Journals

Journal #8091

Alabastor_Twob • 11 years ago2013-01-21 19:12:20 UTC • 9 comments

I saw a satellite in the sky just now. I was in the car and saw that the sky was extremely clear (not a visible cloud in the sky, which is unusual), and the moon and stars bright. One of those nights where you can see quite well by the moonlight, which normally only happens on a full moon, so I'd stood out to look at the stars. Anyway, one of them was moving, faster than a low flying jet would seem to go, but there was no sound, and no flashing lights, so it must have been a satellite.

In other news, I built a simple version of a Valveless Pulse Jet Engine, which is basically just a jar with a hole drilled in the lid. At the moment it's kind of dangerous to use, as they apparently explode on occasion, and to use it I have to fill it with fuel and hold a lighter to the hole in the top. I am working on an electric ignition system though, so I should put a picture or a video up when I do. And perhaps I might even build a fuel feed some day and turn it into something other than a useless novelty.

Journal #8090

Notewell • 11 years ago2013-01-18 20:58:11 UTC • 5 comments

So today I made my first major performance in front of a large group of people.

As a final summative project in Drama, we had to create and perform a one-act play clocking in at around 50 minutes. So we got the entire class on board for one massive production. Today we performed it in front of a large portion of the school as part of the arts festival. We got good laughs, (it was a dark comedy) and surprisingly, I got good laughs. People were coming up to me for the rest of the day and telling me I had a good performance, that I was great, that I was the best person up there (that last one, IMO, is BS, but I appreciate the gesture)

So yeah. Timid old me was up on stage playing an old retired mob boss and talking about how to get laid. One of my friends described me as being the most confident she's ever seen me, and I just got this message from our director:
"Jeff, I cannot express how impressed I am by your performance today. To be honest, I was a little nervous about how you would do. Nothing personal, but you've never performed something of this magnitude before, but I'm glad to say that I was proven wrong. I'm so proud of how you made Old Man Jannety into your own character. You were truly a highlight of the play, and I'm proud to call you a colleague and a friend. 10/10 would perform again."

You could say I feel proud of myself right about now.

Journal #8089

satchmo • 11 years ago2013-01-18 06:20:01 UTC • 0 comments

I wrote a game guide for my own Portal 2 puzzle.

Journal #8088

Instant Mix • 11 years ago2013-01-16 16:59:36 UTC • 0 comments

Trying to go to university update #3
Unconditional from Glasgow, and Heriot-watt have changed my course from computational physics to standard physics because the course isn't actually being done anymore... that's a bit stupid like.

Journal #8087

Takatalvi • 11 years ago2013-01-16 03:41:41 UTC • 1 comment

Can you beat my pro hi-score?

I would like to see one guy with a score of 12345

Journal #8086

Rimrook • 11 years ago2013-01-15 06:23:53 UTC • 7 comments

ALPHA BITCHES! EEEYYYYEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Journal #8085

The Mad Carrot • 11 years ago2013-01-13 14:55:40 UTC • 24 comments

Look at this, some guy PM'ing me on ModDB requesting all the rmf source files of my Uplink Extended mod:

Journal #8082

Instant Mix • 12 years ago2013-01-09 16:22:23 UTC • 8 comments

I hate lockerbie.

I go there every Wednesday to do advanced higher physics, and it turns out that one of my classmates there gets to go to america for a year, gets basically free money and is spoon fed a shit tonne of stuff to do simply because some asshole crashed a plane there before he was even born.

I wish moffat had a plane crash 20 years ago as well.

Journal #8081

2muchvideogames • 12 years ago2013-01-08 19:49:00 UTC • 1 comment

Been playing two things recently:

1. Rebellion - a 47-map mod focusing entirely on soldiers. It goes pretty well with the custom mod I mentioned before. I think I saw like 4-5 heavies in the entire trip, some of which were placed in surprising good places (like there's one right outside the train I was riding)

2. Single player The Ship - This can be considered a source mod, I suppose. However, It's kinda dumb. I'm at this one part where I have to escort this fat paraplegic nazi everywhere and there's thugs out to kill him. Soooo hard. This dude appears around the corner with a revolver, and he kills me in 1 hit. It takes 2 hits for me to kill him WITH THE SAME WEAPON, which is just totally unfair. And bots have autoaim so he NEVER MISSES. Not to mention, This dude with a club runs at me WHEN THERE'S TWO POLICEMEN IN THE AREA. And I pull out a weapon and I'm INSTANTLY BUSTED. It's games like these, where the computer is a cheating asshat, that makes me not a happy baby.

