Journals

Tetsu015 years ago2008-09-26 08:19:58 UTC 12 comments
Hey! It's my birthday today! Yep, that's right Tetsu0 is turning 20 Years old today. How am i celebrating? Resees puffs and fruit loops for breakfast, and i took the day off from work!
WOO!
Actually i still have school today, but it's only til noon, then i gotta party to attend. Still gotta wait one more year to (legally) drink. But I can wait.
Tetsu015 years ago2008-09-20 11:04:42 UTC 14 comments
YAY! A new competition has come to TWHL. I can say that the time it took for this compo to arise was way shorter than usual. To be honest i expected another month before i could start mapping for a compo again.
Anyway.
If anyone was paying attention to me before when i said i was done with goldsource after the remake a game compo, good for you, because i lied.
This compo will be goldsource as well.
I'm afraid to move to source :( my computer doesn't like it and the entities give me headcaeks.
Oh and i finally figured out why my maps aren't really amazing. (They're good i guess) But i don't spend the extra hours at the end of the mapping process to really polish the map with detail and lighting. So i hope i can do that with this compo.
Even if it's a mind-fuck-map i still want it to look pretty. :)
/end rant
Tetsu015 years ago2008-06-17 09:42:53 UTC 5 comments
GREAT news!

I might get signed to a major record label within the next year!
A band from the BOSTON area is in need for another guitarist and they want me to join 'em. They have contacts with 3 major record labels. Hollywood records, Universal Records, and RoadRunner records.

Oh GOD i can't wait to take a road trip up there. Hopefully next week.

And i have youtube to thank! :)
They said they wanted someone who liked breaking benjamin (ME) and who had a decent sound and equipment (ME) and someone with a decent amount of skill and lives in the northeast (Also ME)

So they saw a few of my videos and i got an email from the drummer and they wanna check me out.

And they kicked out their old guitarist because he was too emo. So i'm thinking i'm gonna like these guys.
Tetsu015 years ago2008-05-07 00:13:27 UTC 5 comments
Hey everyone
You're all probably getting sick and tired of hearing me say "Im on the radio Im on the radio"

Well I don't care because it's really freaking cool to hear your own song played on the radio

Here is 2 songs of ours, plus an interview.
I know the sound quality is terrible, i recorded the stream at 31kbs because that's the FM stream quality.

But

anyway, just for you guys

http://brettpcg.googlepages.com/SA_3P_interview1_tuesday.mp3
Tetsu016 years ago2008-05-03 19:10:50 UTC 2 comments
I know i wrote a note about this a few days back,
But here is the coolest thing i've ever seen in my life.

http://www.wccc.com/homegrown.php

That's us. Week of 5/5/08

XD
Tetsu016 years ago2008-05-01 22:26:03 UTC 7 comments
Hey everybody

My band, Positive Chaos, is going to be featured on The Rock, 106.9 WCCC, once a night for five days starting Sunday, May 3.

That's right.

Positive Chaos made it to mainstream radio.

Would like to personally ask you all to tune in (either via radio [ 106.9 FM ], or online at www.wccc.com ) And listen to our songs! You can even call in and tell the station what you think.

You can help us make it one step further with each phone call.

After our week is over, if you want to hear us play, just call up The Rock after 9:00 PM-EST and say, "Hey, can I hear some Positive Chaos!?"

Help us help you help us all.

Other big news is the fact that Positive Chaos will be opening the main stage at the Webster Theater [ Hartford, CT ] on May 12. Finger 11 is the main headliner.

I'm so psyched!

Check us out at myspace.com/positivechaos
Tetsu016 years ago2008-04-19 10:57:29 UTC 3 comments
Allrighty.
So after a shitty day I come home to wonderful news!
I had to leave the Ochos Rios Sunset Grande resort this morning at 11am
Leaving behind free food, booze and a wonderful female I met from London.
Nothing happened, but she was a blast to hang around with. So the plane-ride sucked then we had to deal with customs and my bag got randomly searched and they checked every nook and cranny of every article of clothing i owned for weed. They even checked the inside brim of my brand new Red-stripe hat.

So customs was a bitch and the busride also sucked because first, i had to deal with new-york traffic, then my iPod died right in the middle of "Cumbersome" by Seven Mary Three But it was all right because i was about 20 min from home.

And i didn't get a tan because it was cloudy all fuckin day. Every day.

