Saddest day ever

Today I would like to take a few minutes and tell you about a friend of mine that passed away today.  My friends name is the Remington PRO1500XL and it has been my trusty hairdryer for the past 15 or so years, probably longer.  It has traveled to about 8 cities and 3 countries with me over the years and has never let me down.  And today it finally lay down and died.  Fucking switch broke!  Gave me a nice burning smell too.  So tomorrow I have to go buy a new one.  Thankfully I cut my hair last week so its short and doesnt really need one of these at the moment.  But I will take a look and see what they have.

I also finally saw Batman 3 yesterday.  Not too bad.  I preferred Dark Knight, which is my favourite, and Batman Begins just a little under it.  Third one was good, but I felt it needed to do a few things differently.   No surprise, Banes voice was hard to understand half the time thanks to my cinemas bullshit speakers that people seem to enjoy here.  And of course the shit screen.  I'd watched the previous 2 just before going so I could be fresh with the full story since they're all tied together, and seeing the scene at the start of the third film which was at the ending of the second one, made the picture quality really jump out at me.  Bluray vs fucking SD on a large screen.  Plus I recall not being able to understand Batman in most of the second film.  At least my sound system was worth the money.  I understood every word.  Thats what you get for not having enough clarity you bullshit organization.  And then you dare to charge us $18.  Good thing I found out my phone provider has $10 tickets for their members.  Score!

Also, my sadness..  Goodbye old friend  :(

Project Giana

Way back when I was a kid there was a game I played on my delicious Commodore 64, still one of the best games systems ever made.  It was called the Great Giana Sisters.  This game was a shameless knock-off of super Mario Brothers.  So much so that Nintendo forced them to stop selling it.

Now this game I loved.  Everyone who played it loved it.  I preferred it over Mario.  If you're interested in seeing it there are emulators and roms for it you can download that are extremely easy to find and use.  I dont have it at the moment which is why I havent put up any links.  But then again I dont think many would want to play something that old.

So imagine my surprise and frustration that I found this...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana

Frustration because its in the last 16 hours before it ends and no stupid site picked it up in the last month to report, or at least I didnt see it anywhere.  This is the sequel.  A SEQUEL!!  And its looking fucking awesome.  Funniest thing about it is its evolved about 4 million times from what it used to be.  Thats about 4 million times more than Mario has evolved after about 50 games.  I've already placed my name down for a copy and cant wait for it.  Theres also a link to a demo on the page in case you're curious.

CS:GO clip #2

This clip was a nightmare.  I encoded it like 8 times.  For some reason it refused to go under 2gb without corrupting.  So then add in another 10 hours for it to upload and process and BLEAH!  I think the frame rate might be off because of it, not sure.  Could just be firefox being shit like usual for me.  Cause its shit and I dont know why I dont use IE since its clearly better in every way.  Old habits I guess.  Enjoy my rubbish!

Bunch of Heroes clip

Well todays been interesting.  My cat has thrown up like 3 times in the last hour.  Directly after eating.  Now I know the food is fresh and the milk is good, so why directly after it?  Hopefully hes just got a temp stomach bug and cant hold much down.  I gave him some dry food just then but not too much, see how he handles that.  Hopefully he'll be right as rain in a day or so. He's still playful so he cant be feeling that sick.  Well fingers crossed, but obviously I'm gonna be worried over him for a few days.

So today I went through my videos and uploaded some gameplay from Bunch of Heroes that me, jed and crazy played.  Game seems to be ok, nothing super duper.  But if people like watching it for the game or the random chatter during it, I'll upload more.  We havent finished the game yet.  Not sure when we'll be able to.  Like many other games that we havent started.  graaar....

Its a video

So I finally got hassled into a partnership on youtube, and since these guys are like the 3rd people to offer me I decided why not.  Only problem is I need to edit a few videos that have licensed music in them.  The thought of that almost made me turn away because thats just effort.  But I realized the little extra money, however small, would be pretty useful, mostly for Jed as a few things are changing for him soon.  He'll make an update about it down the track.

So basically for example, the portal clips we uploaded, I need to do something about the intros.  I dont know or think youtube has the ability to edit videos already uploaded without copying over the entire sound track.  I might have to reupload them which is a real bitch since all the comments will go and I like comments.  I might have to remove my halloween toy clip too because of a piece in it.  I'm hoping I can keep that there because theres no way to edit that one without splicing out scenes and I love that clip as is.

