Journals
At the moment I am in a departure lounge in Singapore, and I'm waiting to board a plane bound for Australia.
I'll be there with my dad and brother for 2-3 months, as the job money is good, and we'd like to visit our hometown again. Although for the first month we will be in the small town of Tully, in north Queensland. After that we will be going to the equally small town of Proserpine, also in Queensland, as that is the town where I spent my childhood.
It will be the first time I've been in the country for a decade.
I'm kind of nervous about it, as pretty much all of my old friends moved out of the town as soon as High school ended, so it will be months basically in the middle of nowhere, but we should end up going to the beach and stuff, so it could be fun.
I'll be there with my dad and brother for 2-3 months, as the job money is good, and we'd like to visit our hometown again. Although for the first month we will be in the small town of Tully, in north Queensland. After that we will be going to the equally small town of Proserpine, also in Queensland, as that is the town where I spent my childhood.
It will be the first time I've been in the country for a decade.
I'm kind of nervous about it, as pretty much all of my old friends moved out of the town as soon as High school ended, so it will be months basically in the middle of nowhere, but we should end up going to the beach and stuff, so it could be fun.
Ugh... clients.
From an email received today:"I can't give you an example of what I want at the moment but I need this up and running ASAP as I am in the middle of a major presentation tomorrow."
...I don't even know where to start with that sentence. However, I am kind of impressed that he is currently in the middle of something that hasn't happened yet.
From an email received today:"I can't give you an example of what I want at the moment but I need this up and running ASAP as I am in the middle of a major presentation tomorrow."
...I don't even know where to start with that sentence. However, I am kind of impressed that he is currently in the middle of something that hasn't happened yet.
...Shit happens!... 
So, I played through Gut Reaction again after about 10 years or so. Pretty old mod for Half-Life and a classic in my opinion.
Rather than uploading the entire thing I made a sort of highlights reel containing only the entertaining parts of my play through. (I listen to feedback sometimes
)
Clickity-Click
Rather than uploading the entire thing I made a sort of highlights reel containing only the entertaining parts of my play through. (I listen to feedback sometimes
)Clickity-Click
Hey guys, been a while eh? I think I write that everytime I come here. I bet if I loaded up journals I'd see the same opening...
Anywho, I thought I'd share a fan made project I worked on for the last few months. I dunno if some of you are familiar with an old SNES game called Chrono Trigger? It was a well received game back in the day and it still has a cult following.
Well I only recently played it and I understood why people loved it. So I thought I'd use the power of nostalgia as a means of gaining some reputation on the internet. I purposely chose to remake "The Kingdom of Zeal" in 3D as the song that plays in the original game has a huge fan base. It's called Corridors of Time and there are tons of remixes on Youtube alone.
So I remade the Kingdom of Zeal but I didn't stop there. I decided to make it in the style of Zelda: Wind Waker. A nice way to gain attention dont you think?
Anyway if you're here for the link, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vMHSiYiB55s
Hope you enjoy it. I'm gonna sit out in the sun for the next month after spending so much time working on this XD
Good to be back on TWHL by the way!
Anywho, I thought I'd share a fan made project I worked on for the last few months. I dunno if some of you are familiar with an old SNES game called Chrono Trigger? It was a well received game back in the day and it still has a cult following.
Well I only recently played it and I understood why people loved it. So I thought I'd use the power of nostalgia as a means of gaining some reputation on the internet. I purposely chose to remake "The Kingdom of Zeal" in 3D as the song that plays in the original game has a huge fan base. It's called Corridors of Time and there are tons of remixes on Youtube alone.
So I remade the Kingdom of Zeal but I didn't stop there. I decided to make it in the style of Zelda: Wind Waker. A nice way to gain attention dont you think?
Anyway if you're here for the link, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vMHSiYiB55s
Hope you enjoy it. I'm gonna sit out in the sun for the next month after spending so much time working on this XD
Good to be back on TWHL by the way!
A whole day spent at configuring Source SDK.
Hell...It's like...burnin' me on slow fire...
http://twhl.info/forums.php?thread=18001
Hell...It's like...burnin' me on slow fire...
http://twhl.info/forums.php?thread=18001
Why I don't sleep much.
I work in Web Design in an office based in Shrewsbury. The days are your average 9am - 5pm (with an extra 30 minutes tacked on for some reason). Now, Shrewsbury is about an hours drive from my house, with another 15 minutes walk to the nearest free parking. This means that in order to get to work on time the latest I can leave my house is 7:45, which means in order to get up, get dressed, have breakfast and make lunch I need to be out of bed by 7:10.
