OddballGreg - All In One Runtimes (Sereby.org)

Screenshot is of http://www.sereby.org/site/start. German websites are always so fun to read. "Actung!" "Wartu!" "Fertig!".  Good thing Google Chrome translates pages right?

You're sitting at home, and that game you just installed keeps giving you the same "MSVCR100.dll" error regardless of how many times you reinstall the Microsoft Visual C++ redistrubutable packages. Luckily, unsere freunde Deutch from Sereby.org have got our backs with AIO Runtimes.

If you've spent any fair amount of time on a computer playing games or installing software of the general kind, then it's rather extremely likely that you've come across this sort of problem before. You install the program and all it's required redistributable packages, but for some strange reason, you just keep getting that same irritating error.

I'd rate this as a close second in "rage inducement". Number one is a BSOD when you've forgotten to save 10 hours of work.

Frustrated, you uninstall all of the packages and reinstall them all again, only to find that the cumulative result of your effort is a great deal of wasted time and effort, since nothing has changed except your growing urge to facedesk. (I gave into it personally. I find it hard not to get annoyed when I'm still fixing a computer at 3am with nothing to show for it.)

Suddenly, a ray of light appeared from the depths of purgatory. (Probably exaggerating.) My desperation to finally fix the issue and thus allow Path Of Exile and Dead Island: Riptide to function on my computer led me to watch the some of the worst, most badly narrated videos on YouTube, as every would-be helper has their say on what will fix the issues on your computer. Strangely enough, one of them was actually right.

Following the link in one of these horrifically narrated video's description, I was taken to http://www.chip.de/downloads/All-in-One-Runtimes_37449838.html where I skeptically, (after translating the page into English), began downloading Sereby.org's All-In-One Runtimes pack.

Hope you can read German. Teehee

Imagine my delight at realizing that all I needed to do was tick all, press "Installieren" and give it about 15 to 20 minutes to uninstall and reinstall every single relevant package on my computer in order. Visual C++ Runtimes for 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013; Direct X, .Net Framework. My brain held still as I cautiously checked to see if it had done what was promised. A one stop fix for all these ridiculous .dll errors.

As funny as it would be to rickroll you right now with a Rick Astley video and say it didn't work, I'd be lying. What had taken 5 hours of frustration to get wrong, took 30 minutes to get right with this one brilliant program. Imagine the ridiculous little victory dances I was doing. (If you can't, I fear we've never met... Just imagine something really bad that's really funny... that's about right.)

In any case, hopefully this fantastic little program will be of as much assistance to you as it was for me, as it really is deserving of all this praise. If you have any questions, or simply want to tell us about how it helped you, please be sure to let us know in the comments below, or via Facebook/Twitter. We here at TCSA love to hear from you guys. Better yet, make sure to share this article with your computer oriented friends. I'd bet you money that they would thank you if I wasn't mostly broke all the time. (Teehee) And of course, if you would like to read more interesting, useful or just humorous articles like this one, then be sure to like the Official TCSA Facebook page and/or follow us on Twitter using the associated buttons on the bar to the left so that you can get the latest posts, as they're published. Regardless of what you do, I thank you for having taken the time to read this post; hope that you have/had an absolutely FANTASTIC day, and I will speak again soon.

Happy computer fixing my friends.

JovialJMan - Origami And Other Pastimes

"Photographers that take pictures in portrait are painful... Unless we did it to make you think it looks funny." - OddballGreg

If you've ever been bored, then you'll understand that boredom can lead to one doing all sorts of strange things to try and pass the time. In my case, making cool things out of paper and playing random weird games were the way to go. Lets talk about that.

Since I started this year with nothing to do, as jobs are hard to find, I started to try different things to keep me from dying of boredom during those slow months. One of the things I started doing was Origami. I had previously made many transforming ninja stars, which I learnt to make in primary school. These have been extras on various birthday gifts and have made a fair share of afternoons busy in the past. Just the other day, I made some with OddballGreg and his brother and then we proceeded to throw it them at each other and see how good our aim was.

So I got started on making the Origami Icosahedron which is in the header image. This bad boy uses 15 squares of paper which you cut in half to make 30 separate pieces in total. So yeah, that is a story for another day. I also made, (cut from a template), a 3D staircase which I cannot seem to find now. After all of that, I also began this one project. I cannot remember the name so please forgive me for not mentioning it, but the end result is supposed to look like a rotated cube inside another cube . It took me over 5 days to complete and I had people try and help me along the way.

Now for the slightly more digital pastimes, I play various computer/PlayStation games and occasionally when I go to a friends house, Xbox games aswell. Some of the games I really enjoyed from my years of playing are Diablo 2 LoD, Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, Fable, Minecraft, Duke Nukem 3D, and various others.

Recently I have also played Aura Kingdom, Path of Exile, and the one that is still stealing my time a lot recently: Rimworld (thank you Mr. Oddball for making me not concentrate of my life). Dungeon Siege 1 is the only full game that I have finished to the end of the story without any help such as tutorials, cheats or hints. Then we also all know of our good friend YouTube, who keeps showing you all these awesome videos one after another and next thing you know, the sun is coming up.

The older generation, however, didn't have these electronic forms of entertainment. From the stories that I hear all the time, they played in the streets with the other kids that lived nearby, cycled around on their bikes and stayed outside until it is dark. Many of our parents, as children, either built or played in a tree house. (I have only ever played in 2 of those, and they are awesome.) Some of the mischievous things they got up to was also quite entertaining, like one of them tied long grass together over a pathway and hid in this grass and waited to see people trip. Why do you think people were more fit back then? Probably because they had to run really quickly.

My parents lived in the same street when they were younger, and all of those kids that lived on their street that they played with, keep in contact to this very day, granted they don't see each other very often, but they still see each other. That is something that I think my generation is going to miss out on.

For instance, from my whole group at school that I used to hang out with, I have only seen 2 in the past 4 months, and then there is Greg. We didn't hang out that much at school but we are the best of friends and still talk to each other, (kinda hard not to, since we both write here. Teehee) Anyways, I do wish that there were ways in which those times from our parents past had could be the same once again, even just to a limited degree.

In any case, If you have enjoyed today's post or have any hobbies or pastimes that you enjoy spending time on, please let us know about them down in the comments below, over Twitter or on Facebook. If you have friends that like origami or just want to see what other people do in their spare time, I am sure they would like to give this a view, so please share this with them aswell. If you would like to see more posts as they come out, please like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter with the associated buttons on the bar to the left. Thank you for reading and I hope that you have/had a good day. I shall write again zeg.

Have fun my friends