Now what this also means is I'm kinda going to be uploading a little more gameplay clips, specifically playthroughs for fun.  Jed plans to put some up himself too.  Most of the games I play wont really be recorded since they're usually management games like say Civilization, football manager, etc, or rpgs, and they'd not be too entertaining to watch.  But any versus style games or action ones I get around to, I'll upload them.  So my first clip is actually going to be Counter-strike GO.  I've been looking forward to this one for ages since I'm a fan of the series.  Now its not just the partnership thing thats made me decide to upload playthroughs.  I was already planning to do this as very soon getting to play any games with Jed will become even more rare than usual, so I didnt want to have zero game clips on my page.  Again, he'll update you lot soon over it.  But at least it means we'll both be uploading games clips of ourselves playing stuff.  I'm sure his commentary will be glorious.

So yeah, heres the clip.  Now I have to go off to waste my time voting for people I dont even know who are running.  I pay zero attention to politics.  I'm so shit at politics I keep forgetting what right and left wing mean.  I'm that disinterested. 

Head against the wall

Well today has been brilliant for me.  Zero sleep at all and had to drive into town to take my mum to the dentist.  Her appointment was at 5pm, which was fine.  But the day before she tells me its changed to 8:30am for zero reason.  My sleeping patterns at the moment dont work with these times.  So I went to bed at 2am and just rolled till 6am and got up.  So zero sleep YAY!   Now she's getting something done thats a little complicated, so I'm having to translate from english to greek.  Anyone who knows multiple languages will know just how infuriating this can get.  Trying to speak to the dentist while my mum keeps butting in wanting to know whats being said, while I'm trying to follow so I can translate for her.  Drove me up the wall.

The worst was when we got home and I had to make another appointment for her and she kept asking questions while I'm talking on the phone, even tried to lecture me on why I was laughing a little on the phone with the lady because she somehow finds this to be unprofessional or whatever.  Got off the phone and totally raged at her.  Trying to help her out and having to listen to her while I'm on the phone no less.  You cant focus.  Told her a billion times Australians laugh a lot, they're friendly, its easy going, thats how we fucking are.  If you got issues with it sod off back to greece.  Had enough of her shit for a day.

As least I saw something entertaining today.  I looked out my window and saw two dogs just going for it.  Very naughty!  But then they suddenly stopped.  10seconds later a school bus passes.  Once its gone the two dogs start up again.  They obviously didnt want the kids to see what they were doing.  Such nice dogs!

Zing pew pew snore

So sitting here with the faint screaming in the background from the neighbours having their usual weekly domestic.  Its times like this I'm reminded why I prefer being single lol

Catching up on movies lately.  Finally got around to watching Piranha, the one that came out a year or so back.  I was expecting it to be crap but I had heaps of fun watching it.  The sequel, 3DD, is fairly crappy.  Now with a title like that you'd expect there to be lots of boobies.  There were some, but the first one had heaps more which was strange.  The only reason to watch it though is Hasslehoff who plays himself.  Hes even got a slow motion running scene.  Hes a legend.  Also watched The Raid: Redemption.  Movie from Indonesia about a swat team that raids a building where a drug lord is hanging out.  Very cool film.  Lots of fighting all through it, like practically non stop.  The Man from Nowhere, brilliant korean movie.  Top class.

I've been considering recording myself playing some games for a while now but never really got the urge.  But with Conterstrike: GO just around the corner, I'm thinking it could be a good one to do.  My play style for that game is retarded.  But I have so much fun.  My fave online fps series.  Guild Wars 2 is also out in a week so I'm thinking maybe some of that too.  But yeah we'll see.  I dont actually know how to record myself talking without using ingame chat or a skype conversation.  I'm sure its something simple but I've not given the thought more then a couple seconds brain period to even figure it out.  I guess if I actually bother to take the idea seriously I'll do it. 

Obviously it would be audio only as I dont have a webcam to record my face, nor do I have the urge to bother doing that.  I noticed minecraft is going for like $27.  Fuck that.  If you can think up any games that you think could be entertaining for me to play just mention them here.