Journal #8080

Rimrook • 12 years ago2013-01-08 07:04:15 UTC • 2 comments

Probably the best screenshot thus far in int he SMJ Project.

Journal #8078

Instant Mix • 12 years ago2013-01-06 17:26:26 UTC • 2 comments

Unconditional to aberdeen for physics as well..
keeping dem fingers crossed for the burgh

Journal #8077

Habboi • 12 years ago2013-01-04 12:36:59 UTC • 7 comments

EDIT: Ok we've got a decent amount of feedback. Seems you cannot escape problems after all. It seems my flowmaps look fucked up on low settings, particles don't work an we have to remove refracting textures as they are causing a decent amount of framerate drops.

Thanks again people!

Hey dudes I need someone with CSGO to test my level sometime soon as my partner says he gets a huge drop in framerate when looking at the refracting textures but I do not. We also tested it on a powerful PC and it was fine so now I need someone with a so-so PC to test it for me.

All you need is CSGO and just add me on Steam : Habboi

Journal #8075

Crollo • 12 years ago2013-01-01 03:59:25 UTC • 7 comments

Happy fuckin new years

Journal #8073

2muchvideogames • 12 years ago2012-12-28 22:42:30 UTC • 2 comments

I explored more on fighting glitch trainers in pokemon blue (on an actual cartridge! haha)

This video will show you what the 'default' glitch trainer's battle lineup is. However, by fighting other trainers before meeting the glitch trainer you can change their party. There's a list of possible glitch trainer parties but I only had time to meet 3 of them. One of which was the L111 drowzee that I can never beat.

My team (all pokemon are around levels 30-35)
Hitmonlee
Kabuto
Aerodactyl
Charmeleon
Haunter
Hypno
L12 poliwag for surfing

Glitch Trainer parties I met so far (in addition to the one in the video):

L111 drowzee (pwned my entire party)

L14 Nidoran♀
L14 Magneton
L14 Charizard ´M
L14 Gastly
L14 Grimer
L14 Missingno

A low level party. I breezed thru them with my level 30's. I heard bad things about charizard 'M but he only used ember and weak moves, luckily.

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L42 Rhyhorn
L42 Arcanine
L42 Missingno
L42 Clefairy
L42 Mewtwo
L42 Missingno.

A decently challenging party (notice the Mewtwo!) Their levels are a bit higher than mine but good thing the AI sucks in this game!
I had a bit of trouble with Rhyhorn since he knocked out my hitmonlee. But I used a max revive and hitmonlee's double kick managed to top the Rhyhorn.
Arcanine was ok. I used Aerodactyl who only had wing attack but has rock-type resistance to physical attacks. In the final moment Arcanine used Take Down on me but died from recoil LOL
Missingno's have very poor defense so they were easy to take out. The clefairy wasn't much hassle either (used defense curl lol)
When I saw the Mewtwo I was like OH SHIT and switched to hypno who can tank Psychic in case he decided to use it. He didn't. Or rather, I didn't give him the chance to because I quickly put it to sleep with Hypnosis. Then finished it off.

There are reportedly 23 glitch parties from this method alone. I think I was pretty lucky not to run into some crash-causing enemies. Stay tuned for more on fighting these glitch trainers!

Journal #8072

monster_urby • 12 years ago2012-12-28 17:02:41 UTC • 2 comments

So back in October I started writing a blog from the perspective of a beggar in Skyrim. A beggar who cannot actually beg due to the games limited flexibility with dialogue. The concept was quite similar to the Living in Oblivion and The Elder Strolls blogs by Christ Livingston. I posted 3 days worth back in October, then stopped for some reason.

You can check it out here

The reason I am posting about it now is because during the Steam sale I bought the Hearthfire DLC (allows you to build your own house for those not in the know) and I decided that Bob could try his hand at building his own place, all the while avoiding too much excitement and combat.

Anyway, I would appreciate if you let me know what you think and really if it is worth me spending any more time on it.

Cheers.