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[Max White]

If your joints start feeling sore, you might be doing it wrong. Muscles you want to really give a work out, but if your wrist is hurting you should try something else.
Also, good for you! Always important to get some fitness in.

[ToonyMan]

I'm doing another playthrough, only I'm reading it aloud to myself now (or rather mumbling so I don't wake people up). I know I'll never have the voice acting prowess of pop tart tragedy guy, especially since I keep cracking up, but in my head I can pretend to have the most glorious voice in the world.

I hope you enjoy Tohno Shiki.  He's one of my favorite protagonists ever.

Well he's kinda slooow... and I dislike the way he kinda craps rainbows, and every female character ever fawns over him.
The heart issue thing is a fun flaw for the character to have though (although I hate that they keep calling it anemia). The rampaging psychopath side to him is also quite fun. So I'm sort of 50/50 on him.

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[JoshuaFH]

If your joints start feeling sore, you might be doing it wrong. Muscles you want to really give a work out, but if your wrist is hurting you should try something else.
Also, good for you! Always important to get some fitness in.

Thanks for the encouragement. My hands/wrists don't hurt, but I was just concerned that having my hands and wrists supporting my fat self may be unintentionally damaging them without my noticing.

I really did need to exercise today, if only to offset all the cake I ate today. It's even more depressing given the following discourse:

"Hey Mom, don't buy me any sweets. I know you think about me whenever you go to any store period, but I need to cut down."
"Ok, I understand."

And then she goes and buys TWO delicious cakes. Like, full-sized birthday cakes, for no reason at all; not for me, but for the family. I just can't help myself, it's something I so rarely ever get to eat.

[Tellemurius]

Congrats Joshua, it does help to exercise and remember: THE CAKE IS A LIE!


On the fitness news i finally pushed 75% of body weight today for bench pressing. bout damn time i hit 150lbs, and to think in freshmen year i was maxxing at 115lbs. Now if i can figure out running........

[alway]

Went to a great lecture on CUDA this morning along with another student with whom I plan on doing an independent study next quarter involving programming on the GPU with shaders and CUDA/systems like CUDA. We then found out about rCUDA,* a variation of CUDA which automatically distributes computing across a set of networked computers with GPUs. This will be quite interesting because of the facilities in the RIT Game Dev Lab. You see, the lab machines are all given to us by Alienware, and so are pretty much top of the line, with the newest of the 3 types we have containing 590 GTX cards. Most nights at about 1AM, everyone in the lab clears out; and a quick estimate based on the stats here puts the estimate of the computational power of the GPUs in the lab at somewhere in the 50 to 100 terraflops range. In comparison, my computer (capable of running any game on the market on at least high settings), has a GPU with about 1 terraflop of computational power, with a much smaller value for the CPU.

So now the question becomes: what can we make which will have an incredible visual result which is processed in parallel on thousands of cores in a couple dozen computers? We aren't quite sure yet, but it will almost certainly include physics and fractal generation. :3


*and/or our own implementation, as it may not suit our needs, and simple data processing clients may end up being easier/more efficient to use

[Yoink]

It was pretty rad.

Epic dream!
I had three fairly distinct dreams last night, can't really remember 'em too well. I know in one I was some sort of Imperial Guard-type guy with a gunmetal blue-coloured chainsword, and I was working with some commisar guy to do... Something?
I dunno, I think it involved rescuing hostages from some place. Then in another, a friend and I were playing through this really, really hard old game, possibly on the Ps1, trying to unlock something at the end.
Eventually I think we managed it, and the unlocked item was somehow a physical object; a lump of stone or something with glowing reddish gems in it. We were pretty happy about that, but then we didn't save the game or something and the unlocked item disappeared, and we ended up having to start over.
I love sharing dreams.

[Scaraban]

Deciding to replay my old Pokemon games while the save battery stills has charge. Time to try all those glitches I was too proud to use before.

[Realmfighter]

Watching Role Models, loving the LAIRE(LARP) scene.

Imagine an epic fantasy fight scene with Kiss members and the dead complementing their killers/inviting them to come again.

[Max White]

I don't know where all this wonderful alcohol came from. I'm really supposed to not be having any right now, but just for tonight, I can relax for a bit, maybe sleep properly tonight.
Good night.

[Yoink]

That is... Somewhat worrying. Either you can summon alchohol with the power of your mind, or little unseen fey-type people are hiding it in your house with unknown intent. So much for relaxing and sleeping properly!
Night night, don't let the bed bugs bite unknown malevolent booze-summoning entities shank you in your sleep!

[Max White]

Most likely the latter. We have a cellar downstairs, and I can not even begin to tell you how much booze there is down there. I have long thought about arranging the wines in order of color, grape and date. Don't even know what I would do with the several bottles of scrumpy, and I wouldn't dare touch the mead.

If there is one thing my parents will not be lacking in case of zombie invasion, it is alcohol.

EDIT: Hey look, a bottle of biscotti flavoured whisky has suddenly appeared from the depths of the basement. <3

[Lagslayer]

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I had a dream that the new DF version was released, then I played it. I did the usual digging-down-to-caverns start except I was intercepted on the way by what looked like blood red naturally generated smooth halls. Kind of like HFS, but not slade. So then it was diggable and I kept telling the dwarves to dig stairs down until i came to a relatively large (20x7? around those) room with glowing cyan floors, which was weird because the little + symbols for smooth floors were actually glowing and blurred. I looked at them with k and the game said they were "ward floor"s. Nifty.

