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my game demo is finally, finally done! Took me 4 and a half hours to play through, yes it is a long demo. I know where everything is so i'm gonna round it up to 5 hours for everyone else. You can save your data so, if you like the demo and want to play more you can pick up where you left off when the full game is done..some 5+ years from now. hahaha



There is one teeny, tiny complication though. The demo is about 200MB thanks to all the damn music. So it's way, way too big to send through any freakin email. So, if you wanna play the demo, you'll have to download this fiel sharing program called Skype. It's safe, my dad used to use it for work transfers and it takes up 2.2KB, that's like, less than 1% of the memory on even the shitiest of PCs.



The website is skype.com

Let me know if anyone's interested in playing!

I love my ninja. hahaha Having a throwing knife just makes online so much easier. Having infinite sprint and extreme speed helps too.



Claymore do not affect me, it's awesome. I can actually out run the blast radius. There was this sniper held up in a building, I managed to sneak around to him but he had a claymore at the door. If I shot it, he'd have enough time to turn and shoot me before i got into knife range. So, I just sprinted past it, it exploded, he turned and before he even had time to blink got stabbed. I managed to pull this off 3 times before he put 2 claymores down, which didn't help. Then i managed to kill him with his own claymore which was freakin hilarious. He set it down, and just as it turned on, i sprinted past and kept running, he turned to shoot me as i was running to the window and BOOM. it was so awesome!



I might change out my UMP for an assault rifle though, I need something with a longer range, but that'll slow me down a little and i love my speed. I'm kinda on the fence about it.



There was this other time, 3 snipers were in a building and they had a tactical insurgence flair behind them 1 flair for each man. I got into the building and cut all 3 down in a matter of seconds, then i turned to the flair and stabbed them again as they re-spawned. 6 kills in about 20 seconds.



I also still got the magic with a sniper rifle. Managed to lock down an entire area with head shots and i wasn't anywhere near the area i was locking down. Suppressors may decrease damage but a head shot is a head shot so it's all good.



You know, what i might go is get the ACOG scope for the UMP. True i won't have my silencer but when i'm forced to shoot people they've allready seen me anyway so it won't really matter. if i got a scope i could snipe with the ump like i can with the sniper rifle, can't believe i just thought of that. hahaha



Back to the game!!!

I've been thinking about that movie today, just random thought. Awesome movie! Of course I prefer the psychological horror over that slasher crap.



I'd be having so much damn fun in that room! It's kinda like silent hill except you get room service! I wonder who would go insane first? Me or the room? my money's on the room because the psychological crap it pulled in the movie would be nothing for me. hahaha Like when the hour was up and the clock just reset, if i were the main character i'd go over to the bed and see if there were more chocolates on the pillows like at the beginning of the first hour. And with the monster in the vent i'd try to pull it down into the hotel room to properly kick its ass. I think it'd be fun! Oh! And with the doppelganger in the window, as soon as i realized it was a copy of me i'd start doing the chicken dance or something. hahaha that'd be great for a parody!

got back into modern warfare 2, online anyway. Wanted to stab things with my ninja.



I'm rusty of course, made a lot of dumb moves but i'm still pulling off some decent stuff.



Used to just flow like water throughout the levels, that kinda "everywhere and nowhere" type of thing. Now I'm flowing like a MAC truck in traffic. hahaha



Only problem i've found is that the shotgun has gotten a lot more popular. Makes it slightly harder to stab people when you're being sprayed with buckshot. hahaha



Not complaining or anything, at least it gives me something to think about.

You know you're a nerd when you start making jokes about X Y variables.

me and my friend jon would make a great good-cop/bad-cop team. hahaha We're both really good at convincing people to do what we want them to do, so when we work together we just destroy people. hahaha



He insults them, belittles them, basically makes what their thinking of doing or saying look childish, stupid or just plane unnecessary, then i come in and offer an "alternative" action, and since they're already doubting themselves from jon's mental assault they're so much more susceptible to listen to my "advice" since i'm such a nice person. hahaha



We were messing with people all over campus today with it, it was hilarious. Only way it'd be better is if i had a video camera.

game progress has kinda halted as far as the level design goes. I ran the numbers and because of the game's software limitations i couldn't run things quite the eay i wanted to, but I came close!



