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.

"You have to admire a man who believed in freedom of choice. Sadly he didn't believe in angles"-Lord Vetinari

Yeah yeah, I know it's been a while. As usual, nothing has happened really though. Besides conferences. Those were fun. and bike bus walk week, which of course automatically meant bad weather...
Conferences went interestingly well. The art teacher gave everyone a "give more effort" sentence or two on their evaluations. I dunno why. I got the usual "you're doing great in the classes you like, and the classes you hate have mutual feelings for you" talk. Nothing else too interesting about it.
Hmm...
My class is going on a field trip for a week on a boat off of the west coast near Seattle. That's probably gonna end badly, with someone being thrown from the boat or something...by Court Plumage, the most evil, destructive, malicious biotch ever to live. He's cool.
I went up to my friend Zach's cabin yesterday for the night. We didn't exactly take advantage of the wilderness....by staying inside playing internet games. But we did go down to the still frozen lake and eat ice and fall through the ice and get soaking wet up to out knees several times. I say that getting out in the fresh air counts twice if you suffer for it.
I really should get to work and update potatosheep once in a while. Consistently too. No one ever submits anymore though...goddamn them...unless they submit more:D.
Ugh I need to stop typing in short paragraphs. And write stuff that is semi-interesting. What the hell. Here's some screwed up pictures I drew.




Maybe I should get more sleep...
Goddamn...Starcraft 2! Damndamndamn!! 7 months away!! Argh. I cannot wait. The hilarity! The aliens! The actual 3d images unlike the first one which just uses 3d drawings on a 2d plane. It's gonna be sooo glowy and green and blue! And awesome!
Corporate America is probably chuckling at me right now. Spore should be fun too.
Well, this disjointed, scattered post has come to an end. Good day.

Curse You Carpal Tunnel!

Today was a great day in the "getting old classic games that I haven't played in at least 5 years" book. In other words, I woke up this morning and had an urge to bike out to the local Bestbuy and purchase a copy of the Starcraft Battle Chest. So I did. And DAMN does it bring back the memories of 3rd grade. God those were good times. The good old 2d landscape with 3d sprites and glitchy AI, how could it get better?
Also today I put the Slouchingtiger/Potatosheep forums back up into working order. About time...
Not much else to report, besides my addiction to minesweeper, which is rather out of the blue. I beat the maximum size map with 100 mines on it :D.
Damnit, I can't remember the password to the Sussex blog. Either that or it doesn't work. Ugh.
Anyways, I'm off.

And They Cheered, For The Pudding Had Made A Great Speech

Huzzah. My 9600 is here! And in perfect working order and all that too. I installed it yesterday without any hitches besides accidentally uninstalling the nvidia motherboard drivers...it's fixed now though, so I think I'm good. The card itself is INSANE from what I can tell so far. At least compared to my old card. My old card ran at about 135 idling, and the new one runs at 120 ish, and only got up to 131 after playing through the beginning of Bioshock. Woot. Also, with the old recommended settings on Portal, I get 160-220 FPS, which is awesome, not to mention it looks SO much cooler. In mildly unrelated news I watched The Triplets of Belleville last night with Slouchingtiger and two other friends of mine who had never seen it before. God I love that movie. It's like something I'd think up, but weirder. Which is saying quite a bit. Fun stuff.
Nothing else to report for today, besides I feel rather tired due to getting 6 ish hours of sleep.

Society Is But Agreed Upon Insanity

Sorry it's been so long since a post. School and school work have been gnawing away at what little free time I have these days. The main event since my last post is the beginning of the Unofficial Sussex Blog, that Whattodowhenboredomstrikes (slouchingtiger) and I are running about the school we go to. So far it's not much, but we're still getting it up and running. Also I ordered my 9600 GT on Sunday, and it should get here tomorrow. Muahaha. Hopefully I won't make my computer explode or anything installing it. According to the reviews it runs cool and well. Woo.
Just tonight Slouchingtiger and I biked over to the local "health/organic food stuffs place" in search of cake to boost our artistic talent. Sadly, there was only mocha cake, which we weren't in the mood for. We wandered the store for a few minutes looking for another sugary treat until we found ourselves in the bulk section of the store. Just as we were giving up hope of finding anything, my eye alighted upon a small plastic container filled with bulk items of some sort. I walked over and opened the lid....and what did I find? BULK CHOCOLATE BARS FOR 3.89 A POUND! Heck yeah! Together we bought about 2.25 pounds worth of chocolate, getting odd looks from the cashier. Good stuff, good times.
That's it for now. I'll update tomorrow once I get the card installed, assuming shipping isn't delayed.

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.