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Getting my grove on yo

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:37:29 -0500

So $500 AUD later I'm sitting here looking at my sexy new toy other wise known as Rockband, yes I'm one of the few Aussies that own this awesome thing of awesomeness and all of the awesome that comes with it. "But Dave," you say "What makes this so awesome?" Well I'll tell you Bobby, Rockband (RB for short cos we are hip now) is a mix between guitar hero and something cooler, mainly cos of the drumbs I couldn't give a flying noodle for the guitar I really couldn't. For me the drums are the highlight as they almost (97%) simulate the hits you would make on a real kit playing that same song (on expert). So this means I can play all I want and not sound terrible and get my rhythm up in the process. Win win. Its freakin fun to play as well, the only bits I myself have trouble with are the kick pedal beats (or the long orange bars for all you playing at home) here is an example of how the game should be played. Please note this guy in the video is currently one of the very top RB drum players in the world. [center][/center] Notice the amount of awesome oozing from this video that is what I and all the other scientists of this gaming world call the awesome factor, finishing a song on expert makes you feel good on the inside while making you a better drummer... on the inside. I myself with my limited knowledge of beating up taught flesh on a round cylinder can only play medium (with some difficulty I might add), but that is all about to change *cues up rocky music*. From this day forward I shall rock my socks off in order to rock like the rockers that rock the world and their socks. Ahem, you shall all soon be sockless, and I shall be streaming my sockbusting flesh beating performances when ever I get the chance on my Justin.tv account. So rock on my children, rock on until you bleed from too much rocking, or by not wearing enough socks! [center] [/center]

Free cake and beer!

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:59:14 -0500

Oh yeah i went out last night with all the uni boys and girls, and it was freakin fun!!!!! So lets get this straight as much as i love to eat steak i hate the always disappointing promise of epic steak that is so awesome. So i had a reef and beef and they had to butterfly the steak to cook it faster but the funny thing that gosh darn stream was still smaller then my fist. Dirty buggers, the shrimp on the other hand was squired head, tail and all. Brilliant like im going to eat a fucking shrimp head. Yay. Aside from that, if anyone is in Brisbane and you want to go drinking i wouldn't get beer from the tap because the normally tasty beer and scotch that i treat myself more then i should was watered down beyond all belief. So we did shots instead 4 shots of sambooka later we went for a bar crawl and ended up in a pancake house with a bar. Yes a freaking pancake house! With beer! What is even cooler i knew the bar keep from Cairns and he is doing the uni (college) course i did last year! Needless to say when i requested David Bowie you knew the night was gonna rock. Also within this awesome pub where some girls dressed as umm fansy dress, like snow-white and junk. Anywayz they where having a birthday party and had too much cake so we nicked a few pieces! Oh yeah and i also nicked a punnet of strawberries from the barkeep! [center][/center] [center][/center] [center][/center] Not to mention The Living End's new album is out oh yeah good time :D, and i know i need to shave, its cold, sue me! [center][/center] Now these guys are awesome, last year i was able to have a few beers with the guys, btw there darts suck.

