Another geography rant

Posted by Astryl on Aug. 15, 2012, 5:46 a.m.

Right, taking my cue from [furry], I would like to point out that South Africa isn't some horrible hole with no infrastructure, an infestation of mercenaries and a racism problem.

Nope.

Ok, maybe some racism still persists, but where doesn't it?

Be honest.

Anyway, read this:

http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/132487/the_south_african_game_development_.php?print=1

And something you may not know: We have a freakin' EA dev studio.

Anyway, thought I'd put that out there. Now let me get back to my work.

What I'm doing to relax

Though I'm at work right now with nothing much to do, I've been working on a minor project at home that i was intending to blog about. It isn't a game, nor is it a normal application…

Nope. I'm coding, for -fun-, an OS from scratch. Eeyup.

Before you start rolling around in fits of uncontrollable laughter, I already have a kernel, with only a single segmented memory manager at the moment, but with full access to te entire potential 4gb address line of a 32 bit CPU.

In addition to that, I have some of the parts of the C standard library made (notably, memset, memcpy, malloc, free, putch, and puts), which I had to code from scratch.

I also created a fault message display module, that creates a wonderful Blue Screen Of Doomtm (Not to be confused with the more common Blue Screen Of Death).

Anyway, pics when I get back to my PC.

Comments

Astryl 12 years, 3 months ago

This is frightening, terrible and ironic at the same time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19292909

Cesque 12 years, 3 months ago

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Switzerland, motherfuckers!

:Dies:

I still think my suggestion was better.

Switzerland, motherfuckers!

:Gets euthanised:

pounce4evur 12 years, 3 months ago

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Switzerland, motherfuckers!

:Dies:

Switzerland, motherfuckers!

:Swiss army knife'd to death:

:Turned into Swiss cheese:

:Falls off Swiss alps:

Do these even have anything to do with Switzerland…? *shrugs*

Castypher 12 years, 3 months ago

CHOCOLAAAAAAATE.

Rob 12 years, 3 months ago

@pounce

No, but this is what Swiss people are like, apparently:

And one in English:

sirxemic 12 years, 3 months ago

@Rob:

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F1ak3r 12 years, 3 months ago

Just droppin' in to say hi.

Rob 12 years, 3 months ago

@sirXemic

He is from Switzerland, he's just in the German part.

JuurianChi 12 years, 3 months ago

@TheVideosRobPosted

LOL.

Balls.

sirxemic 12 years, 3 months ago

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He is from Switzerland, he's just in the German part.
Yeah, I figured that out, but it's not why I was facepalming.

I was facepalming because you actually posted those vids here… :P