Tuesday, January 23, 2007

From the Archives...

A friend was asking me if I knew anything about 3D animation and it reminded me about these images. They are digital snapshots of some 3D models I made using 3D Studio when I was studying Interactive Multimedia about 6 years ago.




I spent an entire week building the 3D models out of individual shapes joined together and was going to learn how to animate them. I had this whole storyboard planned out where the Star Destroyer (That's the wedge shaped thingie for you non-Star Wars inclined people) bears down on the Millenium Falcon (The other wierd shaped dohicky) and pulls it in using a tractor beam.

Then the school kinda went into some kind of problems and we didn't have an instructor. Not long after, we just stopped going to class.

Think that kinda put a stopper on my "artistic inclinations". And there I was... thinking that I could someday join Lucas Arts... *sigh*

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

WTF

WTF!!!

Three simple letters to describe my mental, physical and emotional state.


Who The F*** does [Insert Name Here] think [he/she] is?
This goes out to the people who have absolutely no clue what a selfish, self absorbed, obnoxious ass they are. (Myself included) I mean... come on! Spare a thought for others will you?


Where The F*** is my beloved "Tough" key holder and all my keys?
I lost my keys on the bus after class one night... (See the next section to know why). I tried going back to the store I bought it from and all its chain stores... they no longer carry that label.


Why The F*** can't girls stand up to let people out of their seats?
One of the reasons why I hate taking the bus. I always move in when I get a seat to myself. Some people don't. If they are about to get off at the next stop, fair enough. But there have been countless times when I find that the only seat left on a crowded bus is being blocked by a selfish doofus who simply refuses to move in.

I usually just stand if it's just a short bus ride but for the longer journeys, (ie to work or to school), I prefer to sit as my bulky frame + backpack doesn't really work well with my centre of gravity on a jerky bus. So when the need to sit really overwhelms me, I will politely ask the f****r to let me through. (Here's where I appear sexist.) NEVER, in my entire lifetime of taking the public bus, has a female ever stood up to allow my big frame to squeeze into the cramped seat. They will just shift ever so slightly like a door opening such that they are facing sideways with an irritated look on their face. The more f***ed up ones just twist their bodies, thinking that they are anorexic, stick-thin supermodels to create an opening a kid can hardly squeeze through.

Getting out of the seat is just as bad. Most men would just stand up to let me slide past but women will sink their claws in the seat and just shift their Thunderthighs ever so slightly again, making absoutely no difference than if they had just sat there as they were.


What The F*** are my lecturers talking about?
I really have trouble understanding my lecturers this semester. It's either too complicated for my frizzled out brain or too dodgy for me to believe. Dodgy you say? My classmates will know why.


When The F*** will I leave this heck hole?
By this, I'm referring to my job, this country, and this existance. (In no particular order)

I was just having a discussion with Weng the other day about the possibility of life after death. Spirituality aside, we considered that there might be the possibility that we simply cease to exist after kicking the bucket. Our conclusion from that discussion was that we were ready to face death if it comes knocking... as long as it's painless.

Now for the Game of the Moment... a very short review cos I'm about to fall asleep...


Now Playing: WTF (PSP)

In conjunction with today's topic...

WTF (Work Time Fun) is a game in a category of it's own. It has some similarities to the mindless arcade game Bishi Bashi in that it's really mindless and wierd.

Basically, you need to earn money, so you take on various kinds of jobs, which come in the form of mini games.

There are tons of mini games to choose from but you gotta unlock some of them first. As you play the games, you earn money. The amount of money you earn depends on the type of games you play. The money you earn can only be spent on one thing... Japanese Capsule toys.

The goal of the game (if there is one) is to collect all the different capsule toys. But be warned... there are hundreds of them to collect. There are different capsule machines to buy them from and each type of machine costs a different amount and they give different items. Occassionally, in place of a toy, you win a new mini game (That's how you unlock them). Besides games, you also get "Applications" such as a timer for cooking cup noodles in which you get to choose a guy or girl to shake around on your PSP screen for 3 or 5 minutes. Once they are done, your noodles are too.


The mini games range from funny, to cute, to irritating, to zombifying and to hopelessly tough. take the Pendamonium mini game for instance. You are working in a factory assembly line like setting where your job is to place the caps on pens.... Hardly any fun but it's one of the easiest games to play. You get paid according to the number of pens you (correctly) cap. You control the speed and it goes on and on and on till you get sick of capping pens. (My record was 10,000 pens. Took me 3 days' worth of bus rides to achieve that.)


Other games are more challenging like the one where you have to stab at the space between an outstretched hand with an ice pick (I can't remember the name). The more times you can do it without stabing the hand, the more cash you get.
Ms Pink Pant*** currently hold the record for that one.


My favourite has to be the Chick Sorter game where you sort chicks on an assembly line into three categories, mainly male, female and dead. After a while, your vision tends to go blurry.


Most of the mini games are fun by itself. Add the thrill of getting unknown toys and more games in the capsule machines and that's what makes this game difficult to put down.

All in all, I'd say that this game is great for some mindless, time killing fun but it can get really addictive though. (I've spent countless hours playing on the bus.) A must for long bus/plane/train/car rides provided you don't get sick and throw up. Ha ha.