To Be Honest Is To Make Enemies

Well this has been an interesting week at school. Science class has jumped up like a newly animated zombie from it's usual stupor of no work and assigned us about 4 different projects that actually require work and have to be done or it'll be bad. Thankfully I've only got two of them left, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue. Also this week I decided to start boycotting the local bakery (for another local bakery of course, always buy local if possible...) because the one I'm boycotting is snooty, has bad service and last, but most certainly not least, would not pledge to the school fundraiser I'm doing because they needed two weeks to review the form for donating!!! This is quite ridiculous because they are a small local bakery with only one shop, and about 10 employees....they also kept mixing up the orders I wanted. Ugh.
In other news I watched Hot Fuzz today. It was the most magically amazing movie I have ever seen. An old lady with a shotgun was taken down by a cop over a stone wall in the face...fun stuff! It also had a goose in it, which made me happy, not to mention the ridiculous amount of explosions and shooting done by people with sun glasses. God I love American films some times.
Nothing else much to report, besides I'm seeing Obama speak tomorrow at 10. That should be interesting. I must say I hate politics though. Hmm...OH YEAH! Thing Thing 4 is out. The BEST game designed in flash EVER. Running around with various high powered weapons and a lead pipe....that's my kinda game! Also I now have $2.22 from all my ad stuff....not much, but it's 2.22 that I didn't really have to work for xD.

I Won't Go Back! You Can't Make Me!

Damn...spring break is drawing to a close. It was a good one though. I discovered a bunch about mochiads and Kongregate ads and stuff...earing about 1.50 :P. It's not much, but it's getting going. I submitted my Fun With Gravity game to Newgrounds and actually got good reviews, which made me happy. It got about 450 ad views from that. Muahahaha.
Hmm...oh yeah. A good local bakery brought back their Sardinian Roll, which they hadn't been making for a while. The Sardinian Roll is a delicious little roll a little bigger that a pomegranate, stuffed with feta cheese, marinated artichoke and a few other mysteriously tasty ingredients. I love those things. I really like them also because they sell them at a local health food store that's right by my school. The teachers/parents there take us pretty much every lunch so we can buy lunch there. Fun stuff. Anyways I can't think of anything else that's happened to me this break that's too exciting, so I'll be off.

Easter Eve....Or Whatever

Yay, it's nearly easter. Tomorrow I shall chow down on chocolate rabbits and play Stratego or some such. Today I dyed eggs with my parents and 9 month old sister. We also had several easter egg hunts which was quite entertaining.
Also today I filmed the following out of boredom and stuff:


I personally like the egg the best. It only takes three frames, or a tenth of a second, to smash. I really want to get one of those 120 FPS cameras now for stuff like this...except they cost a bunch. Oh well. While I was filming that I also found one of my super old ninja Lego figurines half buried in my back yard. I always wondered where it went. Ah I remember the days of Legos. That was fun.
I finished my game today too, and am fairly happy with the results. I'm going to submit it to Albinoblacksheep and Addictinggames. I shall be off now.

It's Gonna Burn Up If Ya Don't Stop It!

ARGH! Today I came to the revelation that I've been spending at least 3 hours a day on the computer for the last...4+ months...AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! SOMEBODY SAVE ME FROM MYSELF! The computer has trapped me into it's web of addiction...In my defense I use the computer mainly for animating/programming/social stuff so I guess it's not bad use...overuse though. Also today I made this game. Use space bar to jump and then space bar again to deploy your parachute in midair. Try to get high points by deploying your chute late as possible! The height of the building is randomly generated though so watch out.
Tomorrow I shall go sledding.....or something. At least get out of the house! Away from the trappings of technology. Damnit I sound like my parents.

