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Technosexual
I have been hearing the term "metrosexual" pretty much every day over the last while... It's on tv all the time, my friends use it, and I have been called one myself. In all honesty, I probably fit the bill to a certain extent, except that I'm not that incredibly well groomed. I attribute that to the fact that I am, at my core, an utter nerd. I can't even begin to explain how excited I was when I saw that Whyte Knight was selling the GURPS base set for only $15 this past weekend. There has to be a term nerd-o-sexuals somewhere...
On a side note I found a new web comic today. By "new" I mean new to me, apparently it has been around for quite a while. It seems pretty cool, even though I haven't had time to really dig into it yet. What I did find, however, is tha the entire site basically condenses everything my best friend loves into one tidy package. He likes anime girls, apple computers, and loves the punisher. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you an anime girl wearing a punisher outfit on a site called Applegeeks... Lee, you can now die happy.
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Dirt Cheap
Okay, I'm still kind of stuck on the 3D topic today. So while I'm on it I might as well bring up Milkshape. There are a lot of 3D tools out there, and of all the ones I have tried, Milkshape is the one I keep coming back to. At only $25 US it is a perfect way to do some great quick and dirty modeling. I use it to create models for DarkBasic, as well as for flash, and for any of the mods I have done for games like Unreal and Quake. Not that I have ever finished a mod for either of those games. But I guarantee if I had a clone to do all my 3D work I would force the clone to use Milkshape. And while I am cloning, I need another to do the programming, while I just do the writing and design.
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Play Time
Today I got to play with a tool by Discreet called Plasma. Basically what Plasma does is helps to create 3D content for the web. I have to say that I am really enjoying it. For those of you who don't know, Discreet makes 3D Studio Max, GMAX, and a bunch of other stuff. Plasma is one of those other things, and it is terrific for doing web based 3D. It allows for export to either Macromedia Flash or Director formats. If you would like to check out something that I build in just under two hours, check out the Xenotraders page. I made an intro for the game that is basically just a cheesy space flyby, but considering the entire thing was produced in less time than it takes to clean three days worth of spam out of your inbox, I have to say it's pretty impressive!
I am foaming at the mouth a bit today, by the way. They went and released Unreal Tournament 2004 and I can hardly wait to get my grubby little paws on it. There is just one catch, however... I have no money. Oh, actually, now that I think about it, there's another catch, I don't really have any time to play it. Hmmm.... Actually, there's a whole lot of catches, for example the zillion games I have lying around my house that I have yet to finish. That's odd, the foam around my mouth seems to have completely dried up!
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This Blog WIll Be Right Back, After These Messages
I have never been a strong believer in internet advertising. For as long as I have been on the internet it has always seemed to me that the whole thing should be more like a book than a magazine, and certainly much less like television. Internet advertisers, however, seem to feel differently. Apparently thay have come up with a way to simply interrupt your surfing with a thirty second full screen ad. The funny thing about this is that the people surveyed said that they found it less annoying than pop-ups. Personally I think that my annoyance will probably be directly proportional to the amout of space the ad takes up on the screen. Hence a pop-up ad that occupies 10% of the screen would only bother me 10% of the time, while a full screen ad would not only anger me 100% of the time, but it would attempt to do so for a full 30 seconds straight. Of course, it could be worse, they could be developing ads that take up the night sky...
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With Friends Like This...
I would like to begin this post by saying that I have changed my policy on loaning out my games. My new policy is pretty simple, if you want to borrow a game from me all you have to do is stop by a local Electronics Boutique and give them the full purchase price of the game. They will loan you my game, when you are done with the game simply stop by my house and drop the game off. If I'm not home you can just leave the games around back in the shed, nobody will look there I assure you.
For those of you who know me this may seem like a pretty drastic change in policy. There used to be a time when I would loan people games and then forget they had them, they would come back to me months later and say, "Hey, Aaron, here's that game you loaned me, thanks a bunch," and I would feel great because getting a game back after a long time feels almost like buying a new game. But that has all changed now. The reason is simple, when I actually ASK for a game back, I mean it, I really want that game back, and one particular asshat doesn't seem to understand that.
A friend of mine got his first computer a while ago, about a year ago actually. On the day the computer arrived I helped him hook it up and als brought over a bunch of games for him to try out. This past Saturday we were supposed to hang out. Now I've been bugging him for my games back for several months, pretty much every time he calls me for tech support, really. So needless to say, when he showed up without my games I was pissed.
First of all when I asked for them back he told me that he still wanted to keep Fallout Tactics for a while. I was so desperate to get my games back that I even told him I would burn him copies of the games. Now let me explain something, I am not a fan of piracy, especially when making a profit in the PC game industry is already incredibly tough. Chances are I would have burned intentionally corrupt versions just so that he would think I had tried my best, when in fact I think he should just go down to the store and buy a used copy of Tactics for $15.
So now I am right back at square one. Time to call him up and arrange a time for him to drop off my games. Maybe this time he'll have something other than beer and Jack Daniels for breakfast and remember my games. Or maybe I should just ask him which pawn shop they are at so I can go down there and pick them up.
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