Bebop's Benanderings

Mowing pavement

2009-05-26T15:38:00.000-07:00

You would think in a country that rains all the time, plants wouldn’t grow as fast. But holy crap! Our garden has become a jungle in just a matter of weeks. I even had to mow all the plants/weeds in the cracks of our big cement patio. It’s pretty bad when you almost have to mow your driveway. I also had to charge up the weed-wacker again, because there were so many the battery even ran out.

The beer fest went great, didnt hit up the gaming fest this year cause it was really just a bunch of venders last year, it was nice doing something differant though. Me and my buddy were the only ones that drank at the beer fest, then walked around Cambridge hah. Had some pretty good beer which they were out of by 6pm. Even a decent coffee beer. Even ran into a plethora of guys from work there. Then the wife's had a girls night out while me and flint were at his place being stuck with the kid who was actually asleep the entire time. Haha until his wife came tumbling through the door speaking a 3ed language, which only 2 she knows.

So me and Jen like dinner partys now! Yay! Until they move and we have to make new friends L can always play LOTRO with em though!

Cheers!

Newegg wins again!!!

2009-05-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

Its been just under a week, and my new video cards all ready here!!! W00t!!!! and holy crap is it huge. almost bigger then when I ran SLI's on my 3 year old card that just crapped out. Back when bad ass video cards were expensive. I love technology, They make such bad ass video cards now for just under $200 bucks, that no game pushes their limits. Now if your doing extreme rendering and creating in 3D programs that's something different. I dont think you can ever have a bad ass enough video card for rending.

So its in its now home!! and back to LOTRO!!! Bought my buddy flints his big ass house. Lets just say I found some common items that people LOVE buying that are really dirt cheap. And I resell them for 200X the price I payed lol. So i use that money to help my friends in game get stuff. Cambridge beer fest this weekend! and Nerd expo in London!!! Its also spontaneous Flowers for Jen day!!!! I bought the yellow ones but got the rest from the backyard =D YAY LOVE!!!!

Cheers mates!

A new job and a POS badass video card....

2009-05-19T08:44:00.000-07:00

So i'm now working in badass MOC! knower of all!! well, some things. Anyways, onto the REAL SHIT! I'm on hyitus from playing any cool games because my duel 6700's (pictured left) finally gave out on me after just over 3 years, And thats right! THOSE HANDS ARE MINE! So hopefully my new card will be in next week.

What does one do while on a MMORPG break? Play some mother Fin SIM CITY!!!! Sim city delux 4 that is! Whats funny is I havnt played a Sim City since the 1989 one!! lol This game is pretty badass. It makes you want to build good roads cause you do missions within the city you built lol. Anyways, Hope all is good with everyone! gonna go nerd it up with the wife. Gaming/Anime convension this weekend!!!! WEEEEEEEE!!

If you dont stand behind our troops, your more than welcome to stand infront of them

2009-05-08T10:04:00.000-07:00

With out saying to much, some guys from work will be playing in the sand for a bit. When I went, I know there are a lot of things I wish I did bring, and stuff I wish I didn't, that you could just get downrange. One of the biggest items I wish i brought, was more entertainment - like movies, shows etc... So for the past few days Ive been borrowing hard drives from my fellow airmen, and giving them a huge hook up with my DvD collection that I have "backed up" on my hard drives. I would recommend everyone who knows someone heading out - to help em pass the time, and share the wealth. There are awesome groups such as the USO who help out service members all over the world, with thousands of volunteers. But there's nothing better than a fellow co-worker helping you out directly.

Its going to be a LOTRO weekend for me! My buddy Flint at work is not into the game, along with Bill who brought me into the game. I study for the first time on Tuesday to see if I'll become Ssgt Steinbach. I feel comfortable with testing, I really don't know what to expect considering Ive never taken in, but I'll of course give it my best. And if I make it awesome! but if I don't, then I'll feel even more comfortable at least having some idea, rather than a shot in the dark, about what could be on the test, or how they flow.

Oh and sometime soon I should be getting my two front teeth crowned! This guy (Tim Mishay) from Jr High in Lisle, threw a trapper keeper under my foot, and my front two teeth were the first thing to hit the ground. Well after years of fault front teeth that would chip at least once a year. There was even a time in Highschool when I went to kiss my girlfriend at the time and completely cracked my tooth. lol I played it off and pretended it never happened. I tried to find him on facebook or something haha, couldn't find em, I'll need a yearbook.

Cheers!

Gaming 4 life!

2009-05-04T09:36:00.000-07:00

Holy crap Vault is the cheapest and best energy drink ever. Ive had tons of red bull before and it doesn't get me like a vault does. Hows THAT for product placement.

Now Gaming 4 life.... that's right I made the big ass move.... $300 to play LOTRO 4 life! think about it, guys like my buddy Josh have paid about $720 for 4 years of gaming in WoW. 1st that's still cheap ass entertainment obvioulsy, being just 15 bucks a month than 100$ at the bar a month. Either way it well worth it for the enjoyment we get out of the game. Now I just have to get off my ass and do some more traveling!! its too easy to just sit back at home sometimes. Aparently LOTRO has a blogger they use where you can update your gaming habbits. Think I might do that instead of littering my blog with gaming benanderings.

Cheers!

About damn time - Lord of the Rings Online Game Review.

2009-05-01T15:29:00.000-07:00

Lord Of the Rings Online - Keith's Game Review

It time for the massive LOTRO game review!! You can also read up on other smart ass game reviews with such games as World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Eve Online, and Sword of the New World. (I couldn't find all my old links hah)

Every game has its strong points, Warhammer has an awesome variety of PvP options, more than any MMO I feel. WoW has the overall user friendly game on their side – such as anyone can truly just pick the game up without ever reading anything. However Lord of the Rings Online has its own field completely dominated, content.

I was never into the hole Lord of the Rings trilogy, sure the movies were cool, but I never went “OMG I cant wait till this comes out!”, I never even read the books, tried to though. However since I started playing I come to find that LOTRO isn’t even focusing around the “rings” mainly. I found out that the developers wanted to focus more on the book. So everything you didn’t see in the movies, you’ll see in the MMO. You meet actually every character in the book, with additional stories. And I’ll say this now… I rarely will ever read a quest; it’s safe to say I will always just skip to the bottom where it gets to the point… However, I will actually read the quest in Lord of the Rings, they’re enjoyable, have character, and are original. Even the map layouts are close replicas from the book. Think about it, developers were pretty much handed pure, premade gold of an epic story. So they had more time to make one hell of a badass PvE game, from content to the detail.

So I’m a sucker for detail, and a game like this is a huge turn on. That’s right, “Bow-Chicka-Bow-WoW” kind of turn on. When I say the graphics are good, I’m talking about “holy crap, is that a shadow from a leaf I see from a mile away” kind of good. Obviously MMO detail can’t be as crazy as “Gears of War” (yet). It would bog the hell out of your internet, and computer trying to process your information with everyone else’s, so you can see it all on time. However this game made everything equally beautiful. Not like games such as Guild Wars, where they make the armor nice, and crank the shiny effect to a million on the environment settings (besides its crazy low on content). Or games like WoW where even someone with a 486 could play, (I all ready went on my WoW rant, so I’m not gonna to touch that n00b fest). Hell LOTRO even makes fishing look badass.

Player housing is another genius idea, and I give it only one more expansion after “The Witch King” until WoW takes the idea and starts player housing. So in LOTRO you basically get rare drops off animals/bosses/during events etc.. These rare items are trophies you can put in your house, or some are the animal you killed, so you get it stuffed (a wolf trophy in our friends house, Jen the Hobbit is poking it). You can even get armor to hang on the walls from bosses you’ve killed. There are even Fellowship (Guild) houses you can buy which are massive, and every race has its own house style, I believe there are 3 different size house’s and the 4^th being a guild house.

Now if you’re into roll playing, this game is easily the best to do it in. From the environment settings to the mass amount of emotes you can do for simple simple actions. Not to include the advanced music playing system withing LOTRO!! playing your favorite songs on whatever instrument in game. LOTRO-ABC.com so far I've found seem to be the best one.

I'm going to keep it simple and end it there, with the tons of pictures I've taken since in game. Were also playing with a RL friend of ours, Bill. Who also owns a lifetime account. More MMO's need to adapt the lifetime account idea. Its genious and cheap. Especially if your one of those people who have been playing WoW for almost 4 years now, and are about to hit a grand $ in total payments to Blizzard.

Cheers mates!

Whats been up!!

2009-04-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

Alright! So its summer again in England!! yay!! London has all ready had to deal with the G20 Summit in which one person died, and now the Swine Flu has started. I love not watching the news. FOX always seems to make it seem like the worlds about to end, and try's to keep you hooked just to hear the same thing you did an hour ago. On the bright side, this years Londons Game Expo is coming up!!! W00t!!!! and hell yea were going just like last year!!!

I'm also testing for staff, so we'll see how that goes. Im more intrested on finishing my education eventually rather than making staff to be honest. Cause if you make staff, that just means your sticking around for a 15 hour shift instead of a 12, and get a few extra bucks while your at it.

In any case, time to lay back and play some Lord Of the Rings Online! I'll have to do my "Gamers Review" on it, I do them with most game I first try out/beta.

Cheers!

GERMANY!!! 2009

2009-04-19T02:07:00.000-07:00

I finally got around to uploading some of our Germany pictures to flickr! YAY! Which can be found right HERE. I only did around 30 now because there's no need to upload all 470 pictures that we took while in Germany, hah. What can I say, I REALLY like having a lot of pictures from where we go. And with our nice camera, hell yea I'm going to put that sucker to good use. I may still upload more from the other places we went, but as of right now I hit my 100mb uploading limit for the month because I still have the free flickr account. Which is great! unless you come back from a massive trip, hah.

So we met an AWESOME couple from Italy while in Edelweiss. And we now have a hook up there, so were looking to sometime head down there and hang out with 'em. They also LOVE hooka, and even brought one down to Edelweiss.

While we were there we spent about $300 on spa treatment alone, because it was around $80 bucks for a 1 hour back massage, so everything was cheap as hell and we felt like balers, :P lol. I even did a facial - thats right - I said it - a facial, and it was amazing. We went to a bunch of monastery and churches, course we hit up Neuschwanstein castle which was amazing! I put a lot of pictures on my flickr of that place. Went to a place where they make tons of cheese, and also headed to Munich for a day, which is HUGEEE. Hands down, it was one hell of a week. Got back on Friday, and enjoyed the rest of the weekend at home after our trip! lol, before heading back to work. All while only having to take 5 days of leave.

I got into the slacking mode with my blog again, I'm determined to hit 100 post before July! hah. Posting is actually fun when you have the time, and it has nothing to do with how many people read it, so its enjoyable.

Back from Germany!!!!

2009-04-05T03:53:00.000-07:00

Me and Jen are back in England from a week holiday in Germany!!! In and around Edelweiss Lodge and Resort. We took a TON of day trips and now our camera has 470 pictures on it! of course I wont be putting them all on flicker, but just the main idea ones about what we did. We also just spent the entire day last night cleaning the house and emptying our suitcases, since we were in a mad rush as we left the house for our trip.

Pictures soon to come! YAY!!

Going a million miles an hour!

2009-03-02T12:22:00.000-08:00

Holy crap its been busy. I wanna make a quick post for now. I have tons of flickr pics to upload, even from months ago while we were in London during the New Year. I'm working on 4 different knuckle buster (KB) videos at work. Won Airmen of the year in our squadron which was wicked. And finally getting ready to head to Germany!! and the Netherlands!! to meet up with Eric our SL homie, and for me and Jen to go on our 2 year Anniversery in Germany for a five star resort. Its gonna be wicked and im trying to figure out how to get everything done in a short amount of time. And the KB is 3 days before we leave! Hope it all goes smooth! lol it soooo wont. Oh and we went paintballing last Sat!! have some awesome pics of that! hah.
Later Days!

A wedding video!! whaaaa, thats rightttt!!!

2009-02-17T16:39:00.001-08:00

I had time this weekend and thought I would take up the job! Sure I don't do it full time anymore, but its pretty cool people are still passing my name around after a year. Word of mouth is awesome. So since I still have the NSS server, here are the videos!!

Wolf's_Wedding_20.4mb's_1mbpsDOTmov

I rendered them in a low enough size that it should take little time to "download/scream" in game. anything over 50mb would show more lag time depending on the server.

Longest day of Secondlife

2009-01-31T15:46:00.000-08:00

I think me and Jen played second life every minuet of the day today. Well me at least, she still drifts off into Warhammer sometimes. But WOW, I finished adding 2 entire sets of the mecha legs. Which may not sound a lot to some, but when you consider the fact of having to make the Ad for em, upload to Xstreet, and update in your shop, its a lot of running around to do. In addition Im almost ready to put 2 more products on the shelfs! depending if I want to buy a 2k linden script from a guy though =\ craps expensive! and not really any sales. I blame the worlds economy!! Jen also went nuts today with skins. heres her new BLOG! just for her cute store called "Glitter Factory".

Gotta give props to all those sculptie makers who do everything from scratch like baking the textures in a graphics program and making the sculpt it self. I guess once you really get the hang of it that really helps though. I gave it a good go, and damn I really wish I went to school for that stuff. theres a guy I went to highschool with that a long time ago I was trying to get him into Second Life, this was WELL before Sculpties. Now he would really be making bank. Im having fun though working with other sculpties people have made, it makes building for me faster, but of course textures are a problem a lot, because you only get to use 1. And if you dont have the baked texture for it, theres no way its going to look as good.

And still 1 more day left in the weekend! w00t!!!
~Later Days

w00t w00t OnRez.com

2009-01-29T13:02:00.000-08:00

Just finished setting up my shop at OnRez.com also now. So not only can they be bought at Xstreet but also OnRez now. Pft not much to do after getting off work besides just chilling. Onrez alone took a good 2 hours out of the handful I have when getting off work during the week. but tomorrow FRIDAY!!! w00t w00t!. Hope to accomplish some projects besides the ones that have been kicking my ass scripting/coding wise. about it for today!
later days!

UGH BLAHhh Booogaahh

2009-01-28T12:53:00.000-08:00

<---- Screw Sony to little bits and burn the left overs. Go figures the HD camera I bought, has a serial number that happens to fall into a category called "fucked". All footage uploaded from the camera in HD mode has a problem with data and sound. So occasionally every few seconds there will be colored blocks on the screen, missing audio, or just complete messed up audio. On top of that the firmware they released to fix this problem, cant be installed onto the camera because of an unknown error called 100:0. So after Ive been put in charge mostly of editing this years knuckle buster videos, I find this out. Which leaves me probably doing 40 times more work just trying to figure out a way to edit around all the random bits of colored blocks that show up. Seriously - thanks Sony, and excuse my french but I hope the crappy economy makes you bankrupt and your forced to fire people for making shitty ass equipment and software. You've been bringing it upon your self all these years. Spent 2 hours trying to install their jacked up firmware. It has me so frustrated (and its hard to get me frustrated or pissed off) I almost didn't post my new mecha gear =\ and that's fun! Anyways here it is on the B-Cyberpunk blog and on Xstreet SL.
~Later Days

Work in progress and uber Dexter!

