Friday 30 March 2007

Bad Guys Lecturing Good Guys on being Good and Bad Guys on the right and wrong way of being Bad Guys...

http://www.bolt.com/AlexakaSonicFreak/video/Sonic_X_Episode_67/1094089

Possibly the funniest thing I have watched, and it will make me laugh for quite a while. :)

All right, all right the entire episode isn't completly funny but that one bit is hilarious.

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"This message was brought to you by the Eggman Empire, who aren't responicble for the contents except for this part..." *BOOM!* :Eggman (Not this episode)

Thursday 29 March 2007

Miss England regionals


Do you remember a while back I blogged about a photo shoot that I was going to as an entrant in the Miss England regional heats?

Well I've been selected as a finalist.

Me.

A finallist.

*Faints in awe*

This is the furthest I've ever gotten before.

*Does happy dance*

And my mum's work have agreed to sponcer me.

Richard Harding Estate agents are awesome!

*Stil doing happy dance*

Let's see how it goes from here.

Thursday 22 March 2007

Week 24 - The final formal blog task

It doesn't matter, now, what happens,
I will never give up the fight
Long as the voice inside drives me to run and fight,
It doesn't matter who is wrong and who is right.

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The last formal blog huh?

Awww.

I like the blogs, I've enjoyed writting the task blogs and while the idea of the video diaries kinda died when the internet finally gave up the ghost in my halls, the blogs are still going strong.

This year has been great, I love it, even if I'm beinging to hate this van cause it doesn't want to do what it's told when it comes to the mapping. Gah. I've finally got 3DMax, or I do when the computers have it running. The lack of working computers has been a bane of contention for many.

The drawing classes are really great, but I think we need Chris in more often, I don't think the amount of time that we have with him is enough. Four hours a week, in a class like drawing isn't enough.

Looking at the articals, we need to be well rounded and able to do pretty much anything and everything, and I think we're well on out way to that. We're doing all sorts in 3D modeling and we've had workshops in the ceramics and soft modelling labs.

Something we've got to make sure of is that we can model almost anything, as this will make us more valuable as employees. We can't just be focused on every day objects we've got to be able to do anything.

I've really enjoyed learning how to use Max even when I've wanted to blow up the computers because they crash and mess up the work and am really glad that my work has improved as much as it has.

The blogs are a much better idea then essays because the blogs are do able. If I had had an essay a week to do, I think I would've gone mental becuase I'm not brillient at writting.

This year has been amazing and I'm looking forward to coming back next year to see what we're doing and to get even better. Now I have 3dMax9 I can get on with things over the summer. : )

See ya around,

Joey

Tuesday 20 March 2007

Beware the sneaky table.

If you're playing Half Life 2 deathmatch against Alex, beware sneaky tables.

Or boats, or filing cabintes or...

Ans especally beware of the mines...

Friday 16 March 2007

The R Floor

After spending the last one, almost two terms wondering what is on the 'R Floor' of the Fletcher Tower, I finally got off on there, yesturday.

Only one of the two lifts leads to the R Floor, so it piqued our interest as to whether it led to a different dimension.

Unfortunatly it's nothing interesting, like the Rabies Floor, or the Rabbit Floor, or anything anyone guessed while trying to work out what the R could stand for, it looks like the Fine Art Floor.

Sorry in all that.

Joey

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"Great now he's got something else under those hats I've gotta worry about and knowing Yugi it's probably a trap. But wait, Yugi knows me and he would know that I would know that he's laying a trap so maybe it's a monster card instead. But what if he knows that I would think that so it really is a trap card, except if he knows that I know that he knows what I know...ahhh, forget it I'm just gonna attack!" - Joey Wheeler (Joey Wheeler 'vs' Yugi Moto, Duelist Kingdom Finals)

Wednesday 14 March 2007

Permanent Game Overs






dotHack, which in itself is a good series, four games long, is an evil prick of a series for one small minor detail that can be avoided if you play the game carefully enough.

If you start from game 1, Infection, and play it all the way through to part 4, Quarantine, you can transfer your data from the previous game to allow you to bring your levels and items along with you. A very handy feature.

