I Remember the Good Ol' Days

Blaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh....it's summer break, and yet, I'm bored. I'm ashamed. Terribly ashamed. I mean, it's summer! If there was an 11th commandment, it would be Thou Shalt Not Be Bored During Summer Break. Grr. Anyways, I saw Reign of Fire last night for the first time since it came out. Beeaauuuttiful movie. Simply amazing. In a hilarious, dragon packed way. Always fun.
I also got a pair of Ozma Five headphones from my friend who had extra due to shipping failure. Damn they are AMAZING. What with the sweet sound quality, and ear drum preserving technology, they're all I could ever want for headphones. Not to mention Half Life 2 with them is KICK ASS! Anyways...I have to do graduation tomorrow. Someone save me. I don't want to give a speech in a goddamned over heated gym...and then have to sit there for 3 hours watching slideshows and crap. Ugh. But then I'll be DONE! WOOOOO.
Alright....that was a gloating whining waste of a post. I"m off now...

Haze and Such

Well Haze was interesting. I like it quite a bit, but it wasn't really worth all the hype. Then again, what is? My friend and I got stuck on one level by respawning facing the opposite direction of where we were supposed to go, and trying to go back through the level. God we felt dumb. All around good game though. Gameplay is awesome, and I really like the cutscenes for some reason. And god the Mantel troopers are hilariously arrogant. BOOSH!
Anyways, I'm still working my way through Half Life so I can play Half Life 2. I'm a purist when it comes to chronology. I must say, the game doesn't get dull very fast. I'm not bored of it yet, and I've been playing for like 3 weeks now. Fun stuff.
I got a few more levels done on my new game. Should be done soon. Also, I figured out my next programming/animation project. Phase, a sort of combination of Shift and Drag the Dot. Shouldn't be too hard to program. I feel like I'm forgetting something..OH YEAH. I'm gonna start another 4th of July collab on Albinoblacksheep. Feel free to join anyone, I'll make the topic now. I think. Hopefully we'll get FPed this year.
I feel like sketching concept art. I'm off.

Back Again

Weeellll, I just got back yesterday from a week long trip to the west coast with my class. It was surprisingly fun actually. No one ended up screaming at each other, crying, or dead, so I think it went relatively well for my class. The first day we took a nearly twelve hour drive to a campground, where nothing of real interest happened. We stayed there a couple of nights, then headed off to Bellingham, where we boarded a schooner and learned how to sail for a few days. Fun stuff. Nothing of much event happened there either, besides lots of line hauling and stuff. Oh yeah, and I met someone who left Christianity because he had to pray every time he masturbated. That was weird. On the last night we played "honey I love you", which for those of you who don't know is a game in which the main goal is to make someone laugh. It ended rather badly with a friend of mine getting into crab walking position in front of someone and screaming "SHUT YOUR FACE AND POLISH MY VAGINA" much as a military commander would to a grunt. The teacher wasn't very happy.
Enough of that though. Yesterday I downloaded the Crysis demo, but only got around to playing it today. My god. It makes me so happy, having a computer that can run that game on medium settings. The game itself is AMAZING to say the least. And it runs at 30+ FPS on my computer. Hoo rah.
In a bit I'm gonna go buy Haze with my friend for his birthday. That game looks awesome. Like Crysis, but not...woot. Can't wait to fight with Nectar. Muahahahhaahahahah.
Indiana Jones 4 came out today didn't it...As much as I hate the company for trying to get more money out of Indiana Jones, it's still Indiana Jones, so I'm gonna go see it sometime. I can't believe they still have Harrison Ford playing him. Anyone else would fail.
Anyways, I'm off to play Half Life for a while. I really need to do some work now and again....

So Close, and Yet So Far

Summer is nearly here...Ack. I can't wait! The insanity, the adventures, the sleep! The FIREWORKS! Muahaha.
Moving along...I got the Half Life Complete pack on Steam the other day. Every single beauty created in the Half Life name, along with Team Fortress classic for some reason. God I love Half Life, it's so....classic, and puzzle based, but it's still got plenty of shooting, explosions and violence. I am content, for the next month or two, for games.
Oh man oh man....I toured the school I'm going to next year on Wednesday. It actually made me look forward quite a bit to the academic stuff...But to my horror I found that the dozen or so people I've met maybe once before in my past, and never wanted to meet again, have come back to haunt me. Goddamnit...
Anyways, this has been a waste of a post...Whatever.

"Liver? Liver!? Who gave me LIVER again?!"

I should really start doing something productive. I worked a tiny bit more on the game I'm making, but that's all I've done in several days. However I have starting working on random weird projects that don't involve the computer. How odd.
Well alright there are two projects...
One: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/arcana/1569
I made one of the big ones of those things with all my left over out of date cards I have lying around. I'm gonna make 20 more of them and connect them so I have an even larger one. I need a life.
The other project type of thing is building a Spidohedron, I'm gonna give it to my school's math room so I leave my mark. Maybe I'll fill it with explosives...Spidohedrons aren't as hard to make as they look. You just need 8 hexagon shaped sides and you're good to go. Here's the little crappy, vague tutorial I made on how to make a hexagonal side thing for them.




They really are quite fun.
Anyways, I watched Serenity again last night at my friends with Whattodowhenboredomstrikes and another person. It rocked. I love that movie. It's so damn hilarious! And makes NO sense if you haven't seen Firefly. I can't believe they dropped that show. Argh. Sadly when we were watching it, we discovered that the two single most awesome scenes in the movie were covered in a .1 centimeter deep .5 centimeter wide ring gouge around the edge. Just when the movie was getting awesome too.
God DAMNIT. I have to write my stupid graduation speech soon. It's due Wednesday. I really don't like giving speeches...
I feel like crap. Too little sleep. I'm off to brighter pastures. Or the sofa to sleep.