Sometimes (very rarely) there’s something in the video game world that makes me laugh.
I didn’t laugh at Bus Simulator (which I played), or Farming Simulator (which I also played, 2011 and 2013) or Euro Truck Simulator 2 (I’ve been playing truck simulators since…well, since Hard Truck 2)
But Goat Simulator made me laugh, but not because I find it ridiculous. (I’m 27, my first games were on a NES, games with far-fetched base ideas are what gaming was all about before 2000)
After not posting anything in 2013 (and a good part of 2012), here I am posting a bunch of stuff suddenly.
Truth is, 2013 was probably (as far as hobby stuff) the worst year ever.
In a list:
- No 3D modelling of anything
- No playing around with music software
- No programming in whatever language
- No writing scripts (kinda overlaps with scripts for the shitty short films, no?)
It’s almost as if I holed up in my room and didn’t do anything for an entire year. To be honest, that’s not completely wrong.
Listening to: Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
So, as I said sometime ago (somewhere in 2012), I like to make shitty 0€ budget short films on my free time.
Mostly we base the idea on some well known film and 0 budget the shit out of it.
That activity has been pretty much dead for a while
But a week ago, I started having ideas for a short based on “The Thing” (1982), except 0 budgeted to death and with only one actor.
So for the intro, I grab Blender and start to mock-up a little spaceship (you know, like in “The Thing”).
Little big problem, in the year that I spent not using blender (or any other 3D package) I pretty much forgot everything (as little as it was) that I knew about 3D modelling.
Ain’t that great?
Listening to: Kenji Ohtsuki - Odoru Dame Ningen
Nothing interesting to write about, as usual, so I’ll just head to “Video Game Name Generator” and generate names.
And write the ones I find interesting concepts, funny names on this post.
List:
Also found a good one for a Dev team:
Retarded Llama Interactive
So, after using them for a little over three years, if I’m not wrong, for a domain that pretty much only gets hits from the uptime monitoring services (true story, brah), alas the domain just suddenly disappears from the control panel at dot.tk and when I try to re-register it I get a message that vortex69.tk is a “special domain” or whatever the hell, as it contains “words that were identified as having a great value”, monetary value that is, from a site that gets 1 hit every month (if I exclude the uptime thingies).
And here it is, I guess I have time while I’m copying ~50GB of stuff.
Keep in mind this is not a very serious rant, it’s mostly for comic effects (I’m a bad comic, so…beware).
For now I can only rant about ME1, as it’s the only one I finished.
I got rid of my old and very very slow GeForce 8500GT (with a 64 bit memory bus, which basically meant it was a rebadged 8400GS) and got an equally old, cheap but not so slow Radeon HD3850 (only 256MB of ram, but that’s what I could find on my nearly non existing budget).
Which means I can play games again. Sure, it is still and old and outdated graphic card, but it’s night and day performance wise.
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.
…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.
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.