks - Hungry - final release (real talk, I think this is my best work)
Here is the SRK Thread
Now that we are moved in to the new house and things are more or less under control, I was able to complete a “dream project” I’ve had cooking for many years. Our home theater is (almost) complete!
I had researched quite a few options for buying, painting or making screens for a home theater with a projector and finally resolved to build my own screen from basic materials. It’s actually cheaper than buying a screen (these suckers are expensive) and it can have the same or sometimes better performance. The methods I used have come from various sources including other blogs and the AVS forum (the home theater geek capitol of the internet)
So I built a 120″ diagonal screen. It turned out to be a bit harder than I expected. I’m not all that “handy” so for me building a screen might as well have been building a house. On the other hand, I do tend to have patience and keep trying until I get things right, so I made it through the project.
It’s made out of WilsonArt counter top laminate (for some reason, this works well as a surface for projection according to the DIY research I did) which has been hung on a wooden frame. The borders are made from MDF base and wrapped with black velvet. The finished result is a white screen with velvet trim borders.
Here are the materials I used… this is not really a “tutorial” on how to build a screen, as you would still need to get all of your measurements and research the ways you want to attach everything.
Screen
Frame
Border
Tools
I constructed the frame from the poplar boards and screws (using butt joints with 2 screws in each), and used the L and I brackets to further reinforce it on the back of the frame. I then pre-drilled and screwed the laminate to front of the frame. Each 45 degree mitered border trim was wrapped with velvet (like canvas if you are a painter) and stapled along the back of each trim piece. The 4 trim pieces were nailed to the front of the frame, sandwiching the laminate in between the frame and trim. The nail set was used to sink the nails below the velvet cloth. The final step was to attach the Hangman cleats to the top of the back of the frame and hang the screen on the wall.
Some photos of the work in progress:
I’m projecting on to the screen with a Panasonic AE3000 projector which is an LCD type projector and supports up to 1080p HD resolution. I use a Playstation 3 for DVD and Blu-ray video.
One more shot:
Next steps are to make a riser so the back seats are raised a bit for a better view, and to touch up and finish paint all around the basement. Oh, and carefully selected movie posters. ;)
(Note: this blog has not turned in to a fighting video game blog. It’s just an interest area of late)
In the process of practicing Street Fighter 4, which came out for consoles in February, and interacting with the community that plays it I have picked up a lot of new vocab. I was going to put the definitions, but it’s more interesting without. You might think fighting games could be spoken about by their fans with simple terms like jumping, punching and kicking. But you would think wrong.
Like most niche communities who consider themselves elite, the fighting game player base has a lot of obscure terms that are a total mystery to average gamers. This list doesn’t even include specific game franchise related terms. These are just the ones that can apply to any fighting game.
Terms you don’t know unless you play a lot of fighting games:
Trading
Buffering
Stuffing
Mashing
Hype
Rage
Punish
Mind Games
Combo
Loop
Infinite
Tick
Kara
Canceling
Cross-up
Mix-up
Safe
Footsies
Frame advantage
Scrub
Whiff
Hit Box
Poke
Trap
Cheese
Rushdown
Runaway
String
Options
