Even if you're not a fan of Zero Punctuation, you should definitely skip to to 5:35 in this one if you're a fan of Half-Life. :D

Enjoy

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Bumping the thread doesn't really seem worth bugging the admins for at this point, so I'll just toss this here.

A few screenshots of some models I've edited for Colony 42, poorly put together courtesy of my lack of image editng skills :P

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Of special note is the shotgun, which I reanimated thanks to gearbox rigging the stock on their default HD model. It now gets flipped up into proper usage position when drawn, and goes back onto the frame when holstered. Looks damn nice ingame.

Maps on the other hand, have not being going so quickly. I just can't seem to get motivated to map for anything at all, let alone this project I've been doing since late '08. I need to learn how to map at a decent speed.

ugh,.. women

Last night I had a very strange lesson to learn for today's math semestrial test. It was about polynomials, specifically solving algebraic equations with complex roots.

Hopefully, I knew at the test. I'm so relieved now!

Last night I had an interesting dream. It involved me seeing these two kids arguing about something to a smaller kid and ending up with murder. I had witnessed it in what looked like a run down movie store, and I ran right the fuck out to this city type thing, and went into this weird what looked like a nightclub that was flooded and with electrified water. Somehow I was immune to it and shut the power off and left. I then go to this castle type school thing (Hogwarts, anyone?) and I see the two murderers again, but they aren't what they used to be. They had become werewolves. I ran out again as usual and decided to come on TWHL to check stuff out, probably reading journals. Then for some reason I log off just in time before I get my head blown off by a shotgun and fight off one of the murderers with a broomstick. For some reason then, other people start trying to attack me and I fight all of them off as well, and finally I get away. After running a few miles it seemed, I had noticed one of the other murderers got into a truck after filling it up at a gas station but luckily he had not noticed me, he was probably heading back to town. I end up in some kind of pub and talk to a few people for directions to a place far away from here and they all said pretty much nothing. This was the part when I had woken up.

I wish I was able to take out those kids before they murdered again but my alarm thought differently.

Further back into my mind from a week back, I had a quite disturbing and almost somewhat satisfying dream. I was being followed around by a person I used to know and have a certain "relationship" with around my local town. I walk into this party which was very similar to the one in Everlong by the Foo Fighters and I started conversing with the people inside until that person pops up into the crowd and I see their face. I left at this point and they still followed me around, so I walked into this deserted house, cornered them, and took both of my hands and wrapped them around that person's head and dug into their eyes, popping them out. It felt very satisfying but also disturbing. I would never do something like that outside of my subconcious mind.

Ok, new dream. Certainly more disturbing that what I'm used to.

I've got a new job, on a production line, skinning live cats. Now now, don't jump for the "sick fuck" responses just yet. The cats were fine. Underneath their fur and skin, they had more fur and skin. It was as though cats were meant to shed their skins from time to time, but the process just would not occur naturally. The thing is, the cats fur was identical underneath, same colours, pattern etc.

I go home and decide that I might as well skin my cat while I'm at it.

I run a Stanley knife down the side of my cat, peel away the top skin, but the fur underneath is black. The black cat, kicks and thrashes out of the outer skin and scurries to the other end of the room, then sits in the corner and hisses at me.

Then I woke up...

I can only assume that this means my cat is a spy.

I'd love to hear your opinion on this advert:

It's totally for serious and stuff

Found this, and for those who haven't yet, go to google translate and copy-paste these letters into the FROM section.

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change the FROM language to GERMAN and press the audio button in the bottom right of the box so the text is read.

Listen.

It's time... It's time... It's time it's time it's time it's time!

The Portal 2 level editor is coming out TODAY, but I AM AT SCHOOL! I'M FREAKING OUT! @$IU#*(RY#UIFYWUEHFUWEFgWUHDJHKWIFTQ @ f%^ #v#7 4P Ru#r 3/E #%*#*RJ89 CF7Y#h*fg&^f&^dgh&^t@&*qsgh@&^fe@ryguENF

tl;dr

So, it is time for the Portal 2 level editor to come out, since it is May 8th. I do believe I will find it very enjoyable to use, and I may have several different levels done by today. Sadly, I cannot operate the program at this moment because I am currently at school.

I had a very vivid dream last night. Well 2 actually. In my first dream I was having to go away on business for a month, to the other end of the country. The thing is, I had to leave my house in the early hours of the morning so my wife was fast asleep. I kissed her on the forehead and left my house, knowing I wouldn't see it again for some time. I felt genuinely emotional and was so relieved when I woke myself up at 4am. :P

The second dream happened between then and when my alarm went off at 6:30am. I was in my house again, during a torrential downpour and there was a leak in the ceiling. I went upstairs to check it and the entire upper floor was sodden, the carpet cold and full of water. Same with the bed. The place was a mess.

I looked up both of these things online this morning. The first dream apparently symbolises that my life is changing, moving forwards. Not reluctance to do so, just an awareness that change is coming.

The second one tickled me a little:

"To see a leak in your dream symbolizes loss, disappointments, frustrations and distress. You are wasting your energy on fruitless endeavors."

Then I went to work.

LUCKY SEVENS!

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All mine! Hahaha!

I don't sleep. I'm sure I've mentioned this before. I usually get 4 hours sleep a night during the weekend, 6 or less during the week.

We have a 3 day weekend this week thanks to May day (No idea what the actual occasion is but an extra day off is aces in my book). Anyway, I decided last night to get an early night. Got about 10 hours sleep in total. Then I woke up.

"GUARGH!!! WHAT THE F-"

I had the worst migraine I've ever had in my life. If you've ever experienced waking up with a headache, you know it sucks. However, take that pain, times it by 3 and add severe nausea. Whoo. Long story short, everything I put in, including painkillers, came flying back out at high speed.

Basically lost a day of my three day weekend while I slept it off. Woke up around 8pm in the end. So I managed to eat something, stayed up with the wife until she went to bed at midnight. It is now 4:30AM and I have been working on The Core since then. Not tired at all now having slept most of the day.

Just thought I'd share. :D

The quickest way to lose your passion for something is to make a career out of it. That's my opinion anyway.

I used to mess around with HTML and CSS from time to time and I used to genuinely enjoy it. The thing is, that was the occasional 3 hour session at most. When it comes down to "You WILL do this between 9am and 5:30pm!" it is a totally different story.

I think that is why I wouldn't go into game design full time. I usually map for a couple of hours at a time and I enjoy it. If I was told to build levels for 9 hours straight, I would rapidly get fed up with the processes involved and the quality of the work would suffer. Job security is another issue of course. If I make a bad website I spend a few hours fixing it up. If you make a bad game, you stop making games. :P

Another factor about doing design as a hobby is that if you're not sure how to approach a problem or if you simply get tired of working on a project, you can have a break, maybe leave it for a day or 2 and come back to it. At work, I have the option to say "I don't know what to do with this" but all that happens is the site moves down the list 1 place and I am given ANOTHER site to work on. It's draining. In the end of course, you HAVE to come back to the project within a reasonable amount of time or the client gets pissed off.

urgh...

Sorry for the wall of text.

I'm 18 today.

=)

I'm getting a cat!

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His name is Nahmbo, I'll be picking him up at the end of the month.

SQUEEEEE!!!...