07.31.07
Posted in Humour at 13:13
This is the most fantastic insult I have ever received:
You pig-fucking black-hearted motherless goat-wanking Carpal Tunnel-inducing Anti-Christ-following horn-eating Stalin-loving Mary Mother of Christ-killing ankle-rubbing neer-do-well hooligan-marrying sewer-swimming-rat-buggering Platypus-suing pant-protesting bad-shirt-wearing glib flabby-assed hobo-climbing ant-cleaning golem-angering donkey-brained New York street punk.
But wait… there’s more:
You hideous, worthless, rank, vile, base, lowly, arduously-stupid nothing-headed fart-knocking green-blooded whore-mongering scum-sucking bottom-feeding Russian-tonsil-surgeon-biting ass-sniffing jaundiced-foot-eating pink-purse-carrying Elephant-snorting royally UNroyal toilet-purchasing cow-riding ocean-licking bully of all that is holy.
I think he spent a lot of time coming up with that, so it deserves to be shared, no? 
- Mood: Amused
- Music: Boil - Stupefy
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07.29.07
Posted in Games, The Nameless Mod at 19:47
I played Deus Ex for the first time in 2001. Since then I’ve played it twice more. I also explored most of the levels in the editor to pick apart how they were done and to get inspiration for modding it.
But I keep finding new stuff. Today I found this:
It just flies across the map when you leave the metro station where you enter the area. In the map, there are two of them. They follow the same path across the area, but I don’t know when the other one is triggered. Why was this done? Level designer got bored? I believe it was done to add to the credibility of the level: UNATCO are fighting terrorists in the streets of New York, of course they’d send a chopper or two to get a tactical overview. Plus, it looks cool. If you notice it.
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07.27.07
Posted in Personal at 14:33
Writing this entry on the work computer of the Minister of Culture.
Dunno why, but I think that’s kinda cool.
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07.24.07
Posted in Game news, Games at 23:51
I want this game out for Xbox 360:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22703.html
But alas, it seems to be a PS3 exclusive. It’s the sort of game that could make me buy an entire game system, if not for the fact that the PS3 costs the price of a small farmstead. It’s unfair, really, there are only something like 5 major stealth franchises in the world: Deus Ex, Thief, Splinter Cell, Hitman, and Metal Gear Solid, and I’m completely missing out on MGS because I’ve never bought a Playstation.
I wonder if there’s a PS3 emulator for PC, hrm…
- Music: Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes
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07.23.07
Posted in Hardware/Technology at 23:38
Last weekend, the right shift key on my keyboard broke. This raised my awareness of two things: First of all, I use the right shift key a lot. I use both shift keys a lot, in fact. Within 10 minutes I had gone half crazy trying to rewire some neurons in my brain to use the left shift key instead, and I dug out an old b0rked keyboard from the cellar.
Secondly, it appears my keyboard demands have become somewhat crazy. I think it started with my previous, now broken, keyboard which was a silver/white electron-luminescent keyboard from Zitech. This keyboard was perfect. I was almost in love with it. When I tried to describe my feelings for that keyboard to Shane, he suggested I marry it, and the idea appealed to me. But alas, it was already broken by then, and I had to find a new keyboard. This turned out surprisingly hard. Here is my list of demands for a keyboard:
- It must have laptop-style keys because this provides the perfect compromise between pressure sensitivity and responsiveness.
- It must use a Danish layout with the æ, ø, and å keys.
- It must have a seperate Ins/Home/Del console!
- …and this console must be horizontal (2 rows, 3 columns).
- It must not be black, because the dirt shows too well.
- It must be USB because restarting my PC makes me impatient.
- It must have a Windows key (but then, most do so this is easy).
- It should have as few stupid “media” hotkeys as possible.
- If it were possible to get a keyboard with a built-in SD-card reader, that too would be a must… but alas.
A keyboard that fulfills even the first two criteria is really difficult to find because almost all laptop-style keyboards also have a laptop-style layout where the Ins/Home/Del console and the keypad are in the same console as the alphanumericals, if there is a keypad at all. I hate that! I did manage to find a board that fulfilled all of these demands, excluding of course the last one. The aluminum Enermax Aurora keyboard pictured to the right. I’m already very happy with it, it feels almost exactly like my old Zitech board. And although it has no SD-card reader, it has two built-in USB slots, which is pretty damn handy. I just might marry this one instead, Shane.
- Mood: Satisfied
- Music: Anarchy Club - Collide
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07.22.07
Posted in Humour at 02:32
Contrary to popular belief, I do not sleep.
Ever.
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07.18.07
Posted in The Nameless Mod at 15:33
Argh the Downtown sector keeps crashing! Frustration! Aggravation! PAIN!
Over 4000 brushes and apparently way too many surfaces to light properly, and not only does UnrealEd crash periodically if I dare so much as move the camera without switching to wireframe mode first, now it’s started crashing the goddamn game, shouting enigmatic, vaguely lighting-related, error messages at me as it plummets into those deepest and darkest parts of Windows where programs go to die.
I have to use UnrealEd 2 to do all the geometry and lighting because the BSP routines of UEd1 aren’t sophisticated enough to handle it properly, but I need to use UEd1 to place characters, objects, and pathing because UEd2 isn’t compatible with Deus Ex’ classes. It’s a fucking circus.
And now I can’t even play it anymore. Time to redo the ambient lighting…
At least it looks purdy.
- Mood: Uhm, kinda pissed
- Music: Drist - Arterial Black
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07.12.07
Posted in Personal at 23:46
My paper was marked 10. I’ll start translating it tomorrow. It’s going to take a while, and you guys damn well better appreciate it when it’s done (even if I’m primarily doing it to fuel my ego).
- Music: Rick Derringer - Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo
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07.11.07
Posted in Other media at 23:43
If there is such a thing as an anti-war movie, Letters from Iwo Jima is it.
I have never seen a film in my life that so consistently managed to not make war seem awesome. Platoon was supposedly an anti-war movie, but it was also really cool. Deer Hunter was supposedly an anti-war movie, but it made the Vietnamese out to be sadistic psychopaths. Even Apocalypse Now, one of my favourite (anti-)war movies, had a few (satiric!) sequences that were just really awesome with explosions and helicopters and Ride of the Valkyries and everything.
Iwo Jima shows that both sides have good guys and both sides have bad guys and killing each other systematically is just so goddamn futile. I really don’t know how Clint Eastwood turned out to be such a fantastic director, but I hope he keeps them coming.
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07.09.07
Posted in Games at 08:58
Do any of you guys play WoW any longer? On European servers, in particular. I recently got The Burning Crusade for free with a 10 day trial because I no longer subscribe, and I’m considering getting into it again. I never did get that mount I wanted to try out, and I hear they come in flying variants now. Sounds kinda neat.
Although I guess if I want to get a mount I’ll need to reach level 40 and the easiest way to do that is to pick up again where I left off with my level 35 troll. It’s just… I’d kinda like to do some roleplaying, you know? My troll was on an RP PvE server (Moonglade), but in 4 months of playing I only ever met 2 people who took their characters seriously. I guess WoW isn’t the best venue for that sort of stuff.
*Sigh*
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