Blightmare

"The funny thing is, in any other circumstance you might have had a point there. Except my boss is a woman, I was a chick in the 40's, I hate EVERYONE equally, and there's no one alive who could comprehend my sexual preference. So in other words Miss Van Winkle: CHU-CHU-CHU-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!"

Problem-solving. Successfully, surprisingly.

Excuse me, but I'm a fuck-mothering vampire. I killed a LOT of people to get this title. I deserve to be called such.

Taking a break from programming the AI for one of my games.

Nah don't worry about it I've cooled my head. As for Master Vrook, I really don't remember him being that hard, but then again it's been so long since I've played either of those and I did exploit the hell out of the infinite spawn enemy corpse on the sith world to hi level 50. That and I usually went Sith Lord prestige and just practically tore people apart with ridiculously strong powers. Mostly a maxed out force drain. For all I know I may have combined a number of exploits to bring him down before his first attack. (I always horde mines since game start)

"Did anyone get the number on that bitch" "18" "Thank you."

Sign I've been working to damn much on my games: I just compared my inability to understand something but not wanting to let it go as "like being stuck in a do while loop with no exit parameter."

Killing Floor. It's been a while since I last played. I should be working. o.o

Risk of Rain. Again. I beat the game solo as Sniper. Never thought I'd say that and be serious but here we are.

I'm about to post a very long winded rant because this has unfortunately been festering for a while. You know what's really been grinding me up lately? The Youtubers of the game side. Now I'm not talking about markiplier, pewdiepie, etc. I honestly could care less what they do with their time, and I do on occasion enjoy Markipliers loud-fast-moving-fast-talking-Red-bull-gives-you-wings-I-don't-breath-for-the-video's-duration videos if not just to giggle at someone being silly and over the top. I'm talking about the ones that think they know what they're talking about, and then proceed to tear every single game they play apart, ignoring any and all good things about the game to talk about why it's "literally hitler" and that the game devs are the worst people at their jobs. Why does this bother me? Well, because the game industry is what I've spent the last 5 years of my life working towards and I get to continue working towards it with the knowledge that no matter how much work I put into something, SOMEONE out there is gonna write it off as "if you spent more than 5 minutes working on it then it wouldn't suck" I think that's what bothers me the most. How easily hard work in the game industry is dismissed. There's a term company's like to call "crunch time". You know what that is? that is several months of 80 hour work weeks sometimes without overtime pay just so they can have a sliver of hope that someone at E3 or Pax or whatever will stop to look at the trailer for 5 minutes. There's a reason why I don't give the people who work on Call of Duty shit. They work tirelessly(yes, tirelessly, contrary to popular belief) and they get the worst treatment from people. I kinda pity them actually. Anywho I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me talk about one of the biggest offenders of my annoyance right now. A one AllShamNoWow on Youtube. I discovered this guy through SeaNanners back when he used to play with them. He is funny. He can be very funny. Here's the problem. He likes to seek out bad games and play them while mocking them through and through. Now, he's found some truly bad games where I could tell the game designers were just doing it for the money and had no real interest in what it was, so I can understand why some would mock these games. The issue lies in that he sometimes chooses games that are well made, and passes them off as basically toxic waste. I watch these videos of his and I always come to the conclusion: This guy has no idea what he's talking about. "Garbage" seems to be his favorite word in a lot of these videos. Rarely says why he thinks it's garbage, usually just laughs, calls it garbage or other phrases synonymous with unwanted waste, and eventually quits. He doesn't seem to so much as grasp the threads of the concept that not liking something doesn't ACTUALLY mean it's bad; it means you just don't like it. Some of those games he so casually threw away had some incredible concepts I've never hear of before or were actually executed quite well on a technical level indicating experience on the designers parts. But nope, he couldn't figure out how to do something within 10 seconds. Better call it garbage. One of these games with a cool concept I saw revolved around guiding the player via sound instead of sight. The game itself needed a lot of work, sound design didn't look quite finished making it a bit misleading at times, as well as a few other general bad practices I spotted in the gameplay itself. (forcing players into lengthy dialogue sections and even removing player control for it's duration would be a key one) Given these issues I sorta thought I knew why he chose this game to mock. Nope. He didn't just tear apart the gameplay flaws (which he never actually provided a decent critic on what would make it decent. Not like anyone who isn't a designer cares about that sorta thing anyways but I digress) he tore apart the very concept. Like, he sounded as if a game designed to use sound as a higher priority over visual was the dumbest thing he's ever heard of. Year after year people go on about how there's never any games coming out that try something new, and when one finally does come out, YouTubers like him come crawling out of there holes to devour it like they're nourished by the anguished screams of innovation dying. Now given all that, let me just go ahead and compound this situation. He has 432,517 subscribers as I type this and while it goes without saying that they're not all like this (not all me- WHOOPS), he has one of the most mindless subscriber bases out there. I wonder how many of them just sit there and let Sham pretty much think for them. If there's any time I would find the term "sheeple" appropriate, it would be this. They're practically a few organized meetings away from being a cult. StroodleNoodle is probably the worst offender of them. Not only is he basically like Mini Me to sham, he's condescending as hell. What do you expect of someone that Sham deemed fit to moderate his live streams? On top of this, his subscriber base is TOXIC. Like I've seen some bad fanbois and fangirls on youtube but his imo take the cake. For example, he recently put up a video for Five Night's at Freddy's and one point during it he ripped on Markiplier which upset a few people(I'm gonna leave out the rest of the detailed explanation about the video and leave it at he shamed and mocked anyone who finds the game scary. Because we all know, if Sham doesn't find it scary, then it simply must not actually be scary to anyone). I'm not gonna take anyone's side here btw, the Markiplier fans didn't help anything with some of their comments either, but the reaction that followed can be summed up by different iterations of the exact same thing Sham said in his video, with a plethora of added insults ranging from the atrociously misspelled string of swear words to the "you must be 12"s. (I'm being very generous towards them right now mind you). And every so often I see Stroodle pop into a conversation to throw around heaping spoonfuls of sarcastic, condescending uselessness, which Sham's subscribers make very clear they view as a valid, proper response. Long story short, I've willingly spent the last 5 years of my life preparing to cater to some of the most ungrateful people on the planet who have a lot of other people mindlessly following them, all of which will in a heart beat write off hours upon hours of work as a 5 minute half-assed job, and maybe just maybe it's got me a little bit bummed.

