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I just took a glance through my games library, and it kinda made me think. The fact I've already pumped 123 hours into Terraria suprised me, since I only got it about a month ago. I wanted to compare it to something else I consider my many hours well-wasted on. I looked at Mount & Blade, and saw it only had 131 hours on it. This was kinda odd to me, seeing as I've had it for at least 2 years now. Yet it has felt like I've played Mount & Blade so much more, and Terraria so much less.
I looked through several other games that I thought I'd pumped quite a lot of time into (games like Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers and Burnout Paradise), and found they only came out to 45 and 38 hours, respectively. I honestly thought I would've played Burnout more than MtG, but I guess not.
Plants VS Zombies holds a rather honourable 161 hours, and that's because it's damn fun. I wasn't really suprised by this number, especially when other people have played it occationally. Puzzle Quest holds a whopping 224 hours, but if it were solely my hours, it'd be closer to 10, maybe.
I was kinda shocked to find it'd put 215 hours into Left 4 Dead. I guess I did used to play it every afternoon after school with a friend at one point.
I also looked at the achievements, and it's safe to say how many achievements you have is completely unindicitive of how much you play a game. In L4D (215 h), I've only gotten 61 of the 73 achievements. meanwhile in Portal (10 h), I've gotten them all. I'd probably have all of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter's (24 h) if most of them weren't solely Multiplayer ones. I still hold that achievement are far from an indication of skill in a particular game, unless you get all of them, in which case it remains unindicitive of skill, and becomes an indication of how much time you have to blow.
Sorry for the paragraphs, especially if you read them. I just wanted to empty my brain.
tl;dr - I play 2 much video games.
Though I'm now curious. What games have you guys gotten all (or most) of the achievements in? Do you care about/like them? Do you go out of your way to get them, and if so, how hard do you try to get them all? (Little Rocket Man, anyone? =P) Or do you just wish they were gone?
You get the gist.
I looked through several other games that I thought I'd pumped quite a lot of time into (games like Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers and Burnout Paradise), and found they only came out to 45 and 38 hours, respectively. I honestly thought I would've played Burnout more than MtG, but I guess not.
Plants VS Zombies holds a rather honourable 161 hours, and that's because it's damn fun. I wasn't really suprised by this number, especially when other people have played it occationally. Puzzle Quest holds a whopping 224 hours, but if it were solely my hours, it'd be closer to 10, maybe.
I was kinda shocked to find it'd put 215 hours into Left 4 Dead. I guess I did used to play it every afternoon after school with a friend at one point.
I also looked at the achievements, and it's safe to say how many achievements you have is completely unindicitive of how much you play a game. In L4D (215 h), I've only gotten 61 of the 73 achievements. meanwhile in Portal (10 h), I've gotten them all. I'd probably have all of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter's (24 h) if most of them weren't solely Multiplayer ones. I still hold that achievement are far from an indication of skill in a particular game, unless you get all of them, in which case it remains unindicitive of skill, and becomes an indication of how much time you have to blow.
Sorry for the paragraphs, especially if you read them. I just wanted to empty my brain.
tl;dr - I play 2 much video games.
Though I'm now curious. What games have you guys gotten all (or most) of the achievements in? Do you care about/like them? Do you go out of your way to get them, and if so, how hard do you try to get them all? (Little Rocket Man, anyone? =P) Or do you just wish they were gone?
You get the gist.
Okay guys, I know I haven't been playing much mods recently. I think it's because there aren't many new mods these days, not because of TF2 or anything like that.
Anyway Today I have a suitable mod for you guys. If you enjoyed MISSION MCPOKER, which is a masterpiece, by the way, then you will like this mod too, called Sector 6. The only downside that this mod suffers is that it's a czech mod and everything (including in game instructions) are made in czech. However, this shouldn't be a problem because we all know what 'bombe' means and players prolly won't get stuck at the part where you have to bombe the thingy to continue (I got stuck there, though, and used noclip)
Anyway take the trening[sic] level first, because it introduces you to how to fight without a suit, a skill which you will need for the first few levels of this mod.
