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After a long slumber…

I arise again!!!

At least for a little while.

So as of late (since January) I’ve been, together with a good friend, working on some short films (all under 20 minutes) mostly to waste free time on the weekend. This is shitty, 0€ budget and no equipment kind of film stuff, it’s really just to waste time.

This post is to describe my experience with motherfucking Youtube’s “Content ID” thingie.

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The (not so) amusing ramblings…

…of someone who compiles Blender from the svn.

So, yesterday I decided that I wanted to use VC++ 2010 Express to compile blender, instead of 2008 and off I went, installed all the stuff (WinSDK 7.1 took a bit of work to get working) and…

Scons didn’t work with 2010…OK, off to CMake and…it kinda worked.

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Must…post…something…

So, just finished watching “A Tale of Two Sisters”, nearly fell asleep in the middle of it.

The film can be summed up to: Step mother (Eun-joo) and sister (Soo-mi) are complete cunts, thanks to that the other sister  (Soo-yeon) dies in a freak accident involving a closet and her mother (who was dead inside the closet), cunt sister goes crazy. Everything else are the intricate fantasies of a crazy cunt (Soo-mi) trying to run away from guilt and responsibility. The End.

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So…

A quick review of last month:

The stupid computer (the pentium 3 machine) still works, when it feels like it.

Haven’t worked in any project, well…a little bit on the Survival Horror game (Colina Silenciosa) mostly writing, doubt a one man army can finish the game.

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It Lives!!

So, almost a year ago after finding out how light a simple command line linux running rtorrent was (here), I said I should put my old PII with 64MB of RAM working as a torrent box.

Today, it lives!!

Except the PII motherboard was not in working condition.

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LAWL…

Love when this kind of situations occur, simply by chance.

After a ~7 hour downtime on both of my VPSes (seems like both nodes were down), I was just ready to start filling a support ticket, when I thought: “Well, let me check using downforeveryoneorjustme” and as I did, my second VPS was reported as up, “Wait, what?” there I go, pointing my browser to **.**.**.222 and…a directory listing page for lighttpd, which meant it was up. “Hey, what about my main VPS?” and a couple of seconds later **.**.**.158 was up and running.

The paranoid side of me is asking how they can know if I’m filling the support ticket or not…

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No progress

Yes, this project has seen no progress on the last days, I personally blame Fallout 3, which I have been playing in the last days. Maybe Fallout: New Vegas next?

But that doesn’t mean I’m not thinking about stuff to implement. Thinking about the A.I. mostly, as everything else is working on a minimum level at least.

And if someone actually happens to read what I write here and remembers any of it, they probably remember my constant complaints about using a watered down GeForce 8500GT (which is specs wise a 8400GS). If such people exist, yes, I can play Fallout 3 using said graphic card. Slow and with the details on the lowest possible at 800×600, but I play it.  (to think that if I spent ~30€ I could get a second hand HD3850 for example, which would be a good upgrade. But I have more important stuff to spend 30€ on.)

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Project PewPew, Update #7

Explosions!! Courtesy of “Detonator Explosion Framework” add-on for Unity. I’m like…some well known Hollywood director known for putting explosions on everything. (Don’t make me spell it for you) :D

Also, sorry about the one that shoots as fast as a Gatling gun, I’m still playing around with those parameters.

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Lately…

I’ve been watching the “The Twilight Zone” (the first one, 1959-1964). While I vaguely remember watching some TZ episodes, some 11 years ago, I can’t remember if it was the original one or the one from the 1980s, I just remember I didn’t quite like it.

Now, after watching 52 episodes I must say that my rating of it depends greatly on the episode. For example the last episode I watched “A penny for your thoughts” was, in my opinion, fun to watch, the part where he listens to the blond female thoughts or at least tries to…priceless :)) ; the part about L.J. Smithers, an old man working at the same desk for 20 years and his fantasies of one day robbing the bank (his place of work) and running away to Bermuda, which I dare to say is the kind of fantasy every person on this world has had. Really liked this episode.

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Project PewPew, Update #6

This time with sound!

Crappy video quality, but enough to understand the basic: It sucks!

Decided how the boss will work, good old school style, boss is divided into three sections, at a time only one of them receives damage. still thinking if the section that receives damage will be random or it will be: upper section, bottom section and middle section, by this order.

Still haven’t finished “Enemy 2”, should finish the texture today.

Then, maybe I’ll work a bit on “Project 32”, or maybe not…we’ll see.

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