2009-01-25T13:00:00.000-08:00

I am now completely addicted to sculpties. After spending a lot of time learning Maya, 3Dmax studio, and a handful of other programs. I come to learn that a lot of the shapes I'm looking for are all ready made by the people who have been doing 3D graphics for a living. So after spending hours of looking for what I need for various projects, I finally have it! Before I was deterred a lot because I no longer was kept up on Second Life happenings and building changes. Granted I was never that up on it in the first place, but I at least give it a good try! Also after putting my store on Xstreet Ive all ready made sales, and its cool as hell =D after being gone so long, its cool to see work I did years ago, still sell. Now that I'm back in Second Life, I hope to dish out the ideas I keep coming up with with out getting deterred (which sometimes can happen quite easily) . To the left is some behind the scenes work from today =D

As for DEXTER! now holy crap that's a great unique show. Over the last few months me and Jen have been watching all of season 1, 2 and just finished up 3 today. Honestly its one of those shows that never lets you down I think, and that's rare with series. I never got into "Heroes" but apparently everyone was wetting their panties because season 1 was so good, then they all damn near killed over how bad season 2 was. In any cause, I highly recommend you watch this series, and when it comes out, I even say it's well worth buying. That's right, I said it

here is to this week being smooth and have short working days! cheers!
and later days.

New Toys and B-Cyberpunk SLURL

2009-01-24T05:58:00.000-08:00

Holy crap Ive been busy for it only just now being 2pm. I just got done putting ALL of my products for B-Cyberpunk onto the XStreet SL website. It use to be SL Exchange but they got bought out by Linden Labs it looks like, which is wicked. Including finishing the new Loki Cyberpunk set ad, and making my Bebop Vox image tag you now see on the right :) Ive also added the link to all my items under "Fellow Uber Links" on the right. Here's also the link.

I think it may be a bit until I get my name back out there again, since I was away from SL for so long. Ive been playing a lot with sculpties. But mostly trying to keep everything organized, and see if I might release some of the same stuff but with more girly textures, or just different. Either way TONS of ideas =) just gotta find the right scripts and textures. Think I might finally crack down and buy some land lol.
The pic on the right of the paragraph is a link to B-Cyberpunks Store in SL, the SLURL

Going to head out and do some advertisements, events and all that good stuff. Its pretty freacken cold in England right now. Sure makes me not miss winter in Chicago.

Nerd Weekend

2009-01-19T16:13:00.000-08:00

I don't think it gets any more nerdy than it did this weekended, if we played D&D then yes - heads would explode from the nerd aura.

New SL profile pic to the left. Ive been building mecha and cyberpunk shit like CRAZY in Second Life. Just look at the B-Cyberpunk blog! I'm all ready behind on making new advertisements for items I just finished, not going to announce them yet. But at this point I defiantly know I need to get a bigger store, and the SL exchange/On Rez up and working again to profit with the online shoppers. AND get back out there and advertise again with clubs and that to get my name back out there. It will be nice to have a variety of things before I do that though. As for Saturday, me and 8 other guys went over to a buddys house that we work with. Hooked up 3 flat screen LCD's, Xbox's, and rawked out at a lan party! for a good 15 hours straight I think. Brought the new hooka Jen got me, and even thought a friend how to play SL this week!!! My first friend I brought into SL from real life! hah SO dorky.

Anyways, heading out now for bed, I think the only stressful thing I have is those knuckle buster videos everyone is laying on me to do. At least were all knocking them out early even though its not for 3 more months. Either way someone will still forget something, and remember it at last minuet.

Later Days!

Bringing friends to the SL gutter O' fun!

2009-01-16T15:10:00.001-08:00

"Robot bunny is confused!"
I always find it funny no matter how awesome of a toy you make in second life, sex will always top it. Spent most of the day after work teaching a buddy at work how to play SL since I'm always talking about it. He actually learned a shit load and got further than we did when we were n00bs. Then again we didn't have someone on Skype helping us. After doing camera controls, and building catapults that failed, we did some slingo, and I showed him some of the "wtf" sides of SL. Including this place! which brings up my topic about sex in SL. This sim was COVERED with people. Granted most are n00bs not spending a dollar, but holy crap did we have fun with it. After getting free avatars from YadNi's Junkyard, a robot freaky ass rabbit was the final decision on his avatar. So we took it along for the ride.

Now if you go into Second Life just to be serious, then your wrong. Its meant to have fun and be a creative engine and blah blah blah whatever else. But when it comes to sex, it doesn't get any more creative than a Mecha Easter bunny robot having sex with a human and a tiny dino furry, with a fox furry watching and a pimp with some bling. Basically we saw random people hop on sex balls, and we jacked them with some "WTF sugga!".

I was planning on building more mecha goodness but I was more interested on getting someone I met in RL addicted to SL. Considering everyone that I know who plays SL, I met in SL first. And with this 3 day weekend I hope to knock out a new project. I did just finish up lower leg peices from the Chicken legs though! Late last night I tweaked them and put a banner up. Also posted in the B-Cyberpunk Blog.

~Later days!

Little here and there

2009-01-14T14:04:00.000-08:00

Once again my computer will become the AF's biotch. And I don't want so much kill my uber computer cause I love the hell out of it. I more so just feel bad for it considering how much it gets abused and used for multimedia purposes.

We finished filming a ton of intro footage today for the knuckle buster awards that i'll be taking the lead of this year. Last year I assisted/did pretty much all the editing for everyone, so its not much differant. But I will defantly be putting the videos up on youtube this time. I did happen to come across the Terry Tate spoof we did, after my hard drive crashed while in Iraq I havnt seen any of my other videos since. So i'll be shooting that one up on the tube sometime. Its almost the weekend! w00t!

Later Days

Back and kicking ass! Cyberpunk style!!

2009-01-12T11:54:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting, but my ass is back in Second Life. Ive decided to stop playing Warhammer online because it feeds my addiction too easily, (and I maxed out to lv40 so im chillin). And mostly because I have all these other games I haven't even played because of addicting RPGMMO's. Instead Ive thrown my head back into Second Life and into my B-Cyberpunk store that has been around for 3 years now, and started a blog for its products. I have a bunch of items in SL that I still need to make videos for and add to the site - So in time! As for right now!! check out my the newest cyberpunk gear, the Steam mecha chicken leg.. things!!! w00t!!!

For my homies in SL, next 2 weeks are pretty heavy at work so I wont be on much during the week. And the weekends will be left to do my cyberpunk bidding! as of right now for 2 weeks. TONS of ideas though.

Glad I finally got back to blogging! its too easy to skip out now and then.
Later days!

Been AFK :P

2008-12-17T08:11:00.000-08:00

Been busy, sorry for not posting. I have a HUGE math final coming up tomorrow, so I'll be hitting up the last hours of studying. After that I'll be back into the swing of things.
-Later days

All the cool kids are doing it!!

2008-12-10T13:56:00.000-08:00

Jennifer and I are sending out holiday cards this year!!!! at first I thought it was all cheesy and only stuck up people did it or something. Pft what do I know, I'm still a kid learning all this adult stuff, and forced to act like one at work. Point is, its actually a little fun to do, because people hardly keep up with relatives as it is, so its a nice gesture and a way to say "Hey im still alive and doing this or that" once a year, especially if you haven't been back "home home" for 2 years like I have. Anyways, CHECK IT OUT!!! all my wicked holiday cards! 2 of which are going to Eric and Rico, close online friends that me and Jen have had over the years. We've all ready met Tree and Sox in person (met them online) so now they're just normal friends :P which we'll be going over to their place for our British/American Christmas feast! Man I love the holidays. We also were sitting around and taking a few pics, on my flickr and some below :) Enjoy!

Another fun filled day full of wicked success

2008-12-06T10:12:00.000-08:00

Its nice to get some kind of self fulfillment after completing a busy day only to realize its just now 6pm, we actually accomplished a lot in just 1 day. I mean we did grocery shopping, I HATE grocery shopping. Making a list of things through out the week helped out a lot though. Cleaned up the house blah blah blah, but most importantly!! Put up our first real Christmas tree!! last year we had a good 2 foot fiber optic tree that we put a single ornament on :P But now we've owned our own house for a almost 2 years now and there's no excuse not to get one. Because when you first get married (Let alone getting married then right away moving to another country from the US) you don't own anything like furniture Christmas trees. Your living with box furniture and tables, and sleeping on a blow up mattress in the living room. lol

While we went shopping we also ran into the little part of the store that carry's lots of random Japanese and Chinese food, and walked out with an entire sushi kit, and the items to make it. I gotta say I thought it would be way harder and come out like total crap. But now it has me wonder why I ever paid for sushi and didn't just make the damn things my self!! It came out SOoo good, I highly recommend anyone to try it, just check out some of the sushi making videos real quick so you'll know how to wrap it. Jen even snapped a pic of me going NUM NUMM. Defiantly a good couple activity trying to figure you what you want in it, and experimenting how you should lay everything out. Jen also blogged about how to make it I think, she's blogging right now also :P Its nice just to set a few minuets out of the day, and take the time to blog.

And holy crap all my Christmas shopping is done!!!! like last week!, feels so awesome not having to even think about it. Mailing out some cards to the family still though.
Later Days!

Teaching at Southampton Solent University

2008-12-05T15:37:00.000-08:00

That's right!!! actually it was last weekend, but me and Jen have been so busy I haven't event blogged yet. And I gotta say, for once I actually have no problem with work, now its just the math course I'm taking right now that I have a problem with. Its the only thing stopping me from getting a degree in a specialty I'll never need in the future, but hey why not? The US Government is paying for it anyways. Even though not media or computer related which is my true specialty. Working on aircraft's is more of a hobbies, even though it pays for a house, cars, FOOD, I love food. You know all that good stuff. So wheres a few pictures at what we do best, gaming, media, and teaching!

Last year we gave a lecture regarding the possibility of teaching within Second Life. Well since then, they have been aiming to start a SL course at the beginning of next year. Cant wait to see where else it leads to!!

Other than that I've mostly been coming home from work and school, then hanging out for a bit with Jen before heading to bed. I cant wait until this math course is over. Its crazy, I would take 3 courses all at once while working with out a problem. But throw a math course in and that alone fills up my time. Some of us really just were not built for more advanced math. Just stick to what your good at!!

Oh and holy crap!!! This years Knuckle Busters committee has started up at work, and I've all ready got tons of video ideas. Last year I bought my HD camera near the end of the Knuckle busters, so I only had time to do one kick ass video. WHICH I FOUND!! I thought I lost it forever while I was in Iraq and Jen told me my hard drive crashed. Little did I know there was a back up on my work computer. SO Hopefully I can get that sucker uploaded to the internet - because the internet is serious business. Guess we'll see!

Later Days!!

Absolut Ice Bar in London & Jack the Ripper

2008-11-23T05:19:00.000-08:00

I've actually been trying really hard to post every day, its a lot harder then one would think. In any case DAMN we did a lot last night. I've added a bunch of pictures from the Ice Bar in London, but still need to add some of the Jack the Ripper tour stuff. The guy actually took us all around London to each location, and brought pictures of that area during the 70's. As for the ice bar it was pretty cool. I mean its mostly just drinking in a deep freezer with walls you can lick and glasses you can eat :D I couldn't help but chew on it. They also throw these Eskimo shiny jackets on ya which are fun, and have gloves tired to em.

In the first picture its the alleyway into where the ice bar is. It actually makes you feel like your not even outside because of all the proper lighting on the buildings. And wicked enough but we also found a Sheesha bar right next door to it!! Couldn't help but go to it, since the last one was years ago in Naperville, IL.

They seriously deck London out during the holidays, and next time we go down town I need to get a bunch of other pictures, I'm photo junkie. I have a pretty big math test going on Tuesday that's an hour and a half long, so not sure if I'll be posting. I'm sure there's going to be something in the news that I'll have to vent about... lol.
-Later Days

World of Warc...ISO! & Your done! now get the F out!‏

2008-11-21T13:29:00.000-08:00

First off - Dogma - good movie in that Kevin Smith kinda way, I just now finally got around to watching it

While running around on base today I headed into the book store, only to realize they sell World of Warcraft trading cards. Now with all my dislikes about WoW, there is always joking around with the ISO guys at work about it because about 1/2 of em play. The Airforce alone is littered with WoW players. So I couldn't help but buy this $3.90USD booster pack of cards, and label the cards that were characters - with the name of some guys in ISO. I'll just post the one pic with out anyone's name, This back pics of the card will be more like the header for all the other cards. And we'll post em around where everyone checks out tools =D So welcome to the World of ISO!

As for the newest political BS:
(The following regarding this linked article)
*Pic not related*
Is it possible for GB to screw the world over more before he leaves office? Of course, it seems his goal is to surpass being called "an incompetent leader" (which historians are putting in the books based on facts), and is aiming for an even more insulting title with just a few more weeks left in office. So now endangered species will probably be extinct because of em. As if it wasn’t hard enough all ready for animal societies to keep them alive. Now listen I’m not a tree huger – but I’m a firm believer in the human race not acting like some damn locus – I.E: Going to one place, using all its resources, and then just go to the next place using everything up. Its ignorant to think you need everything in the world and to constantly expand. Listening to the radio last night while driving home from class, someone was saying “Stores are going out of business, and people are losing jobs because you’re not buying things, such as TV’s and appliances”. Yea that’s cause I don’t need any!! I don’t need 4 TV’s, an SUV in the suburb, new clothes every week or Apples newest toy. Shit it’s like when I was in Iraq people were buying the most random crap online and getting it sent there just because they were bored and had nothing to do. No – The economy is down for several reasons, (In blunt) most of which involves management making bad/illegal decisions, assuming to many things, and attempts to dodge tax write offs. As for GM and the US auto makers - pft… not even going to get started. You should go bankrupt, the government shouldn’t save you, and that’s your own fault, and we will end up paying for it. Maybe you’ll finally make fuel efficient/electric cars like you once started, and stop making bull shit trucks suburbians don’t need for 30k a pop - Or a car that can go 0-60MpH in X amount of seconds, or a car that goes 160MpH because no where is it legal. Yea I love sexy fast cars.. but they're not meant for spoiled rich kids and people who are just bored out of their minds.
~Fin~

Ugh, I miss the days of ignorance when people (me) knew less about the world. Well tomorrow me and Jen will be going on a Jack the Ripper tour in London, along with the London Ice Bar!!!! should be wicked! and will be taking loads of pics.
-Later Days!

Business is Good & Unoriginal Whores

2008-11-20T13:37:00.000-08:00

Wheel and tire garages is the UK know the business is good because they're the ones throwing nails on the roads! Replaces 3 of my tires today because 2 were legit worn down, but the 3ed had five long ass nails in em! Whats up with that? In general England's roads suck ass and everyone here knows it, even the tire guy agreed!!