I had no idea what the Czech intro wall of text said, but I'll make a guess. You're a member of the riot police sent to an underground scientific center to investigate an attack by terrorists from the Middle East. However your station ran out of kevlar armour for you so you have to go into battle with only your underwear and an assault rifle (ammo for which was also out of stock, your station must be on a tight budget.)
As soon as you land, the terrorists attack you. You won't have enough ammo to deal with them, so my advice is to run like a mofo to the Locked Entrance of the facility, where a badly designed transition will take you somewhere inside the scientific center.
Anyway there's a suit somewhere up ahead, but watch out for the invisible lazer that's next to the suit. Just grab it and GTFO. Make your way into the facility, and there is a terrorist guarding a crowbar and a gluon gun. I suppose those things fetch a high price on the black market, especially the crowbar. You have to take his C4 and bombe somewhere, but I have no idea where. This is where your years of Counter Strike experience come to the fore. Good luck.
So after that you do some superficial engagements with aliens and get into a vent, which will take you out to the Middle East, where terrorists are attempting to take down a Big Momma Crab. No, I don't know why, or how. Just do what you gotta do.
Anyway, walking around in the Middle East, you see your police buddies and get to the choppah. The End.
P.S. At least it's a good ending. The world is saved instead of in cripple. No one died on Xen.
Anyway Today I have a suitable mod for you guys. If you enjoyed MISSION MCPOKER, which is a masterpiece, by the way, then you will like this mod too, called Sector 6. The only downside that this mod suffers is that it's a czech mod and everything (including in game instructions) are made in czech. However, this shouldn't be a problem because we all know what 'bombe' means and players prolly won't get stuck at the part where you have to bombe the thingy to continue (I got stuck there, though, and used noclip)
Anyway take the trening[sic] level first, because it introduces you to how to fight without a suit, a skill which you will need for the first few levels of this mod.
I had no idea what the Czech intro wall of text said, but I'll make a guess. You're a member of the riot police sent to an underground scientific center to investigate an attack by terrorists from the Middle East. However your station ran out of kevlar armour for you so you have to go into battle with only your underwear and an assault rifle (ammo for which was also out of stock, your station must be on a tight budget.)
As soon as you land, the terrorists attack you. You won't have enough ammo to deal with them, so my advice is to run like a mofo to the Locked Entrance of the facility, where a badly designed transition will take you somewhere inside the scientific center.
Anyway there's a suit somewhere up ahead, but watch out for the invisible lazer that's next to the suit. Just grab it and GTFO. Make your way into the facility, and there is a terrorist guarding a crowbar and a gluon gun. I suppose those things fetch a high price on the black market, especially the crowbar. You have to take his C4 and bombe somewhere, but I have no idea where. This is where your years of Counter Strike experience come to the fore. Good luck.
So after that you do some superficial engagements with aliens and get into a vent, which will take you out to the Middle East, where terrorists are attempting to take down a Big Momma Crab. No, I don't know why, or how. Just do what you gotta do.
Anyway, walking around in the Middle East, you see your police buddies and get to the choppah. The End.
P.S. At least it's a good ending. The world is saved instead of in cripple. No one died on Xen.
Well, I've just bought myself a new hard drive. It should be arriving on Thursday. It's a Samsung SpinPoint M8, 1TB capacity, so maybe now I won't keep running out of disk space.
And I think I will try Linux for a while. Stojke said in his last journal that he managed to get Hammer working in Linux.
And I think I will try Linux for a while. Stojke said in his last journal that he managed to get Hammer working in Linux.
Opened up some ink cartridges to learn how the ink is stored.
Happy Australia Day my cork-hat wearing, lager drinking, kangaroo riding bruvs.
TF2 vmfs
I've finally started to open and check out the TF2 .vmfs which are included with the Source SDK, and i must say they are very informative and interesting.
