09.30.05
Posted in The Nameless Mod at 03:13
I meant to finish Half-Life 2 this week and write a little review of it (I’m actually pretty positive about it despite the contents of my last entry), but something came up. The TNM alpha. Christ, I didn’t realize it’d take up this much time. Whenever I fix a bug, two new ones pop up. And out of every 10 bugs, one is too difficult for myself to fix and I need the help of Lawrence or Shane. I’ve been staying up till 4 each night this week working on the mod, I think I must’ve spent the equivalent of a week’s full-time work on it.
With this mod on my CV, I better get a bloody job when I’m done with my government service.
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- Mood: Idle
- Music: Nine Inch Nails - Only
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09.22.05
Posted in Games at 01:00
Okay, so I’m probably the most pansy-assed 19-year-old in the world. This is likely not the kind of thing you should talk about in a weblog, but I feel particularly self-ironic right now, so I’ll be fine. Seems to me most video games these days have parts of varying length that are designed to be scary. This poses a problem to me, since I don’t really like being scared by video games. I can handle scary movies, I’ll just turn the sound off when it gets really bad. I very much enjoy reading scary books such as Lovecraft stories, it’s different… less visual. I don’t mind being freaked out, I just don’t enjoy the sight of blood and entrails too much, so scary books are quite fine. But video games… that’s the worst. You’re not seeing something scary happening to somebody, you’re EXPERIENCING something scary happening to you. Important difference.
Me: He– hello?
*A flock of sinister ravens take off in a sinister way, making sinister sounds in the process*
Me: GULP!
*Zombie jumps out through a wall, wooden splinters flying in all directions as it appears*
Zombie: BOO!
Me: AAAAAAAAAAAH! *Faints*
Zombie: Mmmm… tasty brains…
*Zombie eats my unconscious brain*
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- Mood: Scared
- Music: HIM - Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly
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09.17.05
Posted in Game design, Games at 22:48
So, now that I got a bit into HL2, more precisely I’m at the second stop in the airboat levels, I’ve had the joy of confirming all my prejudices. Not that I hadn’t played the game before, but now it’s mine and I feel I have the right to make fun of it.
Half-Life 2 is probably the best example right now of an unrealistic game which is just hella fun. You are Gordon Freeman. Congrats. You have a degree from MIT, so you’re a little clever, but also geeky. You’ve never held a weapon in your hands before. But then you unknowingly open a portal to another planet full of aliens who want to invade Earth. Immediately, you pick up a crowbar and fend off a bunch of nasty little critters who’ve killed many of your colleagues. From this point on, your story is just one big escape through a hellishly big and intricate research facility where nearly everybody wants to kill you including the American military and special forces and tons of big scary aliens. But that’s okay, because every time you pick up a weapon you instantly become an expert in its use (even if it’s some sort of experimental arc welder) and you can run freakishly fast while shooting without actually losing your aim, no problem.
You are the goddamn hero. And even though you have no vocal cords, you can still kick ass.
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- Mood: Entertained
- Music: Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
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09.16.05
Posted in Games, Music at 15:22
I invited myself to spend some money today. The first object I bought was the latest album from Foo Fighters, In Your Honor. I’m listening to DOA right now, and though I’ve heard it many times before on the radio, it seems to sound a lot better now that I have paid for it. A strange psychological mechanism perhaps, but one I happen to appreciate - this way you don’t feel that your money are wasted. And of course the really awesome thing about this album is that you get two CD’s for the price of one! As they say on the cover, “One loud. One not so loud.”
The second purchase I made is Half-Life 2. You have no idea how many times I’ve recieved the “O_o” treatment when telling people I did not own Half-Life 2. It’s like the damn game is Gamer Canon - if it’s not part of your game collection, you may not consider yourself a computer games enthusiast. A reaction I would not have been surprised to get, but from which I was mercifully spared by some strange coincidence, is “but how could you possibly expect to get a job in game development if you don’t own Half-Life 2!?”