So they kept digging down and then more of those smoothed halls from before but this time they were inhabited by these also blood red beaver-capybara-badger type of mammal things, I don't really know how to describe them. They were hostile and charged the dwarves immediately but seemed to be really bad at fighting so they missed once, causing the dwarves to counterattack with about the same level of success. Then they bolted into the darkness. I regarded them as minor annoyances and kept digging until suddenly there was a popup alert/announcement like a megabeast arriving or striking a cavern level or candy or the HFS or the great magma sea saying "An ominous presence fills the corridors!" and the unknown animals were back except this time instead of a lowercase letter they were capitals, implying they were strengthened or enlarged. This time they fared better, managing to drag a few dwarves into the dark halls, including the miners, which stopped the downward descent. This happened gradually until there was only 1 left, who was a single unarmed military dwarf. He went down the halls into the darkness, revealing it as he went, then the game changed from DF to some first person game or something that was still somehow DF? I was playing as the military dwarf and I was suddenly equipped with full armor and a fine steel sword.

So I continued exploring and killing the animals as I saw them until I entered another large chamber like the ward one. There was like this core mother beast, all tentacled and grotesque-like and attached to the hallways (which may have been living, explaining the blood red color) in the middle and the animals were dragging the dwarves (who were now dead of course) to it and feeding it. It could only take small bites from the corpses though. Guessing there was only one thing to do, I ran in and started cutting enemies up. The core was especially hard to kill, as it kept summoning or spitting out the animals which were distracting me from slashing it. After a while I managed to kill it, but its foul blood spewed everywhere, including onto the dwarf's eyes/the screen. Then there was another popup message saying "You have been corrupted." The dwarf and animal bodies from before were shifting and moving about a little, so I sunk my sword deep into them to finish them off. Then I made my way back up, but going back was slower from the "corruption". The view started tinting red and black, the character had to stop a few times to cough up blood which seemed of an unnatural color, and I thought I could see things moving in the dark ahead of me. I dragged on up until I reached the first ward chamber which was all glowy and I got a message saying "You have been cured." and then it went back to DF mode. I couldn't play the fort anymore though because the dwarves were all dead except the one I controlled, so I abandoned thinking "wow that was weird but kinda fun".

It was pretty rad.

Awesome. But it would benefit from having a cheesy 1980's music video to go with it. Then again, what wouldn't?

[Rose]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I had a dream that the new DF version was released, then I played it. I did the usual digging-down-to-caverns start except I was intercepted on the way by what looked like blood red naturally generated smooth halls. Kind of like HFS, but not slade. So then it was diggable and I kept telling the dwarves to dig stairs down until i came to a relatively large (20x7? around those) room with glowing cyan floors, which was weird because the little + symbols for smooth floors were actually glowing and blurred. I looked at them with k and the game said they were "ward floor"s. Nifty.

So they kept digging down and then more of those smoothed halls from before but this time they were inhabited by these also blood red beaver-capybara-badger type of mammal things, I don't really know how to describe them. They were hostile and charged the dwarves immediately but seemed to be really bad at fighting so they missed once, causing the dwarves to counterattack with about the same level of success. Then they bolted into the darkness. I regarded them as minor annoyances and kept digging until suddenly there was a popup alert/announcement like a megabeast arriving or striking a cavern level or candy or the HFS or the great magma sea saying "An ominous presence fills the corridors!" and the unknown animals were back except this time instead of a lowercase letter they were capitals, implying they were strengthened or enlarged. This time they fared better, managing to drag a few dwarves into the dark halls, including the miners, which stopped the downward descent. This happened gradually until there was only 1 left, who was a single unarmed military dwarf. He went down the halls into the darkness, revealing it as he went, then the game changed from DF to some first person game or something that was still somehow DF? I was playing as the military dwarf and I was suddenly equipped with full armor and a fine steel sword.

So I continued exploring and killing the animals as I saw them until I entered another large chamber like the ward one. There was like this core mother beast, all tentacled and grotesque-like and attached to the hallways (which may have been living, explaining the blood red color) in the middle and the animals were dragging the dwarves (who were now dead of course) to it and feeding it. It could only take small bites from the corpses though. Guessing there was only one thing to do, I ran in and started cutting enemies up. The core was especially hard to kill, as it kept summoning or spitting out the animals which were distracting me from slashing it. After a while I managed to kill it, but its foul blood spewed everywhere, including onto the dwarf's eyes/the screen. Then there was another popup message saying "You have been corrupted." The dwarf and animal bodies from before were shifting and moving about a little, so I sunk my sword deep into them to finish them off. Then I made my way back up, but going back was slower from the "corruption". The view started tinting red and black, the character had to stop a few times to cough up blood which seemed of an unnatural color, and I thought I could see things moving in the dark ahead of me. I dragged on up until I reached the first ward chamber which was all glowy and I got a message saying "You have been cured." and then it went back to DF mode. I couldn't play the fort anymore though because the dwarves were all dead except the one I controlled, so I abandoned thinking "wow that was weird but kinda fun".

It was pretty rad.

Awesome. But it would benefit from having a cheesy 1980's music video to go with it. Then again, what wouldn't?

http://maddecent.com/blog/blood-bros-first-blood

How's this?

[Shook]

Mmm, cake and hot chocolate make Shook happy man. Adding the incredibly awesome soundtrack from Trine 2 just makes it even better. c:

[Trapezohedron]

Nice Portal 2 song set to the tune of "This is Halloween" from the Nightmare Before Christmas.