Get ready! cause I'm gonna be a hatta!! Now I'm not one for keeping up with entertainment news and artist, Jen could eat that stuff up all day though. But check this unoriginal shit out. Beyoncé's anoying ass song - "Put a ring on it"

Now check out from Bob Fosse in the 60's (with added music for comedy)

here is the original. THE WENCH STOLE THEIR KOOLAID!!! Of course Jen found this online and not me, but I love amusing outcomes like this when they're found. Also Justin Timerlake did a spoof of this which was pretty funny. ABC is cracking down on their videos though so its hard to find the full version.
-Later Days!

In Robinhoods Crib!

2008-11-19T12:00:00.000-08:00

During the time I wasn't blogging for a bit, we headed to Nottingham England to the Robin Hood fest. Now Medieval times is pretty wicked in the states. But its the real deal here! Castles and all! SO we hit up some of the old ale which was pretty good, watched some jousting, and even jesters that were amusing! they always get a bad rap.

As for all the little tents and stops around the area, they really set the mood because its a bunch of people role playing parts such as alchemist and leather workers. It almost makes you feel out of place with everyone all dressed up. We brought the camera to, and wish we got it - but there was one little girl dressed up that was so cute looking off at something, missed the picture though because of all the people running around. In any cause here's a few out of the many we took.

I'm also going to start uploading my photos to flicker, that way I have some rights (I think hah) for the pics I take.

1st Pic: Awesome 2ed Pic: Yes, fire down his pants 3ed Pic Holy crap put it out!

We found Waldo there! and I got ganked =\

As far as Warhammer goes (I swear I'm always talking about it now) Jen found a new glitch today with a floating purple armor head - that really show floating shoulders. And the new event "Heavy Metal" kicked off. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Once again we'll be having en England thanksgiving again! and Christmas with our England friends (who we met in SL) Tree and Sox! At least once we remember to ask them :D
-Later Days!

Blah! Holy Shit!

2008-11-18T13:13:00.000-08:00

Is exactly what I say every time I sneeze while driving. Nothing is better than closing your eyes while driving 60 down narrow ass England roads at night. Its better then having my eyes pop out if I kept them open while driving...

Well I have tomorrow off, no idea why, but when you get a day off work you never should question it, and should just bolt out the door. Also if you love wicked stick figure fighting check this sequel out. Jens been messing with Photoshop mostly. Were going to Southhampton University again to give a teaching lecture to the university's teachers. Last time we went (last year) we talked with people from different schools about the possibility of learning within a virtual world. And now it's paid off :) Mostly Jen will be teaching because my its a bit harder to work with my schedule. But I did take the day off so I can driver her, that way she doesn't throw up... :D

Time to begin my mooching day off!!! YAY!!! and someone needs to make a Warhammer Online widget for blogger!

-Later Days

PvP Porn and Englands kick in the ass!!

2008-11-17T14:50:00.000-08:00

Waaaaagh!!
No one really knows yet but me (Voxis) and Jen (Morose) belong to a guild called Ebonlore. Now I never plug guilds and all that jazz but this one is pretty good about beating the shit out of Order. Last night (this morning lol) a 4 hour battle went on in Dragonwake, 2 full warbands of the Order and 1 full warband of Destruction. Even being outnumbered we managed to push them to their keep, get pushed back to the point of them taking our lord out - as we stopped them and pushed them back to their keep, finally taking it over and the rest of the land. Shit loads of loot dropped, experience made, and renown made. It was sexy as hell, Heres so low-rez images for you guys. Because England's Internet cant keep up with the awesomeness.

~ Dragonwake Keep Raid ~

Most of the houses in England receive Internet through their phone line, aka DSL. This is because the country is straight up old. Which is kinda cool, but sucks if your a gamer and have 2 people playing in the same house. So the majority of houses like ours is out of date like most of the country :P even though it is a wicked house we have. In other words - Piss off and play your Internet games some place else!!! It just makes me miss the days me and Jen could be in SL, streaming music, DJing, and filming in game all at the same time while eating bandwidth like popcorn. So W.T.F. mate! catch up with society and get some more broadband.

Warhammer's Tip of the Day!! By: Me!
(and probably only today cause I just now thought of this)

Have trouble getting past a place covered with mobs and wanna play dead? Theres actually TONS of uses for this but here's the basics - If you Que for a scenario, and it pops (ask you to join), if you die at anypoint you can then join the que, and when its over, end up alive where you died.

Example: Having to run into a cave for a quest. Just que up, and when it pops - run in as far as you can with out dieing. Once you do (dont release) - join que, and when you get back, you'll be fully alive where you died before joining :)

-Later Days!

The next media hungry Britney Spears?

2008-11-16T01:27:00.000-08:00

Its about time republicans ate their words. Because no matter what your opinion is of bush and his decisions, his incompetence as a president will be known in the history books, screw the unlucky part, and that’s fucking awesome.

Now what I will never understand is the medias obsession with complete idiots. In the last few days, Sarah Palin who was running for VP with McCain, has received more media attention that McCain does. Most of which is dragging her through the mud because no one can understand how a republican like McCain could let such a dim wit get so close to the White House. Heres a few amusing articles for anyone left in the world that still thinks they should of voted her in. Now there are a TON of scandals revolving around her, from her pregnancy’s, legal issues she’s been taken into court, and clothes bought during the campaign, just Google: Sarah Palin Scandals and you’ll find the majority of them. But I want to focus on how she’s a general idiot for someone in such a political position, let alone wanting to achieve a higher position.

“Sarah Palin has been forced to apologies after she mistakenly claimed she had met with British ambassador Nigel Sheinwald at an event which he did not actually attend” How do you mistakenly talk about a meeting that never happened with the British ambassador? Lol

Sarah Palin didn't know Africa is a country and not a continent.

She couldn’t even name the three countries in the North American Free Trade Agreement - Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Palin takes prank call from fake French president, really 2 radio DJ’s

AND FINALlY!! (cause i'm done writing about this shit cause there is so damn much of it) McCain even asked her to step down from being VP

Alright well I’m done, all ready I’m sick of writing about this. How the hell does the media do it? Lets say some things are rumors (even though there’s video proof) when so many scandals and events come up with one person – there’s obviously SOMETHING wrong to have so many vultures at your doorstep to even question it. It’s like saying Britney Spears isn’t a white trash, horrible, unoriginal, singer who feeds off the media, AND making a living from being the looser known to man. Really though – even just looking at her face is insulting to females. Speaking of white trash, how is the Klue Klux clan even still around in America? These retards need to grow up. Man anytime the UK even hears about some kind of gang or group - cops are raiding their place and shutting them down from the country. Yea sure the UK is smaller than the US, but nothing is new about which states the KKK reside in.

In any case! the reality of RL keeps detracting me because it will always amaze me what people can still get away with in the world. But to end this blog - My favorite Sarah Palin quote: November 11th: Sarah Palin "Plows through doors" to attack "bloggers in their parent's basement."
-Later Days!

MMORPG Blood money!

2008-11-12T08:16:00.000-08:00

I just got done watching G4 talking about WoW and I needed to get this dork nerd rage out of my system. Since I haven’t posted in a while, I figure I’ll make this one about a few things. First off is regarding the release of WoW’s new Expansion “The wrath of the lich king”. Blizzard has a good reputation when it comes to making games and expansions, and are well known for taking their time when making a game… I.E. Starcraft 2, but when they do finally make it, its badass. So their either lazy, or really slow at doing their job. Now me and Jen use to play WoW, went to level 70 – so this review isn’t really bias. In short, the World of Warcraft has become the short bus and the Wal-Mart of the MMO world. Short bus – because kids as young as 10 are playing this game and talking trash, anyone is able to pick this game up, and mash a few buttons to play it –Hence why it’s so popular, people like simplicity, which is pretty much Apples motto (however I’m not saying apples suck, just saying they’ve gotten as far as they have because of user friendly material.. well and everything they make is sexy and clean).

When it comes to WoW being like Wal-mart (stick with me) A lot of Wal-mart goods don’t last long (at least they haven’t for me) and they’re made with poor material so they can mass produce items at a low price (not to include their work ethics that have been taken into court). Blizzard has been nothing but reproducing the same idea in every expansion and creating it in low detail, It always consist of “Here’s a wicked item to make you bad ass – and you have to do X, Y and Z to get it, and that will take you one month’s worth of grinding” it feeds off the basic human need of reward and pleasure just like any MMO – However the problem with WoW is that month it takes – on top of having to do it with 5 other people running an instance just for 1 of 6 set piece items. In which of course by the time you get the entire set, next month they will be releasing a new update/expansion that will void out how awesome that set was. The reward system shouldn’t be monotonous. But if it is – it gets people hooked, wanting to complete the next simple task, because the next ones going to be just as simple, but time consuming. Meanwhile blizzard this year will be making a mind blowing (and quite unbelievable) 195Million dollars a month off your subscriptions around the world – and 2billion 340million total this year alone off your wasted time grinding.

Here’s another area they’re shorting you, They give you a little taste of every MMO out there, but not the full pie. Here’s some specifics if you’ve played WoW and have made it this far in my wrath fighting WoW. In Azaroth there was one (only 1) area where you could capture towers to hold rights to that land, it was pretty lame had could have had much better potential. In the following expansion however, after realizing people liked that idea “The Burning Crusade” entirely consisted of the capturing land idea which isn’t anything new to MMO’s before WoW. Now Blizzard is releasing “The Wrath of the Lich King” which will consist of Siege weapons, and a book of knowledge along with titles. Can they think of anything more original? I’ll tell you now though that the users will get hosed once again though, because even though they’re just copying other MMO’s now, their new ideas will never effect the main land of Azaroth, and only be used on the small new lands they create with the expansion, which is lame as hell. Its like playing in a cage. Point with this is – Users loved these ideas in games such as Dark age of Camelot in 2001, now being used by the same creators with the MMO Warhammer. However WoW players wont be experiencing the full intent of such an idea.

As for Warhammer? What can I say, it just came out, they’re having less bugs then when WoW first came out, and a million less gold spammers because they actually care and implemented a proper filter for them. The entire game gives you a feeling on constant war and fighting which is cool. And you can latterly go anywhere all over the world to fight with our restrictions. Not to add they have level buffs for PVP scenarios (Battle grounds) so everyone’s the same level and items get buffed to the same level. SO no more loosing because you’re out leveled by the other team. There’s thousands of the Tome of Knowledge unlocks, item unlocks, the ability to change color levels on your items, each piece seems to have several levels which is awesome (WoW hasn’t stolen that idea yet). Oh and how could I forget, you can also Level in PVP Scenarios. So you can latterly join a scenario right when you make a character, and be fighting and killing people as a level 1 (if you’re lucky cause you won’t have a lot of spells) but you can still do it! There’s also cool things called public quest which are everywhere, and each of one of them drop X amount of bags (one for how many people it should take to beat it) it’s usually 6 bags it will drop, sometimes being a purple or a more rare one. Point is you never even have to be working with a group to do them. You can just be running by, and see a bunch of people doing them, and just tag along killing shit for it. Nothing sucks more than not being able to group up with people to do something. Warhammer wise that problem doesn’t exist, not only can you just jump in on a public quest or castle take over. But you can see who has open group in your zone so you can join them for whatever instead of having to ask in a channel which always sucks and usually leaves you with no response.

In the end I’ll never go back to WoW, there is one thing I will always love about that game though, and that’s the idea of the flying mount which was released in the burning crusade, Awesome! But I refuse to go back to a game which is based around grinding for hours. Warhammer had one of the smoothest MMO releases and is starting out just as big as WoW did, and I can only hope it gets the respect and millions of subscribers as it deserves (its at 1 million now). Spells are a little bit more complex to understand for a kid who’s 10 year old, so I’m glad I wont be seeing any of those in WAR and WoW can keep them.
-Later days - WAAAARGH!!!

President Barack Obama w00t!!!

2008-11-05T08:52:00.000-08:00

Jesus I hate math! Tues and Thurs I pretty much just get off work and go to class, then head to bed!! So I haven't been blogging =\ But hey! Barack Obama won the election, more so owned the election, while McCain got spanked with only 163 Electoral votes, and Obama with 249. In other news Russia is still playing the old school card "I have a bigger dick"by wanting to play with their missiles. Serioulsy its almost 2009 Russia, grow the fuck up and play nice with the rest of the nations, quit being gay. I would be the most immature president ever.

So im also cleping a bunch of test too for the hell of it. getting all kinds of sexy credits and will have my degree by the end of the year if one of my cleps pass. What can I say, its free for us cause the gov pays for it. Gotta milk it while I can! Anyways im gonna go chill out and play warhammer and study math, cause math.... is just a big immature word.

Oh hey we did go to Nottingham for the Robinhood fest 2 weeks ago, and the Norwitch beerfest this week! was awesome. Just a quick little plug about that :P always doing stuff every weekend now! atleast trying to.
Later days!!

Ugh! FREEEEDOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

2008-10-27T10:01:00.000-07:00

So my freedom of 15 days off work is over, works started and all is going to hell there. Its getting better now though, I aparently cought the tail end of everything going downhill I guess. Either way we worked Sat, then me and Jen went out Sunday to Nottingham. I'll post more about it later. I just got off work, and classes will be starting up tomorrow. But i'll type things up at work so I can just copy and paste when I get home. Then - pretty much crash after class.
Later days

You Sir, are a retard -

2008-10-17T00:55:00.000-07:00

What is You Tube known for? It is the epitome of all public copy write infringement known to man.. This is the email I just got -

"Video Disabled
A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video World Of Warcraft Raid on Tarren Mill by NSS. The audio content identified in your video is Name Of The Game by The Crystal Method. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback, due to a music rights issue."

So a video that i've had up for 2 years now with almost 100k view, is just NOW getting nailed for "copy write infringement" (CI). Besides I thought it was CI only if you made a profit with it. Are you serious though! at least 90% of all videos on YouTube have some well known artist music in the back ground, and theres no way in hell some kid got permission to. And you don't need to pay some half-whit member of the "YouTube Content Identification Team" to do a retarded job like that. If your going to go after some guy like me who's just having fun with video - than ban that other 90%, cause if you did - YouTube wouldn't be anywhere it is today.

On the other hand - according to their web site, someone who owns permission to the copy write has to report it in order for a video to get taken down. Which would explain why YouTube is so flooded with copy write awesomeness. But that also means someone who own the rights to The Crystal Method song Name Of The Game, saw my video and went "You son-of-a-bitch" and was SO mad - they actually took the time out of their day to get it taken off a well known media source of the internet, Which I think is actually pretty cool. In any case - Piss off! and go find something honorable to do you smuck!