I ended up having to make a set of generic skills that can be interchanged between the different monsters, bosses will still have their own special attacks but for normal monsters and enemies, there are 4 skills per element, then 2-5 skills for the status effects, then about 20 combination of skills, then i'll have room for some originality.



I have 999 slots to add in skills but i'm making skills for all of the playable characters so that knocks out 100, then the bosses will take anywhere from 100-300. Then i'm left with around 600 for generic monsters so the space gets used up quick if every single solitary monster has its own unique skills.



There's a 999 limit for monsters too which i'm worried i'll run out of space for but we'll see. Also a 999 limit on frigin battles so i'm just sitting there like what the fuck! Only downfall to using software to make my game but i don't know enough coding to go at ti raw.



I'm currently working on the "instant death" type of skills and i really like their animations.



For one, a box comes down from the sky, and the player's soul flies from their body into the box, box closes and goes back into the sky.



For the other, a portal opens up behind the character, a poorly animated monster comes out and drags the player in.



Looks pretty cool if i do say so myself.

You know that English voice you hear on practically every documentary out there? I nailed that voice perfectly today, messing with me dad.



He was on the speaker phone talking to his girlfriend, i walked into the room and crouched down behind a plant and said, using that kind of voice



"what we are observing here today is the mating ritual of the middle aged Italian male. Listen to how confidently he reminisces about events that never actually took place in hopes of impressing his potential mate....Ah, but she sees through this vein attempt and is ultimately, displeased......"



Dad looked over at me, pissed, and as i ran out of the room i was like "uh-oh, I think it's spotted me!"



simple joke but so damn funny! hahaha made my day!

Now up to the 4 hour mark and going strong. A little worried there's too much dialogue, but then again people really don't play the turn based games for the action, which i still have anyway. hahaha



I finally got player specific events to happen. Ones where, depending on who the party leader is, different conversations will happen. I thought it would be a lot harder than it is, been kinda dreading this part ever since i came up with the idea but it's actually really easy to do.



Getting better at the battle animation part of it too. The little visual affects. Still gotta use your imagination on some of them but that really can't be avoided.



so far, so good.

Found an interesting way to pass the time during art appreciation. I put my hand over my good eye, like i'm resting my head, still keeping my bad eye open so it looks like i'm still paying some attention to the boring crap on screen, but then i can daydream and semi-rest. Time flew by today because of it. hahaha

damn, some kid got abducted around here a few hours ago, 8 years old. what the fuck are people's problems!? Hope the kid is ok. This kinda crap makes me sick, people who do this stuff should be shot! multiple times!

I kinda found some bad news with the game i'm working on. The software has a limit of 5,000 switches, can't get any more then that. Switches are more or less on/off switches, like bit binary 0 = off, 1 = on. Switches affects objects in the game, like transitions between complex story sections in an area, i already used nearly 200 or my 5,000 and i'm only 3 hours into my game. I know i haven't even used a 10th of the switches but now that i know there's a definite limit i've been paranoid as hell about the length of my game. Luckily, I found a way to cut down on my switch use by altering the opacity of the items.



For example, suppose you go to break a boulder that's blocking your way. The way i had it, breaking the boulder activated a switch specifically for that boulder, causing it to disappear. Now, when you hit the boulder, the opacity is switched to 0 and the boulder becomes a passable object. It's still there, just invisible. No switch required.



Also gonna look into the "self-switches" and see how affective those are.



The game's coming along extremely well! Up to 3 hours of game play. I've been putting in 8+ hours a night working on it, finally finished the first real, real boss fight where it's the whole group Vs one of the main bad guys. Such a fun damn fight, not too hard but not too easy either, everything flows just perfectly.



Also got a fight between my character and my friend's character. It's like the ultimate duel between strength and speed. It can go either way each time even though the AI is controlling my character. One hit can kill my guy but it's incredibly hard to hit him and the whole time he's just unloading on you with a machine gun. hahaha



It's one of those fights where the game continues even if you lose, you just don't get the EXP so i can effectively wound my friend's pride when my AI character beats him, then mocks him in the story. hahaha



only thing i'm worried about with this game is the permission to use the musics. I'm putting everything in the credits, and the customer support people for the companies i'm using music for told me it's alright as long as it's not the whole CD and it's in the credits but i'm still not sure if i need real written consent. Something i should check because the music makes the game.