Shit my friend says when playing Skyrim entry 1: Man, this horse pilots like a boat in the water.

Nah it's fine. I usually just manually back up after every lengthy work session. Thanks though.

I have 2 external drives with everything backed up on now. Normally I'm good about backing up my things but I've been so busy lately that a lot of my normal routines have been dropped in lieu of finishing these projects. Of course, that decision backfired like most of my "it'll be fine" decisions Famous last words after all.

same movie and same rating. I let a lot of that slide though since the first movie in a marvel series (and you know there's gonna be more than one of these) is often rushed to establish the characters and settings and the later ones are often better paced. For example, Captain America. In honesty I really didn't care much for the first one especially how rushed the taking of Germany was, but I loved the second.

Risk of Rain once more. I finally beat the game enough times to unlock the merc. 1 more character to go then I have them all. I also unlocked the Glass artifact which is funny. 500% damage with 10% health. Edit: playing right now as huntress with Glass artifact. I got an early Infusion (every kill is a permanent +1 to health) and a bunch of other really good items in level one. I also got the secret hog level in level 3 so I can farm easy kills. This is so dirty it's not even funny. I have regular health already and still have the 500% damage boost. If I can't beat the game with this I deserve to uninstall XD I like to play huntress because she's the only one who can attack and use abilities while moving. her attacks aren't hard hitting but she's the best at kiting. Editedit: I just did so much damage and got so many kills with 1 attack, that the game glitched out and gave me an achievement for a character I wasn't even playing, for using an ability I don't even have. O_O

So I’m sitting there on my computer when I hear some rumbling. Thinking it was my chair I stood up and looked at it, not finding anything unusual. I sat down, then looked back and saw myself staring face-to-face with a Baneblade. I have no idea how that got there, it must’ve taken some sort of tactical genius to… CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!

My computer just had a critical error and the C drive needed to be "refreshed" as my computer called it. Windows had to be reinstalled but it saved a lot of my files. Thankfully I was able to salvage my cryengine and unity games but the landscape needs to be rebuilt in Cryengine. Not too much of a problem, I love working on the landscapes. Still, highly inconvenient.

I hate math! I'm gonna get a job that's 90% math!

The day has finally come. I logged onto FimFiction and not a single current Featured story is blatant clop. I'm so proud of them.

Excuse me, pardon me, coming through, excuse me.

I don't really have anything more to show for the sidescroller yet but the top down is coming along a lot faster than I expected. I spent about 5 hours yesterday working on the assault rifle code and managed to get it to work rather splendidly. It's 30 rounds to the clip, auto reloads when it hits 0, and can be manually reloaded with R if the current clip is less than 30. There's hit detection registry against walls and enemies and if an enemy is hit it applies the appropriate damage. There's just no animations. Those come last. I know this sounds kinda stupid to be updating with this info but on the programming side of things a lot more is going on that can make things difficult (gun still deals damage when reloading, clip count can go negative and still shoot, won't auto/manual reload, etc) I even got a navigation mesh built (it's messy and has problems but I was a tad hurried on that and will fix it up later.) and even got my enemy block-in to seek out the player. It was a LOT simpler than I thought it would be and kinda wish I did that part earlier. Enemy will also die if his health hits 0. He just doesn't do anything other than follow you and die yet. Last thing I added was a temporary UI to show the players health and current clip ammo (there's no ammo limit as it would not work with what I'm doing so I left it at infinite ammo with reloads) Next I need to get the shotgun working (actually not looking forward to this too much as working with raycasts isn't my strongest point and I'm gonna need 8 of them for this. erf.) If anyone has any suggestions they think would be cool, let me know and I'll consider them. I can't promise I'll use them (doesn't work in game style, time to make it, difficulty in creation etc.)

Imagine Dragons - It's Time

Insurgency. It's like Call of Duty with testicles.

League of Legends with my friend. Last game we played we won an ARAM match which for all intents and purposes in every sense of that phrase, we should have lost. we were 3 v 5 half the game, and they even got our Nexus down to 100 hp(that's 1 auto attack from losing) before we pushed them off and even before we got the first tower. Yet we won. we aced them 3 times in a row in the last push and I was full build Orianna with 670+ AP. There tank had 300 magic resist(roughly 75% damage reduction) and I ate right through it. We both agreed that was a good game to end on. Never gonna get a victory like that again.

Ryze and shine, sleepyhead, it's time to get schooled!