OMGZ NEOPETS

2008-10-15T15:16:00.000-07:00

Actually I know nothing about neopets, but Jen has had a neopet online for years. So now that she found out they are selling Neopet toys at Burger King, its Da-Ja-Vu for me, and were constantly getting kids meals lol. DaJaVu cause when I was around 12 my mom went to every BK in Illinois for beanie baby toys. Lets just say she now has an entire plastic container (the kind you save a shit load of wrapping paper) full of beanie babys. Fast food as a kid was no "treat" for me though, and I didnt get fat so dont blame it on them! well after seeing the movie super size me, you can.

Took this awesome picture of our cat in the window last night. I love our new camera, it makes taking pictures more fun with clicky noises and ticks. Anyways here it is! Also just added a pic of my AV in SL to the right. Honestly though.. its to subtle and not me at all. Theres no explosions in the background, no sexual references defacing pop cultures in the background, AND NO COW BELL! Its alright for the first one though, I just now found that add-on. DarRrr

Me and Jen hung out for a bit in SL. And played warhammer of course, we keep trying to wake up at 8 am but that never works out... think I have to find a job that will accommodate to my sleeping needs and wants... guess thats not the Air Force huh? lol

Later Days!

Old logic with new wrapping paper = sexy time!

2008-10-14T02:36:00.000-07:00

So after getting back from Iraq a couple weeks ago, I've subconciously decided to fall off the radar of society, and into the human natural habitat of lazyness, and it rules... lol I mostly blame this on MMO's because they're addicting as hell. My English research essay on video game addictio says so, and since I got a "B" on it, I must of said something right in it. In any case im slowly getting back into my groove of doing things and making stuff. Jen's all ready been doing a BUNCH of paintings. All of which you can see on her Manic Static blog (she still needs to add a bunch), which is cool. I've been dancing around the world of sculpties, and I think I made dinner last night! that means im being productive again!

So check it out, we always get asked to film more weddings in SL even though we havnt done it for over half a year. And we get comments all the time saying thanks for the tutorial videos which is wicked. But no one has actually shown us what they've made after watching our videos. And check it out, Tosebari Serpente in SL hooked us up with his first build - Carrot Armwarmers bitches! Which is better than the first peice of crap I built when I started (see right side picture). So hey great job, and keep it up! BTW I make saw arms and shit now... so dont think im still making these kick ass discolored wood men! DONT JUDGE ME!

As for the title: Ive decided to stay up all night instead of going to bed at 6am like me and Jen have been for the past week. I need to start getting into that daytime awake time thing again If I ever plan on not falling asleep at work :P just another week and 1/2 of free leave! w00t!

Later days!

I hate you with an iron fist....

2008-10-10T18:46:00.001-07:00

I've never denyed the face that Macs are great. I just dont like them because of the limited about of software I can "aquire" for a Mac. With that said, I join sides with my fellow OS haters, in saying "Up yours Windows". After I installed a new hard drive a couple weeks ago, I randomly recieved a "Missing Ntoskrnli.exe" file. After googling on Jen's computer, and trying all the fixes, nothing worked. Having several hard drives I simply reinstalled it and lost nothing in the process.

This is besides the fact though. The only reason why windows is so popular and we all grew up with it, is because Microsoft was what they call "The first to market". The first big company of its type to hit the big market. Just like coke, and how many people in the South area of the US call any kind of soda "Coke". Either way, with all your money - make something worth a damn, and a product you can be proud to put your name on. Its not like this is my first run in with some BS Microsoft OS problem either.
Thats about it, I just needed to vent because I'll never understand how some products make it to market and are distributed to the masses. Kinda like the American Penny. I think once a year for the past 8 years someone has told me they are still trying to phase it out. Because the penny cost more to produce, than its even worth.
In any case! Its 1.70 a pound now!! w00t!! it was $2 bucks to the pound when we first got to the UK. Later days!

And WARHAMMER WINS...the MMORPG war

2008-10-08T06:45:00.000-07:00

The past few days me and Jen have been playing WARHAMMER Online, its only right to finally do a proper post regarding how much more awesome it is than the slow bus of WoW. (which we also played to lv70, so we have a good grasp).

Eve looses because - even though its a great idea, sexy looking, and has one of the most wicked death penalty in the history of MMO's, it is also the most tedious games probably ever made. World of Warcraft is child's play, and after playing Warhammer, it feels like your playing a dumb down MMO for kids. While on the other hand.. Warhammer is constant war, fighting, and always watching your ass. The skill professions are even more fun than WoW's. Not to add the RVR is the way to go, and its much easier to raid the other teams side's of the world and raise hell. Granted it has just been released, so there are a bugs just like every game ever released. Speaking of which, what a better segue than now to upload my own WAR glitched pics.

So I keep attempting to get back into the graphic designing but Warhammer keeps destracting me lol. Im just dabbing into the programs, nothing to serious cause im learning it on my own which is a pain in the ass. Oh and Jens birthday was 2 nights ago, YAY! she didnt really wanna go out and do anything but I did buy her something while I was downrange. Its hard to buy birthday presants when your gone!

Anyways im going to continue to milk these free days I have off work by just being lazy for now! lol Have a good one! ...WAAAGH!!!

3D Graphics is a GO!

2008-10-04T12:01:00.000-07:00

I just got done finishing my crash course into creating sculpties for Second Life, and damn is it a lot to learn. Making sculpties is easily one of the most intimidating things you can do in SL. Mostly because you see awesome graphics real designers do, and SL isnt use to that kind of bad ass work. Heres an example of good shit-

Now: my n00b attempt - Its a penguin with a mow-hawk thing... or just a melted down bird.

In any case, my first time building was just as bad. And if you know me, I've come from that - to now a store with random cyberpunk stuff that is actually making me money! so Yip Yip! Either way I dont think it gets worse than this atleast, so I cant go downhill very far. Not bad for my first day though!

After being downrange in Iraq for 4 months, ive fallen far behind everything that is going on. Theres nothing I hate more than joining a trend when it hits the peak. Either way I have a bunch of new 3D graphic programs I've been playing with, and i'm just seeing what I like to use best. The biggest challenge is making sure the model is even able to upload into SL. With Zbrush it seems to be the easiest, and also Lightwave, but I havnt jumped into that yet for texturing.

After hours of reading up on Sculpties and watching videos, I have to give a HUGE thanks to http://www.shiny-life.com/. Where they have some great tutorials, and the Zbrush converter you will need to upload into SL. I'm pretty burnt out with that crap now so it looks like me and the wifey are gonna hit up the WARRRHAMMERRR!!!.

Later days!

Weee!! Crap load of updates

2008-10-03T09:04:00.000-07:00

First off I'm work until the 23ed of October!!!!! SoI'm gonna start hardcore geeking it up.
Now that I'm finally home I've been working at getting back into the groove of things. Me and Jen have been around each other each second of the day, started playing video games together again, and now hanging out in our office that we organized. To include Jen getting her new computer!! and of course it has a million LED lights on it.

I also bought all kinds of goodies for mine. 3 new hard drives, and 2 new hard drive coolers, which look more like a car stereo amp. This also means I made a total mess of the living room. The coolers also come with 2 LED fans each in front.

and HOLY CRAP, for someone like me, you don't realize how much you missed bass until you go on a 4 month deployment. I've been constantly listening to Winamp techno, house, and electronic music every moment I get. I also just got 3D max studio again, i'm looking at really getting into it and possibly make something of it, Its just shit I really enjoy and have a passion for. Just like film, I just have to learn this first.

And just like many geeks, I gotta have a variety of gaming going on. In which case me and Jen started up WARHAMMERRRRR \m/ so far its pretty bad ass, why? Because its constant war! and you dont have to wait for it. Unlike WoW (even on a PvP server) you dont have to wait for battles, more so a group to play with because War sets you up automatically.

**Major dork alert**Now with the game just releasing we have seen out handful of bugs. which is great because they're always amusing to run into. Heres 2 of which we and the wifey ran into. 1st one is a jacked up avatar running. 2ed one is a rock spell that was cased on her, and it just sticks constantly even when running around and jumping.
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I will be updating a lot more than I use to finally! Laterdays!

I'm Home!

2008-09-28T03:58:00.000-07:00

A quick update
Finally just arrived home and I have a million pictures to upload. It feels SO good to finally be home. I'm still waiting on a few more boxes that I sent my self APO to APO for free. I still have my computer to work on since the hard drive took a dump, and we are still waiting on Jens new computer in the mail. When she first got it, the computer has a bad motherboard. I also have a few boxes to mail out to the guys back in Iraq. Just a few inside jokes and goodies. Also I have to mail out my boxes to Eric and Rico with a few things from down range. Nothing illegal! Anyways, I gotta go and continue to hang out with my wife =)
Later days

Hey everyone!

2008-08-19T15:11:00.000-07:00

Hope all is well in Second Life and your other gaming worlds. I've been responding to my Second Life messages through my email. So feel free to continue contacting me in Second Life. I'm counting down the days I have left in Iraq! and cannot wait to get back home.
Take care fellow g33ks!

finally! Internet!

2008-08-10T05:35:00.000-07:00

So much for trying to catch up with Massively.com, every time I try to access it, the page will start to load, than crash. With all the filters on every computer and limited access here, the only place I've been able to get gaming news is CNN. Well and also the magazines they have at the PX. On a differant dorkie note, I bought all kinds of goodies for when I get home – Special thanks to Newegg.com, Cyberguys.com and some other website I found in one of those magazines. It's going to be like a super geeks Christmas. Only 1 more month in Iraq w00t!

Also I've been trying to keep up with friends on my facebook and myspace, but the Internet is so temperamental here, its damn near impossible. So if you guys are reading the blog, WHATS UP! As for NaturalSelectionStudios.com the site will still be down for at least 2 more months. After it got hacked for no reason – I have a lot of recovering to do and a backing up when I get home. Hopefully I can still get a lot of my “unfinished videos” off my old hard drive since it also took a dump.

On the bright side my college course is over in 1 week, and I'm one more class away from my degree. I've gathered over 60 gigs of music from everyone at work here. Oh and I got to see the new Batman, WALL-E, and Wanted (which is an awesome movie).

Think I'm done with this little update because it has at least taken me an hour to do it with this Internet.
Later days!

+1 for Addictions

2008-08-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

Last night I found out something that me and our commander have in common, and thats “Scrubs”. Before I left me and Jen watched seasons 1-3, last night I found out our commander has 4-6 with him. Like a catatonic hospital patient, I sat and watched seven and a half hours worth of scrubs last night. To top it off, one of the other guys bought seasons 1-3 of House. After watching 4 hours of House today, I realized I might have a problem, I'm addicted to smart ass hospital shows. Yes this does also include Gray's Anatomy, that was the time I cheated on Scrubs. Never the less I quickly found my self relating to Zack Braff from Scrubs once again, and wishing I was a level 23 wizard master like him. Instead im a level 70 Dwarf Hunter in World of Warcraft, which is like saying i'm 53 in a kids hacky sack race.

Which reminds me I have a research paper I need to write, what is it on? I thought you'd never ask – video game addiction! Not saying I have one, I'm more of a virtual world addict. But I'm also addicted to bubble wrap and putting pens in my ear. Which does remind me of the time I got fired from my job. It was the first 3 days I played Second Life, didn't sleep for either day, I decided to stroll into work randomly during the week. Hey I was living with my parents still DONT JUDGE ME!

Time to go and pretend to write my paper! One more class and I have my degree! YAY! No idea what hell I'm going to do with it ... but hell why not!
Later days fellow addicts!

Holy BaJesus! ... and other stuff

2008-07-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

First off how the hell does someone get sick in Iraq? the past three days I somehow came down with the cold. I only brought one other person down with me and that was my supervisor, would have been better to get someone else sick other than him of all people.

BTW I probably have PTSD now, but not from war. So I'm leaning against a wall in our office, which is a poorly constructed wood mess. All of a sudden I head the chattering of feet run past my ear, much like the noise "Thing" makes from the Adams Family. As I freak out and jump back from the wall, I realize its a damn camel spider the side of my entire hand, fingers and all! almost wetting my self at the thought of it centimeters from my ear, so I high kicked the wall like a cartoon character loosing his balance. never the less, on July 16th "Mr Wiggles" died via boot in the face. Here I though they only ate bugs, but yes they eat lizards and anything else they can find.

In other news... Me and Jen might be working with Harold/Solent University again! I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket, but it does involve Second Life and the power of awesome (that's right, the Nintendo 1989 Power Glove).

I wont be updating as much as I wanted to, blogger.com was just banned on our network at work. In any case I'll hit up the NWR now and than to keep it going.

Keep it real everyone! and later days.

The Google Metaverse

2008-07-19T07:47:00.000-07:00

Wow I should be guying some Google stock right now if I could afford it. I just read an awesome article talking about Google starting up a metaverse with Google Earth. It also makes me want to read Snow Crash. This is nothing new though, Google Earth originally was created to become ground work for a video game metaverse idea. One of the major problems I see off the bat is all the legal battles. Of course Google would say "We are not accountable for what you create and upload, and you do so at your own risk". But once you have hundreds of thousands of people creating copyright material, its hard to keep up. Just like how YouTube has 10 hours worth of video uploaded every minuet, so they have released a statement "we try to police it the best we can". It will also be interested to see when laws start getting passed that apply to metaverses. I believe it was England (either way it was another country and not the US), who passed a law regarding child age play in a sexual manner. This is just the tip of the iceberg for "wrongful" activity that goes on in Metaverse.

It’s a board topic though. And it would be very exciting if such an event as google buying Second Life, or if they created a better world. I have a feeling it wouldn’t include free building and uploading options to create whatever you wanted. Google seems to always have their projects pretty well under control. And letting a wild society such as ourselves :) loose in a free world like Second Life (that didn’t crash) may be too much for them to handle.

I also went mail out the Iraq coke bottles filled with sand but they had a problem with me mailing our organic material... In any case they said I could take it in a bag I checked in under the plane hah. That way I can hook Eric, Sonny, and the parents up with a little something.

The new Batman comes out tonight! ENJOY IT!!!
-Later days homies

E3 2007 w007!

2008-07-18T07:05:00.000-07:00

For 3 days now G4 has been covering the E3 gaming convention for hours on end. Couple things made me go WTF? I thought little big world came out all ready, considering a demo was release almost 2 years ago for it. Banjo Kazooie still isnt ever worth playing, yet they decided to make a new one. And they really need to stop talking about releasing games early as hell, because they’ve been working on HOME for Playstation since 2005 and were all ready hyping it up. Its just annoying as hell cause they’re a bunch of gaming cock-teasers.

A new F.E.A.R. is also coming out along with a shit load of other bad ass FPS. Gotta say this is defiantly one of those games you have to play in the dark, because its just that much more fun. They have a new Mech suit in the game, along with continuing the story where it left off. Where that crazy little girl is still alive after a wicked explosion. Its such a great era for seeing how games develop. Cant wait to see how video games will be in 10 years.

