Posts by JAL

I likes it, the only thing that bothers me is the very dull lighting, but

I guess you can't do miracles with the hl1 engine

Outstanding work, also I like that you documented your work/design process.

Great cinematic, the background story seems interesting.

Diablo

Sentenced

Insomnium

and about D3, this is the first time I've heard about the event.

Haha that launch trailer, I was laughing so hard. Kick ass stuff.

11 correct. You got 11 FU**IN QUESTION RIGHT!

I have no idea about the money questions.

That was freaky. The sound was so real. It really did sound like a person was shaking a box of matches right behind you.

I got 2 cell phones a Motorola v3x and a Motorola v3 razr black

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Mojo's Shaun of the dead is brilliant

Hahaha what the hell were they thinking, that music is horrible.

Well actually it's not that horrible but it doesn't fit the trailer at all.

Fletch made a better pick though.

the lighting is superb, some of the best I've seen on source

Best episode since the anime ninja episode.

ps. I heard a rumour that Blizzard payed them a lot to do the episode.

I love the style/look of the map, it has a "cartoony" and funny side to it.

Very nice upgrade from the original hl1 map.

I spent around 2000 euros (not including the flights, since I got them as a graduation gift). Japan was suprisingly cheap.

The most money I spent on a hostel was 28 e / night. The most money I spent on a meal was 7 euros.

You can get a nice dormitory bed for 15 euros and a bowl of ramen for 2e. Almost everything I encountered was cheaper than it's counter-part in Finland.

Just got back to Finland (home) yesterday from Japan. I was travelling around

Japan for a month with my buddy. We went to a lot of places in the west and southwest Japan, including Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Koyasan, Hiroshima, Fukuoka

and Mt. Fuji. I had an awesome time in Japan and I'm prolly going there again

next summer, got to know a lot of people and experience the culture. The last week in Tokyo was party 24/7 .

So yeah, here's some of the photos I took during the trip.

I used a Canon PowerShot A620 , 7.1 mp. (Re-sized the photos)

One of the few buildings to survive the Hiroshima A-bomb.

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a close-up of the same building.

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Wild deer in the National Park in the city of Nara.

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near the Tokyo Imperial Palace

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a garden in Kyoto.

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old "graves" and monuments in Koyasan.

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a view from the hills in Nara.

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a Japanese ww2 fighter-aircraft (zero?) in the war museum in Tokyo.

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a photo of Amsterdam airport. Would have made an awesome

photo but the reflection from the window kind of fucked it up.

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and finally it's me in Tokyo Disneyland, don't tell me I'm too old, cuz I really enjoyed it. (I'm 19)

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For more photos click HERE

Oh man, beautiful pictures, that second one is amazing

JAL is a combination of the first letters of my full name.

also sometimes I use variations of the name (Jalmari, Jallu etc.)

but really, only CJ knows the secret behind my real name,

(JAPAN AIRLINES!)

Music: I download 75% of my music albums, it's mostly stuff that I can't buy

in the store (trance and small underground artists). I rarely pirate anything

"mainstream".

Movies: New stuff I'll see at the theater. Old stuff I'll buy in the form

of a dvd. The ones I do download from the internet are (just like in music)

the movies I simply can't buy from the stores in Finland. I don't like to order

movies from abroad or the internet.

Software: I almost never buy software. Things like 3dsmax, Photoshop

etc. tend to cost too much. Also I have the mentality to think "I'm using them

for a good purpose ".

Games: I buy around 90% of my games. I've bought 10+

games this year, and downloaded 1. I actually regretted buying a few

of the games and wish I would have downloaded them at least to test them, because they weren't worth the money tbh.

Happy bday, also Switzerland looks like a nice place.

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No proper Pyro part either. Maybe they're still tweaking the deadly infection needle animation.

And nobody plays Pyro anyways, am I rite