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I typed for an hour, got a drink, and everything disappeared, idk what the fuck happened either.... I'm typing in notepad. i'll have the entire story up shortly... It's long
Details later.
FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
I typed for an hour, got a drink, and everything disappeared, idk what the fuck happened either.... I'm typing in notepad. i'll have the entire story up shortly... It's long
The brain is something so complex that in some situations I find it hard to control my own brain.
It's like this, today the enthusiasm of programming caught me again so I decided to read about some miscellaneous things here and there. The problem is, throughout my reading I encountered several links\pieces of information that sparked my interest. And from those links I saw other links\pieces of information etc... ending up with a ton of tabs opened.
I even ended up installing a combined scripting-programming-batch language(something like an advanced BASIC), "AutoIT"(I focus on C++ though, but for fast funny things this is awesome). With this piece of shit, if you have da' skillz, you can create complicated software in hours !(ok this sounds ridiculous).
I also read that it's possible to have lucid dreams. It says that's a cool out of the body experience, creating your own universe. I always wanted to fly... I even had a cool dream where the sensation was almost real...But it's hard. You have to keep a dream journal and practice everyday "reality checkup" so that it goes somewhere inside your brain so that you can "remember" to do this in a dream. It's a somewhat progressive evolution, and at its peak is where the fun starts.
tldr: I wish I could control my "flow of interest" or something like that, so I can concentrate on one subject at a time.
It's like this, today the enthusiasm of programming caught me again so I decided to read about some miscellaneous things here and there. The problem is, throughout my reading I encountered several links\pieces of information that sparked my interest. And from those links I saw other links\pieces of information etc... ending up with a ton of tabs opened.
I even ended up installing a combined scripting-programming-batch language(something like an advanced BASIC), "AutoIT"(I focus on C++ though, but for fast funny things this is awesome). With this piece of shit, if you have da' skillz, you can create complicated software in hours !(ok this sounds ridiculous).
I also read that it's possible to have lucid dreams. It says that's a cool out of the body experience, creating your own universe. I always wanted to fly... I even had a cool dream where the sensation was almost real...But it's hard. You have to keep a dream journal and practice everyday "reality checkup" so that it goes somewhere inside your brain so that you can "remember" to do this in a dream. It's a somewhat progressive evolution, and at its peak is where the fun starts.
tldr: I wish I could control my "flow of interest" or something like that, so I can concentrate on one subject at a time.
Some of you might already know about this, so this is for those of you not in the know:
Did any of you PS3 owners see this coming? Let's just say if it happens, which most likely it will happen, it will mean that one of the best argument PS3 fanboys have for owning a PS3 instead of a Xbox360 will evaporate.
Sure, The PS3 is more powerful and it's games are more prettier looking than the Xbox360's games, but what really counts to people is having something that's really good......for free. But once you remove that special something that people are already used to having it for free, well....it should be very interesting to see what happens next.
What might be coming:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/sony-considering-fees-for-playstation-network/1388209
Did any of you PS3 owners see this coming? Let's just say if it happens, which most likely it will happen, it will mean that one of the best argument PS3 fanboys have for owning a PS3 instead of a Xbox360 will evaporate.
Sure, The PS3 is more powerful and it's games are more prettier looking than the Xbox360's games, but what really counts to people is having something that's really good......for free. But once you remove that special something that people are already used to having it for free, well....it should be very interesting to see what happens next.
What might be coming:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/sony-considering-fees-for-playstation-network/1388209
Grandpop passed away last night, have to try and get time off from work to travel up to Perth for the funeral sometime next week.
I've been on TWHL two years and never completed or uploaded a single map. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or depressed. I've done work on plenty of maps in source and GS but they've never been "good enough", in my opinion at least, to release.
I got a grand idea for a map! BRB.
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I found out that Poison Garden, Poison Garden Lite, and Sunden are no longer available because m0px.net has gone down. I'll see if I can get them reuploaded soonish. Also, Can Headcrabs Float might be uploaded as well if I can find it.
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So I played some awesome TF2 last night. Apparently it was a night where people were doing dramatic readings of terrible fan-fictions from around the internet. One of which was a Sonic the Hedgehog porn story, I couldn't stop laughing. To keep the time limit at maximum, the server was set to taunt kills only and no capturing or anything.
I faved the server.
:3
Not So Original Post:
I found out that Poison Garden, Poison Garden Lite, and Sunden are no longer available because m0px.net has gone down. I'll see if I can get them reuploaded soonish. Also, Can Headcrabs Float might be uploaded as well if I can find it.
