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Monday, July 20th, 2009
ninjafaun
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7:02a
Hello!
Recovery going at top speed, thankfully. I'm easing off the pain pills cause I can't stand taking them anymore. @_@
Yesterday walking home from the video rental shop (I was wearing shorts, a baseball cap, and a long sleeved top) an old couple walked by me and the sweet lady in the pink jacket asked me, "Dear, aren't your legs cold?" They were a few moments ago, but I said, reassuringly, "I've been walking a looooong time." XD
It sure felt like a long time; I left the house like I was ready to run a marathon. Old people are cool.
Resistance training.
lol
Today semester 2 starts again, but this week will be nice. I'm a little excited but at the same time I know I have to take it easy cause this is still week 2 of my own recovery. I have one painting class at 5:30pm. XD Sounds okay to me!
current mood:  awake
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(comment on this) Sunday, July 19th, 2009
bellisharon
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10:31p
this is beautiful...
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In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster.
But in front of the person you like, you get happy.
In front of the person you love, winter seems like spring.
But in front of the person you like, winter is just beautiful winter.
If you look into the eyes of the one you love, you blush.
But if you look into the eyes of the one you like, you smile.
In front of the person you love, you can't say everything on your mind.
But in front of the person you like, you can.
In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy.
But in front of the person you like, you can show your own self.
You can't look straight into the eyes of the one you love.
But you can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.
When the one you love is crying, you cry with them.
But when the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.
The feeling of love starts from the eye.
But the feeling of like starts from the ear.
So if you stop liking a person you used to like, all you need to do is cover your ears.
But if you try to close your eyes, love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever...
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dock
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2:22p
Procedurally generated environments
   
Yesterday I experimented with making some procedurally generated environments, and these are some of the results. This is a method of constructing shapes 'randomly' with a set of rules to make them behave and look like organic structures. It was an interesting challenge and good practice for me and it involved a type of coding that I'm less used to. This isn't intended for a specific game or anything, it was more to do with seeing whether it was something I could do. I might do some more experiments with randomly generated stuff in the future.
I have a busy couple of weeks ahead of myself, and I'm going to have to take some time out from coding to work on some other projects. I'm going to Berlin Indie Gamer Jam at the end of July, and I want to wrap up a few things before I hop on the plane.
current mood:  geeky
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ninjafaun
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1:24p
............
I woke up in the wee hours of the morn to catch the end of Flying Daggers which I'd started watching before bed (<3 imac) and I caught it perfectly. And I CRIED with such emotion. I cried and cried and understood everything, even Andy Lau. (I've seen this movie before but... yeah... I'm seeing a lot of things differently lately.)
It's such a beautiful movie and it belongs to Zhang Yimou and shouldn't ever be associated with anything else.
Then it took me a long time to fall asleep.
This entry is so vague. But in the end, it doesn't matter, it's all okay.
current mood:  happy
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(comment on this) Thursday, July 16th, 2009
ninjafaun
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5:08p
Haha, my how things have changed
 | What color is your soul painted? Red Your soul is painted the color red, which embodies the characteristics of love, strength, physical energy, sex, passion, courage, protection, excitement, speed, leadership, power, danger, and respect. Red is the color of the element Fire, and is associated with blood, life and death, birth, volcanoes, and intense emotions. 
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Last time I got purple. XD
current mood:  hungry
current music: Pixie Lott - Mama Do
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(6 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
sonictail
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10:11a
Buried in Plastic - Piracy and Children.
I've been doing a lot of thinking recently. I know it's rather dangerous but I’m at the stage where I’m starting to firm up some thoughts, figure out plans of attack etc. One of the issues is piracy and how to combat it's effects / is it worthwhile spending that time. You all have heard the arguments for and against so that isn't the point of this column. I'm looking at another impact of piracy currently unseen. So to begin let me tell you what I overheard yesterday.
I was in a major chain store, one of those ones with the incredible discounts and with a toy sale on the games were even cheaper than usual. In fact here in Australia you can grab Rhythm Heaven for $30! That's $40 off retail! A wide majority of the titles are priced between $20 to $40 with the shovelware for kids being at the lower end and Pokémon being the higher, but that's still at least a $20 discount for platinum. So right now is the best time to purchase those DS games you have been putting off, right?