Mr Awesome and Mrs Jumberlumbers

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:29:23 -0500

So I've be slicing and dicing my way through Ninja Gaiden 2, with some parts being like epic hardness and others being a cakewalk. Is there a difference between hard and just fucking stupid? How do designers make the footman of some evil as all shit boss harder then the boss himself? One scene i wish to talk about the most was possibly one of the most drawn out boss fights ever. This boss looks and acts bad assed and he has some massive fuck-off scythe that you get to keep after beating his arse and the sucker takes all but 30 seconds to moe down. [center][/center] We we see a packed stadium of warewolves, which btw are sometimes so farking hard to beat its like putting your hand in a blender! Now the thing with this level the boss is all like "Yo Ryu so i see you have some bad assed leather suit and some wicked assed sword and your all like up in my grill and wanna take me down! Thats cool sucker because i have some massive stadium filled with my underlings (lol) and they will avenge me if it only takes like 30 seconds to whoop my arse!" And then your all like *Stare* And once you do beat him (no surprise) his underlings (lol) jump into the stadium and are all like "Yo Ryu, you beat our upperling (lol?) and now we gang rape you" And then i was all like *Picks up massive fark-off scythe* So there you are just cuttin some faces off when big boobs flys up and is all like "Yo Ryu im gonna nuke these bitches" And your all like "Thats cool babah im gonna stab your plane!" And thats how i beat the boss, there was one boss tho that was farking stupid hard. And i almost frisbeed my free game out the window because of it. Check this one out. [center][/center] Now i know what your thinking and i was thinking the same thing "Oh what the flying shit is that!" Yeah this is possibly the hardest fucking boss in the whole game (so far) and this was at level 2. Now i managed to barely beat him i mean cm'on the guy shoots fucking sliver seamen at you, shoots bolts of lightning, shoots a fucking face at you, rams you into the wall and then shocks you when you go to stab the bitch. It took me like 4 try's to work out that you shoot the douche in the face with your bow when he isnt sending his seamen after you. How can a game designer make such idiotic decisions as to how easy awesome bosses are and how fucking stupidly hard stupid douchey bosses are, not to mention how early on in the game this gigadeath boss is in. Argh. Stupid stupid stupid! [center] [/center]

Jump bunny JUMP!

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:24:01 -0500

One day a few days ago, our young hero know to the world as Henley Mc Awesome. Travelled down to his mailbox in search of gold and other related booty of epic kind. Where laid a beautiful, yet slim parcel with his name sprawled across in crappy blue handwriting. Eager to see what was inside this beautiful yet slim parcel Henley Mc Awesome ripped open the package the way every other person would do. Inside he found a letter and a DVD. Not just any DVD but a free 360 game called Ninja Gaiden 2, and a letter which I will summarise here: [quote=Awesome Letter]Dear Henley Mc Awesome, please find encased within this beautiful yet slim parcel a free game on behalf of Microsoft and the Xbox360 Street Team. Hopefully you will enjoy your recently purchased 360. Yours Forever and ever M$[/quote] With a hop, skip and a awesome backflip, Henley Mc Awesome popped in the free game into his 360 and started to play and within a few minutes he was greeted with this [center]

Epic Boobage? Hellz Yeah!

[/center] Enough of the third person chit chat, lets talk game. So straight up we get a nice pair of sweater puppies, but surely there is more to this game then that. But don't worry there is, sword play and blood. Lots and lots of blood. As you would expect by slicing off limbs and ermm heads. Its best that you just witness the squishyness. Props to GT for the vid! [center][/center] So lets recap, boobage, bloodage, swordage, ninjas and all this being a freebee? Its a good day to own a 360! Apart from the fact the game suffers from some cruddy camera setup and quite unforgiving enemies, NG2 is fun in small sessions as i can see tiring from the game with long periods of gameplay. Thanks to M$ for the free game! [center][/center]

Why so sad panda?

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:22:12 -0500

So I'm sitting here with my beer about to re-install Farcry for some Delta Sector goodness, and I think to myself "Where are all the boss fights in mods now days?" The reason I'm asking this is because as some of you may or may not know I'm an Arcade kinda dude, I would rather spend $20 on one freaking awesome arcade game with bugger all graphics in exchange for a dose of arcade goodness, and the one thing that older games and arcade games had was these epic boss fights! I mean c'mon guys Half Life 1 even had some of that awesome boss fights. [center][/center] It's not something that looks like it would be hard to implement into games nowadays so why is it lacking into mods today? Is our search for a more realistic game driving away what made games so freaking awesome in the yesteryears? Is everyone caught up in balancing there mp5's rather than making the rocket launchers make a bigger explosion? I say there needs to be more traditional games out there, there the games most of us grew up with, so why are they not as common? Who knows, In more Henley news the new live modcasts is a freaking blast, if you have not experienced the live modcast for yourself I would highly recommend it to everyone! This time round we have a group of guests who know all about making you wet your pants, in games that scare even me! Afraid of Monsters Andreas and James are on and we get some exclusive new content from them about their brand new mod Cry of Fear. We have Mikhail from Paranoia coming on to chat about his mod and his ways of getting into your mind and scaring the crap outta ya! And last but not least we have Brian from Zombie Panic: Source jumping on to give us the skinny on multiplayer scare tactics and what it takes to get it right! [center]

