Bit of an SnC classic here, packed with YouTube video and pop culture references from around the time it was created. It is also totally mental and everybody dies.

Sleep is Death SnC flipbook #6

Enjoy.

Been living at UH architecture for free. Also been keeping busy.

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Today I learned 3 things:
1. "I was made to believe that is acceptable" will not help your case, and people will still expect you to have known otherwise.
2. It is a liability to not wear a plastic smile every day.
3. There are few feelings worse than pursuing something and being deemed unsuitable to do it.

I have an image in my head of a rite of passage.
It's a tunnel, and everyone has to crawl through it. The tunnel is long and dark, but you can see the light at the exit. Everyone knows that the crawl is tough, but they can make it if they persevere. They know this because they've seen others succeed before them.
Now it's one man's time to crawl through. He notices how uncomfortable the tunnel is, but he knows that this is normal. Everyone else has done the same thing.
After crawling for some time, the light at the exit disappears. He is worried but continues to crawl because he knows that the exit is there.
After hours of crawling, he still hasn't reached the exit. It greatly worries him to wonder how he hasn't reached the exit yet.
There are sharp things in the tunnel now, and they are cutting into him as he crawls. He is being mutilated, but tries his best to keep crawling. He can't shake the notion that something is abnormal. He can't shake the idea that he might not make it through, even though he has been told countless times that everyone will feel this way at some point.
He is crying and screaming in agony as he tries to press forward. The only thing he can think about is, "Is this really normal?"
There is still no exit in sight.

He has no way of knowing that what is happening to him is not normal. The light is not supposed to disappear. The tunnel is not supposed to be so long. You are not supposed to be wounded like that.
He is going to end up killing himself because he believes he is enduring the same trial as everyone else.

I'd say about 50% of my working day is spent rendering. It still counts as working hours despite the fact I'm merely sat here twiddling my thumbs and browsing TWHL so I'm still getting paid for it and nobody bats an eyelid because everyone in the GFX department who uses After Effects is completely used to it.

TL;DR, I am currently being paid to browse TWHL. About time.

Christ I'm buzzing for borderlands 2 to come out. My friend and I have both booked off of work to play the absolute shit out of it when it comes out.

I'm surprised I have a social life

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The four drunkest weeks of my life (so far) has come to an end, I am now officially sworn in to the new university!

Glad it synced up with the release of Black Mesa, which for the record is amazing. So far I've enjoyed it more than I enjoyed the original, but on the other hand I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much if it wasn't for the original.

BMS download complete. Installation completed.

Opening game now.

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I think I'm spending more time looking at props and admiring walls than actually progressing the game. I'm like a laughing baby right now!

[EDIT] SPOILER ALERT!

[EDIT 2] Seems like when I start the Apprehension campaign the mod crashes.

For the past week I was:
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- getting scammed in games
- watched a game about ditching a girlfriend (see #1 below)
- played a bunch of super mario world hacks, none of which I could beat legitimately (see #2 below)
- watched an anime about an MMORPG only to find out later that it gets explicit and R-rated
- Tried out E.Y.E Divine cybermancy (see #3 below)

1. I watched a playthru of what can be considered the shortest visual novel ever, about you trying to ditch your closely attached girlfriend. The entire game was in sepia tone and there was something very wrong about the whole affair. Needless to say, the very life of the protagonist was hanging in the balance.

2. Played 4 hacks (or mods, same idea) of super mario world. I was able to beat none of them. One had a coding problem where bowser's castle opened but the path didn't so I couldn't go there; the hack was riddled with a bunch of other problems as well (such as levels being blurry because the transition effect screwed up)

In another hack, it was so difficult (imagine playing mario with NO MUSHROOMS AT ALL anywhere) that I gave up. I'm too lazy to play a game with savestate spamming.

In yet a third hack, I was able to beat this boss but the boss room didn't register its defeat because a lone goomba was left in the room. I was unable to get rid of the goomba because in SMW you can't kill goombas directly; you can only throw them into other enemies. I gave up on that one.

In the 4th hack I got all the way to Roy's castle where you must get thru THREE AREAS, two of which are AUTO SCROLL LEVELS. In both autoscroll levels, you must run like a mofo to jump from springer to springer avoiding spikes and landing on 1-unit long ledges. It was getting boring. I made it into Roy's room but STUPIDLY DIED when he only needed one more bop.

3. I tried out a demo of E.Y.E Divine cybermancy, a source engine FPS-RPG game on steam. All I can say is, it's a bit too complicated for me. Theres too many skills and no quick way to access them: Theres super jumping, super sprinting, cloaking, healing, and about 10 others, with a possibility for maybe 30 more skills. While your menu is open you are VULNERABLE to enemy fire. The weapons have iron sights and multiple fire modes, and unfortunately aren't very strong. I keep getting killed by these armor clad samurai creeps armed with better weapons. And what's worse, they have a respawn point right outside my starting room, so there's pretty much an endless stream of them. I couldn't go 1 block without getting swarmed by like 5 samurai creeps.

There's a money purchase system that's quite widespread in the game, with many possible ways to develop your character. The focus of this game is obviously on skills and abilities development rather than on weapons loadouts. I'd recommend this if you are good at micromanagement of about 30 or 40 odd skills. Otherwise it might be too overwhelming for you. (By comparison, borderlands had 1 skill per character.)

Yeah, so, not particularly thrilled today.

If you pour liquid into a klein bottle you will explode.

I recorded the unboxing of my new GTX 680 this morning.

A very generous friend gave it to me. I have taken care of his daughter a few times.

I start my new job in 10 hours. Nervous as hell.

This is my first non-freelance job in three years and it's with the second biggest post-production facility in Scotland.
Flerp.

I know I'm going to love it, but my stomach is still doing somersaults over this.

I am back in Windows. After some testing I'm guessing my main hard drive got a few bad sectors that happened to directly affect the Windows boot files. I formatted the affected partition and reinstalled Windows and I'm back where I was before all this happened.

I have a lot of junk to install now, but by blindly copying some folders (not knowing it would work) I managed to backup and restore all my browser settings including history and all my mail was seamlessly inserted back into Thunderbird.

The only thing I forgot to copy was the "My pictures" folder in My Documents but it was 99% junk images so I don't really care. Very little was lost, if anything.

So, to anyone that happens to be interested, here are the folders you have to copy if you are locked out of your system and can't make a proper backup:

Firefox, including all bookmarks and history:
C:Documents and Settings<yourname>Application DataMozilla

Thunderbird, including all mail, plugins and settings:
C:Documents and Settings<yourname>Application DataThunderbird

Just copy these folders and replace them into your new Windows installation (after these programs are already installed) and everything will be exactly as you left it, as if nothing had ever happened.

There are two types of people: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

I coded a random headline generator today.
You can download it here.

Be sure to let me know what you think about this first version!

If anyone doesn't know what to do with .7z files, you can use either 7-zip or Winzip/Winrar to open them.
Also, don't poke around the site or share the link around too much. It's a hideous school project website from a year ago, and the free host doesn't allow for much bandwidth. You are free to put up mirrors if you like, though.

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My dog, Marty, was euthanized today, after having a relapse of a surgically-treated growth that was likely spread throughout his body.
Always ready for a walk or run, and rarely able to stay still when a camera was around, Marty was my roommate, my best friend, my brother. I’m not ashamed to admit that I bawled like a baby watching his last moments this morning, nor that I’m still fighting back tears as I write this. I can only hope that now he’s hunting alongside foxes in heaven, or chasing raccoons up a tree. Goodbye, my dog. Goodbye, my friend. Rest in Peace.