Well what horrified me was a mother with her four young girls looking at the DS games, all of the girls looked between six and fourteen. Now a couple of the girls were running up to their mother going "I want this one", nothing unusual there. However what horrified me was the line that came next, the very next words out of the mother's mouth in response to purchasing some damn cheap games was
"No, I won't buy the Nintendo games, Daddy will download what you want when we get home"
I was dumbfounded, shocked and it took every bone in my body to resist walking over to the lady and giving her a piece of my mind. More violent thoughts also raged through my mind, but I just kept to myself and continued to walk, ashamed to be anywhere near the lady with the bad ideas. Piracy is not a victimless crime, it's just that when you do it all you see is a line on a screen and an option to download. But that isn't the issue here, the issue is "what does that teach the children?"
Now I’ll be the first to admit that I have done piracy in the past, when my family got our first PC (a 386dx, we quickly upgraded to 486 with math co-processor!) my father "borrowed" software from friends at work on 3 1/4" floppies. Jill of the Jungle, Worms, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen 4/5/6 etc etc. Hell when Pokémon came out I didn't have a Game Boy so I grabbed a emulator and played on that, not quite the same but it was still fun. But when I did that I made those decisions myself and when I got my Game Boy and later my N64 I was constantly saving and hunting down gaming bargains to play on my system. But in terms of those four girls, what message does it send that they can goto daddy and he'll download the game onto a piracy cart so they can play what they want on their DS without putting out cash? Isn't saving and purchasing one of the earliest and easiest lessons for parents to teach their children? Isn't stealing wrong?
I don't know about you but I'm feeling that this is disappointing, if parents will not encourage their children to save their money and purchase even the cheapest of games aimed at them, what hope do we have for the future. Do we need to start educating people that there is real people they are harming with the blasé attitude towards piracy? I have always been of the opinion that you should only make the actions that you are prepared to accept the consequences for. If the kids can figure out how to get a R4 to work, where to download the ROMs from and can explain to me what they're doing? I'll give them that. But there is a better solution for raising gamers with a cheap wallet.
And that solution is my uncle. He has brought up his kids rather awesome, he's taught them about ratings, went with a N64 rather than a current gen console and been cheap ass gamer the entire time. The kids still enjoy the games and can play to their hearts content. Hell he bet his son on swimming lessons that if he completed to a certain level he would purchase a Xbox 360 (and is now eating his words after his son completed two courses in three weeks) but the major difference is there. His kids save and scrimp to buy the games they want, they recognize things beyond them and hell, they are excellent gamers.
The morale of all this? Piracy is robbing more than the developers, it's also hurting your kids too. Can you really afford it?
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(4 comments | comment on this) Monday, July 13th, 2009
ninjafaun
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2:27p
Viva la rebellion - I'm posting 11 :P an' there aint nuttin' you fellas can do about it!
• Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
• NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
• They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
• You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.
current mood: chipper
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(5 comments | comment on this) Sunday, July 12th, 2009
dock
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2:34p
Bytejacker awesome blopo/tumbledrop feature :)
The latest episode of Bytejacker did an awesome piece in to raise awareness of the Tumbledrop clone 'Blopo' that is currently being produced for iphone. I'm really appreciative of this support, especially as I've been watching Bytejacker for a long time.
The creator of Blopo has since taken down his video of the copyright infringing game, and has claimed to be changing the graphics. I've been in contact with Apple about this matter and the situation is currently in review.
Thanks again to the Bytejacker crew, and everyone on Tigsource for the support over this matter.
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dock
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10:39a
Crabventure preview :)
'Crabventure' is a game that I'm working on in my free time at the moment. It's an adventure game in the vein of the old Dizzy games.
It's still in a very early stage, and the graphics and text in this image are place holder. With this project I'm working on artwork and design entirely before I do any coding. Here's an example of one of my notebook pages:
Doing it this way gives me a similar sensation to when I was designing games as a child. It's very relaxing to sketch like this and plan out puzzles, especially as it gets me away from a computer!
Today I have plenty of other things to work on. It's very busy here, but I'm enjoying my work!
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(31 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
ninjafaun
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3:26p
Oh baby!!!
Now I know that if something happened that I should ever sell/get rid of/change my lovely little suzuki, THIS is what I want to get. Yeeessss. :OOOoooo~
1972 mustang mach 1, or a 72 mustang grande 8D
Email response as follows -
Jez: Daaaaaaaaaamn I could so see you driving that beast....... soooooooo hot XD
Kev: You need to get that car now. You will be like some cartoon vigilante who roams the land kicking ass.
Me: yes!!! i want to roam the land kicking ass, sounds like an ideal career path and something i could get used to in my lifetime.
LOL. Gold indeed. :DDDD
current mood: happy
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(5 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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sonictail
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9:45a
Is Joel Correct
Quite some years ago Joel mentioned that the easiest way to make a aussie drama different is to film in perth. Well check out the pic of amanda tapping here.
That's central park, and several other perth buildings...
what the?
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