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BunnY

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:28:39 -0500

So a few things are happening, most of you will know I'm one of the co-hosts on the modcast, and due to a few things happening we have decided to make the modcasts live now. So you can all call myself and Ryan up while we are on air and pimp your mod or just bring up some discussion to the group. Personlay i think this will help people interact with the mods some more and hopfuly get people to play more of these great games. I also made an apperience at the World Cybergames Qualifiers for Queensland Australia. Met some really awesome people and even got to witness some contreversal stuff, like one of the more professional Counterstrike 1.6 teams being DQ due to cheating :P, it was well worth spending time there! Also i have adopted some bunnies from MadKill, I think im ready for the comitment of being a vertual parent but who knows. Here are my bunny's

SO I have been modding

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:19:30 -0600

Hello everyone on the internet! I'm currently making a game to further promote my skills! But this is proving to but more difficult then first anticipated... Well let me tell you a little about the game and then you can work out for yourself how things are working... Ok the game is called Project Gauntlet (Gauntlet for short, this name is going to be changed on the next Beta release =D), its basically a a game that is trying to replicate the old Arcade games that I had as a kid growing up! So far I have had a few problems with working out the bugs like controls and camera angles... but I swear that these are all corrected now =D. When Beta 1.0 was released it used a mod called SMOD 40 as a base, and I can honestly say I have now completely moved away from this and started fresh and new! Here is a game play demo from Beta 1.0 with commentary from me! NOTE: This is from Beta 1.5 and this means this video is using SMOD 40! So this is kinda what Beta 2.0 feels like, only better =D. It will be out in a few days but already the mod has gotten a fair few comments and external news posted about it!

The love of COD

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:36:42 -0600

So i got Call of Duty 4 the other day, and i must say im very impressed, not only with the single player but multiplayer as well. So i said to myself, Dave you need to get yourself a dedicated server. So i asked my mate who has access to some Linux based severs and asked him straight up, gimmy that cod4 sever and he did. How cool is that i run a cod4 sever now... (as well as my css, cs 1.6, halo, halo ce servers) but cod4 is the new awesome love child of me and a Linux based pc... And yeah i treat her well, giving her flowers and chockies (i mean gosh what pc in the whole world wouldn't love chockies...?). Everything was going great in my new relationship (not to mention she plays with my client oh so well ;P), except for the fact she started to complain about needing to see more then one person at a time... And i started to think to myself... that dirty cheating son of a...... something i forget now. So off she goes in search of more players to please her sever side... I was heart broken but my new love was hard to pass up on... So one day in bed after countless romantic movies and tubs of ice-cream i said to myself, screw this if i cant have her to myself then i dont mind joining in! To my amazement the loving server that i once knew has new served herself out to 16 players at once! I was shocked... but she beckoned to me to come over and join in the orgy of clients and server. It took some time, but i was finally able to adjust to having a lot of people shooting there loads.... of ammunition in my direction, i was even able to adjust to people putting things in me with there hands... i think its called knifing in the game... feels kinda dirty tho. It just goes to show how far im willing to go for my new love... Here are some videos from me, when i edit them to be the right size for this site ill upload them properly.. Just enjoy eh? Showreel 2007 This video is my 2007 showreel, it shows all my best work from my diploma of screen course. Sheep This video took me 2 months to finnish. All the models and art style i made myself so no plug-ins here :D. This project was loosely based on my childhood growing up on a farm, that's why it felt so right to dedicated it to my Grandpa who died during production. Looking back now on my animation i really regret not having more time to complete it to my standards, but hey work with what you have right? Please leave comments about my videos guys it would be a big help. ~ Dave