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[29 Jun 2008|08:48pm] |
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Sooooooo an opportunity just opened up. Staying with my friend Andrew and paying rent there is probably the best opening ever so far. I dunno how much it's gonna cost yet but I guess I'll find out. At the very least, this is more time to work with. Hopefully. So I just need to relay this information.
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[29 Jun 2008|01:15pm] |
My mind is annoying! It picked this song out to play on loop in my head. Soooooo I went and looked for it online to fill in all the many gaps.
http://www.last.fm/music/Santana/_/No+One+to+Depend+On
Anywaaaaaay.. I feel comfortable again knowing that I'll at least have some place to go even though it's looking like O-hi-o. Mmhmmm.
There is one possibility, but both he and I feel it's not going to work, so I'm not banking much hope in it.
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[28 Jun 2008|08:28pm] |
I feel really disheartened right now. I'm not going to be able to afford staying in California, so I'm trying to make plans to leave for Ohio soon.
Timelimit is "out before 12th"
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[25 Jun 2008|01:12am] |
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I estimate I have a little less than 20 days remaining before I must reconsider my original plans.
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[16 Jun 2008|01:46am] |
I like this song called Warrior Soul by Kiuas.
I dunno why! You can listen to it on this video thing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ELjN39MzE
The character is in a fighting game you may recognize. As far as tournament play goes, the Ganondorf character is considered Low Tier. This means that he is not only extremely difficult to play with, but in-practice other characters have an easier time defeating him in one on one combat. Despite that, he's probably one of my most favorite-est characters to choose from aside from Samus, whom is much higher up the list than Slowman-ondorf.
He's very slow, the evil guy, but he's got one of the most damaging movesets! And by slow, I mean after or during he attacks, he is left vulnerable before the attack's damage zone appears, making it easy for many characters to 'stuff' his moves, and after the attack launches, even if it hits, it is possible to hit him when the move's animation is on 'cooldown', a period of time where the player cannot make their character perform any actions until the animation ends.. There is usually a penalty for spamming moves with longer cooldowns than would appear with a hit and since many of his moves are slow, it's easy to miss, and he becomes easy to punish during his cooldown.. But he has evil manly appeal and he comes from the desert and hits like a tank crash!
So like the "Q" character from Street Fighter Third Strike, he is extremely difficult to play, is considered a poor character against many others but hits with fierce strength.. It's better to call him an 'advanced character'. c.c;
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[02 Jun 2008|07:51am] |
So I'm kind of just floating in limbo right now, trying to find my dad so I can move in with him. The number I found written by the telephone lead to no answers, so as an alternative I'm getting a friend local to this here place to look for apartments with me though he still needs to come here.
I'm not sure how long I'll be tolerated as a tenant, but I suppose I'll find out and am at the same time looking at getting a job and carpooling with one of those friends. So it seems to look not as bleak as I'd assumed at first and my mother knows about my situation and is willing to help since I've tried not to ask for any help ever and this looks like the first time I'm gonna need any.
One of the two friends has financial concerns over rooming up with us. I'm pretty sure that if all three of us roomed up together, it would be well below the maximum he'd pay rent for, so it should just be a matter of convincing him to go forward with us.
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[31 May 2008|07:46pm] |
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So. I'm moving out. To... Somewhere. I'm not sure yet. Either I'm going to go back home to my mother in Ohio, or I'm going to have to find somewhere in California to stay and it doesn't seem like that is much of a possibility.
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[09 Jan 2008|01:48pm] |
The new Street Fighter 4 character "Crimson Viper" looks like something some of my friends might like. Sorta. Since she looks like a human version of several of our silly characters. c.c;
Some dominant looking woman wearing a suit with strange, almost Sigil-like hair.
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[06 Jan 2008|02:11pm] |
How to be better than almost anyone, combat wise, in Quake Wars using anticipation instead of reaction: If you have radar support, you can actually use it by often glancing at the minimap in the upper right hand corner. Everyone but Infiltrator/CovOps whom are in-disguise will be indicated by a red triangle. Enemy assets will be revealed under the blanket as well. No exceptions. So, with radar support, it should be almost impossible to be taken by surprise. Ever. Most people don't look at it because it only consumes 1/6 or less of the screen.
I drew a lot. Then I didn't. Then I did and didn't and then I read lots of stuff. It is a calm season. I need to find a new job. This one is killing me.
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[30 Nov 2007|09:19am] |
Wow. Fired for writing a negative review. WoWoWOWOWoWowowowowow.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50134
PS: Hi, Livejournal. How are you? I am going stir crazy working at my job. I'm gonna need to run around the city in circles to mitigate the pain of stale routine.
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[30 Oct 2007|10:01am] |
CRYSIS demo
I wasn't particularly impressed by it. The effects were nice. I ran it fairly smoothly (dipped into mid 20s for framerates) with 4x AA , 1024x768 AllHighSettings. The abilities were ok. The most interesting was Strength since you could bash the hell out of.. anything. Cloaking is far too powerful.