I hate those websites where, when you X off of them or attempt to close the window a thing popes up and says "I know you don't really want to leave" or "are you SURE you want to leave our website?" Always afraid i'm gonna get a virus if i leave. hahaha



This last one had a freaky voice over the speakers saying "I noticed you were trying to navigate away from my page, you don't really want to do that."



wanna backhand the people who designed that crap.

just stalling for time while i give my brain a moment to think on how to continue my game. So far I managed to work in a mechanic, kinda like alchemy, although there's no animation sequence because that involves artistic talent i just do not have. hahaha



Basically it transform raw magic energy into usable items during battle or in the inventory. The items get better as the skill levels up too, i'm making it used by a bonus character in the game because when you can mass produce RPG-7s and healing potions the game kinda becomes easy. hahaha I'm letting the player have a taste of it early on in the game though to kinda show it off, and so they remember it when/if they get the bonus character later on, haven't decided when that'll be.



The second thing is a timed laser grid riddle. A network of lasers switch on and off with 3 different variables. It's not hard, honestly you'll probably get hit once, maybe twice but seeing all the lasers will kinda overwhelm the player a little bit. Still in the begining of the damn game though, this is all just after the prologue section, though once all 3 main characters link up i'll be able to cruse through the game easier. Less of a need for complex story telling.



and now that i got my next idea, back to work!

Holy crap this was priceless! Metal gear online related.



I heard my friends talking about using incapacitated people as traps and was wondering what exactly they meant by it. So, during a match, I equipped some C4 explosive, snuck up on an enemy soldier and while having him in a CQC hold, put a block of c4 on his back. He placed it right in the center of the lower back so, without close inspection it looks like a satchel bag, in other words part of the uniform. I incapacitated the soldier and got to a safe distance to detonate, when a team of 2 enemy soldiers rounded the corner. They didn't see me because i was hiding behind a storage container crate thing, one soldier got in front of the incapacitated ally, as kind of a guard to make sure no one shoots the other soldier as he wake him up. So, I waited for the one soldier to begin waking the incapacitated one up, then, BOOM! Fucking priceless!



No one woke enemy soldiers for the rest of the match. hahaha That is such an awesome tactic! I love this game. hahaha

I've been doing some tests, trial and error stuff to find what works decently against the pro players, something that'll let me last more than 5 seconds in their sights. hahaha



I found something that works decently well so far, not sure if i just got into several lucky situations though so i'm waiting a few hours - as a break - and trying it again.



I think the LTL (Less Than Lethal) weapons are what I'm good with. CQC, tranquilizer pistol and the dart sniper rifle. It's definitely semi-original. I've seen a lot of people using a combination of those weapons to make the kill easier. Like, knock someone out with CQC then shoot em in the head. Or put someone to sleep with a dart rife and place a block of C4 on their back. But I'm gonna use LTL weapons for my entier load out.



So far the tests showed promise. You get points for the knock out, and the headshot required to get the knock out so i'm still getting good points.



1st

Group of 3 enemy soldiers running down a hallway. I destroyed the pre-set box in the hall and used my own to hide in plain sight. All three ran past, I jumped out and got the 3rd in a CQC hold, used the tranq pistol to incapacitate the other 2. Then while they were all asleep i took their weapons - all of their weapons, it was funny) and moved on. So when they woke up, they'd either have to die or go all the way back to their spawn to get their guns again.



2nd

I was tracking this enemy sniper on the rooftops. One of my teammates ended up opening fire on him from the street and that got his immediate attention, I jumped out and got him in the neck with the dart rifle, went over to him and again took al of his gear.



3rd

Just a straight up fight. Guy saw me while i was trying to sneak, he got a few shots off, almost killed me but my tranq got him in the head.



Only thing i dislike about the pistol is the damn laser sight gives me away. If I don't get my aim right, the laser goes past their heads and hit the ground right in front of them. It annoys me but it's something I'll have to work around.