So the computer at home still can’t connect to the internet. I have to baby it when I get back home, just a little bit more time now! the closer it gets the slower it seems though. When we first got here the days just went flying by. I’m gonna head out cause I plan on mailing out some Haji Iraq coke bottles, fill em up with Iraq sand or something. I went to mail out Haji cans to Eric and Rico but they turned me down at the post office, and gave me that "wtf" look. I than responded with the crazy eyes until they wet them self’s.

-Later days fellow gamers!

NaturalSelectionStudios.com Hacked

2008-07-16T06:35:00.000-07:00

So some jerk-ass hacked the NSS site. Why? who knows because its not like we've been keeping it updated 24/7. Still, we were hitting 17k hits (on a high) a month somehow which is really cool. I took a screenshot before I had the website taken offline.

I took the website down in June, that why the site hit such a low so fast. Ever since, I've been trying to find a way to get filezilla working in Iraq to upload everything, but that’s a no-go. In any case a LOT is going on and nothing can be done until I get back from Iraq. Also TODAYS MY BIRTHDAY!!! yay!!! *does a booty dance* birthday in Iraq w00t w00t.

On another totally random subject - I took No Xplode today ... I've come to the conclusion its pure Columbia heroin. Every minuet I was at the gym, I didn’t even want to stop to take a rest. My body wanted to work out faster than I could even breath. It was pretty wicked though because for a while now I haven’t felt like working out, and that stuff really gives you a good kick in the ass to go out and do it. Coolest thing to is that it has nothing to do with caffeine. It’s a hyper..blah blah something that makes your blood vessels bigger so more blood gets to your muscles. Than also has this other energy magic boost stuff in it. Lets just say – it tells you not to open the container for 15 minuets even after you open it.

So I’m debating on bringing NSS (renamed) into the real world instead of just in virtual worlds. Granted we've worked with some great companies and big names; like Boomer Esiason, Infident Mind, we were in Vox Pop Magazine (French) 2 pages, and worked with our good friend H. Fricker with Kent University, who invited us to give a speech at South Hampton University. But sitting down all day at a computer really get dull after a while, and it’s hard to keep your drive up. Jen and I have been talking about it a little here and there, so who knows what will happen or what we decide. Oh and the show G4 rules, they’ve been playing it like crazy here in Iraq haha.

~Later day’s fellow gamers!

2008-03-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

WOW I have not posted in forever, I just bought a HD cam so I might be doing a video blog like jen is. Bought it to to do some movies for work and some other random fun ideas. SO who knows when Ill post next, will try soon with the videos.

NDA Lifted! WooT!

2007-12-03T13:38:00.000-08:00

Took a nap and woke up to an NDA being lifted! an angel just got its wings!
So in that case heres the video I did for em :)
Youtube Link
Quicktime
Windows Media
Also this means OPEN BETA for everyone! so for those who wanted to play the game now is your chance. Its a bit odd how they set it up and the times people can join, you can read about it here.
I also changed our banner where it says "The Second Life filming company" because we don't just film in second life and never really have.Heres the NDA and Beta informationZINGAnd heres Massively's fun post about it.

For those who are on the PotBS forums, heres the post link its at along with wicked comments from players after watching the video :D
Closed Beta Thread
Open Beta Thread

England toilets rule

2007-12-02T16:24:00.000-08:00

No kidding, they go crazy shooting water everywhere...
Anyways! We went over to tree's and Sox this weekend and had some uber British food. Went to the store and gawked at there food of different sorts. It was pretty sweet and I wanted to buy everything, only ended up buying a couple things instead.

Finished the video this weekend =) had a lot of fun with it. And Ill be able to post it tomorrow as the NDA clause gets dropped. So far a lot of great responses from the beta forums cause I can at least show it there right now!

About to go to bed when I realized I haven't blogged in forever, as I recover from my sausage coma after eating so much last night. Swear they put sausage in every damn thing and i'm not arguing a single bit lol. LOVE IT. Was the dads birthday this weekend, he's old, called him 5 hours after his birthday though =\ was close, me suck. Jesus it was 1am when we left there house last night, couldn't believe it. Just got cough up in all the hanging out madness. Gotta head out so I can arrive at this work place tomorrow, in exchange for currency to buy useless things and human upkeep consumables.

The Wombats in SL - CHECK YO SELF CRACKA!

2007-11-25T08:36:00.001-08:00

So we were contacted through email to film a Wombats gig going on, that they wanted a rough cut video of what it would be like if they did a music video in game. Well ended up finding it was the producer of The Wombats. Who we worked with once before, and the wombats got back to them saying they wanted the glasses added to there avatar. Just because its there "thing", So of course I re-edited it and spent way more time on it, filming it like a real music video than just a simple "rough cut" so i'm sure they will enjoy that. However we cant show it anywhere to the public because they do own right to the song and will be using it for there own purposes which we have all ready discussed with them. Good to hear they're all ready looking to film another in Second Life regarding there "Coming to America" album. So sorry i cant show it yet, Ill see when I can. heres there Myspace though if you are not familiar with them, its a band from Liverpool.

Were also currently working on a Mika video - VERY excited to finish it. It does however have NOTHING to do with Mika, it will be just a fun video we are doing, and will not own rights to the song... I mean it doesn't hurt asking though when we finish it right? heh we'll see. I'm working with another Machinima artist Michelle who's doing some Sims 2 footage Ill be adding. Cant wait to show you guys =)

Machinima confrance Yay!

2007-11-24T06:14:00.000-08:00

So last night was my first Skype Machinima conference, they've been doing it for a while now but I just started hearing about it from Moo. Was pretty fun, hell me and Ben ranted for 8 1/2 hours lol. YaY for making new friends. So I see where a lot of them come from and its cool to put voices with the names and actually get to know the other homies.

Blogging mostly cause im waiting for the new patch, Yarrrr ironic? patch, ha ha... ha
Oh and waiting for my project to render in after effects which is taking an hour.. lol
YaY! for Saturday, another day chilling at the computer I guess doing stuff, guess were not going out this weekend. Might actually get around and decorate MY side of the office today lol, we have a buncha stuff from the gaming convention in London that was last month I can put up and some other goodies from the UK Machinima fest and our little E-Learning fair lecture we gave. So SEXY PARTY!

Happy Turkey Day!

2007-11-22T16:45:00.001-08:00

Gobble Gobble

Hey hey, thats right im actually attempting to keep up on my blog that I usually slack on keeping up. First off im 1/2 way done with the music video which most of you reading all ready know about and were probably in it. Having a ball in after effects with it and may be filming on some more platforms. Ive been preoccupied by beta testing a game that comes out in 2 months... still the disclosure says I cannot say im in the beta test but as long as you don't know which game it is i'm fine... but I must say, I do love pirates Yarrrr, oh and... I don't get sea sick.... and I saw the first 2 movies but not the 3ed .... oh and the game ... isn't the movie game (cause that looks lame as all hell) but a different Yarrrr kinda game....
Hope I didn't give it away =) in any case I didn't say the title!!!
please don't sue me..

I just got done re filming some things for the Wombats gig. If you live in the UK you know who the band "The Wombats" are as they are form liver pool. Apparent they are big in America too because they are releasing there next CD called "coming to America" which they have all ready talked about us filming in Second Life. Mostly because the lead singer is a SL resident and active, than they made it big in the band, so now they are having the producers pay for a video to be done -- by us! =D

Talked with the family for a couple hours today which felt good. Talked to my brother more than ive talked with him in the hole year I think, but thats pretty normal. During the holidays I miss being there and all, but ive just been cough up with everything going on here, going out and everything. That I know i'll be back in IL again eventually , but I'd rather have them come here for the opportunity. Considering they don't have to pay for any of the other fee's tourist have, not to add the "on base" connection. If any time is to time to travel, its now especially. Which my dad said he'll be check up on it this weekend if they're open, if not Monday. And being the procrastinator I am, I know i got it from him =P

Sucks though not being in this situation before, away from the family for years on end in another country. Ancestors have done it forever now, but in our family tree there isn't anyone close who's been in the military in forever, or even close to compare it to. For the holiday though we do have 4 days off and we went for the squadron thanksgiving where we brought a carrot cake Jen made, and some pop. Hung out with bill, talked about gaming, marriage, specifically buying presents for the holidays and keeping the hole "surprise" a factor, and other comical moments. Food was good as hell though... lol bought a bunch home.

Well later days, glad I posted! hah trying to keep up.

Whoooo update time!!

2007-11-18T09:43:00.001-08:00

Unedited Random catch up!

Alright sorry I'm the worst blogger ever as I've been told.
SO the machinima conference we gave went great! we than hung out with the director of it a few weeks later and went out all over London. Later me and Jen went to see Wicked, which was pretty awesome! at the Apollo. Saw the 10 bells pub, what else... lol LOADS went on that I should of been blogging and went into detail about. Oh yea! while me Jen and Harold were walking to a place to eat this car was turning going 10 miles per hour and its wheel came off! guy even parked it as the wheel hit some Benz. That was about 10 feet from us which was cool. We had dinner with Sox Tree and their kid which was cool and had a lot of fun. Played halo and they got a kick out of baloney how its like a smashed round hot dog.

And up to now I'm Beta testing a new game which i all ready pre-ordered (cant give the title). Love to do a machinima in it but they still have lots of work to do. Would be wicked if I could get on a development team focusing on the machinima aspect. Anyways probably all ready talking to much about it.

Would be fun, anyways had to update to say im still alive, I've been working with Leah who's doing artist work for the NSS site. and posted some open position to the NSS Second Life team. all in all that the majority =D unless i think of more randomly...

Womp!

2007-10-18T10:23:00.000-07:00

Wow its amazing how much time I have free now to do whatever. Before hand it was coming home, hanging out with Jen for a little bit, and than needing to edit or film a wedding or business video. Before hand we did them to raise money, for a new computer, professional microphone, mixing board, another computer… hah, well now we’ve done that, and its cool as hell. So now we can continue to do what we’ve been trying to do, our own videos. Example, its almost a year now we did the N00b be gone videos which were big hit. But after the 2ed episode, that’s when we started getting all the company work and more weddings. Right now were finishing up on some last project which half way into Nov should they all be done. I’m sure I wont resist doing small one here and there just for the hell of it. We’ve all ready had to turn down 4 and its only been a week.

So while I finish doing those videos, I’m working step by step towards getting ready to start some of our new projects. We just posted a contest looking for some artist work for the site, NSS, or even a new name we may begin going under. Its great though knowing I have so much time now, I can focus on one project and brainstorm more with it, or figure out what should be done next. Hopefully we can pull it off =) even at work now I have more time to myself to do whatever, only thing I know is that it wont be like this permanently, so ill take advantage of the time while I can.

Still haven’t signed up for this quarters classes yet, not sure if I really want to either cause im not enjoying them. Maybe it’s the teachers or just the class but taking management sucked. Not the test or class material, but because your forced to think just one way, or forced to “think inside the box” which my entire life I cant recall doing that once… anytime I see an idea I automatically try and think of a more efficient way to do it or another way to go about something. Even in high school it didn’t seem it was “forced”, call me immature but maybe its just because learning about grown up stuff blows.

That’s not the main reason of course, its also because I’m currently 8 credits away from my associates in some “aerospace maintenance blah blah tech jargon” why would I want that! I hate working on planes!! Let alone spend any more time in getting a degree for them. What I’d love to do is go to the school we went to for the machinima fest. They have class’s for all the programs and editing im interested in, let alone a degree I could use along with knowledge that would be useful. Its said something like 1/3ed of your life (or 1/2 ) is spent working. Why would you want to despise all of that time doing something you dislike. Sure sometimes you may have to do it to trade in for comfort and dependability, but that’s still not guaranteed. Just like it isn’t even if you did a job you actually enjoy. *note to self, look for film colleges or editing around this area* I would almost be crazy enough just to drive 2 hours 2 days a week just to take classes there in order to get a degree in it and actually learn than waste my time with this BS.

Either way I just know I’m not going to let it stop me and continue to learn, as long as I have a connection to the internet, and a browser that doesn’t fail me, I’m set.

FYI I own at connect 4

2007-10-16T14:24:00.000-07:00

yea me and Hugo in SL were playing Connect 4 and once he started wanting to play for money, I won every game that point on, did I subconsciously hustle Hugo in connect 4?

last night I was trying a video trick which almost cause me to murder my video cards lol. Lets just say you really don't want to go tweaking around jacking with settings and get all click happy. An hour later I ended up just going into safe mode and restoring from my last checkpoint hah

We also have a contest we just started on the NSS page for those who are artiest and interested in it. its only 2 weeks long. That way for anyone who is a procrastinator we've all ready solved your deadline problem with it normally being to far away. Head to NaturalSelectionStudios.com for all the info.

We are also looking for web designers, because websites just isnt my thing, and we are getting to the point where we are looking to bring a solid NSS team together. We are doing a lot really, just one step at a time otherwise its overwhelming. So we'll see =)

I made this!

2007-10-13T14:03:00.001-07:00

unexpected RedVSBlue special video at the UK Machinima Fest, footage we took from our camera =D

How refreshing...
Me and Jen went to the UK Machinima fest today, probably going back tomorrow. And I must say, it was great to actually meet such awesome Machinima artist face to face other than us. They had some great lectures, and presenters there, many of which we didn't even know would be there if someone didn't say something like "btw that guy over there is ____"

First off, I gotta say Burnie and Jason from Red Vs Blue (church and tucker also the writer and producer) were there and cool as hell, laid back and great to talk with. Jen was even bull shitting with em for about an hour which was funny as hell as they waited in between lectures and no one realized it was them but her. Will make sure if we do go back tomorrow to get a pick with the guys. Burnie signed it "I made this!", and Chris signed it "Bow Chicka Bow wow" which you'll get if you've seen the series. Its great though they really set the Machinima landmark for breaking the game film barriers with developers as Bungie and Microsoft welcomed them. Hell even when I turn on my 360 I see Red vs Blue options to buy Ep's and download it to your Xbox now lol when they use to be free.

There were legal lectures and advertisement lectures. General machinima ones and discussions, it was pretty fun, considering everyone there has made a machinima just about, and you can walk up to anyone saying "So what machinima have you made" and be familiar with it if you keep up on videos. It was funny though no one would of known the guy who made the first FRAPS was there until Paul said something. He was great to meet though, and remind him he has 30 bucks of mine.. lol

Course Paul Marino's was there and Hugh Handcock, Me and Paul talked a LOT through out the day and Hugh was busy, but wonderful guy to meet, and its great to hear about all the great work Hugh has put into opening the game developers eyes to Machinima and welcome those to their game to make videos and have copy write to what they film as its a huge problem. I joined on on a lecture him and a board were giving on it as we all had a great round table discussion. One of his quotes "A game developer hasn't made it big, until someone makes a machinima inside his platform" said while defending filming copy write laws in video games. We had another great conversation talking about (to sum it up) the competition in Machinima with "wanting to help friends/people, but hating them abusing your kindness for greed and running with it" which im glad we talked about among loads of other great conversations. Ill have to pick his book up but dunno where I can go to get it before tomorrow to have him sign it =) I like geek memorabilia now that I can place around the room with pride and happy to have met those who inspire me on some level.

