Eriq’s Blag

I was going to get my new computer and then get the Orange Box, but when I saw that it was $10 off at Circuit City, I decided what the hell. Of course there was a good chance that they wouldn’t have it because when they had a similar deal for HL2: Ep 1, they didn’t have it, but surprisingly they did and I bought it. Got it home, installed it on my dad’s computer, started Portal, went through the first portal, got-got-got-got-got-Hl.exe has encountered and error and must quit-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Fucker. Went upstairs, installed it on my laptop, started it up-Error: This game requires Direct X 8 to run properly. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Fucker.

SO NOT FUCKING FAIR!

This is somewhat dissapointing: http://princessbridegame.com/

Interesting maybe, but likely just a cheap knockoff. Possibly awesome?

I can’t think of a title.

I’m still sick, but feel a little better. Thanksgiving break is coming [ok so I almost coughed up a lung right there] so that will be nice hopefully, but then you know how teachers think: “Oh! They have a break! That means they’ll have plenty of time to relax and write a 42 page essay!” That’s what they ALL think. They say they know that other teachers are giving us stuff, but it’s too late, they’re sure that this is the perfect assignment and that we can handle all the rest. BULLSHIT! Unless I missed the memo, breaks are meant to give us a chance to relax, to unwind, to escape the stress of fucking assignments. I thought of a title. I thought of something I want to program. It’s gonna be a simulation of single celled organisms and I reall want to make it look like a realistic electron scanning image. In other news, I finally completely completed “the Simpsons Hit and Run” with a little help from some maps, I had 2 gags that I couldn’t find and that’s all I needed to be 100%, though the maps didn’t really help because I wasn’t sure what gags I had already gotten. Turns out that I had missed the break in the fence around the telescope in the observatory on level 3 and 7. It’s a pretty awesome game, but I really want a free-range Simpsons game where you can go anywhere, with an accurate city layout (Hit and Run maps are so warped it’s painful) and where not all of the missions are based around cars, maybe that’s what the new Simpsons Game is, but I don’t know.

I’ve been waiting for Half-Life 2 Episode Two (as well as Portal and TF2) for months. Unfortunately, now that the Games have finally been released, I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING COMPUTER TO PLAY THEM ON!

Ok…angry. Maybe I’m bipolar.

My asteroids game was going really slow. I thought it was because of all of the particles and projectiles not being trashed by memory garbage collection. Turns out I was sorta right. What was really happening is that I had an event that was firing every frame for every object, even dead ones, and that was piling up in the background. So, I put in a line that killed the call when the object dies. Lo and behold, it worked…then I added a bunch more crap and slowed it down again. Here it is: Asteroids. I added tracking so there are targets over each asteroid. Unfortunately it doesn’t work correctly when the screen size changes from 800×600 to something else the HUD doesn’t draw correctly so the tracking and the site get fucked up. Another addition is that when you destroy one of the smallest asteroids, a big one is created in the distance. In this way it starts of easy and the gets ever so slightly harder as you go. Also, there’s now a score count at the top.

Last Wednesday I had my dad order the Half-Life 1 Anthology for me. It took till Tuesday to get here. Once I got it I immediately installed it on my computer, only to find out that the Steam servers were down for maintenance, so I couldn’t play. Then during lunch I connected to the internet and the servers were back up. The game was added to my account and was updated. I got to try it out a little off-line, but not too much. So then after AP CompSci we got out early and I tried to play a little Team Fortress Classic. It kinda work but my battery was low and the game closed. I assumed it was because my laptop was attempting to hibernate. So I pluged it in and started it up again. It worked for a little while before completely crashing and I mean crashing. I had to force shutdown my laptop. So then I tried again when I get home. I tried joining an internet game, it worked for a while before just shutting down. I continued to attempt to play until 7:35ish, without success. It kept giving me the same error. God dammit!