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Short version of blog: I played video games.
Ok now that that's over with. I'll try to keep this one kind of mid-length, not any wall of text that I've grown accustomed to.
Kind of ironic I hit 10K hits about a day before I come back.
Honestly I've done very little in the past 4 months or however long its been. Schoolwise I barely passed AP world history and played some counterstrike. I'd rather not go into more detail because I know you don't care, and I care even less.
Christmas, basically I got cash, an electric guitar I don't know how to play, and GH5 and Van Halen, which due to my broken guitar and broken drumset I cannot play. I borrowed L4D2 for about 5 days and it was amazing, better than the first. Mass Effect was a bit boring at first but now it's fun, Modern Warfare 2 is amazing but has a lot of small flaws that stand out way too much, and all that.
Lighting magnesium on fire is fun.
Yeah, work on my game pretty much came to a complete stop. No reason to work on it. Yeah...
Wow, nothing happened in these past couple months.
I JUST realized my banner uses one of the images that comes with Windows. And I've had the banner for like 3 years now. I even made a minigame about it. Wow.
Iluvfuz made it.
And after something like a year and a half, I get my 33rd friend.
My last 2 blogs were a bit short and lacking in detail, so.. Here's.. Another blog, only this one is the real deal.
Rather then start with school, I'll start with Gamemaker. I've realized I'm VERY uncreative with making names, which is odd as I'm fairly creative elsewhere. What I mean by this is, My game that's been a "WIP" for over a year still has yet to be named, regardless of having a base storyline already filled up. So I just simply call it TopDown, because it is a TDS.
Currently it is basically just an engine. The storyline is.. I really hate to say this, but aliens vs humans. And there's a ton more to the storyline but I don't want to reveal it as my game is very unmade and the storyline is subject to change.
Things to do before beta version:
-Have a basic, working multiplayer.
-Iron out glitches.
-1 or 2 campaign missions. Which means programming some AI. This and multiplayer also means making a 2 weapon-system, and a sort of class creating thing.
-Noise. My game sadly lacks any noise for gunshots. The rocket launcher and plasma bomb also lack an explosion. The shotgun also doesn't work, which probably means me having to change how bullets work.
-better graphics. Only thing that fits is some of the guns. Everything else is in poor paint fashion.
One thing good about it though is my weapon list. there's..
An alien plasma pistol
M9 pistol
M14 rifle
A Sniper, I forget what I based it off of.
Rocket launcher, that doesn't explode yet.
MP5, which also has a gold skin, and a green skin for me. When you have that skin, you also fire that color of bullets.
Super Laser, which will be pretty rare and takes something like 2 minutes to reload
A plasma bomb launcher thing. It too lacks explosion.
A shotgun that doesn't work
Shaft Equalizer, a laser-SMG type thing
I'd have more but I need to focus on other stuff. You can see a bit more info on the game 2 blogs down.
School:
I don't like my classes this year. However, I do like the A-B schedule, good for putting off homework. Also, 4 periods a day is pretty cool. That means 1 less class a year, though longer class periods.
1A: World History AP
Oh, I wish I hadn't signed up for this. The difference between this class and last years Pre-AP World Geography is pretty much the difference between 5th grade and 8th grade. Actually, now that I think about it, it pretty much is, seeing as AP gives college cred. I'd be okay, though I hate doing essays. Also, the text book. All other classes have nice text books, 10 page chapters, nice size 12ish font, decent amount of pictures, good information that is easy to pull out. However, this classes book is... 25-30 page chapters, size 7ish font, around 2 pictures per chapter(and they aren't as interesting), and information that isn't too great. We also have to read this at home, and take notes which we can use on a quiz the next day. These quizzes are easy 100s, assuming you do the notes.. Which take over an hour per chapter and is incredibly boring. Oh, and theres 10 questions per chapter. Sometimes per 2 chapters. And notebooks count as a grade in here, and I had an unorganized notebook, which was missing some things, and for that reason I got a 60 on it. A 60 on a test grade. So, I'm failing this class because I have an unorganized notebook, something that is unnecesary for the class, much less dominate my grade, since test grades are 70% of my total grade. And it's more aggrevating that this class will do NOTHING for my life. I don't need to know about the early human civilizations, or Greece and Rome. History should be an elective, not a core class. Yes, it DOES teach essay writing. Pulling information out of sources and compiling it into a planned essay. But why can't it just be over... Something we need to know about?
