It’s note like I really need and excuse, but I have been wanting to play with doing something a little less clean than what I usually do. Something with rough lines and textures and stuff*. I think I will go back to drawing Guild Wars™ girls again soon.
This is not a Jedi in her underpants
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* and no, said stuff is not “boobs” or “light sabers”. Those are just bonuses.
Watched your movie. It was not very good. Hope you make something better next time.
Yours
- Kennet
PS. Please don’t kill me.
So, here is a fun little thing to tell you while my particles are caching. I was watching a video on YouTube about “New Techniques for Acquiring, Rendering, and Displaying Human Performances”, because I am that kind of geek, and when I was done I figured I would take a look at what else the Google Tech Talk channel had to offer. So I click the link, see nothing particular interesting and then go on to click the link to the most popular videos. Lo and behold a video called “Sex on the Internet” was first on the list.
By a margin of 1,433,861 views against 136,161 for the second runner up.
Now, I am not sure why I am surprised. It is possible that I just figured that a Tech Talk channel would be boring enough to be safe. In hindsight, I think that is probably missing the whole point.
As always happens when parents get a break from work and go home to spend some quality time with their consoles or various other gaming machines of choice, it is inevitably the children that suffers.
Or to put it another way: Sorry for not posting. I was playing Valkyria Chronicles.
PlayStation Home launched today (yes, i know. Officially it was yesterday but I logged on at 23.00 and it still wasn’t there which means that in reality, it launched today) and I had a little look around. I have to say, there were times when I sat with my jaw on the floor. Mostly, those times were when looking through the shops. 8$ for a brand new virtual not-actually-real-at-all-house? 1$ for an ditto origami dog!? That’s just crazy.
It makes me a little sad, actually. Home seemed so promising. Another place where I could satisfy my need to customize stuff and make female avatars! But, as it is, Home just feels to much like an elaborate 3d attempt at making you spend money on nothing.
Speaking of female avatars, I also got hit on two times in the 10 minutes that I was idleing in Town Square. I mean, all right, my avatar is hot, but seriously people! Are you really that desperate?
Later Addition: Penny Arcade has a good summary of how I feel about Home, only better written and with pictures.
It’s been a little over 3 years since the last time I wrote the words Pink, Fluffy and Dinosaurs in the same post here on my blog and I feel it is about time that I do it again. So here you have it:
Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs
Hey, it’s my blog. I can do whatever I want.
Games have come a long way in portraying and simulating reality since those early days with pong, but they are not quite there yet.
I was running around in Fallout and came upon this Raider hideout. They started shooting at me, as Raiders tend to do (I have no idea why. I mean, my character looks totally cute and has pink hair and everything.), so I shot back and killed them all. Except one, who was apparently tending the bar and wanted to do business with me.
The first sign of trouble was when he continued to stress that I should keep quiet so the others didn’t find out, in spite of the fact that I had just blown up two raiders with a grenade not 3 feet in front of him. I then proceeded to take everything on the two dead raiders and sold it to him without him seemingly finding anything wrong with this. I, on the other hand, went “hmmm” and then promptly stripped the entire room of everything not nailed down, including everything in his bar, and sold that to him also. He didn’t seem to have any problem with this either, as far as I could tell. Thus, I did the only logical thing I could think of at this point, which was, of course, to comb the rest of the complex for worthless junk and then sell him that also.
Fun times.
I wonder what he is going to do with all that stuff, half of which was probably his own to begin with, now that all his friends are dead.
I just had Maya crash on me for the Nth time today* and I noticed this little button with the label “Debug”. I wonder now, what exactly is it that I am supposed to debug? Are you expecting me to just have a quick look at the Maya source code; see if I can see anything wrong?
Or maybe Windows XP?
Even funnier: atop the absurdity of someone apparently expecting me to have any chance of making heads and tails of the source-code to a complex piece of software like Maya, is the implied assumption that I’m supposed to actually fix errors in a piece of software that I payed quite a lot of money for.
But enough venting for one day.
*where N is a number between “too bloody many times” and “oh my God, that I don’t believe in, I am going to kill someone soon”
Obama won, or so I am led to believe. I think this is a Good Thing.
I just thought I should mention that.
So, after having spent around 20 minutes (possibly only 10 but you know…) running around the town because I couldn’t figure out the very first fucking quest in the game (apparantly, you need to hold down the A button to accept quests, not just press the button. Who knew?), I am finally under-ways on my adventure and it is very promising so far. I have only gotten one piece of new clothes and my mind is already brimming with anticipation of all the character customizing I will be able to do.
The feel of the power of the magic is also very cool.
My only problem with the game so far is that the controls seem a bit loose. You get the ever so slight feeling that the character is sliding around more that actually walking or running. I just doesn’t feel as solid as Zelda. Oh, and the lip-sync is horrible. Just horrible I say. Which is a shame because the dialogue is really top notch.