Journals
10/25/94
Forgot to post this this morning, but last night I had my first unpleasant episode of SP ever.
So I got home late last night after a get-together with friends. It was about 2:30 AM by the time I got into bed and went to sleep, and I expect this had something to do with it.
When I woke up, it was still lightless out, my limbs were all stiff, and I saw (or rather perceived) the pitch-black silhouette of a man in a trench coat and a large fedora in my doorway. As he slowly and silently walked towards me, I squeezed my eyes shut in terror, then promptly remembered everything Soup Miner has ever said on the topic of Sleep Paralysis. I strained my arm muscles to point my hand towards the door, and gave my hallucination the finger.
So I got home late last night after a get-together with friends. It was about 2:30 AM by the time I got into bed and went to sleep, and I expect this had something to do with it.
When I woke up, it was still lightless out, my limbs were all stiff, and I saw (or rather perceived) the pitch-black silhouette of a man in a trench coat and a large fedora in my doorway. As he slowly and silently walked towards me, I squeezed my eyes shut in terror, then promptly remembered everything Soup Miner has ever said on the topic of Sleep Paralysis. I strained my arm muscles to point my hand towards the door, and gave my hallucination the finger.
I coded a random headline generator today.
You can download it here.
Be sure to let me know what you think about this first version!
If anyone doesn't know what to do with .7z files, you can use either 7-zip or Winzip/Winrar to open them.
Also, don't poke around the site or share the link around too much. It's a hideous school project website from a year ago, and the free host doesn't allow for much bandwidth. You are free to put up mirrors if you like, though.
You can download it here.
Be sure to let me know what you think about this first version!
If anyone doesn't know what to do with .7z files, you can use either 7-zip or Winzip/Winrar to open them.
Also, don't poke around the site or share the link around too much. It's a hideous school project website from a year ago, and the free host doesn't allow for much bandwidth. You are free to put up mirrors if you like, though.
Always ready for a walk or run, and rarely able to stay still when a camera was around, Marty was my roommate, my best friend, my brother. I’m not ashamed to admit that I bawled like a baby watching his last moments this morning, nor that I’m still fighting back tears as I write this. I can only hope that now he’s hunting alongside foxes in heaven, or chasing raccoons up a tree. Goodbye, my dog. Goodbye, my friend. Rest in Peace.
Graduated last night. I now have a High School diploma, yet I don't really feel any different. Just sad because I'm worried I'll fall out of touch with my friends.
Anyway, I still have to go back there next semester to pick up a course I didn't get enrolled in, so I can get into programming courses in uni. So I haven't seen the last of that place.
Probably not a good thing.
Anyway, I still have to go back there next semester to pick up a course I didn't get enrolled in, so I can get into programming courses in uni. So I haven't seen the last of that place.
Probably not a good thing.
Hey, remember that HD shotgun model I made?
You can download it here.
You can download it here.
Welcome back!
This is your 6060th login.
Missed my 6000th...
This is your 6060th login.
Missed my 6000th...
[MEDIA INBOUND]
Bumping the thread doesn't really seem worth bugging the admins for at this point, so I'll just toss this here.
A few screenshots of some models I've edited for Colony 42, poorly put together courtesy of my lack of image editng skills
Of special note is the shotgun, which I reanimated thanks to gearbox rigging the stock on their default HD model. It now gets flipped up into proper usage position when drawn, and goes back onto the frame when holstered. Looks damn nice ingame.
Maps on the other hand, have not being going so quickly. I just can't seem to get motivated to map for anything at all, let alone this project I've been doing since late '08. I need to learn how to map at a decent speed.
Bumping the thread doesn't really seem worth bugging the admins for at this point, so I'll just toss this here.
A few screenshots of some models I've edited for Colony 42, poorly put together courtesy of my lack of image editng skills
Maps on the other hand, have not being going so quickly. I just can't seem to get motivated to map for anything at all, let alone this project I've been doing since late '08. I need to learn how to map at a decent speed.
While we're on a dream journal binge...I'd like to stop mine. I wouldn't go as far as to say they're nightmares, but they're not pleasant either, and they keep waking me up. Been having them for about a business week now. They all have to do with things falling out of my control, going too fast, people moving on while I'm left behind. Most of them end up having to do with my friends.
I think it's anxiety from the fact that we'll be graduating soon, and most of them will go to university while I'm doing an extra semester next year. Things are going to get mighty quiet in my social life, and honestly, I think even with the friends who are staying to do what I'm doing, I'll be pretty lonely.
I don't want them to leave me behind, and it's making me lose sleep.
I think it's anxiety from the fact that we'll be graduating soon, and most of them will go to university while I'm doing an extra semester next year. Things are going to get mighty quiet in my social life, and honestly, I think even with the friends who are staying to do what I'm doing, I'll be pretty lonely.
I don't want them to leave me behind, and it's making me lose sleep.
Playing Fallout 3. Wandered out near Vault 87, and happened upon some brotherhood outcasts fighting super mutants. After the battle, there was only one of the outcasts still alive. Went up to talk to them, got this response:
"Hey, Local, shouldn't you be ban-aaggghh!!!!"
She tripped over her dead comrade and died. I guess the game's Karma system and the physics bugs decided to team up and give some of the outcasts what they deserve for how they treat outsiders.
"Hey, Local, shouldn't you be ban-aaggghh!!!!"
She tripped over her dead comrade and died. I guess the game's Karma system and the physics bugs decided to team up and give some of the outcasts what they deserve for how they treat outsiders.
Well, I just conclusively proved that somebody involved in level design on the gamecube version of Nightfire had no clue what they were doing.