I actually got a clan invite using this set up which i thought was hilarious. Not getting involved with that crap though that's for damn sure.



one kinda funny moment, ended horribly for me. I was hiding in a box, guy cam around the corner and i attempted to get him in a CQC hold. He had the CQC counter perk so, my guy goes to grab him, he puts one hand on my guys arm and the other around his head, runs him in a semi circle and slams me to the ground, which was in this case off the roof of the building we were on Then to add injury to insult, i landed on a claymore landmine. hahaha Got thrown back up and was almost, almost level with the roof i fell off of. Needless to say...I died. hahaha Only death i laughed at the entire time i had the game though. hahaha

Poetry....why in the hell are English professors obsessed with poetry!?!? Someone makes 5 sentences rhyme, good for them! There's no need to make me do a 6, SIX page report on why they rhyme.



God I hate poetry. Probably because i'm dense as hell. Put me in front of a mechanical riddle and it'll be solved in 5-10 seconds .Put me in front of a crime scene (fake of course, for now) and i'll tell you how everything went down.



Put a paper full of haiku poems in front of me and my brain not only shuts off, it breaks down! Like a car engine failing, minus the smoke and potential explosion. although that would be kinda cool.



I'm great at finding things out when people don't want them found...um...out, but when they actually want me to analyze their hints and wordings and crap like that, i just can't do it. hahaha Drives me insane. I'm gonna have a lot of "fun" with this project, and by fun i mean i'm gonna keep the suicide hot line on speed dial. hahaha yay for dark jokes!



35% of my grade is based on poetry what kind a' BS is that???

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TheDarkWolfman
09:14 Feb 14 2010

Poetry is from the writer/poets deepest thoughts and emotions.It comes from a different place than other writing.

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managed to fall asleep to the silent hill soundtrack. Was starting to have a nice dream about the town when the game's rock soundtrack woke me up startled and confused. hahaha



gonna try that again, after deleting that song from the play list of course.

I have 2 of these Yorkshire terrier dogs, AKA midget dogs because a full grown one won't even be as tall as your knee.



I've always found it amusing when they saw their reflections in the dish washer back at the old house, it was the only reflective surface on their level, but it was kinda distorted because of the weird design on it.



Well, I have this long mirror in my room, starts level to the floor and goes up to the 5'5 mark. Te youngest, and smallest of my two dogs walked past the mirror, stopped, then back up and started looking at herself through the mirror. After 30 seconds or so she got bored and began to turn away, when she saw her reflection turning too. Then her attention was back on the mirror. she got really low to the ground, then sprang back up, then started moving side to side before finally growling at and charging at the mirror....that didn't work. hahaha She won't go near the mirror now, stays as far back as she can. hahaha it was hilarious to watch. Dogs are awesome!

This is the lyrics to a song i found yesterday, from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Christmas album, which i also found out existed yesterday.



here's the link if people wanna listen to it, the lyrics themselves are pretty damn funny though.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnzDymzyRHU



-Meatwad: In this time of strife and struggle, people killing other people and then people feeling sad 'cause they got killed by people, I got me just one wish this Christmas. I want for Santa Clause to get together with U2 and Bill Clinton and Joey Fatone, you know just all the people in the word, no matter what country or color or religion they is - even if they the wrong one - and get 'em all to hold hands in harmony and pray, that someone get me, the one gift i want for me this year.....

(music finally plays)



All I want for Christmas is my one front tooth

my one front tooth, my one front tooth

Gee if i only had my one front tooth

Then i could wish you marry Christmas...



It seems so long since i could say (some kinda tounge twister ending with Christian)

Gosh oh gee how happy i'd be if i could only.....glisten?



-Shake: Glisten!? What the hell's that even mean?

-Meatwad: It rhymes, it rhymes with Christian....



My one front tooth, my-



-Shake: You have one already! Your greed sickens me!



-meatwad: I do?



-Shake: Yeah I'm counting right now, open wide.....1....



-meatwad: Well check the back teeth.



-Shake: There's nothing back there but dog food breath!



-Frylock: He's right man, you only got 1 tooth.



-meatwad: shut up man, they don't know that.



-shake: Who? The listener? He sure as hell does. You're on the freakin cover of the album advertising it! You know what, I hope you get suede!



-meatwad: Well...i want me some more teeth. I wanna chew tobacco like Ryan Seacrest.



