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[17 Sep 2008|08:59am] |
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Gaute Godager "resigned" after Age of Conan did pretty poorly several months after launch. You do the math (no, I won't do it for you).
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[16 May 2008|05:56pm] |
Participating in the launch of a AAA video game title which is going to be on the front page of a very popular gaming magazine feels like a strange combination of New Years and finals / exam week. Luckily, my level of responsibility is low enough that I haven't been working 60 hour weeks for a month already, which the Nords have probably been doing for quite awhile now.
I hope all of you poopsockers are going to be playing tomorrow at 5pm GMT with your Amazon Bows, Drinking Capes, Rhinos, Mammoths, and other brazenly useless e-loot you paid extra for. Just don't petition. Please don't petition, even if you have a good reason. If you indirectly uncover a highly inconvenient bug in my tools I will punch you through your monitor. IN THE DARK AND BRUTAL WORLD OF HYBORIA, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU WHINE. It adds to the immersiveness of the game.
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[10 Apr 2008|03:51pm] |
(3:40:09
PM) Me:
I'm trying to show David over here (something) and he can't log in
(3:40:20
PM) Lucien:
hmm he might not have access
(3:40:39
PM) Lucien:
is he QA or CS?
(3:40:49
PM) Me:
CS manager
(3:40:54
PM) Lucien:
brian is CS manager
(3:41:12
PM) Me:
Yes, precisely
(3:41:18
PM) Me:
Brian.
(3:41:22
PM) Lucien:
hehe
(3:41:22
PM) Me:
God damnit, I did it agian
(3:41:26
PM) Me:
here, look:
Me:
(3:31:06 PM) Me: Hey david, if you could, take a
look at this:
link
and (blah blah blah)
(3:31:16 PM) Me: and please tell me if you want it to do
anything more or anything differently
(3:32:10 PM) Shaolin: Did
you just call me David?
(3:32:35 PM) Me: yes, I did, sorry
Brian
(3:32:40 PM) Me: I do it to a lot of Davids and
Brians
(3:32:55 PM) Me: I have no idea why those two names mix
themselves up in my head
(3:33:03 PM) Me: but I've noticed it
before
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| Pyweek 6 |
[07 Apr 2008|05:25pm] |
I made me a game for Pyweek, a competition where a bunch of people make a computer game in the space of a week, using the programming language Python and any sorts of external libraries they wish. I decided to use a really beefy one called Panda3D, a rapid-development 3D engine.
Here's a screenshot (with a link to the entry page, where the source code is):
All you need to do to play it is go to the Panda3D site, download and install the engine, and then double-click on run_game.py (or modify run.bat so it's just "ppython run_game.py"). Panda3D comes with a copy of Python already included.
Here is some gameplay video for those who are too lazy
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[25 Jan 2008|01:55pm] |
Also, this community (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.2) word_ancestry) posts some really cool word origins. I probably only percieve extreme awesomeness because etymology is one of my favorite subfields of linguistics.
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| alea iacta est |
[14 Jan 2008|01:45pm] |
For the first time in my life I resigned from a job. It's a job which I've enjoyed, where I've learned a whole hell of a lot, where all the people were kind and respectful and office politics were non-existent. It's a job which I'm sure would be secure and which would give fair hours, no more than 40 a week, year-round. It seems insane to do this, and it was really hard to decide. It was amazingly hard to tell my boss, who I respect, and who I appreciate for treating myself and my coworkers humanely and never once showing his anger, even when he really was, or even if it was justified.
I am accepting a position as a Tools Programmer at Funcom, Inc., who are famous for such titles as Anarchy Online and the upcoming Age of Conan. It's a Norwegian video game company with an office in Durham. I have wanted to work in the gaming industry all my life, though I second-guessed it my college years due to stories of long hours, low pay, and generally hellish working conditions. I don't know if it's really the case, but to me it feels like I'm taking the biggest risk in my entire life. I am taking a chance; the job might ruin my personal life due to inhumane hours, it might bring my car a quicker death thanks to the longer commute, it might give me experience which might not be as worthwhile in the industry as my job at News Over Wireless, it might thrust me into a hostile environment where office politics seep into the daily routine. I am already reaching out to old friends who might want to fill my position, and thus remove a possible safety net if Funcom decides I just don't cut it.
