The Good News Cometh Out

If things work out, within 8 months or so, I should have my own individual website for the blog. I'm been brushing up on my PHP, HTML and AJAX skills to make it happen. The issue is really the time it would take to set up the site, and not exactly the cost (although finding a good cheap hosting package would be awesome).

What do you guys think about a comment system similar to that found on Kotaku and other Gawker Network sites? Minus the whole rating system, I'm actually quite fond of the whole thing. I just like it. Allowing users to add images and videos and stuff to their responses really makes things more interactive. Maybe I should add some Facebook connect functionality too, you know? Make things sooo Web 2.0.

I was on ZOMGAnime and I saw this interesting poll. It said Battle of the Classics: Rurouni Kenshin vs. Yu Yu Hakusho (and the third option was "I haven't seen either"). I loved Kenshin, but watched more Yu Yu Hakusho than Kenshin in my time. So, I picked the Hakusho option. At the time I voted, the percentage score was 45:30, in favour of Kenshin. 25% said they hadn't watched either (morons...XD)

Anyway, what do you all think?

Yu Yu Hakusho:



VERSUS

Rurouni Kenshin:



I'm going to a beach party this Saturday. All hail the power of friends with free passes!! WOOT!! This is a pretty good summer, probably one of the best I've ever had.

Oh yeah, I also finally found the theme song for my armies that I will use to take over the world. Here it is:



Minus smoking weed. That crap will be banned. I intend to make that plant extinct. It's nothing but problems. For reference, look at the Jamaican population.

Blah, enough ranting about crap.

I haven't beat Assassin's Creed 2 yet, but I have beat Dragon Age (DLC not included). I'm going to replay now with a different origin story. It's a really epic game as I said earlier. As it pertains to which ending I got, I took the cop out way, involving Morrigan. I don't want to spoil things for people who haven't beat it or even played it, so I won't say anymore.

This has been Gavin Robinson, here to say that you just wasted like 10 minutes of your life.

Tata For Now,
Lord Robinson.

The End of Avatar

Damn right. It came, it went, and it was amazing.

2 years ago when I saw the first Avatar episode, I was impressed. It was one of the few times that an American cartoon(with the exception of the Batman cartoons), had made amazed me like that. I knew it was going to be good from the beginning.

Well, here in the present, thats it. Avatar is done. The ending was really satisfying in my opinion. I've also started liking Zuko. I'm not going to reveal much, but here's ONE spoiler for you unlucky bastards : Most of the relationships turn out as you expect. And Azula also got SCREWED(not in the way you perverts are thinking lol).

I'd actually wanted to be one of the first persons to blog about the end of Avatar, so I'm pretty happy since Google searches haven't turned up much.

Woot!! First dibs on fresh meat.

The OpenGL sample is coming fine.

Oh yeah, my birthday was actually 3 days ago. :P

Peace and Love,
An Avatar Fan.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Two posts in one day. WOOT!

I was wondering,since on Megavideo, they have whole episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion... what would it be like if for every post, I embedded an episode?

The answer is, it would be KICKASS!!!

Seriously though. Its a cool idea. Here's the first one, for the benefit of all those who don't know what it is. It came highly recommended from Todd and Marc. Thanks guys. I owe ya one(or is it two? Whatever >_>).



Hope you enjoyed.

Holidays!

Well, finally mock exams are over. I'm actually on my easter holiday break. Nothing to do now apart from cheap sex and Red Alert 2 lol. A lot of crap happened during the exam period, but the exams themselves were pretty easy.

I suppose that last blog post wasn't all that short after all. Since I have 11 days free, I'm gonna probably write a "LITTLE" tutorial on Skeletal Animation. This will be different from the rest so far as:

IT WILL USE openGL alone!!

Thats right, no Irrlicht, no Newton. I've gotta admit, its going to be a lot of work, especially since no 3d model file format supports everything I need. Some of you might be thinking about X and COLLADA files, but X files are hell to read and COLLADA is more of an interchange format. I've decided to write my own file format.

Then I realized that was a practical idea, especially for LunaLib. Instead of having to write small loaders for about 5 different model file formats, I write one large loader for a file format containing everything I need, like tangents and bones. The best part is, since I made it, I know everything I need to know about it.

Two other things before I go.

I have created a Devblog for Lunatek at http://lunatekdevblog.blogspot.com . It should keep you informed about things performing to LunaLib and our games. I won't be the only one posting. Sometimes Marc, Stephen and other staff members will post.

Next, take a peek at this image. It caught my eye on wikipedia so I just decided to show it here.




That image compares the styles in which characters were drawn in older animes to how they were drawn in newer animes. Interesting.

Now, this next image is a challenge that I'm going to give Stephen. Stephen's a good artist, but he's lazy, so I don't know the FULL extent of his abilities. I'm going to see if he can draw the picture below, but in different clothes and a different pose. If he does, I'll be REALLY impressed.



And to be honest, I don't know who the person in the image is.
*Grabs helmet and runs to bunker...*

Oh well.

See ya!