Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 2) Something I almost never do in this blog is talk about politics and religion, and I am only going to talk about it in the most generic terms here. My thesis for today is that the wealth of information available through the internet is having unexpected consequences on what should be the
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 1) As a long time internet addict, who has spent 20 years online, and 15 years working in the internet industry, I hate to say it, but it is true: I am bored of the Internet. The thing is, I am quite certain I am not alone in this sentiment. Over the course
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The final potential date character of the game is Wendy who you may meet as a fitness trainer at the gym. This story is sort of a bonus content that just shows up after you have been playing the game a few times, kind of like a DLC bonus mission. I don’t want to give away the story of this
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Over the past year, and especially the last month or two, I have been tinkering with the looks of the characters in the sequel. Since we are in the new year, I thought I’d compare and contrast some of the models as they looked in 2011 to how they look today in 2013. First up is Ariane, who has undergone
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Since the tragedy in Connecticut, a lot of people are crying that we should do something, and I think we should do something too. But since reports have come out that the person responsible for this tragedy enjoyed playing hours of Call of Duty in his basement, they are blaming video game culture for this. That would be a mistake.
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A remake of the 1984 film Red Dawn came out last week and really did not do very well. I cannot believe they even re-made this film, because it makes no sense in today’s world. Back in 1984 the Cold War was still in effect, and the threat of a Soviet invasion felt possible. The remake casts North Korea as
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After working on it for over a year, I am declaring an end to the “Principal Photography” portion of Something’s In The Air. When I started this project I had in mind a 6 story visual novel. It got whittled down to 4. One (a “romantic” story) was dropped because I couldn’t figure out how to make it interesting. Another
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A few months into this project, I upgraded from Poser 7 to Poser 9. One of the new features of Poser 9 was a new skin rendering model called Subsurface Scattering, or SSS. It is a form of Ambient Occlusion. If you don’t understand this stuff, well neither do I. All I know for sure is that it can sometimes
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As predicted I am back in “creative” mode, and working on Something’s In The Air most of my spare time. My current project is to create an outdoor Sci-Fi/Fantasy Festival, a “Comic-Con” type festival, though that name is TM so I can’t actually call it that. Even worse is that these festivals often have a lot of people dressed up
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In the past 6 weeks or so I have got two characters all the way up to 80, and the weird thing is that I almost never duplicated content doing it. One character is human and priory, and stuck to Human and Sylvari zones. The other is Norn and Order of Whispers, and stuck to Norn and Charr zones. Except
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