1B: Algebra 2 Pre-AP
Uh. I must say I understand pretty much everything in this class except, surprisingly enough, transformations. like uh.. lemme try to remember... like when you get a graph, and then manipulate it like 3(x-2), and figure out what happened to it. Simply put it's just remembering which operation does what, which I never remembered. Other then that, this actually isn't that bad. But it's a math class so it sucks.
2A: Wind Ensemble (band, the top band)
We got a new main band director. Basically, he's smarter but stricter than our old director. He's also more funny, but hates stand tunes, the awesome songs we play in the stands at our footballs games such as Smoke on the Water, Crazy Train, and Soul Man, to name a few. This means we only learned half the songs we learned last year, which sucks. As far as marching goes, since our section is smaller this year I have to march, which is ok because I don't suck at it like last year. I can remember where to go and what to do, and can somehow memorize music really fast which is pretty weird because normally I don't have good memory. As far as instruments go, I'm renting one of the school's 2 York Euphoniums, which is basically an improved version of a normal Euphonium in just about ever category, and its gold =D. Normally it's given to either the best player, or for seniors, so it'd be cool that I have it, except that the other one was given to our freshman, who happens to be in the lowest band. We have NO clue how it happened. Oh, and the horn I march with, oddly enough, is the worst horn in the world. Back to the band director, I personally think he's a jerk, though not always. He seems to single out my section, or sometimes the low brass in general, when it comes to yelling at people for doing things wrong. He also, for some reason, always tells us to play much louder, regardless of the fact that us and the trombones are playing as loud as we possibly can without sounding like crap, which for me is insanely loud, so it's incredibly frustrating. Last week and yesterday were my first 2 competitions, and we failed, though for good reasons- We had a bad director last year, we're a very small band, and we were going up against really good bands. We were 12 out of 13 last week and 11 out of uh.. something like 15 yesterday. I hate competitions, but playing at football games is very fun.
Our football team isn't so great either. We've only had 2 wins this year, and something like 4 losses. Last year we were 3-6 I think, which was the best we've ever done. Everyone blames the coaches, seeing as they're the only constant since each year we get new players. Last game was really fun because we were losing until the middle of the 4th quarter, and it was our rivals we were going against, so beating them for the first time in a couple years means another reason for us to say they suck. Oh, their band sucks too.
2B-Web Mastering
Web Mastering is basically where we'll learn to make website with html and flash videos, so a class that's teaching me stuff that I need to learn. And being a tech class, it is also VERY easy. it's around 30 minutes of work, then an hour of playing Counter-Strike. Fun. Speaking of tech classes, we got our Tech Systems teacher from last year fired and banned from our school district. Lol. I LOVED that class though, and will never forget about it.
LUNCH
Lunch really, REALLY, sucks now. You get last years lunch, and make it even cheaper, and "healthier". They only have chicken wraps a couple days a week, so I can't rely on them. And their pizza is sometimes really bad, which it's bad normally, and for a week they changed it to WHEAT pizza, which was so disgusting I started bringing my lunch. Also, no more vending machines. Now my lunch consists of cold Tombstone pizza, and sometimes some Mountain Dew. Which is awesome. And lunch lines are way worse this year. I had to wait 20 minutes for my food once, and when you have a 25 minute lunch... yeah. They quite wheat pizza so it was expensive, so for once going cheap was the way to go.
3A-Spanish 2
This class has been a bit weird seeing as a month into the class, my teacher disapeared. So we've had like 2 weeks of substitute teachers, which means no learning, no work, just hanging out. Sadly this is my class with the least amount of friends. Mi zapato comió mi casa.
3B-Chemistry Pre-AP
Chemistry was ok up until this weak. Then we started talking quantums, and Schroedinger's theary of uncertainty, and something like there's an universes for each different action, meaning you'd get a number of universes that's literally infinite. Oh, we also talked about time travel or something like that. And this was all in a day. So talking all about that pretty much screwed up my mind, though at the same time made perfect sense. Also Schroedinger's cat ate a spaghetti.
4(every day class, though 30 less minutes long)- Engish 2 Pre-AP
I really regret taking all AP/Pre-AP, with the exception of Spanish. English actually isn't that bad. We've read Oedipus Rex and Antigone, and we're working through Julius Caesar. Hard to believe the years already a 4th over almost.
Here's a comic I drew in 8th grade.
I've drawn over 130 episodes of that but only 10 or so are on the computer.
The weather. All summer it was blistering hot. Rarely cloudly, no rain, hot and sunny. Then 2 weeks ago. All clouds, 50% of the time it would be raining, and cold. Well temperatures in the 60s, which seems cold when it's been summer forever. Yay rain and yay cooler temperatures.
