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Its been a year already since my dad died...

Found this old school picture:
http://themightyatom.nl/screenshots/klassenfoto_1989_1990.jpg
Find me.

Can't seem to settle on a logo as of late. Having said that I've just seen the Scrin logo. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!

@Habboi: 1000 pounds doesn't get you a totally 1337 computer? With the pound worth ~2 USD, one would think you'd have 2x the buying power.

So I bought F.E.A.R and been playing that lately, It's not nice having someone whisper "There is something in the water" in your right ear, then have to go wading through it and wait for something to lunge out at you, they really like doing that alot... Bastards.

I also recieved my school report and my opening sentance on my Art is "Talk, talk and talk sums Alex up" So it looks like I'll burn that one on the way home.

Stopped mapping for HL for a bit now. Been playing on the PS2 (where's the PS3!!) and on Maple Story... don't ask. Anyway school is STILL boring except for P.E. Don't have much to say but bye.

Took me long enough

What's happening in Habboi's World? Not much.

I'm still at school with a few weeks left before the exams and then hopefully off to Uni to study Games Design at East London Docklands.

So at the moment I'm doing coursework still which is a little worrying since we were supposed to be finished about a month or two ago :S

So I'm just trying to finish that so I can have some time to revise.

I haven't mapped in quite a while. The last time I opened Hammer was to check Kasperg's free VMF pack which I might add is very nice. The train map should be finished. All it'd need is a scrolling skybox and a track with a city in the distance and voila.

I said I was getting a new PC well I should be getting a new Dell around summer or later once I have enough money. I already got ?1000 from my birthday so roughly half-way there. I was wondering but is it worth getting a physics card and would I really use Quad Core for anything? I mean I thought I could use it to map in Hammer, compile and then just maximise HL2 and test in seconds almost like the new editors that lets you preview your map in-editor.

I'd appreciate feedback on whether I should get a physics card and Quad Core.

As for my portfolio website I think I mentioned I was making a new one ages ago. The truth is I finished it a while ago to some extent and I bet some of you have seen it because I didn't exactly hide it. Anyway all I have to do to it is upload more media, add a open in new window box design for more info and fix some spelling mistakes.

Over Summer I'll be working on my game developing skills for the big day at Uni. So I'll be working on de_goffs and perhaps I'll work on my drawing, modelling and texturing skills. I'd love to make an SP mod for Source but my skills need fixing before I attempt that. Finishing one map is hard enough work as it is.

Also I'll be free a lot of the time then so I'll be getting a few games to play with friends. Left 4 Dead for instance and C&C3 etc.

Anyway thanks for reading.

I just passed 5000th forum posts...crazy!

Hax! Also, how do you spell crazy the correct way?

Elon- Just a typo... who ever you are... muzzle/ant/seventh...ect

Its etc, not ect (etc = etcetera)

Elon- What a nice chat we are having. I knew it, though where I live people pronounce it ectetera, I thought it was what it wasn't. Who are you any way? I bet muzzle...

Joined: 15th March 2005 (777 days ago)
Woot!

Slow TWHL is SLOOOOOOOOWWWW...

In other news: My mapping inspiration is waning, and I can't seem to figure out what to do with my HL:HS map I'm currently working on. Hopefully it'll come to me some day soon...

Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere

From Don't Stop Believin', by Journey

In other news, Messenger:Mac is absolutely shit. Anytime a Microsoft product gets ported over to OSX, you can guarentee that it'll suck, and suck hard.

I am in of one of my worst times...I can't come up with any map ideas...I have no inspiration, and I don't know any buildings very well...So what is a mapper to do? I honestly have no idea...Normally, I would ask for ideas, but, that would fail for two reasons. (1), I don't want to pester all of you, and (2), that could be considered cheating...So, I'm going to google 'buildings' for a reference that might help me.

I'm working currently on a singleplayer map based on Kasperg's unfinished work. It's an honour to be able to use his work, and things are shaping up to be very, very pretty indeed.

By the way I thought I'd remind you all it is my Birthday tommorow and I don't think I'll be on the PC since my family are coming over.

Its been a while since my last journal entry.