Journals

So I've been playing Dead Space 2 and was thoughly enjoying it. Some of the scenes were pretty intense but equally awesome while some other places are a bit weak, as with all games, until now.

I've hit a game-breaking bug that seems alot of people have encountered. During a sequence, I get attacked by this guy who's gone mad and is trying to stab my eyes out with a screwdriver. I have to button mash the use button (E) as with all grab sequences, scripted or not (ie, a monster grapples you and tries to tear you apart if you let them get too close). Anyway, for some reason, this sequence in particular has an error where it doesn't register keyboard input. I've mashed E and ENTER even changed the button to three others just in case I'd broken my keyboard, with no avail.

Apparently, this problem is common amoungst players but not total. It's been going on for a while and apparently EA don't care. There has been no acknowlegment of this error as such with other errors and they haven't even bothered to release a patch for over 2 weeks since release. I think EA are really beginning to take their position of power a little to lightly. Their general lack of support for games and the diminishing quality of their games is becoming a serious issue. Anyone agree?

/rant

So, I ordered something on the 2nd of Jan and got pretty anxious when it hadn't arrived on the 29th...

Click here to see the delivery day

Skip to 9:18 if you don't want to see all the talking business and want to get to the details.

So looking for jobs didn't go so well. Most of the studios didn't reply and the ones that did said they were only interested in professionals and not graduates.

Fair enough but this industry will not grow if that attitude keeps up. Personally I blame the market and the demand for high tech games which take a lot of manpower. It means the demand is moving faster than our tools can let us. Why sculpting a single prop can take days.

So what now? Well I'm gonna look for a couple of agencies and see what I get. Other than that it's back to working on my Iphone game with my programming partner, carry on working on my latest UDK scene and seek out another job in the meantime.

Speaking of my UDK scene, here's a new one I'm working on:

My next project. My aim with this one is to learn some Z Brush and so far all the textures and normals are made using Z brush. Well, the diffuse consists of ref pictures from cgtextures but the normal, height and spec are not.Progress Thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80495

1. Slammed Double-shot of absinthe. Check.
2. Berrs have been opened. Check.
3. No food at all today. Check.

Good luck everybody!
:aghast

I've just ordered an Intel Core i5 760, to replace my i3 530. I'm hoping I'll see some improvements in Bad Company 2, it being a very cpu-heavy game.

Next up on the upgrade list is a new gpu! Perhaps next month

-26*c here in Denver today. Wishing for warmer temperatures...

My closings are eyeling. I am tiredly terrible.
I should bed to go.

Night good to all you.

After an extense period of observation, I have concluded that women only equal problems. They:

a) complain that we don't understand them, BUT
b) don't WANT to be understood.

Contradictory as it is, it makes perfect sense. All they want is to confuse, stress and depress us. They can be very beautiful, so they can be looked at from a distance. But any interaction with them is sure to cause mayhem and unwanted stress in our psyche. Look at them only from afar, as socially interacting with them in any way will reveal the inescapable horrors that lie underneath.

Therefore, to lead a happy, stress-free life, don't include women in it.

No, I'm not dead. The computer is just still giving us problems. When we got the new RAM, that fixed it, for a while. But now the damn thing is freezing and failing to boot again. We just got it back from my cousin, who used to fix computers for a living. He gave it a clean bill of health; booted it, ran dskchk, ran the computer for hours without any ill effects. But as soon as it gets back here, it stops working.

So, I am still alive. I'm not going to stop coming to TWHL. I just can't access the internet on a regular basis until we get this sorted out.

Which really sucks.

So I was just wondering, when is Cat-Life actually going to appear?

Anyone know any good HL2 mods? I question because I've started a series on youtube "Half-Life 2 Cool Mods", some of you may know Supercapo999's HL1 Cool Mods series and I asked him if he was going to HL2 mods, he said no, one thing led to another and now I'm doing them. Suggestions?

Oh and to stay on topic, I have had many cats though my life. I live in a cat lover family.

EDIT: I prefer SP mods, that way I don't ever show people footage of me dying again and again if I suck at the mod

I was browsing my collection of photos when I stumbled on this...This is one of my 2 cats, and it died a week ago. We don't know why. It came back home after disappearing from the yard, and it didn't felt very good(I think it did eat something poisonous from somewhere). We gave her milk and put her in a warm place, but by morning it was dead.

The sad thing is that it was the one who always loved to sit on my shoulder, to stay near me, it always followed us and it was so cute and had that "innocent cat" face any time...

RIP cute kitty :(.

Meh.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351069/Teenager-hurled-kitten-death-11th-floor-window-spared-jail.html#ixzz1CI83BVs6

All this poetry stuff reminded me that a year ago I made a poetry generator in C++. It was nothing fancy really, and the poems made no sense( as in context, the words were arranged to express some kind of actions or something).
Its vocabulary had 4 separate "categories": one for a substantive, one for an adjective, one for a verb and another for an adverb. Adding more words would mean a more diversified poem. But out of lazyness I only threw in 200 words(50 per category).

The program could randomly pick a word from each category, making a 4 words per line, with 4 lines in total per... well I don't know the word in english and google translator gives me funny translations.

At this point in time I don't quite remember how I did it, but the program could check if the letters from the words that should rhyme match, else it should generate a random word again until they match(randomly).

Some generated lines were, oddly, funny. Most of it is shit though. Let me translate a group of 4 lines for you(the translation, of course, will not rhyme):

The gloomy laptop occupies proudly
Abandoned prune likes beautiful
The gloomy magazine opens with talent
The thin nose sleeps beautifully.

For some reason, if I input a too high number for the poem generation, it would crash.

Well, why did I write this? Maybe for inspiring others to do something better. Or because I like les cr?pes.

Also, odd things happen here at TWHL. For about a week there was no new journal post. Suddenly, journal spam.

Feckin' New Hobby!

I am going to start collecting figurines from
http://www.sideshowtoy.com

Heres The top 3 I want;
(Under the picture on the right, go to gallery)
First, There is Tank from Left for dead!
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=901200&ref=listing-page

Then There is a Half-life 2 Zombie!
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=901226&ref=listing-page

Then the third is from 'Hitman' because he just looks damn cool.
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=28071&ref=listing-page