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  1. Vezok's Friend
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    That's what it looks like in my head right now. I think I'm turning into a machine...kinda like Sam Worthington in Terminator Salvation.
    Also makes me want to rip out my hair like he did.
    Actually this is kind of fun to learn about if the pace weren't so fast and if the exam was on thursday.
     
    Ok...enough downtime, back to crunching numbers.
     
    Compiling...
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    Basic Module Programming.  
    Getting to know all the if-clauses of binary, with yes (true) and no(false) conditions. Pretty interesting.
     
    So kids, basic math is indeed coming back to haunt you, only now it's wearing disguises.
     
    And who'd ever think I'd like it?
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    My classmates are awesome. Plain and simple. How much, you can not even fathom, but for good measure here's todays example: 
    Our classroom lies on the sunny side of the building. Fine on an average day. but spring is here and he decided to bring sun along too, shining in through a window.
    Now we have to stay true to our geek-roots and stay in the dark almost all day, right? Right.
    The blinds have a sensor that determines when they get closed and opened.
     
    Performing the latter action today they made this really, really horrible screeching sound while going up.
     
    First reaction from Momo behind me?
     
    "NAZGÛL!"
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    Earbudinator

    By Vezok's Friend,

    And once again most of my earbuds except for the water-resistant pair are having issues.  
    Which sucks if you happen to be a little audiophile like me.
     
    But I am happy one of my best friends recommended a certain pair from ultimate ears to me a few years back. The cables are replaceable and I am not forced to throw away the buds themselves, worth over 150 bucks...that would suck. Big time.
     
    Now to wait for the order to get here...
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    Rpg Frustration

    By Vezok's Friend,

    You know what I actually despise?  
    That lack of reason, or rather that assumption of omnipotence sometimes displayed in RPGs. What do you pro's call it? Metagaming?
     
    Why should I bother with a long setup and chain of posts to get a character to a certain secret location, just by his own means if it apparetnly is just as legit to conjure up some random NPC who will willingly give all the information on that secret location one needs.
     
    I am not angry at anybody specific, I am just angry that all the RPing I did with one charie for the last two days is pretty much void now.
     
    Whood-di-frikkin-doo. -.-
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    Art...and Snow!

    By Vezok's Friend,

    What? Art by VF? Here!?

    Yes indeed, I got off my quad and finished a piece today ^^ Head over to Artwork I if you want to check it out.

    Also, who ordered the cold and snow to make a second pass? It's not enough to look pretty, it's just cold, grey and the streets are freezing!

    Go away cold, I am already feeling sick, don't need you now. K, thx, bay!
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    Deus Ex 3

    By Vezok's Friend,

    A distopian future with augmented humans and a hunk of a protagonist? Oh yeah, just ask BD if that ain't awesome.
     

     
    But aparrently that hunk goes by the stagename of Voltaire in RL and sings dark cabaret songs about the lack of lavatories on the Enterprise.
     

     

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    Headaches Inbound

    By Vezok's Friend,

    I am a little uncomfortable thinking about the prospect of spending the majority of my day staring at a computer-screen.  
    As in, literally spending 18 hours a day in front of a screen.
     
    Yikes...
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    Vader: "See-threepio, Artoo never told you what happened to your creator."
    C-3PO: "He informed me sufficiently. He told me you killed him."
    Vader: "No... I am your creator!"
    C-3PO: "No... no... That's not true. That's impossible! The odds against you being my creator are..."
    Vader: "Search your feelings, You know it to be true."
    C-3PO: "Noooo!! You see, sir, shortly after the Jedi were wiped out, my memory was erased. So that could explain why I'm having difficulty verifying your statement."
     
    I :3 the SW wiki.
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    You'd think videogames and homework are two things mutually exclusive. Well, unlike the devision by 0 this is actually something possible. 
    Our task over the next two weeks will be to write a scientific (!) paper on a topic of our choosing relating to video-games.
     
    We already figured out the questions/topics. The current milestone will be the introduction.
     
     
    PS: Also, we are going to get our PC's the middle of this week It is time to bring Crysis to school it seems.
     
    PPS: You won't believe me when you see what has been waiting in my mail today! Pictures pending til next entry ^^
  18. Vezok's Friend
    Maybe some of you will remember this entry from a few weeks back? 
    Yesterday was the final day of working on the characters we designed for the module. There will be a presentation on Monday and I need to hand in my character-sheet then as well, but the important part is that it is finished:
     

     
    Some people from the courses above us said that my charie probably was the most detailed figure as it is relatively small compared to others.
     
