Posts by ginsengavenger

Quote from Kosmo

MISPELLED.MISPELLED.MISPELLED.......

Nice, you broke your own thread.

bury a hooker in the desert for me

Bummer. He was one of the central icons of my most formative years and will be well remembered for many years to come.

Looks like he's been in a lot of movies lately but nothing really high profile; I guess I always expected him to come back onto center stage someday as the total oldskool badass that he is (was). That's too bad because he deserved it like nobody else.

Quote from Izuno

Do you live in California? Does 'otown' mean Oakland?

Just curious.

yep and yep

only because of Make Something Unreal.

Heh, I'm with ya tequila

Life is good. Two months ago I started at an awesome company on an incredible game. The work is challenging, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm making new friends and I'm really feeling productive and accepted. I have to commute but the time is reasonable and I drive against traffic. I'm still a bit stunned that I've managed to break into real gamedev jobs with no connections based on self-education and no college degree.

I'm almost twenty five years old. I've been married a little over a year. In August we moved into a great apartment in a nice neighborhood. We're finally pretty well settled in and the place is feeling like home now. She is working at a job she is excited about, if not happy to go to every day. Both of our cars are in excellent working order and I shop at Trader Joe's. We live near one of my brothers. My year-and-some-old nephew is asking for me by name.

*edit: sorry i have to post a picture of my nephew.

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So, life is good. It has its ups and downs. Before this I was unemployed for almost a year living off my wife's job that she hated, we were spending way too much on rent, my car was broken, I had a serious WoW habit and both of my parents underwent major surgeries. Good times come and go.

didn't the bf2 guys come out of desert combat? i'm not clear on the history there.

speculation: "October 2006"? PS3?

hands down AWESOME

Lose the borders and crap, they're irrelevant.

anyway dude answer the questions about the actual gameplay

Quote from SixThree

Is this a 'rats' style map?

Quote from Jezpuh

So it's a tmp map? As in tmp only?

Is this map actual scale? If so the rooms look really cramped and awkward to navigate in the middle of a firefight.

That is so ridiculous it is almost not even funny. I needed a good laugh.

Dude, no. It's a sophisticated means of programmatically building procedural trees with limitless variety. It will animate trees and can build shadow maps and LODs for you all the way down to rendering the tree at various angles to a set of billboards for accurate 2d representation at distance.

And the point is, while it is powerful it is also fast and easy to use as a developer.

Sorry for the hijack. I like your trees Farles.

Nice work. But I gotta say I'm glad that speedtree is the way of the future.

it was free.

soz to bump, but I finally have some time to play the game...

Starting out I have a damn lot of respect for Monolith after the NOLF games so I'm curious to see how well they pull off a "scary" game... but mostly I'm just glad they haven't lost their sense of humor.

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shadow of the colossus is such a throw-your-controller-at-the-wall game D:

have you guys played God of War? do yourself a favor, and pick up a copy.

awesome! he should have to pay for the repairs.

God of War

fuck, dude. What kinda car, and did you have much important stuff in it? Most cars are recovered but the goodies inside aren't

"Chew some valerian root and get more exercise."

On the topic of sleep in general you can do a few things to get the most out of your night--lately I've been waking up before my alarm but if that weren't the case I'd try this one:

http://veenix.blogspot.com/2005/10/alar ... ke-up.html

Also if you want to try a natural sleep aid I suggest melatonin, you can get sublingual tablets at any health food store. It's a hormone that your body produces to help regulate your sleep cycle; part of the system that cues you to go to sleep. It is a subtle effect but I've found it very useful, it just helps you fall into natural sleep. Dosage will vary depending on the person--my wife only needs about half a milligram but I'll usually take 1.5-3 mg. Men usually need more than women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin

You can use it to help adjust your circadian rhythms, then after awhile if you keep a regular schedule you shouldn't need it much anymore.