OMG hah had talk about random. Theres a guy who runs the college sim in SL who was showing it off to people there. Well were the first to show up and we're just talking with the guy and what they're planning to do with it etc... well they goto one of the sims that the convection is streaming at. Sure enough as soon as I say "hah it would be funny if we saw moo here and geuis" and there they are in game hah. So we ganked the Mac book form the guy and started typing "Hey brb ill jump in front of the camera!" lol well heres the pic Jen took from the big screen at the convention.

Cant wait to go next year, it was really refreshing to attend this kind of event and I feel has helped guide me on where I'd like to go with our work. Considering its gotten us this far all ready. Next week were heading to the London Gaming Expo with Treebee and Sox from Second Life. Everything from Anime, video games, to table top and cards with the new stuff. Hopefully we'll have out NSS shirts in by that time =D

Whats awesome to realize too, is that we'll be just like them giving lectures at South hampton at the end of the month. So HOLLAR IF YOUR GOING!!!

Damn you Bungie! why must you be so sexy

2007-10-07T12:01:00.000-07:00

Alright so even though now I have more time, I still havnt posted for a while.. why? well this should answer it ---->

First day it was for sale the BX on base bought 450 copy's, of course with them all being sold. Halo 3 made 300 million in the first 24 hours WORLDWIDE, thats more most box office movies. Glad to see being a gaming dork is now the cool thing when our kind have been doing it for years.

Ive been working on the music video here and there but nothing to hardcore. Some big upcoming projects that we're just waiting for starting dates on and really just having fun with video, cant wait to do the Southampton lecture with Jen, its pretty wicked. Also if anyone's going to the London Gaming Expo next week hit me up cause we're going!

Went to Ely a lot this weekend to pick up furniture a TSGT is getting rid of cause he's PCSing, the stuff is just about brand new and solid wood all over. He's getting married so she has all the furniture that can fit in the house. We can get rid of our TMO furniture now =D yay! and have big adult furniture!

Anyways back on Halo 3 hah, me and Jen beat it together a few days after we bought it. pretty bad ass, but ever since we've been doing the multilayer which everyone knows is fun as hell. Jen was getting owned by 12 year olds, love watching her play its pretty funny =D Also got her the Karaoke game for Xbox that wouldn't play on the 360 so I had to bust out the first xbox. After we played it for about 5 hours it died... after 3 years lol out of the blue, no reason, and I got the red light of doom. If its free ill send it in, but I still need to find some download if there is one to play it on the 360. Sucks though, that Xbox was the first system I ever bought with money I made at Target lol

Time to make green screen my bitch!

2007-10-02T14:01:00.001-07:00

First off a big thank you to the NSS extras helping out with the sim size set we did this weekend =D was loads of fun and im glad you guys found it awesome too

So I'm finally off 12's at work, and 8's now feel like work is only 2 hours long. Anyways, point is now I have time to finally hang out more, and work on videos! Instead of coming home from work or class and passing out.

I've been working on a pretty bad ass video recently that im putting a lot of work into it, mostly just having fun with green screen. I love film and editing, its my passion and people have said they can see it in my videos, which is awesome =). And if i can make money doing it thats even better, because it's paid for my monster of a computer that allows me no restrictions and other audio equipment I'd like to become more proficient at, and use it along side of my videos more often.

Another thing is I'll be writing in my blog more now that I have the time. Me and Jen have this entire month booked and its sexy as hell, jam packed of traveling the UK for a Machinima fest, the lecture at Southhampton we've been asked to give, even a little gaming at the London Expo Center. If anyone is headed that way we'd love to meet fellow gamers from SL!

Being in the middle during a new era

2007-09-06T00:04:00.000-07:00

Its crazy, what got me started was an email I just received. But we really are in the middle of everything going down. When me and Jen joined Second Life the most people online were 1,000 at one time, and maybe 200k residents. Now its over 9 million accounts (many alts) with 30-40k on at any time.

Theres stores all over, people making money in a video game cause they don't have a real life job, and countless stories about the little man finding his nitch in second life and coming out ahead. fortune 500 companies paying people like us to build them advertisement in the world, professors teaching, and charaties like the walk for breast cancer, and others like the Boomer Esiason video we did for Cystic Fibrosis. And here we are, smack dab in the middle of it.

The email was from Harold again, regarding the South Hampton lecture. Someone cannot show for a spot that was before or after NSS's, so he's giving me and Jen a full hour, and would like us to be there considering our topic, and how it would be much better in person than via internet distorting the content. Anyways, still have to talk it over with Jen on how we'll do this considering before it was just me and a mire 30 mins , but it will be a fully paid for trip, and only 3 and 1/2 hours away.

I'm back to days now, so ill probably be blogging more again. Course papers turned in so now its just studying. Think i'll try and dish out another fun video we've been working on for the hell of it while I continue to wait on Second Life to release Wind Light and begin filming the series.

Quick update

2007-09-04T00:07:00.000-07:00

Jen was bugging me that its been a while since I blogged, even though we live together she's still a blog whore =P haha.

So we've released a BUNCH of videos this week, one business, several weddings, and editing a product video right now, while arranging filming for a music video Jen and I are doing. ALSO this weekend I finally took the time and posed all the products I built in Second life, on Second Life Exchange which can be viewed HERE

Also writing a case study analysis for class right now and getting ready for the midterm exam. But yea ill tap bloggers booty more often like I use to =D

jesus people!

2007-08-24T15:10:00.000-07:00

Ugh I hate researching editing techniques, let alone when other people use and abuse them shamelessly! IE: the program Crazy Talk, a post editing facial animation program, many people are now using it in SL very n00bly, mostly cause they think it can only edit pictures to animate in film, even to the point of creating an entire "talk show" with these pictures. People are abusing the power it has, instead they're making a video every 5 minuets with it and act like its "The most awesome thing ever known to man since inventing sex". heres a better example for those not femiliar with the program and post editing techniques, its like taking a computer... or a person with the IQ of a billion, and use it/them to hammer an nail into a piece of wood for your kids tree house. These people take something new and use it for the most primal ability's it has, no i'm not saying I know everything and produce the best work cause I sure as hell don't. But at least I attempt to improve with all the work i do and explore new ideas rather than be the guy in 2007 who still rolls around the first stone wheel a caveman made cause it was just so freacken awesome! Who's telling these people they're good. if your a friend than done lie and tell them the truth.

That got me thinking, YouTube is another good example. You have people who spend months on brilliant projects, or teach "do it yourself" videos to those with out educations, comedy videos and parody's that take creativity. Than you have the other 80% of the videos on Youtube, people whining for 10 minuets about their day looking for sympathy, drunks posting a rant like they're the smartest SOB in the world and had an epiphany, or some ignorant who-diddy making a discriminatory remark to someones work.

Man I love how society works.

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

2007-08-20T19:27:00.000-07:00

Class went great, I still need to pick up my book since now I know where they sell em at. Teachers pretty cool and a very happy guy, seems like this class will go just fine as long as I keep up on the reading and everything. We have two case studies we need to do papers for the course, which just reminds me how horrid my grammar and spelling is. Dunno why but its never been my strong point, that and math. Not to add I love writing, I just suck at it lol.

I'm doing more research on some topics for the series, which is coming out pretty good, looks like ill be writing the series first before filming a single episode, right now its looking at around 8 total for the first series. I dunno if I could hold off not showing someone and waiting to release them all. Jen did tell me about a machinima contest this dude is holding in SL, not really sure what to submit for it because I have a buncha little comedy videos I'd like to do, but serious/action or emotional videos seem to always win it. Depending though, cause I had about an hour of free time at work so far and I wrote a really funny video idea, but its a real life video regarding second life. Which would be a big hit, especially since one people did a video making fun of SL also in real life situations. We'll have to ask the guy if it needs to be a "in SL" filmed video. Hey in the end though its all about having fun and making a great video that makes people feel good. It would be nice to participate in a film contest though since I havnt before.

Redick hasn't gotten back to me since I emailed em back, bummer cause I was hoping to hear from em. It was like 2 weeks before I even realised I got an email from him too though lol. Reminds me I'm pretty hooked on watching random Youtube videos from time to time now. There are some people now I enjoy watching Vlog that have some witty humor. Course the majority of Youtube is full of rubbish so its hard sometimes to weed them out.

Well back to reading the goods! later days

Give me liberty! or give me Fiddle Faddle!!

2007-08-19T16:48:00.000-07:00

So everything went as planned this weekend, including my face off with the entertainment center I started to build a month ago, I agree it looks much better put together than a pile of wood I hid in the corner, as if it were a mark of shame. We filmed 2 off 3 weddings as one was called off. And this one chick we've done 2 wedding videos for in the last year wanted a 3ed one done, I think she just hooks up with pimps in SL and uses em until they realise they arnt getting any RL booty from her pixels. Ill be editing the 2ed when i get home, I finished filming before coming to work. Oh and I start class today =D

This weekend too was the mark of my 2 years in the Air Force, and Jen pulled a little sneaky sneaky gift with help from our buddy Rico. He did some awesome Photoshop work on her pictures, its cool to know Rico for so long and see him improve with each little detail. So that was awesome cause Ive never had anyone do any kind of personal gift for me before. Besides of course the awesome Jen videos she's surprised me with, of all our pictures over time and SL goodness.

Now HERE is where I bust out the game talk about a new xbox 360 game I picked up

Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars

This game was released 5 months ago, and now I can see exactly how Starcraft 2 will be when it does come out, based off the game play videos blizzard's released it looks almost exactly like it, just on earth. Considering Blizzard doesn't release any game until is absolutely ready - its probably going to be into 2008. Well I beat the game in 2 days as the "good guys" for maybe 10 hours total, and still have the bad guys side to play. I suck against the computer on medium difficulty so the hell im going to start going on xbox live lol. Review wise, loads of replay value since its all about PvP, cant wait to play on live, and the graphics are bad ass. Im sure there are lag problems on Xbox live considering how many units are in game at one time. But C&C3 is straight up bad ass if you were any kind of Warcraft 1-2-3, or Starcraft fan.

While googling pictures I came across an interview with Rob Pardo, vice president of game design at Blizzard Entertainment, which some things I all ready knew such as the mindset of blizzard when developing. But he goes into a lot more specifics which I think is a really awesome way of approaching a project. Especially how they develop based off the interest of the teams developing rather than say "we want this game, and this is the deadline". If they feel a game is going in the wrong direction, they'll scrap 1/2 the game, and reroute it. Cant say how many ideas Ive scrapped before because they were going in the wrong direction or I just wasn't feeling it. Its hard to go back on that project and think about it a different way to create it sometimes.

cant wait to go home and get some sleep. Im glad class is only 2 days a week otherwise I don't know how I would get anything else done project wise, work or NSS. I all ready started building the green screen set for a fun music video I wanna do, its a new green screen idea ill be pulling off. Ive been slacking with fun videos, so since I'm getting back into SL more now a days im feeling em. Not to mention Rico and some other Buddy's are more in SL now too so I get to hang with em, for a little while we were all in different games.

When Sept comes around we'll be on 12's at work, 4 days working 3 days off. which is pretty sweet, me and Jen can plan some real trips now with constant 3 day weekends. And we'll be setting weekends every month that we will not be doing any weddings for business videos for company's, That way we can hit up crazy amounts of traveling.

Later days!

Do you wanna die or something?

2007-08-15T15:41:00.001-07:00

What the hell are people thinking when you drive in England, have a road 11 feet wide for each direction, pitch black at night! and they leave their bright's on with oncoming traffic. Yea its obviously dark, but when you blind the other driver constantly you minus well just say "Hey Mr. hit me with your car". Whats even worse is when you have some big stupid American truck no one needs like an F350 driving at you,where its so tall off the ground even with out brights on it blinds you, not to add how wide the damn thing is. There's is NO reason in England to be owning a big ass truck like that, its either a car - or a freacken big ass tractor for REAL work. Not to haul their groceries around when its the weekend.

That's all I really had to rant about since I just got done driving to work and I deal with it every day. You always have those people who don't turn their brights off when you do, so I always turn mine back on at em, like "TAKE THAT MR. RUDE!". So we have a 3 day weekend this week, sucks I didn't know that earlier otherwise I would of said no to the 3 weddings we have. I'll have to get a heads up on when the next one is, its some BS day off too that some brass guy said "Hey you know what, I really don't wanna work 5 days next week, 3 day weekend it is!!" They had em ALL the time at Tinker, then again I haven't been here that long yet. Cant believe on the 22ed I would have been in the Air Force for 2 years now. Its officially the longest job I've ever been at with out quitting or getting fired lol.

I just read a new study on yawning and why its contagious, coming up with a couple different theories. Which I can tell them right now are all wrong because I was yawning just reading the article (and I don't mean that as a corney joke) but even just typing the word "yawn" made me want to. Thus making me come to my conclusion, the word "yawn" it self was created by some kind of devil who thought it would be funny to give mankind a word to make them all react the same way when they hear it, opening their mouths like a puffer fish and sucking up air. I think its genious, wtg!

BaZammm.... yea couldnt think of a title

2007-08-14T19:24:00.000-07:00

Well damn Bill to hell cause he got me hooked on Stargate Atlantas. I've all ready watched the first 3 seasons, and now stuck on a cliff hanger until the 4th is on TV.

Got a phone call about the Xbox elite I put on reserve a long time ago and picked that puppy up, unfortunately just about every online store doesn't ship 360 games to the UK. So I'm having to ship everything to the parents only for them to ship to me, which will STILL be cheaper than buying any of it in the UK, especially malls like in Cambridge.

Its official too, I am 11 credits away from my associates degree, and than I can start working on my bachelors. Either way I'm in no rush, considering the first 2 years of any multimedia school I goto I'm really not going to learn much and be insanely bored. So Jen and I will still be running the business while I take a couple classes just so I don't loose out on the free schooling and degrees. Its funny how schooling was one of the big reasons why I joined, yet Ive had more film & business experience that most multimedia students. Jen's been helping me out a ton with customers and other company's, since then Ive been able to focus more on other projects I'm wanting to do, and hit a class here and their. Running your own business from scratch and making a name for your self (3 years now) isn't easy, so its really cool not having to give it up for other activities and still have it pay for better equipment. I don't think we'll ever be as "hard core" business pushing group as it could get, because that would straight up just be a pain in the ass and would never be fun to do.

We'll we have a 3 day weekend this week, I have a wedding to edit tonight, and 3 to film this week. I should be able to get some good writing time in for the first Episode.