Hard to believe school will dominate most of this blog, so I MUST think of something to write.
Halo: ODST. It's a good game, but certainly not Halo3 good. The campaign is shorter and not as good, but still fun and enjoyable. The SMG and pistol are awesome, and it's nice they put brute plasma rifles back in, though at the removal of normal plasma rifles and energy swords, due to lack of elites. Though you do see dead elites and drained energy swords. Also phantoms are the most annoying thing in the world. And you can assassinate engineers. Firefight is sadly either too easy or too hard, depending on skulls active, map, peopel you're playing with, and difficulty. The new Halo3 maps aren't that great either. Heretic is Midship, and Citadel is ripped from campaign. Longshore is the only true new one, and is pretty cool, though too small of a map. I was hoping for it to be a large sized map.
Modern Warfare 2 comes out in a month. Sadly I won't be able to preorder it. Me and a couple friends were going to do Gamebattles on it.
RC had the best chain of typos ever. No single typo was hilarious, though it's quantity over quality.
Greyson says:
At least I still had reviewer privledges
*privleges
privileges
ohwever i'ts s[elled
lol
holy that was a typo
LOL
*lol instead of holy
I'll have to cut this blog off short due to AP World History notes. Due to stupid PSAT, I have to do them by Monday as opposed to by Wednesday. :(. I'll probably make another blog, or add on to this one, to add anything I missed. Oh, and Louis gets his pills. PILLS HERE!
Edit:
Managed to break the Blog list.
So last night I had this weird like 5 hour long dream that was basically my brain flipping through channels of my thoughts.
I MIGHT have some of this out of order but that’s because there’s a lot of parts.
It started out as me in a game show. Apparently, the goal was to put on a shirt. I look at a stack of clothes, and there was a bunch of cool looking shirts or something. Then this jerk walks up and puts on just about all of them, leaving a bunch of Nintendo shirts. I put on a Mario Kart one, and was asked to look at some paintings. Suddenly the scenery slightly changed, (speaking of which it had a striking resemblance to a bit of a map in the Halo2 campaign, now that I think about it) and I was standing there, looking at the Dark Lord dude from Star Wars, the guy who gets killed by Luke and Darth Vader in the end. He was ranting on to 7 or so minions, generals I guess, about how they have failed him and asking them why. One of them raises his hand as if he’s in 7th grade and says “uhhh cause Darth Vader isn’t here.” So I suddenly realize I’m Darth Vader and go “Okkkk I’m hereee” and the-
And then I was back in the game show, apparently, having become the most famous person in the universe, all the famous actors/musicians/etc. in the world were running by and giving me high fives. It was pretty cool. I was about to give a speech or something when I turned around and-
And all of a sudden I’m overlooking a dark, rainy plain. There’s a sort of military base type thing sitting on the ground, and the rain subsides a bit and the clouds part as… yeah, a small UFO flies through. A barrage of missiles fly from the base and destroy the UFO. Seconds later, a slightly bigger UFO came down, only to be destroyed by an even bigger barrage of missiles. The UFO’s and missiles just kept getting bigger and bigger when some alien dude said something about us having no chance, when all of a sudden a HUGE bubble of Halo3 Banshees flies in with a Scorpion mounted on one of them and blows up the alien mothership. By “bubble” I mean they all formed this huge sphere, miles upon miles in diameter, and I (Darth Vader, again, only I’m flying now) look in the sphere and see a small blue circle. So I jump into a Banshee and start shooting at the sphere when it said..
Yeah it started talking. It said “Ah, Darth Vader is here” And it exploded, the edge of the mushroom cloud inches away from me, only as in most of my dreams the vierw was in 3rd person. So I fall back into a sphere of.. floating Halo3 Scorpions… to land on a big Tie Fighter thing to meat up with the dark lord dude and apparently, the explosion had “Fixed my retinal problem”
At this moment, I suddenly was in my grandparents house, apparently WATCHING the 5th Starwars (what just happened) and I thought it was “a lame way of them showing how he could see Luke without his helmet.” It made sense to the dream me, but to explain, apparently, I thought that when Anakin burst into flame and lost his arms and legs in the 3rd movie that he had been blinded, so when he “looks at Luke with his own eyes” at the end of the 6th movie, that he needed eyesight… And that that’s why he had the helmet. I don’t know why I thought that, because he wasn’t blinded. Oh, and apparently the explosion strengthened my body so I was immune to UV rays.
As the explosion subsides, my vision goes to the blown up planet, and a narrator voice in the background says “Well, so much for planet (forgot the name)” So apparently it wasn’t Earth. So as I turn back to the Dark Dude I suddenly..
