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monster_urby14 years ago2009-11-27 18:52:47 UTC 8 comments
Huntey is officially the most awesome person on the internet.
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Early XMas pressie. Thanks mate. :)
monster_urby14 years ago2009-11-18 10:50:02 UTC 6 comments
So... last night I did something I haven't done in a long time. I opened up a particular CSS map which happens to be a MOTM winner from a few months back, played for about 10 minutes, before opening up a blank document and started to sum up all the good points and bad points in a semi ammusing manner.

Basically, I reviewed it. I plan to read it out into a microphone soon too.

Time to get excited?
monster_urby14 years ago2009-10-31 20:49:27 UTC 4 comments
Yeah... Sorry about that religion thing...

Peace?
monster_urby14 years ago2009-10-30 05:29:12 UTC 48 comments
Urby rants about religion?

Hot Piss!
monster_urby14 years ago2009-10-19 19:58:10 UTC 13 comments
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My rule of thumb. The more promotion and hype that goes into a game, the worse the actual product is.

Example:

Half-Life 2 and episodes: Very little advertising, more money spent on development and upgrades. Overall mature and respectable community of players and modders.

Halo series: Glorified console shooter that was on the PC once. Too much money and time spent on hyping the product and putting up advertising campaigns. Very basic shooter complete with "console spacky-hand retard assistance module" (see: auto aim) and "pussy faggot stop-that-it-hurts protection circuit" (see: Health regeneration) Community consists of 6 - 14 year old's who swear all the time but just quiet enough so that mommy can't hear them.

Games don't need all this marketing for the love of God! They are video games! You know what used to influence my PS1 purchases? Demos! What the fuck happened to demos!?

That is all.
monster_urby14 years ago2009-10-17 19:52:33 UTC 23 comments
23!
monster_urby14 years ago2009-10-08 19:39:46 UTC 5 comments
I have a rant

You know the deal.

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monster_urby14 years ago2009-10-02 19:10:34 UTC 4 comments
I meant to post this months ago seeing as it was back in June but what the hell?

So I sent an email to PCGamer UK ranting about how video game developers tend to fall flat on their face trying overly hard to make games with a greater sense of immersion.

Surely enough, the next issue of the magazine came out and a shortened version of my email was "The Hot Mail" email of the month. I never got my prize (a 70Gb USB Drive)
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monster_urby14 years ago2009-09-26 16:43:29 UTC 8 comments
ARCHIE UPDATE

He really seems to have matured over the past month or so...
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monster_urby14 years ago2009-09-21 10:05:37 UTC 15 comments
Haha! Had the best day at work ever today.

So, last week I was told that I couldn't go on hoilday this week seeing as I was currently working on 5 websites and it would be bad to leave 5 clients hanging for another week. I thrashed those 5 websites into existance to get them finished by Friday so that I could take my week off and all but 2 of the clients were happy with the result. 2! Bastards.

So, this morning I got into the office and both me department manager and the company managing director looked at me and said: "Aren't you on holiday this week?"

I explained that I was told that I couldn't take the holiday seeing as 2 clients wanted to make changes to their websites before they would sign them off as complete.

The department manager responded: "Who told you that? If you've sent the site to the client then its done. I can have one of the other guys make the changes if they need to. Go home. Enjoy your holiday."

:D

tl:dr?

Surprise week off = WIN
monster_urby14 years ago2009-09-18 17:31:32 UTC 2 comments
Urby talks about bad timing.

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monster_urby14 years ago2009-09-10 20:34:30 UTC 12 comments
This is how I cope with modern day stupids.

JustUrby on YouTube!
monster_urby14 years ago2009-08-20 17:55:24 UTC 7 comments
Urby is back on the tube. Basically, if you guys enjoy my nonsence ramblings here in the Journals, you can now hear my nonsence ramblings on my new YouTube channel.

JustUrby's Channel

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monster_urby14 years ago2009-08-07 18:59:37 UTC 13 comments
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WAVE #3

Its a very strange sensation knowing that this time tomorrow the last 5 dreadful years working in a supermarket will be behind me. Yes, tomorrow at 4pm I hang up my green body warmer for the last time and head off into my career.

Overall emotion at the moment? Overwhelmingly Nervous.

I guess driving 10 minutes to my old hometown to print price labels for 9 hours a day got far too routine and in the end I just did it without thinking. The next couple of months are going to be a nightmare.

First off, my new job is in Shrewsbury which is an hours drive from my house. Fuel and keeping my 14 year old car roadworthy will definatly run my bank account into the ground faster than I would like.

Secondly, I'm no longer working with my finacee. We see each other most of the day and complain about the assholes we work with when we get home. Its nice. Now when I leave the house she'll either have left already or be in bed still depending on her shift. In the evening when I get home I'll only have a few hours before I'll need to sleep in preparation for the travel the next day.

The good points? Well, its the start of a career in Web Design for one of the UK's busiest e-commerce website providers. It's more money and goes up even more after a couple of months. Also, as luck would have it, the very same company hired 3 of my friends from college recently. :D

Anyways, I've been moaning for long enough and I suppose nobody really cares about this stuff. I just felt like typing out my thoughts...meh

Best get some sleep. Last shift starts in 7 hours...

tl:dr? New job causes conflict of emotions.