-shake: Ryan Seacrest does not chew tobacco! I know him personally, we're very good friends. He would have called me if he wanted to have some of my "chaw".



-Frylock: You're supposed to have 32 teeth meatwad, I mean, you've never flossed, never brushed and all that damn candy you eat...so....that's why they're all gone.



-meatwad: Alright fine, i know, i know, ok fine! All i want for christmas is 31 more teeth, 31 more....



-Frylock: Meatwad, Meatwad, Meatwad no no no man, we don't got dental insurance. we don't have that. You best eish for something else this Christmas.



-Meatwad: Well then fine I will!



-Frylock: Preferably nothing medical because we can't...cover that...



-Meatwad: I heard you "dad". Just start from the top we don't need this jaunty stuff....



All I want for christmas is.......one of them vibrating neck massagers with the mp3 player....heated gloves and a....digital scarf.....with electric shiatzu massage shoes and..marital aid?....a...a...lavender aromatherapy .......uh...V-neck.....sweater for....(something).....and batteries are not....included..?



gee if i could only have one of them....stress releavers with the 7 different settings and portable stereo speakers....



then I would be happy and...that's the end of the song, people get that i want that and they send it to me.



Gee if i could only have .... one of those things i just said! Then i could wish you marry christmas!!!



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I love how confused he sounds during the last few parts. hahaha i have a nack for finding weird crap like this. hahaha

Got to college an hour early today so i'm just killing time till class starts so expect some video game talk. hahaha think i'll get that out of the way first.



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I was playing some more metal gear online yesterday. For the most part I got my ass kicked but I had some good moments. I still can not see how these people pull off these shots. It's like they're honed in on your head before they even round the corner, I don't understand it.



Good moment 1!

I got to play as Ocelot!!! I love his weapons! hahaha He's got a finger gun! Which is literally his middle and pointer finger together to look like a gun. He aims at you and says "Bang" and you're then locked out of SOP, meaning you can't fire your weapon for a short time, enough time for me to switch to his handgun and really shoot you. hahaha



For anyone who hasn't played the game, SOP is a linking system. Once you and at least one other person in your team link up, you can see their actions until they die. You can tell where they are behind walls, on different floors, you can even tell when they're in trouble Basically 2+ people can synchronize their actions perfectly without even seeing each other, if used right it's pretty freakin awesome! In the game's main storyline SOP also controls who is allowed to operate firearms, and since Ocelot hijacks the SOP system at one point, that's how he gets control.



I was just running around the level with my squad with the "bang! bang!" thing, they enemy SOP got locked out and my team then stormed into the area and gunned them down. At one point i even had 2 FROG soldiers complete with their P90s following me, felt like the real game. Then Vamp came along and killed them both. He tried to get me in a CQC hold but i ended up countering him and getting him into a hold instead. Ocelot's CQC execution is awesome too, although it doesn't kill the target He jabs the knife into their chest and uses this shock feature, kinda like a tazer to incapacitate them. Then i shoot them in the head. hahaha I love playing as Ocelot!!!



Good moment 2:

There was this other level, where i was my normal soldier. This girl on the enemy team kept picking off the stragglers on mine, getting them in CQC holds when they separated from the main unit and shooting once they were KO'd. I followed one of my men when he broke off of the formation, staying in the shadows so he didn't even know i was with him As he rounded this one corner, she jumped down, kicked his leg in and was in the process of getting him into a hold when I jump out from my hiding spot and fire a single shot to her head, nearly hit my guy because there was hardly any space but i got the shot! Gotta give her credit though she was good!



moment 3:

I got to play as Jonny. He's a lot better than I thought. He starts with the second best rifle in the game and is really accurate with it. He freaks out really easily though. If he's too stressed out he craps his pants and if you end up killing an ally he has a panic attack. One of my allies got in the way of my shot, ended up hitting him in the head and the second shot hitting the enemy. Then jonny falls to his knees and starts shaking saying "it wasn't my fault! Oh man, it wasn't my fault!!!" which it wasn't. hahaha I'm not sure how long that would have continued but my other ally bitch slapped me out of it. hahaha



moment 4

I was playing marco-pollo with snake! hahaha it was he and i on one level, everyone else quit. It was kinda boring so i aimed my rifle in the air and did that cartoon show beat, the "who's got a hair-cut" thing. Not sure how to actually describe it. Anyway, I fired my AK into the air in that kinda beat. Then snake did it. Then i did it, then he did And we were tracking each others positions by that beat hahaha it was hilarious.



