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That freakin rocks. I would love to get myself a quad dual-core Opteron system, that thing would
rock!!
Well, just browsing the net, and I noticed that Smakk Studios seems to be down
again. Don't know if it's a problem on my end or not. Just kinda posting an update on that.
Because 99.7% of Americans are mindless. Yeah, that's something else that drives me nuts, a
movie that is about the actors. I can't stand that. It's like I was listening to Opie and
Anthony on XM this morning while I was driving back to school, and they had Kevin Smith on with them today.
Kevin Smith said that working with these high paid actors is difficult and a pain. He said that it was a
breath of fresh air to work on Clerks 2, with Brian O'Halloran (Dante) and Jeff Anderson (Randal), low
maintenance actors that aren't focused their own self superiority. See, we need more directors like Kevin
Smith, now that man knows how to make a movie!
Yeah, I know what you mean. I need to get my workstation running so I have something at home that
can run Maya. My 950 is just getting too old to be able to run something as hefly as that, even if I could get
the program to load. I'm glad my 64bit is holding strong, especially as much use as it's getting
now, since my dual MP is sitting at home on the dinning room floor, in pieces.
End of quarter, projects
suck, dead tired. All these things equal a dead forum. I'm sure once I get some extra time,
I'll post more stuff, and I like Scott's idea, a weekly topic of interest, that would at least get us to
visit the forums more often.
Ah, the corporate management has found a new way to laugh at us consumers as we take it in the rear,
again. Ok, first thing, since no one has decided on a new standard yet, no reason for me to start looking into
it yet. I've lived my whole life without HD equipment, why start now? (yeah, I know HD is amazing,
but DVDs through S-Video are really nice too) Ok, here's something else, I just bought my DVD player (a
real high end, expensive model, by the way), just a little over 6 years ago, and I already have to think about
upgrading? Nope, not yet. Besides, I'm sure they'll still be making standard DVDs for awhile,
even after the new format comes out (I hope, or they'll cut those off to force people to upgrade). And,
why has Hollywood been losing money? They think it's piracy, yes, it does play at little role, affecting
mainly DVD sales, but what about box office sales? People bootlegging screeners, taking cameras in the
theaters? It happens, but has anyone stopped, and really taken a good look at the movies that have been coming
out lately? Most of them are pure CRAP!!! They aren't selling tickets cuz movies nowadays suck, and
suck hard. Every now and then, you get a gem, but think of the amount of crap you have to dig through
first. No wonder Hollywood isn't making money, same for the recording industry, people do want to pay for
stuff that sucks (although, that can be argued, but saved for another time). I hate the fact that we have to
suffer because all those snots running the studios have their heads so far up their behinds that they can't
make decent movies anymore; ahem, a good action/space/sci-fi movie anyone? (and I will also debate the quality
and watchabiltly of some of these new independent and forgein films too, quit with the friggin sappy drama,
I've seen some of the awesome CG some of these other contries can do, why the hell aren't they using those
talents to make awesome movies, Wonderful Days, for example, it was Korean, but it rocked, abiet a bit confusing,
but it rocked).
Ok, that's enough on that, I'll have to stop before I really get started.
Also, unless Tommy Boy is released in HD, that is the perfect reason why I don't need to upgrade (not like they
can anyway, the movie wasn't shot in HD).
Wow, that almost seems like who ever wrote it, knew so little about the subject, that
they just used big words and a dead form of grammar to make it sound like they knew what they were talking
about. I feel sorry for you for having to read that stuff. Wouldn't it be easier to say the person
who is “it” chases the other people who are “not it” around someone's back yard. I
mean seriously, we don't need an intellectual thesis on tag, if 5 year olds understand how to play the game,
then we shouldn't need degrees from Harvard and Yale to be able to read on how to play the game.
Ok,
I'm rambling now, I can't believe someone would write that either. I'd rather read that article
from our Inrto to Gaming class (SCAD) with the guy who stared out his window for 3 hours for no apparent
reason. At least that held some entertainment value.
Been a long weekend, didn't get as much done as I wanted too, so I gotta spend most of today and
tonight working on my Maya project (gotta build and rig a high and low poly character, should be able to have it all
done by the end of the week). I spent pretty much all Saturday playing Serious Sam with my one room mate that
actually stayed for the weekend. I don't know, I want to get some stuff posted here, and get back to the
site, but I just don't see that happening anytime soon. I gotta be able to have time for the project
I'm doing for the Attic also.
Tim, the idea for the book came about during winter break, when I
found an old Native American story/book that I wrote in fifth grade. I was looking at it and thinking that if
I rewrote it a little, and updated the pictures, I could easily turn it into a possible high selling children's
book (a bit optimistic here, but it would be sweet). I was thinking if that would happen, I could use the
money for school next year and for parts for the other engine I have (which Kevin tells me is a different year than
I thought it was, which ticks me off a bit, cuz those guys lied to me, and parts for a Series II are a lot more
expensive than a Series I).
Yeah, our Python 2 professor (who is a new guy this quarter), encourages us
to comment on all our code (only on more complex code, and to use comments to dvide up sections, like variables,
main program, and such). And when we write new functions, he tells us that we have to note, after the defining
the function, what it does, or we lose points. So, at least a few people in our class should have good
commenting backgrounds.
Edit: Woo, post #50!! Half way to 100!!
Uh…. I hear that, bad week for me this past week. Lots of homework, and midterms and such
(that Python midterm tore me a new one). Got a good bit of stuff to do this weekend too. Hopefully I can
get some done. Been mostly jamming to tunes and being pretty passive on the boards (here and at the Attic);
hardly touched any games (maybe played Most Wanted for like 20 min today, total). I hope to get to posting
some stuff in the near future. I gotta start managing my time now, running out of it; got some big projects in
the works — one for the Attic site (I've done little for it at the moment), and I'm getting ready to work
on my first illustrated book (read: children's book — hell of a lot of dough in that, tho, so no laughing), so
I need to start doing the layouts for that and looking into publishers. Man, all the Maya work I still gotta
do for class. . . this is going to be one hell of a quarter all the way to the end.
Colvin, I feel
your pain, but it sucks for me, cuz I'm not getting paid for it.
Yet more strangeness, it's warmer today. It's still a bit cool out there, but more like
light jacket weather. I hope it can stay like this through the weekend. Even better, have it get warmer
by the weekend. That would rock!!
Ok, I was pleased that it was warmer over the weekend, although I couldn't really enjoy it.
Now, it's bloody freezing out there; actually it's fairly cold in here too, even with my computer
running. Looks like it might rain…. wait, let me correct that, looks like it might snow!!
Man, I really wish this season could make up it's mind – either get warm and stay there, or get cold and stay
there. This back and forth nosense is really messing with me.