What kind of Micky Mouse operation are you guys running

2007-08-08T20:04:00.000-07:00

Some crazy UK sign we saw while driving, mind you it was a 1 lane road on each side, so it was a bit odd...
Reads "Oncoming vehicles in middle of road"

Wow so I normally hate meeting or talking with people I went to school with, mostly because- well to keep it short, they all suck. But I got an email from a buddy of mine in school named Redick (however the hell its spelled, if that's spelled right than it was just a lucky guess), I use to help him out a little with a video he was doing in highschool. Anyways, the guy tough me the basics of Vegas, but he mostly did 3d graphics and effects. If it wasn't for him I probably wouldn't have been all into NSS and video game filming. It does remind me though that I need to pick up some tutorial videos (aka torrent) about new toys/software/tricks out there, and how to perfect some things. ALSO reminds me that his ass got me INTO torrents in the first place. Which one could call another hobby of mine now =P

So I finished the outline, ending with several pages and a finished product I'm really happy with, me and Jen have been working out the final details, and if i have some free time, i'll begin writing the first episode =) all ready wrote out several outlines for the other episodes. Which they have me so excited it makes me want to quit the air force, run to Mexico, and continue to create this series full time =D but that would be very practical now would it... heh In any case we have days with a lot of down time, so a couple times a week I'll be able to spend several hours focusing on it while at work =P

I think we have some weddings this weekend to film, we'll probably just head to Norwich on Sunday for that huge ass market that's O-So-popular in England. and STILL need to post all our other England pictures on flicker, but they still don't like UK account numbers, nothing but sinners and seal killers work for that company.

Crazy too on Aug 22ed it will mark my 2 years being in the Air force, and I now have 4 more years in England. I some how went from a 4 year enlisted person, to a 6 year. I should of just signed up for 6 if I knew they were going to send my ass to England, #2 on my dream sheet, Japan was actually #1. Looking back now I'm happy though, cause traveling all over Europe is retardedly cheap. IE - a round trip taking Ryan Air to Rome cost 2 people 50-100 pounds total (100-200USD) And depending if they have a special, it can cost 2 POUNDS, you just pay the tax lol (one of the little crazy specials they do a couple times a month), France cost about 20 pounds for 2 people round trip (40USD). So next 3 day weekend =D BLAMMM Might have to hit up our good friend YadNi who is a translator we met online, he's all about meeting up and hanging out with us. Meeting online friends in RL seems to be Jen's and I's thing =P lol

I wasnt awear! that the Wa-Chu-Chu! Were biters!!!!

2007-08-07T19:53:00.001-07:00

Me and Jen at one of the many Norwich churches =)

Jabbed my finger pretty hard last night while we were changing out a trunnion collar, so now i can move it about 90 degrees, that's about it. So of course since that happened I get in a writing mood, Ive been writing a HUGE outline for the series Ive been wanting to work forever now, and now I'm blogging :) YOU CANT STOP ME SPRAINED FINGER!

Weeee so YUP its confirmed, me and the guy from South Hampton University will be setting up a direct link and working out the live video and audio feed, and the event will be some time in Oct. Its pretty wicked, I'll even be able to do a Q&A with the viewers, and will run 20 minuets total. They're even keeping the video, and posting it on their site, AND Itunes, which of course we'll be putting it up on the NSS site.

We'll we have a buncha weddings this month, and I'm going to go back and continue to write up the series outline. Cant wait to work these videos out instead of always just talking about it, and filming little things here and there for it. I did however Began designing the video for work that I'm doing. Basically I'm recreating sections of the base and flight line, and we'll be filming skits related to work which will be shown at the RAF Mildenhall knuckle buster awards, and probably passed around. So i made different kinds of squadron shirts, even chick shirts/panties for more jokes we've though up. Even took a bunch of pictures today at work for textures, and layout design. Needless to say I didnt get much sleep last night lol. Its gonna be wicked =D

sniffle

2007-08-06T16:47:00.000-07:00

Newegg!! you've let me down! and you don't ship to the UK. Well last night Jens computer gave her a big "fuck off" and completely shut down on her, refusing to turn back on. I mean granted the power supply couldn't dish out enough power for the video card and processor alone and would shut off randomly, might of been a clue. But this time it didn't come back lol, sooo after spending about an hour looking at how cheap all the old computer goods were on newegg.com, and seeing my 3k USD computer is now worth 2.3k (which thats just how the computer industry rolls), the search ends in me realising that they dont even ship to the UK.....

So hey if anyone knows of a good place to buy computer parts from just hollar! Our buddy Anthony helped me build mine last time 6 months ago, he's pretty busy now to help but could of at least shown em the order to get a second opinion. In any case, good thing we bought the laptop last year.

London YaY! & a cool email i got

2007-08-05T16:38:00.000-07:00

Its crazy to be in one of the oldest and largest towns in the world, that has so much history you can throw a stone and hit something that was involved with some huge event. I mean hell the towns been around pre 15th century, they've seen the plague, wars, and own one of the worlds largest underground railroad systems, how that relates I dont know.

This trip was brought to you by Tom Tom, man I love that thing. After getting 9 kinds of lost in Norwich I knew it was time. So we took the tube to London from Red bridge and walked around a lot, took a buncha pictures, and even cruised around on the double decker sight seeing boat. We still have a LOT to do there and experience, no rush though I mean we will be living in the UK for four years. Most of the pictures will be on our flicker account once i get that set up, Flicker seem not to like UK bank accounts.

Check this out, I've also been asked to give a speech at a multimedia fair in October via web cam conference or going to their university in South Hampshire which is a 3 hour drive. All to discuss Machinima, my experience with real world and virtual world filming, to an audience that would like to understand more about the concept. I just responded to him last night, I think it would be cool as hell though, especially to do some Q & A though because its not like I'm doing a speech on the history of potato's, I'm doing it about something I enjoy talking about and have more knowledge of than anyone. So we'll see, cant wait!

Layed back gaming weekend

2007-07-29T16:38:00.001-07:00

With this week trying to keep on midshift schedule, the weekend was spent doing a good amount of gaming and really learning more about a current addiction. Not to add me and Jen had two weddings to film an hour apart, while finding out our batteries in the keyboards went to shit so we became uber dorks trying to figure out what to do, I would have never thought $100 bucks would of been in the hands of a few double A batteries. Oh and hey caught up with Josh a couple of hours ago as he called the Skype randomly. Tinker is sucking as normal being a crew chief and he's going into the guard as an air EMT basically. There no way I could do that, one dealing with the fact that someones life is in my hands, and two , the gross factor, cause you know everyone who needs a plane to pick em up is missing something critical - Like ... 1/2 your head?

Alright I'll try and be straight and blunt with this new addiction, cause it takes a lot to explain.
Throw away your TOS rules, your "grieving", and your "omg that's not fair" comments, because this game is a point blank shot to the face. Throw away that World of Warcraft quest that has you delivering 10 apples to farmer lazy ass who cant deliver them himself. You'll be thinking out every move you conduct in this game, weather your stealing billions from your corporation (guild) in a well thought out attack, spying on others, or running around killing people that are just trying to mine or deliver a box worth millions (and you steal it of course once they're dead) all for the sake cause your bored. Eve Online will be keeping you on your toes, or dieing constantly because your not paying attention, it could also just leave your ass smeared across the universe cause you decided to take a poop on autopilot while hitting a Stargate. Not to add Eve has some of the highest death penalty's known to any MMOG, and will leave you placing public bounty's on peoples heads in a fit of rage while cusing sweet nothings in your corporations Ventrillo channel.

I think that was pretty clear cut. Now what do I love about this game? that in no way is it easy, and how it pays to be an experienced RPGer. With skills you continue training in even while offline (no more bull shit 4 hour instance or grinding for good gear) you don't have to play hours a day to "level", instead you train in hundreds of skills to better yourself. Sure you can play it safe and "grind" such as mining and cashing in -- But why do that when you can just run from mine to mine, killing every player in your way, and stealing them from everything they have? OR get them down to 10% life before they die, then message them and demand a ransom for their life, and if they don't pay, I think its obvious...

Now that's just the beginning, one other aspect I enjoy the hell out, is you can be a n00b coming straight out of the gate-- hop into some dangerous territory, see a pirate take down a battle cruiser (aka a big ass ship) mind you this battle cruiser is another player, so who knows what's aboard. Ill keep it as this--I looted a ship that someone shot down and ran off, with 13 cargo stealing trips I had everything that was aboard it and gear I cant even use for a couple of months until I train for it, let alone a ship big enough to mount the "duel lazer double big ass pwning pew pew gun" I like to call it.

This is one of the reasons why I stopped playing WoW, I got to 70, played it for a month, and wasn't enjoying how repetitive it was. How you run something or do something a million times just to get gear that was worth a damn. Yes of course I did it and was 1337 in PvP, but to keep getting better shit it requires you to play that game hours upon hours a day farming/running instances constantly. No thank you! you cant make me run that 4 hour instance!! I wont do it!! screw you Blizzard and all your blood money!!!

So about those death penalty's, they can be just a dink in your wallet or a major set back. Well provided you bought insurance for your ship, and since you cant just rez at the grave yard with baby scratches in your armor, you better make a clone of yourself and not bitch, cause when your dead, your freacken toast buddy. A clone also insures that you don't loose any skill points, otherwise it could be a crap full of offline training hours gone to waste. Best part is, that your not the only one in the boat, its just as major of a set back for everyone else. In the end though, putting a large bounty on your killers head always lets you know that at some point they will be killed for their bounty and be standing out in the middle of a crowd with a nice little skull next to their name.

Up until the last year Eve Online has broken the most records for having the largest amount of users online at one time, of course with WoW user friendly dummy proof simplicity of a game, the mass of n00b RPGers have flocked towards the game that all their other friends play. Bollix to that my friend!! I want to play the game where you either fight back or die while your location is being over run. Much like how the new Warhammer MMO will be, and you can bet your ass ill be hitting the log-in screen at day once.... since I haven't been picked for closed beta yet =\ Also just how Warhammer will be, Eve has collision, as in if your a tank, the enemy will have to plow through you like a tank should.

Happy Gaming!!

The long overdue Second Life gaming rant....

2007-07-26T15:45:00.001-07:00

Considering im working midshift, that means that today is Friday for me! As for the weekend goes I know Sunday were hopeing to one of England's largest markets they hold. Which here, markets are the place to be, every town has one on a particular day of the week. Then on Saturday we have a wedding, and as for the rest of the week not much planned right now. We've been looking for a good 3 day weekend to hit up London or something, were just really not feeling the busy city and how confusing the first time being there will be, so we've been in no rush.

I know before I left the states I was all ready to get started on a new series for NSS which was an action/comedy. Hell we even started filming and had the main character all ready in scenes (not to add 20gigs of footage on the hard drive), and that was until I got orders to the UK. Well one of my many dreams have come true which is traveling overseas, and because of it the series I've been wanting to start for so long is now on hold. I was having a conversation with a buddy at work (also an avid gamer) talking about how we go in and out of different games and really cant stick with just one forever until it dies like most people seem they have to (strictly MMO's). I think that's what Second Life has become to me, its been over 2 years now of me playing it (almost 3), which is one of the longest running games i've played (of course having on and off moments). Now its come to the point knowing everything about it and you have to find your own drive that makes you want to keep playing. Which has always been a problem for people in SL because there is no leveling or goals but your personal ones. Its a game that-- well as Jen says "A glorified chat room" which now you have players joining with names like "Angel34" or "Max power3821" when before everyone had a normal or fun name.. likeee "Bebop Vox" =D. c'mon!! This isn't the lesbian chat room on AOL or something guys!!! people from all around the world are joining just to meet others and "cyber" -- and if you don't know what that is ill even post a Wiki link for ya "Cyber" lol.

Its just sad to see where this game has gone at this point, when making this game they had no idea about the human element involved. Yea sure you still have creative people making neato shit, but now we have mindless company's like DELL or AOL who pay players like me and Jen to build them a "sim", which no one in game will ever go to because nothing is ever going on in the sim. Unless your giving away free money, holding a concert in which someone is playing live, or have a casino - will people then show up.

What can I say, the game was fun, and at times still is. But its so behind the times and with such a great idea gone to waste. Myself I'm debating if its even worth the trouble anymore, I should just go buy a PS3, get "home" and make a well made video in there. Cause yes in the end its always going to be easier to produce a video in a game (hell that's why I started) but if the game has graphic restrictions and flaws you really cant fix, than will you be happy with the product in the end even though it doesn't look as it did in your head?

Here I was just trying to focus on the gaming fact it self, if you've played the game you all ready know how the community is, how political it can be just like any game, and how so many people will hide behind their avatar. Its not like I need to go into the definition of each and every social belief that's in SL like sexiest Goreans or people who swear by the book they're a real life furry and own a furry costume in. Not to add just about every freak or drama starter you can find is in this game. Linden Labs opened up a real life in a video game, its not like you didn't know what was going to happen, just look out your window. A world with out laws where you can copy write, make thousands and not report it on your taxes (cause most are from other country's and no way to know your SSN or IP cause you can change it every 2 seconds).

Easy as that =) you cant expect to play a game until it doesn't exist anymore, cause other games and projects coming out which learned from others mistakes and will be 100 times better. Mark my words now, ill even BOLD it so i can find it years or months later. I will put money on that Second Life gets bought out or someone makes a game just like it, and learning from everything they messed up on. So yes when that comes out, your damn right ill be right there.

Who doesnt love a good gaming post!!... yeaa were dorks

2007-07-25T16:27:00.000-07:00

Me and Jen are HUGE gaming junkies. And I absolotly love trying out the new games and seeing where MMOG are headed both content wise and graphics, not to add it gives me a nice upper hand when bashing other games that others worship. Heres something im probably going to start doing on my blog, and thats reviewing MMORPG's

Sword of the New World The Vox Rating: 6

Rico a good friend of mine brought this game to my attenction this week. It was released at the beginning of July and we hit it up about the 15th. With out question this is the most detailed online game I have yet to ever play other than "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter" which is full of realistic graphics for the detailed junkie in all of us.

Apart from the graphics alone drawing you in, you can get pretty addicted to it just for that. HOWEVER -- as with most MMO's they all have a weakness they failed to put just as much work into.

Now they do have an awesome multi-charactor controls while playing, allowing you to run around with up to 3 charactors at once (FFX style). However where they failed was in the RPG aspect. It goes back to the old school point and click for movement, which theres nothing wrong with, however when you do that they automaticly mow down everything in their way by default. Its basicly become a midless game where you run around-sit back and relax while you see the cool effects do their thing. Dont get me wrong for the first 2 hours the game is pretty fun once you get past the tutorials and you feel invincable, not to add when you die you just have to wait 40 seconds and you automaticlly rez where you died at with out penalty. Hence why you'll see just about 1/2 the players in an instance AFK cause there is no timeout, and once an enemy rezes, the default attack and killing begins (repeat).

In the end, you really cant beat it because the games fun up to Level 20 even though they have 100 levels, and what do you know- the free trial lets you goto a level 20 cap with unlimited hours to play. Oh and of course the HD half naked 17th centry chicks, and the wide variety of attire. So enjoy for whatever reason you deside to start this game, its one of those games you can enjoy for a good couple of hours :)

Today is pirate day!! infact, everyday is from today on!!

