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This seriously gives new definition to the term “exoskeleton.” I am getting rid of this laptop this summer. It has been nothing but trouble. The NEW ATI card has started overheating, although, luckily, only when I do anything having to do with Unreal. Which, of course, means I can’t finish my project at home, but it means I can at least do other things. But right now it’s got an external keyboard (Enter key died), external sound card (left sound channel died), external hard drive (onboard one too small)… honestly, I’m amazed I don’t have an external DVD burner. But with all the equipment I DO have I can build a fairly kickass computer for only a few hundred bucks. Quite a bargain if you ask me, considering I dropped $2000 on this laptop. It’s quite an annoyance, but so is the fact that it overheats and there’s nothing I can do about it. Water-cooled desktop here I come!

I need a team. A team who’s willing to commit to NightRise. Mostly, I need modelers. People who are proficient with either MAX or Maya and/or know how to use the Source engine (Half-Life 2, Counter Strike Source, etc.). Drawing skills not all that important but should be able to whip out crappy sketches that get the idea across. Knowledge of rigging and animating a plus. Please contact me if you’d like to be part of what will surely be a true, gaming achievement amongst both the SCAD and freeware communities.

I have come to the realization that there are no real people on MySpace. Hell, there’s even a MySpace for this blog. This blog is not a person. However, it’s like other myspaces don’t seem to realize that you can’t have a crush on a blog. Or that, yes, I “Do MySpace,” thank you for filling up my picture comments area with stupid Flash-based voting movies. I have also come to the realization that all game designers are sarcastic jackasses, which is just fine with me. Hell, you would be too if the CV Curve Tool could only make lines so long until the extruded faces wouldn’t smooth out properly. Or how texture layers on terrain get really confusing after 2 and won’t let me paint any pebbles on in Unreal. If you know what I’m talking about, then you agree. And if you don’t agree, well then look at Mr. I Disagree and his disagreeing.

I’m not entirely sure if I want lunch today. There’s a little container of uneaten fried rice sitting next to me that I didn’t get around to at last night’s grandiose $60 chinese food “binge” if you will. Although I do need coffee. Decisions decisions.

See the one thing that’s keeping me from going outside is the pollen count. In case you’ve never been to Savannah, the entire city is covered in Live Oaks. Back up North in Boston, I was pretty damn allergic to REGULAR Oaks. But these Oaks? They’re LIVE! And the show isn’t one night only. It’s goddamn five week long tree orgy. I believe I’m now hitting week four. I’m all out of Alavert, the crappiest antihistamine known to mankind. Why did I have them then? Because CVS was all out of Claritin. I don’t know if you can even count this CVS as a CVS. They’re constantly out of stuff and never restock until Tuesdays, which makes me very nervous as to if they’ll actually have anything I need. That’s right. I have to go there today. I need drugs and laundry detergent. But drugs mostly. You gotta have drugs.

I also need to go on a texture hunt for the current level I’m designing: the interior of a Celtic Church. There’s just something highly compelling about playing a game of 20 person, UT2004 Deathmatch in the Irish vision of God’s House. After I go to CVS I have to make the rest of the static meshes, then turn to my trusty “Mastering Unreal” book and find out how to import them so I don’t get errors, which was happening a little while ago.

Oh well. Time for that coffee.