    To top things of we decided to take some quality photos of our models and used our studio there. As it turns out, I am quite comfortable with using aa professional camera. ^^
     


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    I guess I am jumping aboard the bandwagon here and will sum up the last year for a bit as well, and also what it means for this year. 
    Simply put, last year has been great. It has been a year of fun and a year of healing for me. A few that I let in more closely knew that the previous 2 years have been rough.
    I finished college and went through a pretty emotional mayhem at the same time, with anger, desperation, love and all that jazz coming and going as they pleased.
    That lasted through civil service, which was good because it numbed out all the other junk going on. I am very thankful that there were so many friends who put up with and helped me then. You know who you are and I thank you all deeply, even if you were just lending an ear from time to time or dropping a friendly comment.
     
    The steady income was nice too and I saved up over 10k in that time. Some of that was from my Grandparents who always told me to save it up for "something special".
    When I applied for my design-school luck came to me. The course I applied for took me, but would only start in the winter-semester. With civil service being finished before the summer I was faced with 6 months and nothing to do.
    My parents suggested looking for a part-time job. I wanted that "something special".
     
    The rest is a story that reached it's climax when I actually made it to Brickfair 2010, after a trip of adventures, lots of Hostels and most importantly awesome time hanging out with some of the most wonderful people I have met so far. It wouldn't have been the same without you and while hanging out with me can be tedious at times (mainly due to me) I want to thank you all again for letting me stay or just hanging out.
     
    The trip really recharged the batteries and that uneasiness and unhappiness I dragged with me from 08 probably got dumped in the Pacific somewhere or lost it's way in the Rockies.
     
    Back home I started my gamedesign course. I do not know how this came to be so awesome, but I have never missed a day there and I enjoy going there every day since it started. Our teachers are cool and the people from the course are likewise very awesome.
     
    All that set the scene for this year. And I am pretty much ready to tackle anything now, thanks to quite a few of you.
     
    I have my resolutions too, but this entry is already long enough for my tastes.
     
    So with that let me wrap this up, apollogize for not writing more coherently and thank you all again for being this awesome. I hope 2011 has good things in store for you!

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    Xmas Achievement

    By Vezok's Friend,

    I managed to avoid almost all christmas songs until today  
    Now I can listen of my own free will...and there are some good Christmas songs ^^
     
    Now I'll be off to bed, decorating the tree when I wake up again, wrapping the presents hidden in my room and then we'll be off to Granma to celebrate.
     
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    Forgotten Sands

    By Vezok's Friend,

    I am not a fan of games that get released together with movies to boost sales figures, as a rule of thumb. Production is often rushed to meet the deadline and as such those games are generally infested with bugs.
     
    What a pleasant surprise the latest Prince of Persia was.
    The game was released a bit earlier then the movie and the titular prince is not Jake Gyllenhaal, but the nameless Prince from the Sands of time trilogy.
    Action takes place somewhere between Sands and Warrior within as far as I know, but that's not important.
    While the PoP from 08 was the graphically most beautiful thing next to Crysis to be installed on my PC, it lacked in story and repetitive gameplay and quick-time events.
     
    Forgotten sands had a bit of the same vibe for the first hour where I thought it might drift off into the "you are all alone with nobody around and now you shall jump and run through giant puzzle-rooms". While that is certainly an element present in the game, it is not dominant. There's sections that require spot-on timing, without QTE's. Instead there are deadly traps and later on there's loads of enemies in between.
    Speaking of enemies: They are many. In the first room I barely fought 4 of them only to be faced with 20 of them two rooms later. They get easier to dispatch over the course of the game but their number gives off an epic feel. And they give off life, so to maintain health you gotta stick your sword to the baddies. And vases.
    I don't want to know how much worth of china the Prince broke in this game.
     
    Also defeated enemies give off points for levelling up. There's 4 different powers to be used during combat, plus three powers that are used during getting around. One is the ability to solidify water, one is the manifestation of memories (as in, "there used to be a stair here" *press ALT* "Oh THERE it is!") and the old-time favourite: Winding back time if you happen to plummet into a pit of spikes. Which happens. A lot.
     
    Well...it did to me.
     
    Now to wrap this up, I'll just say this thing really ended in an epic way. And by epic I mean EPIC. Fighting a godzilla-sized monster in the ruins of a temple in the middle of a sandstorm that has part's of the Persian temple flying around and you jumping around on them?
     
    YES
     
    I'm off. Gotta get the sand washed out of my ears.
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