Journals

Crollo6 years ago2017-12-25 05:40:03 UTC 4 comments
tl;dr to this journal is that it (hopefully) serves more purpose to me than it does to anybody reading, but feel free to read if you wish.

So I wrote a long winded journal about addiction & nicotine prior to this one and said I would quit on that day.
Well, I didn't quit nicotine at that time unfortunately, but I did end up doing it a few months later (I made it two months). I ended up in a new job at the end of those two months and started smoking as a result of my coworkers smoking, and even after only a few days of it I was feeling awful so I very quickly swapped it over to vaping.

As glad as I am to know that I can avoid smoking even with the (by now) fully ingrained habits and dependency on nicotine, it's senseless to be consuming nicotine in the first place when I know that I function perfectly (Well, significantly better to be frank) without it. (Vaping being 'safer' is complete and utter meaningless drivel without long term studies anyways, but that's an entirely different can of worms)

So here I am about to embark on my second journey of cold-turkeying the nicotine and hopefully staying off it for good. I'm hoping that publicly stating it in some capacity will increase the likelihood of me holding myself accountable to it rather than trying to commit to it internally and forgoing it because nobody else knows about it, therefore no consequences to breaking it.
2017/12/25 Quit nicotine (2nd attempt)
eukos6 years ago2017-12-04 23:53:40 UTC 7 comments
Thanks everyone for writing Entity Guides, they helped make https://github.com/eukara/FreeCS happen. So props to the cool dudes at TWHL.

RIP Xylemon/TheCoolGman.

HI Suparsonik.
Jessie6 years ago2017-11-30 00:31:18 UTC 19 comments
DOUBLE FINAL
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I will be taking a journey through every map in the Map Vault, from oldest to newest. Who knows what we'll find? (Besides broken links.)
The streams will be run regularly at 12pm Saturday GMT and 10pm Tuesday GMT (with recordings going up here)! Will run for around 2 hours.
Alabastor_Twob6 years ago2017-11-09 09:21:56 UTC 9 comments
I got a new friend for my dog the other day.
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So far he doesn't have a name but he has shown us that he likes to climb pretty much anything.
Admer4566 years ago2017-11-04 18:29:14 UTC 50 comments
Journal ID 8888. Wow, we've come pretty far. :o
Tetsu06 years ago2017-11-03 02:20:57 UTC 4 comments
Made something cool for Halloween. https://youtu.be/Ad9lWjvcRp8
Snehk6 years ago2017-11-02 20:32:23 UTC 4 comments
Typical rant journal entry.

I'm getting through another productivity crysis, mainly because I'm working mostly alone, and I've got some university related motivation issues...

First, boring life-related stuff:

Maybe it's because the speciality I've chosen - English Philology, aiming for master title and title of certified translator for the court (former is the requirement). I'm probably the only person that is not there because that language is my passion, and not because I failed to qualify for other unis like about 25% percent of people here as well (I actually had about 350 recruitment points for another uni, where I could study forestry, only 115 were required, they sent a few letters after me two weeks ago...), but rather because of a specific set of plans I have.

I feel that this choice was a step backwards, taking into consideration that I graduated a technical school (getting highest score on finals there and most likely scoring very high in comparison with other schools in this region), always preferred practical and technical classes, and sciences, especially biology. Whereas here I have to learn all those boring little details, like several ways to pronounce one vowel, historical detail and such (and while I was learning those fast and forgetting them even faster, I never really enjoyed them).

Another thing that's gnawing one me - do I need college when I graduated the school with technician title and with several qualification courses done - all of those in fields that have (always had, and most likely will have for a long time) a demand for workforce, pay nicely and are in fact enjoyable? I find a prospect of specialistic flights for let's say, a power plant, to monitor state of wind turbines or high voltage lines, or seeking out people with thermovision cameras for emergency services, or commercial flights for TV stations and private endeavours (I can do both types of flights right off the bat) much more interesting than teaching or sitting for hours by a desk to translate a few pages of text, and that's just about only one of possibilities. I know that finding a job is not an easy task nowadays, but I'm one of those fuckers that have the balls to freelance, run their own business and take up a few odd jobs in between.

For short, I have a lot of different plans, career prospects and even more doubts, to the point that what I'm doing right now feels not pointless, but maybe unnecessary and a bit painful.

Now to the point:

I highly prefer to work alone on any projects I have, but it just doesn't work. Not because of troubles with creating assets, maps, code or script (I'm a jack of all trades...), but because no one is going to kick me in balls when I'm procrastinating for too long...

Some time ago, I had a short collaboration with Windawz, who was meant to take a role of lead level designer for my current project. And while it ended without anything actually done on the level side - I created base assets and scripted gameplay framework (that is now available as SE2DevBase) in a very short time. All I needed to do it was simply a mention that a few assets were needed in a message from him.

Teamwork seems to be a huge motivating factor for me when working on larger scale projects, so I decided that I'll form a team of modders willing to contribute to the project, in a forum thread that I'll post soon.
Anyone that read that wall of text, have a cookie:
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Notewell6 years ago2017-10-25 20:52:27 UTC 14 comments
Half a DNA.
Loulimi6 years ago2017-10-23 13:53:51 UTC 2 comments
Gentlemen,

Sorry for not having been very active recently, university doesn't leave me a lot of time these days.
Could I just ask you to complete this form about video steaming services, such as Netflix or Amazon Prime? That would be greatly appreciated.
http://bit.ly/2yMTrdd

Thank you :)
satchmo6 years ago2017-10-20 11:47:24 UTC 6 comments
This is my new car:
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To the right is my wife and her car. She drove me to the dealership to pick up my new car.
savvaisnotagirl6 years ago2017-10-20 10:27:00 UTC 0 comments
I finished my de_afghan map! Its called de_breach now and I think you might like it. Here's the link to the vault if you want to check it out.

http://twhl.info/vault.php?map=6241

I made a trailer and posted a lot of quality pictures with it.

Also Gamebananna site if you needed: https://gamebanana.com/maps/197448
Snehk6 years ago2017-10-19 15:37:47 UTC 3 comments
Uploaded a Storm Engine 2 dev base on GitHub!

It contains minimum base assets coming with the engine, as well as game logic (entities), placeholder DEV textures, simple skybox, test fire particle and a test level created by me.

https://github.com/Snehk/SE2DevBase
monster_urby6 years ago2017-10-17 23:14:20 UTC 6 comments
Released: 2016
Genre: Horror
Directed by: Rob Zombie
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Admer4566 years ago2017-10-14 22:22:12 UTC 8 comments
This might be too early, but I'll write it anyway:

It's 1:21 a.m. at my place, and that means it's the 15th of October here.
And guess what was made that day...

My laptop! Wow, I can hardly believe that it's been 10 years.
But yeah, it's 10 years old. ;)
satchmo6 years ago2017-10-14 10:52:44 UTC 9 comments
I am selling my 2008 Honda Accord in California.

Anyone interested?