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That's it for the video game talk. hahaha now to more mundane things like psychology!



I love that class Not only do i love psychology in general bu i got a good professor and it's the first class of the day! For some reason it counts as a history credit too so after this semester i'll have both credits i need for that area.



I'm gonna look into economics or accounting for electives, might take those over the summer with criminalistics to get more elective credits out of the way.



I'm great with both of those classes anyway. Got a 103A in economics honors back in highschool. And yes i slept! hahaha This one time was funny. We were getting ready to do this group review for an upcoming test, and i hate group work so, I asked if i could just take the test. The teahcer laughed at first and then got this stunned look on his face and was like "Really? You wanna take it now?" I got sent to the other room with the test, finished it before they even finished the review, came back, got it graded, got an A, then had my nap time when the rest of the class got the test the following day.



It's good being me, it really, really is. hahaha Lonely at times but that's the price for being a genius...and for being an arrogant ass but that's beside the point. hahaha I am only arrogant to the less intelligent. My arrogance is outweighed by my inability to spell. hahaha i'd be hopeless if it wasn't for the invention of spell check.



Class is starting!!! man writing kills time! psychology time!!!

This is kinda ironic, hilarious but ironic.



In my last relationship there were days when i got so damn absorbed in my video games i stopped paying attention to the girl until i took a break from the games. Now the roles are switched. hahaha Kristen and I will be talking, then she'll get into this game called cafe world on facebook and just zone out everything but the game. hahaha Kinda disappointing that her and i don't get to talk as much because of it but damn is it amusing!



I started playing it too to get her attention but i gotta say, I feel slightly less manly now. hahaha Need to balance this out with some throat slitting, head shot getting, CQC doing Metal Gear online action!



*on a different note, I just got an awesome idea for a valentines day gift from Silent Hill! hahaha How can i turn something so mentally disturbing and outright creepy into a romantic gift? That's my secret!

psychology test out of the way. missed 3 damn questions out of 50. got a 94. A worth but probably, hopefully not the highest grade in the class, if people don't get higher than that that's sad. Still did great for not even reading the damn text book. Although had i read it i wouldn't have missed the 3 that i missed but whatever. An A's an A.

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samanthasprettycorpse
04:00 Feb 11 2010

I got an 80 on mine and I read all the damn book :(

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I'm gonna set off the fire alarm on campus one of these days i swear. My coat sleeve finds its way onto the handle of every damn alarm there is. hahaha



Dad said that i'd be fined if the fire department was called out when there was no fire. I said "Well I know how to fix that!" *grabs lighter* hahaha

I finally, finally made major progress with my game. Took me all day but it was worth it! These are some screen shots i took. The game window is in the middle, the stuff around it is the actual software maps and stuff.



This first one is the title screen after the prologue is finished. It's the picture i have on my profile, looks so bad ass, even cooler with the music i found for it. Devil may cry never fails! hahaha





This one is the battle screen with the "Jon" character The template for the character came with the software but Jon customized it to fit the way he wanted it, to the best of his drawing ability at least. Kristen's gonna touch it up when she gets the chance.





Jon's character and a special forces squad on board my interpretation of an airship. hahaha use your imaginations.





my character in this little sneaking cutscene i put together. The two soldiers are enemy soldiers on patrol. everyone in that color armor are enemy soldiers.













my favorite one. My character jumping over these supports on the side of a castle.







the red lines are my interpretation of a laser grid. hahaha there's a control panel later in the level that you use to turn them off and on harder than it sounds to code in but it's awesome! Glad i finally got my motivation back for this game!

Stuck here till 4 today. Shouldn't have done all my school work yesterday, now i got practically nothing to do



Probably gonna re-play my demo since for some reason i keep being an idiot and overwriting my testing save. Think i finally figured out how to continue this damn game Never thought I'd be stuck at the point where the characters meet up, that part seemed the easiest in my head but damn is it hard to design! of course it probably would be easier if i wasn't such a stickler for the "flow".