But im home, and the compo is extended! :) Happy day.
Tetsu016 years ago2008-04-14 16:07:49 UTC 4 comments
I'm at a computer lab in jamaica! it costs freaking $6 for a half hour of use so i'm not gonna be in here for long.
that's basically it.

greetings from jamaica, man:)
Tetsu016 years ago2008-04-10 08:45:08 UTC 4 comments
Well penguinboy extended the competition, but i don't get to benefit from it much. Saturday morning i will be leaving for Jamaica and will not be able to finish everything i wanted to finish for my competition entry. I will be away for a week, and the deadline is smack in the middle of the week i will be away from this country, and a mapping-capable computer.
It's sad really. I've been making so much progress, and i actually have been working on this through out the entire time period instead of just in the last week. (like my previous 2 entries)

And i STILL run out of time.
I guess that's my luck though.
I'm just going to truncate the levels, debug everything, and ship it out Friday evening. I guess all those easter eggs will have to wait until after the comp and i release EVERYTHING i wanted in the mod with it to the general public. Daubster did offer to help code in the fog as well. Which would have been a huge HUGE visual boost. But due to his own problems combines with my crappy schedule the help came a wee-bit to late.
Sigh

And for those who offered to beta test; I'll be happy to let you guys test the final product after the competition is over.

Good luck to all the other contestants!
Tetsu016 years ago2008-03-22 23:19:07 UTC 6 comments
Man.... I hate my minute lack of hygiene. I don't go to the dentist for one year and i had 2 impacted 3'd molars (A.K.A wisdom teeth) re-arranging the bottom row of my teeth to look basically like a carpenter's saw blade. :(
Anyway
Tuesday morning i got my four wizzies pulled out and I was out of commission for the better part of 5 days. Stuck eating pudding, High-protein-milkshakes, canned peaches, and mashes potatoes. I had to call out of work 4 times and I'm pretty sure my managers hate me.

The only good side was the medication they put me on
Valium and Oxycodone

Magic, i tell you. Magic

An hour after popping those pills and i'm flying high and not feeling a thing.

Of course the second both of them wear off i wake up in an immense amount of pain from having the same re-occuring dream of being thrown off of the final destination stage By Giga-Bowser from Smash Brothers Brawl (that's because it's the only thing that's been keeping me sane this week)

Oh and i have to go back into the orthodontist's place of hellsurgery to get my stitches out that he never told me he put in in the first place...

SO

No work got done on my map. Thankfully i only have about 30% more work to do. BUT the bad thing was, i was really counting on this week to to that 30% of the work because it was my spring break.
And i spent it in my bed
swelling
bleeding
playing Wii
and wishing my doc gave me more pain meds.

ANYWAY

For those of you wanting screen-shots, there's nothing major to show you because I've been sorting out the entity layouts so there :P

/end novel
Tetsu016 years ago2008-03-11 12:19:54 UTC 3 comments
Well I'm Steadily Hammering away at my competition entry. I think I already doubled the time I put into my last one, but I'm not even Half-Way through all the entity work yet. Worse yet, i think i'm going to have to split up the map into 2 separate levels. I'm approaching that max entity limit.
I'll soon be there.
But not to worry, I'll get the kinks out of it soon enough.
If someone is not entering the competition, and wants to test my entry when the time comes, I will credit you, and be extremely thankful to you.

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Tetsu016 years ago2008-02-23 05:52:22 UTC 0 comments
YAY for TWHL3!!
Tetsu016 years ago2008-02-18 20:57:40 UTC 0 comments
Woot for modeling. Maybe now i can start a little crappy mod for shits and giggles. Can't wait. :biggrin:
Tetsu016 years ago2007-12-30 12:56:30 UTC 0 comments
Damnit.
Like.. a 4 year wait, and AVP was better than AVP R despite the fact for it being rated R and having more action and gore?

LAME

And there was only one predator? :thefinger:
Tetsu016 years ago2007-12-20 06:37:43 UTC 0 comments
:D I am in disbelief right now. I have just noticed that i have been given the forum award! I will continue to help people to the best of my knowledge! :biggrin:
Thanks to whomever deemed me worthy!

That'd be me. :) - Ant

OH AND!!

Since AVP R comes out on Christmas day, I decided to break out my old predator mask and take a festive photo. Beautifully altered thanks to google and MSPAINT :)