I was gonna upload videos of my robot from class, but had trouble uploading.
Went to classes. Did FoE IRC chatting. Bought new Umbrella, Gloves, and new 8GB flashdrive. Installed Windows 8.1 on my ASUS EP121 .
Possibly sick. Runny nose and sore throat all day long.
Bednow.
Horrible weather. My umbrella exploded. (Funny story.) Went to Games II. Bought noms. Worked on SSE team project and committed new update to Github. FoE PnP. (+4 hours spent attacking a small Raider base thingy and then a plot device exploded.)
Read Fallout: Equestria – Viva Las Pegasus chapters 1-3. Worked on some github stuff for Snr. Soft. Eng. Went to robotics (finished our team bot early), Multimedia, and Srn. Soft. Eng. classes. Spent some time on FoE IRC. Made a script to hide an annoying Derpibooru ad.
Some drama on the FoEIRC and a rules change. A TON of changeling stuff going on in Equestrian Dawn, which has fairly much cemented the idea that it’s not for me anymore. Did some reading up on including Javascript in SVG to perform animations. Trying to work on some stuff I read up on last night. Trying to figure out if I can draw SVG to a canvas context. Gonna play a match or two of Awesomenauts and then work on the game thingy a little more. Then sleep.
Might be another freezeover tonight. I hope not. Bought food just incase.
Drew explicit NSFW stuff. Hugged Puppysmiles. Went to class. Picked up Resume templates. Looked up info on the math behind Yoshi’s Island for hours. Working on trying to emulate that system. Felt bad. Bed.
There’s a new PH chapter up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLYiqAaqAs&index=69&list=PL6WIK4SyzEPG9M4x7IgRltikmIsKngXOP
Also, did a group meet, worked in blender, scanned a bunch of stuff, played Awesomenauts, Flappybird, SSB, and MLP. Drew some stuff.
Did a doodle. Accidentally walked in on roommate in the bathroom. Washed clothes. Spent 2h wash/dry time responding to FoE:BD. Talked about writing fic and made some plans to write fic. Made plans for Multimedia project. Listened to the new This Platinum Crown chapter (This Day Aria). Started listening to new The Long Winter chapter (Choices). Played Awesomenauts for 4 hours. Listened to some Counter Monkey videos about The Toilet Pizza and all-jedi-or-no-jedi and his experience with LARP. Feel a little guilty about not being more productive. I keep using the ‘don’t feel like’ excuse. But it’s just that, an excuse. I can do more. So why don’t I?
Forgot what happened yesterday. 😡
Played some Awesomenauts and MLP today. Attended ACM meeting. Finished FoE PH Chapter 48 again. Doodled some stuff but didn’t scan it. Wrote some stuff but didn’t post it. Tried to animate a thing, but it went poorly.
Currently hot in my room for unknown reasons. I might go play with the thermostat.
Today was PnP day. The bulk of my time went into that. I might talk more about it later.
PnP Pro: Quantified stats make for better consistant representation of character.
PnP Con: Players want to optimize the numbers, which means doing decision-making based on player wishes and the numbers rather than the character’s thinking.
[9:36:43 PM] Retl: So-so. Mostly fine. Had another day of multiple classes again after the impromptu ‘break’ from the freezeover. Classes went well, though my Robotics partner was nowhere to be found, so I had to solo some reconstruction and assembly. The programming bit was easy-peasy though. Arranged to meet up with my GamesII team on Fridays which keeps my Snr Software Engineering group meets on Saturdays and the PnP group meets on Wednesdays and… I still haven’t figured out what’s going on with Digital Multimedia. If that’s not a group project, that would simplify things a lot. And I probably need to pester someone for their copy of the textbook so I can photocopy a few chapters.
[…] And I also ended up half-way doing one of the 3D models for one of the group projects in the space of 6 minutes when the partner in charge of the graphical assets was ready to give up. It felt… awkward. 😡 But ultimately I’m glad that got the asset done up and almost ready to put right into the game. At least it got the mesh and whatnot there.
I also considered a backup plan for the case that I do not get into the ABCs of Fallout Equestria thingy. I could write the BBBs of Fallout Equestria. A bunch of short ramblings about topics that start with B. Like Balloon Like Bomb! Or Balefire! Or Balloon! Or Breech! Or Banner! Or Bullet! Or Blood! Or Banishment! Or Balloon!
More recently, I’m reminded that dealing with people can be rewarding- it’s tons of fun to hang out with like-minded people on a good day with some free time, and it’s kinda warming to see someone figure out a new trick or technique after a little bit of guidance. And other times, there isn’t much else in the world as bothersome as another person, Blah. I liked to think people like [a certain family member] were rare and just an odd matter of a circumstance in my life, but it seems like there’s plenty of others in the world just like them. And on top, their brashness tends to give them the scoring card in a confrontation and in leadership roles… but it also makes it that much harder for anyone to deal with them.
Played Awesomenauts for 3 hours.
These guys had a brutal setup. If you stepped past the turret anywhere near the Skolldir, he would toss directly into Yuri’s bomb-nest, pretty much getting an instant kill. This continued for quite a while until I finally got my knife and clone upgrades all bought up and attempted to stealth over the bombs, wait for a fresh clone, and then drop and use the clone to help soak damage from the turret to solo-push.
It worked out! Kinda. Was an interesting match, but probably would have been really boring to watch.
Project Horizons Reread Progress:
46 – Caper: Made a bit more progress into this one again. OMG BUBBLEBLOWER RAMPAGE. Also, given the fact that Rampage can infinitely regenerate and whatnot, she’d probably be a dreamgirl for popper-inflationists. Though she’d probably be none-too-fond of the experience herself. this one’s kinda fun. And the thing with the talking sneaky suit is cute, but I can’t remember if that’s this chapter or the next.
47 – Hightower: In which Blackjack becomes a part of Unity. AND gets fatally cursed by necromancy. (Notable plot point: Blackjack has been resistant to Enervation for a while now. So this curse clearly isn’t the cause of her resistance.) Also some more backstory via flashbacks that explains who Mister Shears really is and whatnot.
48 – Inferno: I somehow don’t have an MP3 of this one on my drive! Totally skipped it by accident! Oops! Gonna fix that tonight.
Pumped a few more hours into this vector wallpapery thingy. It’s taking way longer than my usual sketches and doesn’t look tons better? But it looks OK.
Played more Gameloft MLP. Got Github and Google+ Hangouts setup. Tweaked my Google Calendar. Updated weekly report for Games II. Listened to some more PH chapters, but I don’t remember which ones. I think I heard a chunk of FoEPH ch 52 at some point.
Thinking about trying to write a very short fic for the ABCs of FoE project if some of the existing authors keep lagging behind.
When I do make more time for fic, I’ll be making less time for pics or something I guess. And I’m about to go to bed in a bit but I might slap a last-minute doodle online.
0:55 <Retl|Zzz> ohshi I just had the stupidest panic moment
00:55 <Retl|Zzz> Where I was like ‘what day is it’
00:56 <Retl|Zzz> And then I look at my calendar and see it’s Tuesday and then I’m like OHSWEETCELESTIA I DIDN’T GO TO ANY OF MY TUESDAYCLASSES WTF
00:56 <Retl|Zzz> And then I realize ‘oh it’s past midnight’