I surprised myself earlier. Apparently i've been labeled the go-to guy for pc problems. Had 2 Spanish people ask me about computer related issues. First one spoke broken English, second one just Spanish. Turns out i remember more Spanish than i thought i did from high school, which is scary because that means the 4 years i spent there wasn't all a complete waste of my time. So, I try my best to instruct the Spanish guy how to activate the internet on his pc and the password for the campus internet. After this he responds by saying "Thanks man!" To which i just stand there stunned for a second before saying ".....you're welcome.."



I wish Russian stuck in my head like Spanish does. No offense to Spanish speaking people but I personally like the way Russian sounds a lot more than Spanish, but unlike Spanish as soon as I stopped learning Russian it fell out of my head. hahaha Only words i remember are

Da = Yes

Nyet = no

Spasiba = Thank you

And i sure as hell can't even begin to write their alphabet. "backwards, upside-down writing" my friend called it. hahaha



On a final note before i start on replaying my demo I've been trying to get my friend Jon out of what i call the "high school mentality". He still raises his hand in class and stuff like that, acts like he did in high school and it's just not necessary. In college, or at least in that class we're allowed to talk freely as long as it's civil. The students there are too passive to talk out of turn anyway so of course it's naturally civil. A few days back we were discussing how to write an essay.really wanted to brag about my writing SAT but i couldn't bring it up in conversation. hahaha We were talking about....I think it was what goes into a introduction paragraph and for some odd reason the room was silent. I already gave the first 3 points so i was hanging back, trying to let someone else get one but everyone either didn't know any other points or were too afraid of being wrong to answer. This is an 1102 class too so i'm wondering how they passed 1101 if they're still this passive. Anyway, I'm looking around the room, trying to see if anyone has a look like "i think i know" so i can coax them into answering. Ins't that ironic, the mute of the school is more proactive than these people. hahaha



I look over to my friend ot see him eagerly waving his hand back and forth The professor is reading her book, waiting for someone to speak up so of course she doesn't see it. I'm looking back to my friend, then the professor, then back again. Did this for a few minuets before finally saying "just tell her, not like anyone else is gonnna" He looked at me all pissed off and waved his hand more, what i said did make the professor look up and call on him, which made me laugh. No disrespect to Jon, he has the strength to kill me if he wanted to but damn, learn to be more assertive! I'm more assertive and I'm a mute so how in the world does that work! hahaha



Then later in the class it was the same situation again but we were discussing these rough drafts that students back in 2001 wrote. Then there's my fried sitting there raising his hand while everyone else is too shy to speak up. And i'm looking back and forth between the two just kinda amused. Finally Jon speaks up and goes on this whole analytical rant about what the writer did wrong and his opinion, he made sure ot use as many big words as humanly possible. That's really how he talks too so i'm used to it, and anyone of decent intelligence would be used to it but these people..not so much. The silence went from a shy silence to an awkward silence..aside from my laughter at the whole situation. hahaha



Now it's time to play my game! again! at thsi rate it's gonna be as ingrained into my head as mas effetc is. *shudders*

it took me 10 hours to research and write a 6 page essay on the movie the Miracle and on underdog victories in general. Managed to compare the miracle to the revolutionary war which was interesting but now i have a headache from hell and need to relax. was hoping to play more mass effect today but instead i think i'm going to bed early, for once. hahaha



If i don't get an A on this i'm gonna sue!

i wish my parents 20 year long divorce world end already. All this pointless fighting's really aggravating me.

I love the adds for this game. You see them everywhere on the internet, or at least on game websites and facebook. The game's called Envoy or something like that and all the advertising is, is a pretty girl showing some cleavage. Doesn't matter how badly the game sucks (which is does) as long as there's a sexual reference people will play. hahaha I really find that amusing

I live in a retirement neighborhood that is filled with old people...obviously. In this retirement neighborhood there is a single barbershop just by the highway. It's operated by a single woman in a house type of building so naturally she can only do about 5 people an hour depending on what they want.



Because of my dad's busy work schedule during the week the only time we're really able to go get a haircut is on Saturday, which is the same day practically every old person in the development goes to get theirs.