Original Post:
So I played some awesome TF2 last night. Apparently it was a night where people were doing dramatic readings of terrible fan-fictions from around the internet. One of which was a Sonic the Hedgehog porn story, I couldn't stop laughing. To keep the time limit at maximum, the server was set to taunt kills only and no capturing or anything.
I faved the server.
:3
Irony sucks.
A massive lightning storm was coming my way last night, probably the craziest one I've ever seen. I powered down all my electronics and turned them off at the wall, you know the drill. Waited the storm out, turned them back on, and now my LCD TV appears to be fried. It's connected through a surge board, and wasn't even on at the time of the storm. It looks like the act of turning it back ON fried it (static build up?), and it didn't even trip the surge board or damage the other electronics hooked up to it.
That's what it looks like at this stage anyway. Gonna' test a few ideas I've found on the interwebs, but it looks like it's time to dig out my warranty forms, wherever the hell they are.
I loved this TV. :<
A massive lightning storm was coming my way last night, probably the craziest one I've ever seen. I powered down all my electronics and turned them off at the wall, you know the drill. Waited the storm out, turned them back on, and now my LCD TV appears to be fried. It's connected through a surge board, and wasn't even on at the time of the storm. It looks like the act of turning it back ON fried it (static build up?), and it didn't even trip the surge board or damage the other electronics hooked up to it.
That's what it looks like at this stage anyway. Gonna' test a few ideas I've found on the interwebs, but it looks like it's time to dig out my warranty forms, wherever the hell they are.
I loved this TV. :<
FUCK Blogger and its decision to remove FTP uploading.[/rage]
Saints win the super bowl!!! They've been an NFL franchise for 43 years and havent won, so they deserve it! Plus the Colts knocked the Jets outta the playoffs - fuckers.
Anyway, i'm pumped to see New Orleans actually celebrating after Katrina. Makes me happy.
Woot woot football.
In other news, my dad built a computer with an i7 processor, and the RealTek Audio drivers are crashing his system; random shutdowns when streaming music, playing COD:MW, and Portal... Must fix soon...
Edit- sorry i was drunk
Anyway, i'm pumped to see New Orleans actually celebrating after Katrina. Makes me happy.
Woot woot football.
In other news, my dad built a computer with an i7 processor, and the RealTek Audio drivers are crashing his system; random shutdowns when streaming music, playing COD:MW, and Portal... Must fix soon...
Edit- sorry i was drunk
Attn: On mod DB, there is a dude called petrick who is uploading a gamut of old mods for HL1. I like this guy. I recommend you to go to the Mod DB right now and download all the mods that were previously available only to people who could find foreign downloads. Now that you downloaded some of those excellent mods, you can find that the standard deviation of the quality of all those mods is really high (not necessarily a good thing).
This month we are going to discuss a mod called Robotech: Invasion (not on moddb). I cannot believe I did not find this mod earlier than I did, although whether it still exists is subject to debate. This mod features an unfinished training course, and unfinished main game also. But boy, would you wish it were finished! Lemme tell you, in addition to (poorly-modeled) new monsters, EVERYTHING HAS A CARTOON SKIN! Yep, all the items, weapons, and especially monsters are remodeled with cartoonish skins. The grunts are remodeled high definition, but their skins are not cartoonish, for some reason.
My favorite part (and maybe yours too, once you find it somehow) is all the new weapons. If I recall correctly, there are about 4 handguns, 4 submachine guns, and 3 protoculture weapons. I just want to say that all the weapons are roaring awesome, but maybe that's because the game makes headshots do way more damage. The only flaw in this game is boring boxy architecture, but that doesn't seem so important when you have roaring awesome weapons, in my opinion. Too bad it's unfinished though, I think it would turn out really gnarly if it was, what with bland architecture, crazy weapons, grunts who use more than a mp5 and shotgun (wow!), and giant mecha robos who have close to 1000 hit points. Oh woops, better not spoil anymore.
In HL: chronicles, there was one new weapon (actually 2), and that made it awesome. So in this game, there are more than 10 new weapons, so this game is logically more than 10 times more awesome. If you find fault with this logic, than you are perfectly sane. It's called opinion.
This month we are going to discuss a mod called Robotech: Invasion (not on moddb). I cannot believe I did not find this mod earlier than I did, although whether it still exists is subject to debate. This mod features an unfinished training course, and unfinished main game also. But boy, would you wish it were finished! Lemme tell you, in addition to (poorly-modeled) new monsters, EVERYTHING HAS A CARTOON SKIN! Yep, all the items, weapons, and especially monsters are remodeled with cartoonish skins. The grunts are remodeled high definition, but their skins are not cartoonish, for some reason.
