The New What Did You Last Do Thread

[Zombieguy]

My back is still having trouble. I planned on getting my abs more defined, and my muscles bigger for summer. But my sacrum decided it needed to pop out of place. Great, just great. I need to get back to my schedule. And, I have a headache. I suppose it's a good thing though, I have only three weeks of school left, so I need to focus on that. Then I can worry about other crap. Bleh, whatever....

[Phobus]

CSS is fun!

why do i keep reading that as "Buttonsex!" for

Last night I dreamed about attractive females again. Eh, I need a girlfriend. Or, er, something... =p

You two both need to get laid

and I just found out from the professor that half the class didn't pass...

Isn't that normal?

The Computer Games Software Development course I did at the University of Bolton has an 80% fail/drop-out rate. This is because a shocking quantity of people turned up in the first year lacking basic mathematical and physics knowledge and many others quickly discovered that they weren't about to spend 3 years playing games. We actually went down from roughly 40 people at the start to 9 people at the end... and one of those failed too.

[printz]

Last night I dreamed about attractive females again. Eh, I need a girlfriend. Or, er, something... =p

Heh, I also had a dream a few days ago about a girl I've never met or seen, not even as photos on the Internet. She actually looked like me, but ofc more girlish (which sadly isn't far off; I guess I don't have enough testosterone, explaining my thin face and beard only as much as a goatee, as well as my lack of competitive creativity, and my way of acting moody and projecting my stress on undeserving people). Where can I eat some testosterone, I want more facial hair and power?

[Zombieguy]

You two both need to get laid

Heh, even if I met a girl, I probably wouldn't even have one gut in my body to even talk to her. At one point, I was in walmart, and then one of my friends I haven't seen in years just walks up to me. I could barely say a word, she was spanking hot. After she finished talking to me, she gave me a hug and went back to live in Texas (yeah, seriously). -_-

[Enjay]

The Computer Games Software Development course I did at the University of Bolton has an 80% fail/drop-out rate. This is because a shocking quantity of people turned up in the first year lacking basic mathematical and physics knowledge and many others quickly discovered that they weren't about to spend 3 years playing games. We actually went down from roughly 40 people at the start to 9 people at the end... and one of those failed too.

Heh, yes, I see that from the other side quite a bit. ie pupils who are useless at maths telling me they want to go into game development and, yes, they do seem to assume that game development is mainly about playing games with very little actual work or study. They will almost certainly make up some of that ~80% figure for whichever uni or college was daft enough to accept them.

[LilWhiteMouse]

This is because a shocking quantity of people turned up in the first year lacking basic mathematical and physics knowledge and many others quickly discovered that they weren't about to spend 3 years playing games. We actually went down from roughly 40 people at the start to 9 people at the end... and one of those failed too.

....then those that made it, get a job ready to begin their budding creative career, only to be smothered by office politics and bureaucratic nonsense. Two buyouts later, two project restarts later, somebody finally decides to pay you, and hope is on the horizon for project release. You reach a stable version, and the project halts. Calls go unanswered, NDAs issued, and you're flat on your ass with nothing you can show for it. You vow that day, never again, the industry can kiss my ass.

Hypothetically speaking.

[CaptainToenail]

Shit I am screwed then.

Geography was my first choice, but I wasn't accepted despite having better grades than required, just in the wrong areas of study. I guess having a B at advanced higher geography instead of just higher geo does not make up for a C at higher biology. Going to have to soldier on with this computing course.

[Project Dark Fox]

This is because a shocking quantity of people turned up in the first year lacking basic mathematical and physics knowledge and many others quickly discovered that they weren't about to spend 3 years playing games. We actually went down from roughly 40 people at the start to 9 people at the end... and one of those failed too.

....then those that made it, get a job ready to begin their budding creative career, only to be smothered by office politics and bureaucratic nonsense. Two buyouts later, two project restarts later, somebody finally decides to pay you, and hope is on the horizon for project release. You reach a stable version, and the project halts. Calls go unanswered, NDAs issued, and you're flat on your ass with nothing you can show for it. You vow that day, never again, the industry can kiss my ass.

