After around 45 minutes of cleaning and assembling I had finally cleaned and re-assembled the pieces of an older computer that had been lurking in my house.
I wont bore you with specifics but, it took over 62GB worth of music and has still not used more than 10 percent of it's total space.
so now I'm armed with the next side task.
Getting a team suite installed and working on said machine. So not only am I modelling, I'm also sorting this out, and if I do say so myself, I'm having an excellent time.
On a different note, I'm also testing other modelling programs and trying out different texture methods, hopefully I can find something that suites the teams needs soon as I'm getting quite close to finishing some of the models I have.
Lastly, I've just stripped Ice of all of the post in this year belonging to him...
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Of plug sockets and feet
Some people have clumsy hands, I have clumsy feet. I have spent the last half an hour or so getting down some ideas in our wiki about instrument based weaponry, which I'm fairly sure I have mentioned here before in passing - don't ask - then, somehow, I managed to kick the plug socket under my desk. BAM! Everything gone.
Oh well, I'll have a sulk for a bit then just redo it all.
It appears that we are currently still having trouble breaking the two posts a week milestone, I blame my cohorts, who spend way too much of their time diligently working on content and no where near enough time on forcing their unenlightened opinions on anyone and everyone willing to read them. Slackers.
I don't like to brag - which, as we all know is a synonym for: I do like to brag - but I recently figured out that 70% of the posts made on this blog in 2008 were by me. Conversely they only make up 20% of the relevant posts made on this blog last year.
Oh well, I'll have a sulk for a bit then just redo it all.
It appears that we are currently still having trouble breaking the two posts a week milestone, I blame my cohorts, who spend way too much of their time diligently working on content and no where near enough time on forcing their unenlightened opinions on anyone and everyone willing to read them. Slackers.
I don't like to brag - which, as we all know is a synonym for: I do like to brag - but I recently figured out that 70% of the posts made on this blog in 2008 were by me. Conversely they only make up 20% of the relevant posts made on this blog last year.
Monday, 5 January 2009
Have a status update, you've earned it
Happy yesterday everyone, especially you Rob, I hope you had a good birthday.
I don't actually know anyone named Rob, and certainly not one who had a birthday yesterday, but I would like to hope that maybe, just maybe, someone out there named Rob read that and is now very worried. Also I wanted an excuse to say happy yesterday once more, I enjoy doing that now.
So, as of today, holiday time has concluded, everyone is over their respective debilitating ills and work is once again in progress*. We can now hopefully return to a schedule where more than two posts are made a week as well, that would be nice.
There is a new post on the Left 4 Dead blog, detailing more of Valve's art decisions, it's interesting reading for anyone remotely interested in game design or Valve.
*OK, so Balai's Internet connection is still hit and miss, but you can't have everything, can you?
I don't actually know anyone named Rob, and certainly not one who had a birthday yesterday, but I would like to hope that maybe, just maybe, someone out there named Rob read that and is now very worried. Also I wanted an excuse to say happy yesterday once more, I enjoy doing that now.
So, as of today, holiday time has concluded, everyone is over their respective debilitating ills and work is once again in progress*. We can now hopefully return to a schedule where more than two posts are made a week as well, that would be nice.
There is a new post on the Left 4 Dead blog, detailing more of Valve's art decisions, it's interesting reading for anyone remotely interested in game design or Valve.
*OK, so Balai's Internet connection is still hit and miss, but you can't have everything, can you?
Friday, 2 January 2009
The day before this one
Once again, I find myself in a position wherein I must wish you all a happy yesterday, I'm starting to wonder whether we should make this a tradition.
I occasionally wonder whether Sony remembers which console is it's own, their latest declaration does nothing to dissipate my doubts. On the off chance someone from Sony is reading this: the answer, guys is the Play Station 3, not the the Wii, as much as you may wish the inverse was true.
Sony constantly proves that it does not know it's own strengths and weaknesses, first off, claiming that anything related to Bios updates could only be possible on the PS3 is complete twaddle, you are aware that the Xbox 360 is made by Microsoft guys? This is basically their thing, they do kind of make operating systems.
But really, adding 3D is quite gimmicky, and, let us all face it, something that no actual people want, or would ever ask for. When you look at it that way it sounds an awful lot like Home, doesn't it? And roughly 90% of the Wii's Software library. (Burned, yo!)
Sony, you make hardware, that is an irrefutable fact, no one can ever take that away from you, so please, please, put away Home, no one cares about that, and get back to doing what you guys do best: making scary and complicated gadgets that are intrinsically cool. And make satisfying bleeping noises.
Also, Balai is currently alive, although he has just prevented me from filling the entire front page of the blog with posts solely by me, this means this state may not last. I'll update on the matter as it develops.
I occasionally wonder whether Sony remembers which console is it's own, their latest declaration does nothing to dissipate my doubts. On the off chance someone from Sony is reading this: the answer, guys is the Play Station 3, not the the Wii, as much as you may wish the inverse was true.
Sony constantly proves that it does not know it's own strengths and weaknesses, first off, claiming that anything related to Bios updates could only be possible on the PS3 is complete twaddle, you are aware that the Xbox 360 is made by Microsoft guys? This is basically their thing, they do kind of make operating systems.
But really, adding 3D is quite gimmicky, and, let us all face it, something that no actual people want, or would ever ask for. When you look at it that way it sounds an awful lot like Home, doesn't it? And roughly 90% of the Wii's Software library. (Burned, yo!)
Sony, you make hardware, that is an irrefutable fact, no one can ever take that away from you, so please, please, put away Home, no one cares about that, and get back to doing what you guys do best: making scary and complicated gadgets that are intrinsically cool. And make satisfying bleeping noises.
Also, Balai is currently alive, although he has just prevented me from filling the entire front page of the blog with posts solely by me, this means this state may not last. I'll update on the matter as it develops.
Monday, 29 December 2008
Interwebz
It is currently 16:17 as i write this post and I have had a working Internet for about... Oh I don't know 2 minutes now.
So here I am to assure you all, I am nether dead or in space. I was however, for five days, in Herefordshire, if you don't know where that is don't worry parts of it are probably marked "non-existent" but, that's for security reasons. Anyway my net died while I was away and was unable to access the great webs while away so, I must now apologise to both Iced and Tetris for my delay in answering E-Mails. Hope that cleared a few things up...
Also this post was most definitely not sent form anywhere near Ganymede just so you all know.
So here I am to assure you all, I am nether dead or in space. I was however, for five days, in Herefordshire, if you don't know where that is don't worry parts of it are probably marked "non-existent" but, that's for security reasons. Anyway my net died while I was away and was unable to access the great webs while away so, I must now apologise to both Iced and Tetris for my delay in answering E-Mails. Hope that cleared a few things up...
Also this post was most definitely not sent form anywhere near Ganymede just so you all know.
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