However, in the game you have the ability to 'Data Drain' from monsters to get rare items or make boesses defeatable, and you can hack into 'forbidden servers', both of which will raise your Virus Meter and when it hits 100% it is Permanent Game Over. You will have to start from the beginning of the disk at least with a new save file.

The smart Gamers make back ups after back ups after back ups just in case they hit that fatal 100% by accident, after all if you're careful enough you can keep the Virus Meter down and/or make it go down by doing certain things.

However one of my friends back home is an idiot.

He has spent the last two years playing dotHack, getting the best levels and the best weapons and Data Draining monsters to get all the right items and all the Virus Cores so he can hack servers.

But he didn't make a backup.

Not a single one.

So, after two years of playing the series, he saves before he goes to fight the final boss of Quarantine, he thinks he's doing the smart thing and that he shouldn't have too much trouble right?

Wrong, he failed to check his Virus Meter...

It was at 99%.

To be able to actaully damage the bosses, you have to Data Drain.

He used Data Drain...

And now has two years of game playing and nothing to show for it.

He had a right go at me this morning when I was on the phone to him while trying to get my purse from my flat after I left it there by accident because I was laughing my head off, but I'd warned him and warned him to watch his Virus Meter, and to make a back up, did he listen to me? Noooooooo.

Muahahaha.

However in hindsight, I've been thinking and there is a few games that I would go mental if they had Permanent Game Over.

The Final Fantasys for example, especially the four disk games.

Thinking about this led me to wonder what games would drive everyone else mental if they had Permanent Game Over.

If you can think of one, please reply to this post and tell me,

I'd like to know what everyone thinks.

Joey

Sunday 11 March 2007

A rant that's been plaguing me for a very long time...

How do explain magic and gifts to non believers?

To those who unless touched by magic at an early age lose all their gifts and magical skill.

How do you explain something like the Healer’s Touch? Or the Dreamwalker’s gift? Or the elements liking a person? Helping a person? Protecting a person?

How can you explain to a closed heart that things aren’t always what they seem?

That there are many things beyond the realm of that which is visible?

How do you explain to someone who has already decided that things are impossible, that nothing is impossible and everything is possible if you just look hard enough?

How can you explain the range of magickal skills, herb lore, crystal work, healing, protections, hex work, charm work, potions, every single type of magic has it’s own way of working, someone who specialises in Healing and Protection will work differently to someone who works with charms and hexes.

How do you convince those who have been brainwashed by TV and the Media that you can’t just make things happen there and then and that magic doesn’t always work like that?

How do you explain gifts? Dreamwalking, Telepathy, Empathy, Healer’s Touch, Seer’s Gift, and these gifts and more come in various strengths, someone with Seer’s might be able to see the future clearly but another might only have Instinctual Seer’s, the ability to always be able to follow their instincts and know it’s the right course of action.

How do you explain to people who don’t want to see these gifts as a part of nature, but as something to be fears and ridiculed?

You can’t.

At what age does a person’s mind close?

Someone once told me that the mind closed once you were an adult, but when are you an adult?

The law says 18, but I know a girl whose gifts are awakening only now and she’s only just getting used to them, she took in everything I said with only a few questions.

So no, 18 isn’t the point of cut off.

Does it vary for each human?

It must do, for those in my clases back home, who were media soaked idiots, cared nothing for the truth and saw those gifted or magickal talented students as weird and to be picked on and ridiculed, and yet they were fifteen, sixteen maxium when their minds closed, and yet I’ve known people well into their 80s who still have the belief in magic alive and well.

So what closes a person’s heart?

If I knew that I’d be able to tell you.

I have no idea, but something changes inside a person when their heart closes, it’s like a barrier to people, saying don’t even go there.

You’ll find that a lot of people who do not have some form of creative outlet have closed hearts.

I think a heart has to be open to be creative, because once it’s closed you don’t hear and feel evrything that’s around you. The world calls to you differnetly once your heart closes, you see things, hear things, feel things, but you don’t get the full picture, how can you draw plants and tree properly when you’re only seeing them like you would any other object, not as a living breathing plant that has it’s own nuances and colours and shades and textures, it’s own pulse and radiance?