Am back home. I had finished watching Starwars 5, and was walking downstairs (because this was my grandparents house) and as I walked down I decided to pick up this huge wooden dusty cabinet, which I did with one arm so I guess I’d been working out a lot in my dreams. There’s a little lizard under it and as I go to pick it up, this intense death metal just starts playing and this deep voice like the dude in Halo who says “Double Kill!” and such, and claims that I should only pick up big lizards, and then adding in a sillyish tone of voice, that they are attracted to clocks. So I pull a nondigital clock out of my pocket and mount it on the wall, and a ton of lizards ran to it. I had won.
So I walk in the next room, and um.. yeah RedChu was in there. All of a sudden, there was 3 of me’s: One was on a chair playing (I apologize for all these Halo references, I don’t know why it was on my mind) Halo3 with a PS2 controller. Another me was just lying down on a sofa, chilling out, and the 3rd me walked up to RC and said hey man whatsup, but he was busy talking to a girl. This part gets very weird. I tell RC that she’s gonna say (something, I forgot) and a second later, she did. And apparently she found it annoying that I had done that, and was about to say something when I told RC she was going to ask him out, and she did. Then I started thinking of if I had predicted the future, or shaped the future, when all of a suddennnnnnnn
I’m driving one of my parents cars down the highway. All of my driving experience has been in my dreams, and I typically crash, normally into trees, because there’s unusually low traffic when I dream, as there was here. I was driving across the normally busy highway near my house, and there were only about 7 other cars on the road, all near me. So I come up to a red light, and start pushing on the brakes. As nothing happened, I slammed on the breaks only to keep my constant speed. So I run the red light and no one cares, so this just goes on and on until.. The road stops. Just a blank, dead end. The railroad tracks went on, and as me and the 7 other car drivers get out, I realize they’re all people I know, wearing shirts from my High School, Elementary schools, and other schools. So I’m like ok, so I get on this mine cart that’s placed there when this person gets on the intercom and announces “To avoid access to locations that normal individuals don’t have access granted to, please get off the minecarts unless you are an employee, or got a 10 at our golf course. Thank you and good night.” So we all sigh and get back in our cars anddd
I’m home. MY home. My mom walks up claiming she just got 2 puppies, so I’m like cool, and she hands me a bomb on a chain and says “hang this on the stairs for them to play with, and don’t drop it.” So after throwing it to the ground as hard as I could, I hung it up and went to the kitchen to find.. 3 kittens on the sink. So I’m like “Mom, those puppies are freaking CATS” so then the cats jump in a hamster cage and
I woke up. By far, this was one of the coolest dreams I have ever had, and definitely the longest. I do believe, possibly, I slightly woke up during part of this, but only with part consciousness, and fell back asleep. It just seems that a break somewhere in there seems like it happened, and surely there were segments and definitely details I forgot.
Ooook. Mainly just doing this because I have not blogged since May 1st, and that is a bit large of a gap, even for me.
I don't want this to be a RC sized blog so I'll just breifly explain my summer. I drank soda and played my xbox360.
Anyyyway, 10th grade sucks so far, school food is worse then its ever been and more costly, and I'm bored. That's what school's like.
Right now I'm in some sort of uncreative stage. Normally I'd be easily willing to make this blog much longer but I just lack the willpower to devote the time into that. If that makes much sense.
Now at least TRYING to add detail, I've started working on my game again. I don't want to list too much as it's in super pre-Beta stage right now, but basically, it's a top down shooter. And yeah, you might be thinking, there's enough, but by the time I've finished it'll probably be sometime around 2015 and the current topdown's such as Adrenaline and The Havoc Agency have been lost in the depths of time, along with a lot of other games, making mine cutting edge. Of course, if you can wait. So if anyone wants to be in the beta's... eh. First person who posts gets to be, along with some others who basically already test it, or just deserve it.
I'm planning, for each "major" release, to have 3 primary things:
1. A decent graphic boost
2. Multiplayer update (which doesn't exist as of now)
3. 1 or 2 campaign missions
So just put that, add with the fact I'm a very novice gm'er, busy, and lazy, and you can only guess why it'll take me 6 years. It's already over a year old.
Due to the poorly drawn graphics, and the fact it is subject to change, I'll just post a couple small pictures.
This is just a MP5 I drew. Took a couple minutes, and actually, it's probably the best thing I've drawn.
This is the character shooting a weapon called the Shaft Equalizer. Sort of a plasma-machine gun type thing.