Besides instantly being able to see what the TF2-specific entities are and how they work, you also get a peak into how valve optimizes their maps and some cool tricks they use.
If you would like to check out some .vmfs that are not included with the SDK, try here.
I would highly recommend any source mapper to check these out, whether or not you map for tf2.
I've finally started to open and check out the TF2 .vmfs which are included with the Source SDK, and i must say they are very informative and interesting.
Besides instantly being able to see what the TF2-specific entities are and how they work, you also get a peak into how valve optimizes their maps and some cool tricks they use.
If you would like to check out some .vmfs that are not included with the SDK, try here.
I would highly recommend any source mapper to check these out, whether or not you map for tf2.
journal
jour·nal
noun
1.
a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip.
I Win Dimbark and Archie.
jour·nal
noun
1.
a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip.
I Win Dimbark and Archie.
Hello twhl, I recently made an animation for one of my college units, and I need some form of audience feedback/response on it. I uploaded it to youtube so you guys can check it out, please drop me a constructive comment on the youtube page or here telling me what you taught of it, don't expect anything amazing. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mWugh25wc&feature=youtu.be
Like I said I want an audience response and that's all, I will not be making any changes to it, because it's already finished and now I'm on a different task which requires me to ask people what they taught of it and then evaluate their responses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mWugh25wc&feature=youtu.be
Like I said I want an audience response and that's all, I will not be making any changes to it, because it's already finished and now I'm on a different task which requires me to ask people what they taught of it and then evaluate their responses.
Anonymous is going to attempt to take down the UN, Xbox Live, US Bank, Capital One, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
As Lyssa and I were visiting the bookstore for some Steven King stuff, I noticed the Romance novel section. I made a rather astute observation and decided to conduct the following experiment.
Thesis: Does the content of the cover really tell you about the contents of the book, can a romance novel be judged by its cover?
Process: Thumb through and read parts of the books until satisfied with content therein.
Conclusion:
Book 1 - Cover showed a man and a woman couple.
Apparently Ms. Rowe went to her sister's wedding, and predictably enough finds a strappingly beefy Scottish man names Brian visiting as he was a relative of the groom. They kick it off, but reluctantly he had a wife in his home country he didn't much care for. He cheats on his wife until she flies to the USA and confronts the woman, but later she finds a new lover of her own and everyone is relatively happy.
Book 2 - Cover shown an elegant woman only.
After thumbing through, the lovely miss Thomlins in a 1700 Britain was trapped in an arranged marriage. She found herself coming into a fond attraction with the bar maid at the local tavern. Conclusively they had a sweet and romantic undressing and canoodling before Thomlins whacks her groom-to-be with a candlestick at the altar and runs off into the countryside with her lesbian lover.
Book 3 - Cover of a cowboy only (there were lots of these anyhow).
Regrettably Riley was on a ranch and found an attraction by the name of Stoker (really?) also working on the ranch. Shortly enough, the two end up having snoo snoo where Riley was worried about it falling out. Nuff read.
Book 4 - Cover of a pleasant town in a valley.
Who knoooooows.
Report:
Yes. Romance novels CAN be judged by its cover with a distinct and disturbing accuracy that is simply uncanny. Further funding for this experiment has be cut due to risk of resonance cascade.
Thesis: Does the content of the cover really tell you about the contents of the book, can a romance novel be judged by its cover?
Process: Thumb through and read parts of the books until satisfied with content therein.
Conclusion:
Book 1 - Cover showed a man and a woman couple.
Apparently Ms. Rowe went to her sister's wedding, and predictably enough finds a strappingly beefy Scottish man names Brian visiting as he was a relative of the groom. They kick it off, but reluctantly he had a wife in his home country he didn't much care for. He cheats on his wife until she flies to the USA and confronts the woman, but later she finds a new lover of her own and everyone is relatively happy.
Book 2 - Cover shown an elegant woman only.