Indiana Jones' Pope Beatdown

The above is a doodle I did the other day. I'm rather proud of it, it being one of the more realistic things I've drawn. I based it a bit on this.
Also today I made a Game Name Generator. It's quite fun to mess around on. Not much happened today, besides my math teacher freaking out at me for missing a field trip for LA
we had yesterday (I decided to take the day off after Mathcounts :D). The field trip didn't seem that important considering it was a nature poetry field trip.....I'm not sure how there can be a field trip for something like that but whatever. I really didn't want to go anyways cause of several reasons: 1) I really don't like writing poetry. 2) I really don't like listening to poetry
. 3) I really don't like sharing my work (which we had to do) especially if it's poetry. Anyways, school again tomorrow...In other words me being nauseated by how little we learn and how inapplicable what we DO learn is to real life and trying to avoid my annoying kindergarten "little". Bigs/littles is a system my school has set up for the purpose of "bonding" and "teamwork" and "learning to run like hell when you see your little" along with "being forced to participate in annoying activities and help little kids and getting yelled at for not being cheery about it". It's where everyone in the school is paired up with someone either younger or older than them (big kids get little kids and little get big). The bigs and littles are forced to work together on stupid activities at random times around the year. You can call me a cynical bastard and say that the little kids look up to me and all that, but all that I myself remember of being a little was hoping my big would get an incapacitating disease for the year so that I didn't have so see him or her.
Alright that's all for now...I'll be back whenever.

"Sometimes I think grownups only pretend to know what they're doing"

Ach...The ants have begun their yearly invasion of our house. I think they've got a nest in the ceiling above my bathroom/bedroom, cause that's where they keep appearing. I usually end up killing about 8 of them a day. Not fun stuff. This morning though we put an old trash bag over the fan in my bathroom, which is where we suspect them of coming from. Hopefully it'll help.
Yesterday I got back from the state Mathcounts competition, which is essentially a convention of math geeks who compete to get trophies and stuff. I placed 7th in the state, and got a massive trophy, which made me feel pretty special. However I have my suspicions, along with the two coaches, that they somehow screwed up grading my test. We think this because usually on state level tests I do about 18 problems, and get at least 15 right. However at the competition I did 18 problems, and felt quite good about how I did on them, but supposedly only got 9 right. However suspicious this is, the most we can do is write a letter of complaining suspicion, and even if they find I should have gotten 3rd or something the most they can do is write a letter back saying "We failed...don't say anything to any of our sponsors...we can't actually change the placings so go away." Ah well, I'm content to get a trophy at all.
In other competition related news our school had it's second annual "Battle of the Bands" last Friday. Battle of the Bands at my school is essentially the graduating class playing badly rehearsed and occasionally listenable to songs that they've made up. I was in one of the bands this year...and my god, the song we had was bad. By bad, I mean that if you heard it on the radio you'd turn it off fairly quickly, maybe wonder how the heck someone could write that, but that'd be it. The other two bands (we have a small school) had songs that were apparently even worse, because my band, by some miracle, won. The band that took second in my opinion should have been third. They had two of the girls in our class who can't sing that amazingly singing notes 5 times too high for their voices, along with mildly disturbing drumming and a piano and guitar that didn't fit in at all.
Progress on Ninjava: Just about none. My friend and I came up with a sort of storyline for it on the way back from state. Here it is: You are a Ninja, but your awesome pimpin' clothes got stolen by jealous people who wanted cool clothes. You've got to retrieve you awesome accessories, which give you powers as you go through the game. We were thinking something like three worlds, one for each item, and the final boss of each one being the person who stole your item.
That's all for now, I'll post something next time anything interesting happens, which isn't too often.

Caffeine Assassin

Sorry it'd been so long since an update, but I've been quite busy working on my new game. If you're going to play I'd suggest downloading it (the link at the bottom of the page) so you can run it at a decent FPS rate. So far I'm quite happy with the game, I worked out all of the glitches I think and the animation isn't TOO choppy. It annoys me however that it runs at least two FPS behind what it should (what it does on my computer rather than in the browser). The full version should be done by the summer, hopefully sooner.
In unrelated news I went downtown today to check out a computer chassis with my friend who's considering getting a new case. The shop we went to I'd never been to before, but I liked it. It was the kind of place where they sell actual computer parts along with computers. The chassis he was looking at ended up costing 175 dollars and weighting a huge amount, so he didn't get it.
Hmmm....what else...Ah yes! It's that time of year again, yes spring, which means that the 7th and 8th graders of our school join up and laugh at the 6th graders going through sex ed. Good times, good times. God I love my school...well, the parts that don't involve class or teachers. Unless of course the teacher is our awesome jedi social studies teacher, who I swear is obi-wan re incarnated....or born from star wars or whatever.
That's all for now I believe. I'll probably be updating within a few weeks when I feel bored enough to actually write on this thing again.