Those of you who have played the gamecube version (maybe versions for other consoles as well) should remember a mission called Chain Reaction. (the sniper map) You may also remember that in the second map a sizable portion of the ground in the main area is made of metal, like it was covering a pit.
Today I was doing a runthrough of the map, and when I got to the roof of the final building and went to go into the windowed building where some of the snipers were, (An optional part for some bonus items and a 007 bonus after gold) I managed to glitch out the game.
You know how in some areas you can press action to do a 3rd person move to cross a ledge? You know how there's one up there? Well, I guess I jumped before doing it, but when I entered it, the camera was further ahead than it usually was, at a smaller angle, and no bond. I could still move ahead with the C stick as per usual, but when I reached the end of the ledge, I found myself below the map looking up. I wasn't falling, but I couldn't get back up. That's when I spotted the pit. The floor was of equal elevation to me, so I walked towards it. I clipped back into the map through the walls, and I promptly died.
So I guess at one point there was a pit you could fall into and die instantly from, but they decided to get rid of it because it hindered gameplay. One problem, they didn't actually get rid of it, just covered it up. It's still there, still taking up space, still being rendered, and it still has the console Nightfire engine equivalent of a trigger_hurt taking up entity space. This is extremely inefficient for a commercial game from such a large company, and it shouldn't have happened. EA, I am dissapointed.
Still a good game, just one more flaw to the list.
tl/dr:
GCN Nightfire has a big inefficient trigger_hurt pit from the beta still in it.
Those of you who have played the gamecube version (maybe versions for other consoles as well) should remember a mission called Chain Reaction. (the sniper map) You may also remember that in the second map a sizable portion of the ground in the main area is made of metal, like it was covering a pit.
Today I was doing a runthrough of the map, and when I got to the roof of the final building and went to go into the windowed building where some of the snipers were, (An optional part for some bonus items and a 007 bonus after gold) I managed to glitch out the game.
You know how in some areas you can press action to do a 3rd person move to cross a ledge? You know how there's one up there? Well, I guess I jumped before doing it, but when I entered it, the camera was further ahead than it usually was, at a smaller angle, and no bond. I could still move ahead with the C stick as per usual, but when I reached the end of the ledge, I found myself below the map looking up. I wasn't falling, but I couldn't get back up. That's when I spotted the pit. The floor was of equal elevation to me, so I walked towards it. I clipped back into the map through the walls, and I promptly died.
So I guess at one point there was a pit you could fall into and die instantly from, but they decided to get rid of it because it hindered gameplay. One problem, they didn't actually get rid of it, just covered it up. It's still there, still taking up space, still being rendered, and it still has the console Nightfire engine equivalent of a trigger_hurt taking up entity space. This is extremely inefficient for a commercial game from such a large company, and it shouldn't have happened. EA, I am dissapointed.
Still a good game, just one more flaw to the list.
tl/dr:
GCN Nightfire has a big inefficient trigger_hurt pit from the beta still in it.
Picked up Command & Conquer: Generals Deluxe edition for $13 at Staples the other day.
Original was good, but the Zero Hour expansion is just so much more epic feeling.
I wonder what the ZH GLA campaign will be like?
Original was good, but the Zero Hour expansion is just so much more epic feeling.
I wonder what the ZH GLA campaign will be like?
17! My mom just handed me a card a few minutes ago that contained a pre-order slip for Skyrim.
Best Birthday I've had all year.
Best Birthday I've had all year.
Alright, so I need a new graphics card. It has to have the following minimum:
Goes up to 1920x1080, gets good performance in modern games at half that (the only other 16:9 resolution available in both games and my monitor)
*DirectX 9 compatible
*Pixel Shader 2.0b
*512MB card
*PCI Express 2.0 support
Now here comes the bad part: I have a maximum budget of $140, including added tax. And paying the full $140 would leave me broke. I also can't buy online.
Any suggestions? And has ATI gotten their stuff together with OpenGL so I could run Hammer 3.5 with one of their cards?
Goes up to 1920x1080, gets good performance in modern games at half that (the only other 16:9 resolution available in both games and my monitor)
*DirectX 9 compatible
*Pixel Shader 2.0b
*512MB card
*PCI Express 2.0 support
Now here comes the bad part: I have a maximum budget of $140, including added tax. And paying the full $140 would leave me broke. I also can't buy online.
Any suggestions? And has ATI gotten their stuff together with OpenGL so I could run Hammer 3.5 with one of their cards?
Well, looks like everyone's having a bad monday.
My personal computer won't boot, it just goes full blast on the fan and no signal gets through to the monitor. And it's still doing it after the usual treatment for the symptoms (removing and reinstalling the GPU)
I'll wait until after supper, and if it hasn't sorted itself out, well... I don't know what I'll do. I can't seem to find any other treatments I haven't tried yet.
Also, if you haven't noticed any recent changes to my avatar, press F5.
EDIT: Okay, fuck mondays. It's still fucked up, and after pressing my ear to the case, I ascertained that the sound of the fan was in fact drowning out the sound of the HDD spinning at max speed as well. I was going to let it run for a bit and see what happened, but I'll be damned if I'm going to risk losing my data.
My personal computer won't boot, it just goes full blast on the fan and no signal gets through to the monitor. And it's still doing it after the usual treatment for the symptoms (removing and reinstalling the GPU)
I'll wait until after supper, and if it hasn't sorted itself out, well... I don't know what I'll do. I can't seem to find any other treatments I haven't tried yet.
Also, if you haven't noticed any recent changes to my avatar, press F5.
EDIT: Okay, fuck mondays. It's still fucked up, and after pressing my ear to the case, I ascertained that the sound of the fan was in fact drowning out the sound of the HDD spinning at max speed as well. I was going to let it run for a bit and see what happened, but I'll be damned if I'm going to risk losing my data.