My favorite part (and maybe yours too, once you find it somehow) is all the new weapons. If I recall correctly, there are about 4 handguns, 4 submachine guns, and 3 protoculture weapons. I just want to say that all the weapons are roaring awesome, but maybe that's because the game makes headshots do way more damage. The only flaw in this game is boring boxy architecture, but that doesn't seem so important when you have roaring awesome weapons, in my opinion. Too bad it's unfinished though, I think it would turn out really gnarly if it was, what with bland architecture, crazy weapons, grunts who use more than a mp5 and shotgun (wow!), and giant mecha robos who have close to 1000 hit points. Oh woops, better not spoil anymore.
In HL: chronicles, there was one new weapon (actually 2), and that made it awesome. So in this game, there are more than 10 new weapons, so this game is logically more than 10 times more awesome. If you find fault with this logic, than you are perfectly sane. It's called opinion.
A while ago one of my cats got its foot caught in a trap, and was limping quite badly. Today I came home from college to find out that the leg had to be amputated. Poor cat. 
More Necromancy!
Hello everyone, I owe an explanation to everyone who was watching "Xen Assault" so far.
It indeed took longer than expected but it was because mostly of the real-life calls. Which I wont be bothering you with those details, as we all know it sometimes gets difficult.
Also I want people who have been distributing the old demo, to stop. Yes, it was a public release. But I though, I gave up on the mod at that time. It's actually not dead at all, but probably more like in a zombie state.. With a little polishing, it can provide more fun then the demo itself. So please stop distributing it.
I think the demo covered the first 4 chapters. There is actually 4 more. But I might not be including one of the chapters to finish the mod quickly instead. And I'm nearly done with the fifth chapter. So it leaves 2 more (10-11 maps) that needs to be mapped.
Some new screenshots;
Click on the images
I also started to improve some of the maps visually, the mod is very very old.. if anybody recalls when I started mapping, I didnt have the skills to back it up much. So the first several maps in the mod visiually sucks ass. Now they look nicer. Most of the people's complaint about the mod was how hard the gameplay was. Now the "Easy" mod, is very easy. "Normal" mod is a bit challenging followed by a smooth similar gameplay to Half-Life's normal difficulty and well... "Hard" mod may drive people crazy. But hey, nobody is pushing you to play "Hard" right?
Some old-new improvement screenshots;
Before;
After;
So shortly, XA is on the table and wont be getting down there until its done.
Hello everyone, I owe an explanation to everyone who was watching "Xen Assault" so far.
It indeed took longer than expected but it was because mostly of the real-life calls. Which I wont be bothering you with those details, as we all know it sometimes gets difficult.
Also I want people who have been distributing the old demo, to stop. Yes, it was a public release. But I though, I gave up on the mod at that time. It's actually not dead at all, but probably more like in a zombie state.. With a little polishing, it can provide more fun then the demo itself. So please stop distributing it.
I think the demo covered the first 4 chapters. There is actually 4 more. But I might not be including one of the chapters to finish the mod quickly instead. And I'm nearly done with the fifth chapter. So it leaves 2 more (10-11 maps) that needs to be mapped.
Some new screenshots;
Click on the images
I also started to improve some of the maps visually, the mod is very very old.. if anybody recalls when I started mapping, I didnt have the skills to back it up much. So the first several maps in the mod visiually sucks ass. Now they look nicer. Most of the people's complaint about the mod was how hard the gameplay was. Now the "Easy" mod, is very easy. "Normal" mod is a bit challenging followed by a smooth similar gameplay to Half-Life's normal difficulty and well... "Hard" mod may drive people crazy. But hey, nobody is pushing you to play "Hard" right?
Some old-new improvement screenshots;
Before;
After;
So shortly, XA is on the table and wont be getting down there until its done.
My band Broken Silence went into the studio yesterday for the first time to record a song, was sort of like a test run to see how things work out.
Once a few minor problems were sorted out with the mixing desk, tracking began! It really shows you how important it is to practice to a metronome, because it isn't easy!
I can honestly say that I really enjoyed it, it was a slow start but towards the end of the day we were getting some really nice stuff done, totally impressed with how it came out considering it's our first song, all I have to do now is mix it so it sounds somewhat professional!
Myspace with the song will go up in a few days, I want to get the final mix done for the song so we have something to put on it.
I hope this band goes far, we all loved it!
Once a few minor problems were sorted out with the mixing desk, tracking began! It really shows you how important it is to practice to a metronome, because it isn't easy!
I can honestly say that I really enjoyed it, it was a slow start but towards the end of the day we were getting some really nice stuff done, totally impressed with how it came out considering it's our first song, all I have to do now is mix it so it sounds somewhat professional!
Myspace with the song will go up in a few days, I want to get the final mix done for the song so we have something to put on it.
I hope this band goes far, we all loved it!