And What Do You Have To Say To Your Competitors?

Well well, the 9600 series nvidia card is out as I learned today. I personally love it. It's not an AMAZING card, but it functions quite well and can run all the games on the market. One of the best things however is that the price tag is a mere 179.99, which makes me very happy considering that I have about that much money tucked away in my money-hiding crevices around the house for just such an event. The stats on the card aren't the most impressive I've ever seen (512 GRAM and a reasonable amount of processing power) but it's a step up from my card for sure, which is the good ol' 7600 GT with 256 GRAM. I'm probably going to go on a Newegg.com shopping spree once the warrantee on it runs out (if I modify anything in the computer it voids it, so I'm waiting for it to run out until I mess anything up...cause by then I'll have to pay for it anyway).
In other news I can't wait for this fall. Besides the fact that I'm going into highschool, which sucks, a lot of stuff I've been waiting for is coming out. The two main things are Spore, which doesn't look like a game so much as a "build and control awesome looking cartoony beasties" which is just as fun to me. Also, the 3rd Abarat book is coming out, which makes me jump like a small child who's been given too much sugar. The 3rd Abarat book has annoyed me for a while...considering the last one came out THREE YEARS AGO! Apparently Clive Barker has been writing other stuff and fine tuning the story for Absolute Midnight (the 3rd Abarat), but still, three years.
Anyways, I'm going to go immerse myself in reading the wonderful backlogs of Penny Arcade, one of the few comics that can remain funny while using profanity every other word. Good stuff.

Gack Gorble Snork

Yeah yeah I know...It's been too long since an update. I actually have a good excuse though...and that is that I've had the flu since Saturday. This was actually quite a stroke of luck considering school has become ridiculously tedious over the last month with only the exception of social studies (I got the whole week off school due to being contagious). I've sat around in general and played a crapload of Portal. Speaking of games, I also got to play Bioshock on Saturday, which I loved. It's the most amazingly entertaining game ever, just about all the environments are fully destructible, you can change a bunch of attributes and the like on your character..the list goes on. It's also ridiculously creepy, violent and scary, which makes it all the more fun at 2 am. On Sunday I sat around being sick and avoiding homework, putting it off for Monday cause I knew we had a three day weekend. As it turns out it didn't matter cause I skipped Tuesday of school as well, and Wednesday and now Thursday. I'm not going tomorrow either, I need rest even though I'm feeling a bit better. So all in all I got a week off of school...man am I happy about it. Though I do have to catch up on all the work I missed over the weekend....ugh.
I finally got the beta for my game up on Potatosheep.com today. It can be found at www.potatosheep.com/game.html. It's not much but it's a good beginning, with the physics and most of the glitches and stuff worked out. I'm going to be adding levels and stuff to it hopefully soon.
Another event this week was my 24 year old cousin stopping through town with two friends for a couple of nights. They're on their way to San Fransisco and decided to stop in. It was the first time I'd seen my cousin in at least a few years, so it was a grand time had by all to see him again, even though I was sick for most of his visit.
That's it really for now, if anything amazing comes up I'll post on it or something...hopefully soon.

The Times of Time...

I just realized today how dang long it's been since I updated this thing. I've been up to quite a bit though, so I'll attempt to catch the people who actually read this (if there are any) up on the last few weeks.
Lesse...I guess the first thing was the starting of the potatosheep forums. My friend and I collaborated, or rather he did a crapload of stuff I didn't know how to do, and we got the forums together. They were amazingly a minor success. I got several submissions, and they're still coming in. I'm overall quite happy with the forums.
Another thing that happened: I started an awesome game collaborationish thingy with Slouching Tiger: NINJAVA! The super beta beta beta version can be found at www.potatosheep.com/game.swf. It still has a HUGE amount of glitches that need fixing which I'm currently working on.
I can't really think of anything else to say at the moment, though I'm fairly sure there's stuff that I'm forgetting...I'll try my best for at least every other day updates for a while.