Hypothetically speaking.

Considering that's exactly how I am seeing the game market these days, somehow I don't think this is very hypothetical at all.

Aside, I learned that I will be forced to move into another place within the area here very shortly. I get to keep my current job, but all this moving around and being unable to settle down in one place or another is getting to be a real wear on me.
Recently I felt sudden and unprovoked urges to destroy things in my area, whether it would be defenestrating them, throwing them down at the ground, at people, fighting people, just ... because. I don't know why these urges of rage are popping up, but maybe it's related to the situation, and ...
I should stop. I'm depressing myself posting about it when few will probably care.

[InsanityBringer]

Ok, random question, but does anyone know of any terrain generators and editors that are geared up at creating heightmaps for games? I kind of want to add nice features to terra like automatic texturing from the heightmap file, because manually doing the texturing in DB2 or whatever can get a little annoying. The only one I know of offhand is Nemesis' tool for HL2, which works decently, but I'm not sure if there's others out there.

[printz]

Recently I felt sudden and unprovoked urges to destroy things in my area, whether it would be defenestrating them, throwing them down at the ground, at people, fighting people, just ... because. I don't know why these urges of rage are popping up, but maybe it's related to the situation, and ...
I should stop. I'm depressing myself posting about it when few will probably care.

As long as you won't hurt anyone, you'll be okay I guess.

[Phobus]

....then those that made it, get a job ready to begin their budding creative career, only to be smothered by office politics and bureaucratic nonsense. Two buyouts later, two project restarts later, somebody finally decides to pay you, and hope is on the horizon for project release. You reach a stable version, and the project halts. Calls go unanswered, NDAs issued, and you're flat on your ass with nothing you can show for it. You vow that day, never again, the industry can kiss my ass.

Ha - two of us have jobs that aren't even in the industry and one guys already been made redundant from his after experiencing something quite similar to what you described, but involving millionaires with short attention spans. Fortunately he was only in it for a couple of months and is fully prepared to search again, having not yet moved out of his parents' house.

Hypothetically speaking.

The hope is that we never let it keep us down.

[Blox]

Judging by that, it seems like getting some developerbros (artists/coders/composers etc.) and settle in a big apartment (argh I'm bad at house terms) that's paid by their total income -
and then work at "Teh" Game whenever in their free time doesn't sound all too insane.

Of course shit would be bound to happen in such a situation, but even then it'd have to be some REALLY BAD shit (worse than just splitting up) to be worse than LWM's hypothesis.
Because at the end of the day, most of them still ought to have whatever job they had to support the rent, instead of getting the nice status of freshly jobless.

Edit: Also just did an edit of my old cake:

Because I've been saying happy derpsday quite a lot over there at the skulltag birthday thread.

[Enjay]

Geography was my first choice...

And to take a diversion, today was the Scottish advanced higher geography exam. Question 5 featured a beach with a nice stretch of sand, a stream running in to the sea, a disused railway and a nearby town called Burghead. Yes, the advanced higher geography exam had a question on the exact same bit of the country as my Doom mod was based in. It amused me any way.

[Princess Viscra Maelstrom]

CSS is fun!

You two both need to get laid

already got that covered for (been in a relationship for over 1 year, after all)
besides, i always have found sexual innuendos in a lot of stuff where it don't belong. you could say that i am arguably inappropriate.
hmm, that's a nice title, there.

[Nash]

Ok, random question, but does anyone know of any terrain generators and editors that are geared up at creating heightmaps for games? I kind of want to add nice features to terra like automatic texturing from the heightmap file, because manually doing the texturing in DB2 or whatever can get a little annoying. The only one I know of offhand is Nemesis' tool for HL2, which works decently, but I'm not sure if there's others out there.

I've used a program called Terragen Classic (commercial app): http://www.planetside.co.uk/index.php?o ... Itemid=152 and a free one called Terrain Generator: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=8

These are the only 2 I've ever messed around with...