In the evenings after work I will get back home at around 6:45pm - 7pm. I will then need to have dinner, wash up afterwards, spend some time with the wife etc. I usually get time to myself from 9 or 10pm. So basically, if I was to turn in at midnight, I only get 2 or 3 hours to myself for gaming or mapping or browsing the net. Basically, it's not enough.
So I don't sleep, and at weekends I sleep even less to make the most of my time off. Usually turning it at 4am Saturday morning and getting up at 6am, then turning in again at 4am Sunday morning and sleeping until 9 or 10.
...I'm tired.
I work in Web Design in an office based in Shrewsbury. The days are your average 9am - 5pm (with an extra 30 minutes tacked on for some reason). Now, Shrewsbury is about an hours drive from my house, with another 15 minutes walk to the nearest free parking. This means that in order to get to work on time the latest I can leave my house is 7:45, which means in order to get up, get dressed, have breakfast and make lunch I need to be out of bed by 7:10.
In the evenings after work I will get back home at around 6:45pm - 7pm. I will then need to have dinner, wash up afterwards, spend some time with the wife etc. I usually get time to myself from 9 or 10pm. So basically, if I was to turn in at midnight, I only get 2 or 3 hours to myself for gaming or mapping or browsing the net. Basically, it's not enough.
So I don't sleep, and at weekends I sleep even less to make the most of my time off. Usually turning it at 4am Saturday morning and getting up at 6am, then turning in again at 4am Sunday morning and sleeping until 9 or 10.
...I'm tired.
Amazing news! A documentary I shot has won the Southside Film Festival 2012 main award!
Check it out here
(note this is the only version online and is a slightly older edit. If you notice a few sync issues, they've already been fixed, it's just not uploaded).
http://www.southsidefilmfestival.net
Check it out here
(note this is the only version online and is a slightly older edit. If you notice a few sync issues, they've already been fixed, it's just not uploaded).
http://www.southsidefilmfestival.net
This month I started to notice my hard drives being a bit louder than the last time I paid attention to that. Both of them. Needless to say, I'm a bit concerned.
It MIGHT be because I unplugged a case fan that was making this horribly annoying grinding noise (will get a new one one of these days) that might have been masking the HDD noises. But I'm still a bit concerned.
Is anybody knowledged in this regard?
It MIGHT be because I unplugged a case fan that was making this horribly annoying grinding noise (will get a new one one of these days) that might have been masking the HDD noises. But I'm still a bit concerned.
Is anybody knowledged in this regard?
I'M FREAKIN' SCREWED
So today I decided to install the Escape from the darkness mod into steam. I played it before in WON and already know that software mode crashes the mod. The steamfix that was handed out appears only to give the mod a steam background, not much else.
Anyway once I launched this mod it crashes to the desktop saying D3d is not allowed or something and tries to launch in OpenGL. This is bad. My computer is not good with OpenGL and framerates are bad even with vanilla. Then openGL crashed and it tries to launch in software, which looks horrible in steam so I never use it. Then software crashed.
Then I tried another mod and it force switches to software and crashed.
Then I tried vanilla and it force switches to software and crashed.
Then I tried Opposing force (in another folder from vanilla) and it force switches to software and crashed.
And prior to this my computer switches to a bluescreen and crashed.
So today I decided to install the Escape from the darkness mod into steam. I played it before in WON and already know that software mode crashes the mod. The steamfix that was handed out appears only to give the mod a steam background, not much else.
Anyway once I launched this mod it crashes to the desktop saying D3d is not allowed or something and tries to launch in OpenGL. This is bad. My computer is not good with OpenGL and framerates are bad even with vanilla. Then openGL crashed and it tries to launch in software, which looks horrible in steam so I never use it. Then software crashed.
Then I tried another mod and it force switches to software and crashed.
Then I tried vanilla and it force switches to software and crashed.
Then I tried Opposing force (in another folder from vanilla) and it force switches to software and crashed.
And prior to this my computer switches to a bluescreen and crashed.
Even if you're not a fan of Zero Punctuation, you should definitely skip to to 5:35 in this one if you're a fan of Half-Life. 
Enjoy
Enjoy
Just noticed that Torchlight 2 is going on pre-order. Seeing as the first one was pretty fun albeit with a dull story, I figure I'm gonna get this one. Especially since they added multiplayer for the new one (!!!). Anyone else planning to get it?
Although I'm definitely going for Diablo 3 first. Bound to be at least 1000 times epic.
On a side note, don't you wish more RPG games employed loot-runners like the pets in Twilight do? What I'd give for a follower that sells off my junk whilst I explore.
Although I'm definitely going for Diablo 3 first. Bound to be at least 1000 times epic.
On a side note, don't you wish more RPG games employed loot-runners like the pets in Twilight do? What I'd give for a follower that sells off my junk whilst I explore.