Going to this place is like a military operation. hahaha wake up at 6am "go go go!" Have to sprint around the house and hope to dress, shower, shaves...not in that order ...and get out the door by 6 30. That's what we did today, we got in the car about 6 45 and made it to the barber shop close to 7 But as we turned onto the street we saw this fleet of mini-vans and old 1980 cars with faded paint, driving towards the building from the other end of the street. Dad floored it, cut them off and turned into the parking lot only to find the first wave of the fleet already parked, taking up practically every spot available. Determind to get a haircut - for some odd reason - dad and I got out and started trying all of the doors since the main one "entrance 1" was locked. We tried all of the others, only to find they are locked. Apparently the barber shop got overwhelmed so whoever didn't make it inside wasn't getting a haircut. So, because old people don't realize this, we got stuck in the parking lot as the rest of the fleet got into the parking lot, circled around in some kinda old person formation - which was funny as hell to see - and then got in a mini traffic jam on the way out because some cars were willing to wait while some wanted to go home. I suggested ramming the van through the side wall of the building and calling it "entrance 5" since all the doors are numbered



I guess it's osmething you have to be there to appreciate since typing this doesn't sound as funny but damn, old people are to barber shops as.....old people are to McDonalds.

This is something we were talking about is psychology a few days ago, about infants as they're developing. object permanence in when the infant recognizes that an object still exists even though it is out of sight. Before this is developed, in an infants mind, once they can no longer see an object, it does not exist.



I looked up some youtube videos, putting links to the better ones below.



First one is a baby that has not yet developed object permanence.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUeJOuEOYdM



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2PAg-olPUQ



This next one has it but still doesn't understand if you move an object. Like a rigged "cup n' ball" trick. hahaha



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmjOsa4X9r8



and lastly, this one doesn't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuP53BbIY0A



I found this kinda interesting, worth looking up.

You know how sometimes when you're daydreaming while walking up a flight of stairs how you'll take an extra step (or three) at the top? Wouldn't it be funny if you kept going up until you realized it? hahaha I would have landed myself on the campus rooftop if that were the case. hahaha

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FatalAttraction
18:52 Feb 04 2010

Don't forget when you're also going down the steps and do it as well. I do it goin' up and down. Is that sad?

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another incredibly easy day at college. I hate elective credits. If I could i would just finish off the primary classes i need this semester and be done with my AA, but that's how they get 2 more semesters out of you, making it mandatory to get 24 elective credits so i gotta be bored out of my freakin mind.



think i'm gonna take ciminalistics next semester. At least there i have the possibility of learning something i don't already know, although it is still a low possibility.

I beat mass effect 2 and although the main character survived, the one team member who i really wanted to live ended up being the only one who died. Pisses me off just a little. Not sure what i did wrong but i think i picked the wrong squad leader for the 2nd team, although he should have done damn well given his background.



i think it's kinda cool how literally everyone can die if you fuck up bad enough. I was all motivated on the last level and then when Tali got killed the momentum died. hahaha



Despite the anticlimactic death the game ended like a freakin movie. In part because i think i made the game's "bad ending" choice at the end. Kinda like how the first one makes you decide whether or not to save the council. This one has yo deciding whether or not to save or destroy a certain piece of technology, which i decided to save because of one of the points my teammate made. Te game ended for me with the bad/good guy staring at the saved tech with an evil smile on his face so the 3rd game's potentially fucked up on even my good profile. hahaha



This game's values are kinda hippie though. You're considered a bad guy for thinking in the big picture and you get a shit load of praise for saving 1 life if it risks going back into the dark ages, so to speak.



I've been tempted to re-do the game with what i know now to make better choices but that wouldn't be fair. I am gonna re-do it but i'm keeping my main save this time so i can see how my potential fuck up affects the 3rd game.



Still pisses me off that i lost Tali though. I had a Garrus & Tali strike team for both games and now i'm not sure what combination i'm gonna use for the 3rd.



I love that concept though, where choices in one game affect the outcome of the others. That's freakin cool!!! Still pisses me off that a stupid mistake in the second game is probably gonna royally fuck me in the 3rd. It depends on how in depth the writers go with the 3rd but i did some thing that although were unrelated, could definitely fuck things up. Wish i didn't have to wait a damn year, 2 years for the 3rd one though.



I hope i get to keep my sniper rifle. I love my sniper rifle. hahaha