Journals

I've just watched Nirvana, an italian cyberpunk movie, released in 1997. Although it's fairly low-budget, and stars Cristopher Lambert - who I don't really like, and his performance pretty much sucked as well - the camerawork and the whole atmosphere is brilliant, the storyline is superb (almost as complex as The Matrix), and it managed to get me thinking about how we choose to solve our problems and how we deal with death or the death of our beloved ones.

Okay, now without going any more mental, this movie can kick the ass of any recent shiny CG-enhanced Hollywood sci-fi/cyberpunk bullshit, so if you can, and if you like this genre, check it out.

I'm happy I spent that approximately 2 bucks on it.

New avatar, and I revamped my user page.

also, im starting a gallery of my
Freezecam shots that i think are good.

Let me know what you think

Edit! I just realized! its my one year anniversary of joining TWHL.

Argh, not this again. :/

I turned on my pc today and heard a weird noise coming out of the case. It was not my CPU fan, not my powersupply fan but my videocard fan! Why do i always get faulty videocard fans!? Its not the first time that my videocard fan starts to show signs of failure. Its still working though, but for how long? Who knows... Anyway, i took out the videocard and used a air compressor to blow out all the dust. I did the same with the rest of the system.

Then i put the card back into its AGP slot, connected all the wires, and turned the pc on. Still the same sound. So i took a pencil and started to poke the fan, hoping that the sound will stop. And it did.

The fan is connected to the card via a 2-pin socket, so my guess is that the fan could easily be replaced by a new one, without having to replace the entire card, cuz the card itself is still working as it should be.
Ill just wait and see what happens...

Balls.

In other news, i have a really cool Brotherhood of Nod logo decal on my window. People walking by outside can see that i fight for Nod.

Edit: 10000 logins. Neat! No message though. :/

Well I'm back from Leeds, longest 3 days of my life.

We ended up camping on a hill because there was no space anywhere else, so that made sleeping a problem, and the general background noise was very loud.

But apart from that, the bands were excellent, Tenacious D, Metallica and Goldfinger put on the best shows by far! (Jack and Kyle entering the stage wearing a wizard and dinosaur suit was an epic win)

And for all the people who were saying stuff in the shoutbox about Slipknot, when I was walking through Leeds I heard countless people all saying that they were dissapointed about Slipknot pulling out, and I'm sure if you had the chance to see Slipknot who would play about 5 minutes away from you, you would, just to say you've seen them.

Mindless Self Indulgence played instead of them, they were terrible, so they had mud and bottles thrown at them. (Bassist was hot though)

Another one of my never-ending Source experiments. Water caustics!Video!

All done through the material system and useable with non-solid displacements, should be very versatile and cheap to render!

I have a bit of a plan where I can use this in one of the maps I'm developing alongside ctf_volcano. More news on that later. ;>

After a long, long, LONG period of promising (since before the OB was released?) - here it is.

77.74.197.206:27015

Have fun. :>

._. Nothing much to say... Except Frag Fence is somewhat being retarded. I haven't even moved it anywhere and it somehow 'jumped' to my other hard drive. o.o There seems to be no viruses or anything like that, but who knows...

PS: Frag Fence will be out soon!
UPDATE: Ok, the rmf of Frag Fence is gone... I have no idea to the whereabouts of it, so... it's either I start from scratch, keep searching or make something completely different. By the way, what's the bbcode to make lines run through paragraphs, eg: crossing out things.

I've finally bought TF2! As soon as it's downloaded from Steam I won't be the only one in the galaxy who doesn't have the game. Hooray!

I just saw Hellboy 2, with about eight friends. It was better than I expected, but because I was the last to arrive, and there weren't enough seats in one row for all of us, I had to sit separate from them.
The only seat was in the front row (about a metre from the screen), so now I've got a sore neck from looking up for so long, and a headache from the angle that I had to watch it from.

Also, "This is your 500th login."
Yay!

When configuring Hammer, it seems best to not set the default SolidEntity class to: worldspawn. Reason being - when you go to create a brush entity, you cannot change the class(I do not believe one wants a 'worldspawn' everytime they attempt to create a brush entity). I don't, currently, know the technicalities that prevent this; but, it is very frustrating and could inhibit someone just starting to learn goldsource map-editing in Hammer(most importantly, working with brush entities).

There may be other entities classes that cause this, if set as default in the 'Game Configurations' tab under tools>options.

P.S. There isn't any other instance on the web, that I could find, mentioning this.

EDIT: Image fixed

Uwe Boll you genius.

Woo, it's my birfday. 16 today.

Yesterday I got my provisional driving permit. Yes, yet another asshole on the road. I'd taken the written test once before and FAILED. Check out the cold blooded killa on my photo ID:It's strange, because even when I don't smile for my ID's I typically don't look like a juvenile delinquent getting his mugshot taken.

Okay, funny story for you guys.

Me and my couple of friends, both are girls, like to hang out every now and then. It usually ends up with us sitting in the house / car being boring, but this time was different.

We decided to go down to Detroit's river front area.

Going down Jefferson Avenue we took a wrong turn (by the way I'm not driving), but it wasn't just any wrong turn, you see.

This turn happened to be where the tunnel to Canada is.

So we pull off to the side of the road in a "Authorized Only Parking Space". My friend driving gets out of the car and waves to a border officer as to what to do because we wanted to turn around. He tells us to back out and pull through, or so we thought, the search area for people coming into the United States. So he stops traffic for us and lets us go through to the search area.

Little did we know, we were about to be searched. An officer takes the car keys from my friend who's driving, and he asks for all of our (3 of us) identifications and we have to step out of the vehicle.

When I went to reach for my back pocket to get my license, the officer seems to freak out and tells me to "calm it down" or something like that, but I get my wallet anyhow.

So we're now standing outside of the car in the search area of the border passing to Canada. They start asking us questions, like what we were doing in Detroit and where we were going. So we explain.

Everything seems fine so far. However, when it comes to the driver, it turns out she forgot her license and any other form of identification. They inform us that it's illegal to drive without a license, like we didn't know that.

They make us go sit inside the detainee area where they keep you as they search your car.

At this point, 2 or 3 officer are going through the car, top to bottom. I'm watching them out the window as they pop the trunk and hood of her silver Mustang. They took covers off the engine and took out every little thing inside the car and put it on the roof.

Standard procedure so far, I was expecting all of this as soon as I knew the driver forgot her license.

So we're sitting in the detainee area for about an hour and a half total. During this time, a half-dozen Iranians came through on passport / ID troubles. Kinda funny.

Anyways, they also contacted the driver's Mom, who had to come there, with her license, and take us home.

Luckily they let my friend drive home. Otherwise it would cost $8,000 to get the car out of the impound.

Her mom drops us off and you can tell she is highly pissed still.

tl;dr: DONT MAKE WRONG TURNS ONTO THE CANADA - US TUNNEL.

I was detained by Customs and Border Protection, had my ID taken, and sat next to a half-dozen Iranians for an hour and a half.

Thanks for reading.

Embarked on the journey of Hammer, yesterday; I hope to be a good mapper, someday.

It turns out that Slipknot have pulled out of the Leeds Festival tommorrow due to Joey Jordison breaking his ankle.

THAT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST REASONS I WAS GOING!

brb hanging myself.