2007-07-20T18:42:00.000-07:00

WARNING!!! HUGE gamer talk & dork alert

So im not completely addicted to Eve Online whenever im on the computer now. Unlike WOW this is a true MMORPG-RTS, where you have to actually think to play well. Unlike wow "Hey lets deliver 10 apples to farmer john!" oh and if you don't know where the next quest is you cant miss the retard question mark over every quest givers head. I played to 70 and many instances, only then did I realize why the mass public likes it, cause its so simple 8 year olds play it, and yes the guys kids at work do play it.

Anyways, As a n00b flying in my ship that looks like its welded together by space rubbish - another player completely shot up another just before entering a Stargate. As the Pirate who did the killing ran off, I ran in and looted over 90 items. Many of which are rare and I cant use for a long time cause I still need to raise my skill. In the end, after talking with a friend, the total amount is well over 10 million ISK. And being a n00b on a trial account for only 7 days so far - im kicking ass. So then of course I continued to fly around and steal from containers ppl have shot into space and the wreckage of those who blew up before their new clone could. yaRrrr!!! Walk the plank!!

So yea if you've been playing Eve Online recently and some n00b stole your hard earned items. His name is Bebop Vox, feel free to add a bounty on my head =)

2007-07-15T14:23:00.001-07:00

Wow talk about me needing to update!!!
Well heres the basics - I'm an uncle now :D how weird is that? lol, we got a kitty, and a hole buncha furniture, got a HD 42 inch TV, and just finished a wedding edit.

See making writing it like that makes it a LOT easier cause theres entirely way to much to write, thats why you cant slack on blogging cause then you make a crappy post like this thats is very general. Its all ready about 10:25PM here, so its 4:25PM in the states. Man thats also so weird lol. Another odd thing to realize is that I wont even see my brothers kids until its about 3 since im currently in Until 2011 and it cost over 1k a round trip to the states about.

Not to add me and Jen and a pretty dorky weekend of game testing. I'll have to talk about it tomorrow and start posting pictures of our retarded cat that chases its tail.

Later Days!

Busy busy busy!!

2007-07-04T04:30:00.001-07:00

Just got done volunteering for the 4th of July set up at Feltwell, where later tonight they have the only and largest display of fireworks in England. Weird the fact that we come and celebrate kicking them out of a country they started, AND party in their country about it...

Were headed out in a bit to look for a kitty we've been talking about getting for a long time, looking around are rescuing one in the area. Other than that getting back into the online groove. But man Ive gotten Re-addicted to an old video game called X-com apocalypse. Its a turn based RPG for the computer I found online. Want to beat it so i can scratch it off my gaming list I guess and can stop being addicted to it lol.

Anyways Cheers!

Wow only a month in England so far!

2007-06-28T12:09:00.000-07:00

Its only been a month in England and were all ready loving every second of it, even my drive to work kicks ass, and every day still trying to realize that I'm actually in England. Meanwhile back home my brother and his wife will be having their baby on Friday the 13th in July, just 3 days shy of my birthday and their anniversary. Funny how theres so many days in the year, yet my brother gets married on my birthday, and now their kid is almost also born on my birthday lol. Hell by the time I end up going back home the kid will be 3 or 4 years old.

So this weekend we saw Stonehenge, and I must say it does kick ass. First thing out of my mouth was "my god! its a giant windows desktop!". Sept the fact it was raining pretty good and we didn't bring anything for it lol. SO we ended up with some fun pictures and got a kick out of it, still have to upload it to flicker. Not to add we also went to Salisbury where they have the oldest and most well known cathedral in the world, over 750 years old. And it was HUGE, crazy to think its that old and well made with detail. So beautiful though.

Update on today, Jen got a wisdom tooth out today so I'm babying her, and got the day off cause FMO was sending us more goodies but they never came. OH! AND we started filming the intro for our new comedy/action series, im spending so much time on making just one scene kick ass its nuts. Cant wait to just get the intro done lol. Still trying to catch up with everything after our move and settling in, completely forgot to even update the blog =D

Cheers!

Whats This? The Government Taxes me to Fart?

2007-06-14T10:33:00.000-07:00

Good thing im in the military and they take care of all the taxes. you get taxed just for even having a TV in your house, 150Pounds to be exact (300USD), and thats a YEAR lol. Than you have road tax, and thats about 400Pounds, (800USD a year) than a yearly inspection called MOT 100Pounds (200USD) not to add the normal car selling/buying tax, and house taxes. No wonder England is 5 years behind, cause they cant afford what they currently have. Ordered our internet package today, so its going to take about a week in the mail, and we/NSS will be up and running. However we wont be able to film that wedding =\ I blame that on me jinxing it and the fact of how behind England is cause they don't even have cable modems yet, either way even with DSL it shouldn't mess up our FPS while filming.

I realized this also while I was checking out SC2, that GTA 4 comes out one month before it. Oh and I dunno Halo 2 perhaps? yeaa good times. Even though I saw the pretty cool game play video and new toys they have, im still not feeling SC2 and actually don't think I'll give into it, same goes for Halo 2 though. Its just as the creators said during an interview "theres really no reason for us to put this on 360, cause theres nothing were doing that we couldn't in Halo 2, same goes for graphics. Either way both are not far off to the old one, and im not seeing the point.
Well take care guys, im off to go act like a retard with Jen as usual. =D

Cheer!

So close, I can feel the warmth of the pizza

2007-06-12T13:00:00.000-07:00

We picked up our computers and we just need to sign the paper work to finish moving in, YaY! So now that were able to drive all over Europe, now its just time to learn how to use all the crazy roads. Seriously talk about close calls with every car that passes you. You are either going to get 1 inch of the oncoming car right of you, or hit the big tree and ditches left of you, but which one!

Gonna start loading up pictures onto Flicker and see if I can get em on here. I have a feeling we'll be taking pictures of everything we see and do, so we might need a premium account, and if everything continues to go as we hope, we'll have our computers up by this Friday, and be filming a wedding that was planned for this Sat. Now talk about close, someone planning a wedding filming, while our ass's are leaving country, getting a house/car/ settled into the UK. And STILL managed to somehow film this wedding lol. So far at least, probably jinxing it =) cant WAIT to start all the fun videos we have in mind!

Cheers!

This isn't Office Space! WHY didn't I get the memo!?!

2007-06-10T07:25:00.001-07:00

October 19th 2007 will be a day set in the record books. Cause nothing other than GTA4 is coming out! Recently being hooked on San Andreas for 2 days, I recalled hearing about this and had to check it out. This is of course after me and Jen were arguing that Bruce Willis has SO come out with a good movie in the last 15 years besides the last Die Hard. C'mon the 5th Element! And he did that voice for the rodent in "Over the Hedge" pft yea he's done.. stuff! Now if Rockstar can come out with a game like GTA which they've done MASSIVE improvements for.. Why cant blizzard spend a chunk of their blood money on making Starcraft 2 not look like monkey poop and the last Starcraft they made almost 10 years ago now. Everything looks exactly the same, and still the only bad ass thing about it is going to be the cinematic movies of the game. Which can be found right here =) lol Just sad, especially after throwing away the "Ghost" first person shooter project, and falling back on what they know will make money anyways. Like making Billions on the worlds largest MMORPG isn't enough.
Blah you make me sick Blizzard!!

BTW if anyone wants to buy a lv70 Hunter on the Steemwheedle Cartel server just give me a ring =) hah

Cheers!

Walk it off stunt man!!

2007-06-09T11:16:00.000-07:00

I'm not in the film business, I'm creating films and telling stories because its what I enjoy, and thats why I started it and went to school for it. When I do make a film for money, its with my full creative license.

Talk about a cold point blank shot to the face tonight. Theres a buddy of mine I met when he was a n00b in SL, he had talent and questions which I would answer now and then. Well down the road, I sparked an idea that he wanted to develop on. So he did, and made a little money out of it. Once he got that realization of the fact that a video game can bring you money, the spark of greed kicked in. He would tell me he needed help with one thing, but the real fact is he was using me for my name/background. So pretty much ive been betrayed, not to add he was charging insane amounts of money for things he couldn't do. But was hoping to buy the NSS name and hire us to help him do it. In addition add other artists we know very well, to do his work.

I kinda realized that today, i would love NSS to be a famious name like Red vs Blue, that means doing what you want and for fun, which others just happen to enjoy the hell out of. I don't sell out for money in order to live, I raise money to improve the ideas I have just make them possible. Example is that Ive bought my custom built 4k dollar computer, a professional recording mic, mixing board, and paid 3 years so far on the NSS website, all with money I made from film and editing, with money left over for other equipment. With out doing all that work to raise money for gear, I wouldn't be able to film a full Sim with zero lag, or run the handfuls of programs I do in order to process green screen work faster and more covenant's. To do videos like the "Noob Be Gone" series which we've gotten sooo much positive feedback and thank yous. Or fun videos like the Vonage or MoJo DoJo video.

Its good to finally really know where I stand, even though Ive been doing it all along but never realized it. Guess I just needed to see someone who was all about greed and uses their friends to know exactly what I didn't want.
Off to eat dinner =) the pubs in England have amazing home cooked food and are nothing like bars in the states.

Cheers!

You! Fellow Cheese Man!! DANCE!!

2007-06-07T07:58:00.000-07:00

The word "Benandering" is one I made up a buncha years ago, its along the lines of "Ranting" and "Sporadic Jibba jabba". Once day this word will be heard around the world and in the dictionary, maybe even have a follower or 2 with a sacrifice from time to time.

Only a few days now until victory will rain within our computers of doom. We have a lot of videos now under our belt to develop and cannot wait to start em. Including the one which we've been wanting to do since day one. Just to add, it shall be so overwhelmingly awesome, some just may implode watching it.

Cheers!

Cafe WiFi Suckage

2007-06-06T07:15:00.000-07:00

Why would anyone wanna block YouTube, I cant even go and check out comments on us =(

Theres some cool SL stuff to update on. Theres an Italian group... Mafia if you will, wanting to dub over our Noob Be Gone series in Italian which I think is pretty cool. We also had some people wanting us to put in sub titles for the hearing impaired. Its crazy the numbers were getting now, 300 people a day check out NaturalSelectionStudios.com, and on YouTube the building Tutorial video is at like 20k views last time I checked. not to add we have almost 100 subscribers which is really cool!

Were looking to do a lot of RL videos soon. Such as one of me and Jen and our story, and some just fun comedy ones. Especially once we meet up with a lot of Europe friends of ours.

And did anyone else know that England still has Milk Men that go around from door to door? They even have new goodies like Pop and Eggs they run around with! Buncha crazys

Cheers!

Jen made me do it!!

2007-06-04T12:41:00.000-07:00

meh I needed someone to blame for me starting a blogger. Either way its much more respected than Myspace since im not a 21 year old kid who's still reminiscing on my silly high school days.. even though I have one, doesn't mean it deserves to be maintained.

Actually I started one cause its a nice little online journal that friends can read, as I read my fellow friends, mostly over Jens shoulder. Ever since we've moved to England, theres just WAY to much to talk about. After all I've always been one for ranting, having horrid spelling and grammar, and not to add that I use the comma entirely way to much.

To keep it basic and simple right now, We live in Suffolk England on RAF Mildenhall. We just found a steal on a car with 60k miles, babied by a father who recently passed away and practically bran new and beautiful. Yea its a Chrysler Neon =P 1999 AND we just found an insainly cheap house with lots of land, indoor patio.. yea ill have to show pictures. And best thing is that base housing covers all $1250USD of rent. So its our first home, completely decorated, and in such a beautiful British town. hell if I can remember the name of it now, but will be about a week before we move in as we are still working on our UK license.

What can I say, Its just so cool that im in England finally, with the one I love, and living with out any problems. I'll probably spend every penny I make on traveling Europe, hech were all ready going on a trip to Stonehenge the 23. And theres a LOT of friends we've worked with online that were going to have to meet and all ready plan to. Not to add that were probably going to be coming out with a BUNCH of RL videos, and not so many SL ones on NaturalSelectionStudios.com. Time will tell =D

Later Days

Bebop's Benanderings

Mowing pavement

Newegg wins again!!!

A new job and a POS badass video card....

If you dont stand behind our troops, your more than welcome to stand infront of them

Gaming 4 life!

About damn time - Lord of the Rings Online Game Review.

Whats been up!!

GERMANY!!! 2009

Back from Germany!!!!

Going a million miles an hour!

A wedding video!! whaaaa, thats rightttt!!!

Longest day of Secondlife

w00t w00t OnRez.com

UGH BLAHhh Booogaahh

Work in progress and uber Dexter!

New Toys and B-Cyberpunk SLURL

Nerd Weekend

Bringing friends to the SL gutter O' fun!

Little here and there

Back and kicking ass! Cyberpunk style!!

Been AFK :P

All the cool kids are doing it!!

Another fun filled day full of wicked success

Teaching at Southampton Solent University

Absolut Ice Bar in London & Jack the Ripper

World of Warc...ISO! & Your done! now get the F out!‏

Business is Good & Unoriginal Whores

In Robinhoods Crib!

Blah! Holy Shit!

PvP Porn and Englands kick in the ass!!

The next media hungry Britney Spears?

MMORPG Blood money!

President Barack Obama w00t!!!

Ugh! FREEEEDOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

You Sir, are a retard -

OMGZ NEOPETS

Old logic with new wrapping paper = sexy time!

I hate you with an iron fist....

And WARHAMMER WINS...the MMORPG war

3D Graphics is a GO!

Weee!! Crap load of updates

I'm Home!

Hey everyone!

finally! Internet!

+1 for Addictions

Holy BaJesus! ... and other stuff

The Google Metaverse

E3 2007 w007!

NaturalSelectionStudios.com Hacked

NDA Lifted! WooT!

England toilets rule

The Wombats in SL - CHECK YO SELF CRACKA!

Machinima confrance Yay!

Happy Turkey Day!

Whoooo update time!!

Womp!

FYI I own at connect 4

I made this!

Damn you Bungie! why must you be so sexy

Time to make green screen my bitch!

Being in the middle during a new era

Quick update

jesus people!

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

Give me liberty! or give me Fiddle Faddle!!

Do you wanna die or something?

BaZammm.... yea couldnt think of a title

What kind of Micky Mouse operation are you guys running

I wasnt awear! that the Wa-Chu-Chu! Were biters!!!!

*sniffle*

London YaY! & a cool email i got

Layed back gaming weekend

The long overdue Second Life gaming rant....

Who doesnt love a good gaming post!!... yeaa were dorks

Today is pirate day!! infact, everyday is from today on!!

Busy busy busy!!

Wow only a month in England so far!

Whats This? The Government Taxes me to Fart?

So close, I can feel the warmth of the pizza

sniffle