Journals

I got my braces put on today. Here's a pic of me with them:Edit: I'll probably be eating mash potatos for the rest of the week. These things HURT!

Well, I finally got my new computer put together, so now I can get back to mapping on an 8 year old engine while using a relatively good modern computer... I might try some gaming, too.

Here are the specs:

DFI Lanparty UT NF4-D Motherboard
AMD Athlon 3700+ Processor
1.5 GB PC3200 RAM
256 MB BFG GeForce 7600 OC
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Sound Card
80 GB SATA Western Digital Caviar SE Hard Drive
160 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive
DVD-ROM & CD-RW Disc Drives
3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
Themaltake Shark Full Tower Case
Rosewill RD500-2-DB 500 Watt Power Supply
Old 17" Curved-Screen CRT Monitor

I just got a cold yesterday, and now I'm feeling miserable as ever. It made me think of my grandma, who lives out in the boonies, and still thinks that you get colds from being outside in the cold. That was a bit off-topic.

Once I get over the cold, I may be able to finish enough of FUBAR to be able to post some screnshots of it. That's right, it's back from the dead, for about the third time now. I'll finish it, if it takes 5 years (although, I may actually pick up on Source mapping by then.) From here on, don't take it seriously when I say it's dead.

Hello srry! This is your 1800th login.

I feel like I should have some good news to go along with this, but I'm really just stuck at the moment. :

Got some new prefabs up on my website, although something I didn't get around to was changing the title of the site to something other than "Untitled Document". Next time, maybe.

In other news, my birthday is 2 days away!

Got a new website up. It pretty much sucks more than the Freewebs one I had, so you probably shouldn't go there.

Hello srry! This is your 1337th login. 9o()|) s7|_|p/-/!

Status update for all my projects:

FUBAR - Pretty dead. Would still have a long way to go if I wanted to complete it. I played through the whole thing one time, and realized how much the gameplay sucked. I might release an unfinished version, though.

de_pine - Not working on it anymore. I just got tired of the whole theme.

de_stucco - I haven't worked on it in a bit, but that doesn't mean I won't pick it up again. The whole style of it suits hostage rescue gameplay better, but I got complaints about those from my last Counter-Strike map.

Who knows, maybe I'll release all of these in one big pack of unfinished crap someday!

Got a slightly changed avatar. less cluttered, and without my name pointlessly printed next to it.

Hello srry! This is your 1000th login. Teh Master!

Don't you love it when condos start popping up behind your house? There was a nice grassy field there before...

I've got some new news you may or may not care about. Head over to my website if you really want to see it.

Hello srry! This is your 800th login. A true TWHLer! Respect me now you must!

Hello srry! This is your 666th login. Diabolical.

I have a new Counter-Strike map coming soon.

Well, soon might be a little bit of an overstatement, but I'm working on it pretty consistently.

It's too early in the development of it right now to give any screenshots, but I can tell you a little about it:

It's going to be called de_pine (yes, another tree name), set in a small rural town in the mountains with a Maine-ish feel to it... Or that's what I'm going for anyway. Details are a bit sketchy at the moment, but I plan on it having a convenience store/gas station as one of the bomb sites, a town area, and some smaller residential areas. I also plan on using entirely custom textures, all made by me, so I can get the exact look I want.

I don't want this to be just another lame forgettable CS map like most others that appear, so I'm going to put more effort into this than the last one, which I rushed to finish in only 3 days, and didn't spend enough time on the gameplay aspects of it.