If you’re wondering why I didn’t buy it before, the reason is very simple. I got it now mainly for the ability to play some of the DAZZLINGLY plentiful modifications for the game. These modifications have only just begun to be released, and now I got the game for a mere 99 kr., less than a third of the price it cost when it was brand new. I’m not very interested in the game itself, being that I am a pansy who does not appreciate getting my pants scared off my ass. I played the game at a friend’s, but only up to the point where people started dropping Headcrabs on me, then I knew it was time to back out while my dignity was intact. Now that I have the game, I do plan to play it as long as my nerves can take me, but to give the poor quivering fellows a break, I’m gonna cheat. In fact I’m gonna cheat as much as humanly possible. And there’s nothing you can do to stop me!
- Mood: Happy
- Music: Foo Fighters - DOA
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09.13.05
Posted in Music, Personal at 20:02
I can now play the solo from Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd.
My fingers feel like they could fall off my hands at any point.
- Mood: Sore
- Music: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
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09.11.05
Posted in Personal at 22:40
I went for a walk with my mother today. We walked through the park down by the coast just before 8 PM as the sun was going down and twilight was spreading. It felt like walking through the transition from day to night, watching as all the colour is slowly drained out of the world. We walked through several small gardens full of roses and other colourful flowers, but in the semi-darkness they were all various shades of grey. When the world was devoid of colour, the last of the light began to wane until we were walking through darkness. There were no lamps in the park, but by that time we had reached the coast and we could see the lights from the city on the other side of the water.
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- Mood: Tired
- Music: Boston - My Higher Power
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09.09.05
Posted in Personal at 15:01
Right, it’s finally arrived.
About time, don’t you think?
The bad news is I’ll be working 4 months for peanuts in some government-funded institution while I could be spending the year earning enough funds to get my own apartment in time for university. The good news is I’ll have free access to public transportation for the next 4 months! Ehm… yay?
Now I just have to figure out what the hell to spend my time on until I leave for Slagelse on October 12. I wonder if I can get a job knowing I’ll have to quit in a month. I think it’s situations like this that makes people hate the government. I’m not too upset about it anymore though, I’ve decided to just take it as an experience. And hey, free public transportation.
- Mood: Cynical
- Music: Status Quo - You're In The Army Now
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Posted in Other media, Personal at 00:27
As the title implies, growing up sucks. I think I’ve been growing up for quite a while now, but I’m probably not entirely done. For me, growing up is the process of eliminating your dreams one by one until, if you’re lucky, one remains… and if you’re not, none do. First I had to narrow it down to the realistic dreams. That meant cutting off superhero (Jonas-man, anyone? Yes, he existed in my mind, I even drew comics about him >_<), action-archeologist a'la Indiana Jones, top-secret spy / elite commando soldier, space explorer, and all that crap. It was great while it lasted.
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- Mood: Nostalgic
- Music: Nickelback - Photograph
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09.05.05
Posted in Personal at 22:43
Disclaimer: If you can’t handle whining, do not read this entry. But if you can’t handle whining, why are you even reading blogs anyway!?
I have… absolutely no fucking thing to do. Two months ago, if you’d offered me the opportunity to extend my summer holidays well into the month of September, I would’ve replied with a resounding “HELL YEAH!” Now all I want is for the government to get off their lazy asses and assign me some friggin’ work already! These past two weeks I’ve been bored out of my mind. Playing Boiling Point and fixing computers was all that kept me sane, but I’ll be done with the computers tomorrow and I managed to render my BP savegames unplayable by messing around with an unsupported map editor >_<
The problem is I'm waiting to be assigned some work instead of doing military service. They told me they'd get back to me some time during September, but they didn't tell me which part of September, and I can’t go out and get a job knowing I can’t even keep it for the rest of the month. I’m in a kind of limbo where I’m just waiting for something to happen, and I’m home alone most of the day. I’m bored. I really am.
- Mood: Bored
- Music: Monster Magnet - Powertrip
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09.04.05
Posted in Personal at 19:08
We’ve had a great weather this weekend, and my mother and I decided to celebrate with a trip to Grib Skov about 40 minutes by train North of Copenhagen. Directly translated, Grib Skov means Vulture Forest, but it’s a lot nicer than it sounds, even though they once found a dead body in the Grib lake. Since this trip was on bike, I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but here are the five photos that turned out well. You even get a bonus picture of one of the finest castles in the country if you make it past the first four pictures. I don’t fancy myself any kind of photo-artist, which is why I elect to photograph scenes that are beautiful in their own right.
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- Mood: Exhausted
- Music: Metallica - Minus Human
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