Today I got to wave 26 on Der Reise, on CoD:WaW. Amazing fun, especially since I had the wonderwaffe or however you spell it. I also preordered Halo: ODST, can't wait for it to come out. I'm also planning on getting Modern Warfare 2. And if anyone has Section 8, should I get it? I've heard it's pretty good.
Speaking of games, my guitar hero guitar and drums broke in the same month. I'll just taker a wild guess my brother might've contributed to that. And just to clear things up, yes, my brother is Kabob799.
(end)
Edit1:
I'd also like to add, that, my code is horrendously unreadable and lengthy, though it works. The step event for my character was about 260 lines of code, though in trying to implement a working 2-weapons-at-a-time deal I sort of added about 400 lines of code. And I cut back on finishing the shotgun due to my method would be to have each bullet have a seperate object, which would be very, very ugly. Due to this, it's hard for me to get help since people honestly can't read my code, or dig through it.
Edit2:
And as a side note, there's still the glitch where I appear as KaBob on the Active Users list. I mentioned this probably a year ago and it never seemed to have gotten fixed. My uneducated guess is that this has to do with our similar IP's. Though I don't ALWAYS appear as him. And yes, it shows it to other people too. Though, I think it only does it when both me and him are on, so probably IP conflict. Weird how it's only me appearing as him, and not him as me.
I've drawn over 130 episodes of that but only 10 or so are on the computer.
The weather. All summer it was blistering hot. Rarely cloudly, no rain, hot and sunny. Then 2 weeks ago. All clouds, 50% of the time it would be raining, and cold. Well temperatures in the 60s, which seems cold when it's been summer forever. Yay rain and yay cooler temperatures.
Hard to believe school will dominate most of this blog, so I MUST think of something to write.
Halo: ODST. It's a good game, but certainly not Halo3 good. The campaign is shorter and not as good, but still fun and enjoyable. The SMG and pistol are awesome, and it's nice they put brute plasma rifles back in, though at the removal of normal plasma rifles and energy swords, due to lack of elites. Though you do see dead elites and drained energy swords. Also phantoms are the most annoying thing in the world. And you can assassinate engineers. Firefight is sadly either too easy or too hard, depending on skulls active, map, peopel you're playing with, and difficulty. The new Halo3 maps aren't that great either. Heretic is Midship, and Citadel is ripped from campaign. Longshore is the only true new one, and is pretty cool, though too small of a map. I was hoping for it to be a large sized map.
Modern Warfare 2 comes out in a month. Sadly I won't be able to preorder it. Me and a couple friends were going to do Gamebattles on it.
RC had the best chain of typos ever. No single typo was hilarious, though it's quantity over quality.
Greyson says:
At least I still had reviewer privledges
*privleges
privileges
ohwever i'ts s[elled
lol
holy that was a typo
LOL
*lol instead of holy
I'll have to cut this blog off short due to AP World History notes. Due to stupid PSAT, I have to do them by Monday as opposed to by Wednesday. :(. I'll probably make another blog, or add on to this one, to add anything I missed. Oh, and Louis gets his pills. PILLS HERE!
Edit:
Managed to break the Blog list.
This is the character shooting a weapon called the Shaft Equalizer. Sort of a plasma-machine gun type thing.
Today I got to wave 26 on Der Reise, on CoD:WaW. Amazing fun, especially since I had the wonderwaffe or however you spell it. I also preordered Halo: ODST, can't wait for it to come out. I'm also planning on getting Modern Warfare 2. And if anyone has Section 8, should I get it? I've heard it's pretty good.
Speaking of games, my guitar hero guitar and drums broke in the same month. I'll just taker a wild guess my brother might've contributed to that. And just to clear things up, yes, my brother is Kabob799.
(end)
Edit1:
I'd also like to add, that, my code is horrendously unreadable and lengthy, though it works. The step event for my character was about 260 lines of code, though in trying to implement a working 2-weapons-at-a-time deal I sort of added about 400 lines of code. And I cut back on finishing the shotgun due to my method would be to have each bullet have a seperate object, which would be very, very ugly. Due to this, it's hard for me to get help since people honestly can't read my code, or dig through it.
Edit2:
And as a side note, there's still the glitch where I appear as KaBob on the Active Users list. I mentioned this probably a year ago and it never seemed to have gotten fixed. My uneducated guess is that this has to do with our similar IP's. Though I don't ALWAYS appear as him. And yes, it shows it to other people too. Though, I think it only does it when both me and him are on, so probably IP conflict. Weird how it's only me appearing as him, and not him as me.