It's all because I, after months of job searching that drove me to real, not-even-joking insanity, believed that dreams are just that; dreams which ultimately are crushed, sooner or later, by the concrete facts of reality, and most people are either struggling to merely survive, or have found something agreeable and count their blessings. Suddenly, I interviewed for a not-quite-dream-job-but-god-damn-it's-close-enough and I got the offer. I wasn't desperate in the least, and I thought the whole time "So what am I getting into? What does the job offer to me?". I was probably a little abrasive but always upbeat, and they gave me the job at the end of a second interview. For once I am completely going out on a limb and doing what I truly want to do, a decision that I know is 100% mine and unadultered by even my cautiousness or concern for security.
I bet a week or two after I start the job I'll totally think this post was lame and emo, and I was getting my panties up in a wad over nothing, especially since I'll be able to cut the heads off some motherfuckers with a giant fucking sword without having to pay $15 a month. No, really, read the previews for Age of Conan.
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[05 Jan 2008|03:42pm] |
blah blah blah blorg mainly just posting youtube and such.
I'm curious about how the internal hardware of this thing works and how hard it would be to reproduce... it seems to have ridiculous prices but seems like it could be used in some pretty cool ways. Oh, and Bogart is also appalled by the prices.
I'm going to spend a bit of time getting together all of the at-least-somewhat-interesting clips of music that I've produced and bunch them all together and release them (somewhere) for the sake of getting feedback on what actually sounds like it might be good. There is some stuff that I like which I really don't know why I didn't finish... probably not enough time. I probably have enough 'finished' or 'just needs an ending' material by now of stuff that I like to fill a 60 minute album, but it would be pretty disjoint in style, BPM, and such.
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[29 Nov 2007|05:58pm] |
These days I have no time, so I dispense with lengthy internet quizzes about dumb personal trivia.
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[18 Jul 2007|09:29pm] |
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LJ is a great way of keeping up with the lives of people who you no longer talk to. I haven't really posted about anything very consequential for months (or perhaps a year). Thus:
I finally got a job at News Over Wireless on a contract-to-perm basis, after looking for a job for about three months and racking up huge amounts of credit card debt for me and Kristi. The only way I avoided being a complete burden to her was getting about $400 a month in random money I didn't know I had: big checks as graduation gifts (thank you all of my extended family members, who I'm certain aren't reading this), escrow/deposit money from Guilford, closing out a savings account I only knew was in my name several months ago, and, well, those $5 online survey checks.
Anyways, it's as an Application Support Engineer, which according to the manager is going to mainly involve "integrating" clients with our platform. He said the required skills are roughly 55% customer relations skills and 45% technical chops: I'm surprised they must of thought I have a winning personality. It will pay handsomely (compared to what I'm used to) and be able to pay rent for one of several houses which are roughly double the square footage of our current one bedroom apartment and include things like backyards. If you ever hear me complaining about not having enough money after my first few paychecks, please smack me and tell me to spend less.
If you're not aware, I'm moving back to Raleigh for this job, most likely somewhere in north Raleigh. I was really planning to do that since about June since the market for entry-level IT jobs in the Triad sucks. Having not been in Raleigh really long for a long while, I have to say that everything seems spread-out and insular compared to Greensboro, and the "unwashed hippy college student"-particle levels of, say, Tate street significantly surpass those of Hillsborough Street (but Hillsborough Street does have a really cool hookah lounge).
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[22 Jun 2007|08:57pm] |
These youtubes were saved as a prior draft, so I suppose I meant to post them.
I'm also posting this, not because I've never seen a pile of baby pandas, but because I didn't know they made those noises.
This one, however, isn't, because it's stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) morbid_o
Apparently, if I get a job at Red Hat, I will get a complimentary red fedora. If I do get the job, I'll post a picture, but only after I die from joy.
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| great firewall of china |
[20 Apr 2007|12:10pm] |
www.greatfirewallofchina.org
This is a pretty cool site: you can check and see if a given website is blocked from China (PRC). Unfortunately, it seems to only link you to a series of completed tests, so I couldn't tell if my site was blocked or not. It's a really slow site, but that's probably because they are getting lots of users they didn't expect.
An excerpt from their FAQ is sort of amusing...
How do the people of China counter [censorship]?
The Chinese are very resourceful in this. A site about popular movie stars may become a vehicle for discussing delicate political issues. Among Chinese ‘nerds’ hacking systems are circulating that completely bypass censorship, but you must be knowledgeable enough to download these from non-blocked sites. And then there are weblogs that appear to discuss dogs but are in fact describing the political situation in China.
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