I was playing on "Delta" difficulty by the way, so even though I was doing things like cloaking, strength jumping and air-shotting people, there wasn't a great deal of trouble. I did die a few times, but it was only when I was being absolutely foolish and trying to melee kill everyone without toggling out of strength (speedrun, strength, whack).
I did do some silly things like. Drive a pickup truck and honk the horn, swap into the passenger seat and cloak. They never took the truck or even bothered to investigate the truck itself, so I dunno. The AI, to me, seems identical to Farcry's AI in practice. Especially considering you didn't have to run away in order to change your angle of attack, like in Farcry. Just cloak.
The game is interesting, but not particularly impressive. Maybe that'll change in the full version, but I don't expect this game to be very much different from Farcry other than.. a lot more gadgets and a Halo-inspired health system.. So it's all good, it's just.. Not great? Maybe I just need to play more and see what kind of crazy crap I can do on Delta difficulty. Like smash over a jeep in strength, cloak, grab a soldier, strength-throw him at other soldiers, armor and kill anyone else with dual pistols.
Dunno. Graphically, it's probably the most realistic game on the market, but so what?
TF2's impact on shooters will probably be larger than Crysis' potential anyway, and it capitalizes on being accessible with very low graphics requirements.
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[08 Oct 2007|07:17am] |
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All is as well as it could be.
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[27 Aug 2007|04:02am] |
Obligatory Bioshock Review Ahoy.
This may or may not contain spoilers. I guess I'll make this really easy for myself and do it Gametrailers style, breaking it down into different categories and think about what those categories wholly entail.
There may be spoilers. Just don't read it if that bugs you.
Graphics
Gameplay
Story
Overall(Summary)
It's important to mention that a physical copy of the PC release does have SecureRom DRM on it. You are only allowed to install the game TWICE before the servers will lock you. You have two keys to expend. The only way to reload a key is by uninstalling the game.
EDIT: Increased to Five Installations.
I'm not sure where cracks are, but I'm confident you can find plenty of them to employ.
Graphics:
Okay. First off. Windows Vista is still a question for me because as an OS, its higher system overhead has been proven to interfere with system performance for gamers when stacked up against Windows XP. The only reason to get it is for DirectX10, which so far, has only been a last-minute tack-on feature for most popular games and as a result, ends up being unoptimized. Most systems suffer a performance hit that makes the game unplayable when running in DX10, unfortunately.
So, this is a review in DX9 graphics. On the PC version, you can force anti-aliasing! This makes the graphics feel more smooth and less grainy, less jagged around the edges. You may also use true widescreen settings if you do a simple google search for a widescreen fix or hack for the PC version as well.
( Read more... )
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[22 Aug 2007|05:52am] |
So I was bored. It served almost no purpose, but I felt much happier after doing so. As I walked home from work, I saw curiously bright stars in the sky. So I attempted to identify them. Star charts are deceptively difficult to read. It's like trying to imagine an unraveled globe, flattened, and trying to mentally put it back in its spherical state.
It's hard to stretch and skew out what the map displays into what you are actually seeing. Plus, you would have to hold the map over your head, meaning that if you memorize it, you have to do so in a mirrored fashion.
If I did have a printer and printed it, I'd need to put red film over a flashlight so it wouldn't disturb my night vision as badly.
I think the bright star in the South East was Sirius and the one directly east, the next brightest star, was Procyon. More overhead, but still Eastward were Mars and Aldebaran. The only constellation I recognize is Orion and that helped me find Sirius since Orion's belt was pointing almost directly toward Sirius on the map.
So that was completely pointless, but I am filled with a peaceful feeling.
Edit: And of course, being a complete geek, I thought of a huge reddish/orange jackal woman floating in space, conversing with a suit of armor.
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[20 Aug 2007|04:18pm] |
I need Sigil's spirit. C'mon c'mon. I needta feel your ethereal arms near mine. Drawing together or being together. Sappy sappy. I am so hopeless.
I want to read about fox lore and pervert it to amuse you and Ashy.. I dunno what else to say. My words are pretty clunky.
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[17 Aug 2007|11:50pm] |
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Memes. More on this later.
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[16 Aug 2007|12:35pm] |
Not many people really care anymore.. And I don't particularly want to talk to anyone as a group or one on one about it either. Our discussions wouldn't change much because we're more interested in cartoons and good food anyway. Right?
Right.
Anyway, it's a documentary called Zeigeist, mostly trying to give you a new view on American society today. Please don't contact me unless you wish to show me other interesting things related to this, like things that discredit it or support it, or things entirely unrelated to this and only through gmail.
my gmail name is
seannao
so add @gmail and a .com.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331
About what I said, I basically don't want any drama because it will solve *nothing*.
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