How can you draw a person without being able to feel their aura, you capture their likeness on paper, but the drawing will never seem alive, it will always be a flat 2D picture. Nothing more.

You cannot capture the essence of something without tapping into what you can feel and sence from a thing, there’s a difference between drawing something that’s inanimate and a living being or plant or…

Try drawing a flower, any flower, it doesn’t matter what, and to start off with just draw what you see. Ignore what your heart and your body is telling you, but just look with your eyes alone.

Now try the same experiment, drawing what you see, but drawing what you see with your heart and mind and spirit sees as well as your eyes.

See the difference?

Thought you would.

Saturday 10 March 2007

I can stop...I think

Just a memo another week's video up, again with the delay though.... gah, I need a video edititng program... I wish I had a mac.

No more blogging now... putting the blogger down...

New favourate song!

I've found a rock version of Simple and Clean from the first Kingdom Hearts and it's awesome, I've got to work out a way of getting music from my laptop onto my blog to put it up... Let's see if I can find a link to were I downloaded it from...

BINGO! http://media.putfile.com/Simple-and-Clean-ROCK

Hehe, I love this song in it's original form but i like this form more.

And no I'm not adictted to blogging I can stop anytime I want.

See I'm stopping any time now...

Now...

:P

Joey

Back home and not ready for tomorrow.

Why do I always lose things that I need for important days?

For example, I have a semi-finals photo shoot for a Miss England regional heat tomorrow and I can't find anything.

Make one comment about the state of my bedroom and I will hunt you down and you'll regret it.

Gah!

*Turns already messy bedroom, upside down, back to front and inside out, to find hairbrush, make up and white vest top for tomorrow.*

Help...

Thank you Caz, thank you, thank you, thank you, for taking me tomorrow, and I will give you petrol money.

Many, many thank yous.

Week 22 - GDC

How I would have loved to have been in this lecture -

Final Fantasy XII Postmortem
Speaker: Taku Murata (General Manager, Technical Research Divi, Square Enix Co.,Ltd)
Date/Time: Thursday (March 8, 2007) 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Location (room): Room 135, North Hall
Track: Visual Arts
Format: 60-minute Lecture
Experience Level: All

Session Description
Final Fantasy XII, which has shipped over 4 million units in Japan and North America since its Japanese release on March 16, 2006, is the latest installment of the world renowned Final Fantasy franchise which has sold more than 70 million units worldwide. Taku Murata, Supervisor of Final Fantasy XII, and the other core members of its development team will give the lecture on the learning from the development of the title.

Development of Final Fantasy XII was massive project in every aspect. Taku will talk about the challenges he faced in development process. The title also pushed the envelope in terms of graphics. He will touch upon technical challenges to realize this quality graphics introducing tools created during the development of this title; effect tool, motion tool, and stage editors.

Audience can expect to see a glimpse of the long kept secret of Final Fantasy development.


https://www.cmpevents.com/GD07/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=4600

Unfortunatly I had no such luck. One I didn't know about the conference, two, I couldn't go anyway, and three I was else where at the time.

I bet it would have been very interesting though, as a long time Final Fantasy Fan, I would have liked to have seen how the newest game went through development, it would have been fantastic. *Sniff*

Ah well, I guess I'll never know...

Or not yet at least...

Looking at the huge list of Game Design lectures and sessions, I think I'd need to use the Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Multiply on me just to be able to get to the ones that I find interesting, there's so many! *Faints in awe*

I wonder which sessions the Doc went to and what he'll be bringing back to teach us... :) This could be interesting...

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"Stupid Fuzzballs! There must be thousands of them!" - Pegasus

"Tens of thousands, Pegasus, and because of the way the Kuriboh attack, you're about to see just as many explosions!" - Yami

(Yu-Gi-Oh! Duellist Kingdom Final Match, years and years old now, and yet still my all time favourate quote.)

Thursday 1 March 2007

First Video post

Is now up at mt Youtube account.

...

Joey