After thumbing through, the lovely miss Thomlins in a 1700 Britain was trapped in an arranged marriage. She found herself coming into a fond attraction with the bar maid at the local tavern. Conclusively they had a sweet and romantic undressing and canoodling before Thomlins whacks her groom-to-be with a candlestick at the altar and runs off into the countryside with her lesbian lover.
Book 3 - Cover of a cowboy only (there were lots of these anyhow).
Regrettably Riley was on a ranch and found an attraction by the name of Stoker (really?) also working on the ranch. Shortly enough, the two end up having snoo snoo where Riley was worried about it falling out. Nuff read.
Book 4 - Cover of a pleasant town in a valley.
Who knoooooows.
Report:
Yes. Romance novels CAN be judged by its cover with a distinct and disturbing accuracy that is simply uncanny. Further funding for this experiment has be cut due to risk of resonance cascade.
Scott's Portal 2 drawing.
Note the turret, a light bridge, Wheatley, and the warning signage for toxic water.
Partially hidden behind him is the plush headcrab that his mom made for him. Lamarr protects him at night from monsters.
Note the turret, a light bridge, Wheatley, and the warning signage for toxic water.
Partially hidden behind him is the plush headcrab that his mom made for him. Lamarr protects him at night from monsters.
New Video
I'll be honest. It's just me talking nonsense. Still, it's not just another update video and you may actually find it a little amusing.
Not sure what's up with my camera at the moment though...
I'll be honest. It's just me talking nonsense. Still, it's not just another update video and you may actually find it a little amusing.
Not sure what's up with my camera at the moment though...
Edited yet again with Day 4. You won't see much of Archie over this week because I am currently working as 1st AC on a high-budget production being filmed in a full studio lot (Scotland's equivalent of Hollywood.)
It's a horror film, so there are loads of night shots and as such the hours are crazy. Some days I'll be sleeping at the studio.
I'll be taking photos every day.
It's so surreal. There's an entire fictional Glasgow street built here. It looks totally believably until you go in the houses and just find plywood.
Here's one of the studio buildings. There are six of them and each one has anywhere up to 30 different "room" locations inside. From pubs to bedsits.
Let me know what you want to see in the comments. I have not had to sign an NDA (this is the first production I've worked on since I started making money in this industry that I can show you everything).
DAY TWO
"- Inside views of indoor sets."
"- More shots of that good looking blonde. :P"
Also, we're shooting in 4.5k. HD is 1080. An xbox360 is 720. 4.5 thousand.
I was really busy today so I didn't get a spare moment to go around other departments, sorry Captain Terror.
More tomorrow.
DAY 3!
Crazy busy today. We were behind schedule due to heavy rain, so I've been non-stop for about 10 hours. So tired ;_;
It's so much easier to work in rooms without ceilings.
This little thing was awesome. Basically a jet engine to rapidly heat the room. Literally.
It wouldn't be a horror film without a mad lassie cutting up a paint canvas.
Big 300mm lens on.
This was a rehearsal. The mat had to be removed for the take. I do not envy this guy having to lie in rainwater in temperatures of around -2 C.
The 7k bulb returns.
DAY 4!
It's a horror film, so there are loads of night shots and as such the hours are crazy. Some days I'll be sleeping at the studio.
I'll be taking photos every day.
It's so surreal. There's an entire fictional Glasgow street built here. It looks totally believably until you go in the houses and just find plywood.
DAY TWO
More tomorrow.
DAY 3!
Crazy busy today. We were behind schedule due to heavy rain, so I've been non-stop for about 10 hours. So tired ;_;
DAY 4!
Just got pulled over for the first time ever at a police checkpoint. Yay!
Lots of people see them from a mile away and make a turn as soon as they can. Fools. I just laughed and pulled over. I don't have a problem with it, all my documentation is up to date and I have nothing to hide.
Lots of people see them from a mile away and make a turn as soon as they can. Fools. I just laughed and pulled over. I don't have a problem with it, all my documentation is up to date and I have nothing to hide.